Weekly Winners

July 27-August 2, 2008

Ok, first a disclaimer for the sad pics this week. We went to use the camera yesterday and it is broken. I forget if I mentioned here the odd noise it had been making upon powering it up. It gave up the fight yesterday. We're off to camera shop today. Wish us luck. These pics are taken with Mr. Tall Man's cell phone.

Loving my toes and nails!!

Shorty McShort is now Diva McShort with her red toenails.



















Not my picture, but couldn't resist. See this post (from the postsecret book) to understand where this pic came from. Sorry if I offend anyone, but I tanned once upon a time and just giggle thinking about what may have been going on in the booth next to me :)




















P.S. What do you think of the music? Any songs that I should add?

Book Blowout Update

So, just to update everyone who may not be follower of my blog, I entered this little Book Blowout thingy. (maybe more like a challenge)

I guess my goal is to read 4 plus two that were already started. I finished one of the already started books, The Poisonwood Bible. You can read about it here.

I'm still reading Three Cups of Tea, but am almost finished. (thank god, or should I say thanks allah)

Last night I was not tired so I decided to read PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren. I guess he's got a new book out too...A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecrets Book. So this guy started a community mail art project that blossomed into a hundred seventy thousand post cards...wow! I love getting mail. Maybe I should start something like this, but maybe it could be like write your secret on a $5.00 bill and then mail it to me?

Anyhow, the simple concept of the project was that completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed. No restrictions were (or are) made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits (like eating boogers), hopes and dreams. There is also a Post Secret Blog...who knew?! I didn't really check it out, but feel free to peruse at your own free will. Really. Go. Now.

I couldn't stop reading. I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! Maybe I'll read it again, would that count for a second read? I love this book soooooo much (and think everyone else will too) that I'm including it in my Pay It Forward Giveaway!!! (seriously...get over there and enter!!!) Yeah, instead of logging it to giveaway at Bookmooch, which would earn me another 1/10 point so I could mooch something, I'm sharing the love. I know. Just send five dollar bills with your secrets :)

p.s. happy belated birthday to my brother who turned a number 7 years my senior yesterday!! hope you had a great day!!!