Songwriter
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Here she was three, checking out a just-applied mouse face at her preschool carnival.
She’s not sure what she’ll be this year so she better get cracking — 24 days will fly!
Have you got YOUR costume yet?
What do you think Jannie should go as??
this blogger’s daughter at age 3
Okay, if that Lance character can do a Sunday Thought For The Day I can copy such genius, right?
Here’s MY amazingly original thought for the day: Laughter is good.
Yep, that’ll totally guarantee my place in the quote books!
Thank God (literally) for laughter ’cause I was a bit blue recently over a couple of things, one of which has actually ended up as a super-excellent Learning Experience in the recording studio. And the other a reminder that by putting my song videos out in cyberspace I open myself up to all kinds of opinions and comments, but ones which can only hurt my feelings if I let them.
Wanna know how I kicked my blues?! I Can Has Cheeseburger where I hadn’t been in a while, to laff and laff and laff at all those lolcats and Looks-Likes. My blueness not only lifted, but my buttock-kickingness surged forth and I faced my fears and made all those calls I needed to for the school fund-raiser. (I’ve taken on a lot again this fall.) But I’m fine now. Fine, I tell you! FINE!!! It’s all in the mindset. Nothing but smooth sailing ahead, whoo-hoo.
That’s all I had to do — laff and laff and my cares melted away like magic. That ever happen to you, laughter just melting your blues away?
I do believe laughter is programmed into our hearts and souls to heal us. Katie West with her Levity Project is definitely onto something I want to stay part of.
And now, friends and neighbors…
More “I Can has Cheeseburger?” lolcats for you. Hmmn, wonder why these next two appeal to me so? 🙂
I like this one below too, surprisingly non-directly-beer-related.
(Cold beer can be awful good with a burger, tho.) 🙂
btw, if you haven’t yet read Lance’s current Sunday Thought For The Day, I strongly suggest you go over and not only read it, but eat, drink, sleep and breathe it. I know I will!
xo
Yep, another tune from my CD release party this past May, a song to be incorporated into the “I Need A Man” musical I am newly enthused about and back to working on again!
7 of the 12 tunes on My First CD and probably another 8 or 9 of the ones I’m writing now will comprise the show. I still don’t have it all figured out yet, but hey – I’m confident the plot will fall into place and that after a rather circuitous romantic journey involving chainsaws, pastries and a motorcycle cop, a man will indeed be gotten for the protagonist. I think her name might even be Esther Vonvandervester.
For me, the best thing is creating. Such a rush to bring a song from a snippet of idea into a full-blown mini-story.
Whoo-hoo.
Here are the lyrics from the above tune, in case the slightly-less-than-pro quality recording was hard to make out.
Kissing 39 Good-Bye
1.
They’re Singing “Happy Birthday”
It’s time to cut the cake
Take me back to thirty
Is the wish I’m gonna make
Another year’s disappeared so fast
Fading forever like a fireworks flash
And I am, I am…
Kissing 39 Good-bye again
Kissing 39 Good-Bye
2.
Took my youth for granted
Thought I was the chosen one
‘Cause this isn’t how I planned it
I was supposed to stay young
Another year’s disappeared so fast
Fading forever like a fireworks flash
And I am, I am…
Kissing 39 Good-bye again
Kissing 39 Good-Bye
Bridge: La-dee-da-dee-da-dee-da-dee-da-dee
La-dee-da-dee-da-dee-da-dee-dum
Singing, singing “Happy Birthday”
La-dee-da-dee-da-dee-da
La-dee-da-dee-da-dee-dum
3.
All those pretty ladies
On the covers of the magazines
Those picture-perfect babies
Some still seventeen
Will see the years disappear so fast
Fading forever like a fireworks flash
And they’ll be, just like me…
Kissing 39 Good-bye again
Kissing 39 Good-Bye
Kissing 39 Good-Bye Good-Bye
Kissing 39 Good-Bye Good-Bye
Kissing 39…. Good-Bye
Y’all have a great day now, ya hear!! xo
1. Sorry you can’t make it, we’ll moss you at the party.
2. Ahhh the beach, I too love observing from the shore rather than swimming or being out on a boot.
3. His vintage tux really complimented her weeding dress.
photo credit: Layah’s Gallery
4. I only water my pants when the roots get good and dry.
5. We need to make a list of misspelled words! Yes, there’s a post idea. Let’s tart one up, shall we??
6. Thank you. I’m duly fattered by your compliment.
7. I’m one friend who will never dessert you. [I’m Haagen the Dazs all to myself!] 
Photo credit: Haagen Dazs, UK
8. In Nova Scotia she’ll have plenty of chances to wear hats, mitts, parkas and snot boots
9. I have to say I find all your blog pox of good quality.
10. Funny how we ALL struggle with thoughts of worrying what to write, but those are usually the times sour writing wells are re-filling.
11. Just thrilled to hear you really like my blog even tho I know some of my pots are better than others. 
(No, this is not MY garden! Nor anyone’s garden that I personally know of. I found the pic on a stranger’s blog.)
12. Since she’s only ever been in private school, she’s yet to ride the cool bus.
13. Waitressing is a hard jog I think.
14. He will be missed. A lot of people considered him a great roll model. 
Photo Credit: Edible Memories
15. We did a buttocks routing to that song at Jazzercise.
16. It was not always easy to read “The Unbeakable Child.”
17. Tho blogging can be tie-consuming, it’s a real joy. 
Photo: Fotosearch
18. I never know what’ll pop up next in my keyworld searches.
19. When I get my first “Like A Bord On A Wire” tome published one day, will you come to my book singing?
20. Yes, among some potato farmers in Bulgaria my blog is just blazing off the carts.
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Here is the entire series thus far, in case you are interested. 🙂
Funny Typos 10… Funny Typos 9… Funny Typos 8… Funny Typos 7… Funny Typos 6… Funny Typos 5… Funny Typos 4… Funny Typos 3… Funny Typos 2… Funny Typos 1…
The Czar? King? President? – yah, the President (that’s him!) of Bulgaria, one of this blog’s many lurkers, is flying us and a bunch of our friends over there for camping this weekend! In his private post-Concorde era Mach17 jet! Yay — camping in Bulgaria! What a dream come true!!!!
Kelly and her pals are so excited about the much-touted flaming marshmallow toss, the trampling of the moldy tomatoes and pin-the-cat on the blind-folded wild donkey.
And we big kids can’t wait for “the beer dunk,” whatever that is — but it sounds great.
(Whoops, for those of you who may have missed my blog’s first birthday celebration post a few days ago, JannieFunster.com is getting super-duper popular in Bulgaria. Huge huge fans over there.
And of course President Georgi* (Or Parvi, as he likes me to call him,) though far too shy to leave blog comments, e-mails me like, TEN times a day. And sends jokes. And pictures, like this one from yesterday…
That Parvi! Always up for a little humor break from his busy political day.
Anyway, gotta be at the airport in a little over an hour, rushing soon to pick Kelly up from school. Just wanted to give you the heads-up that I’ll be away from computer until Sunday, maybe Monday if I’m jet-lagged. Possibly even Tuesday, depending on how that whole Mach17 after-effect thing goes.
No Internet for me in the woods of Bulgaria, boo hoo — Parvi condones only wilderness-style camping. He writes “Miss Foonster — NO komputer on kamping! NO eye-phone! NO plastik forke! NO wirings in your upper undergarment!”
Unfortunately, they do have a 7-child hammock limit in Bulgaria, but I’m sure Kelly and her pals will make do just fine.
And off I go! The Mach17 awaits.
xo
* The President of Bulgaria is not to be confused with their Prime Minister, who also exists. Educational here at Funsterland, huh?! Who knew?
