what color is YOUR brain?

Your Mind is Green

Of all the mind types, yours has the most balance. You are able to see all sides to most problems and are a good problem solver. You need time to work out your thoughts, but you don't get stuck in bad thinking patterns. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about the future, philosophy, and relationships (both personal and intellectual).

What Color Is Your Mind?

books

There are a couple of new book recommendations over at Books and Starbucks.  Melanie posted one earlier this week and I posted one today.  Go take a look!

yesterday

You have seen, if you looked two posts down, what the weather was like yesterday morning.  What the pictures don't reveal accurately is the terrible wind!  It was a nasty cold day.  The kind of day I just LOVE -- as long as I am staying in my house.

But I had big plans and they weren't to stay home all day.  In spite of being unable to get out of my driveway, I was able to do what I had been looking forward to for at least a week!

My friend Robbie and I rode the light rail train downtown, (by this time the snow and wind had stopped!!) and went to

 tea at the beautiful historic Brown 

Palace Hotel.

  It was absolutely lovely.  Really.  Just wonderful!  

Then we walked around just a bit and then we went to our friend Megan DiMaria's Book launch party!  You know for her newly published book, Searching for Spice.  I am so happy for her!  It is so exciting

 to have a long-time dream come true!  There was a very nice turn out and it was in a very cool location.  Its called the D&F Tower.  It is Denver's first sky 

scraper and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi when it was built.

Our party was right above the clock.  The elevator went to just bellow the clock and then we climbed stairs behind the clock to get to the floor above.  That kind of thing is extremely difficult for me as I get vertigo in those situations.  But my friends were so understanding and helpful.

It was very nice and fun.  I even went out on the balcony that

 you can see there above the clock.  For some reason, that didn't cause 

any dizzy, wooziness.  Weird.  But anyway.  It was a great time!

After that Robbie and I stopped at the Cheesecake factory for something with some protein in it to counteract all the sugar and caffeine we had consumed earlier.  Yummy.  

It was a very, very nice day.  

Got to Jan's blog for some great photos of the event!

thursday thirteen

A few months ago my daughter said to me, "Mom it isn't fair that you had so many pets and we haven't had any!"  And I agreed with her.  That isn't right.  We had tried hampsters and we had a fish for a while, but the hampsters didn't work out and the fish wasn't very fun.  So that's when we got our dog that we have now.

Here are 13 pets I have had - in the order that I think of them.

1. My cat Smokey

2. a duck named Henry - then Henrietta

3. a rat - stupid thing bit me - didn't deserve a name

4. a rabbit name Peanuts

5. a chicken.  I can't remember her name, but she had one.

6. a dog named Rags

7. a pony named Creampuff

8. a cat named Shoney

9. a dog named Dolly

10.  a dog named Wog

11. a cat named Tubby

12. a cat named Fluffy

13. and now we have a dog named Skittles

You could add several more cats to that list.  And a dog that I don't really remember.

There's a picture of Smokey and me and just for fun, one of my sister and her dog, Sugar.

april showers

my life in photos

Twas a Saturday - the day before Easter - around lunchtime that I slithered into the world.   From the picture I've seen, I looked suspiciously like an alien.

But I got pretty cute pretty quickly.  I have pictures of that, too.  Sorry, but I don't have any baby pictures in my computer.  I know... I know... Maybe sometime.

Here I am in my blissful youth.  Unfettered childhood.  Those were the days.

Then I had to go to school.  Life would never be the same.  

This hairdo, by the way, was reserved for school pictures and stints as a flower-girl.

I made it through school.  I went to a Christian school from 3rd grade through 12th.

Class of '84 ROCKS!

I even made it through college.  Six years of college.  It took six years because I had a difficult time deciding what I wanted to do.  This is actually my first senior picture.  I had a second one done two years later when I graduated.  I got a degree in nursing.  Had a minor in World Missions and took a lot of other cool classes along the way.  I love school!

A couple years after graduation I met my hubby.  Five months later we were married.

Then we had two precious kids.  Basically I've just lived a life.  42 years of life.  A lot of it has gone as expected.  A lot of it has not.  That's what keeps it interesting.  And it has been interesting.

more of me in pictures

I know you may not want to see any more of this stuff.  But its fun, and its my birthday week, so I get to do whatever I want.  That's my rule.

I found these questions somewhere else, but the rules were the same as in the last post.  I had to find the answers on Photobucket and only use the first page.  I cheated on Beryl, though.  I clicked through a couple of pages.  But its my birthday week, so I can if I want.

What is your nickname?

What is your favorite smell?

What is your favorite drink?

What is your favorite animal?

What is your favorite dessert?

What is your bad habit?

What is your grandmother's name?

What is your favorite book?

What is your favorite color? (it's a toss-up)

What is your favorite food? (but not raw!)

What is your last name? (one of these)

What was your first job?

How old will you be on your next birthday? (tomorrow)

Where would you like to travel?

What is your favorite place?

What are your favorite objects?