Stairs

During our recent trip, we stayed on the third floor of a hotel for a week.  I consciously chose to take the stairs whenever I went up and down. During the week I think my legs got stronger.

Then I came home and got sick and collapsed, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the stairs.  I need motivation to get moving and build up my strength again.

Two flights up, two steps back...

I write like James Joyce!

I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

James Joyce?

From Wikipedia:
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominently the stream of consciousness technique he perfected.

That's probably what it is: that stream of consciousness technique. I took all the paragraphs from my last few blog posts, just sort of streaming my thoughts out there.

My other blog is analyzed as reading like Cory Doctorow, and I've never heard of him! Neither have I ever read James Joyce.  In fact, when I saw the name I thought immediately of trees..."I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."  (That's actually Joyce Kilmer--and I'm relieved I don't sound like that, though I do love trees!)

Anyway, it's just good fun, so if you would like to see who your writing resembles, go ahead and play with it!

I Believe!

Today I am again featuring Donetta's work.  She made one of these little pillows for each girl and leader in our Young Women group.  They are all different, all hand-embroidered.

If you want to know what I Believe click on this link.  

SOAP and the Scriptures.

Once again, God's timing is amazing!

I just came across a wondeful way to make scriptures and church lessons more meaningful.  The link below explains it.  I am not using all the canon she uses; I'll use the King James Version of the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, and this year's study manuals.  I've been wanting something to motivate me to focus in 2012 and this looks like just the key.

I'd also like to thank Angela Pea for leading me to this link. She is a great inspiration in my weight-loss challenge as well. She has been much more successful at it than I.

Anyway, for the Scripture Inspiration, go to:

S.O.A.P

The above pictures are from the LDS media library which is growing very quickly and is a wonderful source for lessons, blogs, and other uses. 

The First Step is to Dream

I made this bank for my own Secret Santa recipient. It is a cocoa can covered with scrapbook paper and stick-ons.  I washed out the cocoa but the scent remained.

The inside is filled with Hershey's Kisses and Hugs.

Her reaction: "It's a cute little bank, and the best part is, it is filled with chocolate!" Gotta get our priorities in the right place!