While I was cooking dinner/chasing the baby (he crawls now! quick as a wink! and into everything, oh my!), Freya marched around in the courtyard with an umbrella singing this song. It's catchy! I bet you'll be singing it, too. Fans of They Might Be Giants (which, you know, is our family theme band) might find the bouncy, slightly hokey but endearingly educational melody a little like that in "Why Does The Sun Shine." The songs were written originally by the same folks and they're all available for a listen here. We didn't end up getting very much rain tonight, but the flashing light and sound show was impressive.
if you know me at all, you know i have a thing for bird graphics. i also enjoy sharp and simple sillhouette pictures. so you can imagine how much i like a bird sillhouette (so much so that if you know me from livejournal, such a picture is probably synonymous with my username to you).
Anyhow, this little fellow is quicker than you might suppose from this picture. I snapped this in his tiny two second respite on the mexican bird-of-paradise bush out by my swimming pool.
even very quick and busy things must be very, very still sometimes.
How much television do I watch? Not much. A few times a month, the husband and I watch a dvd. I will admit to watching television programs on dvd (like Lost and arrested development). But straight-up teevee? Rarely. He has a before-bed snack and seinfeld habit, though, and we might turn on the news, depending on whether the children are tucked away or not. So I watch enough to see commercials. And, okay, have some favorites. like this one. It gets me every time. My whole parenting-a-baby philosophy, in a nutshell, represented in one thirty second ad slot! Distract and Amuse! I always joke that my dancing style is two parts elaine benis (you know, referencing the late night syndicated seinfeld and all) and one part The Blob. But, I guess there's a little of the crazy street corner cheerio dad in there, as well.
There aren't a lot of activities I enjoy quite as much as thrift shopping. I pop in as often as I can, and have halfprice Saturdays written in ink on my calendar. It's practical. I buy things my family needs for cheaper than new. But it's more than that. I support giving new life to old things. I am inspired by seeing a vast array of colors and textures and shapes. I love the surprise. There's nothing so enchanting as stumbling upon some little piece of secondhand ephemera that seems to have been waiting just for you. It clears my head, to methodically scour every item on a clothing rack, dutifully checking size and fabric and maker. I come home after a jaunt at the goodwill feeling calmer yet more alive.
So with that, I introduce you to this little quintet I scored last Saturday. Five perfect juice glasses with the most charming gnome-ish characters marching about mushroom houses. Aren't they sweet? $2.50, total for the whole set.
I have a non-public livejournal. I clog up that space with personal ramblings and tedious details. And that's not likely to change. But this is going to be my "hello, world!" space, totally fit for public consumption. Just the Good Stuff. The stuff that makes me glad.
