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Archive for April, 2008

High School Friends

Posted in Just my Thoughts, tagged , , on 29 April 2008 | 2 Comments »

Okay – I know I don’t want to be the person I was in high school, but I miss my high school friends.  We had so much fun when we were in high school.  With few exceptions, since college, I have not seen very many of them.  I went to my ten year reunion but [...]

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CYO Volleyball

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , on 22 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In my area, volleyball is a school sport that is now in the fall and is female only.  My sons have all loved to play volleyball and are very athletic.  Consequently, when the Catholic Youth Organization started a volleyball league that goes for about eight weeks in the spring, my kids jumped at the chance [...]

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Celebrate Your Creative Self – Seascape

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , on 22 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In the workshop I am doing this year that is working the way through Mary Todd Beam’s Celebrate Your Creative Self, we are working on a seascape this month.  I have been behind due to some unforeseen and some foreseen life circumstances.  I just started mine today.  This post will be a continuing one with [...]

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April Art Partner Challenge

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, tagged , , on 18 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I finally managed to be one of the first ten people to sign up for the Art Partner Challenge, sponsored by Inka Stamps on The Latest Trends in Mixed Media Yahoo! Group.  I was so excited when I saw the stamp that was enclosed as I do not normally work with photo stamps. I was driving [...]

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Road Trip Report

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, tagged , , , on 18 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »

While I normally post in advance of my trips, the one last weekend was too hectic due to life and prep by the Science Olympiad team to get to my computer and type.  Last weekend, I went to New Paltz, New York for the New York State Science Olympiad competition. I always help the team [...]

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ICE – Who is your “in case of emergency?”

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, tagged , on 9 April 2008 | 2 Comments »

I know this is not a topic we like to discuss in this society.  It usually becomes a family issue with older family members.  The question is who is your in case of emergency? If you are a healthy mid-life adult, do you even think about items like this?  If you have children, do you [...]

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Leather Paper

Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , on 8 April 2008 | 4 Comments »

I know it sounds odd – leather paper.  This is a paper technique in Julia Andrus’s Paper Transformed.  I did not have the Perfect Ink Refresher called for in Julia’s original instuctions so I simply spritzed my cardstock with water. My first attempt did not turn out in any way, shape or manner to look [...]

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Clarkson versus Michigan

Posted in Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , , , , on 3 April 2008 | 2 Comments »

My daughter and I, after watching both Clarkson and Michigan play on Friday, were sure this game was going to be a slaughter.  We figured that Michigan would easily beat Clarkson, possibly by enough early on that we could get an early start on the drive to East Syracuse. Like the shock that most Michigan [...]

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Let the Sun Shine

Posted in Just my Thoughts, tagged , , , on 3 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I realize that we need rain as we did not have a spectacular winter.  I do not believe that my area of upstate NY is in draught trouble at the moment but I am loving the sunshine. The daffodils in my yard are starting to sprout up through the leaf mulch laid down last autumn.  [...]

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Simple Abundance – April 2008

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Simple Abundance, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged , , , , on 2 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As I began to read April, I was drawn to the introductory page that discusses how sunlit April is.  I realize it is only day 2 of the month but it was sunny both days and my disposition is starting to improve already. This month we are travelling along the path to Simple Abundance and [...]

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