short and sweet

Today was the first day of my Kid's Theatre, age 8 - under.....
IT WAS AWESOME.
so pumped - I can do this!
Next week, I should have both classes going, with both the older and younger kids.
So much joy.
And the sun was shining today.
I have bunches of pictures to put on the computer and share with you.
love love love!
to you all.

Reclaim the Future!

This guy, Dan Phillips, talks all about
what I am all about.
This is truly fascinating, funny, and informative.
For anyone interested in saving money, green building,
and so much more.
Reclaim the future!!

Hmm. Not sure if this is the same video,
but it is by the same guy.
Here is the talk I watched.

and HERE is where I watched an effing awesome video about plant intelligence. Anyone who has read or perused The Secret Life of Plants will be thrilled, and those of you who haven't will have some new ideas presented to you.
Whoever said plants don't brains??

Seabert the Seal

I swear, all 80's cartoons,
if not about robots or weird fantasy action heroes,
were all about animal conservation
and how cruel humans can be.
Seriously influenced by THIS show,
I am sure my family and my sisters are shuddering now,
if they even dare watch!
I would watch over and over and over...
Bing Bang Yeti!
Bing Bang Yeti!

Old Poetry, OH NOetry! Part 2

Two poems from 2005 or earlier,
back from mine sweet teenage years...
sometimes when I read back through old stuff,
I have to widen my incredulous eyes...who was this girl?
What was going on in her head?
Is She really me?


#1 (written 2003..probably in some math or english class)
 
the sands flit across the face of a girl
who's brought back to a time of regret.
she doesn't know
how she got there,
all she knows
is that these beads of guilt
are enclosing around her slender neck
and she throws herself into the surf
and pounds her fists into the drifting shells.

later, slowly she stands back up
and pushes the bedraggled strands off her face.
her face - lifted,
towards the bullet-hued sky
as she walks back
to where she came from.


#2 (I posted this is in 2003 on a different site, and got positive feedback. I still find this strange as I wouldn't consider this one of my personal successes...but hey, the crowd knows best?)

I Can't Fucking Compute With You

i really tried to say what i meant this time
but it all came out in one stupid rhyme
i made a mess out of myself again for no reason
left the window open to let it rain inside
i really didn't mean to freak you out
i don't know what i was talking about
but i have to answer this problem with you
if 1 + 1 = 2..
why don't our numbers compute?

and me - you = melancholy
you + someone else = reasons to cry
us divided by all these miles
= really dumb lyrics and reasons to die

then i tried to explain to myself
all the reasons
why you're not going to be there to hold my hand
through the ageless seasons
i wish we were summer spring or winter
but we're just fucking autumn...
bright and brilliant on top,
but decayed, rotting on the bottom.

 -end of poems-

Hmmm. And now, inspired for the first time in years, actually wrote something dece. But I am not sharing it right now. Only on Rough Draft One.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SISTER!

i love you.

Mi'kmaq Word of the Day

 Any of those who know me will know my love of languages and sounds.
Languages are something I've decided to explore more this year.
So far, I have been hooked on learning Mi'kmaq, the native language of people from my homeland. And where do I get my daily dose of Mi'kmaq?
...here's a few videos to start you off...

(u mad?)

Other than that, I was sick today, still blegh, but not getting worse. Phew! Time for a bath, I believe. A bath would just be the nicest thing. I received some lovely, excellent, bathing products from both LUSH and,

I have to say,

the best bath and beauty, Canadian-made comany, TVAL.

(I've been shopping there since they opened in what? 2003/04? I can't go into it right now, but trust me. So natural and delicious-smelling and affordable and so so good for all skin-types, including super-senstive. We give them to everyone every year! Really reminds me of home. Don't get me wrong, I love! LUSH products, too. But there is just something about Tval..)

Wow. How silly of me, I got distracted. 

Le sigh. I just don't know what to do with myself.

Harmonica! (Harmonious Heraldry)

Today I brought home a second harmonica, this one in the key of G.
Mike and I played them for the better part of an hour, and this fascinated my cat.

She loves harmonica, too.

This is an ideal instrument for country living or just plain ol' joy living. Simple to play, hard to make sound ugly, easy to carry around and cheap. 

Even if you can't sing well, this little instrument allows you to easily make the music you hear in your head, and can easily be played to fit your mood.

 

 

 

I seriously recommend going out and getting one, even if you don't end up playing for over 63 years like this guy....fun to have one bumming around. And you can get them for $5 or $50, whatev!

 

More badass examples...

 

 

 

 

Going into town is always a trip!

There are certain cartoons or movies that I watched as a very young child, that heavily influenced my dreams, among other aspects of myself. Here is one example. The Lollipop Dragon. I recently, after years of non-intense searching, found this movie on youtube. It came out in 1986, though I must have watched it at least 2 years after that. Anyways, until I re-watched it, I had distinctly remembered it being a mix of animation and real actors. Obviously, this was a delusion, probably stemming from a dream that I remember clearly, to this day. The dream feels to me like The Never Ending Story..how it was filmed and everything was...anyways, re-watching this scratched an itch I had almost forgotten I had. I recommend watching, for its trippy qualities. Has anyone else ever watched this? No one I have spoken to in the past has...

Lollipop Dragon - Part One

Lollipop Dragon - Part Two



 

Lollipop Dragon - Part Three

In my dream, we end up smashing down a large portion of the forest and everything gets reeaaalll psychedelic.

 PS: Molly is loving her Christmas catnip :)

Cooking Show

I don't have much to say about this video that I came across,
other than I was extremely amused.
this is much, it seems, like my day-dream cooking show.
minus awkward Pepsi dude.
Why did spell check want me to capitalize pepsi? Makes about as much
sense as capitalizing the Internet. Who is the Internet? Who runs Internet?
internet pepsi coke woah but coke doesn't request capitalizing.
hmmmm Google also has to be capped into order to pass spell check.

strange.
anyways, woot WOOT!

 

cooking with Snoop.