Hello Peeps. Just reclining here on my satin pillowcase wondering what, if anything, I have to regale you with tonight. Well… how about the original birthday cake picture I borrowed off Google Images — before I doctored it up for your viewing pleasure…
I sure hope Mary, whoever she was, had a very fine birthday. Can’t help but wonder if she overdid the champagne and flung her delicate garment into the crepe myrtles as I did.
Below, as you may recall, was my doctorization of Mary’s cake…
I do not do Photoshop (yet,) I only work in Microsoft Paint, but AFTER MAY 10th, (of course,) I’ll be photoshopping, bungee jumping, pottery wheeling, three-stepping, and running down les Champs Elysees in my blue crochet bikini and cod fishing boots. (Wish me fine weather for the latter.)
And one final potential regalement… there is a blog I am a HUGE-BIG fan of ’cause it’s filled with bold upliftingness and such. Indeed the name of the blog is, ta-da… The Bold Life. It’s all about taking action and making things happen in your life. I cannot say enough good things about Tess’ blog. Talk about positive thinking – she wrote the book. Actally she did. Write a book, that is! It’s called Flying By The Seat Of My Soul. I LOVE IT!! And her. She’s even offering it as a free E-Book, but I am very fond of my soft-cover edition.
And if you have the best comment on Tess’ Magic Monday posts, she’ll send you cool stuff!
Interestingly (at least I think so, and leading us to the potential regalement part,) last week in her post Bold Changes For Bold People, Tess posed this question, “What was the bravest thing you ever did?” which inspired me to share that “in freshman year I took on the chocolate cream pie eating contest and won! There were only 4 contestants but still, there was stiff competition – “Maggie the Muncher” (reigning pie champion,) was giving me the evil eye to psyche me out, but I put my hands behind my back, my face down in that goopy stuff and didn’t stop gobbling until the bell rang and I was pronounced Winner!”
(I won beer!)
And Tess, may I be so bold as to steal your idea and ask my Peeps what kinds of brave things they have done, if they so desire to share? Thank you, dear bold Tess. And Peeps, I funned around here a bit but Tess’ blog is really a special one-of-a-kind sanctuary, as is Dream Builder Doctor Liara Covert’s, but the latter lovely lady’s I shall have to expound more upon another day.
photo: last summer in Canada with one of her grandpa’s horses (clicking on it of course, makes it so much bigger-cute.)
1. Your poem left me with rears in my eyes.
2. I’d love to go on a Greek Isles cruise but I’ll have to wait for my hip to come in.
3. I wanted to write “Bowling In The Wind,” but Dylan beat me to it.
4. btw, I did try your afternoon-at-the-library idea but a hoeless guy kept following me around and eventually asked me for date. Yikes!
5. I’m doing my vocal worm-ups as I type this.
6. Yes CDs will be available off my side, just $10.00 each…
7. On more than one morning I remember trying to hide my tears on the funning trail after I dropped her at school.
8. And they [the students,] sit there at their desks and do ALL their work without so much as a poop out of them!!
9. If we could meet at your horse in the next week or two, that would be great. [To my songwriting / graphic designer friend, Jae, of Zazzle’s front-page-featured Band Geek Tees …]
10. You are going out on a limb to say how you really fell and I admire that.
(Far too many to pick out my favorites here. Which are yours?)
Didn’t realize I should name the video, thus Untitled. I would’ve called it “Ukulele Crazy.”
Is this my best song of the show? I think not. It’s a brand new tune and still needs a lot more “settling in.” But, my Wonderful Peeps… it is the tune YOU sent me the love and energy to create. Remember? It’s very special to me and you deserve to see its world premiere! (The flyer for the show that wuz. Ended up playing for about 90 minutes, we wuz havin’ so much fun.)
Parrott Tracks Studio, 2006
Yesterday wasn’t the first time a computer made me cry. No indeed. In January 2005 I wailed on and off for two days until two nice computer boys came right here to our house and in less than ten minutes correctly hooked up my interface cables, plugged my microphone and speakers into the right jacks, downloaded updated drivers, fiddled with some Input / Output settings, clapped their hands while clicking their heels twice and voila — instant home-recording studio!
Then, yesterday when the zipped files wouldn’t unzip no matter what I tried (and neither the free WinZip nor Stuffit downloads are actually free,) tears flowed again because I need those unzipped files to get my CD artwork finished.
But guess what? The CD maker guy e-mailed the templates unzipped. Yay-freaking-hoo!
Please tell me I’m not the only one who’s cried over technical woes?
(P.S. I know I haven’t been around to y’alls’ blogs so much lately but after our show today I’m sure I’ll once again lovingly immerse myself in every nuance of your posts. Thanks for your continued patience and support!)
