odds and ends — and an award

After this week’s inauguration excitement, it’s been difficult to settle back to work! In the hopes of clearing my deck (so to speak), here are a few last thoughts:

1. We watched the inauguration in a coffee house surrounded by neighbors. The coffeehouse was located at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Lincoln Road in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Really. You can’t make this stuff up.

2. I still can’t believe Bush is no longer president. It’s interesting to contrast his first inauguration versus Obama’s, especially in regards to the parade afterward. Bush was forced to ride in a limousine at full speed, to avoid jeering protesters. Obama walked the parade route accompanied by Michelle, surrounded by the largest cheering crowds Washington has ever hosted.

3. My three year old daughter Thea (aka “Ariel”) was swept up in the excitement too. She even renamed her stuffed lamb “Marack Obama”. She told us he was elected president of the United Lambification* States of America.

ETA: According to my husband, it’s “Lambination” not “Lambification”. Small difference, but significant enough to mention.

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And now back to our regularly scheduled blogging! I have just over a week to go to finish my month of daily posts. I have to say that your comments and responses have been very gratifying. Tomorrow, I have a new Creativity Friday post in the works, which was inspired by some old post-it notes unearthed in my files. I hope you’ll stop by for that!

On a related note, Helen Ginger of the publishing blog Straight From Hel has awarded me the Butterfly Award. Thanks, Helen! She has the full “rules” for the award listed here.

Winning the Butterfly Award means that I get to pass it on to ten (or so) deserving blogs. In turn, I’m sending the Butterfly to flutter over to:

Lisa Hunt Art

Joanna Powell Colbert

Scandalous Women

Wavelength Tarot

Marie Antoinette’s Gossip Guide

Duchess of Devonshire’s Gossip Guide

Lunaea Weatherstone

These are all really wonderful blogs — I hope you’ll take a moment to visit them!

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