December 2, 2007
Handmade
I love Christmas. The decorations at the mall, picking out a Christmas tree, buying and wrapping perfect presents, baking cookies and bread and candy… I love all of it! Now that it’s December, I’m starting to think seriously about Christmas.
When we were little, my parents encouraged creativity by having a gift-making policy: we had to make a present for each member of the immediate family, in addition to the store-bought normal ones, and send a group-made gift to our cousins. I always loved this the most, thinking up elaborate projects and begging my mom to let me use glue guns by myself so I could make her gift. I’m not sure when this tradition died in my family, probably when my siblings and I started getting too busy with school and activities, but I’ve kept it as my own little tradition for myself. Last year, I had decided not to do it, but three days before Christmas I was itching to craft, so I went for it anyway. There’s nothing better than staying up all night of Christmas Eve, painting, knitting, gluing, and decopaging in my room!
Even though I have quite a while, I’m getting antsy about starting my Christmas projects. As soon as I get home to my huge tubs of craft supplies, I know I won’t be able to control myself- nor, truly, would I want to!
November 20, 2007
Productive waste of time
Free Rice is a cool new procrastination trick, where you get to feel smart and do a bit to stop world hunger. The premise is this: a vocabulary game, with ten grains of rice donated to the UN World Food Program for every word you get right. My highest level is Vocabulary 40… can you beat that?
