Random Bits

Tired... and still slightly sick (little cough, slightly runny nose, nothing big.). And I've had to shovel my driveway twice today. Once before I went out, and once when I came home. Although, it seems to me like I should go out and shovel again, I have decided screw it, I am getting into my jammies.

I've been prepping a t-shirt quilt, which is spread out in pieces over my work table. Next step - figure out what size to make the squares, and cut them all down. That way, when I have the rest of the t-shirts going into the quilt, I am that much further along.

So wow, new year! 2010 - we're out of the naughts. I've got a friend who has started a podcast about planning weddings, and why you need a wedding planner - or event specialist whose job it is to make sure everything goes smoothly on the day.

I thought the podcast was endlessly entertaining, even though I am not planning a wedding. I basically listened because she is my friend. But one of the stories she told is about a wedding of a friend of hers where she was a guest. This friend decided she didn't need a planner, because they were on a tight budget. She had designed a beautiful set up of candelabras around the ceremony site (flowers were too expensive), and the site was gorgeous - but after the site was set up, there was nobody whose job it was to LIGHT THE CANDLES before the ceremony. So throughout the wedding in this picturesque scene my friend was bothered by the *multitudes* of unit candles behind the bride and groom.

So even if it is just a good, responsible friend who knows when things are supposed to happen, and how things should look (a stage manager if you will), all the brides out there who think they can do *everything* themselves, please delegate or get an event planner whose job it is to make your day special (her first Wedding Talk podcast aired on December 19, 2009 - and you can download it here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/creativeconceptsbylisa).

I don't really want to do a year in review - 2009 was pretty okay for me. I know a lot of folks who had terrible times this past year - lost jobs, lost family members, lost pets, lost friends. My year was pretty okay. It had high points and low points, but I think it ended pretty well. I am really looking forward to hearing all the better things going on this year in everyone's lives. I would love for those who are out of work, or in dreadful jobs to find work/find better work.

And since I can not put it any better than Neil Gaiman put it at a few moments past midnight on New Years Day here in Boston at Symphony Hall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d0QIt1EOGo&feature=player_embedded

Leaving the craft store tonight after stopping to pick up a couple of things I saw a small red car with its hazard lights on idling at the curb. It was completely covered with all different colored post-it notes. Dude, post-it notes?

And each one was written upon like it was a huge fotune cookie fortune. Or maybe those candy hearts with messages on them.

Can you see it speeding down the street and every so often one of those sticky notes reaches escape velocity and flutters away to be picked up and read by some random stranger?

WTF?!?