Perfect Weekends
Ah, here’s to perfect weekends! Lots of fun, creative work and some wonderfully relaxing playtime, too. Just what I needed.
A few of the highlights? The weather for one. Stunningly gorgeous skies, temps in the 70’s, autumn in the air, birds singing, the bay quite choppy but strangely beautiful and us able to see EVERYTHING as we topped the Mid-Bay Bridge on our way home today.
Movies, for another. EASTERN PROMISES at the theatre on Friday night, popcorn and PULP FICTION at home on Saturday night, and stumbling onto a dvd sidewalk sale at the Merchants’ Walk Octoberfest where we found copies of WHAT THE BLEEP, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, MYSTIC RIVER, and a few others.
But today was perfect and I got to try something new that I Read the rest of this entry »
It’s Still About the Icing
Sometimes I feel like I’ve compressed as far as I can, simplified as much as possible, and now I’m ready to burst outward into new experiences, new learning, new relationships. One of these tools for expansion—and doing something new—is something I had long forgotten until Shannon mentioned how much she’d like to learn to decorate cakes.
In her job at Cold Stone (the gourm
et ice cream shop), she’s learned not only the business of dealing with the public (one of her goals with the job) but something about the cultures of her Russian and Czech co-workers as well as how to make and decorate an ice cream cake.
When she mentioned wanting to learn more about cake decorating, I had a flashback to when I was a couple of years older than she is now. I had just moved to Northwest Florida to be with my boyfriend-later-husband, and I often saw ads in the local papers for classes, seminars, and workshops that interested me. The one I saw most was for cake decorating at the mall, but that was a far drive and I didn’t have the $25 at the time for the class, let alone for any supplies or even for the gas to get there.
There were other seminars advertised in the local papers, too, and I was always interested but never attended. Read the rest of this entry »
Music to Create By
Depending on what I’m working on on my home computer, my iTunes library sometimes becomes annoying. That’s because many of the songs on my iPod and desktop are favs to drive to or even to play when I’m cooking dinner. Yeah, great for drumming the steering wheel or twirling around the kitchen, but not quite so great for concentrating on web design, taxes, artistic creations, etc.
That’s why I like Pandora.com. You type in a favorite artist or songs and they’ll give you “similar” artists or songs to create your own “radio station.”
I’ve started creating my own “radio stations” of ambient music for heavy-concentration times (because my iTunes’ed Brain Sync tracks are rather weary right now). I’ve also discovered some new Goth I like…and that’s always a good thing!