Ten on Tuesday 02-22-2010

1. Loving the Olympic commercials so much more than those for the Super Bowl this year! [“I’m sitting on a horse.”]
2. Michael J gave me a scare this week – on one of our snow days I went out to place a tray to gather snow for snow cream and as I walking in I turned around and he was RIGHT BEHIND ME – and didn’t back off until I was inside the house. [He’s the fox that lives in our yard.]
3. Who loves the smell of negatives as much as I do? Those who took a lot of photos back in the pre-digital days would recognize the smell instantly [it’s kind of like crayola crayons, or powdered paint for me – it just takes you instantly back to another time and place.]
4. Yes – still scanning negatives, and as anticipated, there’s so many more once I got to 1986 – when our first baby boy was born!
5. Yay! More than two days of normal [for us] temps this week – mid 60s* And it feels so wonderful!
6. And double yay! The sun is back!
7. Traveling some – I’ve been on the road 5 out of the last ten work days and the month’s not over yet.
8. Add in the weekly two hour phone conferences [plus the extra stuff – exciting as it may be – that goes along with it ] and my work weeks are getting crazier and crazier...
9. A very scrappy weekend – a fun new crop place Friday evening with friends, a crop I haven’ t been to for a while on Saturday, and a class in the afternoon too. Whee!


10. And finally – we are captivated by curling. We’ve looked up the rules and learned new words like ‘house,’ ‘biter,’ ‘guard,’ and ‘hammer’ – maybe because this is the ONE winter Olympic sport we think we could do?