Salient Sunday

Salient is a word that describes a feature that is prominent, conspicuous, most noticeable or important. In topography or architecture it is that section which juts out to form an angle.

Really, Salient Sunday is just the day where I talk about the highlights of my week. And, my week will include 9 days instead of 7 this time.

So, in the extended week of November 27th to today, December 5th, the highlights were (and not in order of importance):

1.) Having potato latkes and celebrating Hanukkah with Lover's family. I love celebrating holidays now. Any of them. Just the fun ones.

2.) Volunteering in the Bridgeport Help Portrait 2010 event!

3.) Seeing my Forest Folk friends for plenty of food, community, and crafts!

4.) Recrafting an altoid tin with pretty paper and glitter. Simple crafts are a great break from fine arts stuff.

5.) Painting two more pictures for Kathy's children's book.

6.) Getting a hemoglobin count of 13.2. A good count is 12-15, and as a vegetarian, 13.2 is great!

7.) Building a raised garden bed with Lover in the backyard. It's 32' long!

8.) Putting up the holiday lights on the roof of the house and on the tree in the front yard, and getting to come home to their rosy glow everyday since.

9.) Finishing "The Joy of Living" by Tibetan monk Yongey Mingur Rinpoche and starting "The Female Brain" by neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine.

10.) The condom demonstration! For those who don't know, part of my job is sex education, and we finally got to "Ok, we want you to wait until you are ready to have sex, and when you are ready, to know how to put a condom on correctly to prevent against pregnancy and STDs." There were many humorous moments.

If you have any salient moments or events from your week that you'd like to put out there, feel free to comment!