Bathrooms and Cat!!!

Still slogging through the end of the school year. In the meantime, here are two cool versions of a room that is often neglected:

And one cosmic cat!!!



Happy Wednesday - hope everyone is feeling well!!!

More!!!

More than Prince of Cats.

Curse!!!

Happy 446th B-Day to William Shakespeare!!! It is also, BTW, the same day that he died! For another fun Shakespeare fact, here's what he has written on his tomb:

GOOD FREND FOR JESUS SAKE FORBEARE,
TO DIGG THE DUST ENCLOASED HEARE.
BLESTE BE Ye MAN Yt SPARES THES STONES,
AND CURST BE HE Yt MOVES MY BONES.

Or for those with less Mydle Ynglish:

Good friend for Jesus' sake forbeare,
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.


And they're still there (as far as we know)!

Happy Friday all!!!

Weedy Trophies!!!

In anticipation of the big day tomorrow!!!

There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
Therewith fantastic garlands did she make
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.

Nerds!!!

Still funny, even though it's not in the books.

Cat!!!

Day in the Life!!!

Getting towards the end of the school year & a little busy/wiped out, so less blogging than usual, but I saw this and thought it was pretty funny : ) Hope everyone is doing well!!!



A Day in the Life of President Obama (As Envisioned by a Typical Republican)

From Lewis Grossberger in True/Slant

6:30 AM: Obama awakened by clock radio tuned to NPR’s popular morning drive-time show, Kronsky the Bomb Thrower and His Anarcho-Syndicate Zoo. “You know what would be fun?” Kronsky quips. “Getting the workers to seize the means of production and execute the blood-sucking capitalist bosses!” “If only,” mutters Obama.

7:30 AM: on way to Oval Office, Obama ducks into private chapel, slipping off shoes and prostrating self while facing Mecca. He chants high-pitched, ululating prayer to Allah in foreign tongue then before leaving, bows before busts of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.

7:40 AM: Rahm Emanuel enters Oval Office, gives Obama secret Illuminati handshake, says, “Good morning, Comrade President. The Iranian ambassador is here to discuss his scheme to undermine America’s security.” Obama says, “Show him right in.”

9:05 AM: Snack of sweetened camel milk served with dates, figs, pita and hummus. Then Iranian ambassador exits White House through secret tunnel so Fox News won’t see him.

9:30 AM: House Speaker Pelosi arrives to plot strategy for government takeover of garbage-collection industry. Obama gives her large suitcase full of cash for bribing Congressmen.

10 AM: Editors of New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker arrive to receive weekly instructions.

11 AM: Daily intelligence briefing by CIA and Pentagon officials on activities of America’s enemies. Bored, Obama does crossword puzzle, then dozes off.

Noon: Lunch with leaders of world gay conspiracy, who lobby Obama to appoint a transsexual to Supreme Court.

2 PM: Quiet ceremony in Rose Garden, where elders of Kikuyu tribe give Obama plaque honoring him as first Kenyan to become President of U.S.

3 PM: Latte with key advisers Al Gore, Michael Moore, Rev. Wright, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton, Bill Ayers.

4 PM: Basketball with White House staffers. Obama’s side allowed to win, as usual.

7 PM: Dinner with family, leaders of Acorn.

9 PM: Obama reads a chapter from Das Kapital to Sasha, Malia.

10 PM: In private quarters, Obama, Michelle are so moved watching PBS documentary on suffering of poor widows and children of al Qaeda suicide bombers, they decide to make contribution.

11 PM: Bong hits, then sleep.

Da Vinci!!!

Oops - almost forgot to wish a happy 558th birthday to Leonardo da Vinci!!! Here is his first known painting, The Annunciation. Pretty nice huh? I hope some of our tax money will go to deserving artists!! Almost the weekend everyone : )

Taxes!!!

Kells!!!

Looking forward to this!!

Painting, Painting!!!

Well, LAUSD has spoken, and the Los Angeles school year is officially ending one week earlier as our communities continue to reap the astounding results of Proposition 13. Basically it was a question of cutting 2,100 more jobs or establishing 5 furlough (unpaid) days for all school employees. I believe that this decreases our current deficit to a mere 570 million dollars.



As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the most significant difference between the United States and all of the other nations who are kicking our butts in education is the number of school days in the year, so this is not such a good sign maybe. And of course, in this age of Schwarzenegger, when Warren Buffet has candidly admitted that his secretary pays more in taxes than he does, this will probably become the new norm. After all, who's going to fight to increase the school year again?



It's all pretty depressing.



Although 5 more days of vacation does sound nice...



Bad, bad, bad!!!



Have a wonderful week everyone!!!

Til hamingju med afmaelisdaginn!!!

Phenomenal!!! Thanks again to Eric & everyone!!!

One more!!!

Thanks again for being the repository of my memories Eric!! Too much of that Snow white...

R.I.P.

First buffalo boy go around.

Thanks Aunt Julie and Michelle!

The face says it all. Julie, Thor and Michelle bought Jack this awesome Big Wheel for his birthday. It took a little while to get here, but it was well-worth the wait. Jack became an expert at it in no time and now he zips back and forth on the path in front of our house all the time. Wheeee!

P.S. If you are so inclined, keep reading because we did a lot of catch-up posts today! Love to everyone.

Home Sweet Home

Here are more pictures of the new place. I make fun of it a lot. It's really not that different from our other place. It has the same cottage cheese ceilings, beige carpet and the same cheapo linoleum in the bathroom. It's not luxurious, by any means, but for some reason it feels really right for us. Many other units have come available in our complex since we moved in and we never even really considered any of them, but this one is located right next to Julie's place and the first time I saw it was open, I just kept staring at it. I mentioned it to Patrick and he laughed - I think the last thing either of us wanted to do was move again, but then he walked by it and he had kind of the same feeling that I did. There's just something about this one that feels like our place. We don't really know why, but there it is.

I couldn't really capture the patio for some reason, but it's one of our favorite parts about the new place. It makes everything feel open and light. Eventually, once Patrick works his magic out there, I have a feeling we'll be out there a lot over the Spring and Summer.

Another one of our favorite things about our place is how close it is to Julie and Amy & Jamie. Hi guys! (That's Julie's door through our kitchen window and Amy's patio right beyond it.)

Mostly, I think we just like the light and the airy feeling that this place has. We haven't taken any pictures of the upstairs yet, we're still trying to get everything in the bedrooms together, but we're equally smitten with those rooms, too. It's kind of embarrassing, really. We're kind of having a love affair with our new apartment.

Happy 2nd Birthday Felix!!!

We are woefully behind on our posts, but here are some pictures we took at the perfect birthday party Amy and Jamie threw a few weeks back for our sweet nephew Felix.

This looks like very serious cake preparations to me.

A sweet moment between Patrick and Jack.

And another one between Finn and Felix, awwww! It was a love fest.

Let them eat cake!

Train time!

Congratulations to Jane and Elliot who recently got engaged!

Cutie pies!

More cuteness! I know I can't stand it, either. I have to end this post now. Too many exclamation points flying around, but happy, happy birthday little sweet pea! We love you so.

Birthday!!!

Happy 64th birthday to Bill Kreutzmann!!!! The Grateful Dead had two drummers for most of their history, and Mickey Hart is probably the better known of the two because of his more flamboyant personality, as well as his significant film work (he did most of the music for Apocalypse Now).

But those in the know would claim that Kreutzmann was really the heart of the Dead's wonderful rhythm, and he is a talented jazz and world music player as well. Nothing against Mickey Hart, who added a great deal of color to the Dead's sound, but personally, my favorite period of the Dead's thirty year run was the period in the early 70's when Mickey left the band for personal reasons, and it was just Kreutzmann keeping the beat.

When he's on his own, you can hear just how incredible his playing really is, and I think that he's one of the most underrated of the 60's era rock drummers.

But I would think that : )

Happy birthday Billy!!!

Flyer!!!

Oh man, I had to post this picture of our flyer that our drummer Joel made for the band!!! I hope we play as well as the flyer looks : )

Move!!!

Sorry it's been a while folks, but we've spent nearly all of the last week moving to a new place!! Since we just relocated to another apartment in the same building, it's not quite as exciting as it might be, but we're still really happy with our new pad!

Even though we only moved about 100 yards, it still seemed like a tough move! Maybe it was because we underestimated it, but I came out of the with a strained foot muscle, and various cuts and bruises. Also our Internet and phones were down for about a week and a half, and there's still a ton of stuff to put away!

In other words, we feel incredibly blessed and thankful to be in a wonderful new place! We had a great Easter (pictures later), and are so happy to be even closer to my sister and Julie's places!

Peace & love to everyone.