1. I'd really like to eat some of the Ben and Jerry's ice-cream Dan is eating right now.
2. Shoot is the word you'd most often hear me say if I stubbed my toe.
3. Possession is an illusion.
4. I am half in love with/half disgusted by Captain Jack Sparrow.
5. Marshmallows and fire go together like tortilla chips and salsa.
6. If you get me talking, I will just go on and on.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to watching Smallville on DVD, tomorrow my plans include cleaning and book club at Lara's and Sunday, I want to not sleep in--I've discovered it just makes me feel like I've lost an entire day with 1:00 church if I get up too late!
I heard this song by Flaming Lips for the first time on the radio today. Have you heard it? Apparently it's from 1993. It totally reminds me of a Shel Silverstein poem:
She Don't Use Jelly
I know a girl who thinks of ghosts
She'll make ya breakfast
She'll make ya toast
She don't use butter
She don't use cheese
She don't use jelly
Or any of these
She uses vaseline(x3).
I know a guy who goes to shows
When he's at home and he blows his nose
He don't use tissues or his sleeve
He don't use napkins or any of these
He uses magazines(x5).
I know a girl who reminds me of Cher
(reminds me of Cher).
She's always changing
(she's always changing).
The color of her hair
(color of her hair).
She don't use nothing
That ya buy at the store
She likes her hair to be real orange
She uses tangerines(x6).
And speaking of Silverstein, here's one of my favorite poems that makes me think of my experiences with parenthood:
Signals
When a light is green you go.
When the light is red you stop.
But what do you do
When the light turns blue
With orange and lavender spots?
(Light in the Attic pg.20)
Parenting is never so easy as green and red!
Here is our very own Coldplay "Viva la Vida" video. This was an impromptu performance in December--obviously nothing was on TV and we didn't have Guitar Hero yet. At first it's just Anna, and then one by one they all join in, even Jeremy.
Friday Fill-ins:
1. Enough with the hot weather in winter!!!!!!!
2. Pretty much everything in life causes me to be conflicted.
3. I've been craving more time to read...and brownies.
4. Seeing my reflection in the showerhead makes me laugh.
5. I wish I could go to boot camp next week.
6. Food storage has been on my mind lately.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to sleeping, tomorrow my plans include finishing my vacation scrapbook (fingers crossed), and Sunday, I want to sleep in, the only good thing about 1:00 church!
I haven't read more than about ten minutes a day this week (and yes, I am still alive) so today's words just come from a song on the radio this morning. I always think about this phrase from John Mellencamp's song "Jack and Diane":
Oh, yeah life goes on,
Long after the thrill of livin' is gone.
Long after the thrill of livin' is gone.
What do you think? Is life still thrilling for you? Kid's chewing on unmentionables from a public restroom? Spraining your ankle on the way to the parking lot? Rushing to work greasy and pasty? Sounds pretty thrilling to me. What's he talking about?
1. It's January; Happy Birthday to me!
2. Self-control is what I crave most right now.
3. Cork and wine go together like Kleenex and snot.
4. Oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries is so nourishing.
5. Let us dare to stop shaving our legs.
6. Ants have invaded my home.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to watching Baby Mama, tomorrow my plans include scrapbooking and Sunday, I want to watch the Charger's game!
I've been procrastinating doing a slide show of AZ pics. Hmmm... could it be because there are almost a thousand pictures to go through? Could it be the trauma of seeing pictures of myself (the camera does add 30 pounds, right? Oh, that's right...it's 50. Whew! Maybe I don't have to diet.) But being able to see several pictures of Megan helped me survive the agonizing process, and I deleted a couple of myself (that will put me in the doghouse with Dan, but it's SO worth it).
Enjoy the show!
From Inkspell by Cornelia Funke:
"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar." (pg. 47)
1. The world is filled with places I want to travel to.
2. "Go find another stuffed animal" was the last thing I said.
3. I wonder if I will ever grow up.
4. There's a beginning at the end of all things.
5. There's something to be said for chocolate, chex mix, and chick flicks .
6. In the mountains by a lake is where I want to be.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to sleeping in my own bed, tomorrow my plans include readjusting to normal life after a week in the middle of Nowhere and Sunday, I want to hide in some kind of hole, but must make my attempts at being a useful member of society, dang it!
And speaking of chick flicks (we had our now traditional marathon in Arizona), I was telling my sister-in-laws about this Sarah McLachlan song that I love that has a video with a "Brit-Lit-Chick-Flick" sort of a theme. I can't embed the original video onto my blog but here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zor1eXNC2io.
Here's one I can embed of the song set to scenes from Phantom of the Opera, since that was one of the ones we watched:
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So this is what I've been doing since we got home. I feel pretty lousy with what is evidently Phase 2 of "the cold." If I can't sleep, I may be posting lots of videos to my music blog for entertainment.
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