I'm moving....

To Wordpress!

I have a new blog name and address, won't you please come play with me at my new blog?

My new home will be:

www.flyingmermaid.wordpress.com

Totally digging...

Colbie Caillat

I found her on Itunes, her song "Bubbly" was the free single of the week. I downloaded that, plus Realize and Magic. It took me maybe a day to download the rest of the album, and it has been on constant rotation since then.

Her music is summery and light and touching. It has the essence of the beach, with beautiful lyrics that you want to listen to over and over. Her music feels like love.

"Take time to realize, this all could pass you by. Didn't I tell you? But I can't spell it out for you. It's never going to be that simple."

A great song, says Colbie Caillat, should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. Taking her own sound advice, "Coco", the debut album by the 22 year-old Californian singer-songwriter is simply crammed full of them. -- From her Myspace page

Check her out. I think you will be glad you did.

Last day of vacation...

Last official day of vacation...or unemployment, however you want to look at it. And I think I will soon be a bike commuter! We are very near a bike trail that goes up to downtown Durham, and it's easy to get to my Duke office building from there. Tim would have to drive me maybe a mile or two to the trail head, since there is no shoulder on the road or bike lane, but then it would be an easy 10 mile ride or so.

I'm thinking of getting something like this -- a nice commuter bike that will be comfy and fun to ride on. Nothing like Bianca, the wonderful Bianchi road bike I used to have when I was with Mark, but I'm not intending to put those kind of miles on a bike again. When I had Bianca, Mark and I would often go out for rides of 30-70 miles. I actually biked a century (100 miles in one go) on her. Now, I want a bike I can take on bike trails and bike paths, nice, easy rides.

And today, we are getting new phones (no, not the fun, snazzy iphone, just a new verizon phone). It's weird to be getting new regular cell phones on a day when even the mayor of Philadelphia is caught camping for the most anticipated phone. Maybe someday, when the prices drop to a reasonable level! lol. We are actually going to wander by an apple store tonight, to see how crazy people are getting over the iphone. Can you imagine people getting this excited for a new microsoft product, like a Zune phone? I don't think so...

I just started smiting them all

Heeeeeee...

This site has some really good religious bumper stickers, but ohmygod, the youtube video at the end. Watch it. It's funny, and it makes some valid religious criticisms. Watch the whole thing...the beginning is a little boring, but once he gets to smiting, I was snorting with laughter.

http://godlessamerican.org/

"Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it."

beautiful photos, simple moments

There's beauty wherever you look, even in the ordinary.

I really like these photos. Makes me want to pay more attention to little moments like this.

http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/2006/12/index.html

Biblical Plagues

As depicted by Peeps (found via Dooce)

Awesome. Peep terror is funny :)

Peep biblical plagues

Some fun links

Ever played with Stumble? It's a Firefox add-on. You fill out a profile of things you are interested in and then just hit Stumble! and it pulls up random Web sites that are generally in the categories you checked off. You can vote on each page, thumbs up or thumbs down, and it helps Stumble fine-tune the pages you get. Obviously, there's some crap, but you also find really cool sites, that you might not have stumbled on otherwise.

Some recent ones I found and liked:

This because it just makes me smile.

Amazing dog photographer. Check out a few of his pictures, he's really talented.

Some funny, and very non-pc T-shirts

Dude! This video is very cute. Happy hamster. Watch to see his feet spazz out in joy.

Odd/different hotels. There are some I definitely wouldn't stay in (the drainpipe is a definite pass) but the underwater one is COOL! And there's one from Portland, I've actually been there for dinner.

Funny animals. Who doesn't love funny animal pics? If you answered that you don't, well, clearly you are not one of my friends.

This is especially for Mik.