A glorious new world

When I grew up, living out at the countryside, we had two television channels and the second one didn’t even come until 1988. We could listen to one of the four state owned radio stations and sometimes on particular clear days the local station from the nearest big town 20 something kilometers away. There was no Internet available. Cell phones were still so big and expensive that no one I knew had one.

As I sat on the bus on my way to work today, listening to my favorite US radio station I came to realize what a revolution we’ve been through these past 20 years. The fact alone that I’m able to sit in a moving bus and navigate my way around all kinds of international radio stations and still have better quality then the old state stations says a lot about just how far we’ve come.

And on that note I might as well confess it right now – I’m totally addicted to my Iphone. I listen to music, play games, write notes and tape random ideas for later use. I take photos and send my husband photos of the dog while he’s at work. I twitter, facebook and keep up with the latest events at my favorite websites. I call friends and stay in touch via mail and text messages. I even wrote this blog post during breaks at work!

When I grew up I never imagined myself doing any of these things but for the younger generations they’ll never know a world without it. I once read an interview with some guy that argued that in reality all technology was at a standstill. We were only finding new ways to use existing technology. This might be true but what a glorious new world these new ways have created.

It doesn’t take something new to create a revolution, just a different way of looking at something old.

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Keeping warm

My husband keeps telling me that I’m just being foolish. To put on an extra sweater or go for a walk. But there are limits to how many sweaters I can wear and go for a walk every five minutes and nothing else will be done that day. The truth, although he’ll never admit it, is that our house is ice cold these days. We are experiencing seriously bad weather even for the season and the heat isn’t turned up enough.
What can however make me warm is that panic attack I had this morning as I turned on my computer or should I say - tried to turn it on. Nothing happened. Absolutely NOTHING! Can you imagine my panic? I’m still not quite sure what happened but one thing is certain it is in need of good spring cleaning! So much stuff and so little space isn’t the best of combinations. I’ve spend the day getting up to date with my backups and drinking lots of tea to keep me warm and once I’m actually brave enough to agree to do it, I’ll have my computer re-installed.

But the never-ending fear is what if something unexpected happens to my back up in the meantime?

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The morning after

There’s something so incredible sad about the morning after a great evening spend with friends. You spend the day before excited about getting to see your friends, shopping, cleaning, getting dinner ready and walking the dog so he can spend the evening sleeping.
The evening passes faster then you would ever expect it to. You eat, laugh and talk like you’ll never meet again and suddenly you are saying goodbye in the doorway and they’ll leave into the darkness of the night.
And then you wake up the morning after to this sight. I call it the glass graveyard. They stand like lonely monuments in the cold light of the morning only accompanied by the candles that burned out hours ago and tell their stories about another great evening.

It’s only Sunday afternoon and I’m already missing Saturday nights.

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It's more like a series of events...

Blog Prompt: Of the major events that have happened in your lifetime, what do you feel has had the most impact on you and how?

What is a major event? Where does it start and where does it end? What about all those small things that lead up to the so called big event? Don’t they count and who’s to say they don’t have as big a role on the impact as the major event?

I’ll give you an example. Meeting my husband was a major event. One of those you might even call life altering. But to meet my husband I had to call a friend I hadn’t seen in six months. I wouldn’t have called her if it wasn’t because that the guy I fancied at the time had suddenly decided to spend his Saturday evening differently then planned and I needed someone to entertain me. But then again, I wouldn’t have been involved with that guy in any way if I hadn’t sad & drunk said that a guy like him would make a great rebound guy after a failed relationship, to a mutual friend. And I would certainly never have said that if things had gone differently in my old relationship, a relationship that cost me my friendship with the first mentioned friend.

You are beginning to understand where I’m heading, right? I can’t say exactly what step on my way to true love (and it still is after 8 years together) had the most impact on my life. One thing wouldn’t have happened without the other.

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Music that makes me go...

I saw this on another blog and had to do it as well. I'm a huge music lover and truely believes that music can enhance or even alter my mood.

PERSONAL
Top 40s at the moment:
That's going to be a Danish song. I can listen to this over and over again the entire day and still feel a little bit in love with the song. It's Rasmus Seebach with Glad igen (Happy again)



Songs that give you spirit when you are down:
I can not hear this and not get a huge smile on my lips. It has such a lovely beat. It's Natalie Imbruglia with Glorious



Wedding:
Faith Hill - The Way You Love Me
It's the song my husband and I danced our first dance (after the traditional wedding walz) to at our wedding.


Sexy:
Don't ask me why but the first song that I think of is Marvin Gaye - Lets get it on


Quickly followed by Justin Timberlake & Ciara with Love Sex Magic


I hate my ex songs:
Sara Bareilles - Gravity
I know the obvious pick would be some angry song but this song reminds me so much of an old ex and reminds me every time why I ended up hating him as much as I did back then...


But in the end Trisha Yearwoods I would have loved you anyway works too. Because at the time of my life it really didn't matter how he treated me. I neeeded him to be able to move on and be ready for the next big love. 'For a moment in time' I loved him.

R&B night....

Excentric:
Bodies with Robbie Williams, because lets face it. No matter how hot the guy is, he is just as excentric! And this number is no exception.


Brittish:
Anything works here. Almost anything but from the more recent british singers I really like Pixie Lott



Adorable:
I started with a Danish song and I'll end with another one. This is 17 year old Basim with the song to his father that has cancer. The song is about his fear of loosing him, he sings that heaven has too many angels and that he needs him here. That time is the best he give him. It is such an adorable song.

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Keeping busy

Suddenly I found myself caught up in the DET contest at DSP and finishing my kits for SNL and totally forgot about coming back here and update. Well where do I begin?
I made it back on the Digital Elite Team at Digital Scrapbook Place and for those of you that don't know it, the DET is the Creative Team for the entire store at DSP. It was a really hard contest this time and as we entered the last round I felt that it would be okay if I didn't make the team. So I was extremely excited when I made the team. So I've been busy scrapping and absolutely love being back and getting to scrap with all kinds of kits.
Here's a few of my layouts so far.

Fresh N New Mega kit by DSP Designers

Tropical Dreams by Heidi Kuester

Toad-ily Inspired Blendable Paper Kit by Kim Liddiard Famous Authors: Oliver Wendell Holmes word art by Tina Chambers

I've even had time to finish my SNL kit for October already. The theme was Teen Grunge and the colors were very bright and funky. I didn't think I'd finish so fast but I actually made this in an afternoon. And I love how it turned out

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It's Marcee's birthday...

Which at DSP means you get 29% off on her products so if you're not already familar with her products this is a great oppertunity to get started. Here are just some of my many favorite Marcee products.

I use her clipping masks all the time and often find new ways of using her word arts over and over again as page fillers. Her kits are full of great papers and elements so realistic that you want to reach out and touch them. I actually look at her products every single time I sit by my computer because I have these 3 layouts hanging on the wall behind my screen.
Several of her products are simply digital must haves so go and find all of her products here and start shopping. Sale Ends Midnight EST
Happy birthday Marcee!

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