Design-her Gals

While going through the offers I received in my e-mail Inbox, I was intrigued by a Franklin Covey offer and clicked on the link to their site. After a while, I found a luggage tag which seems ideal for replacing the dilapidated plastic ID and train pass holder I have. Through reading the item's description I found out about a company called Design-her Gals which specializes in creating personalized stationary. The stationary is really unique in that different avatars, or characters, can be created to look like a distinctive person. I created one of myself which I am very happy with. I was able to choose among different options to create a unique image of me such as: hair, eye color/shape, clothing and other identifying props such as things, pets, significant others, etc. Here is my picture

(By the way, in case anyone I know is wondering, I don't have a sheepdog yet, but I'm looking forward to having one in the future.)

I had a really fun time creating my own avatar and I am going to ask Christopher if he would purchase a set of note cards to go with it as a belated birthday gift. Designing my avatar really created a sense of ownership for me and having stationary to go with it makes the stationary very special and personal. The best thing about the Design-her Gals stationary is that 5% of every purchase goes to help Stage IV breast cancer patients through the Gal To Gal Foundation. It's a great excuse to buy some stationary for yourself or even for a friend. There is even an option to put both you and a friend or significant other on the same stationary.

By the way, if anyone knows how I can add my avatar to the menu on the left side of this blog, I would be happy for the information.

Yawn...

I'm so tired today. I went to sleep late last night and only got about 5 hours of sleep. I guess I shouldn't do that again. I have to read about 100 pages for The Lord of the Rings, but I will do it tomorrow before class since I probably won't really be able to concentrate on the reading.

I stayed after all my classes were done to print out some documents for my Islamic Art and Architecture class and missed the 5:55 PM train I was planning to catch. I went to Qdoba for a "naked" chicken burrito, i.e., a chicken burrito sans tortilla, while waiting for the next train at 6:45 PM, but later wished I didn't. It wasn't very good and I would have been happier with a home-cooked meal, although, considering the circumstances, I probably would have been too tired to cook anything by the time I got home.

I also took a Latin quiz which was postponed since I was absent last Thursday. I had the option to do it on Wednesday, but felt like that was cheating a bit since everyone else already took it. I didn't do very well on it since I was tired and couldn't really think clearly, but the lowest quiz is dropped from the average, so that's a consolation. The highlight of my day was getting my Old English midterm back... a 98%. Woo HOO! All those hours of looking up words in the glossary paid off. Now if only I can do as well on the final... Oh... and by now, I have, more or less, 7 lines of Beowulf in Old English/Anglo-Saxon committed to memory.

Missed A Day

I was really trying to be good about writing everyday, but before I knew it, yesterday was gone. It usually happens when I am with Christopher. I guess time flies when you are having fun, eh? I'm trying to post this before midnight which is just 7 minutes away... Yikes!

Today I translated another page of Bede's account of the poet Caedmon and I also tried to commit another line of Beowulf in Old English to memory. I'm up to line 6 right now (egsode Eorle, syththan aerest wearth), although I'm still a little shaky on line 5. I also finished my Latin homework for tomorrow. We are doing the perfect, pluperfect and future passive indicative and I am starting to get the English translations mixed up. Practice makes perfect, I guess.

Yesterday, Christopher and I watched Mongol. It was a pretty good movie... beautifully made. I think it was in Mongolian, which was neat... it sounds interesting. Now I have another language to add to my list of languages I would like to learn.