I just posted like an hour ago, but this was so cool, I just had to post it.
The guy doing the trick is psychologist Richard Wiseman, one of my favorite authors. You should check out his books– they are extremely interesting and enlightening.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats
I love Easter. After four months of Provo’s freezing cold and snow, I LOVE to see the new flowers budding, the trees all bursting with flowers, and the sunshine. We go to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point and take Easter Pics of Jace. We buy Jace the cutest Easter outfits so he looks like an old man on the golf course. We make extravagant Easter baskets, Easter treats, Easter egg hunts, and Easter gifts. It is one of my favorite holidays.
If I lived in America, these would be my projects for Easter. Oh how I miss sewing, baking, and crafting while I am here. They are all on marthastewart.com and I am devastated I can’t make ANYTHING. An entire Easter wasted. And the weather will still probably be in the negatives when Easter arrives. Oh woe is me.
I can’t wait!
Second item of business: Jace is absolutely obsessed with this picture of me hugging my baby brother Boe from behind. He always asks me to “hug him like I hugged Boe at the cabin”. It is so funny. He saw that picture almost a year ago and he ALWAYS talks about it. Anyway, recently he has been talking about that picture alot and then suddenly, one day, he burst out in tears and said, “Mommy! You’re Boe’s sister so you can hug him from behind! But you aren’t MY sister so you can’t hug ME from behind! I want you to be my SISTER, not my MOMMY!” And he just cried from the depths of his soul. What in the world?! So I can’t wait for Cali to get here and fill that void in his little aching heart. Poor boy! The kid just wants a sister!
I saw this and am going to make it for Jace once we get back to America. I LOVE it and I don’t think it would be very difficult to recreate. I saw a similar bunk bed at IKEA and then I can just sew the rest. He will love it!
Second, I rode the metro all by myself!! I had a play date with a friend who lives over by the US Embassy and that is like 11 stops away from us, but I made it! It was so so so scary but the way back was totally fine. It was only scary because I have no idea what Trevor’s number is and I don’t know where we live, so if I had missed our stop or gotten lost, that would have been disastrous and I probably never would have found my way home. The people were all very very nice and gave us seats so we never had to stand and it was such a rush!
On another note, today was Women’s Day– kind of like our Mother’s Day– and my friend Olya gave me a delicious chocolate bar and Cali an adorable pair of black velvet shoes. Is that thoughtful or what? Cali’s very first gift is an adorable pair of shoes from the Ukraine– they will be so memorable for her to have for the rest of her life!
And this is my dream life:
I am trying to think if there is anything else of significance but alas I can think of nothing. So, behold a 22 week belly!
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Trevor
Trevor just showed me Wikileaks and you have got to check it out. Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leads of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors. You can read all about it on Wikipedia here. Seriously– if you care about the important things that are going on in this world, you need to check it out. It is banned in China and is getting banned in Australia if their mandatory internet filtering censorship scheme is implemented as planned. This website is a huge deal. Check it out.
Jace’s favorite superhero is spiderman. So he loves to strip down to nothing but his superhero attire and do tricks. Yesterday he discovered how to walk up the wall. Is he talented or what? Also, the book I am currently reading is called, “59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change A lot”.
It is a compilation of studies on personality, relationships, attraction, parenting, being happy, persuasion, solving stress, and decision making. He takes key studies for each of these categories and condenses it all down into the essence of the study so you can change your whole life without having to read each of the long studies the information was pulled from– you just get the key findings. Trevor picked it up when he was in London a few months ago just for the heck of it. It was inspiration. The book’s GREAT– I totally recommend it.
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