Cute Art that I Love

I found these artists on apartment therapy. Love their happy spacey enthnic looking art!
APAK.

Fun Hat Day!

In order to make the holidays a little brighter under the flourescent lights and beige-y grey cubicle walls, our social committee and supervisors come up with raffles and competitions.

Today we have fun hat day! The winner gets Chipotle gift certificates. I hope I win.

Oh Fashion

Browsing fashion this week, I found some pants I love (rust colored, opposite a very interesting dress). I do own a pair of low slung wool pants with pleats, and have more recently acquired a skirt in a similar style, but I think I just can't get enough.
I also love most of the shoes in this series, and the multitude of bracelets.
A little scared of those haircuts, though... but of course, I love the hats.

Ideas for Winter

Winter doesn't always provide us with the easiest solutions for centerpieces or flower arrangements. Sticks and branches are fun, and there's the ubiquitous poinsettia, but between keeping the regular house plants happy (ours are forced into a small window sill that is too cold and they do not like it) and keeping christmas tree needles off the carpet, who has time to search for interesting flowers? When there isn't much inspiration on the walk from the house to the bus, and the weather pushes planting, dirt, or really anything alive, to the back of your mind, the ever pleasant bouquet gets lost.
Here is a fantastic idea that I think I will try as soon as I find a teacup and have a chance to run by Home Depot or Portland Nursery.

More Christmas

I've been complaining right and left that I don't really get Christmas this year because I only get the 25th off. I feel like Bob Crachit for goodness sake! Lame. This is normal for most people, I know, but I'm used to being in school and having Christmas break - time to bake cookies and make crafts and watch Christmas movies. So far all I've done is helped make one batch of cookies, watched the new A Christmas Carol (which was fantastically fabulous), and made Christmas cards. It's fun, but I'm just greedy. I'm like the opposite of Scrooge - MORE CHRISTMAS CHEER PLEASE! Anyway, it makes me a little crazy and Tiny Tim might not be down with my manic excitement about the season, so I'm trying to focus on the awesome Christmasy things I actually have gotten to do.
Such as... Gospel Christmas!
Tracy and I had a lovely time getting our soul on! Mmm. Yes, Jesus! Talk about passion and the birth of the Savior! (Also Christmasy is the Schnitz and getting dressed up for the freezing cold... I wish I had a picture of us all decked out.)

More Exotic

Nativity scenes have sheep, goats, camels... sometimes a pig or a donkey for variety. At The Grotto, while they don't have a live nativity, they do have a petting zoo near the nativity and it has more than sheep and donkies - they have a lama!

(They also have a lot of really cool lights, but I haven't emailed those pictures off my phone yet.)

Not Thriving

I'm a temp. It doesn't always feel like it, as I work the same hours, answer the same questions, and fulfill the same duties as the actual employees at my job. One of the main differences and drags of being a temp is that I do not have a permanent cubicle. I move around. That isn't all so bad, because I get to know more of the people I work with by moving around (and really get to know the ones who have vacated their desk for a day or a week by staring at their stuff all day). Some people are clean. Some people are messy. Some people are organized. Some people are creative. Some people have amazing talent with orchids. Some people are obsessed with their kids/grandkids.
Some people have really nasty weird plants. Or... one person does.


Who does this to their plans? Why??
It was gross and distracting. Thankfully I had a window at this desk so I wasn't so inclined to look at this poor plant all week.

Kick-Starting the Season

Decorations! Lights, candles, greens... Mmm... I love it.


Josh and I get a little shopping done early at the Rebuilding center.
And then Josh takes me to Cinetopia to see "A Christmas Carol" in 3D. Amazing!