BeSparkly

On Thursday night (August 21st) at approximately 11:15 pm EST, I witnessed a baby sea turtle hatching on North Topsail Island beach. The natural nest began to show signs of hatching about an hour or so before the little turtles appeared on the sand. One little turtle came out first and I was so excited to see him that seeing the one would have been enough, but right after he appeared, his siblings poured out onto the beach and headed toward the ocean. I lost count after 50 and my best guess would be that about 100 hatched.

I don’t have any pictures of the hatching because they come out at night (to avoid being seen by predators) and because they go toward the light (usually the moon) so flash would disorient them and send them in the wrong direction. It’s one of those things that you just have to see with your own eyes. ^^

I will update the details on how many turtles I saw hatch when the results are posted by the sea turtle people. A litter of sea turtles is called a clutch.

For more information on baby sea turtles (and big sea turtles) please check out the Sea Turtle Hospital website.

I met Metro Station today.

Me & Anthony ~ he’s my favorite ^^

You can check them out on their official website; Metro Station Music and/or watch their video for Shake It on their YouTube channel.  I really love their music, it’s the perfect blend of my favorite genres ~ I haven’t enjoyed an entire album like this since the Pumpkins released Siamese Dream (my number 1 favorite album of all time).

I took my nephew to Build-A-Bear last weekend as his birthday gift… and I got myself a stuffed animal too! It was a lot of fun. My nephew got a cute dog and picked out a little outfit for him with a sparkly hat and all~

I got the cheetah because it’s always been my favorite animal and also because if you get one of the World Wildlife Fund animals, they donate $1 to the WWF. You can check out other fun animals you can build at the Build-A-Bear website www.buildabear.com.

Sometimes, it’s the little things that make me feel sparkly.

I bought these felt tip markers by Paper Mate for myself for Christmas. Now one would think that they are simply markers, but for me, I’ve derived great joy from using them since I got them.  I use them to draw smiley faces in my checkbook after I balance it.  Each day I rotate the colors for my To-Do list.  I even use them in my Japanese notebook to color-coordinate verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs.

Who’d have thought that four colored felt tip markers could bring so much joy. They even have two hearts etched into the silver clip. ^^ Thanks Paper Mate for making such fun markers!!

I found a print while Christmas shopping that I just adore! I won’t post a pic of it here because it’s copyrighted, but please PLEASE go check out this artist’s site so you can see the print.

http://www.kurthalsey.com/work.html

Once at the site, please notice the boxes on the right side and click on the box that is 5 over and 3 down (5 from the left, 3 from the top). The picture of the two people sitting on the wall is the print I bought and hung up in my office ~

The artist is Kurt Halsey Frederiksen and he even has an environmental link up on his site (you know I’m all about being Green).

YAY for new finds!!

Yesterday, (December 10th) was the one year anniversary of my first BeSparkly blog post!  YAY!  Obviously, I forgot.  *laughs*  Oh well, no biggie. 

“Take me to your leader…”

I’m not quite sure what this little guy does other than take up space, but he amuses me and has become friends with the winter ladybug, Lily, and wooden artist’s model, Sho.  They hang out and stare at me while I work.  (^^)b

I think I’ll name him BotBot.

This was a total impulse buy, but isn’t it CUTE!?  I’ve named her Lily the Ladybug and you can wind her up and she waddles around ~ ha ha ha ha ~

She’s my little bit of summer brought inside for the winter. ^^
かわいいですね~
 

I finally got a new cell phone!  Now I have the camera and internet on it ~ I know, how far behind am I?  It also gets better reception ~ YAY!

But I think my favorite part of the phone is that it slides open.  I feel all 007ish ~ 

And, I did NOT know until I went to Seoul that Samsung is a Korean brand.  Did you know?  I thought it was Chinese or Taiwanese or something… I figured it out when I kept seeing signs for “Samsung” in Korea, but not for the electronics, but as names of neighborhoods and what not.

I’ve always wanted one of these models that artists use to draw (even though I can’t draw), because I think they are neat.  But I had never seen a mini one until this past weekend when I snatched it up for my amusement.

What shall I name him?  I’m thinking Sho, which is a Japanese name.

Hooray! I saw both Pippin shows the last two nights and I am so happy I got to go!!  The first night I saw Aiba Hiroki perform as the lead and he was wonderful~ ^^  The second night I saw Kimeru and he was “saiko” which means the best in Japanese.  Both Aiba and Kimeru were great, so I can’t really say who was better…especially since I had better seats to Kimeru’s performance and could see more of the little actions and facial expressions.

I think I enjoyed seeing Kimeru in Pippin more than his concert last February because he played a cutesy role and had to do things like pout, play with a blue fuzzy hand puppet and play the recorder (you know, those little flute things). 

I will probably write more about Pippin when I get home.

The entrance to the Galaxy Theater (where Pippin was) is quite pretty.  In fact, it reminded me a lot of the Washington D.C. train station…

The ceilings are similar ~ here is a pic of the DC Union Station~

One more day in Tokyo and then I’m off to Seoul!