Friday List of LOVE: 30 Things That Make Me Happy

• Having a camera! (thank yoooooouuuuuu, my girl!)
• Clem playing with her birdies
• Pop-up Post-Its that alternate colors
• The calendar I made for B
• OREOS
  
• Vanilla vodka
• Planning parties
• White polka dots on top of red mushrooms
• Crafty pipe cleaners
• Star paperclips
• Frosted grass
• Popping bubble wrap – both individually and also in a crazy fury
• Balloons inside balloons
• My girls in pigtails
• My enormous electric typewriter
• Sven the Wind-up Snail
• Driving over smooth quiet pavement after driving over loud crumbled pavement
• Driving the 4-Runner in the snow
• Roasted peppers
• Playing matching/memory games with my girlies
• Little books with little pockets
• Little acorns holding littler acorns
• White rabbits
• Christmas caroling
• Hazelnut lattes
• Co-authoring the Fantastic Word List
• Knowing that bills are paid
• Wearing one obnoxious piece of clothing at a time
• Finding that line between ugly and fantastic, and LIVING there!
• Sugared fruit
  

pithy quote in my friendship calendar

"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

WordSmith Wednesdays: Part 2

More for you, more for me! Here's the next 50 words on the list of FANTASTIC WORDS!

Trek.
Unsavory.
Wiley.
Quaint.
Mow.
Pox.
Delirious.
Lucid.
Grommet.
Herringbone.
Ochre.
Aloof.
Flimsy.
Peruse.
Hobgoblin.
Benign.
Serenity.
Fibrous.
Elasticity.
Pestiferous.
Zapf.
Plumb (v.).
Valedictorian.
Coniferous.
Skedaddle.
Squeamish.
Hypnosis.
Catastrophic.
Fiasco.
Metronome.
Hubris.
Assimilation.
Harangue.
Flounder.
Rhapsodize.
Oxidize.
Orangutan.
Nape.
Hootenanny.
Nexus.
Parabolic.
Vernacular.
Whimsical.
Titillating.
Rubric.
Masticate.
Horticulture.
Fluctuate.
Stupendous.

sugar sticks

So the picture's blurry. My apologies. I just had to take a photo of this RIDICULOUS mascot. Let me get this straight: it's a smiling bass drum, with Dum Dum Pops as mallets? I mean...really? A happy little drum?

I am embarrassed to admit that I have sunk so low as to ravage a bag of these things. I do have standards you know, but when you live with someone who just doesn’t buy sweets, times get desperate.

This is a mostly empty bag of lollipops from Halloween. I went out of my mind Sunday night for chocolate, which I convinced myself could be satisfied by sugar --- of any kind. Searching through the bag for suitable flavors, I found Cream Soda.

This is a very very sad Gabo (embarrassed to even post such a haunting image, but you have to know that I too suffer and am not all sunshine all the time!). Poor poor me and my little lollipop.

To dissuade my disappointment that these were little spheres of straight sugar instead of OREOS or a chocolate bar, I decided to have more than just one. I mean really, they’re SO SO little, right? After my Cream Soda, I moved on to Butterscotch, which Ryan found! Ryan has two wicked eyes for discerning the microscopic fruit icons, so I was in luck. He also found a Coconut, which I traded very happily for my Pineapple-Coconut. What a swell swell guy…

After those two very satisfying pops, I finished my gorge fest with Green Apple, which is sickening, but gorgeous, and also strangely quite tasty. Was it all worth it? Meh…but it makes good photos. :)

Hearts and Stars to you, Megan!

Love You/Love Me

1. The first 3 people to post to this blog will get a gift from me.
2. It will be handmade and hopefully something you will like, no guarantees.
3. You must in turn make something for me :)
4. And you must post this to your blog.
5. Deadlines are good, but it can't be all too soon for me. I'm a swamped little craft kitty right now.

is this better, C?

Friday List: Meet My Work Friends

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something to be thankful about

1. Ryan.

2. Buffy.

3. Ryan watching BUFFY with meeeeeeeeee! YAY! It's happened folks. My sweetie likes my sweet sweet show! When you think you’re dying of Salmonella poisoning from that recalled Clif* bar, even when the kind of Clif bar you ate was not the kind that got recalled, but your stomach is growling louder than a concrete breaker in pissed off anger, and your sweetie who has long since had his guffawed at this thing called Buffy the Vampire Slayer FINALLY gets sucked into an episode and concedes to watch the next five episodes with you. Yeah, that IS something imbued with gratitude.

4. Your sweetest friends texting you with offers of everything under the sun that might make you feel better.

5. Not dying of Salmonella poisoning from your non-contaminated Clif bar.



*YES, that really is how Clif is spelled in this circumstance.

WordSmith Wednesdays - Part 1

I adore words! Love Love Love them! My friend Rob and I have embarked on the mother of all lists: the Fantastic Word List! I would like to share with you some of them on Wednesdays. Looking over the list it can come across as some GRE vocabulary study guide; makes me think of our flashcards, N.! It's not though really. Some of these words are perfectly ordinary, but they look good, or sound good, or mean something extraordinary.

Perhaps you want to take part? Why yes yes yes! It'll be a few Wednesdays before I get to the end of our list, but start making your own and see if we have already claimed them for ourselves!

The first 50:

Boisterous.
Upholster.
Sanctuary.
Apex.
Kumquat.
Delusional.
Palindrome.
Exhort.
Placate.
Spherical.
Licentious.
Parsnip.
Rutabaga.
Rhinoceros.
Succulent.
Suave.
Iridescent
Metical.
Marsupial.
Emancipation.
Mishmash.
Macro.
Ruckus.
Ravishing.
Incredulous.
Chrysanthemum.
Fluidity.
Superfluous.
Lexicon.
Infinitesimal.
Platitude.
Zeitgeist.
Delicatessen.
Piccolo.
Jubilant.
Penultimate.
Persevere.
Colloquial.
Adamantium.
Persimmon.
Harlequin.
Lackluster
Flabbergast.
Undulate.
Ubiquitous.
Phantasmagoria.
Tomfoolery.
Saunter.
Flapjacks.
Happenstance.

in awe

We the People…are SO SO SO happy! Rejoice today in our new hope and our country’s new guidance! Happy Birthday, Clementine! This is your country. Be proud!

Ponytails: I love you!

thank you to all that came and shared in little clemlet's 3rd birthday party! it was a joy.

after all her guests left, clem wrapped her and her bird family up in a blanket for nesting.

Friday List, I love you!

Things I’m trying to do:

1. Not bore my friends with MORE talk about the damn(but amazing) calendar!

2. Find a new project filled with excitement and twists and streamers of joy!

3. Use more exclamation points!

4. Get my tone right in text. It’s always off. Why why why? I’ll try to figure it out with Ms. Clean Kitty.

5. Send so many postcards that the postpeople begin to wonder about me.

6. Dream up the cutest kiddy Valentine’s Day party everrrr!

7. Write that damned story! Well, stor(ies)!

8. Believe in the beauty of the world and the possibility that a camera will fall in my lap soon. I would make it up to you, girl, promise!

9. Also believe that a Grand Canyon trip with my FamilyFriends will happen!

10. Drink more water.

11. Play more tetris.

12. Continue to make the best EVER EVER playlist of great songs on Youtube. Sigh… It’s my cure for the 3pm blues at work. Music is my favorite waitress!

13. Be responsible like Jennifer.

14. Imagine being a cakeball like B makes. They’re SOOOO prettttttttty!

15. Yell just a little less.

16. Not freak out about the number of grey hairs I have.

17. Embarrass Jacob with my genius/ridiculousness typewriter more. Lots more!

18. Have an Orange Peel year like Mrs. James!

i'm sure he won't mind

my sweetie won't mind if i post this picture of a little dream of me and a giraffe...sigh...giraffes would make lovely boyfriends, fyi. so so tall. (and NO, i did not draw this.) i was perusing ReForm School and came across this loveliness. if you want to send this to me, i understand. i like mail. i am still in some mythical dreamland thinking about that calendar and how i want to be able to make more of them for ***everyone***!

so if you need me, know that i'm thinking about pictures you may like for yours, or i could be watching Buffy (thanks to the wonders of Adam!), or i could be down on my hands and knees searching like mad for some ***NEW*** inspiration!

First Post of the New Year.

I don't really have much to say, except that I am ready for this new year. Hello, 2009, it is me, Gabrielle!

Q: Will this year be filled with excitement?
A: Yes.
Q: Will this excitement translate to good posts?
A: Hopefully.