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In no particular order
*Ok, it’s not *quite* all my music, as that would be more than the 37gig that the iPod holds. My jazz, “new age” and classical are not on the ‘pod, but with some editing out of the other music I don’t adore, I could manage that, I think.
Imagine this:
Someone is doing a backbend, perpendicular to the wall, with toes touching the wall. Then they raise one leg and put one foot on the wall, then the other. Then they walk up the wall, up into a handstand and then go all the way over until they’re standing again.
That was me at yoga Wednesday night. Yah me!
WARNING. This is *BAD* (but in a “seven-ambulances-full-of-burn-victims-colliding-almost-gotta-watch-but-feel-terrible-about-it-kind-of-way”):
The Beatles meets Pop Music Mashups (my friend Brian’s term)
I inherently like UPS trucks. (I said *trucks* not *drivers* — it’s not a “uniform thing,” I promise!). When I tried to figure out *why* I have such a fondness for UPS trucks, I realized that it’s because they always bring presents!
I’m serious! “Brown” always brings presents. USPS sometimes brings presents, but they also bring bills and junk mail, which lessens my warm fuzzies for the USPS. FedEx sometimes brings presents, but they also bring important-papers-to-sign-immediately-which-aren’t-necessarily-good-news (like tax documents or subpoenas).
Brown, OTOH, always brings presents… things I ordered, things I want, things-I-was-looking-forward-to-getting.
Yah Brown!
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…who hates squirrels.
Ok, that’s not fair. I don’t hate squirrels. But ever since installing the feeder right outside my bedroom window I’ve become more than a little annoyed with them. They scare away the birdies and eat their food.
(Aside: yes, I know, the squirrels are hungry too. And I don’t begrudge them a little of the feed. But when they overwhelm the birds it upsets me.)
So, I am now armed. A squirt gun will be deployed against the next squirrel who scares away the birdies!
I do feel sort of guilty, though.
Remember the guy who cut my tree (who I thought looked like Robert Redford)?
Well, the other day I found this on my doorstep!
I am *muy* amused.
Beackground: David & I were on a really boring conference call, so I was playing with PlayDoh. Amongst the things I made was a whale, which I left in David’s office. Here is the conversation we had afterwards:
ginathelintqueen: will you make sure lid is on playdoh good
David Hiscoe: yes
David Hiscoe: it shocked me
David Hiscoe: have it sitting on my window
David Hiscoe: and the static electircity was a joy
David Hiscoe: i was shocked by a playdoh whale
ginathelintqueen: OMG
ginathelintqueen: I am ROTFLOL
David Hiscoe: wiley monster of the deep
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is in town, which made me remember when I was in the Circus!
Yep! Every young child’s dream — I got to be in the circus. It was the 106th anniversary of the RB&B&B Circus and to celebrate the occasion they picked children out of the audience to ride in the big opening parade around the arena (Dorton Arena, for any locals). I was such a lucky kid!
They were going to put me up on one of the horses, but by that time we’d already figured out that I was violently allergic to dogs and cats (thanks to an anaphylactic shock episode involving two labrador retrievers at my uncle’s house), so the wise (I think) decision was to put me on one of the great big carriages (drawn by the horses) instead.
I vividly remember waving and smiling and being simply awestruck that *I* (along with at least 50 other kids) was in the circus! I also got a cool thing that looked like a flying saucer and lit up that night…
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Ok I scare myself sometimes. I was thinking about the circus thing and knew that I had the “Certificate of Appreciation” they gave me stowed away somewhere. So I had to go upstairs (aka “studio-cum-filing-room”) and unearth it. Ta-dah!
The text says:
“This colossal and commemorative certificate certifies that the bearer was a a featured guest performer in the 106th Edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. Let it be known that you partook in the most notable milestone in the annals of Circus History to occur in over 100 years; the marriage of Michu, “The Smallest Man in the World” to his diminutive lilliputian sweetheart.”
The back:
Notice my ticket stub attached.
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