periodical curiosities / crushes

new grapes called jammies, bursting jam spheres in your mouth!

Stranger Things, hearkens back to my horror movie lovin' childhood-Stephen King shout out!

Documentary Now!, soon! soon! soon!  season 2

yarn and pom poms, i want to be surrounded by a million pom poms and yarn garlands!

neopolitan ice cream sandwiches, I don't need to choose a flavor and I also need a pin of one of these

pins!, tuesdaybassen, sambypen, pintrill, rosehoundapparel, others I haven't discovered

Ice water, it is so quenching and delicious

kissing my babies' cheeks, they are starting to get annoyed

cheeks ripe for kissing:

Bonus: google image search for strange things

Cacao to everything

definition

trumppence: a trivial substance

firsts

I have to document the new firsts you are doing, little girl, and I'm sorry I haven't kept up like I did with your brother.  I didn't want to be so typical, but alas, I guess there's a reason the second child doesn't get the attention of the first... yeah...I know...the first!
So, your father and I came to the consensus that your first word was dada around March, but now in your 15th month on earth you have accumulated a few more...

bye bye - you say dye, dye (to your toothbrush, gleefully)

Ball -  Bah  ( you can throw a ball really well!)

hi (this was probably your second word and maybe really the first that was the clearest--you say this word really cute and high and often times is accompanied by a wave)

uh-oh (you make this exaggerated "o" with your lips that is adorable)

mum mum (kinda...I mean, it's not that clear, but you like me and I don't care. :) )

no (you said this very clearly at 5 o'clock this morning)

update 8.15: go and ouch! also, you sign for "more"

you communicate rather effectively by shaking your head yes and no and you do it kind of funnily...in fact, you are funny.  Your dad and I think so...your brother has commented on it as well.
You growl.
you walk around like a champ--your first steps were Friday June 24th--you already run ok.
Just yesterday you wanted a cape like your brother so we borrowed your dad's red bandana and tied it around your neck...we have pictures.  You love it!
Your brown eyes are really expressive and sometimes you make an effort to catch my gaze, stare into my eyes and we smile. :)

list of things

I like cuddling my children fresh from sleep

So Salty Free is my new mantra

I'm going to start a jean jacket gang

Hot high school kids can turn into rotten toothed trolls

Hopefully I will be stuck in my happiest moment until mid November

I am at all times in full compliance

When my kids get older we will add a turtle to our family

Always be anti- anti-

Always be andi andi

Gonna pom pom bomb this mutha

pagan holiday

be mine

윈스턴

A photo posted by 김세동 SAM (@sambypen) on Jul 25, 2016 at 10:43pm PDT

the force

I see my son reaching and ask if he wants his stick.  I realize he is humming an instrumental and he says,"I'm trying to use the force!" The force is strong in this one. The stick, um, light saber is retrieved from my evil clutches back into his Jedi hand.
Later, he finds my phone and implores me to use the force. He sings the force music again as he sways and floats and dances with arm outstretched towards my splayed fingers as I attempt to summon the phone back into my hand.

fake it til you make it

Happiness and sunbeams and cute little puppy dogs 

These are the things that I've seen with my heart 
Life is a happy game if you don't forget to smile 
But every now and then, your face it harbours a frown 

Sadness is a barnacle, clinging to your bright boat 
You won't let it sink your spirits if you'll only learn to float 
We are all sea captains, sailing on life's rough seas 
Come all you Magellans, come with me I've got pie 
Happiness pie 

Happy tailors, happy workers, happy farmers, happy girls 
Happy widowers, happy freelance artists, happy welders, happy world 
Happy drinkers, happy thinkers, happy musicians, happy beauticians 
Happy mayors, happy pears, happy call girls, happy hula boys 

Happiness pie 
Pie pie pie pie 
Happiness pie

underoos

We bought new Star Wars undies for my four year old and he found out a kid at his school has the same ones.  The other morning my son was going through all the scenarios of his schoolmate having one pair on and he having another pair.  He would wear Boba Fett one day and then the kid would have Boba's on the next day.  They were out of sync.  Then he says, or tries to say, "It would be my pleasure to wear the same one with him."
Except he didn't know the usual string of words "it would be my"  but he sing-songed something like it all garbled up with pleasure in there.

Dark Nap

What my four year old calls sleep.

ready for dark nap!

cool. I'm a folk artist.

what did you say last night?

You said Mom, my nose is broken
after I listened to you trying to breathe out of it.
you get so proud of your four well colored pictures in the purple dragon gallery
you say a lot of things now that are tokens of gold and I can't remember them all.
you count down the days until we can all be together. Every day you ask if it's the last day
you say i love you, you're so beautiful all smashed together in a whispery voice because you think i need to hear that.
What did you say last night?  I'm typing all this out to get to the memory of it.
Something about milk?
you are a golden nugget of truth, you are
maybe I will remember it later

Obsv #9...hundred

First Cicada song heard tonight! Ree-er Ree-er Ree-er!

yes indeed

She's walkin, yes indeed
 not yet talkin....
I have a new toddler in my life, just as my eldest is ushered into whatever is after toddlerhood....walksgoodhood

Noodle eater

Masaaki Hiroi makes these really adorable Edo spinning tops.
                                       I want this one.

observation #788

First lightning bug sighting of the year...we tried to catch some but they were too high, too fast and too few.

sum of me

And then there’s me.  

A massive ball of, “just take me to the sanitarium."

from, Excuse me while I Lather my child in this toxic death cream

Happy Birthday little 1

mista emoto

i need to figure out
emotional robot skin
that i can turn on and off
right now my emotions are so messy and big
it's an out of control amoeba
my flagella's are 50 feet long

For you

Four, you!

Happy day to you my little love!

Dreamy?

Sometimes I feel so sorry for the teens of the mid to late 50s.

Howdy.  Does he look like he's saying howdy?

Look a little closer.  Is your heart throbbing?

Oh hey!  Look at me, I'm Pat Boone, on a date with a drawing of a girl swooning over me.

Poodle skirt girls everywhere are passed out and drooling

Hey there.  See me peeking out behind this red bar with information about my record on it?  Yeah, I'm spying on you.

Here comes Patty!!!!

See?  I'm virile and my loins are like a horn of plenty.

Come eat at my futuristic restaurant.  You will be served by robots.

This is what the teens of the 90s like and I'm going to give it to them, right in the eye.  Teen idol forever.

dunce dance

Everytime I look at you, i do the dunce dance
Everytime I kiss you, I do the dunce dance
Everytime I kiss you, I do the dunce dance
Everytime I love you, duh, duh, duh, dunce dance
dunce dance
dunce dance
dunce dance
dance
dance
dance
dance

When I'm in the light of day
I want you to go way
Lance
Then the night turns to strobe lights
and I begin the dunce dance

Everytime I look at you, i do the dunce dance
Everytime I kiss you, I do the dunce dance
Everytime I kiss you, I do the dunce dance
Everytime I love you, duh, duh, duh, dunce dance
dunce dance
dunce dance
dunce dance
dance
dance
dance
dance

The next day I wake up
and it's come this
Chris
Later on the bass is thumping strong
I succumb to the dunce dance

Everytime I look at you, i do the dunce dance
Everytime I kiss you, I do the dunce dance
Everytime I kiss you, I do the dunce dance
Everytime I love you, duh, duh, duh, dunce dance
dunce dance
dunce dance
dunce dance
dance
dance
dance
dance
(2x)

Pancake ring

I just want anything
I just want anything
I just want anything
pancake ring

Oo diddy Oo diddy Oo di do
Oo diddy Oo diddy Oo di do
Oo diddy Oo diddy Oo di do
Oo di do
pancake ring

I just want anything
I just want anything
I just want anything
pancake ring

Oo diddy Oo diddy Oo di do
Oo diddy Oo diddy Oo di do
Oo diddy Oo diddy Oo di do
Oo di do
pancake ring

I just want anything
I just want anything
I just want anything
pancake ring

Oo diddy Oo diddy Oo di do
Oo diddy Oo diddy Oo di do
Oo diddy Oo diddy Oo di do
Oo di do
pancake ring

soft and dry-eyed

The radio program determined not to make you cry
For those of you with your shoulders up to your ears and teeth gritting like a monkey with cymbals, this program is for you.  We  have thought of everything and want you to be worry-free.  You will not hear any sad or angry music and absolutely no nostalgic music that will make you remember anything from your past.  You will not hear any news that will cause alarm.  Only funny stories and only funny stories that will not make you cry.

This program is artfully directed by one of your own.  An original softy since the day she was born.  Andi Tenderheart understands getting verklempt at a commercial, choked up at news story, teary-eyed at a politician's promise, enraged at an discourteous shopper, destroyed by an incompetent driver....

Tread softly, better yet, just softly, forget about treading.  It's too close to dreading.
We won't talk about death, we won't talk about life.  Some days we will barely talk at all.

We also understand when you need to hear no music at all.  We all know how emotive this medium can be and sometimes, it's just too much.

No nature music.  We understand it can be unsettling to hear a thunderstorm that has no ending.

Want guided meditation? We got it by the boat load (a boat that is in smooth sailing waters, mind you).  We recommend not listening to these while driving a vehicle.

Speaking of vehicles, we also have spots that will calm your road rage during your commute.

White noise

No noise

Silence

We are in the process of creating signals to warn listeners of potential anxiety inducing triggers:
A short fun hum= potential nostalgic song (we can't please everyone)
A soft shhh=story about animals (these are usually fun, but one never knows)

Absolutely siren free music

So welcome to soft and dry-eyed
Focusing on Ataraxia, Equanimity and Inner Peace.

song list

Pretty Shitty
Tiny Stripper
Hungry Man (Extract the Brownie)
Basically, I love you
Dad Fantasy
Brow Off, It's On!
Lady with the Tall Hair
Welcome to the Suckhouse
Dusker Hue
TWA kids
Basically, I'm sorry
Pretty petty
fart city
I came when he came

new new band name

Cocoon Rats!

And rats and rats and rats!!  (Thank you Blood Brothers!)

Oh them Cocoon Rats!
They're at it again
hiding under all the layers of silk
uh huh

Oh them Cocoon Rats!
Ready to pounce
waiting for a mouse to milk
ooo yeah

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play all those notes up there ^^^^^
a fun kaleidoscope of notes

Winkler puppets