Quilt

This is the quilt that I started in high school. There's no pattern or technique to it. And I didn't really know what I was doing. As a result, somehow I messed it up terribly. I found it friday and decided to work on it. My mom and I had to cut more than half of it away because it wouldn't lay flat. I'm going to take what's left of it and add to it to make a bedspread.
This may be reason #11 why I'm a nerd (reason #10 has something to do with writing a blog no one reads). I like it, though. It makes me appreciate my Appalachian heritage. I have an aunt do makes these beautifully.

Recently

1. Two of my stories for the newspaper were printed today. I really like seeing my by line.
2. These have been a hard couple of weeks. Saying goodbye is never easy. I don't like seeing people I love hurt. It helps to know that death is not the end.
3. It's amazing the changes you see in a person when you haven't seen them in eight years.

Springtime in Ashland

2 months

This is from an email from a newspaper editor. You really can live two months on a good compliment.

I'm sure you'd do fine on deadline. I was just curious because the copy was so clean but on those kind of stories you have more time to refine (everybody does). Like I told you before Lori, there's no doubt about your writing talent. Very impressive.

Derek Webb - I don't want to Fight

Intro into Wedding Dress

This is why I love Derek Webb.

Idol

It's humorous to me that Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah is number 1 on iTunes after that guy from American Idol sang it last week. That's an amazing song, don't get me wrong. Maybe if all the contestants sang good music, these viewers would stop watching that show and go listen to real music...

Most Played

The top 5 songs played lately on my iTunes.

1. "Say it to me now," Glen Hansard
2. "The Blower's Daughter," Damien Rice
3. "Watch your mouth," Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken
4. "Jacob's Dream," Jason Upton
5. "Be," Kevin Max

Temptation

Yesterday my mom made two batches of brownies for a sunday school party. She decided they didn't turn out well enough to bring to the party so they're sitting on the kitchen counter. Now my parents are out of town for the weekend. There's no one in the house but me and the cat, and those brownies are looking pretty tempting. What are they trying to do to me? Don't they know I gave up chocolate for lent? Sundays are counted in the 40 days of lent. They're like a mini-Easter. Until now I haven't taken advantage of that. Maybe I will tomorrow... 

I spent the morning in Covington for a meeting of the Jamaica Work and Witness team. We're going the first part of June and I'm excited. I came back and stopped at the mall for a hair cut and a $10 outfit. You can't beat that.