gimme some lovin’
That used to be one of my favorite Motown jams! “Gimme’ some lovin’.” 
Back when I was a wanna-be marching-band member and followed my sister around for all she could stand… I loved to sit in the roped-off marching band area with her at the football games and pretend like I was playing the cowbell. When the drum major called “Gimme’ some lovin’,” I would get so excited. The electricity swept over all the marching band and they jumped and jived about while playing their instruments. You can’t find a fun rush like that too many other places in my book. It’s all about the setting, you know.
This omelet, on the other hand, you could whip up in a jif for yourself and create a pseudo-equally-fun experience! Just whisk the eggs and throw in some veggies and voila!
I may have tossed some greek yogurt and balsamic together for sauce but the omelete was tasty enough sans sauce 
This morning I walked to work and I keep seeing sites that I’d miss if I just drove. For instance, I saw a Montana license plate on a car that was driving through Duke’s campus. Who knew? And I also got a shout-out from one very fit group of four runners: “I LOVE the hot pink! Rock it girl!” Yes, the love continues to flow for all of my crippled wrist and arm bones. What will I do without this cast? One other interesting site: a slug that had a studded pattern on it’s back. It was not your run-of-the-mill plain-backed slug. No. I saw a fat, shiny, slug trail with studded-slug at the end this morning.
Lately, I had a sort-of writer’s block, more like, I have gotten criticism for just “being me,” or at least that what it seems like, on the blog and wonder why my emails to individuals {or groups, for that matter} seem to flow much more easily and happily while my blogging post feel guarded or strained as they anticipate nasty feedback. My vow is to continue to march forward and write as it suits whatever style I am able to produce. It seems I am DIFFERENT but not the “right” kind of different. And people don’t know what to do with “different.” Soon, I’ll post an about page that offers a more accurate portrayal of my life today. we’ll see how that goes.
For now, though, have a great day and go get you some of that song ; “gimme some lovin’!” …or just make yourself an omelet for lunch Happy Monday ~ Jasper Naomi
tips and tricks for making flower balls
1. buy push pins…LOTs of push pins
2. find little scraps of paper or cardstock and cut little flowers. cut LOTS of little flowers …
3. purchase Styrofoam balls from craft store. LOTS of Styrofoam (or oasis for floral arrangements)
4. fasten paper/cardstock flowers onto Styrofoam balls using push pins
5. find ribbon…LOTs of ribbon 
6. using push pins to fasten ribbon to flower ball, find yourself in flower ball heaven!
the crafty one
so I’m thinking of making these little psuedo-diy craft kits for the faint-of-heart-diy-ers…what’dya think?!
also… here’s a little scavenger hunt for ya…if you can even BEGIN to guess what I’ve been up to this week! … that is, in between writing papers…seriously…don’t EVEN ask …
Wednesday…
for real?! bacon?! answer: yes
not enough heme ?! big frowny five minutes from this photo when turned down by the red cross collectors 
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that’s ok! cuz iron …
+ vitamin C …
= happy jasper donating blood to ARC very very soon!
craft time …
tea time …
bar making time …
looks gross i know! …
but they are yum yum tasty! …
just relaxin’ … shootin bbal up side a school …
happy friday! ~ mucho love-o – jasper
mmmkay
It’s the little things in life that make me smile. That make us smile.
Sometimes its the little, little things in life that make us smile!
So, I talk with patients on the phone every day at work. And they say some of the funniest things:
One day some guy was getting really annoyed with me and my questions and after I asked this older male pt the question: “In the last four weeks, how many days per week did you exercise, for at least twenty minutes at a time, outside of your daily activities?” …to which he replied: “Well I ain’t gunna go outside and turn flips or climb trees if that’s what you’re asking!”
The man was annoyed with all of my questions and fired off witty, cynical and cranky replies to every, which, one of my questions. And though the man was making me giggle, he was not having a good time at all. If I really thought about it, I might assume that the man had no real joy in his life if he were ready and able to be rude and impatient with a perfectly pleasant ( me ) stranger.
Two other patients last week sounded a little bit like Julia Child…which reminded me of one of my favorite movies, Julie and Julia, which includes a funny SNL clip of Dan Aykroyd playing Julia Child…the clip isn’t available on YoutTube but this one of Julia Child’s “Chafing Dish Dinner” is pretty cute…when Amy Adams’ character, Julia, and her husband watch the SNL skit making fun of Julia Child, it just cracks me up!
Anyway, this post has gone in all sorts of directions in two short paragraphs! Nonetheless, I think it is important to say that we can find little things every day that make us smile! People are all around and, not that, their smiles are the most important things but it can be said that the things that make us smile and, simply, the smiles we see are incredible gifts! And I am grateful, today, for the little things.
christmas gift-making
This morning I shared some frustrations of mine with my good friend. Instead of her listening with reverent nods and smiles of justifying sighs, like my controlling behaviors would have imagined she’d please me with, she asked me objective questions that called me out on my selfishness. Within the hour, I felt deep gratitude for such honest friendship and accountability; however my gratefulness swam around in what is intense self-hatred. How can healthy reprimand for my bad attitude result in such painful feelings? In all this, I can see that the heavenly discipline (through God and my good little friend) did not CAUSE me pain, it’s the self-loathing and unhappiness deep-down on which a healthy attitude-check shed some light. So now what to do with the token of enlightenment? BREAK this cycle! It’s a gift, awakening slowly to the depravity of my condition. I will ask God to help me continue making amends with him for my sad choices and chose to do something kind to myself and the Spirit of life that lives inside of me today…there’s a world of possibility for this attitude of kindness and compassion right outside (and inside-of) my cubicle opening! Stay tuned for the outcome! And PLEASE leave some ideas in your comments below~ and have a wonderful day!
look-a here at some of the neato things we can do on picnik 
and here is some of the latest and greatest footage/still lifes of santa’s workshop this year! stay tuned! more to come! and thank you, Wendy for slaving over the computer in order to send me the photos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
