it all started with business cards

I hope you all are well

Taking a bloggy break has left me feeling a little bit disconnected

- and a little bit energized.

So anyway - my break - it all started with business cards

- or rather, the lack of business cards.

Do you have cards for your blog? Do you use them often?

It seems as though more and more I'm running into situations where they would sure be handy.

Somehow it just seems easier than long-winded explanations of what I'm doing.

Anyway - this led to the need to do some blog updates

which led to the need to finish my photoshop class

which led to -

Sheesh - wouldn't it be great if there were more hours in a day?

Anyway - I don't know about you, but May is becoming one of my favorite months

here are my 5 reasons why

1) Flowers - Spring comes slowly to New England

but we suddenly went from mud to flowers - Yeah!

2) More daylight - no more driving to and from work in the dark. Soon, I'll be able to switch out some of those dreaded gym visits with an early morning bike ride.

(smile)

3) Evenings on the deck

4) Anticipation of Summer - sometimes anticipation is as good as the real thing...

5) Following cross-country cyclists - it's the time of year where cyclists on cross-country journeys get started. I'm usually able to find 2 or 3 on twitter that I can live vicariously through for the next 3 months. If you know of anyone making a coast-to-coast trip on their bicycle and blogging about it, I'd love to follow along.

That's it for me.

Have a wonderful day!

random five for a random week

TGIF and a happy Friday to all of you!

1) It's commencement week here at the university where I work - and what a festive atmosphere on campus! All those happy, hopeful faces beneath the caps - and happy, proud parents. This morning I saw one young graduate sporting her red cowgirl boots beneath her gown. :-)

2) I switched my blogger profile to Google+ and am feeling ambivalent about the change. Any pros or cons that you know of?

3) I'm two months into my new morning gym routine and doing well with it. One of my co-workers enthusiastically asks "Don't you just love it"

Hmmmmmm - nope

I enjoy exercise and all -

but will never love packing my clean work clothes in a gym bag, rushing out the door before  6 am, and showering for work in a locker room.

Nope, never going to love that.

4) I'm thinking that if you're going to display a "Baby on Board" sign in your car window, you should also put away your cell phone, and maybe, just maybe, not text and drive.

Just sayin'

5) Next week I am going to go without breads, pasta, cookies, sweets -

for the whole week - yikes -

so, this morning when I stopped for my coffee, I figured a donut was in order.

I'm planning to take a short break from blogging. This is my crazy time at work, I also want to get caught up with my Picture Pro-cess class (which, by the way, is fabulous), and take care of a couple other small projects. Besides - no cupcakes next week - I may be grumpy.

Take care - and have a wonderful weekend!