What a blessing I forgot Kung Fu was canceled yesterday!
That gave us an hour to kill before a birthday party, during which I was treated to a most enchanting concert…
[As I mentioned to Daisy, the volume seems better via headphones, hope you all can hear her fine!]
There’s Kelly at age 5 in our backyard in her Snow White wig.
There’s me zooming in on her face in that same picture.
There’s a map of our backyard.
(Except the summer she was 5 we were still a year away from getting her little swimming pool.)
(And her dad would not begin constructing her tree house for another year and a half – built it with his own two hands, he did – top to bottom.)
There’s the swimming pool… I got it for $300, landed. (Assembled it myself! I mentioned I kick ass on occasion, right?)
There’s the tree house, a shot I took about 2 months ago.
There’s that donut hole photo of Austin I took.
Austin, Texas, that is — where we live.
And guess what?!!??
Another Angel of Delight — Lori of the Jane Be Nimble blog garden, has an interview post about me up – a post with all-new Jannie tidbits, and one that beautifully showcases that entire donut (less a couple bites.)
Hope you’ll join us over there on Lori’s front porch?!
With love from your ever humble blogging servant,
Jannie
xoxoxoxo
There was Kelly helping her dad build the treehouse when she was 6. (She’s almost 9 now!)
P.S. If I’m not posting as often as usual this coming week — don’t worry. I’ll be immersed in any combo of the following…
– going into the recording studio on 2 or 3 of my new songs
– launching my big eBay selling blitz
– catching up on reading your blogs
– answering your lovely comments on this post
– finally mopping those floors!
xoxoxxoxoxxooxoxo
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.
Yes, I’m a weird one
trailing eddies of x’s
and o’s as I flit about,
my comments sometimes
too long, rambling and / or
too Blue Bunnily cavorted,
and / or too frequent or
too infrequent, or just
too dancingly strange.
Yes, I’m weird and change
up my header a lot due to
my new PaintShoPro toy…
but please know I’m harmless,
and always so glad to see you
when you twirl on over here.
Hey, how’s that for a crazy 1-minute poem?
Now let me find a dancingly sweet photo for it.
Ah ha! One I took at the grand opening of Austin’s beautiful Butler Dance Center, when Kelly was 5.
It was a great dance party.
LL Cool Joe must’ve been the DJ – the tunes were so crankingly hot!
(Kelly only lasted 3 months at Ballet Austin because she was more interested in being a comedienne in class, but I did get some cute pix before we quit. And of course, she took tap / ballet at a couple other studios from ages 2 to 4, so there are those pix and videos to cherish forever too.)
No more ballet, yet life has continued! Who knew it ever could or would?!
And below, a little dance party break.
Friends, did you ever “quit” a class or an activity for you or your child? And if so, how did that work out? Was it a learning experience?
And are you weird too? (Feel free to share details of that!)
With love and confections…
Jannie
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxo
Little resentments
will I release to
the leaves of the day.
Little loves will I
set free on the breezes
of beautiful intention.
(end of poem.)
[Edit: I switched the order of photos 1 and 2 on July 6, 2010 at 10:29 a.m. Texas Time because the first one freaked Lynn out and Dr. J. loves the second one!]
Kelly sure was inspired that November afternoon I took her to the Umlauf Sculpture Garden.
She was four.
We’d just come from the song contest awards (I’d won 2, whoo-hoo) and she was jazzed.
She’d run to and pose beside, in, on, around and under more than 30 pieces of art that day, singing out “Mommy, take my picture! Take my picture!!”
I’m glad she did.
And I’m glad I did.
She’s something else, that Kelly girl!
Now that I’ve maxed my photos to 790px wide, yep – 50px wider (couldn’t resist,) I feel very very extrahappy about sharing my favorites with you.
Official new English word — extrahappy!
Your input on my recent photo-size poll helped twist my rubber arm to the 790 pix. 
Thank you.
In other news… sooner than later I’ll explain the plan behind my new “Places I Like To Go…” links on my now 150px wide sidebar (down from 200 px!)
And post a video of me singing a new song I’m writing.
And have some kind of a giveaway.
All sound good?
P.S. All photos in this post, unlike this photo the other day, are 100% unretouched. Umlauf does keep things camera-ready!
xoxxoo
