The Pea | Posted by Jannie on 11 September 2009 @ 7:03 AM
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Yep, our Kelly’s 8 today! She was born here in Austin on 9-11-01 at 2:10 p.m. It was 3:10 in NYC.
Nothing like videotaping her 7-year-old interview at the eleventh hour — yesterday late afternoon, to be precise. I’ll post more clips in the future, but for now I give you… “I’d Rather Be A Girl.” (Transcript included below in case you have trouble making out the words.)
Transcript…
Me: Kelly — question 41. If you could be somebody else for just one day, who would you be?
Kelly: Either you, my dad or Genevieve my friend, or my best friend, Isabella.
Me: So, why would you want to be me for a day?
Kelly: Because I wouldn’t have to go to school.
Me: Yah.
Kelly: Actually, I wouldn’t want to be my dad.
Me: No?
Kelly: Because the privates — I wouldn’t know how to work the privates.
Me: (Laughter.) You don’t know how to work the male privates.
Kelly: No.
Me: If you had them you’d probably know what to do with them, tho.
The Pea | Posted by Jannie on 28 August 2009 @ 7:15 AM
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So glad I wrote down / remembered these funny / sweet things our Kelly said…
Age 4: “Will my bones fall out like my teeth, and bigger ones grow in?”
Age 5: “I’m so glad I’m a girl ’cause when I grow up I won’t have to waste my own money on a diamond ring.”
Age 5: “Mom, the kids at school are saying if you spend a lot of time in the sun your skin will get brown but that’s just nonsense ’cause everybody knows the sun bleaches things.”
Age 6: “Mom, when I have children I won’t tell them that I really love you the best, so I won’t hurt their feelings.”
Age 7: “Mom, I wish you’d met Dad earlier ’cause you’d have gotten to enjoy him more and I’d be a teenager now.”
Age 7. “She had a good luck omelet around her neck.” (Meant amulet.)
Age 7: (When I told her we’d visit Nova Scotia’s Tancook Island on our next trip) “Ooo, Tancook Island. What’s the population? What’s the main industry? Do they have universal health care?” ( I swear she said this!)
Age 7 (While throwing a mini-fit) “I have the right to be angry when I’m mad!!!”
Age 7: “I like your new shampoo, Mom. What’s that scent — vinaigrette?”
Age 7: (At KFC upon learning they had no spoons, only forks for her mashed potatoes) “These people so do NOT know how to live, Mom.”
Age 7. (At a bird blind where many yellow “Caution” tapes were draped on the outside of the one-way glass to, I presume, help prevent the birds from crashing into their own reflections) “That’s so stupid mom — birds can’t read.”
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The Pea, Videos | Posted by Jannie on 2 June 2009 @ 7:15 AM
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Our little Billy Mays, picked comment numbers 25 and 46, making the two winners of the Jannie CD Give-away (whoo-hoo)….. Paige of Paradise Mountain To Hell’s Valley and Nikkicrumpet. So congrats, you two! And thanks everybody else for playing – some of you gave it a bold old try indeed. It was fun!
Here’s the second part of the session with a bit of cropping, as I realize the original at over 5 minutes was possibly a bit long for peeps with very busy lives.
And here’s a still with light “enhancement.”
Oh, and my ego so LOVED all your comments on that last post, thanks. See you soon!
Mysteries, The Pea | Posted by Jannie on 18 May 2009 @ 2:27 PM
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[I’ve had a dozen successful CD sales through my yellow “Buy Now” button over there to the right, but] my shy graphic designer friend Jae of Zazzle note says when she clicks on it, she gets directed to another of my links and not to Paypal as intended. Yikes. Does that happen when YOU click on it? [And don’t worry – clicking won’t mean you’ll have to buy, you’d have to go through a couple additional steps for that. Could it be a Mac vs Windows thing? A browser thing? Cookie thing? Classic Funsterment glitch?]
And because a picture is always nice in a post, let me get a fav of mine for you, Kelly on our back porch 2 years ago.
