Whee!

In honor of the holiday season, the owners of the Cake Wrecks blog have started a project.  Every day, they’ll post a charity and a link to donate to the charity.  They’ve asked that everyone donate just $1, because with as many readers as they have, we can collectively make a huge difference.

Today’s cause is Heifer International.

If you’re able to, consider donating to this wonderful cause today, and keep checking Cake Wrecks daily for the newest cause.

I just think it’s a great idea, and even if readers like me aren’t able to donate to every cause, it raises awareness of all these needs in the world.

Having a cd player in my new car has made me really excited about making mix CDs again.  In the Neon, I used a cassette adapter to play my iPod…still not sure why I was too lazy to create playlists, but I made the effort of skipping every other song that came up on shuffle!  Silly me.

The first cd I made accompanied me on my way to work yesterday, the first day I drove the Focus alone.  It was a great companion.

1. Coldplay - Lost!

2. The Weepies - Nobody Knows Me At All

3. Peter Gabriel - The Book of Love

4. Fiction Family - When She’s Near

5. Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights

6. Passenger - Umbrella (Rihanna cover)

7. Rufus Wainwright - He Ain’t Heavy…He’s My Brother

8. Switchfoot - 24

9. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

10. Copeland - The Grey Man

11. Watashi Wa - Sydney Tonight

12. Little Big Town/Sugarland - Life in a Northern Town

13. The Weepies - Can’t Go Back Now

14. Aqualung - Brighter than Sunshine

15. John Mayer - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room (acoustic)

16. Landon Pigg - Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop

17. Natalie Merchant - Kind & Generous

18. The Weepies - World Spins Madly On

It’s been over a month since my last hair cut.  It’s at a pretty gross length right now and I’m trying to decide whether to cut it again or to grow it out.  I think about how long my hair was last year at this time and it makes me sad!  It’d take me a long time to get back there.

I was eyeing up the Nikon Coolpix L100 today.  It’s on sale.

I want a camera that has lots of auto settings but that I can also control to some extent.

Does anyone have it/has anyone used it?

I am watching a show on National Geographic on the Amish and Rumspringa.  It was filmed in the same are where my cousins lived.  I am engrossed.  I think I’ll start on Christmas cards soon.  Also, I am roasting red potatoes right now. :)

I just found a really great job opportunity that I do NOT want to let pass me by!  I’m intimidated and doubting myself, but I reaaaaaallly want this job!  I’ll take any and all encouragement you can offer me. :)

Annnnd…go?

annogus:

aruth:

adamichael:

“The Christmas Song,” by Alvin and the Chipmunks, is the worst song ever.

I still want a hula hoop!

I’m afraid you’re greatly outnumbered on this matter, Mr. Barr!!

to be fair, Ashley, our affinity for the song probably comes a bit from Derik’s renditions instead of the actual chipmunks. :-)

Naw, I’ve loved it forever.  Derik does make it better, though.  But Adam’s still wrong. ;)

adamichael:

“The Christmas Song,” by Alvin and the Chipmunks, is the worst song ever.

I still want a hula hoop!

I’m afraid you’re greatly outnumbered on this matter, Mr. Barr!!