Great News!! And 3-Part Harmony For You

The great news… my FF55 is ready to post next Thursday, 5:55 TEXAS Time!!

Which is the same as Tulsa time, I do believe?  Which I’ve been living on.

Anyway..

I SO wanted to snag YAHTZEEEEEE at G-Man’s yesterday to win fame and glory, but…

that would’ve meant taking an Internet break in the recording studio.

Luckily, I came to my senses and said,

“Jannie, you’re here to sing. So sing!

The 55 will keep another 7 days.”

So I sang.

And the 55 is keeping just fine so far.

While Captain George was mixing, I did pop over to G-Man’s to comment from my iPhone, tho! Good Jannie!!

Sooooooo.

E-MAIL ME with the subject line “Jannie Loves Me” if you want the MP3 from last night’s session.

A WHOLE song! With George’s 3 guitar parts, Michael’s bass and…

Jannie singing to 150,000 peeps.

(That’s what I was picturing in my mind as I sang.)

I was opening for The Rolling Stones.

Wait, no!  THEY were opening for ME.  Yeah, that’s it!

And how cool – my photo of our girl-kitty Mieshka in the late afternoon sun inspired me to share my harmony evolution.

whoooohooooooooo

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OUTRO…

I WILL be answering each and every comment this post, yay!!

And dancing with my parakeets all weekend.

Upon Hearing Karen Carpenter Harmonies In My Head

I think of Karen Carpenter sometimes

as I suppose we all do now and then as

we’re sailing under leaves of the day.

I think how she never sang an off note

yet battled with love and mirror troubles

while I – of sound body, love and mind

(well, much of my mind,)

am still learning to sing.

(But almost there now!)

I am grateful Karen sang.

And grateful for our newly rescued

parakeets I’m still getting to know and

they getting to know us Funster gang.

With Mieshka really wanting to

get to know them very very well.

“Parakeet Watcher,” I call that.

Kelly took it Christmas morning

with her new phone from Santa.

And now, I’ll sit with my good camera

from Mieshka’s sofa vantage point and

show you where our new buddies are…

Then…

get a lot closer… 

I love them so much already!!!

Gonna get them a bigger cage.

And to thicken this poetic plot… many of you know Jim built this room with his own two hands, from framing to trim.

Here he was in 1995…

poem ended ~~~ several diversions back.

Yay, for dVerse Poetry Tuesday Open Link Land!  Wheeeeeee-heeee.

(Top photo of  leaves is a background Kelly got from some app or another.) Pretty!

Take care!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

The Corner Cabinet That Love Built

Hey, Friends! 

On the way back from dropping Kelly at school this morning I bought that nail polish!

This summer I’m sure I’ll get a bottle of red for dramatic flair, but for now l’ll ease my toes softly into spring!

I also bought new mousse, hairspray and…

root goop — the latter which I’m sitting here with on my head as I type this.

So I better type fast! The timer goes off in another 7 minutes.

Luckily all the pix are already in here, just to add a few words.

I bought kitty foods too. He gets half a can of that a day, plus his dry Iams.

Hey, do you guys recognize where the green flowers and clear plastic vase came from??
 

So, that’s how the shelf now looks now, directly above.  

(Yep, no more beauty products or kitty foods on it.)

Kelly painted those 2 plastic fairies when she was 4.

And did the marbly-bead creations at age 6.  Maybe 7.

That’s how the shelf looked several months ago with my iPhone, directly above.

See — I took that ”before” because I KNEW one day I’d finally get My Amazing Camera, which would entice me to tidy.

And photograph.

Which it has!

And next, another “before” –  the upper shelf…

Now see how it looks at this very minute…

Ahhhhhh.

Jim designed and built this dining room corner cabinet himself. 

He did the floor and ceiling too.

The dining room used to be an old bedroom we busted through to the kitchen, c. 1997-1998.

Yes — pix of the construction one day.

Darn, there goes the timer!

Ah, what will another couple minutes matter?

And the whole shebang today…

That cool scallop-shell thing on top Jim made with plaster of Paris, from a mold of an old shell we got at an antique store in Maine in 1991.

Friends, I am liking the quality of this new camera, even tho I still don’t really know how to work it!!

And I bet Jim and Kelly will like this new-found tidying streak in me!!

He’ll wonder why he waited so long to get me the camera!

Now… to that hair goop rinsing.

I wanna sing you guys one of my new songs on video soon, so I must look my best.

Posted with love, by me, Jannie

And BB sends love too.  He’s still busy selling his “treets” up at the top of the driveway– made 10 cents already today!!

xoxoxoxoxoxoox

February 8th Is Very Special Because…

it’s Jimmy’s birthday.

He’s the awesome guy I married.

He built that closet.

I think the centerpieces look real nice around it.

Too bad they’ll all be whisked away Saturday to the grand gala.

Oh well, we may buy 1 or 2 of the 30. Plus, I can always make more. I still have plenty of the fixins.

Kelly customized her ornaments. Pretty cute, eh?

But back to the honoree of this post — the guy who built this room in his spare time…

He’s built quite a few rooms here in his spare time.

And remodeled all the others.

Now we’re remodeling the remodel!

Jim’s like, way, waaaay awesome, in case I never mentioned that.

Quite the drywaller, trimmer.  And conversationalist too.

Also a person of EXTREME cuteness, as you can easily see.

Pretty decent framer…

Now…

Some of you might exclaim, ”Ahhhh, Jannie’s so awesome to make her birthday boy such a special post.”

But the the truth is, Jimmy is the awesomer of the two of us, in oh so many ways.

And always will be.

Happy Birthday, Jimmy.

Love, Jannie
xoxooxoxoxoxoxo
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(and many more where those came from!)

A Young Ghoul Orders Salt Water Taffy — a poem

A young ghoul applies her make-up

in the rear-view mirror while perched

on the centre console of Mom’s car.

The young ghoul alternately mans

the Haunted House, bounces, runs,

skips, laughs and cartwheels around

with her friends for 4 hours, while

the mom, altho a freak downpour

had destroyed her fluffy hairdo

during set-up, manages to flit socially,

then enjoy her 1-hour shift at the

food table, eat a bunch of excellent

assorted homemade sugary crap,

2 pieces pepperoni pizza, 8 mini packs

of gluten-free gummy bears and one

raspberry Izze (heavenly) natural soda,

then goes home to wine, a relaxing bath

and hugs with the loving car-dealer hubs,

who actually did pop in for a while at the

carnival, as he does to all school things.

He is a very very good dad and person,

like another good dad and person I know,

who’s a very talented writer, and so witty!

And here is that Jimmy last week, laying

some pine flooring in the house entry…

which looked like this a few months ago…

a house additon he built himself.
 
(See the railing up the stairs now!?? Yep — Jimmy’s been a busy bee.)

(End poem of inspired by photos of Kelly last week at her school carnival, and by thoughts of her awesome dad.)

She wants to be Santa for tonight (if I can find her dress) the one she wore at age 5 in this photo…

(Bought with a cute little matching hat at a post-Christmas sale for $20 when she was 4.)

Bought BIG, and has fit quite a while!

But where is it now?

Somewhere.

If she can’t be Santa tonight, there’s always her vampire plan.

[Edit.  I found the dress!  I found the dress!!  Last place I looked -- with all the Chirstmas stuff!  Whoo-hoo!!!!]

So… lots more photos to come in future happy posts.

If you liked this poem, many ghoul-and-succubus-with-a-twist-of-chocolate-and-cheese stunners can be found often over at my favorite poet’s…

Thank you!

And a very Happy Halloween to all of you — my wonderful blogging guys and ghouls.

xoxo

love, Jannie

P.S. Tuesday (possibly Wednesday) I’ll announce here via a short video who wins The 7th Letter! If you’d like a chance at winning it, I’ll still accept entries until noon Texas (Central U.S.) Time on Tuesday November 2 on that post.

Then…

I’ll climb My Other Wine-Drinking Tree to draw the winning comment from my pink John Deere cap — while singing, of course!!!

Speaking of winners… you 6 CD winners they’re not yet mailed, but will be in the next 2 to 9 days!

And a box of practically new, but mis-matched socks will be sent for Christmas to another awesome dad / blogger / human.

My other wine-drinking tree…

xoxo

(All pix here taken with my iPhone 3GS, except the Christmas dress taken with my old Kodak.)