Silver Wings

"Silver wings
Shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines
Headed somewhere in flight


They're taking you away
And leaving me lonely
Silver wings
Slowly fading out of sight "
--Silver Wings, Merle Haggard
 
On stormy or windy days, Kansas City International airport sometimes reroutes its flights right over the Little Farm. As the crow flies, we're only about 15 miles away so we see a lot of air traffic on a normal day. But I love those rare days when the planes are coming in really low as they make their final approach.
 
For me, there is a real beauty in flight. It fascinates me--not just the physical mechanics of it, but the emotions surrounding the journeys of the travelers. As I hear the engines roaring overhead, I always think about the people inside. What are they feeling? Are they home, or are they just passing through? Did they leave someone behind? If so, is it just for a little while or forever? Is someone waiting here for them? 
 
And I think about many of my own journeys--the hellos and goodbyes, leaving old places and discovering new ones, the excitement of packing my suitcase and going. And it always makes me wish I was on a flight heading somewhere, too.

For Real????

So I'm YouTube happy today. My dad sent me an e-mail about this deer earlier today. I decided to go out on the Interweb over my lunch break to see if I could find any other details. Well, I found all kinds of Web sites and photos and videos--this doe's a star!

It's fascinating and also downright insane if you wanna know my take on it. Ice cream with a splash of coffee and sweetener? Linguine in bed? A deer that uses a human toilet? For real???

Meet Dillie ...


I don't know what's more bizarre ... a deer living in a house or the creepy news reporter who locks himself in with her for "nap time." Watch out, Dillie!

The House that Built Me

About once or twice a year, I hear a song that grabs me from the very first listen ... in comparison to the many others that I need to hear several times before they hook me. Miranda Lambert--a country singer--recently released this one. Kelly Clarkson covered it. I don't care who sings it. I just think it's a really well written song and one that I can relate to on so many different levels.

What are you all listening to these days? Anything hooking you? Care to share? :-)

Yes, I Get Paid to Write

I obviously haven't found the spell checker function here on Blogger. I apologize to anyone who has been assaulted by my hideous typos and misspellings. The editor in me always finds the mistakes. It just takes me a few readings and sometimes a few days before they jump out at me. Mea culpa!

Team Toyota

I'm an uncompensated, non-actor nobody from middle America, and I LOVE TOYOTA. They need me in those new ads they have out now. Call me, Toyota execs! I work cheap!

Okay ... I know they've gotten some really nasty press lately. And they deserve the bad PR and much more if they knowingly put dangerous vehicles out on the roadways. But I owned Toyota 4Runners for eight years before gas prices went berzerko, and I LOVED them. I have nothing negative to say about my personal experience.

But when I saw this on SNL a few weeks ago, I had to laugh. It's been a crazy, stressful week for me and I think my blog needs a little humor. I'm at a loss for creating anything remotely funny on my own so I'll steal shamelessly from the comedic genius of others.

In case you missed it, I give you the latest Ford Hybrid commercial ... Enjoy!

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

No, that's not my philosophy. But I wish it was sometimes.

In my world, sleep is something to be cherished ... the one part of each day that I can look forward to, no matter what. If I don't get seven or eight solid hours of shut eye, I just don't feel right, look right, or act right.

This has been causing a bit of a dilemma for me lately. I have so much going on right now with work and so many things outside of work that I'd like to stay on top of, or start, or finish, or learn ... I want to take more pictures. I want to get better at Photoshop. I want to finish all sorts of projects around the house and in the yard. I want to be lazy and read books. I want to help my mom get a lot of spring items up and running in her online shop. I want to work out more. I want to sit out in the sun and stare into space.

So many things, so little time! What's a girl to do?

The answer is simple--sleep less. It's just that I don't like that answer!

To make even the slightest dent in my "must-do" and "want-to-do" lists, I probably need to take at least three hours from my sleep time. That's a big commitment, and I'm not really in a big commitment kinda mood. So I'm going to TRY to stay up one hour later and get up one hour earlier and see where that gets me.

I'm publishing that goal here for all to see. "All" is really not that big of an audience--especially with my erratic blogging of late--but what the heck.

You'll know if I'm even slightly successful if you see pictures on here again, or read posts about cute clothes (because I've been exercising and feel like buying clothes again), or see book reviews, or hear me talk about how clean my house is.

We'll see how it goes ...

New Kid on an Old Block

Starting a new blog seems like such a monumental thing to me. I could probably sit here for hours trying to come up with some grand way to launch this little spot in cyberspace and still not be able to string together a single sentence worthy of the occasion. So I won't even try.

I've been blogging for a few years over on Typepad. I recently took a long hiatus from all things tech--Facebook, digital photography, blogging--and though I enjoyed my time away, I'm more than ready to get back to it. Since it's spring and I'm making a fresh start in so many ways, I thought I'd make a fresh start with my blog, too. So here I am. 

Rather than continue with a boring, rambling introduction I thought I'd share a post from Typepad that brought me back to blogging ...

So I've been away for awhile--a good, long while. I wish I could tell you that I've been up to all kinds of exciting things. I guess I can say that some of my time away has been spent on exciting things--helping my mom start an online business, recharging my batteries, getting organized. But the majority of my tech-free time has been spent on simple, non-exciting things like sitting on the couch in the evenings and watching really bad TV, reading tons and tons of books, spending hours perusing magazines, and daydreaming about spring and all of the things I want to do when the weather turns warmer.


Even though I haven't been around much lately, I still think about my blog and my blog "friends" all of the time. I've missed you. I love coming here and sharing the little things that are important to me. And I love visiting your blogs and reading about all of the things--little and not-so-little--that are important to you. You all make me smile.

I hope you all had a wonderful winter. The season was downright horrible here. The days and days of cold, dark, dreary weather took their toll on me. But the birds are singing now, the grass is turning green, the days are getting longer and warmer ... I always feel like this is the true beginning of my year. I don't know about you, but I'm ready!