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Those surreal moments...

It began snowing today in work - I turned into a giddy little kid again... I cannot tell you how much fun that was.

I've been in a very giddy mood in general today, I had a nice day at work, it snowed, amazing happenings went on auf der Twitter and I had a lovely night last night. Life is officially really good.

So I had this idea about a notebook for Nerdfighters. It was a small bubble of an idea, a MINUTE one! I asked the wonderful people of Twitter whether they'd be interested, Freya (@FreyaLikeStea) said she was, so I decided to go ahead with it. It's now planned to go to the land of the Dutch peoples and then to Lindsey (@PotterMoosh, Wednesday on Sarcaschicks). This is surreal, really... really... AH!

The idea that my little bubble of thought is actually happening, people are actually excited about being involved just makes me so happy and feel... fulfilled!

In other news, I've now bought a Ukulele AND a new camera (I previously did this - it was faulty).

I'm very happy right now.

Listening to: You and Only You - We the Kings

Quote: "The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today." ~ Lewis Carroll 

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  1. Hi I just found your blog and am now following. :) Please explain about the notebook for Nerdfighters.

    Jasmine

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    1. Hey Jasmine! Thank you very much for following and stuff.
      Basically I decided to buy a little notebook and send it off to other Nerdfighters and get them to write something in it. I don't really have any control about where it goes, I'm afraid, but it's an interesting project and we'll have to see where it goes. If you want to know more about it then I made a video about it a while ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkBZIFblwtc :)
      Thanks again, DFTBA, Claire

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