vote for color stampede!

please visit the $100,000 Quilting Challenge web site, and vote for Color Stampede. the quilt was designed by a friend of a friend. and it's gorgeous. what other reason would you need?

consolidating blogs

if you've been reading my blog for more than 13 months or so, you know that i've redesigned is several times. and each time i redesigned it, i technically started a new blog with blogger. that way if i ever wanted to revert back to a previous template, i didn't have to reinvent the wheel. (it's like making my own "undo" button. and we all know how critical the undo button can be.) however, that means i have four different sets of archives, which don't play nicely together without me manually coding them to do so.

so i've started consolidating them all into one large blog. i'm resizing older photos to fit the current layout & adding the posts to this blog. it's time consuming, but i'd like to just have one set of archives. and i like the ease of the current layout, so i'm going with that. i tell you this because now the archives go back to may 2006. the blog i added in was purely a photo blog - i was against words at the time, so it's just photos.

i've got two more blogs to add in: the month of a thousand photographs & the one i originally started blogging with. so, should you ever get the hankering to see what i was yapping about two years ago - once i get them all consolidated, you'll be able to see.

if you're interested, two years ago i wasn't yapping about anything at all. the post dated closet to two years ago was this photo of me & alicia on halloween:

random words

i wonder how many people have taken a photo of this same horse. i mean, he lives in a national park ... i'm thinking he's pretty well photographed.

i think those might be turkeys behind him.

currently the leaves in the smoky mountains are at a "moderate color" status. that's good. that means they should still be on the trees & beautiful when we arrive.

i will be quilting on sunday. this makes me happy, but i don't know what i want to work on.

i haven't been sleeping well.

Christmas is only 8 weekends away. i have plans for 5 of those weekends. that doesn't leave much time.

my theory is that marlana wanted our addresses for Christmas cards.

one of my goals for the year was to make my halloween costume. halloween is wednesday & i haven't given it any serious thought recently. hmmm.

i think the guy who came to check the furnace today used the chair in my room for something. i think this because my baskets of fabric were on the floor, not on the chair. i think in the process of moving the baskets he dropped one of my quilt squares on the floor. i think this because the top quilt square was all dusty. i think that upsets me.

i think i should probably not post when i can't form a complete string of thoughts.

happy saturday

for those of you who hear me yap about work & wonder who i'm talking about - here's a photo of most of my team. it was taken our last day working together actually. but don't we look like we made a good team?

i'm completely against the misuse of quotation marks. i mean, seriously, they are not to be used to give words extra significance in a sentence. honest. look it up in a book about grammar. they are not to be used that way. if anything, when not used to signify an actual quote (they ARE called quotation marks for a reason), they give the quoted word a sense of sarcasm and insincerity. so i really think people should stop using them incorrectly. though i totally support people who take photos of this misuse and post it online. i will be contributing to this flickr site. it makes me "happy". :)

sanity, day 4

sanity, day 3

sanity, day 2

sanity, day 1