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Post your own Buffy quote.
In your journal.

"You know, people underestimate the value of a good ramble." -- Buffy

:)

Meme from saoilsinn 
Take a picture of yourself right now.
don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair... just take a picture.
post that picture with NO editing.

From justrob07 

1.What were the last 5 songs your heard before you answered this?

The Thrills - Big Sur
My Morning Jacket - I'm Amazed
The Who - 5:15
TV On The Radio - Crying
Led Zeppelin - Battle Of Evermore

2.Pick one artist(as in visual)that you admire and tell me why?

I read an article in the paper yesterday about the Exhibit of the work of these amazing quilters and textile artists from Gee's Bend, Alabama. They have it at thePhiladelphia Art Museum right now and I want to go for my birthday.
I love quilt artists because I think what they do is so filled with consideration. Every aspect of quilting, from the chosen fabric to the colors to the pattern to the stitches hold the opportuinity for a story.


3.If you wrote a book of your life what would it be called?
A Pale, Still Girl

4.If you and only you knew the meaning of life would you tell?

I'd tell you because I tell you everything. :)

5.Where did I leave my glass of water cos I can't find it anywhere!?

When you're here, you always leave your water on the night table.

So, all morning I've been walking around the house.
Totally out of sorts for some reason.
Couldn't put my finger on it.
What's with today, today?
And then I realized.
The air conditioners were off.
There's no constant loud hummy white noise.
It's so quiet it's making me nervous.
Ha!

It's school picture day today.
So, last night there was a lot of angst
about how his face was shiny and he may have a pimple
and I quote, four of my fundamental smiling teeth are still missing!
I quell that with stridex and the suggestion of a small natural smile.
He's 10!
Then I get his new shirt from the closet to iron.
I don't iron. This is true. Everything gets dry cleaned, it always has.
So Ethan is flabbergasted at the idea.
What are you doing?
I'm going to iron your shirt.
You don't iron clothes, Mom, you iron fabric. With that stuff. To stick it to other fabric. For crafts.
I know, but I can iron this shirt for you.
Don't stick anything to it!
I won't.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Hilarious.

1 * If you had to pick another city to live in, in another country (keeping in mind practicality), where do you think you'd be happy to go to ?
Chelmsford in England. Right down the street from Mrs. Veronica. She's like a second mum to me and I feel like I really need a mom right now.

2 * On the Road or Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ?
I was a Kerouac girl in love with all boys who thought they were dharma bums. That's really only interesting until you are about 24 though.. haha

3 * The perfect name for you, other than your given name ?
I was supposed to be Gretchen, up until the very last weeks. I'm not sure what my parents were thinking. Jack says I look like an Olivia, which is a family name...my paternal grandmother. I would have been cool with being named after her. She was a very elegant southern lady.

4 * Someone told me over the weekend that due to food shortages, bugs are going to be the food of the future. Could you convert to bugs ?
Hmmm..  I was thinking about this and I decided that, when I look at a whole live chicken or something, I don't necessarily say oh yum I want to bite off a piece of that for my dinner right now. It's just become accepted and removed a bit from its original form. And if bugs are the food of the future, they will become mainstream too. And therefore, hopefully removed a bit from the bucket of wriggling creepy that I think of now.
So yeah, if bugs are gluten free and America has tarted them up a bit in the usual way, rock on.  ;)

5 * Your son is growing up, fast :) What do you miss most about his toddler days ?
It baffles me that I started this LJ when Eth was 3 and he's 10 now!
I miss going on long walks/hikes with him in the red jogging stroller and singing songs and hearing all of his imaginative stories. He's a scorpio and, although highly creative, very practical these days. We used to walk every day for miles and miles and talk and those were the best days.
I miss coloring in coloring books with him while we had breakfast at the coffeehouse downtown. The purple travel soap carrier filled with crayons. We both have coffeehouse "sketchbooks" from those years. Cuteness.
But I guess to some degree I do those things with him now, just in different ways.
Okay, I've got one... I miss overalls!  :D
He wore overalls from the time he was small up until preschool. I totally crush on overalls with striped shirts underneath.
And there is no way I could ever get him to wear them now.  haha.
So I really miss overalls.

Headed west to the land of my youth. 
The land of farming and super delicious food.
The land of the world's largest chicken barbecue. 
Yum. It is the only chicken not prepared by Jack that I will eat.
(because I'm the most specific with standards flexivore ever.)
Ate our lunch in the park and visited with my Dad and my family. 
Took the required walk around the pond and visited the ducks.
Two years ago, my nieces got married, two months apart. 
This year, they are both having babies, three months apart. 
Oh, sisters. 
I think about how fun that would be. 
My sister and I are 13 years apart though, so it was sort of unlikely. 

Currently Crushing On: 
( a list of the usual dichotomousnesses)

pink leather boots
steampunk
toy piano replacing cowbell
blitz
wonderland
wine and clouds
loud whispers
river edges
fauna
tuxedo strawberries
darjeeling
hopscotch
thumb stones
you

 

Elementary chorus started today for this semester. That means sailing the pirate ship in rush hour traffic again. Wednesdays. Yuck. I had all the best intentions and fortified myself with all the good talismans like stripey socks and square toed mock maryjanes and the silver heart pin on my coat for the best mojo out there. Rush hour has not gotten magically any more delightful than it was in December. And I swear, if you tailgate me, I'll make you walk the plank. I'm a pirate, after all.

I said, can't stop to dance
Maybe this is my last chance.

I feel like that today. 
Desperate.
(I would say but not serious, but that's a whole other band and a whole other story.) 
It must be the Januaries, but I couldn't put my finger on it until this song came on the radio just now.
It has always left me breathless. Those drums. And the unspecific wistfulness that they evoke in me.
I was 13. I carried the cardboard sleeve of the War album around with me in Junior High School. 
Every day for a long time.
My books clutched to my chest, the album facing outward like a shield....or a standard. 
I'm changing, my body is changing, I'm growing up, and I have the ability to be whatever I want to be.
(thanks Marlo Thomas)
I have this chance.
This music is who I am going to be.
It will follow me through change.
I wonder what's changing now. 
I hope I'm not running out of chances.

 Abbey Road is my new secret boyfriend. 

onetwothreefourfivesixseven...

It's really hard to listen through headphones when you have a cold though. 
I feel like Alice. 
big and small

 Last night's favorite Eth quote.
"Mom, every nine year old likes punk rock! You can jump dance to it!"
with the *obvious* tone, which I love.
and I must say, he has the energy to be quite the vicious awesome mosher. 
Someday.
When I'm ready to let him out there... which might be a looooooooong time from now.
But meanwhile I can just see Harry and Owen and Eth out there at school dances. 
Like that Visa commercial only with DMs and messenger bags....and "jump dancing".

Because I am the Queen of time wasters in the name of organization...
Yesterday was 43 Things
And because I can't remember my accout email or password at Library Thing.
Today is
GoodReads 
does anyone have it? 
Oh you know I do. 
thatgirlkristin. 
Play books with me if you want.

So, there's an ad at the top of my yahoo mail. And it is for RAZRs and I have a pink one but there was an ice blue one that caught my eye (mmmmm pale blue).   And it says something about Free RAZRS (right ,nothing is free) But it's great ...the fine print is: Significant Restrictions Apply.
Significant Restrictions Apply... not just Some but Significant
That is the marketing Psyche!
Do you remember when you were 11 and you'd say things like "I'll let you have this cookie" and then snatch it away and say "Psyche!" 
Okay, maybe that was just me, because I was really mean. 
But if I did that with a cookie today, I'd snatch it back and say "Significant Restrictions Apply!"  :P
You know, cuz it's more grownup.

(I should not drink the *whole* pot of coffee when I make it by mistake, right? Right.)
xoxo