Our angel fish like each other

They really really like each other. One night after working on our kitchen remodel we came downstairs and were treated to our fish mating. Check out this video and see for yourself.

Time Sure Does Fly

Well, I feel silly. I just rediscovered my blog! How about that. I think that means I've been really busy over the past nearly year and a half. In that time I lost 20+ pounds, had surgery, helped my youngest daughter move across the country, saw my brother get married (yeah!), started volunteering for our local ASTD chapter (SEWI-ASTD, Southeastern Wisconsin American Society for Training & Development), went to a couple of conferences, and bought a house! Whew!

Oh, and in the last couple of months we've been remodeling our kitchen. I'll post pictures soon. I finally just unloaded two months worth from my camera.

I'm sure I've done other things, and really it's only looking back that I realize how busy it must seem. Until our move, it really didn't feel that way. But since we closed on our house in mid-September and started our kitchen, it has been really chaotic and I feel like an over-saturated sponge!

I have still been getting magazines and lately have really been wanting to get back into photography and crafting. I hope to be soon!

Illustrator Flower

I just completed a tutorial, How to make a flower in Adobe Illustrator in 156 seconds, for drawing a flower in Adobe Illustrator. I could probably use better colors, but it was fun anyway. Below is the .png that I exported from Illustrator. I have used Illustrator for a long time, but never in this capacity. Now if I can just get my Craft ROBO to cut it out I'll be happy!

Heather's braces are off!

Heather got her braces off earlier this week. She was so funny. She was telling me about how the orthodontist said there is usually a little bit of a line on most people's teeth, but not on hers. Now she looks all grown up! It happened over night.

Mother's Day 2009

I had a pretty good Mother's Day today. I got a new small point and shoot digital camera. I started testing it out already. Jenna brought me flowers and Heather got me an itunes gift card. Michael and Heather made me waffles and eggs, but by the time we all got around to it, it was already lunch time. Overall it was a good day.

May Desktop Background

If you're not a fan of the 4x6 calendar, maybe a desktop background is more your style. I have created two, but they are exact sizes for your desktop. They should work just fine, but if you want, you can go edit them for your desktop. This is the same picture of the Oregon coast as I used in the 4x6 calendar.

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May 2009 Calendar

Looks like April and almost half of May got away before I added my calendar! So, here's one for May that you can print on 4x6 photo paper. This picture was taken on the Oregon coast last summer before we knew enough about digital cameras to be dangerous. I don't claim to know too much more, but I at least can play around with the raw files. I like printing out these calendars to keep near my desk because for some reason I'm always checking the date.

Maybe it's one of those things like checking my watch used to be. I remember when I used to always check my watch and finally stopped wearing it because it was distracting. Now as I'm getting older, I wonder if time is just moving so fast for me that I now refer to my calendars in the same way.

Either way, I have fun making them and hope you enjoy it.