How evil are you?

Heh... >:}

You Are 34% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

Colors...

...this song, by Kira Willey, is featured on a new Dell color laptop commercial (and we know how I love finding cool new music from commercials). It's a song from her Dance for the Sun: Yoga Songs for Kids CD.  The commercial only uses a short bit of the song, but it captured me enough to seek out the rest. I found a few videos on Youtube that feature the song (including one with Kara Willey herself singing, I think), but I liked this one best. 

I think this song could be my own personal artist's anthem, color being one of the two main elements that inspire me creatively and personally. (Texture is the other, but I don't know any songs about texture. LOL) Anyway, enjoy...she's got a fabulously soothing voice to listen to...

Wordle...

...a little word fun on a Sunday afternoon...

Go away...

Seriously...all bugs, bacteria, virii, illnesses and what-have-you...hear this:

GO. AWAY.

LEAVE. NOW.

THAT. MEANS. YOU.

While my cold of last week has mostly abated, I'm still coughing up a lung from time to time. This never bodes well.

And in the mean time, the girl child has been sick since Friday night. I thought it was just the all-day Projekt Revolution event that did her in (it was hot out there Friday, lemme tell ya), but she still hasn't bounced back. With her Crohn's, it is always so hard to tell if these things are because of a routine virus or something more serious. Waiting for the doctor to call back now.

There is never a good time for being sick, but right now? Busy. Busybusybusy. Running the boy child to his classes three days a week is really messing with me. And the grandboy is supposed to be coming to stay with us for a few days later this week, which we're all looking forward to but will be way more fun for everyone if illness isn't involved, you know? And there are appointments to get to, and a family picnic to go to this weekend. Oh, and we're supposed to have our family portrait taken on Friday for the new church directory...about the last thing I feel like doing right now. :P 

Anyway..here's hoping your week is going a little better than ours, and here's hoping ours turns around real soon. 

Full moon...

...today! According to my moon phase widget to the right, it is technically full right now, though other sources say it will not be full here, on the east coast of the US, until 2:59 a.m. tomorrow. Either way, close enough. The view of it tonight will be full for me.

I love the full moon. I love the moon in any stage really, but full is...cool. ;)

Last night, around 8:30 or so, I got the urge to take a walk and look for the moon, as I knew it had to be coming up over the horizon somewhere. There are so many tall trees surrounding us that it is hard to see things close to the horizon, so I have to look for them. Thus, despite the mugginess of the evening and the summer cold I've been nursing all week, I took a walk down the road, toward the east, and as I started down the hill toward a clearing in the trees, there it was...big and reddish and just over the horizon...the almost-full moon. My heart did a little skip of joy. Really.

I love following the moon phases and am sad if the weather does not cooperate for good moon viewing. (June was a terribly sucky moon month for me...so much rain and so many cloudy, overcast nights. I missed the full moon altogether.) As the moon begins to wane and becomes harder to spot, coming up later every night, I start to feel a little sad. But then it circles back around, past the new moon to that tiny waxing crescent (I used to call it a "toenail" when I was a kid, LOL) in the sky...the first time I spot it, it makes me so incredibly happy, like seeing a good friend who has been absent for a while.

Me and the moon...I'm completely smitten. :)

New(ly found) blogger love...

I love finding new blogs that don't just entertain but make you think and feel and reflect on the important things of life, big and small. I found one such blog tonight...I Live on a Farm. Her current post is most poignant.

Getting caught up: the random stuff entry...

And so the updating continues, this time with various randomness -- with pictures!

We here at Chez Beamer like to color coordinate our holidays as much as possible, thus this year's 4th of July breakfast of champions (or at least of me) was this...

...vanilla yogurt topped with black and red raspberries courtesy of Myrna's Naked Acre.

The dog is still here...

...though this time next week he will be heading home with his family, if all goes according to plan. I won't miss the random piddling, but I will miss him. He's a great little dog. (And I'm taking him to the groomers on Thursday to get him bathed and smelling pretty before his mommy and daddy show up!)

Speaking of dogs, we had to put our dog to sleep last Monday. Yes, sad, as I've never had to make that choice for a pet before. But Rosie was 17 years old, after all...she'd led a good life and at least now she's no longer in pain.

I took this picture of her a few weeks ago. She was having such a hard time walking even then. I remember thinking how that was probably going to be one of the last pictures I ever took of her. Even at 17 years old, she still had the prettiest face.

In other news, I followed through with my intention of having my chest tattoo improved upon...

...the moon and bird were the original parts of it...I had the bird recolored and the swirls and stars (representing Cassiopeia, in case you're wondering) added...this was right after it was done, so it looked pretty red still. I'll have to take a picture of it again now that it is healed.

I sent the tattoo picture to several friends, including a guy friend who is also a pastor. I realized belatedly that, due to my close cropping of the photo, it looks like I was sending him a picture with a lot more b**b than is actually showing...the angle of the shot is misleading, as is the angle of this shot...


...ahem...was trying to take a picture of me in my cool new purple shirt...with a somewhat low-cut V-neck...(didn't send this one to my pastor friend! LOL) Not sure what it is with me and all the self-portraits I'm taking these days. Between Facebook, Ravelry and Plurk and the need for avatar images on each, which I like to change often, it's just gotten me camera happy. ;)

Let's see...what else? Oh, what the heck...one more b**b shot...


No, really, I cropped that one much better. This picture was of the necklace I've got on, which I got off of Etsy from Wyanne, who is a most wonderfully gifted artist. Totally cool necklace!

Now let's play a game...check out this picture and see how many collections you can spot...go ahead...I'll wait...


:::doo, DOO doo, doo...doo, DOO, doo...doo, DOO, doo, DOO, DOOOP!!! Doodoodoodoodoo...:::

Ahem.

Ready? OK. Let's see...there are the buttons, that's one. And the yarn, of course (which you can see more of in the mirror, good grief!), that's two. And the inks. Three. The ribbon. Four. And what? What is number five? Yes...three, count 'em, THREE McDonald's Sweet (Crack) Tea cups. I didn't realize I was collecting them, but apparently I am.

What's worse is that I rarely crave sweet things, but I think the Sweet Tea is affecting me, because I went shopping last week, and you know how they say you should never grocery shop hungry? Well, you should never grocery shop hungry but especially not if you're also PMSing, because this is what you come home with...

Foods not only full of sugar, but with the WORD "sugar" in their title! Sugar wafers?? Oh my gosh. LOVE THEM!!! Seriously...for two days in a row, I ate NOTHING but sugar wafers and nutty bars until dinnertime. Is that pathetic and sad and horrifying or what? I NEVER eat sugar like that! And yet, last week, I could not stop myself.

And while it may look like the can of artichoke hearts is sort of out of place here, it was actually purchased with the intent of making hot artichoke dip. I know that's not a sugary food, but it's full of fat and no better for you, I'm sure, than all this sugar. (To date, I have not actually made the artichoke dip, so that's something, right? Should I go reward myself with a nutty bar? LOL)

Ok...I think that officially catches me up. Whew! Perhaps this will teach me my lesson and I'll try blogging a little more frequently from now on! These marathon picture posts are killers!