Sunday-10am

Good Morning!

I really slept this weekend! Ahhh! When you get too tired you finally collapse--hehe! I even laid down for a nap yesterday and still slept for 10 1/2 hours last night--all night long! Nice! I really needed that. Perpetual headache is even gone. :)

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For those of you asking what a "bookcard" is--I took pictures.

Since I am not skilled at writing in a straight line I use a line guide.
I punch holes and then sew in the pages with embroidery thread. When I make covers out of handmade paper I tend to use pretty yarns for the sewing. The yarn is a bit thick for the thinner pretty paper covers--but you could use yarn for these, too, if you wanted to. You just cut larger holes for the yarn. You can use anything that works--crochet thread, string, waxed bookbinding thread, etc.

You can use both sides of each sheet of paper...

...so that the letter is read like you'd read a book. I use various business papers from Office Max. Most of those can take a fountain pen on both sides, but occasionally the thinner paper or more porous paper doesn't work as well for fountain pens. I haven't had any problems using ball point or gel pens on both sides.

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Anyways, since I started making these a couple of years ago, I usually prefer them to writing letters on regular paper. Not that I don't write regular letters, too--but these are so handy and take up less room (I tend to write in segments). I just love them! :)

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It was in the 20s and very little wind yesterday. Felt pretty warm. This guy was even walking across the entire parking lot in just a sweater.

Didn't even look cold. No wind and above zero always makes us feel warmer up here in the wintertime--hehe!

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Been snowing off and on for days--and it is supposed to continue like this for a few more days. Might have a worse stormy snow tonight, I guess.

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I watched a PBS show I taped on "The Digital Life" and was surprised that there are businesses actually using Second Life for work! I heard about Second Life a few years ago and thought--Good grief! I'm on the computer enough in this life!--right? Well, apparently businesses who have partners or employees living in different parts of the country or the world actually get together for their business meetings (often weekly) in this cyber world instead of spending the money and the time on traveling in the real world! They have found that it works better than email or phone calls because it is more like an actual meeting. You can meet in a beautiful cyber conference room, everyone can sit around the table, and you can hear everyone's real voices--all in real time. Fascinating!

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So--I thought I would check it out. Now would be the perfect time--before the computer brains are maybe wiped out, anyways, right? hehe! (The desk computer has been working--just slow and occasionally freezing up, but everything is working?) I know Dagan is going to think this was a bad idea--but I downloaded the program I needed for Second Life (free) and read a little about it. Totally confused. So I went to the newbie spot to receive instructions on how to move and fly. FLY--if I had known I'd be flying I would have made sure I picked pants instead of a dress--ROFL!!

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I was just trying to figure out how to move and turn...and here comes some guy who can talk (I have to type what I want to say, I believe, using the free service) and sing! He was waiting around for newbie girls, I think. Approaching each one (three of us the few minutes I was there) and trying to get them to talk to him. Inbetween times he was singing a song about losing his lover and how miserable he was--no lie!

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I immediately made myself shorter and wider and fatter..like in real life--ROFL! But he kept bugging me to talk to him so I left the game altogether. So funny! It reminded me of years ago when I joined Parents Without Partners!! ROFL!! There were guys waiting around for the new girls to show up. Too much like the real world--hehe! I will go back again another time. And now I have already gone thru the newbie information--not that I learned very much other than how to move and fly--and disappear--hehe! I do want to see if there are places where you can meet other people who are readers, crafters, painters, etc?? They claim you can find people of similar interests...we'll see, eh? Has anyone else tried Second Life and knows more about it? I'd appreciate hints. :)

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I never even started on a bookcard/letter yesterday--just read a little and puttered about. But this morning the malingering headache is finally gone--knock on wood--so who knows? I may just have a lazy Sunday, too--hehe! It's soooo nice to be inside and warm when it is snowing and stark outside. ;)