New Game

The deal: The first 5 people to respond to this post will receive something made by me for you! It will be my choice, but custom designed especially for you. Just so we’re on the same page, here are the details: No guarantees my gift will make you will feel absolute true love, but possibly some happiness, slight fervor, or maybe chocolate. It will be done sometime this year. You will have no clue what it will be… cookies, a photograph, a piece of homemade jewelry. It may be some other random thing I am capable of making or doing that would be enjoyable to you! I may bake something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you! That’s for sure. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.The fine print (which is actually the same size, but whatever): You must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on their blog. When you get your lovely homemade goods from me, post a picture on your blog so I know my love arrived without a hitch. I got this from my sister's blog and I couldn't NOT keep the love going around. Who wants to play?

Recent Happenings

I don't think my life has been very exciting lately, so I haven't had a lot to write. But I'm starting to get complaints about that, so here's a post. Let's see...stuff to write about. I found a few more reasons to love Michigan. A few days ago I went for my standard walk around the neighborhood. While I was out, I saw a bunch of cardinals and blue jays (you may not all know this, but I'm a birder, and blue jays are my favorite). Then, I was walking past a little forest, and it just looked like wild animals should be there. I heard what sounded like footsteps, so I looked more closely and realized there were about 20 wild turkeys walking through the trees. It was pretty cool. I thought wild turkeys only existed in pilgrim days, but there they were, right in my neighborhood!

Last weekend some of my friends and I couldn't think of anything fun to do. It's usually too cold to do anything outside, and we're sick of videos and phase 10. But, Mother Nature took a little pity on us and gave us a weekend above freezing. We actually got into the 40s on Saturday! Detroit's Winter Blast festival was going on downtown. I'd never been, but it sounded fun so I went down there with one of my friends. Oh, first we saw Coraline. It was good, but I wouldn't take little kids to it. Back to the Winter Blast: there was an outdoor ice skating rink , techno music, and lots of people. There were also a lot of ice sculptures. Since it had been so warm, they were melting, but it was still fun to see (note: that was my third ice sculpture event in a month- it must be a Michigan thing or something). Afterwards, we went to a Cuban restaurant. It was super good!

Yesterday I flew to Phoenix for a job interview. I flew out early in the morning, interviewed for a few hours, then flew back, getting home early this morning. It was a long day. I think the interview went well, but I'm not sure how enthralled I am with the job (it's not finance! and it turns out, I really like the auto industry), so we'll see. This morning I had an interview with a seat belt/air bag supplier here in Michigan. This job is right up my alley, and it's only a 15 minute drive, so I'm kind of hoping something happens with that.

So that's my life right now. Like I said, not very exciting, but it's what I've got.