Beautiful Austin, Texas — Through A Donut Hole

Rooftop Yodeling | Posted by Jannie on 11 March 2010 @ 12:41 PM 55 Comments

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Remember yesterday morning I took this picture of MY bench?

And remember I promised to go back that afternoon with my donut and decaf, after the sun had swung around for optimum light, to photograph the view from where I often rest my somewhat toned buttocks?

Well, here you go!

Blogging friends, wait until the leaves fill in! You’re gonna love that view even more!!

hoo-whoo awesim, my jannie!! i luvs the bensh mutch too, as yoo kno, playing wit my skwirrle frends there.  but back to you, my jannie.

Thanks, BB!

And thanks also to  Wonderful Paige — a blogging poet and funny sweetheart —  for suggesting I photograph the donut!

manigir_avatar yes, page iz almost as mutch awesim as me!

You’re BOTH awesim, BB!

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Okay… so it’s not exactly MY bench.  But it sure feels like it.   🙂

But moving right along…

manigir_avatar … go, my jannie, go!  yoo so rokking todae.

Thanks again, BB!

Peeps, have you noticed my new “Spring Break Give-Away” button up yonder?  This ‘un…

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Yep, things will be especially wild here next week in Funsterland!

FOUR prizes each day!!   Specifically…

—  7 Billy Collins poetry books (be sure to scroll down his link to read one of the most kick-ass poems ever written!)

—  1 Chris Edgar “Inner Productivity” book

— “Twitter For Dummies”

— “Blogging For Dummies”

— “Singing For Dummies”

— “The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Singing” (comes with cd)

—  One each day of My “I Need A Man” cds (songs I wrote) Yes, 5 of my cds over the week!!

—  A Tori Amos fingerstyle guitar book (comes with cd)

—  That Jannie-assembled “Railroad Lover’s Special”  🙂

—  4 Marilyn Monroe B&W notecards, one with a slightly-different-but-still-perfectly-functional envelope

I’ll be choosing the gifts based on whose comments touch me about why they would like a particular item.

Could I sell all these personal treasures on eBay and put the proceeds towards my Dream Camera? You bet your rootin’ tootin’ blog buttons I could!

But I’m GIVING them all away.

Because giving is good.

And so are you.

And I’ve been inspired by a very giving blogger to follow in her footsteps of generosity. (I highly recommend availing yourself of her RSS feed button — it’s free, easy and puts a smile on her lovely face.)

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Toodles.  xoxoxo

(all park bench photos in this post were taken with my iPhone.)

Self-Portrait With iPhone, Yesterday

Rooftop Yodeling | Posted by Jannie on 13 January 2010 @ 7:03 AM 55 Comments

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So, friends, I think I figured it out!! A perfect blog posting schedule for me.

Wednesdays will be photo-only days, with a little description, of course. And Fridays and Mondays will generally see meatier fare offered here. Not that pictures cannot be meaty — I don’t mean that at all.  Let’s just say, Wednesdays will be a bit of a “breather” day for me. Whoo-hoo!!

So that’s the plan I’m really really excited about.

I was considering closing comments on the Wednesday photos, to allow me to keep up better with bloggity wonders, but as people offered their astute input on that query, I changed my mind.

Can you all handle the updated Jannie plan?!

Can I hear some doopity-doos????

🙂

Love to all.

Grannie Jannie Fannie Meister

xo

Note: Jannie’s new blog posting schedule is void where prohibited by law and results of reading this blog may vary.

Adult supervision strongly advised at all times if reader becomes prone to flinging bras during or shortly after direct exposure to this blog. Thank you — Funsterment Global Inc.

Hair Style: We Goin’ Radically Retro

Rooftop Yodeling | Posted by Jannie on 10 August 2009 @ 6:35 AM 51 Comments

Kelly and I have been contemplating hairstyle make-overs for a while now.  Well, thanks to Morgan Howard at her Creatively Logical Blog, we discovered a cool site, Yearbook Yourself, to upload our mugshots to and voila!  Previews of ourselves in these seriously interesting dos.

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1962

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1974

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1982

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2000

I’m leaning towards the 1982 for me and she likes the 2000 for her. Or do you think we should stay with our current looks below, in the photos we uploaded for this extravaganza?

Is just me or is Kelly a dead ringer for Mia Farrow in the 1974?

And why do we look like Uncle Sylvester from Winnipeg in the 1972?

Whoops… And The Future Of Blogging

Rooftop Yodeling | Posted by Jannie on 24 July 2009 @ 7:09 AM 46 Comments

Totally forgot to tell you that I guest-posted over at Patricia’s Wisdom a couple days ago.  She’s off to Scotland on vacation, don’t you know, Patricia is.  Over there flinging her kilt to the wind.

And to tide you over in the image department, here’s a photo of me with an apparent wine glow when Kelly was 3.  I really miss that pink hoodie — Kelly’s second bunny, a.k.a. Loveable Fluff Of Terror, munched it full of holes.  You ever have a rabbit in the house as a pet?  What a hoot that was.

And a Deep Question…  Where do you see your future in blogging and / or the future of blogging in general?

Silver Lining

Rooftop Yodeling | Posted by Jannie on 1 May 2009 @ 1:09 PM 38 Comments


Remember tree nymphs stole my digital voice recorder? Yah. But I don’t begrudge them, they’ve got song ideas they need to catch too.

One of the files on my recorder contained about 30 brilliant questions I’d compiled one day when I was feeling especially jaunty. A list for Kelly’s seven-year-old video interview. (A video which I’ll post here. Eventuellement. Probably in 2 installments.) Which will now have to be her 7 and 1/2 year interview. And by the time I actually get to it, it will be closer to her 7 and 2/3 year interview. Oh My God, my baby’s growing too fast. Where is the time going!?!??

But enough of that!

Alas, the mood of that jaunty day seems to evade me now and I can’t remember any of those inspired questions.

I’ve managed to eke out a few again…

1. Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?
2. What do you think is humanity’s greatest current challenge?
3. If you could go one place in the world, where would you go? And why?
4. If you could meet one person from the past who would it be? And why?
5. If you could ask God one question, what would it be?
6. If you could have your kitty answer one question, what would it be?
7. Who wrote the book of love?

But I need your help! I’d love to hear your ideas for questions to ask Kelly for her video interview. If you could please submit them to my EFCS (Everloving Funster Commenting System) here below, I’ll be eternally even more in your debt than I already am. Thanks in advance.