New Dress A Day

This is really the most amazing blog (on Twitter at @newdressaday and Facebook here). Marisa is making a new outfit every day for a year...on a strict budget of $365 for the entire year. She takes the most amazingly dowdy dresses and muumuus and quickly turns them into something cute and funky. See, for example, this post or this or this or this. Syndicated at newdressaday_feed and newdressaday.

MyCharityWater Campaign Report:

$5,000 CAMPAIGN GOAL
$1,451 RAISED SO FAR
72 people served
38 donations
49 days left

I'm doing quite well personally...

Depression has really not been an issue at all, and I'm attributing it to my starting to take fish oil capsules very faithfully about a month ago. naomikritzer mentioned about a year ago it was good for depression, and I was like yeah, yeah, whatever. But I started it up recently solely to help my HDL/LDL ration. And the depression has miraculously lifted. I dunno if it's placebo effect, but whether it is or not, hey, I'll take it. I feel great. Is this what people feel like usually? Wow.

BUT I have been exceedingly distracted by a couple real personal life issues, which is why I haven't been posting much the last week or so. As a result I also haven't been reading my friends list/reading list much. The kerfuffle over Diane Gabaldon's rant against fanfiction is interesting, but I have to put my emotional energy elsewhere, kittens. Let other people spill their bytes over this. I have other fish to fry at the moment.

My parents are moving to Minneapolis from Georgia! Yay! The movers came to get their furniture today. Hopefully they'll be up here for good by Mother's Day. I will be so happy (and relieved) to have them here in town and wow, local grandparents for the kids! That's a first. Alas, it finally happens the year before Fiona leaves for college.

Fiona is having the Week From Hell (AP exams. Multiple.)

Rob is very busy with the Census. They keep finding work for him to do. Yay.

Delia made a dress the other day out of four T-shirts. I'll post a picture of it when I can. She has been burning through a dizzying array of artistic modes of expression this past week: hair dressing, painting fingernails, and now reconfigured T-shirt fashion.

I was going to start biking to work this week, but Something Came Up (having to do with that real life personal issue) that has pushed back my start date, possibly a couple of weeks.

Poetry and creativity in 90 seconds

A woman goes from birth to school to wife and mother in this beautifully shot commercial for retailer John Lewis.