Can it really be
20 years ago tonight
we first walked along
the shore road together?
Can it really be
16 years ago I ran up the hill
to take this picture of the house
that changed us forever?
Can it really be
almost 9 years ago
our little angel came crying
and laughing into this world?
Can it really be
20 years ago tonight
you became my guy and
lucky me became your girl?
Well, look at the calendar – it WAS 20 years ago tonight! Happy first-date anniversary, Baby!
Whoo-hoo — TWENTY years!!!
And dear readers… someday I’ll show you more pix of the little house in Mahone Bay we remodeled, added onto and sold. (1994 photo above shows it after additions, but before finishing touches.) [edit: we were living in Texas and doing up the house in Canada mostly from afar, with one carpenter working on it.]
What my success with HTML coding
has taught me thus far is I could probably
still be a brain surgeon or an astronaut
or an equestrienne or a master boat builder,
or a Michelangelo of childrens’ face painting.
HTML code — I am so whooping your butt!
(end of deep and enigmatic poem)
If you or someone you love is a poet, please feel free to hop on board Jingle’s Thursday Poetry Rally train. It’s a blast!
Yes, it’s still Wednesday here as I post this, but it’s Thursday in Australia.
And Australia rocks! Can’t wait for my maiden voyage there.
How ’bout you? Have any experience whooping the butt of HTML code?
Posted with love,
by Jannie
xoxoxoo
P.S. Kelly’s face was painted by a gal who does that kind of stuff for a living.
1. Painted a set of window shutters. And did a fairly nice job!
2. Sorted and Completely Organized 3 of my 27 boxes of papers and stuff.
3. Moved all my Blue Bunny headers to a new folder named (surprisingly) “BB-Headers.”
4. Moved all my background designs to a new folder named (imaginatively) ”Backgrounds.”
5. Moved all BB’s props to a new folder called (surprisingly and imaginatively) “BB-Props.”
5. Thought about cleaning the fish tank.
6. Thought about mopping the floors.
7. Thought about organizing the clothes closets.
8. Did the dishes 4 whole times in the past week!!
9. Booked some studio time for next month to start laying down tracks for my new tunes.
10. Printed out the above and other photos of Austin, his sister Alyssa and a certain young girl named Kelly, and mailed them to Aunt Sue who lives in Toronto. (Guess who Jannie Sue is named for?) Auntie doesn’t do Internet, so it was a good feeling to help catch her up on her great-nieces and great-nephew.
Hard to believe that last week the above corner looked like this…
And hard to believe (for me anyway,) how that corner has morphed since 1997 when it looked like this…
And uncropped…
Jim built the room with his own two hands, as many of you know.
Then we remodeled it.
He built 3 closets last year, in anticipation of it one day being the master bedroom.
(I’ll show you the whole updated room when I get my better camera, the iPhone can be so finicky with lighting.)
I got lucky with the light in this photo…
(Yes, that’s the exact same photo as the first one in this post. Just saving you some scrolling time. )
(Those are Kelly’s nunchucks hanging from the closet door handles, in case you were wondering.)
(And that’s her guitar in the corner.)
Anyway…
I was SO grateful when a brainwave recently hit on how to hide that jumble of cables, modems, chargers and such. The ugly cords had been hidden behind a sofa before Jim built the closet last year. But the sofa’s too big for that spot now.
What, oh what, was a Jannie to do?
Remember last year when I felt all awesome because I’d transformed one corner of our dining room into a little oasis for myself…?
Well… life being life — in just 13 short months, my little dining room oasis had, as of last week, evolved into a bit of an unwieldly mass…
Time for a revamp anyway!
So…
I nipped the table, moved it to where the tv and Internet come into the house, put the table cloth back on, and voila — cords all hidden. Whoo-hoo!!!
I think it’s a cute little spot now.
And I think I should show you that “after” shot one-more-once. Third time’s always utterly more charming.
Kitty LOVES it, as you can see.
Next tidying project — the dining room. 20 boxes and bags of treasures there to sort — I kid thee not!
(And funny – but I’ve noticed my tidying / decorating goes much faster when I get my nose out of the computer.)
Posted with Love, by Jannie,
xoxoxo
But wait — two more life updates before I let you go…
1.) In songwriting… I’ve settled on some pretty, simple guitar work to go with my new “Sail A Child” and I’m so happy — one part of the guitar reminds me a bit of the Zepplin’s ”Goin’ To California.”
1.) Our Broken Arm Girl had her follow-up X-Ray yesterday and got the go-ahead to resume gymnastics and Kung Fu! Whoo-hoo!!! Just no backyard trampolines until after January 20th when she gets her next X-Ray.
xoxoxo (again)
Oh, and I put all pix in this post as JPegs, and not PNGs, so hopefully they managed to load a bit faster for a few of you who mentioned my new big photos were taking a while to open?
I call that “Golden at The Blanton,” 3 summers ago.
Above her are bones. I forget what kind. But as I recall, they’re real.
And below her are 1,000,000 pennies.
I kid thee not!
Anyway, I think it’s a neat shot I took with my old Kodak Easyshare, and I imagine I used no flash. There are zero photo effects on it.
Now, about those 2 give-away polls…
…because I have some excellent-used stuff just lying around our (smoke-free, love-filled, mostly-unchaotic) home to possibly bring someone else pleasure, your votes might help me decide what to do with some of it. And maybe even land you a Jannie letter on beautiful stationery with gorgeous stamps and hopefully relatively neat hand-writing. Whoo-hoo!
Thanks!
Jannie
xoxoxoxoxox
P.S. Thanks for your nice comments on my post yesterday when I was worrying if I was a weird freak. You all made me feel so much better about being me.
