You have reached my original blog. On August 23, 2008, "Capturing my Attention" was retired. Now I'm blogging over here at the more simply-titled blog. Other than a possible glitch in smoothly navigating from page to page during the week of this transition, hopefully you won't really notice any other changes. Anything written between January of 2005 and the "retirement" of this blog is still here, active, and very much a part of my body of rambling posts about the things that caught my attention on any given day. Wherever you readit, enjoy!
Melody | Thursday, 18 September, 2008 at 9:07 PM If you've been coming to visit and not seeing any updates lately, sorry about the confusion. I moved my blog a while back and just discovered that the notices weren't necessarily put in the best places. Thought I'd post here and
Melody | Friday, 22 August, 2008 at 9:55 AM 
Sappiest words used during the NBC broadcast of the Olympic events and medal ceremonies? Quick, before you look, what words belong at the top of the list? There's a cloud tag of top pics below!
Slate.com's Sap-o-Meter is brilliant! Plus now they have a widget for your blog or Facebook account. If you're so inclined to
Melody | Thursday, 21 August, 2008 at 8:55 AM ;)
Since Mr. Pie came into the world, this family paparazzi phenomenon has evolved. Everybody seems to have a camera on hand when he's around and there's more than one family member in the vicinity. Works both in our favor and against us: he's generally the subject and so the original kids in this family aren't as likely to