My Creatively Random Life

The word that came up for A this year was anniversary and that is perfect because this year in May will mark 9 years for Mike and I.  Meeting Mike and having the joy of having someone in my life who shares all of my favourite things and is always there to support my crazy ideas has meant the world to me. Whether it is dressing up with me for conventions or waking up at insane hours in the morning to go do 5ks he is always there for me and it makes me feel like the luckiest person in the world.  I look forward to the next 9 years and beyond. Are you celebrating an anniversary this year?

So here I am at my A post and I never even gave you guys a theme.  I do have one this year and I was all set to announce it but life got in the way.  Am I stressed about that?  More then you will ever know but I am working on letting it go.  Because my theme for this year (and the challenge) is self.  Discovery, improvement, finding happiness. For the letter A I was going to record a brief video about attitude and why I feel it is the most important factor in any journey to improve your life.  But said life through me some road blocks and instead you get a written post about it while my cat cries because the kids stole all her Easter eggs. My parents used to tell me when I was a kid that attitude towards other people was important and effected how people treated you.  And it is.  However,  at no point in my 30 plus years on the planet did anyone mention that attitude towards yourself is equally important.  Everyone talks about loving you...

My choice for my first review of the A to Z Challenge is Antler Dust: Antler Dust begins with a bang. Two bangs.  On the opening day of the hunting season in the Colorado Flat Tops wilderness, two men go missing.  The first is a hunting guide.  The second is an animal rights protester who believes his creative suicide will galvanize the animal rights movement.  Hunting guide Allison Coil hears a distant rifle shot and sees just enough through the swirling snow to believe somebody knows something-and isn't coming forward.  But what exactly did she see?  Outfitter George Grumley fends off the formal investigation and works to discourage the informal and persistent inquiries by Coil. Grumley knows no limits in the effort to protect his guide service, which caters to fat-cat clients.  Who needs hunting regulations when technology can produce the quickest and most thrilling hunt that money can buy?  Okay, Antler Dust is probably no...

Welcome to the first day of the A to Z Challenge .   Is everyone ready to learn some new words with me? Augur (verb) Definition: to give promise of something to come later. Sentence: "I may augur, from the silence of my family, that they object to the resolution I have taken." - Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Anathema (noun) Definition: a person or thing detested, loathed, or hated. Sentence: That subject is the anathema to all he stands for. Ailurophobia (noun) Definition:   an abnormal fear of cats. Sentence:   The doctor diagnosed Fred with ailurophobia because of his fear of cats. Abacinate (verb) Definition: blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes. Sentence: The prisoners were abacinated by their captors. Adventitious (adjective) Definition: happening or carried on according to chance rather than design or inherent nature. Sentence: My adventures were always adventitious, always thrust on me."

I have always had a fascination with Antarctica, and not just because it is fun to say.  There's something about this large mass of virtually uninhibited land that just begs to be written about it. So here are the neat things I learned about Antarctica: 1) It is considered a desert with an annual precipitation of only 8 inches along the coast and less inland. 2)  The temperature has reached a bone chilling -89 degrees Celsius (-129 Fahrenheit). 3) There are no permanent human inhabitants but 1,000 to 5,000 people are stationed there doing research depending on the time of year. 4) There is a treaty signed but 49 countries that prohibits military activities, mineral mining, nuclear explosions and nuclear waste disposal.  This same treaty supports scientific research and protects the continents' ecosystem.    5) Antarctica contains 90% of the world's ice and about 70% of the world's fresh water. (crazy!) 6) If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to ...

Acute appendicitis to be exact, which is what it says on my hospital discharge forms as the reason I got to drop off the face of the planet and spend five days in the hospital.  SUPER FUN.  It's also the reason I drop my challenge theme as I only had some of the posts written and the ones I didn't at least required some research and my brain is still 90% ouch my tummy hurts. They don't really know what exactly what the appendix is for, while I was looking around at stuff for this post I saw the general theory that is does nothing.  I also read that it may be used to house excess good bacteria to flush through your system when you need it. (which makes more sense to me than having a useless body part) Anyhow, appendicitis is when your appendix becomes inflamed and you need to have it surgically removed.  (Ouch!)  According to my research, (which consisted of Google and a bunch of stories people wanted to tell me about themselves or family mem...