Older Pictures (Circa 2001)
While clearing out space on an older computers, Huzband came across photos. With a little of imagination and optimism one might see what I was aiming for when I took the photos. It's not entirely the fault of the camera though it quickly became my mortal enemy.
Most are from a convention. A couple are from a book signing and street photography.
MindSay Reunion Tour, Last Day
Don't know what to say except thanks for welcoming me back so nicely. Thank you.
I shall be back. It's hard to stay away from good people.
The biggest problem with finding great and extensive sites like those above, at least to my completionist-brain, is getting through them. I hate to leave their pages without plumbing the depths. This way I can share their messages and feel less guilty.
Happy 30th Birthday, LaughWithMe!
Back in the day, before the Reunion Tour- I did my best to write daily. I pulled my content from everywhere in order to keep to my deadline. I wrote out lists and shared daily events, linked to things I found interesting,
funny or moving and posted photos and illustrations.
One of my favorite regular entries were for birthdays. There were few things better than as a birthday approached, plotting how I could get the most people aware of the birthday and try to make it fun. When the birthday arrived, seeing my entry join others' celebrating that birthday was fantastic. It was like hopping from party to party.
Thankfully,
Dessie is having a birthday today. And as we all know, she is a master baker. With that in mind, I thought I'd throw a Birthday Cake Making Party. Make sure to wish LaughWithMe the best birthday in the world!
Happy Birthday, LaughWithMe!
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The first step to making a delicious birthday cake is finding the right recipe. Look to your trusty cook book for ideas or a family favorite.
Ideally, you know if a cake is delicious and you can bake it prior to the important day. If you're as good a baker as LaughWithMe, feel free to try this advanced recipe. She probably doesn't even need a recipe. She can walk into a kitchen and make it sing.
First things first, make sure you understand the recipe.
Get your measuring cups and spoons...
then all your ingredients. Make sure you have the appropriate amounts. You don't want to get half way through and stop to run to the store. Got them?
Good. Now toss that shit into the mixer.
Unless you're going for Michelle Obama arms, then you might want to mix it up by hand for a few hours.
How do you feel? Strong? Groovy.
Usually after you mix all the ingredients together, recipes ask you to pour the batter into a greased cake pan. Place it carefully into a preheated oven.
How long you wait is determined by the recipe, but a good rule of thumb is bake the cake for as long as it takes to tell yourself You Are The
Best Cook and believe it. If you have to, repeat it over and over.
Ding! Your done.
Doesn't the cake look beautiful?
Yes. Yes it does.
Now that you have a gorgeous birthday cake, let's get right to the party favor. And for old-time's sake, I'm bringing out Balloon Pop!
Pop the balloons to see what you get!
What'cha get?
A month or so ago I went to a local street fair. I took pictures:
The Collection Reorganized
Collection Of Inspiration
It's Like Revisiting An Old Home
I've got a full week ahead of me and am excited to add blogging at MindSay to my To-Do list.
I'm going to get to bed now, but before I do I wanted to share a memory of blogging here within this extensive community. I'm not sure if anyone else does this but because webpages and online personalities don't have a physical space to occupy, I found myself building in my mind a map of important MindSay places and people. I guess it was a way to keep everything straight. Eventually, I put it down on paper which further carried my internal analogy of "this is my little corner of the internet". The people I knew best were closest to me. Those I got to know through other people or befriended around the same time were mapped together in cul-de-sacs and burroughs. As I met more and more people, my map grew. At some point, proximity to my "street" no longer indicated how good a friend was because the MindSay I visited and got to know kept growing.
I found the little hand-drawn map about a year ago. It made me smile and reminisce; recalling good people and interesting times. It amazed me to see how many people I met during my early blogging years. Some disappeared quickly after making a large impact on me. Other names surprised me with how early we had met.
Time is a funny thing.
My time away from this community feels like ages. At other times it's just a blinking memory. My time here felt like a lifetime. How can a lifetime feel like forever ago? It does and doesn't. It makes me stupid with contradictions.
I've missed a shit-ton of you, a lot. I'm also sad to see I can't come back to the way it was as this place isn't the same. I'm glad to be here for Reunion Week. I'm happy to have the place to meet up with those that've stuck it out or are revisiting ol' times.
Sometimes a good thing is a good thing for a short amount of time. Sometimes a time limit on valuable cargo makes it more precious. That' as it should be. For me, to try to hang on would have hurt the experience. But I'd never want to be locked away from it or deny anyone else the opportunity to have what I had.
mindsay reunion tour
