Friday: snow and quilts

Today was a beautiful day! It snowed a thick sticky snow last night so this morning it was a winter wonderland. Actually, it was that way for most of the day. I braved the roads and went to work. It was a little bad, but thanks to our great four-wheel drive it wasn't too bad. When I got home I had to shovel the driveway before I could park though. Or half the driveway. Actually less than half...just enough to get the car in. There was about 12" of snow, but it didn't drift for once which was nice.

Like I mentioned, I finished the quilt top last night. The pattern called out for the colorful circles to also be in a cross between the blocks, but that was just getting way too busy. I looked at it with the green fabric, but that didn't match well enough, so I just took them out.

Here is the beginning of the back.

And my new fabric. Notice the black...I still cringe a little bit when thinking about making it into a baby blanket, but I want to try it. I'm hoping it will be better than I expect, and I really like the fabric.

And of course, Flurry.

Thursday: this and that

I don't really have much to write about today, so you'll get an eclectic mix.

*I saw another heterograph: "You should sight a process here."

*I finished my quilt top! And I figured out what I'm doing with the back. The back can be so hard some times because I don't really want to spend that much time on it, but at the same time I don't have enough left over fabric to just cover the whole back. I'll post pictures tomorrow...I'm sure you can't wait.

*I was in a professional movie for work that was up on a website today. It was part of the celebration of National Engineer Week. Sadly, it appears as though you need to be logged into the intranet to be able to see it.

*I tried using the word "unfortunately" above instead of sadly, but that is just one word that doesn't seem to work for me. And it took me about 20 seconds to get it close enough for spell-check to figure out what I was trying to say. But I think that is because sometimes spell check is dumb.

Wednesday: today

When I'm stressed, I've found it helps to sleep. So I'm going to go sleep.

Good night.

Tuesday: four question friday

1. If you had $10,000 to donate to a charity, which would you choose?

I'd buy goats. I usually get them from CRWRC.

(Image from here.)

2. Snow days: Do you welcome them happily or are they a pain in your butt?

Well, I don't have kids so snow days really don't affect me too much. However, if I need to stay home then it depends if I brought me computer with me. If I can work from home snow days are fun. If I can't, they're annoying because I need to take an unplanned vacation.

3. What talent did you wish you had and why?

The ability to think on my feet faster in order to persuade them to agree with my opinion.

4. Are you a news, politics or celebrity gossip junkie?

No.

Ten years ago today

Ten years ago today I was in a physics lab. It was about Faraday's Law. My lab report even had a cool graph and equations.

But the coolest thing about this day was my lab partner.

Although I know that both of us left that lab without another thought about our lab partner, today still marks the 10 year anniversary of our first meeting.

Sunday: heaven

Today I finished the book Heaven is for Real. It is what a little boy saw when he went to heaven for three minutes. It's an easy read, and I'd definitely recommend it.

Two parts stuck out to me...1) that the boy got angry and upset when people died and they didn't know Jesus. Shouldn't I feel that way? 2) That he saw family members. He saw a sister that had been miscarried and a great-grandpa. When Mom died I sometimes wondered if I'd see her again...that heaven must be this amazing place and why would you want to see family when you could be worshiping God. While I realize that this book is not the Bible, there is also no reason for me not to believe what it says...and that means that I'll get to see my Mom again.

Saturday: heterographs

To begin with, I'll admit that I had to use wikipedia to find the word "heterograph". I knew what I was looking for, but not what the word is. Heterographs are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things. One of the most common hetergraphs is there/their/they're.

Lately I've been noticing more uncommon heterographs. I can kind of understand the there/their/they're problem...two of those words are not nouns. (Although I also think that with a moment of thought, it is easy to figure out the correct one.) Here are the ones I've seen, with made-up sentences...

"I maid the program last night, so it should be all set." (This one really surprised me and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.)

"I finished the hole thing."

"I took the forth train." (Actually, I think I spelled this wrong earlier, but I've since fixed it.)

Isn't language interesting? What are your favorite heterographs?