Song of the day

Today Pandora is the DJ while I clean the house, cough, cough. Okay I am not killing myself but I did mop the floors. I think maybe I want to play more than one song for you today. I can offer you a cup of tea, a glass of wine, or whatever you have on hand that you really like. We will listen to music together and have a lovely chat. Ready or not.

There is a little game we like to play called worst case scenario (I have a feeling that most military family's play this game at one time or another.) It is not a fun game. What happens if my husband gets deployed for a year, and then gets hit with a short tour to Korea. It would be two years of separation from my favorite person. I say don't worry we own this house. We have friends. We will be okay. It would be the hardest two years ever but we will make it to the other side. He looks at me with those beautiful eyes and my heart hurts a little at the idea but I try not to show it. Because as hard as it is for me to be left waiting I know it is harder for him to be the one who leaves. Although we don't play this game very often it does come up from time to time. It is a way for both of us to reassure each other that we are okay through thick and thin. It the way it is in this life.

 

Frankly sometimes Pandora plays all the right songs sometimes  she cuts like a knife. Have I told you that I love Bon Jovi? Oh I do.  I do. I'll be there for you these five words I swear to you.

 

Tom Petty is here too. Sing along, I know you know the words. Now I am free, free fallin.

 

You see Pandora knows when she has gone too far. Then she plays me The Planets, Suite for Large Orchestra, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity. I love this song. More wine, tea, coffee, anything? So how are you doing? I am already feeling the Jollity.

I think this is a wonderful song. It is starting to lighten up the mood. See we are laughing already. Maybe we we talk about the craziest thing we ever did. For me it was getting married. You see I never really wanted to be married until I did and a month later I was. Then you know I moved across land and sea to be with him.

Now I have to warn you not only am I singing this song because I know it by heart I am dancing. So come one on your feet dance with me friend.

We dancing now! Can you mash potato. Tell me, tell me! I wanna Know.

Well now that I am all out of breath. Thanks for stopping by and visiting with me. I feel so much better.

 

 

I hope you day is filled with inspiration, love, and laughter. Be well friends.

Song of the day

Sometimes Pandora knocks my socks off and I fall in love with a whole new world of music. Today was one of those days so here is a new song for your enjoyment. Sombre Reptiles by Talkdemonic. Why do people have to chose such crazy names for their bands? They are from Portland Oregon, not that it matters but I do get excited when I like something from my home state. I can pretend I am there again, except not at all. This group is a little odd but I really enjoyed listening to them.

Sombre Reptiles

 

Mountiantops in Caves

 

Oh wait this song is stuck in my head. You are welcome!

I hope your day is filled with inspiration, love, and laughter. Be well my friends.

The radio is on

You know what I miss? The song of the day. So today is for music. I have the radio on, and a wooden spoon (for my microphone you can  use a brush if you like) ready. Today my friends I am feeling a little bit country. Let's start with a little red wine don't worry we won't run out tonight.

You and tequila make me crazy, One more is never enough (oh, yeah with a twang)

 

Hey girl, hey where are you going? Come back and sit back down. We could drink on it and sing a little louder!

 

Oh, this is my song. Okay not really but come on how can you not love Blake Shelton?

 

Hillbilly Bone. I think this video is hilarious. Watch it twice. I love that Blake is drinking straight out of the wine bottle.

 

This is when I tell you how much I love this song!

He's Mine. That one (I'll point at James or Damian) Got a wild-hair side and then some and it's no surprise what he's done.

 

 

Running through the backwood bare. Seriously we have not drank nearly enough yet.

 

I put put a spell on you because your mine. Oh dear I still get goosebumps when I hear that guitar solo in the middle of the song. The drums are so memerizing. I am swaying with my hands in the air. Oh yes I am singing and I point to you. I put spell on you

 

Someone told me long ago there's a calm before the storm. I know it's been coming for some time.

 

Okay I think I got lost on Youtube. I forgot how much I liked these songs!

 

I can be current. Oh, wait that's not country.I have no idea what the video has to do with the song. I still love it.  I'm at payphone trying to phone home.

 

Since I found Maroon 5 I had to post my husband favorite video from them. (Cause I love him!)

Oh yeah, So scared of breaking it you won't let it bend.

 

 

The truth is I have no idea what song to end on. . .

 

Oh wait. Somewhere over the rainbow. Sweet dream Friends!

 

I hope that your day is filled with love and laughter. Be well my friends.

Dreams. . .

I recently read Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua. After I finished the book I started to evaluate the idea of dreams, dreams for myself, dreams for my children, and dreams of the future. When I had children I knew I would support their dreams and do everything that I could to help them to come true. The book made me ask the question (to me) is my dreams big enough for them? Should I be doing more to help them succeed in life? In the book Amy Chua has her children practice piano up to five hours a day, plus learning Mandarin, and doing extra work to stay ahead of their peers at school. I cannot afford to give the boys private lessons in various things, this is the down fall of staying home with the kids there is never extra money. Seriously I could push Damian to do more work to at home we could get through the curriculum faster, should he be practicing piano more than thirty minutes a day? Should I want him to be the best at piano and aim to get him to a stage instead of thinking of it as a beautiful hobby? I wanted the kids to have a teacher outside of me that they could impress with their practicing. Now I have added to my guilt pile because I needed more guilt.

James is still working on learning the alphabet and I am sure that I should be pushing him more. Damian could read when he was four. Then they are different kids and I am a different mother than I was with Damian. Should we push our children to excel? How do you choose what they are going to excel in? This parenting gig is stressful!

In retrospect I knew when I was Damian's age what I wanted to do when I grew up. I wanted to write for a living. I knew it then and I know it now. Sometimes when I see successful people who are younger than I am I struggle with myself (the inner demons only I can hear mocking me).  I am working on an English Degree which allows me to read things I haven't read, and more importantly it allows me to write and improve. I gain confidence in myself and I know one very important thing about life: It Is Never Too Late. People start late all the time the important thing is that we start. My major question is "Are my dreams big enough?" My answer as all ways is, "I do not know?"

How about some songs about big dreams

I know your surpised by Juke Box hero. I love it...

I am just beginning, Pen's in my hand.

Gotta find me a future move outta my way. I want it all

I gotta follow that dream where ever that dream leads me

You can stand me up at the gates of Hell but I won't back down

Who doesn't love Tom Petty and The Heart breakers?

I'm on my way to what I want from this world

I'll do my best to do the best I can

Last one I totally swear

The Lyrics on this video sing along with me...

I can go the distance

I hope that you are having a wonderful day filled with love and laughter. Be well Friends. 

Three gifts White

Day one of the Joy Dare: Three Gifts White

This is the sun shining through my white curtian in the living room.

I love this picture. I love it when my roses are in bloom.

I feel like I have put Christ on the back burner. When I was taking a picture of this little flower, still smiling despite the heat, I liked that my crucifix is out of focus. It is a reminder that I need to bring HIM into focus.

I know it is only three gifts but today I found four. Anything is possible.

I also want to include a song that has been making smile all week.

So this came up in my youtube search and I thought was cute.

Here is the real song!

Put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up.

I hope you find a reason to smile and find thanks today and that is filled with love and laughter. Be well my Friends.

Bright hair ideas

I have long hair not overly gross long hair but it does come to the middle of my back. My husband asked me to grow it out because he loves long hair. Now I am ready to change it but I want to wait to cut it until I have enough to donate like 12+ inches. What is a girl to do? I mostly wear pony tails, bulky hair clips, and braids. Then I got an idea, a truly bright idea, a awful horrible idea. Remember when I said I wanted Farrah hair from the 70's? Well I went out and . . .

I bought curlers. This is only the second time I have rolled my hair. I think it looks both hilarious and wonderful. I think it is the possibility of perfectly wavy hair. Did you know that most people use like a can of hair spray to roll their hair? I did not and most likely will not use hair spray. I just want to try it out and see if it looks different.

I have to admit I spent hours watching YouTube trying to figure out how to use these rollers. I got lost on some vintage hair and make up which is cool. At some point I am watching this girl put on make up and it occurred to me that I don't wear make up. Did you know that a pin roll is a curl hot from the curling iron pinned to your hair unrolled until it is cooled? That seems to be an insane amount of work. Because I have long hair and half of it is really thick it takes forever for my hair to dry. So I water the yard, do a little dance, drink some coffee, make food, do dishes, wait, wait, and then blow dry in a desperate last ditch move. So while we wait let's listen to some music.

Take a bottle, shake it up, Break the bubble, break it up Pour some sugar on me. Oh Yeah!

Let's dance put on your red shoes and dance the blues, Let's dance to the song they're playin' on the radio

Everyone Wang Chung (I am not even sure what that is but it sounds fun)

I just think this song is just cool.

It takes forever to dry my hair! So I finally grabbed my blow dryer and tried to dry my hair a little faster. Then I unrolled slightly damp hair.

So I still have super long straight hair. Oh wait plus a new random crimp at the top of my head which is why my hair is parted like this. At somethings I am totally helpless. Maybe the third time will be a the charm. Besides practice makes perfect right? Any ideas on what would make this easier? For the record I prefer the picture with the hair curlers in the above picture.

I hope you have a wonderful day filled with Love and laughter. Be well my friends.

Song of the day

Today I went off and talked to my favorite farmers collecting about 15 yellow tomatoes for a Honeyed-Yellow Tomato Butter. Yeah I am not sure what it is either but it is in my handy canning recipe book and tomatoes are in season so I say, "Why not." I should bring Becky the farmer some if it is any good. I also picked up my super fresh eggs. Now you may be thinking I would pick a farming song and well you would be mostly right as of this very moment.

I know you are tapping your knee as you tap your foot. Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.

The true is I really wanted a different song to be the song of the day so if you would kindly stand up. Trust me your going to want to

I saw him dancin' there by the record machine
I knew he must a been about seventeen
The beat was goin' strong
Playin' my favorite song
An' I could tell it wouldn't be long
Till he was with me, yeah me
And I could tell it wouldn't be long
Till he was with me, yeah me, singin'

I love rock n' roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock n' roll
So come and take your time and dance with me

Ow!

You know I am singing along. Be glad that you can't hear me.

I hope you are having a rockin day filled with love and laughter. Be well Friends.

Slinky on the edge

Today I watched a video of a slinky...

It is memorizing will it fall off? Look at that incredible save. Then I start singing

Oops. I think I am showing my true colors.

So did you watch all three minutes of the slinky video? It is crazy, I forgot how much fun slinky are. Then I remember the self destructive Slinky's that I had as a child. They always got tangled and twisted and laughed that evil laugh when I tried to save it from itself. Not cool evil slinky! I should get a slinky for the kids but every time I see one looking innocent on the store self I remember that horrible laugh. It is haunting. What if we get the evil slinky terrible cousin with pretty red hair? I am scared.

I hope that you have a lovely day filled with love and laughter. Be well my friends.

New thoughts on old ideas

I am sure you noticed that I stopped doing the photo of the day. I ran out of steam on day 23 which was technology, day 24 something new and so on. I just did not find the creativity in these days plus I miss updating about my garden, crafts, cooking and schooling. The picture of the day is fun but it gets to be a little overwhelming towards the end. So I think I will lay off trying to be so consistent  on one single topic. This month I have found my love all thing homemade including ketchup, and crackers. I have made two sets of matching hats and scarves with at least one more coming in the next week. I starting making a log cabin quilt for a dear friend's children (one is still cooking. So I am waiting to get the news on where to add pink or add monsters). Honestly I want to try and focus on me, me, me. Well on the things that I am interested in. I want to be able to give you new ideas to try out or just share my new ideas. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed taking pictures and I had some fun working on the picture of the day. I just feel like it is time to move on. I hope you will continue to read along on this crazy jumble of words and thoughts that I call life. I enjoy sharing the pieces of me with you friends.

Today I am planing a BBQ to celebrate Memorial Day hamburgers, macaroni salad / pasta salad, baked beans, grilled corn salad, and a blackberry cobbler. I am just waiting on some replies to my guests. I found some flavored water that sounds yummy, and just now I want a lemon drop martini in a mason jar. Summer is coming which is always exciting but now that I live near the sun (I mean south Texas) summer takes on a whole new meaning of heat. Fortunately for us the pool is finally open so we all will be getting more exercise by way of walking to and from the pool in the mornings.

Here are a couple of summer songs to get you in the mood.

What is better then John Travolta? Well as long as you don't read the tabloids . . .

Hello Kieth Urban. "We should be together. . . Singing along with the radio."

You know you love to slow down for a minute and slow dance with your partner or child.

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend filled with love, laughter, and music. Be well my friends.

By The Dashboard Light

Everyday I have been posting for the photo challenge but I wanted to do something different. If you don't mind taking a little ride straight down the rabbit hole with me here are my song choices for you.

The truth is that this video made me laugh and the crazier it got I was happy to dance until I was hungry. . .

It's Meat Loaf y'all! I love the '70's in fact I am thinking of teasing and feathering my hair. I know I will look like Farrah or Meat loaf or some weird combination.

Baby you can drive my car, but I get to pick the radio station. Beep beep beep Yeah! It could be a fun trip to no where.

You know I would turn the music up and sing along. You may try to tune me out but I am perstint and soon you'll be screaming along with me "Juke Box Hero with stars in eyes." Sing out, you know you want to dance and bang your head. It looks cooler then what it feels like. . .

I know you thought I would throw Hot blooded in here on the road trip. Sometimes I just want to slow it down after all of that wild screaming.

I swear this is the last Foriegner song. Well today. Ever feel like you are in the wrong decade? " It's you and me baby. Head games"

I don't know how we got here but I am having fun in the 70's flash back. Lean back friend and let the music take you away.You know I never knew how long this song was. You can totally live a whole life in this one crazy song...

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair...

We are getting close to our destantion. I know it's tempting to throw me out of the car so you can listen to the sounds of silence but I am holding on and you know I have no shame. It is a gift.

I know this how your feeling right about now.

Sometimes you have to speak up and tell me to stop.

This one is for you. Cause I love you. You are free to go.

I hope you have a sweet day filled with love and laughter. Be well my friends.

Song of the day

So today I was searching google for vintage bathing suits which fortunately for me are in fashion. I found http://www.modcloth.com/ and fell in love. Oh if I had unlimited funds . . .

So anyways after awhile a song came flittering into my head and stuck.

The truth is I found a bathing suit at JCpenny for half the price of any cool ones I found online. It still has a vintage feel and a good cut now all I have to do is to muster up the courage to go and buy it. But I have to try it on. Then I will see, well the utter lack of exercise I do. I am biting my lip and thinking about sit-ups and homemade marshmallows. Maybe I should start running again. Next year will be a hot body year. I hope.

I hope you are having a wonderful day filled with love and laughter. Be well my friends.

6. you

Photo of the day for the Month of May

Day 6

A picture of you or rather me because well it is easier for me to take a self portrait than to get a wonderful picture of you.

Today I went out and tried to take a good picture of myself with the self timer button. Here is what I got . . .

So this is me, No I am not that grumpy.

Hey what do you do with your feet? Not this.

Looking down, with no expression, straight legs.

I like this one even if I am blurry. Well maybe because I am slightly blurry and because I remembered to suck in my jelly roll.

So this is me. As you can see I am a work in progress. Today I put on a necklace and the matching earrings that my brother's  awesome girlfriend made for me. She can be found http://www.etsy.com/shop/IndieKulture?ref=seller_info. She upcycles old bike tires and tubes and turns them into tubular jewelry. She is very talented and is she a mom trying to do something good for the environment. She gave me the poppy flower set because I really like them. She also makes belts, cuffs, and bracelets. Go on check out her Etsy store, I will wait.

 

Oops. Your back already? Now you know about this little secret. I watched the first season of The Glee Project. I may have voted for this young man because his name is Damian, and because he is Irish, and because he always stuck up for his friends and because he can sing. Why am I still talking... I really like this song made famous by the late Great Sammy Davis Jr. and it applies. Just be you. I gotta be me. We are perfect just the way we are and will blossom into who we are supposed to be in due time.

I hope you have a wonderful day filled with love and laughter. Be well my friends

How about a song?

So tonight we are all sitting around the table playing Uno. James won twice in a row and then asked, "Can we play something not boring?" We have http://www.1035bobfm.com/listenlive/ playing in the background. You know they play anything.

 For you I picked I think I'm in Love by Eddie money

Have you ever heard a song hundreds of times and then the meaning changes one day out of the blue?

Na na na na nanana? Did you fall from a shooting star? This is not one of those songs. I still love it even when I play it 9004 times in a row. What? No I am not to old to listen to one song over and over again. Besides how else is my four year old going to learn all of the lyrics to

Hot blooded? I love it when he starts singing it while we are driving in the car with the radio off. "Hey mom! I'm hot blooded. Got a fever of 103. Hot blooded, Hot blooded" Really it is super cute. One of these days I am totally going to surprise you with a very current song.

This one is for you friends.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend filled with love and laughter. Be well my Friends.

Beets

The most wonderful thing about growing your own food is sometimes you get something wonderful.

I get the man and those big red beets!

I can not wait to roast these sweet babies.

Maybe I will make a roasted root vegetable pizza.

How about a couple of beat songs?

Oh yes, Beet it!

Another one?

We got the beet!







The Beet goes on.                       

Wait for it . . .

You can't stop the beet.

Yeah I think I am funny.

Turn the beet around.

One more?



Eat to the beet.                             

Okay I promise to stop now but I did find a few other beat songs.

I hope you have a upbeet day that is filled with love and laughter! Be well my friends.









Song of the day

I have been thinking of this song, well I fell in love with a hopeful farmer. It is a sweet song.

I love to remember all of the reasons that I fell in love with my husband. I am a lucky lady. Take a moment and remember all of those sweet things that made you fall in love and go ahead fall in love all over again. We have been married for just a little over ten years and sometimes it is a little hard to remember what it was about him that I loved so much I could not live with out him.

We were just two dumb kids and only half of us could legally drink.

I can honestly say that I love him more than I ever thought that I could when we got married. I am still just as happy and grateful that he chose me. These two people made these two people.

Friends I hope that today you are happy from the inside out and that it is filled with Love and Laughter. Be well my friends.