hem and paw

ticking, flipping, fingering
under each line
each page
methodically
slowly
playing music with the lines, the pages
these strings that make me hum
fine tuning ever so carefully
plucking at the instrument
discovering and analyzing the fine emotional discordant
music I've made
and try to unravel and hem the weave
into a safe, strong hammock
a swaddle, a hug
to calm and soothe myself into a lullabye

Selfie

by Moi

The new fragrance.

What does it smell like?  Familiar.

Tag line? Treat your Self...Eeee.

Seasonal: Selfie Snowflake, mint & balsalm; No two Selfies are alike.

Oh! She Bop, She Bop!

It's a GIRL!!!

Update Feb 2016: All apologies to my daughter. hahaha!!!

"Lauper said she wanted little kids to think the song was about dancing, and to understand the real meaning as they got older."  -Wikipedia

You got your wish Cyndi Lauper!  It took me 30 years to figure it out- Ha!  Oh well, I still love to dance to it!

1965 fashion fare

Wrinkle Shy Hopsack

Eye-stopping Sleeper

Daring Fish Tail

Reptile Look

Catalog styles from The Peoples History web page: 

Lounger Sleeper
Price: $5.90 
Description Eye-stopping lounger-sleeper of textured stretch nylon lace for day or night ease and comfort. Clasp attaches front-hook bra to panty... just press clasp to release. Choose from sun beige, black or white. 










Reptile Look Coat
Price: $17.90 
Description Reptile look captured in puffy nylon taffeta. Foam-laminated to keep its sleek shaping and to give you lightweight warmth. Ideal travel coat... won't wrinkle or crush. Fully lined and water-repellent. Comes in dark olive green or black. 









Two Way Stretch Body Suit
Price: $10.70 
Description The ideal lounging look... an all-in-one suit, as sleek as dancing tights. The style, empire-bodiced with capri-length pant legs, shapes a statuesque silhouette. The fabric, black double-knit nylon, stretches both up and down and cross-ways... gives maximum comfort and freedom of movement. High cowl collar in front dips to daring fish tail in back. 








Wrinkle Shy Blazer
Price: $29.50 
Description Fine hopsack of that great year-round wrinkle-shy fabric blend-- fifty-five percent Dacron polyester (for shape) and forty-five percent wool (for drape). Colors are burgundy or navy.

Shower me with lipstick

Holey Hole.

There is a gigantic mystery hole at the end of the world!  Intrigue!  I will be following this closely.

Dolphin

Most nights I go to sleep to Dolph Lundgren and the whistling of a fuck storm blowin' in.

Hot bloggin

My gait just changed.  Just this second.  I was walking around like I'm no longer going to be a fuck-nut whimp and that I'm a valid person in this world.  I matter.  I have a kid, he needs a good role model of a woman.

I decided that it is probably true that I love most Gails, my mother is one of them.

I want to find a signature perfume.

I like learning about the limbic system.

Did you know the ages of children being potty trained in America are rising?  More disposable diapers are  not rotting away at a significant speed.  And I 'm contributing to it.  Why didn't I learn elimination communication?!  The agony of parenthood.

I like thinking about waste.  Compostable toilets, no t.p., squatting.

Mushroom and microbug remediation is fascinating.

Mirror fasting....I get it, but I love looking at myself in the mirror too much.  I guess I'm vain?

I want to fireplace cook so bad!!  Mainly to set up my fireplace like I actually cook in it...especially a cauldron on a crane, so I can boil some spells or spirits.

Observation 8888

First lightning bug sighting for me.  On the Summer Solstice!

Bravo

All I have to say is-- Bravo, Mockingbird, bravo!






and:  I'm really enjoying the song you are singing on the other side of the window behind my back.

Spring is Cement Truck Season

my personal circus

Save for one with the name Peggy or Sally on the spinning vessel, all the cement trucks I have seen this season are white.  Plain, boring white!  How can I achieve trippy satisfaction with white rotation?  I can barely tell it's moving!
There should be a law mandating all cement trucks' over-the-top tops to be painted in a design that inhibits special effects.  Like a compact circus on wheels.  These dear trucks are the embodiment of  childhood happiness.  A pure form of entertainment.  One of those visual things that makes everything alright.  I would give tax money to put this law into effect (ha) and even throw in a bit extra to pay a performer to pop out of the swirly vortex at stop lights.

My Mothership

Classic Drum roll...please!













Granville Island in Vancouver BC really gets it:


This toy gets it:

Psychedelic Spin-out


Creamsicle Cycle


Rainbow Swirl


Ha!

Here's to you Curly Top!

Trippin' on Santa

From a crazy book I had as a kid...well, I actually still have it.

Happy Halloween!

Driver 8 take a break

Stuff I actually say while driving:
"Dude, I don't like inconsistent people.  You either drive fast or you don't, motherfucker."

That could be a line in Fast and the Furious 8, Forever Furious.  Ridiculous.  If I liked hashtags I would probably have to file this under hashtag roadrage?

I am devising a reality show about driving.  It will help people with road rage, remind drivers the rules of the road and teach or reteach drivers the best way to operate their vehicle.  So reality clients would be bad drivers or those notorious for road rage.  Of course there would be minor cases mixed in.  Advisers will be impeccable drivers, former driving instructors and psychologists.  I think it would be good for the public in general to learn/relearn driver etiquette or at least to get a conversation going.

Since I'm randomly on the subject, I am also trying to work out little messages that drivers can impart to one another.  Because, sometimes you really are sorry.  I keep picturing a round head light style sign that says "Sorry" or "Excuse Me" that you can read when you push a button to light up the sign.  I guess that's the the 70s version. :)  I'm sure the better/more technologically advanced way would be for each car to basically talk to each other.  Maybe there would still be buttons inside the car that say "My fault" or "After you".

Might as well go for the fourfecta, my child LOVES cars.  He tries to carry all of his toy cars in his hands.  He makes an amazing car sound for his age (whatever that means).  My husband and I might watch Chasing Classic Cars or Counting Cars every once in awhile, but we are not gear heads.  Wheels are cool though, which seems to be why he's interested.  It's like he learns from Caveman up.  I hope fire is not next!  

Spin out on this:

                                                                                                          

Observation #3976

First lightning bug sighting for the year 2013!

Good Morning Cat Puke!

A new CBS dramady about two zombie-tired parents of a teething baby with a freaked out dog and a psychotic puking cat.

Sure to be an instant classic, you will see scenes like, the mom in her car on the way to work pondering the state issued license plate that reads WH0 B4F.  Deep in thought and sure the universe is trying to tell her, "Who before F?" she joins in on the music blaring, "What should we do with the baby-o, Every time the baby grins give that baby a bottle of gin, That's what we do with the baby....."

Coming this Fall!

Brought to you by Friskies and Boudreax's Butt-Paste.

Observation #12,564

When I'm at work or he's asleep, sometimes I have my baby's cry in my ear and sometimes his poo scent in my nose.  It makes me miss him even more! :)

aligator tulip

Good morning!

I woke up to my baby saying, "Mom"!  He was really sounding it out and he was really talking about me!  My day is set!
Another perk--four wild dogs or coyotes ran right by me...they all looked the same so I think they were coyotes.  It would be kind of strange to see all the same breed of wild dogs hanging out in a pack, no?  It was freaky and exhilarating!

The Beluga Sisters are Milk Machines

Things I've Observed and Learned on this Reproductive Female Mammalian Odyssey:

Let down feels like electricity
Drink lots of fluids or your supply will plummet
It's okay to nurse to sleep
It's okay to nurse on demand
Babe might nurse all day
Working mothers may have to supplement with Formula--it's okay! And I'm not as angry either.
Around 6 months the supply gets a little dodgy, thus the decision to supplement
Babe bites when teething and overreacting doesn't dissuade the biting, you must be vigilant
People think you are a hippy if you are still breastfeeding at 8+ months
It's against the law in my state to breastfeed in public, you must be discrete or it's indecent exposure
You don't leak/have to wear the pads after while, I think for me it was 6 months (?)
It's hilarious when the babe becomes a pro, he can trick feed-ha!
It doesn't matter if he just had a bottle at daycare, as soon as we get home he wants to nurse. I call it getting reacquainted  :)
Breast milk heals wounds and apparently will unstuff a stopped up nose.  I couldn't get it to last very long when I needed it though--in the middle of the night, trying to get a drop to fall in his nostril or squirting some milk on my finger to rub in his nose.  Ridiculous!
I guess a breast fed baby never sleeps through the night?!?!
(Stopped with first child 2 weeks before his 2nd birthday...started weaning on his first birthday)



Update for the second time around---****
My experience:
Milk comes in quicker with the second babe.
She wasn't as ravenous as my first
But now she kind of is--because she's full force teething??!
Nursing through the night is exhausting yet I'm not really tired and somehow functioning?!
I'm still wearing pads at 8 months..I think I was 10 months up^ there.
I haven't had to supplement with formula yet and I probably won't have to since I have a good storage of frozen milk
Refer to the original list

Happy Birthday Danielle!

I miss you:
Barbie and the Rockers -Liar, Liar pants on fire; Your nose is longer than a telephone wire; Lie, Lie all you do is Lie; Don't stand close to me when lightening strikes! YaOW!
Siiit.  Sit, man.
Your Cheshire grin and good humor.
Peace, chica.

Coffee mood!

I'm trying to replace my soda caffeine habit with a less sugary caffeine.  And I have found that coffee makes me happy!  I am really spazzy too (more so than usual).  Tomorrow I will try Black Tea (Texas Gold....The Beverly Hillbillies! dang da da dang dang, dang da da dang dang, dang da da dang dang dang!).

COFFEE!!

Monday Charm

Princess Charmante Tulip

I still miss Winter, but I need Spring flowers.  I found this in my Drafts from 2009.  There is some funny stuff I've saved over the years....  

Observation #748

Baby yawns are not contagious.

Mo Bettah

Okay, forget that BS from earlier.

These are the frivolous items I wish for birthday gifts:

Brain Candy DVD
Watcher in the Woods by Florence Engel Randall
Ear buds
And at least one item from my Amazon Wish List that isn't baby related unless it is one of the vintage cartoons, like Cool McCool or Milton the Monster.

That is all.


Cool McCool


Milton the Monster

Mini Rant: Politics + Belief = No

Why are politicians in the proselytizing business?  This is all messed up.  Just crunch some friggin numbers for christsakes!  And regular math, please, not Voodoo economics.  The job has nothing to do with religion.

To even post it irritates me, but this is what brought on this mini rant.  An msnbc article with excerpts of Boehner's speech to Republican friends at the Ripon Society:

“But listen, we are Americans and we will figure this out. These next couple of weeks, next couple of months, frankly, the next 20 months, are going to be a very difficult period for us. While we want to stand up and fight for more fiscal responsibility, want to stand up and find a way to move tax reform that will help our economy grow, to do the things we believe in, we’re going to be doing it in an environment that is going to be far more hostile than anything that I think we’ve seen for a long, long time.  We’re going to have to make some big decisions about how we as a party take on this challenge.  Where’s the ground that we fight on? Where’s the ground that we retreat on? Where are the smart fights?  Where are the dumb fights that we have to stay away from?"  

We are Americans, dammit, we do things that we believe in. 
We don't pick dumb fights. 
-The next GOP slogans

Am I not thinking this through enough?  Definitely.  Do beliefs always have to be religious?  Should politicians annex his or her beliefs when in public service?  Can it be done?  I know there are books written solely on this subject and it's too early for me to get into it.  I guess I'm probably just up for ranting this morning.  I don't know why, my baby slept really well last night--which means I got some sleep too.
I'm just a complainer, I guess.  Happy Thursday. -A

Note to the world

I love Siggi's Icelandic style Skyr!!!!!!!!!!!
Funny, I found a picture of Iceland in Google Images and it is connected to a blog post from a blogger that also professes his/her love of Siggi's Icelandic style Skyr.
Here's the pic:


Here's the blog post.

Aw!

I shared a pear with my baby yesterday....nothing is cuter than a baby taking a bite of a pear!!!
Ok.  That is all.