Monthly Archive: July 2005

31
Jul
2005

UP, DOWN, ALL AROUND

What Makes Me Happy: The sun is shining today, and it’s warm, but not too warm, with a light and ruffling breeze, and not humid, and the clouds sweep by without stopping, o joy! What Makes Me Mad: Setting up the sun lounger on the deck, filling a tall glass with ice and juice, grabbing the book I’m nearly finished reading, settling myself to enjoy some time in the sun…and being chased indoors after 15 minutes by the hordes of flies that will NOT LEAVE ME ALONE. ARGH!! What Makes Me Sad: Not being able to finish my very last...

30
Jul
2005

DOWN

I woke up to a ceaseless thrumming noise, and slowly realized that it was the downpour of rain against the house, against the wooden slats of the deck, against the earth. It rained all morning and the skies are still bloated and heavy with clouds and moisture. I feel the same. No sunny summer vacation for us this year, it seems. 1 day left and cloudy tomorrow, too, even though now, late in the evening, the clouds are leaving the blue behind and moving east. The sun is throwing out its orange-pink arms, reaching after them, but it’s too late,...

30
Jul
2005

PERSONAL DREAM ART GALLERY

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. ~Joan Miro Airtight Artwork (Matt Wilson) Jamel Akib Apofissx Aykut Aydoğdu Michelle Barkway Jen Brandon Yulia Brodskaya Mandy Budan Erin Carpenter Pottery Beth Cavener Tawny Chatmon J.A.W. Cooper April Coppini Rosso Emerald Crimson Owen Davey Peter de Sève Allan Deas Katie Daisy Lucy Davies Julie Dillon – Day Dreamer Mary “Dimary” Dimova Tony DiTerlizzi Jed Dorsey Ed Fairburn Lui Ferreyra Jess Franks Holly Ann Friesen Georgie Gardiner Ceramics Tom Gauld Jennifer Gennari Gennine Lynsay Green Steve Hanks Erin Hanson Jessica Hische Idzy Nadezhda Illarionova Catherine...

29
Jul
2005

DOH

I am a big idiot. I talked to my mom yesterday, in fact, we SANG to my mom yesterday, but when I was finally getting around to posting in my journal, because I was just thinking about the Bavaria photos, I forgot to mention that it was HER BIRTHDAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY (again) to Lizardmom, the Greatest Mom on Earth! I love you, Mom! Really Great Not So Great Writing Out There Right Now: “The night resembled nothing so much as the nose of a giant Labrador in excellent health: cold, black, and wet.”

28
Jul
2005

I’LL GO TO THE HILLS WHEN MY HEART IS LONELY

With songs they have sung for a thousand years! Anders feels the need, the need for speed! Ghosts of castles past Dipsticks! Bavaria Photo Album: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 Completely Cracking Me Up With the Cuteness: Captain Vegetable

27
Jul
2005

A GOOD ONE

We are officially pet owners again! No photos since I’m sensible of a certain someone’s fish phobia, although I can’t promise her they won’t pop up in a future post. Forewarned is forearmed! We got neon tetras, and some other kind of tetras (rosy with black & white accents) and some silver danios and some orange and black barbs and an algae-eater who promptly died overnight (no algae! oops) and today we added a beautiful blue and red betta. I have no idea if I have the names or species right on any of these except the neons and the...

26
Jul
2005

NOT FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE

You’ve all heard those stories a dozen times. You roll your eyes when your uncles slap their knees and explode into laughter before regaling their audience with yet another rendition of “remember when.” You can recite the anecdotes word for word, the ones they tell over and over, your parents, your grandparents, your cousins; that shared history which is rubbed into your skin and twined about your neck. At least you think you can. When you stop and think, how much is left? How much will you remember? How much gets passed on to enrich the understanding your children and...

25
Jul
2005

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE TIME THAT PASSES

Blah. I think I have the “only one week left of vacation” blues. Everyone seems to be rubbing me the wrong way, and I seem to be returning the favor, although certainly without intention. Some things that have happened to others recently have been on my mind and I can’t seem to shake them. Every year on the last day of April, we celebrate Walpurgis Eve with our friends Mats & Annelott, who throw an annual bonfire barbeque to which they invite all of their friends. Most of the other friends are people we only see that one evening each...

23
Jul
2005

WIRED 4 SOUND

My MOTHER is giving me shit about the lack of substantial updates in my journal lately. Boys, girls, pens, pencils…what’s wrong with this picture?? GET YOUR OWN DAMN BLOG, MOM! Haaaa! Although, considering what happened the last time I managed to persuade a family member to start their own LJ, I guess we’ll just let sleeping blogs lie. I organized the couple-of-year’s worth of photos that had accumulated in the study yesterday and put them into 2 photo albums. I realized, while I was sorting them, that most of them had come from other people’s cameras: my mom’s, my brother’s,...

22
Jul
2005

EXCUSES FOR PROCRASTINATION, PART THE FIRST

I had all the photos from Germany picked out and lined up in Paintshop to edit this afternoon and then we got a summer thunderstorm that raced in and blew up things, including our electricity, downpoured like a mother for 15 minutes, setting off our car alarm, and then disappeared as quickly as it had arrived. Later, we had rain WITH sunshine. Sweden. If you don’t like the weather, just wait 5 minutes. Upshot: reboot, all photos have to be opened and chosen again. Tomorrow, perhaps. Instead, I give you the following…

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