I’ve been digging through my jewelry supplies again, trying to reconnect my creativity with my hands. One of these days, I’ll get disciplined enough to spend regular chunks of time working on my creative outlets (mainly jewelry and writing). Always something I can aspire to! 
But here are the latest little trinkets uploaded to my Etsy store.
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It’s been a quiet and laid back weekend. Yea! Weekends like this make me marvel at how wonderful the mundane can be, which comes as a welcome reminder to maintain perspective and be grateful for the “little things” that build such a full life.
Sunday morning we slept in and just wandered around the quiet house until lunch. Hubby asked me what today was, so I told him it was the 7th. He said, “So only 3 days until the world ends!” To which I shook my head and said, “What?!” Apparently the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is hoping for its first particle collision on Wednesday. Thankfully my friend (thanks, T!) had sent me a wonderful nerd rap YouTube video about the LHC, so I actually knew what he was talking about! But all sorts of people are freaked out about the uncertain outcome of the experiments. The scientists don’t know exactly what particles will be created during the collision, but there are lots of conspiracy theories about black holes and rogue particles that would kill us all.
We spent almost an hour perusing photos that are actually quite impressive and beautiful. I watched 30 minutes of YouTube videos learning about the LHC and the goal of the research so I would know that any black hole created from the particle collision would decay so rapidly it wouldn’t be a danger. Then, just as quickly as the topic started, we moved on when hubby was flipping through our TiVo list and suddenly exclaimed, “Did you see this Cops?! It was spectacular!”
Really, I wonder… how many households move so quickly between high and low brow discussions? 
Hubby pointed me to a hugely popular Jon Stewart clip that I hadn’t seen yet (the drawback of TiVo–the episode is still waiting for me). O.M.G. Hilarious.
This Couch Potato Pundit is laughing my, erm, face off today. I was cheering for Campbell Brown the other day when she raked Tucker Bounds, McCain-Palin spokesman, over the coals for sidestepping her direct questions. Every time I see that clip I wonder how Bounds still has a job–could he have been any more obtuse?! Talk about a PR hack needing PR lessons!
But in an astounding and highly amusing response, the McCain campaign has cancelled John McCain’s interview with Larry King saying that Brown had crossed the line in her questioning of Bounds. The LA Times quotes another McCain spokesperson as saying,
After a relentless refusal by certain on-air reporters to come to terms with John McCain’s selection of Alaska’s sitting governor as our party’s nominee for vice president, we decided John McCain’s time would be better served elsewhere.
Um, okay.
Did I miss something? Are we back in the 5th grade? This response doesn’t leave me hugely confident in the McCain-Palin approach to diplomacy… If Putin asks some hard questions are they just going to say, “I don’t like your tone so I’m not talking to you ever again, you big ninny!”?
And I’ll be watching with anticipation to see how journalists respond to this, especially Larry King. Nobody messes with Larry!
This has been an exciting election year so far, but it’s clear that the standard tit-for-tat hazing and taunting is once again the standard operating procedure. I’d rather not cuss, so I’ll just say “Yuck” and move on. At least until the next time one of the campaigns reverts to grade school mentality.
I’ve been trying to keep my politics out of my blog, but I just have to say I feel incredibly sorry for Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin’s pregnant teenaged daughter. Part of me wants to rail against the conservative political machine and hold this up as proof that only preaching abstinence doesn’t work. But then my heart breaks for the position that young Ms. Palin is in.
Getting pregnant (and apparently planning to marry the father) at 17 has got to be hard enough, now she’s got the world watching every step of it. The Palins have asked that this remain a private family matter, and Obama has stepped up to say the families are off limits. If only the media would accept that and move on to other headlines. Poor girl.
On a side note… Wow!! This McCain-Palin spokeman got raked over the coals. Dude, that had to hurt! But I wonder if he even knew and/or cared that he was side-stepping every question he was asked to answer.
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