mosaic of me

The above mosaic of images represents my visual answers to the questions below.
1. What is your first name? (sarah)
2. What is your favorite food? (cheese)
3. What high school did you attend? (Unity Christian)
4. What is your favorite color? (turquoise)
5. Who is your celebrity crush? (George Clooney)
6. Favorite drink? (coffee)
7. Dream vacation? (greece)
8. Favorite dessert? (banana cream pie)
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? (wise)
10.What do you love most in life? (relationships)
11.One word to describe you? (silly)
12.Your Flickr name? (sarahcfranken)


To create your own 'mosaic of me' image: Type your answer to each of the above questions into Flickr search. Using only the images that appear on the first page, choose your favorite and copy and paste each of the URL’s into the mosaic maker (3 columns, 4 rows).


Here are the sources of my selections:
1. Before the world was made… the innerlight of Sarah.K was!!! :))), 2. Day 158/365: Grilled cheese - yummm, 3. Watering the Wall of Indifference, 4. frame, 5. 9. The original., 6. coffee & the city, 7. Downstairs to the volcano, 8. Mini Chocolate Banana Cream Pies, 9. Black Hmong woman Song…, 10. SCALA, 11. May & Momo, 12. light values

Signs of Hope and Change

I have never gotten political on this blog before and I don't really intend to start now, but I have to share this video with you. It's powerful, it's concise, it's the message Obama is trying to send out: that we're all in this together and we all have a responsibility when it comes to bringing about the change America needs. We are our brothers' keeper.

Music by one of my favorites, The National.

interesting commute.

I waited for the bus for 25 minutes this morning, which is an unusually long time to wait, especially during rush hour.

Since the number of people waiting for the bus compounds every minute a bus fails to appear, the final tally of people who swarmed the door was comparable in size and fervor to the group of people protesting the republican national convention last night.

Pretty intense.

When I finally got my turn to step on the bus, it was already standing room only, which was fine by me since I had a good view of the lake and the constantly changing landscape of cars riding next to the bus.

One driver was texting with BOTH hands and steering with her knee.

Then a very expensive looking Mercedes SUV pulled up and the attractive young man driving was. rocking. out. Complete with head banging, lip-syncing, and full-on-two-handed-air-drumming (don't forget the cymbal crash). What struck me as the most comical was the beautiful young lady sitting next to him looking unamused, annoyed, and very tired. Poor girl.

In the back seat of an upcoming subaru sat a teenager (looked to be around 13) reading the Wall Street Journal, while his intelligent looking parents sat up front having a very heated discussion.

The next car contained a lady talking into her bluetooth headset while animatedly flailing both her arms about. So much for a hands-free device I guess.

Make-up applying, coffee drinking, cell phone talking, radio adjusting, head banging commuters....and that doesn't even include the people on my bus.

sangria!

Then Labor Day came and went
And we shed what was left of our summer skin.
— Death Cab for Cutie, "Summer Skin" (Off their 2005 album, Plans)

In celebration of the unofficial end to a truly fabulous summer, I made some sangria yesterday and invited some friends over to drink with me on my roof. It was a lovely dark night, the company was pleasant, and the sangria was delicious. Here is the recipe I used:

Ingredients:
2 bottles red Spanish table wine
1 cup brandy
1/2 cup triple sec
1 cup orange juice
1 cup pomegranate juice
1/2 cup simple syrup, or more to taste (equal parts sugar and water, heated until sugar dissolves, cooled)
Orange slices
Peach slices
Blackberries
Pomegranate seeds

Directions
Mix all ingredients together and let stand in a tightly sealed container or pitcher for at least 24 hours in the refrigerator before serving.