Finished and packaged up some bubble wrap earrings to mail very much like the ones I made before. Though these are white AND pink (no pictures). Both sets are for people who posted on my Facebook wall early last year to have me send them something handmade within the year. I did not make my mark and still have one of the five gifts left to finish, but relaxing my schedule has been a need for a while so WOO! And now these folks are going to be extra excited to receive a seemingly random gift in the mail.
Lemon pound cake and lasagna with meat + garlic bread (and yeah, some salad too). Some days you just have to go with it.
The type of conversations I've been a part of today: marriage, serving others, helping the poor, joy, goodness, sex, moving, friendship.
A friend I used to work with called to offer her reservation at Fossett's during Restaurant Week. I haven't seen her in months and months and she thought of me first after finding out she would need to cancel. (That crazed Facebook post a few weeks ago about trying to get a reservation probably helped.) Sweet though.
Picasa downloaded. Okay, okay. I know. Welcome to 2004. But I have a lot of photos and have been intimidated about storage for a while. I have folders and used to use Snapfish for uploading and ordering. LOOOOONG ago and then some other site and then just backed up on a flash drive and my UVa home directory drive and some on Picasa online. It's out of control though. I finally took step 1 of consolidating: I downloaded Picasa. I was just leery of what I wanted to do or which site to use or thinking about how I need to order a bunch of pictures (since at least 2007!) or that I should really go through the folders and pare down my digital keepsakes or figuring out if they would automatically be shared with friends or Circles or the whole world. Trepidation! Of course, it created duplicate folders somehow, but weeding those out is for another day. Steps 1-3 of photo consolidation and organization are complete.
I have been a fan of former Mayor Dave Norris for a while. He seems to be a super friendly guy. He ran some awesome City Council meetings. Yes, I watch them on tv. Yes, you can make fun of me. He does awesome things in our town, and I've been consistently impressed. I friended him on Facebook a while ago, which has been a good decision (he says funny and insightful stuff and has cute kids). He took that on as part of his role as Mayor...you know, communicating with The People. He loves the poor and really strives to work for social change in our area. He is one of the major supporters of Habitat and has been working for a long time to help link Habitat with organizations and donors and options for land purchase and donation. He is a great promoter and cheerleader for this organization. (He walked over to thank me at one of the house dedications for the work I do with them. His words were too generous, but his gesture was appreciated.) He has done many other good things, but his new endeavor will be along these same lines. Doing good in our community...with the help of UVa faculty, staff, students. He is launching a new organization, The Charlottesville Institute for University-Community Engagement. Follow along with me. I am sure we will be seeing a lot of the Charlottesville Institute in the future.
2 comments:
I don't think I've every own a non-journalist that watches City Council meetings. I love that you do!
:) I do not catch all, but I love them...I probably subscribe to other similar things you'd love and not think I was silly for doing so.
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