Five Little Lightbulbs

Lightbulb 1:  Grumble.  Mumble.  Woe is me for still having no place all my own in this perpetual house remodel.   Then a brainwave hits and I commandeer one corner of the dining room for my funsterment correspondence haven.  Yay!

Then, TWO brainwaves in one day (I had to have a lie-down later,) for better traffic flow, I take a couple leaves out of the dining table.  We can always bring those and the extra chairs back when needed.
 

Btw, our dining room was a bland old bedroom we converted and opened to the kitchen.  Jim did all the wood-working, tile etc. himself.  You know my creative Jimmy!  Yes, he even made the corner cabinet with his own two hands, he fashioned that scallop thing from a cast he made of an old one we bought in Maine.   

This print I bought in Bermuda inspired the room’s theme. 

And in case you’re wondering - no we don’t have any other pink rooms in our house!  No pink decor at all elsewhere, except for Kelly’s room.

Lightbulb 2:  I make a note to buy an attractive basket or box to hold supplies for my new treasure corner.  Later I spy the perfect box on a book shelf – one I bought full of stationery 15 years ago. 

Lightbulb 3: I yearn to upgrade to a better camera such as the Canon below. Imagine Jannie with a decent camera?  Wicked!

As I wonder how to justify such a non-necessity, yet another miracle of brainwave seizes me.   That gently-used stuff I’ve been meaning to sell on eBay — that’ll give me plenty of guilt-free cash for a new camera, and then some!  Maybe enough to buy new sparkles for my kilt.

Lightbulb 4:  How I can possibly stretch dinner for 3 into dinner for 5?  (Hubby forgot to mention guests were coming.)  But by adding more lettuce and croutons to the salad, cooking extra potatoes and slicing the salmon smaller, we have plenty - with some to spare.  Plus, the guests brought cake and wine – my kind of guests!

(the gymnast at four.  this photo enlarges.)

Lightbulb 5:  Kelly informs me 5 minutes before we leave for VBS (Vacation Bible School) that it’s “Jersey Day” and she’s to wear a sports team shirt, which we don’t have.  Then it dawns on me that the emblazoned gymnastics tee she got at camp last week could work.  After all, gymnastics is an Olympic team sport, right?!  She goes for the idea.  (Whew, slid that one past her.) 

Friends, it appears I already have what I think I need or want.  How ’bout you?  You lucky that way?

Guess where I am today?!

Paris? Nope.

Rome? Nope.

Honolulu? Nope.

Sydney? Nope.

Bermuda? Nope.

But I’m someplace almost as good!  I’m over at Blogging Without A Blog —  your blogging classrooom on the web, in a little guest-post rap.  So y’all hop on over there to feel your little Jannie’s bloggng luv.     

And Friends, something else really exciting is happening TODAY — Caitlyn is Getting Married!!!  Yes, our own sweet blogging bud, Caity.  Go, Caity & Josh!

xo

10 Great Mysteries of the Universe

photo credit: images buy costumes

Friends, I’m not really looking for answers to these, they’re mostly rhetorical.  Still, if you do have tips for me on any of these, I’ll more than welcome them.

1.  Why, in a house with mostly tiled floors, do the dogs and cat pick the one room with carpet to do all their barfing in?

2.  Why when I tussle with my hair-do does it always looks like a hair “don’t” but when I style it quickly with abandoned nonchalance, it comes out great?

3.  Why can’t I ever remember to put the sunscreen on my forearms BEFORE I put on my sports bra?  [as I usually get the sunscreen on my bra.]

4.  Why does my dear husband insist on saving his beat-up old wallet and briefcase after he’s bought new ones?

5.  Why in my 20s would I not leave the house without complete casual chic attire — but now, if I find a clean t-shirt and somewhat acceptably-fitting pants, am I dressed to the nines for the day?  (And what are “the nines” anyway?)

6.  Why, further to #5 and general personal upkeep, do I usually look either like Cousin Itt or like something Talon’s cat dragged in?

7.  Why did I think a giant margarita and some dark chocolate might magically alleviate my allergy symptoms?

8.  Why do leftover Cheerios in milk start to smell like cooked chicken after a while?  I’m serious!  Have you noticed that too?

9.  Why as I get older do I feel younger?  And happier?

10.  Why did I pick the exact 2-second window the mailman was strolling up the walkway to walk past the front door naked?

Funny SEO Keyword Searches, 3

photo credit: deefilly

Friends, more things people actually typed to land themselves here.

1: Bras

– elf flinging bra
– four leaf clover bra
– secretary must never wear a bra
– bra appreciation
– fitting men for bras
– bra cookies come out  (Yeah, I can totally relate!  And cake is even worse, especially the heavily-frosted kind.)
– lost bra poem  (Anyone inspired to write one?)
– boob sock (this category, right?)
– bras of the world

2:  Bords

– jump on a bord and make people fly
– i don’t know what to do because i am bord (Hey, that person learned to spell here!)
– fly like a bord

3: Hipwaders / Butts

– how to dress under hip waders (same as under a kilt?)
– do doctor take off pant to give the shot to woman in the butt
– naked hipwaders
– I love when my wife wears hipwaders
– fishing waders for a guy who wears size 42 pants
– i fell in with my waders video
– indentation buttocks
– powder blue fishing waders (yes, my favorite color too!)

4: Magic / Fuzzy

– pictures of monkeys wearing magic cloths
– crocheting your own fuzzy boots
– magic the pants
– fuzzy poet

5: All Else

– kick um jannie
– eternal smooches
– get freaking drunk
– jannie putter
– kitchie kookie
– bionic clover
– mood of poem to the virgin
– kungfonster
– hated because I have a nice home
– ten most popular places for missing passport to turn up
– I think I’m crazy keep doing funny voices
– caring for a milkcow
– why did orgo iron his four-leaf clover
– ill preparedness
– debbies dacshunds
– disappointed grandmother (Poor Grannie Jannie)
– circus striped pants 36
– first crush julie andrews
– real drunk russian
– allergic to ukulele
– debbie shore in thigh high boots
– girls chainsaws videos
– hanging wedgie dares
– i got talent chainsaw
– woman milking cow videos
– one sad old bunny is reading blogs

i winned! i winned!!

hi, Blue bunny here.  thanks for chusing me for my jannies kommints grabatar.  we gonna has so much funs bogging togedder! 

i is real cute, eh?  foto is from the day my kelly bringed me home.

you has any kuestions about me or my jannie?  i not to shy to tell ALL the sekrits of my jannie, hee-hee.  my jannie is on vakasions in her minde for a few days but if you asks kuestions i wil anser wit my jannies spookie big eye, telling only the real troots – not macaronis and 3-legs goats and stuffs like my jannie makes up for entertanmints.

whoo-freeky-hoo.