mosaic from flickr

Here’s what you’re supposed to do.

Instructions
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search

b. Using only the first page, pick an image.

c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s Mosaic Maker

d. Save the image and post it

The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Patina

2. What is your favorite food? Avocado

3. What is your favorite color? Green

4. Favorite drink? Jasmine tea (the stuff they give you at restaurants!)

5. Dream vacation? Sicily

6. Favorite hobby? Making lists (reading is probably it, but I do make a lot of lists…)
7. What you want to be when you grow up? Mom
8. What do you love most in life? (I took this to mean a thing…) Libraries

9. One word to describe you? Disorganized

& so here’s my mosaic!

Cool.

You’re it! It’s fun!

& it’s wednesday

• So these women developed a game. You can read about it here. It’s probably the worst theme for a game I have ever seen. Seriously? Yeah, that’s what we need girls to start learning…choose a sexy outfit, buy condoms. Horrible!
• These pictures are totally hilarious! I hope no one takes them seriously, but man, are they funny! I would love to have these printed on cards or t-shirts or something. I especially like the one about the smiling, the nursing & the feeding.
• I think I am going to join the YMCA here. They have a track, a bunch of different classes & I think I am going to take a swimming class with Bug! How fun!
• I want to take a vacation to Colorado. Colorado Springs maybe? It’s a beautiful state!
• I also need to go to the DMV to change my license, so that I can get my Polar Bear pass & hang out at the pool this summer!
• Running is going well. By well I mean really slowly. But well.

tiny people

I love these little people, and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

- Charles Dickens

• The storms never came. Today is chilly & cloudy. Tomorrow is supposed to  be sunny & 6o…I hope so!
• Bug really really enjoys shoes. She’ll either turn into a dog or love shoes. I hope it’s the latter!
• My classes finish May 18th. I would like to find something to do instead; some activity. I found this, and I think it would be v. cool. The issue is mostly cost, especially after the month special. And the fact that it’s farther away than I’d like…
• I’ve got a workout schedule planned for the next month. One of those workout tips you always hear is to schedule workouts like they are appointments – things that can’t be missed- & I think it’s a good idea. If I already know I need to make the time for them, perhaps I will!
• Home with Bug until tomorrow night, so I’ll be spending some quality time on the eliptical after Bug’s bedtime. I wish we had a treadmill! (Actually, no I don’t! Then I’d never run outside!)
• Need to really start thinking about what will happen this fall. I still have quite a bit of time, but still. Should start checking around.
• I have to buy a new swimsuit this year. I am not looking forward to that shopping trip.

&&&

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
-George Horace Lorimer

spring storms

• We’re supposed to get some thunderstorms starting around 6pm tonight. I love love love storms (except those of the snow variety) & so I’m excited! The best thing is falling asleep to thunder & rain, but I’m not sure it’s going to be here for that long…maybe next time!
• I have made an awesome lunch. & healthy, yay!
• This article from Crunchy Parenthood is important. It’s about child car seat safety!
• This is ridiculous. Both the bars position & bachelorette parties. I don’t understand how going out, getting wasted & traipsing around bars with a penis necklace & a feather boa help to celebrate your marriage.
• This vase + faucet is wonderful! I want one! (for when someday, I’ll actually have a house to put it in!)
• This is a video about birth control & what it can do to womens’ bodies. Watch it!
• I’m super excited for Saturday! The sheet I found at St Vincent’s last night said that you needed to register by Monday, at it was already late Monday evening. But I called this morning & they let me register! Yay! I don’t even mind having to get up at 6 am (well, less than I would mind if I had to get up at 6 & do something else.)
• Bug’s sleeping habits (during naps) have been awful lately. I wish I knew what to do about that!
• I really prefer typing in list form. Yay for bullet points!
• If you haven’t seen The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, go see it! Very sad, but incredibly well done & a powerful movie.

France

Just booked my ticket. I leave on June 17th & leave Geneva on July 7th. This is wonderful timing, because I won’t miss Bug’s first birthday and the boys get out of school the week following my arrival.

Plus, as a totally awesome added bonus, my flight connects in Washington D.C. & I found one that lets me arrive around 9 am and doesn’t leave for Geneva until around 6 pm. I have wanted to visit Washington D.C. FOREVER, so this will be just a ‘taste’. I figure I have enough time to do a few of the major monuments & stuff. I am sure that I could spend a week or more there, but 8 hours or so will have to suffice for now. I am assuming I’ll have enough time to walk around the Mall & see all those things. I’d love to do a White House tour as well, but I’m not sure about timing & stuff, I’ll have to check into that.

But yay! I am so excited to go back to France & to stop in Washington. I am going to try to go to Rome while I’m in France, a Vatican tour would be wonderful. I have a bit of time to plan that out though, but I need to keep it in the front of my brain.

The biggest issue now will be saving enough $$ to pay my bills, plus travel expenses & all that…perhaps the Lent No-Shopping will have to continue! (That was sort of the idea anyway…minimalize materialism & learn to love what I already have, + spend $$ on experiences, not clothing and other crap).

22 days until the Vigil, 88 days until France. Yay!

Also, it’s cold today. But sunny! Running this morning was pretty chilly, I think it was about 27 out. But the sun was rising (or rather, had just risen) and I bundled up. I have realized that my running is painfully s l o w, but I am trying not to push too hard & just run my one measly mile, until I can get it to a decent time (which at this point, is anything under 10 minutes) and then maybe I’ll push for 2 miles.

Off to play with Bug.