ya gotta have heart

i don't know about you, but if i had some extra moolah floating about i would lurve to display this awesome handmade wax anatomical heart in the tiny casa. don't you think it would look awesome somewhere around the sock monkeys and the bert & ernie paintings?

nevermind that i know the artist. when yer good, yer good and my pal over at FinderMaker is pretty amazing. for reals, have you wandered over there to take a looksee? go on, what are you waiting for?

a touch of flu and an ode to yellow shoes

 no, not the swine flu, thank goodness. my flu pales in comparison. perhaps i have wombat flu or possum flu or maybe even the dreaded skunk flu or should i call it mephitis. yes, i have a touch of mephitis. oh wait, but there are no noxious odors involved at least none that i can get a whiff of. sigh. either way, sick is sick and i have a flu so i'm in achy city with chills and overall listlessness. there is a fuzzy brain involved and a general whininess on my part with the intense urge to sleep so that is what i have been doing, sleeping, whining and drinking fluid after fluid after fluid. combine it with the allergies i am having and it's fun times here in the tiny casa. i have five papers to finish, two of which are due this weekend. what some girls do to procrastinate. sheesh.

 enough about the sick. let's talk about those yellow shoes of mine. have i done this already? i have a pair of swonderful yellow mary-janes. they are so swonderful that without fail, i am asked about them every single time i put them on. unless of course i am home alone when i put them on to sing and dance about my wonderful yellow shoes, then, no one comments on them, thank goodness. do you think i would perform that musical in public?

 i first spotted the shoes online in 2005. back them they were only available in black, navy and brown. they were still spiffy enough for me to hyperventilate and twiddle my fingers over buying them. i twiddled because i have odd funky feet. short and wide, they are not unlike barney rubble's save for the high arches. there really aren't a lot of shoes i can actually wear with comfort. why do they offer such an ugly selection in wide anyway? the shoes in black called to me but i waffled. i didn't want to order them online and then have them not fit and then i decided to do it but their system wasn't letting me complete my order and when i went back to it a few days later the shoes were gone. seriously gone. like, into thin air gone. i even called the company and spoke ot a rep there. i gave them the item number and they found no evidence of this shoe ever being in their system. feeling the shoes gods were working against me, i hung up the phone and pined for them. spotting them on a fellow blogger i whined and whined. she got them as a result of me blogging about them and i only wish i listened to my own advice.

 a year passes and i go online again and i spot the shoes, THE shoes and i click on to order them and i swoon. i mean really swoon. looking back at me, not only do they have the shoes but they have them in red...and yellow! red and yellow!and in wide! without a pause, i log in and order them both. only pausing to consider getting two pair of each.

 when the shoes arrive, i drop everything, and i mean drop everything, i think scissors fell to the floor and i can even point out the dent they made. i rush to the door, armed with an exacto and rip open that box. the whole time i am mumbling, "please fit me, please fit me!" amongst a mountain of tissue and packing peanuts i pull them on with a gasp and gleefully dance aroudn the tiny casa. they are a smidge tight width-wise but they will stretch, by golly they WILL stretch. i can can around the house, a beginning to my yellow shoe musical and i swoop to the computer to order another pair and they are no where to be found, gone, poof, like they never existed.


so, my friends, that is the story of my yellow shoes which i also have in red. i got them online in 2006 from a well known american discount shoe store called payless. who would have thought? these were the very last shoes i ever purchased from payless as they no longer carry the great variety of wide widths that they used to, shame on them. for now, i wear my yellow shoes with music in my walk, usually doris day but sometimes a little annette funicello works her way in.

the week in review: april 20-26

this was a most tiring week. a really good but tiring week! school is almost over, i will be graduating in May and i have papers upon papers to complete. i also have a major case of senioritis. i keep thinking that since i have been thinking of my papers non-stop that they are already written but really, they are not. eeps! i need to collect all my notes and notebooks and books and stuff and i have once again, come down with some sort of ick. more than a cold but less than the stellar ick za and ander had. knock on wood. i feel like i did at Christmas. maybe i have caught what the bluejay. has. either way, sick sucks especially when you cannot lounge about on the sofa sleeping the ick away. instead i will be immersed in unhappy topics full of oppression and power and overall ignorance. i can't wait till it is over.

last week was full of school with a couple of visits thrown in. the weekend was spent on a mini road trip that covered more than five hundred miles there and back. the mister and i went to Manzanar and spent the night in the tiny town of Lone Pine. after waking up at 5am, we traipsed about the Alabama Hills, drove up to the end of Mt. Whitney Portal, got blasted by wind, and tickled by cold snowy air until we hightailed it down to the funky rock formations along movie road and back on the highway to Red Rock Canyon. just typing that out has made me tired!

happy EARTH day!

there's so much i would like to write but for now i think i will leave you with a picture and power off this machine here. happy day my friends. may you reflect on your actions and know that every little bit counts!

the week in review: april 13-19

most of the week was spent working on school projects. writing, writing, writing. reading, reading, reading and the making of my very first art journal! go me! the weekend was spent all day in class with a saturday night finale of chaperoning the ander boy's eighth birthday slumber party extravaganza, which included a bouncy house, robot making, popcorn eating, pillow fighting, glow stick wearing, pizza making and then of course, staying up until 2am. after three hours of groggy sloggy sleep, i went back to class to learn how to graffiti my name, present my journal and hang out in a stranger's garden. what a splendid week it was! this week is more reading and writing and all that jazz and hopefully hiding out from this crazy, CRAZY heat! have a great week everyone!

missing out on the wildflowers

we went on a mini camping trip this Easter weekend to Carrizo Plain. Carrizo Plain is famous for it's wildflowers and wouldn't you know, we missed them by a week or so. sure, there were a few here and there with small patches of happy colors to photograph but the promise of fields and fields of flowers was gone.instead, we trekked out to a spiritual rock to look at pictographs, ate lunch on a plain, hunted for owl's clover, mined a hillside for pretty rocks and set up camp.we brought the april bed to the auto-a-go-go, cooked hot dogs on the fire, noodled around with the ukes and discovered the joys of s'mores made from matzoh.after a dark, dark star filled sky lulled us to sleep, we awoke to hot granola, matzoh pancakes and the packing up of camp. on the drive home, we did of course, jump in a field, snap pictures of cows, oak trees, and wildflowers and stop off for a visit with the family-a-go-go.next trip, we're hoping to go for a bit longer than an overnight. anyone want to come watch the garden and the witch-baby for us?