Happy Birthday Mom!

She looked wonderful - she always has such beautiful skin. She is also the most vibrant woman I know, and I hope someday I can be anything like her. She has a lot more patience than I do!

A new appreciation for old english

It always amazes me how much I love the Old English literature and their customs. I want to know it, I want to see it in my mind, as clearly as I can my own times. I even feel remarkably at home when I write stories about the middle ages, it's as if I'm going home and am happier in that sort of mindset. Maybe it is the ideal of chivalry and the strict rules that seemed to control every aspect of your life. It's not that I want to be a part of that, but to witness the restrictions and the way people may have gotten out of certain laws and/or didn't. Hmmm, I could make a political joke right about here, but I think that's a given.

Happiness is...

...finding the right template that will make the website you have been working on for weeks look the best!
...going home for a few hours to visit your mom.
...feeling as if you accomplished something when you witness all your hard work start coming together.
...figuring out how to use the website for interlibrary loans!