Be polite to all, but intimate with few. -Thomas Jefferson

I'm such a lucky girl. I have great family and this weekend I met so many new people at the local quilt shop hop. I feel energized. Today at the gym, I had a really good workout and I even listed a new item on Etsy today. It's really cute.

A lot of my items have expired on Etsy because they didn't sell which is a little bit of a let down. But it's ok because it just means that there is more r

oom in my shop for new stuff. I have made quite a bit of stuff but I wasn't sure if I wanted to keep it and try to open a booth at the local Farmer's Market.

It sounded like such a good idea but now I think I may put them on Etsy. Tomorrow is school almost all day. Then we'll study and hopefully I'll make it to the gym because when I don't go I have nowhere to put all the energy that I expend at the gym. Overall, I am just so happy that I have an amazing husband and a great life.

Loser or Laser?

TO EVERY MAN, WOMAN & CHILD WE WANT AN END TO THE GLAMORIZATION OF NEGATIVITY IN THE MEDIA / WE WANT AN END TO STATUS SYMBOLS DICTATING OUT WORTH AS INDIVIDUALS / WE WANT A MEANINGFUL AND UNIVERSAL EDUCATION SYSTEM / WE WANT SUBSTANCE IN THE PLACE OF POPULARITY / WE WILL NOT COMPROMISE WHO WE ARE TO BE ACCEPTED BY THE CROWD / WE WANT THE INVISIBLE WALLS THAT SEPARATE BY WEALTH, RACE & CLASS TO BE TORN DOWN / WE WANT TO THINK OUR OWN THOUGHTS / WE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT / WE WANT CLARITY & TRUTH FROM OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS OR THEY SHOULD MOVE ASIDE / WE WANT LOVE NO LIES / WE WANT AN END TO ALL WARS FOREIGN & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE / WE WANT AN END TO THE PROCESSED CULTURE OF EXPLOITATION, OVER-CONSUMPTION & WASTE / WE WANT KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING & PEACE / WE WILL NOT LOSE BECAUSE WE ARE NOT LOSERS, WE ARE LASERS! / LASERS ARE THE OPPOSITE OF LOSERS / LASERS ARE SHINING BEAMS OF LIGHT THAT BURN THROUGH THE DARKNESS OF IGNORANCE / LASERS SHED LIGHT ON INJUSTICE AND INEQUALITY / LOSERS STAND BY AND LET THINGS HAPPEN. LASERS ACT AND SHAPE THEIR OWN DESTINIES / LASERS FIND MEANING AND DIRECTION IN THE MYSTERIES ALL AROUND THEM / LASERS STAND FOR LOVE AND COMPASSION / LASERS STAND FOR PEACE / LASERS STAND FOR PROGRESSION / LASERS ARE REVOLUTIONARY / LASERS ARE THE FUTURE

Love Always Shines Every time Remember 2 Smile - LF

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~Albert Einstein

Man, PMS sucks! On Thursday and Friday last week I couldn't run on the treadmill. Every time I got on and took a few strides my boobs would hurt. And I mean really hurt. I didn't really get why I felt like my boobs were replaced with a bags of rocks but I knew I shouldn't run. So I got on the eliptical machine and went about my day. Then I had a wicked mood swings and wasn't exactly nice to my hubby. Being a girl sucks!

PMS is over now though. Whoo hoo. I was back on the treadmill today and I had a really great workout with Hannah. We're doing these ab workouts that are really fun and I hope we see results. Tomorrow we have to turn in our essays on healthcare. I didn't really change much of mine since Thursday but I had to do the Works Cited page which I hate. Then we have a review for the math test on Thursday. It's only chapter 1 and 2 so I'm not worried.

Oh and if anyone wants to write an article for my website you should email me at info@craftersattack.com . I really think outside input from the crafting community is needed so the site can be diverse. So if you haven't checked out my site you should. I would love more input from the community.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. - Edward R. Murrow

Ahh! I did it again. I neglected my blog for a whole week. I need to realize that this blog can actually be useful for me. I can vent on here or tell everyone about the great days that I have. Instead I keep it all in. Grr. Bad Dana!

This week there was no school on Monday because of Labor Day which sucked because we missed a government class. That class is still really g

reat and although it might be things I should know already, I'm learning a lot. We also had English this week and we had to write a 3-4 page paper about the proposed health care plan. When we got to class we had to do peer editing and afterwards the teacher asked the class who's papers were really good. Of course everyone pointed us out and the teacher said she wasn't surprised. It's so weird because we've only been in the class for a few weeks but everyone in that class thinks we're genius'! One guy even came from across the room because he wanted Tim to read his paper. It's awesome to see Tim being nerdy. Haha. But after the teacher asked who's paper was "the best" she asked me to read

mine in front of the class.

For me, I've never really feared crowds. I was a drama geek all of my life and frankly I think I like the attention. But I don't read aloud very well. If I have it memorized then I'm good but when I'm reading a paper that I wrote at 11 the night before I tend to trip on my words. Plus, I really don't like criticism except from people I deem respected. That sounds so mean but I know I don't mean it that way. I just mean that I don't

want someone to tell me that my paper is weak when they didn't even write one. Haha. So yeah, I had to trip over my words in front of the class and then the teacher compares my essay to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. What? It took me a hour to write. Don't compare it to what could be argued as one of the most powerful speeches in history. I'll never be able to live up to that. But I guess she meant it as a compliment.

I'm just happy it's the weekend! I have some math and I have to clean up my essay before Tuesday but overall I think I'm pretty free this weekend. Maybe I'll actually have the time to do some crafting?

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. -Noam Chomsky

Oh blog how I've neglected you. You've been nothing but good to me and yet I do this to you. You don't deserve it and I won't make any excuses because I'm sure you've heard them all. I will try and be better to you. I promise oh dear blog, I promise.

So, the new schedule this semester has us going to class 4 days a week which may sound like a bad deal but it's actually really awesome. On Monday and Wednesday's we have only one class and it starts at 9:30 and is done by about 11 which means we still have the entire day open to do homework for the Monday class or for our other classes. Plus the class is interesting because the teacher cares and the students in the class seem to want to learn. Ignorant, many of them are, but they sure do love asking questions.

Then on Tuesdays and Thursdays we don't even have to be at our first class until 11. We get to sleep in and then go to our English class and debate with others about controversial topics. BTW, I did pick my topic. Marijuana. It should be legal for anyone over the age of 21 in the US. Three other people picked my topic which I guess is telling of what students think are important issues to them. Tim is doing that gays should legally have the right to be married in all 50 states. We love that class.

We actually talk and participate in all of the discussions and get all riled up. It's awesome. A few of us that seem to have similar opinions on controversial issues have teamed up and I think the teacher fears us a little now. Haha. Then of course there is math. Our math teacher (who looks and acts a lot like Andy Rooney) is just as amazing as he was last semester. Not a lot has happened in that class because it's just the beginning.

Then there is our Film as an Art Form class. It's our online class and thus far I think the teacher may be able to make learning about movies suck. We'll make the best out of it but we're not expecting much. Our first "paper" has a minimum of 500 words and that's to get a D. It's on a music video. They're not exactly known for being long so writing 500 words is a little ridiculous. But whatevs. I'm so over it.

I got an Etsy sale this week! I love going to the Post Office when it's for Etsy. I'll be making more stuff and putting it up soon hopefully. And the site is going well also. I've been able to write articles pretty much everyday. I think I might need a staff writer. One that is willing to work for free of course. So there you go blog. Are you happy? I wrote a lot!

"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." -Harold Taylor

School is awesome. This semester is going to be fun for once. I mean we still have math which is never actually fun but our Political Science teacher is a lot of fun and so is our English teacher. Our poly sci teacher used to teach high school and now teaches at the college. He even has some students in the class that took him in high school. He's very comfortable in front of a group of people and knows how to keep the conversation moving so you never get bored. Then in our english class I have to pick a controversial topic for our 8 page essay that is due at the end of the 16 week class. I don't know what to pick. It has to be something I'm really interested in because I'm going to be researching it for 16 weeks. I think I might just learn a lot this semester. Tim's excited too which is so awesome. I love that I married a geek with nerd tendencies. I'm the polar opposite....nerd to the core with geek tendencies.

And on top off an awesome start to school it was my mom's birthday yesterday and it's my brother Aaron's birthday today. Tim took him out go kart racing and to see Inglorious Basterds, which looks like such a great movie. And tomorrow is the drawi

ng to see who the winner of the giveaway on Crafters Attack tomorrow. I can't wait.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. -Jonathan Winters

The website is up and doing awesome. I'm really happy with it. Tomorrow the next semester starts for me and Tim which is really good because we want to get back to school. Our schedule looks like it's going to work really well. I just hope that all my teachers are awesome. Tomorrow there is only one class though. Starting out slow.

Things are amazingly good here. Tim's grandpa visited this weekend and I went to my mom's b-day dinner. All in all, my life is awesome. I'm down to 138 pounds and a size 7. I feel healthier and now that school is starting so does our eating more healthy plans. It's going to be a great semester. I can feel it.