first post from my iPhone

Just had to try it out. Pretty cool. Mobile blogging :)

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"So let us mark this day with remembrance..."

me - "who's the new president?"
kai - "bak obama"
me - "where does he live?"
kai - "the white house"
me - "who's the vice president?"
kai - "tin man"
me - "no silly, who's the vice president?"
kai - (as waving)"joe bye then"

Happy Inauguration Day!

the skull quilt

3 years ago i decided i would make a quilt for C using a bunch of diffrent skull fabrics that i had collected online and from the fabric store. being pregnant at the time was my first excuse not to start, having a baby was my second excuse, moving was my third so on and so on.... untill finally the other day while digging thru a tote of fabric Kaija Rose began to line up all the diffrent skull fabrics in a row. (a favorite pass time of hers) it just so happened that chris was walking thru and saw the skull fabrics, brining up the 3 year question "where my quilt huh?"
I was fully out of excuses (although now i can think of some) i aggreed to start pressing and cutting if he would keep kai occupied.
i dont know how well he really held up to his end of the bargain but i did get a really good start.
Once Kai was in bed for the night I was able to get my squares sewn into blocks and cut back up again for a disapearing 9. Its all layed out ready to....but i couldn't stand to look at it any longer.

the view from 3,849 feet

Mt. Diablo walnut creek, ca

it was so windy...

...but the sunset was worth it.

it was so peaceful and quiet up there. A great place to work on intergrating my earth and solar energies. I really didnt want to leave but the park closes after sunset. no worries, i will return.

The Gypsy Piper

So,
we got a puppy!

it just sort of happened. Right time, right place, right dog...
a friend of a friend of a friend had puppys (sounds familar im sure)

So the day after christmas, Fer Fer, H, Nonny and I took a trip out to oakland for what I will call "mission puppy" I get to call it "mission puppy" because when you drive from vacaville to concord, spend an hour wandering around a pet store, wait, drive to berkeley, wait, drive to oakland, leave with not 1, not 2 but 3 PUPPIES, drive back to concord, get puked on by puppy, drop your shoe in a gutter, drive from concord to vacaville with a wet shoe, forget bridge toll, get puked on by puppy again it qualifies as a mission!

2 boys and a girl. Cody, Bruder Myrrh and The Gypsy Piper. They are too cute and all the kids love them, which was the point right?

the wonderful wizard of oz

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (ANIME, 1986)

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Oh my, where do I begin... metri! this is all on metri!

a few weeks ago he let us borrow this wizard of oz anime dvd. he had share it with all the coven kids ( none of which were too impressed)

so he suggested kai take it home and check it out... from the moment it started he was HOOKED! I cant even begin to explain to you the obsession that has begun but i will try. This movie was played over and over again thru that first weekend and in the beginning all she could do was stare, jaw open, eyes glued to the t.v. the next week the movie traveled with her to Nana and papas and again to Wendy's. she knows all the characters but her heart lies with the tin man (go figure) she has now choreograph a "dance" for song in the intro. she talks about it in her sleep for goodness sake.

all i could do in the begining was laugh. its a weird story line, unusualy characters (no ruby slippers, or green witch) horrible voices but i wasnt too suprised that she was going to like it. were talking about the little girl that crushed on shrek for a year straight. shes not a princess fairy tale kinda girl. she likes the odd characters; manny from ice age, sully in monsters inc, shrek, the beast ect,...so this ws right up her alley. i just wasnt prepared to memorize the entire script against my own free will.

even worse...its number 1 of 4 parts! and the worse part of all... im ordering the other parts on ebay! not because i wasnna see OH NO but because i cant stand to waatch part 1 any longer! oh yeah and i found them for, get this .01 and 1.00! that ought to explain something :)