happy bjork and burrito monday

so let us all pretend that we are reading this on monday. yup, o.k... i have had this song stuck in my head for a couple of weeks now. and obviously the video is how real life should be. i mean does not everyone feel like a pent up showgirl just waiting to soft shoe with coworkers and strangers all throughout the day? i do!!! so the title refers to the fact that the girls and i watched bjork videos all through dinner hence the burrito bit :) heck yeah! the cultivation of young minds! you must absolutely watch all of her videos. super fun!

bjork and burritos part duex

i just could not resist adding one more video. i super adore bjork!!!

It's Time to Make the Donuts (Classic)

i do not make donuts...but i am feelin it.

Madonna Holiday - 1983 Unreleased Video

heck yeah!
this week's fortune
*among the lucky, you are the chosen one.*
7*17*20*24*34*44

whoa!!! who just got her period?

whew, that explains everything. that was weird and cathartic. seriously!
meanwhile, back in the lab...

the nightingale and i stayed up and worked together making these super rad flashy flash cards for the lil magpie. we all love them and the lil magpie already wants more.

also super stoked, we have begun knitting our gnomes. the lil magpie says hers is going to be a hula gnome, right on!!!
after re reading my bummer post i am compelled to relate that i do not feel any of that today or usually, but i do have my moments. whew. comes and goes. i see the many goods all day long. heck yeah!

Louis Armstrong - Pennies From Heaven

daily reminder. happy tuesday

holy heck more birthdays! or... in which i am an old lady

i cannot believe how fast my girls are growing up. teenagers. teenagers who drive. look out!!!

happy birthday nightingale and raven!!!

warning cliche ahead proceed with caution: it seems like yesterday they were my little girls wearing fairy wings, singing opera in the bathroom and giving me all the origami cups i could ever possibly need. i will try to hold fast each moment in my old lady memory. they are precious and fleeting. being a mom is the fucking greatest experience in the whole universe and i am a lucky girl, heck yeah!!!

we went to a parade this weekend. can you guess which one? lil magpie: "gay is when boys wanna kiss boys" um, yep. :)

sooo, i am a super lurker extraordinaire, and there are some amazing women out in the blogging universe. one that i often read was recently talking about "how do you deal with bummers?" oh boy, i am recently becoming a master of bummers. i am usually very cheerful and generally outwardly always cheerful. (that makes sense to me) anyway i decided after reading her entry and leaving a comment that i would do a little virtual dumping...(this makes me uncomfortable)

we recently moved. i have been planning this for years. i was so excited. this was going to be a fabulous new adventure for all of us. i hated where i was living(climate, urban sprawl, rudeness). i wanted to be near my family.=we moved= i am miserable. i gave up the job that i loved. (thought i needed a break) i moved away from my best friend (she is like my spouse and i miss her sooo much i think i will just die) and a group of solid, beautiful, fantastic women (who were my family) my kids away from friends and schools we loved(cannot afford the waldorf here so they are in public school and that is breaking my heart, especially for lil magpie) bars we could bike to for day drinking, bountiful thrift stores, flat streets, for as far as the eye could see, for my skateboarding pleasure! pretty much everything i knew and loved and learned to take for granted... i wanna go home!
i am now a worker bee(drone) who does not make a difference. when i pick up the lil magpie from school none of the other mothers will talk to me. no one looks like us out here. i have to walk to a path to skate. my bike has flat tires. our house is so shaded by ginourmous trees that it always looks overcast( i miss the bright sunshine) i have never been so depressed in my whole life!!! people are starving. there are civil rights attrocities the world over. people fear for their lives but, i am sooo sad and lonely onley onley.(the goose from charlotte's web is stuck in my head along with the song about the smorgasbord)

there you have it! it is a load of horse shit but that is where i am right now. the holy crow loves it oves it oves it here. i am sure i will grow to love and appreciate it. i am impatient. and did i mention so sad and lonely?

do you ever have days like this?

holy heck, i wore a sweater

must not type... must clean house...

no for reals! my folks are comin up. my mom has not ever been to my house... i said ever. livin across country it just never happened. we would fly down and visit them a couple times a year. this will be interesting...

a wee wednesday wisdom...um, yep!

p.s. sweater has actually been worn two mornings in a row. this makes me nervous...but kinda excited.

i shall call this the tortilla of love

you can totally see it. do not pretend that you cannot see it. this happened during dinner. a testement to our love .thats right...oh yeah...yummm

let us go for a little walk...

top three things that caught my attention on the drudge report today...
*12 year old model heads fashion week in australia-read the comments-heck yeah, i was relieved to read that other people felt the way i do about the fashion industry's poor choices on behalf of the women of the world.
*barry manilow refuses to appear on the view due to one host's conservative beliefs. he feels she is ignorant and dangerous...hee hee hee
*"don't taze me bro" holy heck...

i must say after the successful load of the video yesterday i was giddy!!! giddy i tell ya!!!

this is the way we walk lil magpie to school...

righteous path! pathy pathenstein! oh yeah...
there is imojene resting seductively on the sign post...these photos have the honor of being a montage of many days on this super awesome path...photo montage...heck yeah!!!


oh imojene, you temptress...


heck yeah!!!
i am excited about learning all the new flora and foliage...
lil magpie busts a badass pose

the nightingale actually let me take a few pictures to post on her myspace. ahhh, bonding. this was my favorite.


i get this look a lot...usually after i say something like "after graduate school when you come visit with the twins, scout and megatron..." or even something as simple as "hey, nightingale".

this is dedicated to all those lovely birthday ladies out there

aint no party...

holy heck...what a day!!!

monday= my tits are sooo big they have their own birthday!!!

speaking of birthdays...

happy birthday, my beloved princess brownie!!! thank you for being a strong and beautiful woman. you always inspire me to fight the good fight! (oh yeah, and fuck myself, thanks for that)


finch the killer gnome. really nice costume~you can see she spares no expense and really taps into that creative juice! hee hee hee
ah yes, this is the normal expression of my dearest finch. you make me so happy.
finchy, you are the super most awesome bestest friend a girl could ever have! happy birthday, i love you!!!


this is the man that i love...
no really...
what a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man!!! (you cannot see the hacksaw hee hee hee)
sometimes we are naughty...
but i love him with all my heart!!! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HOLY CROW!!!
um yep, that sums it up.

for the rest of you have a happy monday : )

sunday (a few) week(s) in review

alrighty here we go...

we were sent off with the raddest farewell party
many well wishes=super fun
*casey moore's* super dive=super chill-need to clean the taps-awesome atmosphere(especially for day drinkin and wearin wigs)

i super heart this stencil!!!

this window around the corner from our wee house ... the horses were always there and it seemed right- right on, right with the world,etc.

these were my last two shots before we hit the road...

the first day on the road we took a wrong turn! we spent the day exploring a part of arizona we had never seen. it was awesome except for the fact we wasted a whole day driving mountainous roads in a complete circle...eight hours later and we were only two hours away from starting point...i was so frustrated and mad tears streamed down my face as i fumed to no one. aiigh!!!
so the next morning we get in the car and i notice the fortune I had put there before the trip!!!
it says "the most direct approach isn't always the best"... well i'll be :)
in case you did not notice your surroundings, someone thought this would be helpful.

beautiful sunset...goodbye
texas is fucking big!!! it seems to last for days and days and days... that is holy crow up ahead rockin the big rig.
I MISS YOU!!!
first new home review...
*alivia's* yum yum... breakfast biscuit and can you say sweeet tea? heck yeah you can! yum yum!!! the rest of the menu is fairly foo foo and can be pricey BUT they have dogfish 60min i.p.a. on tap! ON TAP heck yeah!!! friendly staff

*the green room* local watering hole...we can bike ride there= good good good... dive-ish with rad old school original pool tables and foosball (heck yeah) super friendly owner-low key locals-decent cervesa = good night out!!!

we live here...

we did it...we live here now!

over the past month i have often thought of this here lil blog... but i just could not bring myself to write. heck, i could not even look at it. this move was a doozy. i was so worried about the transition for everyone else i did not give a second thought to the effects it would have on me. in all honesty i am the only one left reeling.

it is beautiful here. holy crow loves his new job. the girls are settled into their new schools.(not the one i had planned, but that will come in time) and i have not cried in two whole days. i almost do not recognize the sad girl i was letting myself become. now that i have removed my head from my ass...sort of...really workin on it...almost fully out now...writing today is a good step! it is back to the business of being delightful(hee hee hee) next step...
call friends and confess to still being alive. oh yeah, and find new old school radio station.

while i was thinking about this here lil ol blog i came up with many titles...unfortunately i can only remember these two...where was my notebook???what a doofus : )
who's stupid ass idea was it to move here (oh yeah, mine)
everything was fine until my purse fell into the toilet
i leave you with this...our sweet house.

lo and behold

i do not recall what we were watching...but the holy crow and i decided it was time to expand our vocabulary...and thus, lo and behold, i will be attempting to use this expression to the shock and delight of others! hee hee hee hee hee (this is often how i laugh. here is where i would put a super rad clip of muttly(?) the dog who belongs to dastardly somebody from those old yogi bear car racing cartoons. alas, i still need some linkin learnin!!!)

a few posts ago i gave you a glimpse of a thank you project for the mother goose. well, here it is... i have admired banners for some time and decided to try one out. awesome and quite a bit of fun. she loved it and hung it right away.

it says 'heck yeah' which is pretty much my general term for thank you, awesome, you bet yer boots(or sweet ass whichever you have is fine),etc...
here is another glimpse of something i promised...these two felted purses got listed to my etsy shop, 'cakehole', last week. i looove needle felting!!!
this here bunny's tail is even three dee!!! i also made my first sale, whoopee!!!
and now the panic sets in because yesterday all art and craft supplies were locked away in their suitcases or large cardboard boxes for the move on monday.i did leave out supplies for three more of these super rad felted purses. but i decided to mostly focus on a bandage that i have been crocheting on for two years(it has to be six feet long)...aiiigh! more on this later...
the delightfully charming and slightly wicked raven graced us with her presence this week. hooray!!! she is my eldest, fifteen and a half!!! we do not get to see her very often as she is a very busy super cool teenager and she lives with her mom and step-dad on the super far away other side of town. but it is mostly because she is busy leading the super cool life!!!(huh, you say??? she is my most amazing step-daughter from my previous relationship...i have been lucky to have her in my life since she was three years old! her mom and i became good friends, so we remain a nice little slightly odd family unit) this picture is lousy but...

my girl embroiders!!! i taught her when she was in the fourth grade...in eighth grade she loved this band sooo much she was compelled to bust out this awesome bit of craftiness on the teenage uniform hoodie. whoopee!!! all three of my girls have been taught many wonderful fiber arts and yet this is the first and only self inspired and self directed project that has ever been produced. they will bust out the occassional paper craft. but it would be hard not to when i have every available surface of our tiny home covered in paper when i do a project( i am visual and need to see my goodies) i hope to see more of these delightful little surprizes...

on wednesday the mothergoose and her daughter the hummingbird threw the nightingale a farewell party(mother not invited, humph!mostly because then lil magpie would be there and we do not allow no thunder stealin round here :) ) i gave the raven the camera with instructions "take loads of pictures" a six hour party=four pictures, humph!!! this is almost a group shot of the girls...
i had sooo much fun making the banner for the mother goose that i made one for the nightingale!!! it is not yet complete because i sent it to the party for all her friends to sign...even the boys signed it! i will probably laminate it before stringing(ribboning) it to hang in her new room!!! oh yeah she still maintains that she is not moving! ahhh, teen angst!!! got to do my part as wicked "muhtherrr!!!" ruining life...karma...my muhtherrr!!! just laughs and laughs

lo and behold...as i walked out of the bedroom this is the sight that greeted me...the lil magpie decided to use her media time...she is my super rad accessory princess, yesss!!!
old school update:
'very superstitious' by stevie wonder