changing
you may have noticed that i changed my blog format a little. it's good to stay fresh. it's all part of my not-so-evil scheme to overtake the world... well, MY world at least. :)
i'd like to thank mike belleme and kristen molina-nauert for the tarsier photo. x and i went through their tarsier album and chose one pic to represent each member of our family. you can see the george and x tarsiers in my myspace album. :) they took LOTS of pictures of these sweet little beasts on their grand photo tour of asia - please treat yourself to mike's photo blog. prepare to feel your heart growing. you have been warned...

staging
i am planning a coup of my own webpage - if i can keep paying my server guy long enough to keep it up - hurhurhur. i have an evil plan in mind and today is the day i kick it into action. no more ms. relatively nice gal. the gloves have come off. i will be asking for your help. when the time comes, you will recieve a message. again, you have been warned...

learning
i am not very big on the whole self-help industry, but even my stubborn, opinionated @$$ cannot deny that sometimes, you need a little help, and sometimes you have to take it where it can be found. i have joked for years that the only self help books i trust are desmond morris' 'the naked ape' and 'the human zoo', but the truth is that i have found the work of dr. peter levine to be incredibly useful lately, and i have used poetry and fiction as life-guidance for as long as i could even listen to someone else read.
the one thing i thought i'd never catch myself doing as an adult is reading an advice column. when i was a kid, my grandma and i faithfully followed dear abby and heloise (we were also dedicated to the NBC soaps...). i remember enjoying judging whether or not i thought their advice was worth a !@#$ (it usually was) and liking the sort of 'here's a problem, here's a fix' element'* (like 'car talk' for people). so, i guess i shouldn't be too surprised that when someone dear suggested that i would enjoy this writers' extremely matter-of-fact (not to mention funny-as-hell) approach to trying to help people be not so damned stupid. kelly dee ("I Told You So: Better living through my opinion" - LJ) is doing her part to make the world a better place, she is not cruel or sarcastic for the sake of seeming cool, but she is very, very blunt. YAY! please check her out. send her a letter! i plan to... see if y'all can guess which one is mine! :D

growing
ok, back to NPR, breakfast, getting ready for work with that sweet, hot boss of mine (y'all should see her MOP... man, and dusting, don't even get me started - OW!). while i work today, i plan to scheme and plot and help plan the S.M.U.T. revlution... muwhahahahaha... hack.

i hope you all have adventurous days, that you find yourselves mindfully and pleasantly occupied, and most of all that you feel loved, especially by yourself and your higher power (even if that's your dog. ;)
drink more water!
-s


*this 'need to tetris/gemdrop/solitaire gene' exists in all of us, i think. i believe that it required us becoming OCD as a species in order to evolve.