3 of 12: No Sew Blankets

I usually help at events that involve walking here and there and setting things up putting packages together etc. This time was a crafty sort of volunteer, making no sew blankets. I was only able to squeeze in 30 minutes, I got to finish one someone had started and half of a second one. The blankets were donated to the Arizona Humane Society. Didn't have my cameras so no photos. This was the only volunteer event I was able to help with during National Volunteer Week back in April. But even a little bit counts yeah... I really need to kick up my volunteering...

 This is Spyder. No longer with us, he left to be an outdoor cat and never came back.

It's been a while

It's been a while since I updated a blog post here... not because of lack of topics I could have blogged about... So let's see here's a quick catch up... I'm now in my thirties... yuck, but you know what I decided that i should be 25, so every new birthday from now on I will be 25...What else.. got a mini raise at work, still it was better than most got so can not complain, too much anyways... I have a job and it's what counts at this time right?! On the subject of work, I started a new work-blog in the companies intranet... They have this thing where you can create your site through sharepoint, and it has of options to share documents, photos, blog writing section, etc...

I have some tomatoes growing in containers. Like last year, not sure they will make it since I started them from seed a bit late. We'll see. I got some flowers from Lowe's, to at least have something blooming. :) I did put some sunflower seeds and bachelor button seeds in some small terra-cotta containers on the window sill so that once the Lowe's flowers die I have something to replace them with. They should be transplant ready by the end of the week, and lucky the Lowe's plants aren't dead yet...

Oh yeah, my Ma visited for a week for my b-day. So much fun. Shopping, dining, and we even took a mini trip to through Pine, AZ and got to see the last bits of snow...

And yesterday... took a trip to Ajo, Az and had a picnic in the middle of the desert with family/friends. A pre-Easter day celebration of sorts. Hamburgers, hot dogs, beer, etc... It was fun...

I crack myself up

Just a super brief note to say, I crack myself up... Ha! I was going through a box and I found a notebook that, although I had forgotten about it, it looked very familiar. So I opened it.. The headline on the first page reads, "Welcome to KIRBY'S STORIES." and it goes on... I started laughing as soon as I read that, you see I was if I remember correctly 18 years old when I wrote that and when I did the plan was to fill up the notebook with short stories. Of course I only wrote one, because like everything else that I get into I get bored with it.

Other things that I wrote in the notebook were a list of passwords to websites that I used back then... Wondering if any of them still work. Several blank pages then a page than contains brief notes to self for a job interview.  More blank pages then an entry for my diary that I kept back then. I can only think I put that entry in this notebook because I could not find my actual diary notebook. The entry is dated Aug. 24, 1999 3:53 pm and I wrote it in Spanish. Then a vulgar re-writing of the Ricky Martin song Livin' La Vida Loca. More blank pages then a list of things that I would like to do, most if which I have attempted and either failed at or got bored with them and moved on. Then more blank pages.

Matsuri: A Festival of Japan

The 26th annual Arizona Matsuri is this weekend, February 27th & 28th. The festival is from 10:30 am - 5 pm both days. There are many vendors of food, crafts, travel, etc. Also, several stages with performers and since it is at the Heritage and Science Park which is right by the ASU's Downtown Phoenix Campus, there is also an ASU stage.

I went there yesterday, and if time permits I'll go there again today.  There was a parade on Saturday at 10 am, but I did not make it in time for it.

Many people dressed up in Anime costumes. There was also a group who among them had one dressed up as the Joker and another as Harley Quinn. So, feel free to dress up in your best Anime character.

feeling better...

just a quick note to say feeling better now, still have a little cough... haven't focused on adding updates. was being sick a reason or an excuse ? don't know... just need a kick start... this is so short i could have tweeted it... here's to better days... :)

A place I like

I still have this minor cold that is not letting me think clearly to write about what I wanted so this time just a photo of a place I visited once that I really like. I should take a trip up there again. It's been too long..

 

 From July 2003

re-blog

Before blogger I was at the now extinct yahoo 360... so I am thinking of re-blogging or more like adding those older blog posts here somehow. I enjoy reading my old posts, they crack me up sometimes... wonder if I can put a way older post dates here on blogger, so they stay true to when I originally posted them... hmmm... and before the myspace, blogger, facebook, etc. I had a geocities, didnt update it much but from time to time added stuff... I think eventually I want to to have just my own website... hmmm....

I have been a bit sick these past couple of days, although still managing to go to work. I do like my job. A minor cold, but each day is a different symptom. I never get colds with all symptoms at once. One day it will be aches, the next fever, then sore throat, etc. I guess I'm lucky it doesn't hit me full blown. I think Monday I should have stayed home if not left early, but I do like my job. Enough that I prefer to work than go home. Weird never had that for a job before. I do wish I'd get paid more, but doesn't everybody... hmmm...

Well that's why this post is posting today with yesterdays date, the cold part was not to be here just the blogging part... no photo.. really need to take photos.. Maybe I should take photos of everyday things... hmmm...

Just a photo

Just a photo...

 

Phoenix Pride 2009

Full Month

Yay to me, and a full month of blog posts. A couple times there I had to play catch up and some were just random photos and others just my random thoughts, but still I did it. Plus that's what to me this is all about, just writing down whatever comes to mind. However, it really takes something to do this daily, I still want to go back and update/add some labels and maybe also make banner image for the top. We'll see... Oh yeah a photo :)

 

March 2004

2 of 12: Childsplay

Earlier today I was at the Tempe Center for the Arts. Me and a few other volunteers helped the Development Director for Childsplay, Melia Dunn, stamp and hand out a children's book to the attendees to the preview of musical of Peter and the Wolf. The musical runs from 01/30/2010 to 03/13/2010.

If you read either of the previous posts (Theatre for Everyone, Childsplay Brief ) where I volunteered to help with what I did today, then you know that this is one of the volunteer events I really enjoy. The volunteers get the opportunity to watch the play or musical afterwards. Everyone of the plays or musicals I have seen are just amazing. The actors are great, I specially like Michelle Cunneen.

Don't miss the chance to see any of their plays or musicals.

Posts with no Photos

As you saw, or didn't, the past several posts have no photos. I'm not a photographer by any means, but I always feel each post should have a photo, image, etc., and although I carry my Sony Cybershot camera in my bag the majority of the time, I still need to be more proactive in taking photos. So I will attempt to be more photoy(?) this year and hopefully there will be posts with photos rather than not...

 

This post was to also be a no photo post, but then I decided I should probably put a photo on it since that was the whole point of this post right? So I searched back to some fairly old stuff, memories.

This is a photo of when I was learning to use markers 1998 or 1999 I think. The outline was first made with pencil, then continued with markers, and a bit of blending with a paper stump.

Left and Right

I don't follow politics except for listening to left and right radio shows most mornings and evenings on my drive to and from work. The bottom line I get from the left is, let us help people by whatever means even if it means government helping. The bottom line I get from the right is, let us help our businesses however we choose and get out of the way government. Of course there is much more to get from each side, but it makes me guacala. I'll stick to listening to the crazies on each side, it's entertaining..

Rainy Days...

These past couple of weeks it has been cloudy and rainy. I really enjoy rainy days. Coffee tastes that much better on a rainy day. Although rainy days in Phoenix are nothing compared to the rainy days from Eagle Pass, TX, where I grew up in, and definitely can not compare to Seattle of Memphis, but still it was enjoyable. There are still a few clouds here and there with scattered "showers" however I wish it would last longer.

Labels

I read somewhere that blog labels should be kept to a minimum. So, I had narrowed my labels down to Family and Friends, Garden, Just Because, Photos, Reviews and Recipes, Travel, and Volunteer and Diversity. I think those are good main labels for what I mostly write about here, however I have found that I miss having the smaller narrow it down labels. Plus this blog is turining into sort of a timeline journal of sorts for me. I have found myslef coming back to reference old posts when I am trying to remember what I did and when. Anyways, this just means I am going ot update my blog to add or re-add  some of those narrow down labels.

Daily Blogging...

Blogging daily is something I am trying to do this year too. I have found that it takes true dedication to do. You have to really take and make the time for it otherwise it is not going to happen. Kudos to those who can keep up with blogging. Anyways hopefully I can keep up with it.