I saw a white prelit
Christmas tree in the store. It had a pretty shade of
colored lights throughout. The whole thing struck me as
unusually beautiful.
I've always had green Christmas trees. They just don't
seem like trees if they are anything else, except when I
walked past this strikingly pretty white tree, it called
out to me (much like chocolate chip cookies do).
I could not resist. We now have a white Christmas tree
in our home. I can sit and stare at it all day -- it is
truly lovely and shines through a window for anyone
driving by to see.
November 29, 2005 -
Tuesday
A BIG HAPPY 75th
Birthday to my Dad!!! Yay Dad!!!!!
We saw this movie in one of
the rare 3D formats while in Atlanta -- much fun! We all
got
Chicken Little glasses to keep and I
accidentally lost mine at my sister's house -- argh!
This was a good movie. While I still like regular
animation (its an art form all of its own), the
computer-animated stuff is amazingly good. There were
plenty of song references for adults and fun action for
everyone. I was never bored. I think this will be a hit.
(P.S. "The sky is falling" will have new meaning now.)
Wow
- here's a
map of where all the earthquakes in the United
States occured in the past week - truly amazing. I can
see places where I don't want to live - scroll down to
see the link to the maps.
Other interesting uses
for Google maps is listed here. I was able to go to all
of the links the first time, but when I tried to return,
I got strange error messages. Perhaps the site is too
busy, but if you can take a peek, this is very
interesting (also note, that earthquakes only show where
they are reported. They may be happening in central
Russia, but are not reported).
BJ
sells her art for a nice easy price. I bought this one
and plan to use it in a photograph. There are more at
http://www.bjshaven.com. I think placing these
in some of my scenic pictures might liven the photo up.
I love a touch of fantasy.
Ironically, there's a
wonderful crafter here who makes fabulous stuffed bears,
Her name is BJ as in
BJ's Bears and Hares. Maybe BJ stands for
Beautiful Job.
We
just got back from Atlanta where we had a chance to gothrough
the Georgia Aquarium, the largest aquarium
in the world. It was an incredible place. I was able to pet a
shark. Visitors could also pet manta, starfish, sea
urchins (very carefully), shrimp, horseshoe crabs and
more.
Here's a movie I took of our experience.
The aquarium had only been opened three
days. When we called, they told us the place has been
sold out for a week (even their website was hard to
reach, but my sister and I are made of stern stuff. We
took two of her children and braved waiting out in the
cold before the place opened hoping for standby tickets -- and we got in!!!!
I've been listening to "The
Genealogy Guys" podcast and enjoying it very
much. It's listed on iTunes (just do a search for
"genealogy") -- so nice to get good information while
taking my daily walk or driving out of town to my
daughter's house.
I also enjoy Ebert's movie
reviews, TWIT, Diggnation (although I wish they weren't
so hung up on beer), several Photoshop podcasts (I just
can't get enough Photoshop -- my favorite hobby), Mike
Tech, the Geekcast, Leo's KFI Shows -- and I keep adding
them.
As I said before, I don't even listen to
local radio anymore. I turned it on the other day and it
ran 10 minutes of ads before I turned it off (and this
was a supposed "music" station). I guess that's what XM
Radio is for. Someday I want a video iPod -- hmm, I
wonder if I could watch it while walking?
I will be busy for the next
few days ahd have blogged in advance because I have so
much to say - as anyone who knows me will agree. I
wish all of you a --
or at least a chance to
reflect on the good things in life and to be with
someone you care about.
Keep safe and be careful if you
travel. I will be posting cell phone pics in my photo
blog, whatever happens.