18 More Amazing Things I’ve Done Lately

1. Charged my video camera.

2. Cut up 33 paper shopping bags to use as wrapping for books I’ll be mailing eventually.

3. E-Mailed my interview answers to wonderful Lori.

4. Got my Friday 55 all ready for this week — a 55 not only FOR – but ABOUT the G-Man, whoo-hoo! (Oooo, the intrigue.) [Edit, the G-Man posts his 55 on Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. MICHIGAN time!]

5. Fed The Child at least a couple, often three times, daily.

6. Had The Child take a bath.

7. Took The Child to the Lake a few times. (We live not far from the park pictured above.)

8. Took The Child back to Kung Fu and Gymnastics, first time since what happened to her arm on May 1st.

9. Worked a few hours at Jim’s office. I shall rejoin him there one or two afternoons a week, as in the Olden Daze.  (I actually worked with him full-time before The Child arrived – if you can call zipping out for 3-hour tuna-melt coffee lunches to sit and write songs and poems working fulltime…)  (Sleeping with Being married to the boss does have its perks!)

10. Was off Internet for a whole 3 hours in a row. While I was awake!!

11. Finally chucked my duct-taped $1 flipflops in the trash.

12. Followed a bunch of gals on BlogFrog – and many are following back — whoo-hoo!  Now what?

13. Tweeted once.  Maybe twice!

14. Sat with metronome and guitar.  Think 130 beats per minute is it for “Sail A Child.”  (And you thought it would be a draggy tune!)  

15. Ran into Ryan at Kalyani’s moving day this past Sunday and he’ll be in the recording studio with me in a couple weeks! Piano on “Sail A Child” would be beautiful, especially Ryan’s piano.  That guy is a musical gift to the world!

16. Dabbled a bit more on the third verse of “Sail A Child,” trusting a couple lines even more magical than what I had before will soon unfold like silk scarves waving bye from the deck of a yacht bound from New York ’round the globe.

17. Read and commented on a whole dozen or so blogs!!

18. Answered almost all my comments on my last post.  And am looking forward to answering the remaining sweet ones.

 19.  (whoops — 19, not 18.) Finally assembled the 14″ Smokey Joe grill we bought back in February.  Eatin’ steak tonight, Baby!!  And it’s almost ready, whoo-hoo!  So to it!!

And you may NOT comment here unless you tell me at least one amazing thing you’ve done in the past 24 hours — and preferably more than one, because you my friend, are AWESOME, and made of love and light.

Jannie
xoxxox

What Happened One Night In My Attic Studio As I Started Writing A Poem About a Rabbit Playing Tennis

I started writing a poem about a rabbit playing tennis
when suddenly Morgan Freeman and Charlton Heston
and Meryl Streep were taking turns reading my poem
out loud as cherry blossoms began snowing from my
hair onto what had just been my old blue sweatpants,
but were now a pair of purple satin vintage palazzos.

Then autumn leaves began swirling around what mere
moments before had been my chair but was now a gold
and mahogany bicycle sailing me through the dining room
of the Hearst Castle. I blinked and the bike changed into
a gondola being steered by The Pioneer Woman through a
field of California poppies where little mice dressed in ball
caps and togas were dancing jigs and singing “Hey Jude.”

Just when I thought the night couldn’t get any weirder, the
gondola turned back into my chair and I was flung by the
wind to the top of a pine tree overlooking a fancy French
street cafe where people were either throwing pastries at
each other or playing violins made out of recycled canoes.

I blinked again and my chair fell out of the tree and into a
tornado spinning westwards across the ocean and finally
home through my attic window. Boy, was I glad to be back
safe and sound in my little garrett, with Blue Bunny at his
laptop eating apple pie and surfing some tennis gear sites.

Quite a night, eh?  I guess we all have ones like that now and then, right? Or was it all just a dream? Hmn, I do wonder.

Posted with love and such,
Jannie
xoxoxo

P.S.  I have not been surfing blogs lately as much as I’d dearly love to – I’ve been putting my nose to the grindstone on songs.  But know that I am thinking about you all, and missing you!!

(Washington cherry blossoms photo via Wikimedia Commons, user Bossi)