Smiles this week.

As a person living in Canada, I hate this time of year. 

We had daylight savings change last weekend.  All week as I get up and head to work it's dark out. Wouldn't you know it, the sun sets at around 5 and it's pitch black as I head home.  

Plus it's getting cold.

Now, things can look up a bit as the holidays approach - when lights are on houses and Christmas trees give a twinkle I do get the warm fuzzy feeling that reminds me of happy times. 

But then Christmas and New Years end, and we're left with 3 more months of cold and dark.

I hate winter.

In an effort to not blog like a curmudgeonly old man all winter, I propose a new feature - Smiles this week.  A sort of catch-all of cool things in my corner of the world.

Feel free to join in as well - leave a link in the comments if you like.

Here we go. Round one. 

-knitting my first scarf and seeing progress slowly being made (it's a gift - can't post pics!)

-learning how to photograph glass (notoriously tricky)

-finding a set of Christmas scented body washes that make showers o so nice!

-Bakerella made Muppet Cake Pops. That's talent.  I would feel bad to eat one.

 

-http://www.lettersofnote.com/ - I could spend hours reading interesting letters from history

-watching the movie Back to the Future 2.  It had been so long that I remembered almost nothing.
Such a fun movie.

-tongue-in-cheek observation about girls with bangs.  

-hanging out with a friend at the Japanese Paper Place and buying papers for future photo backdrops

-a Diet Coke ad reunites me with this song from 500 Days of Summer

I hope you have a wonderful weekend! How's the winter where you are? 

Has anything brought a smile to your face this week?