The Mamas and the Papas: "Make Your Own Kind of Music"

Nobody can tell ya;
There's only one song worth singin'.
They may try and sell ya,
'cause it hangs them up
to see somone like you.

But you've gotta make your own kind of music
sing your own special song,
make your own kind of music even if nobody
else sing along.

So if you cannot take my hand,
and if you must be goin',
I will understand.

You're gonna be knowing
the loneliest kind of lonely.
It may be rough goin',
just to do your thing's
the hardest thing to do.

But you've gotta make your own kind of music
sing your own special song,
make your own kind of music even if nobody
else sings along.

So if you cannot take my hand,
and if you must be goin',
I will understand.

You gotta make your own kind of music
sing your own special song,
make your own kind of music even if nobody
else sings along.

Happy Towel Day to all you Froods out there!

*sigh*

You know that feeling you get whenever you finish some beyond amazing book that has pulled you so deeply into its world that you struggle against the reality of this life that faces you and the only in the world that you want to do is just delve back into that world and stay there forever, but you can't because it's over and it's never the same on revisiting?

Yeah... got that feeling in spades. The end of LOST combined with Lauren reading aloud from World War Z on the way to Baton Rouge and back has my mind reeling against the reality of life. I simply can't come out of either of those worlds and face Monday.

So I'll go through the motions. And be in a zombie-esque state all day because of it.

Little Pretties...

Horace is a little hungry... 

 So is Pierre. 

Technotheism

A comment posted jokingly on a friends Facebook wall references "technotheism." This same conversation referred to playing Scrabble on an iPhone as a substitute for a real life, person to person game.  They are not the same. In the game of technology versus real life, real life seems to lose more often than not.

I am making a series of conscious decisions to overrule technology in my own life. While I would love to give up the TV, we all know that's not happening until LOST is over. Facebook continues to dominate my existence. The computer is always a go-to source of entertainment and a frequent boredom killer. But you know what? I find both of those fact increasingly less fulfilling and true. I crave the outdoors more than email and Facbook, and boredom at work (or at any other time!) can rarely be satiated by the intarweb these days.

It bores me. (It also gives me carpal tunnel.)

I crave simplicity, the out of doors, sewing, playing games with friends, movies in the park, picnics, baking, riding my bicycle, sunrises and sunsets, enjoying the time I have left with my dog, watching the cat scream at her archnemesis, being still and un-surrounded by modern "conveniences."

I'm going to try and go computer-less this weekend. And text-less, even. I'm on a journey to embrace and simplify real life.

But obviously my progress will be hindered until after May 23rd, because the 18th and the 23rd will find me firmly rooted in front of the television with pina colada in hand, gasping and groaning my way through LOST's final hours. And then I shall go on the intarwebz to read what other people have to say about LOST.

But after that? The world is my oyster. I kicked the FarmTown habit - can I kick the Facebook in the face?



PS - It's still Zombie Awareness Month!! What will you do to raise zombie awareness this weekend?! Answer! Drink lots of wine and give me the bottles. :)

Stuff and Nonsense

• Curtain rods don't come 17 feet in length. Spent a week trying to figure out to make this work. Finally got it worked out last night. My sister will be finishing putting them up today. Looking swanky up in there...
• Spring is still here!
• Continueing to observe Zombie Awareness month by spreading the zombie love. Reccommended World War Z to a friend, and she's lovin' it. The Bottle Barrier(TM) still needs expanding, but I'm out of bottles. Accepting donations of wine and other liquor bottles.... :)
• Balance - where is it? And I don't mean literal, physical balance (though that is improving - successfully completed the lunges section of the YMCA workout yesterday with minimal balance issues!) but rather a life balance. Sewing/gardening/8-5ing/Piano teaching/sewing lessons. No, I'm not over-extended, I just need to manage better. Setting out on a journey to do that...
• Piano! INSIDE!! I have the best friends - they're always there, good times, bad times, piano moving times. Also, L. is way stronger than me. Would like to blame my inability to lift the piano on the 2 full days outside I had put in, but getting the slider footy thingies out from under last night was a challenge, for sure. She is Teh Awesum. Now to just wait until it acclimates itself... it's in pretty sorry shape right now.
• Biking - down the highway to a snowcone stand. 4 mile roundtrip. So nice!
• Gardens - BUILT! And planted! Pics soon - they're still on my camera.

Thursdee Thanx

It's a beyond fabulous day, isn't it?

Here's why I'm so abundantly grateful for today:

• Spring has been here for around 2 months now! And when I say spring, I mean springlike weather. Granted, we've had our odd bouts of freezing and hot/humid, but for the most part the weather's been beyond beautiful for 2ish months. What's up with that? LOVIN' IT!
• I get to spend the next 3, count 'em, three!, days doing nothing but gardening and sewing and building a chicken pen/coop. What is better than that? Nothing.
• I have family and friends that support such actions as being excited to do nothing but garden and sew try to find bathtubs to plant eggplant in. Stop staring - it's an awesome idea. You just wish you'd thought of it!
• That larger bedroom I've been waiting for? Thisclose to being done. We're talking putting-up-a-curtain-rod-close to done. It's not the cottage I desperately crave, but it will do quite nicely in the meantime.
• Did you know it's Zombie Awareness Month?! I have it from a reliable source (i.e., Alexz saw it on Chelsea Lately last night) I'll be adding a Bottle Barrier(TM) to the Zombie Garden Annex (i.e., Rose Garden) this weekend to keep it safe from the marauding hordes. What will you do for Zombie Awareness Month? {need more proof? Go here.}
• Yoga in the morning! I've given up the last few Tuesday night stretch-fests for various reasons, which range from snow-cones to dirt-moving, but tomorrow it's on like Donkey Kong. 
• A leisurely breakfast. There's just nothing like a nice, leisurely breakfast with coffee. Outside, of course.

Cheers to the outdoors!

Lostdays Are Coming to a Close... *sadface*

But Petula Clark is forever. Right?

Downtown

When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go - downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know - downtown
Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?

The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown - no finer place, for sure
Downtown - everything's waiting for you

Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows - downtown
Maybe you know some little places to go to
Where they never close - downtown
Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova
You'll be dancing with him too before the night is over
Happy again

The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown, where all the lights are bright
Downtown - waiting for you tonight
Downtown - you're gonna be all right now

And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to
Guide them along

So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares
So go downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown - don't wait a minute for
Downtown - everything's waiting for you

Downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown ...