Beginner's Art

I’ve been working so much lately, I thought I would like to do something different for a change. One of the perks of working at the college is accessibility to evening courses. The only night I had free was Monday night and the course being offered that night was Acrylic Painting. Hmmm… I had never tried my hand at it before, so I thought, why not? Tonight was my debut, et voila!




Even a closer look - well, not bad for an amateur! Whaddya think?

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Attitude

I came across some really good quotes about attitude. Thought you might enjoy them too!

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude in life. Attitude is more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people, think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break an organization ... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude ... Life is 10% what happens, and 90% how we react to it. And so it is with you ... you are in charge of your attitude."

- Charles Swindoll

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~ Scott Hamilton

And a "Good Monday Morning to You, too!"

A paradox

Quite unexpectedly I've found a paradox of my life in Vern McLellan's book Shredded Wit. It goes like this:

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Plan more than you can do, then do it.

Point your arrow at a star, take your aim, and there you are.

Arrange more time than you can spare, then spare it.

Take on more than you can bear, then bear it.

Plan your castle in the air, then build a ship to take you there.

A paradox - absurd, unbelievable, but true.

Clutz!

What a clutz I am! As I was getting ready to leave for work on Monday morning, I tripped in the handle of my bag - on carpet, wearing slippers! Of course I sat and cried. I cried not so much for the pain (and it did hurt!), but because I just don't have the luxury of time to rest. I didn't realize how many steps I walk in the run of a day and just how fast I need to go. You can just call me peg-legged sue or hop-along cassidy :)

Valentine's Day Poem

A couple of years ago, I wrote this poem for a Valentine's Day contest. It was aired on CBC Radio and I won tickets to a show by the same name. I thought seeing it's Valentine's Day again I would share it with you.

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE
I love you, you’re perfect, now change
Now don’t ya think that’s rather strange
Do you think this ol’ earthly me
Can a gorgeous butterfly be?
Once I get my feet off the ground
I might never again be found.
This metamorphosis you ask
Is quite an impossible task
So dear, it’s take me as I am
You love me, I’m perfect, no change!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Web Page Design

This past week I taught an introductory course in Web Page Design over on base. I did a search to see if I could find some of them. Here are some of my student's pages that I found:
http://www.geocities.com/hollymooressnook/jonahhughlettsnook
http://www.geocities.com/allheart_73/index.html
http://www3.nf.sympatico.ca/robiaman/

On the last day of the course I had my students create blog spots. Here are a couple of them:
http://crazymomoffour.blogspot.com/
http://hollymooressnook.blogspot.com/

Keeping in mind that blogs are updated regularly and web sites are perpetually under construction, why not give a raincheck.

Since we were on the topic, I was inspired to revamp my own page as well. Why not check it out? http://www.geocities.com/bnwrite/personalpage.html