Bill and I recently got the first disc of the Muppet show from Netflix. and besides manamana i think this is my favorite sketch:

Tags: happyears, links, sillyweird, tv
Current Mood: silly

Last Saturday, Bill and I got to watch a most awesome performance by the incredibly talented kingofthewho.

Over a week gone and I'm only just now getting around to posting, I suck.

A month or so ago, dancingwriter announce that they would be in my area on vacation and she and kingofthewho were wondering if there were any venues that kingofthewho might display his musical and storytelling talents. I, of course working at a coffeehouse that routinely hosted local musical talent did a pretty good Arnold Horshack impersonation in my excitement.

kingofthewho and dancingwriter were wonderful, and the performance was simply amazing! Lots of storytelling of old Celtic myths (he does a very good eagle impression btw.), and some awesome music. Bill and I bought his new CD and have played it almost every day since. (The round thing, and blood of summer are my favorites.)

The night ended far too soon, but we are hopeful that we will have the chance to listen to another wonderful night of song and story next year; I just wish we lived closer so we could hang out with them more often.

(I took a picture to commemorate the night, but my photography skills suck, and it's quite blurry :( )

Tags: friends, happyears
Current Mood: chipper

many of you may have already seen this over on Bill's journal, but i want to make sure everybody sees it, because this guy is just amazing.

Arthur Hinds ([info]kingofthewho ), whom you may know from the most awesome Pagan Celtic band Emerald Rose, will be performing here in Clayton on July 26th at the Lyric Coffee House (where I work)!

Parts North

If you'll be anywhere near the area then, you have to come listen to the most excellent Mr Hinds! Bill and I will be there, we wouldn't miss it for anything.

Tags: happyears, heads up
Current Location: 13624
Current Mood: excited

I hope everybody has an awesome night and awesome new years day in the morning.

may all you wishes come true in the coming year, and may all you troubles melt away.

Tags: happyears, holidays
Current Mood: cheerful
What's Playing?: Striking 12 - Groovelilly

FIRST OF MAY!



f-word used quite liberally, listen with caution.

Tags: happyears, holidays, sillyweird

I've started a new knitting podcast.
I'm focusing mostly on music, with a few little knitting tid-bits now and then.

It's going to be (hopefully) weekly and about half an hour per episode.
I've called Whiskers in a Twisted Stitch, which goes along nicely with the Etsy Shop I started earlier this month (or vise versa.)

If you want to listen and promote me, please do!
The show notes are at http://whiskersinatwistedstitch.blogspot.com/
And the first episode is up.
It's rather rough, but I'm happy with it for a first episode.

Feedback is very welcome as long as it's constructive.
Tell your friends!

Tags: happyears, heads up
Current Mood: creative

Last night was my first cake decorating class, and I had a great time. Boy the time flew, it hardly felt like two hours!

We didn't really do much on the first day; it was mostly intro stuff and demonstrations. But next week I have to bring in an iced cake to decorate. And I'm so excited. This is going to be tons of fun!

And to add to my excitement, tonight I'm going with Bill and Momo to watch groovelilly! :D:D

Wee!

Tags: cakes, friends, happyears
Current Mood: chipper

I went to Bills yesterday.
Had fun trying to get to his place, and them almost got run over by a BIG truck just blocks from his house, later found out that it was the same truck that had just been at his place picking up his brother’s car.

We had a lot of fun snuggling and paying homage to the kitties (who didn’t run away when I got there) and being barked at and later forced to give belly rubs to, by Annie. She is sooo soft and cuddly!

For more fun coverage of the night, check out Bill’s entry

Oh one more thing.

GwG’s playing guitar = “teh hott”

Tags: happyears, pets, platypus
Current Mood: loved

I feel better now.
By back still hurts, but after about 1/2 hr of creative stretching, meditating and laying stiff as a board it feels better. And now I’m not quite so headachy and fuzzy headed.

Mom wants me to help her with the Statistics test tonight (I have to help he with the online part, I refuse to do her work for her) so I may not be able to go to Bryan’s and watch anime like we had planned. That kind of makes me sad, I haven’t seen him in a while, and I’m going through anime withdrawal.

I have everything done here at work. But I still have to stick around until five so I can make up for the hours I missed earlier this week and for the hours I’m planning to miss Tuesday when I go to visit oaksong

I keep finding myself being tempted to order something from the Chinese restaurant next door, but I know I shouldn’t because it’s bound to be greasy and bad for me. And I really need to watch my weight, especially with how badly I’ve been eating in my classes. Baking is the worse, all sorts of decedent treats that we have to taste and critique. Yummy.

I put a pan full of water on the heater the other day, and have been keeping it full. It’s help somewhat with the dryness in the office, but the metal objects around me are still shocking me far too often. I think it’s a conspiracy.

I’ve been listening to my Abba CD a lot lately. My cousin, Tasha gave it to me for Christmas, and I just recently found it while I was cleaning my room. I really want to get the Mama Mia CD now as well. I blame riki_kiki_taco for my addiction. :p

My eyes have been acting up a lot lately, making it difficult to wear my contacts. Just another addition to the list of things messed up by my BC. I’m definitely going to have to talk to PP about going on a different prescription or something. A lot of my friends at school are on Depo, but I’m a bit too fond of my period to seriously think about getting it. Although I do have to admit it would be convenient to no longer have to remember to take a pill at the same time every night.

Well I guess I’m going to go and read some, or maybe knit until five. Only an hour and 10 min left before I can go home. Weee!

Tags: family, food, friends, happyears, owies, skool, work
Current Mood: calm
What's Playing?: Billy Joel - All About Soul

Weee tomorrow is Saturday!
:D:D

Today was a long day.
We had to make a dinner for over 90 people and I was on my feet running around the kitchen and cooking for 6 hours.
We made venison stew, tomatoes and red pepper bisque, salad with apple cider vinaigrette, and Adirondack baklava with ice cream for desert.
I gotta say I LOVED it, it’s so awesome! We got tones of compliments. Although I am very tired now.

One thing I didn’t like was the fact that I was the only one doing dishes at the end of the meal and Tony had to tell people to help me.
Although I didn’t mind it too much, I mean I did that kind of stuff for 3 years at the hospital, so I was used to it. Ah well.

While cleaning up I started singing, and the first song that popped into my head was Billy Joel’s “Movin’ Out” one of the older men in the class looked at me and told me I was way too young to be a Billy Joel Fan, he was quite surprised when I told him I had all his CD’s and had gone to his concert when he was in Syracuse about 6-7 years ago. :)

***

My mom is giving me a lot of grief about tomorrow; she’s afraid Oaksong is some kind of freak who is going to abduct me and to all sorts of terrible things to me.
*sigh
I keep telling her I’m a big girl and can take care of myself. And anyways were meeting at the mall…

I’m in a very Moxy Fruvous (to lazy for the umlaut) mood today; I’m switching between Bargainville and Live Noise (I need more of their CD’s) here at work.

I’m very tired; I could lie down on the floor and take a nap if I had a pillow…
Ah well.

Night, night
Zzzz….

Tags: food, friends, happyears, platypus, skool
Current Mood: tired
What's Playing?: Moxy Fruvous - King of Spain

But there it is, so I decided to open my new book When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone. And throw in my Emerald Rose CD.

( Freya, Shakti, Hathor, Rhiannon, Rhea, Maat, the Morrigan )

Tags: happyears, spirituality, vagina, work
Current Mood: chipper
What's Playing?: Emerald Rose -- Freya, Shakti

Searching for music

A while ago an old choir director at my mom's church made a copy of a version of Amazing Grace for me to sing a solo of. I promptly fell in love with the style, as did several members of the congregation. It has a very Gospel like feel (much more so than the original version in the church hymnal.)

Since I have become the church secretary I have been flooded with requests to sing the solo again. Unfortunately the old choir director took the music with her when she left.
Luckily it was a very crappy copy and I had taken down some info so I could look for a legal copy for the church.

If anybody can help me find this music I will be incredibly happy.
(I may even bake you cookies if you help me get me hands on a copy ;)

I know this isn't all the necessary info (or the best info)
And Google has been no help, (and my local music store can't help) so you guys are my last resort.

Amazing Grace (SATB) Early American Melody
John Newton. Arranged by Lee Turner

Tags: happyears
Current Mood: hopeful

Oh yeah...
Coming at ya...

I'm Addicted to stress
that's the way that i get things done
if I'm not under pressure then i sleep too long
and i hang around like a bum
i think I'm going nowhere and that makes me nervous
everybody's out to get me but i feel all right
everybody's out to get me but i feel all right
everybody's out to get me but i feel all right
Everybody's thinking 'bout me
its the little things that get you
its the little things that get you when you weren't paying attention
its the little things that get you
its the little things that get you when you weren't paying attention

trying to cut down on my caffeine consumption
so when i get up i just have one cup of coffee
and i like to have another cup of coffee with my breakfast
and on the way to work i like to get a cup of coffee
like the kind of cup of coffee that you get with the donuts
but i never get the donut i just have the cup of coffee
and when i get to work i have a cup of coffee
cause i like to have coffee when I'm talking on the phone
but it usually grows cold and i need to get another cup of coffee
and its lunch, and i have an espresso
and when i get back its not morning anymore so i have
a diet cola and another diet cola
but then I'm feeling fine and I'm feeling pretty sharp
and feeling pretty wired and I'm getting things done
but right about two i get this little tiny migraine
it starts behind my eyes and it moves to the back of my neck
and it moves to the bottom of my spine
but it doesn't get there until 5 or 6 o clock
which is the end of the day so I'm fine!
so I'm fine so I'm fine
except when i have to work late when i have to work late
which i usually do

I'm Addicted to stress
that's the way that i get things done
if I'm not under pressure then i sleep too long
and i hang around like a bum
and i think I'm going nowhere and that makes me nervous
everybodies out to get me, but i feel alright
everybodies out to get me, but i feel alright
everybodies out to get me, but i feel alright
everybodies thinking about me!

((talking to trumpet player))
hey, how ya doing...
looking good...
you been working out? yeah i can tell...
alright... see ya later...

i love to work i love to run i love to play real hard
i love to steal little things from the grocery store
like a piece of bubble gum or sometimes i just stick
my thumb in a peach and leave it there
i love to work i love to run i love to water-ski snowboard
jet ski skydive parasail hanglide rollerblade mountainbike
bungee jump well i mean i'd love to do these things if i ever had the time
i love to work i love to work i love to workout after work
i love to spend a little time with this woman I'm seeing
except uh, we never get the time to spend together
so we call each other up and we talk about work
but i think id really love is to get up by myself on a tiny little island
in the middle of the ocean with just me a book and a cellular phone
and a personal computer in case something came up
and i'd eat and i'd drink and i'd run and i'd sleep
and i wouldn't do nothing but swim all day
except i don't know how to do laps in the ocean
where there are sharks! where there are sharks! where there are sharks!
and there's this kind of anemone that sticks in your foot
and the poison goes up to your brain and you die
and sand fleas! sand fleas! yuck!
but actually i think would be really relaxing
just me by myself in the middle of the ocean
and thats what i'd really like to do more than anything else
except i'd probably hate it

I'm Addicted to stress
its the way that i get things done
if I'm not under pressure then i sleep too long
and i hang around like a bum
and i think I'm going nowhere and that makes me nervous...
everybodies out to get me, but i feel alright
everybodies out to get me, but i feel alright
everybodies out to get me, but i feel alright
everybodies thinking about me!

everybodies out to get me, but i feel alright
everybodies out to get me, but i feel alright
everybodies out to get me, but i feel alright
everybodies thinking about me!(x2)

Tags: happyears
Current Mood: ditzy
What's Playing?: Jim's Big Ego - Stress

(Mike)
Edna Million in a drop dead suit
Dutch Pink on a downtown train
Two-dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot
I'm in the corner on the pouring rain
Sixteen men on a dead man's chest
And I've been drinking from a broken cup
Two pairs of pants and a mohair vest
I'm full of bourbon, I can't stand up

(All)
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, children are alone
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, your children are alone

(Mike)
Schiffer broke a bottle on Morgan's head
And I'm stepping from the dead man's tail
Across the line of a full moon's head
And through the bars of a Cuban jail
Bloody fingers on a purple knife
Flamingo drinking from a cocktail glass
I'm on the lawn with someone else's wife
Check the view from up on top of the mast

(All)
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, children are alone
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, your children are alone

(Guitar Solo)

(Mike)
Schiffer broke a bottle on Morgan's head
And I'm stepping from the dead man's tail
Across the line of a full moon's head
And through the bars of a Cuban jail
Bloody fingers on a purple knife
Flamingo drinking from a cocktail glass
I'm on the lawn with someone else's wife
Check the view from up on top of the mast

(All)
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, children are alone
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, your children are alone
(Jian, unclear)
1,2,3,4,5,
(All)
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, children are alone (your children are alone)
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, your children are alone

Tags: happyears, sillyweird
Current Mood: blah
What's Playing?: Moxy Fruvous - Jockey Full of Bourbon

So with a recent update I ended up with a better playing music system on this comp.

And with this new power I am feeling quite musically deprived.

So this is where you come in, and I mean all of you! If you are on my friends list you better be replying to this!

I am requesting that you all give me up to 5 new songs to DL for my listening pleasure.
Remember song title and artist so I can find it easily.

Thanks!
:D

Tags: happyears
Current Mood: curious

{edit} It seems I have exceeded my allowed band width, if you see red x's try back tomorrow. In the mean time I'll be trying to fix this problem. {/edit}

Ok, not that I'm all rested up I can go on and on about the wonderful time I had at Ren Fest w/ Lindsay, Brandon, Monica, Aaron, Chelsy and Mel!

Chelsy and Mel stayed over night at Monica's place and my parents picked them up in the van to go meet everybody in Oswego in the Culkin parking lot, and then we would convoy to Sterling.

But Aaron didn't show, apparently there were some key troubles, so he met us in the park.

As soon as we got there it started raining! But it wasn't that bad, we wandered around for a little but looking for Aaron. Then we decided that Lindsay and Brandon and I would save a place for everybody at the jousting field while they went to search for Aaron some more.

So we got some cinnamon roasted nuts (YUM!) and waited.
Lindsay ( petted the pretty horseys ) who loved all the attention and then we sat down and waited. The rest showed up just in time for the equestrian show. ( Aaron wore his kilt! ) It was a lot of fun, they scared the crap out of a little kid and did some ( neato stunts )

After the show we wandered a around a bit and then Lindsay got distracted ( by a neato instrument ) so we all decided to split up and meet back at the ( Well wench show ) at one. It was a funny show. Then afterwards we wandered a little more, and then decided to head for the hey nunny nunny show, but first Mel wanted to get a cool ( Henna tattoo ) and after that we went through the really confusing ( maze ) I got lost a lot but so did everyone else, it was a lot of fun!

Then it was off to more shows, we wanted to see the ( Hey Nunny Nunny show ) so we headed over that way, but before we got there we were interrupted by the parade! It was really neat. We got to the stage a little early, so we listened to the ( Empty Hats ) they played some really funny Irish songs.

It was getting pretty late by then and we hadn't seen Don Juan and Miguel yet, so we headed that way to meet my parents and watch ( The Weird Show ) and it was hilarious, I was having trouble standing I was laughing so hard! :D

After that we headed home, 'cus it was getting late and we were all tired.

Here are ( A bunch of cool costumes and people we saw during the day )


and Here's one more, ( a pic of all of us ) we had a great time!

Tags: critters, extrovert, family, food, friends, glamour, happyears, outside, peektures, ren fest
Current Mood: chipper

Yesterday we had a great day, it was the first day in a while that Monica and I actually hung out together. Monica, her friend Jeri and I walked to the farmers market, then the library, and then we decided to head to Momo's friend Amber's appt. But then we remembered that Amber was at work, so we headed back to the farmers market, then we decided to go eat at the Palace Diner since we haven't eaten there before, it was nice. After lunch Momo and I went to Severance Photos to pick up some pics of mine and Jeri went to get her clarinet at the music place. Jeri met us at Severance and Momo got distracted by the Second Look book store so we HAD to go in ;) and of course I can never leave that place without buying something. :P (I got a VHS and a DVD, Signs and Carnivore which looks like a nice cheesy horror) after that we walked back through the farmers market and home after picking up something for the doggies.

Then later that day Monica and I drove up to Clayton to walk around and look at stuff, it is really pretty, the islands are so beautiful, and I had fun looking around this one store with all these local paintings, and books about the islands. Super cool. I think I want to get one of the books that had all sorts of photographs of the islands and of boats on the water, it looked really nice. I took a few pictures of the water and the islands and the front of this one house that had (fake) marble lions out front. I want lions out front of my house! All I have are terra cotta frogs... :P

Then today was interesting, Monica had gotten a call from Gertrude Hawke (the new chocolate store that will be opening up in our mall) we had both filled out applications for it and turned them in at the same time, but only Monica got called in for the open interview (I think the lady who took the apps. must have misplaced mine or something) but the ladies doing the interview were very nice and let me fill out another application and the manager took a look at it, she seemed kind of excited that I knew sign language, that's a plus, but she didn't ask me nearly as much as the lady who interviewed Monica :: nervous :: the manager said she would have to call my references and would get back to me by Monday. :: crosses fingers and hopes ::

After the interviews Monica and I walked over to FYE, Monica was looking for a Moxy Früvous CD (they rock! I think it's because they're Canadian) and while there I saw the Witches of Eastwick on the bargain table and HAD to get it! We didn't find the CD there, but Borders had It so its all cool. Monica you better let me burn it; I need my Moxy Früvous fix!

In other good news dad got the drain fixed so we can do laundry at home again! YAY! :D

Tags: bookworm, family, food, friends, happyears, outside, tv, work
Current Mood: cheerful

( Moxy Früvous : My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors )

Tags: bookworm, happyears, sillyweird
Current Mood: silly
What's Playing?: Moxy Früvous - My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors

Fast food feels fuzzy
Cause it's made from stuff that's scuzzy
I always thought I was such a nerd, I refused to touch that strange bean curd
I wouldn't eat it, WOW!
But it ate you!

Aeeoo, killer tofu
Ooeeoo, killer tofu

I eat my sugar cereal
but it makes my teeth bacterial
Eayeeoh
eeayee
If you're feeling kind of cruddy
just stick right by your buddy
and don't eat, t-t-t-t-too much fried food, yeah

(Repeat chorus)

Tags: happyears, tv
Current Mood: silly

I've got a new age girl
(Tell us what she's like)
An environmentalist girl
(Does she ride a bike)
She has crystal necklace
(She spend a lot of cash)
Though her vibes are rather reckless
(She's heading for a crash)
Oh her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcendental wind
And she wonders without knowing where did she begin..

Mary Moon.. she's a vegetarian
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon.. will outlive all the septuagenarians
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Oh, she loves me so
She hates to be alone
She don't eat meat
But she sure like the bone

RAH

You knew she drives a wind car
(How does she like it)
It doesn't get her far
(Why doesn't she bike it)
But it gets her to where she's going to
(I don't know, I don't know, I don't know)
Where that is, I wish I knew
I don't know where she's going
And I don't know where she's been
All I know that loving her has gotta be a sin

(Chorus)

RAH

Mary Moon will you hesitate
Don't segregate your thought from your emotions
I know that devotion isn't way up there

RAH

Mary Moon.. she's a vegetarian
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon.. will outlive all the septuagenarians
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon.. She's an intellectual
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon.. Despite that fact remains quite sexual
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon.. She's the one for me, me, yeah

RAH

Tags: happyears, sillyweird
Current Mood: naughty

yo estaba bien
por un tiempo
volviendo a sonreir
luego anoche te vi
tu mano me toco
y el saludo de tu voz
te hable muy bien
tu sin saber
que he estado llorando
por tu amor
llorando por tu amor
luego de tu adios
senti todo mi dolor
sola y llorando
llorando
no es facil de entender
que al verte otra vez
yo estoy llorando

yo que pense que te olvide
pero es verdad, es la verdad
que te quiero aun mas
mucho mas que ayer
dime tu que puedo hacer
no me quieres ya
y siempre estare
llorando por tu amor
llorando por tu amor
tu amor
se llevo
todo mi corazon
y quedo llorando
llorando
llorando
llorando
llorando
llorando
por tu amor

Tags: glamour, happyears, linguaphile, tv
Current Mood: contemplative
What's Playing?: Llorando

Ok they had two showings this semester; I went to the first half of the first and the last half of the second, with an interlude for work. This is what I thought.

Warning: im brutal.

( Read more... )

Tags: friends, happyears, reviews
Current Mood: thirsty

Tee hee
Pretty, pretty violin music fill the halls....

Lindsay rocks.

Tags: happyears
Current Mood: bouncy
What's Playing?: a minuet for violin

In The End

It starts with one thing
I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, but didn't even know
Wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

One thing, I don't know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try, keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme, to explain in due time
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so (far)
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me (in the end)
You kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

I’ve put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
And for all this
There's only one thing you should know

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

Tags: drama, happyears
What's Playing?: Linkin Park - In The End

its Valentine's Day
happy V-day everybody out there in LJ land

Tags: happyears, holidays