Cindy's Morning Coffee

I have this other blog - Cindy's Morning Coffee - which I started as my own online journal. Just someplace to keep cool things I find online: quotes, videos, articles, etc - things that are important to me. For a while, I was posting fairly regularly but it has largely been ignored (at least by me) as of late. I also never intended to have any followers there but, amazingly, I have snagged a few. So, while I'm sitting here drinking my morning coffee making a vain attempt to get my "poop in a group", so to say, I have decided that I need to merge the two. I thought I needed a separate blog to keep those "just because" sort of things but I don't think I do now. The blogs I enjoy reading the most are ones where I get to see a bit into the writer's psyche - to gain some insight into how they tick. So, from now on, interspersed with the beadwork and Etsy news, you will see a bit more of "me". Here is the short list of things I enjoy/care about (other than beads, vintage and my hubby) which you might be reading more about in the future:
1. Saving the Planet - Reduce, reuse, recycle and do your best for the environment.
2. Being kind to animals (Get your pets spayed and neutered and adopt from your local shelter, dang it!!)
3. Travel - especially the early summer trips I take with my mom!
4. Music - Listening to it and making it, including my checkered past as a singer on cruise ships (now THAT was a cool job!)
5. TED (more about what TED is later...visit the website at http://www.ted.com/)
6. Truly cool videos that include fantastic music, visuals or, better yet, BOTH!
7. Modern design and architecture
8. Dubuque, Iowa and what a great city I think it is!
9. Fishing on the Mississippi River
10. Movies, movies, movies - especially the kind where the guy gets the girl. So, anything inspired by a Jane Austen novel or Shakespeare comedy. Add to that any classic MGM musical, pretty much anything produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and anything from the masters at Pixar studios.
**Added note - I am also a documentary geek!

OK, like I said, this is just the short list. As I was writing it I thought of lots of other things to add to the list but then it would be the long list instead of the short list, right? Hmmm...  :)

To start you out, I'm posting this fantastic video from a band called "OK, Go!". Let it load and watch it here or on YouTube - it's nothing short of amazing!