How I really enjoy you. I have used many of your ideas and done them up in my own special way. Your recipes have been made in our house year after year, cookies, rolled turkey with todd, cakes… I even almost applied for a job in your offices just after my husband and I got married. I chickened out at the thought of going to New York for the interview.
So today, when you (or one of your assistants) Tweeted that you were taking questions live on the air on Sirius Radio, I figured, why not. I dialed the number and had the question ready that I have wanted to ask you for several years now. But, your assistant wasn’t sure you would want to or know the answer so she encouraged me to think of another question. The only thing that came to mind was to ask you how to keep my fresh greenery fresh.
You probably thought, who is this Canadian girl asking me about a fresh tree? Go artificial already! You were quite sweet though and gave me a few suggestions including using prelit artificial garland that you are selling through Grandin Road and appropriately had on your show today.
But, just in case you drop by my little site, here is the real question I wanted to ask. Why do you reuse so many of your photos in your magazine? Sometimes you have a new recipe or at the very least a new spin on an old recipe, but instead of using a new photo you (and I mean your magazine, not you personally) reuse the same photo year after year. Since I am a photographer it really plays on my heartstrings that a new photo can’t be taken to freshen things up. That was my real question. Bear in mind that I have many years worth of Martha Stewart Living gracing my bookshelves that I reference often and I still get inspired by your magazines.
Thank you for the opportunity to call in today, I never thought in a million years that I would get the chance to ever talk to you and certainly it wouldn’t have been about my Christmas tree and garland. It was fun and truly made my day.
And most of all, I was so happy that these guys didn’t start fighting or screaming while I was talking to you.
Thank you,
BeachMama from Ottawa, Canada
And all this H1N1 stuff just fits in with that soliloquy. Do you or don’t you get the shot. There are pros and cons to both and for the most part we were waiting. We have discussed with our Doctor and were going to wait.
Hubby is in Vancouver this week and when we were chatting on the phone last night he asked how J was doing with his fear of H1N1. I told him it was pretty much the same, he cries when the news comes on, he cried on Monday when I was feeling like I was hit by a truck, basically the boy is living in fear of dying from the flu. So when Dani sent an email out last night and told some of us that her whole family got the shot yesterday and that it was quite a painless process at Walter Baker Hubby asked me to go.
We are usually on the same page when it comes to parenting and shots and when we aren’t Hubby usually lets me decide. But, this time he asked. You know when your Husband does one of those rare things and asks you to do something that you are not sure about, it almost solidifies it in your mind. As much as I am still not 100% on board with this vaccine I now feel like the decision was taken out of my hands. Hubby works with Emergency and Pandemic preparedness in Ottawa, he worked at the Hospital when SARS happened and all through this he never thought we needed to do anything different or get any shots. We don’t even get the annual flu shot now that he is no longer at the Hospital. So when he asked me to take the kids and get our shots today, I was not going to argue. In his mind, this H1N1 thing is bigger than what we know. I am not sure if I agree yet, but if he thinks so then who am I to say?
We picked up our bracelets at 9am this morning and were told to come back at 4:15pm. Will see how the afternoon plays out, but it sure seems like who ever is running things at Walter Baker, knows exactly what they are doing and should possibly be running all of the clinics in the city.
*William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act Three Scene One.
I am having one of those days. One where I just have too much in my mind that I need to get done. And all of the things require me to sit and work on something. Whether it be editing photos, a craft, a sewing project or taking more pictures.
I need a few more hours in my day please.
I have also been participating in the 7 Days project on Flickr. The object is to take a self-portrait each day for 7 days. Here is what I have so far.
So far I have to say that I am not an expert at taking a self-portrait. Something to work on for me. It is fun though to think of the one thing I want to capture about me for today.
