Lyrics to make ya smile.

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This song was a BIG hit with the kiddos over Turkey Day.
A is for apple
B is for butt
C is for cat butt
D is for doodoo
E is for elephant doodoo
F is for fart
G is for gorilla fart
H is for huge gorilla fart
I is for eyeball [sic]
J is for jammies
K is for kid farts
L’s for loud and long farts
M is for monkey butt
N’s for saying night night to niko at naptime
O is for … Oh!
P is for panda peeing and pooping in her potty while poppa plays peekaboo
Q is for qbert
R is for robotic monkey who’s going to take over the world
S is for stinky
T is for turd
U is for uhoh
V’s for flying v
W’s for weewee
X exactamundo
Y is for yucky and yummy and you
and Z is for farts that smell like the zoo
-“Alphabutt” Kimya Dawson

Things I am no longer attending.

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  • Office Christmas Parties. (Did I tell you about the time my married friend chose the office christmas party to announce how in love with me he was? And that wasn’t even the worst one!!)
  • Any kind of (but particularly Holiday) parties that are 99% couples with or without children and 1% single people, that being me. No fucking thanks.
  • Baby showers where I am the only crafty gifter.
  • Non-family weddings. (I originally said “Weddings” in general and then that year like 7 of my stupid cousins got married and I had to cave. Jerks.)

You can go ahead and invite me if you refuse to believe it. But I ain’t comin’.

Favorite Song of This Crappy Afternoon

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“Honey Let Me Sing You a Song” -Matt Hires.

I got it off the Paste #48 sampler. But you could get it off my latest mix. Depending on what you want to trade me for it. Make me an offer, you might get lucky.

Honey let me sing you a song
and listen to my words as they come out wrong
but don’t run away, run away this time
Honey let me look in your eyes
you open them one at a time
but don’t look away, look away this time

Re-entry sucks. But it’s better with packages.

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I pretty much have everything sent to the secondary browsing location given some dodgy mail room issues on the home front. Look at all I had waiting for me when I returned from Staycation!

  • Two skirts from Wrap that were on super super sale. I am all about skirts these days. Too fat for all my pants! 🙂
  • 15 copies of the same book for my Christmas packages. I gave up on stressing over a million specifically tailored to people’s tastes presents when I read about this family that came up with a better idea: everyone in the family picks their “favorite” thing from the past year and they send out the same package to everyone on their list. Since round here “everyone in the family” = “just me”, I pick a CD, DVD and book that I loved in the last year and everyone gets the same one.
  • 12 balls of yarn, six one color, six another, for a super secret project that is not really Christmas related, and given the timing anyway will most likely be a “winter” rather than “holiday” gifting.
  • My Moo-produced Christmas cards using three photos I took on a freeeeezing day last December.
  • A Simply Photo print.
  • Pushing Daisies season 1 and Bones season 3.
  • One of the options for my 2009 calendar. I am still waiting on the other option to arrive from the Eggplant who apparently does not realize the urgency of already having your 2009 calendar when it is now December 8, 2008. Criminy.

It was a good mail day, eh. 🙂

Last Meal on Earth.

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So KC and I took a cooking class once where they made everyone say what their last meal would be (or desert island meal, either way). EVERY person in the class, sans moi, said “Steak”. Seriously? Steak?

COME ON!

1. Chocolate Cake. (preferably using my grandma’s chocolate sheet cake recipe, but I’m open to others.) And if there were no chocolate cake left in this world…

2. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins. And if there were no…

3. Pam’s Sweet Potato Casserole (there’s brown sugar and pecans and all kinds of goodness. It’s out of this world.)

4. Pizza. Pepperoni preferably. Sausage and green pepperolives (wow, that was SOME typo) alternately.

5. Then, I guess, MAYBE, steak. Although I’d probably prefer a big juicy bacon cheeseburger with avocado or fried egg, depending on my mood.

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for November.

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Bought:

  • The Lover’s Knot (A Someday Quilts Mystery), by Clare O’Donohue
  • Deaf Sentence, by David Lodge
  • Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg
  • Smells Like Dead Elephants, by Matt Taibbi
  • The Historical Novel, by Georg Lukacs
  • The Way of Shadows, by Brent Weeks

Read:
  • The Oxford Book of Short Stories, edited by V.S. Pritchett
  • The Way of Shadows, by Brent Weeks

October Album Reviews

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Not a big month for buying music. Odd.

Absolutely Love & Adore:

Keane “Perfect Symmetry” – Wow I LOVE this album. Did not expect to. Almost didn’t buy it! It’s a new sound for them, not as sad, and not as poppy…a bit more “anthem rock” than they used to be. You can picture these songs just filling up stadiums. Like old Snow Patrol, before they got super cheesy. Fave songs: “The Lovers Are Losing”; “Better Than This” (totally reminds me of Roxy Music “More Than This”); “Pretend that You’re Alone”; “Time to Go”.
Favorite Singles (not on any of the above albums):

  • “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” (covering Fleet Foxes) First Aid Kit – Swoon.
  • “I Shall Be Released” (cover) Wilco & Fleet Foxes
  • “Breathe” Calhoun
  • “Honey Let Me Sing You a Song” Matt Hires
  • “Hymn 101” Joe Pug

Other Albums I Liked:

  • Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts “Temporary People” – So in addition to a gajillion (five?) EPs he put out ths year, there’s also this full on album. The difference, to my ear, is the EPs are a little darker, a little more digitally dirty, a little more lonely. This is a good listen.
  • Ray LaMontagne “Gossip in the Grain” – As with Keane’s new album (above), LaMontagne has really expanded his ideas here. Lots of upbeat, jazzy stuff. The beginning of “You Are the Best Thing” is awesome, just marches right out and grabs you. Sure, there are still some sad, slow ones. But it’s the new, happier songs I really enjoy on this album.
  • First Aid Kit “Drunken Trees” – So I ordered this after hearing their brilliant cover of Fleet Foxes (see list above). It’s allright. Their own stuff isn’t as powerful, there’s no shimmery acapello moments here. But not bad. They’ve got some room to grow.

Not really for me / but maybe for you!:
Nada.

Shamefully have either not listened to at all, or not all the way through, or so few times that I can’t legitimately offer an opinion:
Nada!

Tea

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Hot

  • Oregon Chai. I buy the dry packets from World Pantry.
  • Gen-mai Cha. It’s a japanese brown rice and popped corn tea. I buy it from Upton Tea after the Eggplant recommended them.
  • And my latest addiction, Celestian Seasonings Mandarin Orange Spice. Bought randomly at the grocery store the other day.

Cold
  • Iced tea, SWEETENED. And I mean SWEETENED. But only if it’s Luzianne, like my Grandma used.
  • Uji-Shimizu. A matcha/sugar mix. From Ippodo Tea Co. Soooo good.