Free Fall

Do you know what your children are up to? Do you really want to know? When you go through months of caring for this little creature and finally suffer through childbirth bringing them into this world, did you really believe the suffering would be over? Ha ha, if you did you were so wrong. From the moment before they are born you start to worry. The formula or breast milk, the car seat, the baby caller, the child proofing, the daycare, the school, the bicycle, the sports, the friends, and the list goes on. You want to keep your children safe, you try to live in a healthy environment for them, you tell them to stay away from strangers offering candy, and you watch as they fall down wishing you could have been there to stop it. From crawling to walking, from the playground to the streets, you watch, you pray and you just cross your fingers that they will survive.

So you let them go little by little and watch them stumble through the world, bruises cuts and all. They grow up and you have done the best you can but does the worrying stop there? Not likely. So why am I telling you this when you probably already know what I am talking about? Because this is what my son The Actor did this week-end.

You all know he loves drama. This is not his film but it is where he jumped, hopefully I will soon have his film to share with you. So I ask you again, do you know what your children are doing? What is the thing they have done to make you the most crazy with worry?

Dirty Feet and Hairspray

Dirty feet and hairspray.

That’s right, if someone were to describe my summer appearance that would be the best description. I run around half naked with dirty feet, no make- up, and hairspray to keep my long bangs out of my eyes.  I hate wearing shoes and since I am living in a house under construction my feet are always dirty. Even after I get out of the shower, my feet are dirty. I really miss soaking in a bathtub. Funny thing is that I have never really been much of a bathtub person. My main objective has always been to just get clean fast and get out of there. Taking the time to just soak in a bathtub has never been a luxury I could afford. In a one bathroom house with kids, I am sure many of you know what I am talking about. Then again, having one bathroom might sound a little strange in todays world as well. The past few years I have been living without a bathtub and now I really find myself missing one.

Now on to the hairspray and its evil influence over my life, you see I really hate the stuff. I do not like any hair products except a huge hair clip or a rubber band. The problem is that I forget to buy a new scissors so I can cut my bangs. I refuse to go to the hairdressers and spend tons of money for them to just cut my bangs. So what do I do? Hairspray works for me, so does a head band, but I look weird without bangs. Eventually the hairspray is going to stop working and I will have to resort to writing the word scissors on my hand so that I remember to buy one.

It’s summer and I got other things to think about then washing clothes, wearing make-up, soaking my feet (or heaven forbid wearing shoes) and buying scissors. So now that you have gotten this totally disgusting image of me and my summer appearance, how about you share with me yours? What do you look like this summer, and what could you not live without?

Have a great week-end everyone! Oh and look out for that full moon.

For Women Only

My good friend Melissa at Melissas Imaginarium has been featuring a series of movies on bad ass women. There are some great movies coming out with these types of roles that have been traditionally saved for men.  Does that tell you anything girls? In the end movies are about good box office and making money. I figure that since it is the women who drag the men to the movies, the movie industry is very clever indeed. Men will go to watch the hot women and the great action scenes. Women go for another reason, they go to watch women kick mens ass. We are tired of watching men blowing up things and acting like muscle monkeys with a small brain attached. We all know that the man’s biggest brain sits somewhere else then in their heads and we women want more sustenance in our fantasy world.

Last night while I was in bed trying to sleep, listening to the saw-man making his usual wood chopping noises in his sleep, I went to my Imagine-Nation. I told you guys about this place before. I like to go there when I cannot sleep and usually it is the best medicine. Well last night the entertainment was so fantastic that it actually kept me awake. I jumped into Imagine-Nation as a Femme Fatal ready to kick some ass. This is what I looked like:

So Sisters, we are doing it for ourselves and it is about time. Remember "Never forget where you came from," and do not let anyone tell you it was from Adams rib. Next time your hubby or whatever you call him tries to make a big deal out of taking out the trash, fixing a broken fixture or cutting the grass just smile and say thanks honey. Are you tired of picking up after him and cleaning up his mess? Don’t rub it in his face, just stop doing it and later you can go to the Imagine-Nation and kick his ass too.

Oh and by the way if there are any men who snuck in here after being warned not to....Beware of women with their period on a a full moon :)

House of Cards

There are days like this when you just knew that you should have stayed in bed. Your heart just is not in it anymore. All sounds are like thunder breaking through glass, each minute feels like a hundred and when the silence finally comes you just want to scream. 

Is there one day when you finally feel like “THIS IS ENOUGH?”  Do you feel like something in the universe is just picking on you for no reason? Even worse, “What have I done to disserve this?” Has it ever happened to you that everything is going so wonderful that you think, “Something bad is going to happen now?” Do you have a house of cards that keep tumbling down? How about, every time you get up on your feet, something or someone comes along to knock you down. 

Some of you may know what I am talking about. Probably most of you do. Times in your life that should be so wonderful, a rainbow in the sky, a true Disney film, and then bang out of nowhere Steven King comes along with a horror story to set you on another page. How do you deal? I do not have the answer but I sure would like one.

The Other Side of the Rainbow

The Traveler has returned from her American adventures. Did she fall in love with the American way of life? Yes I suppose she did, but unlike Dorothy she didn’t have to click her heals together three times in order to get home. The Traveler met her sister, her brother and two small nephews for the first time in a wonderful place called Oz. She fell in love with the beauty of the place and the people in it, but in the end it was good to come home. Looking for greener grass on the other side, I believe she learned that in truth, “There is no place like home.”

 The Traveler and her best friend, a happy reunion

 

Death came knocking

You look, you listen, you try to understand. Death stares at you in the face and it makes no sense. It never makes any sense. Death sweeps over life reminding us how precious our time is and how in one instance everything can change. I have watched and touched death from a distance today. The tragedy in Norway effected so many like myself. A friend of a friend, a friend of a loved one, someone you know or never really got the chance to know. These people are being buried now. Death came knocking on my door, it touched the people I love. It is not the first time, and it will not be the last. Death comes knocking when it will and you have no choice but to open the door, let it in and then close the door again.

Remember your loved ones, cherish them, and never forget that death can come knocking any time. To everyone who has lost a loved one and been touched by death recently, I pray for you.

Red Spit

 Red spit and swallowed the sidewalk looking for another color to bring to the party. Red was angry as usual and had nothing to wear so it...

Travelled down the walkway due to gravity and picked up a cute birch leaf in green that fit her form nicely.

turned to green and stripped the coating off before realizing
On the way to the party she shredded it on a near by tree. It left her naked.

But Red was even angrier and so, began searching for a another color. That's why Red swallowed the sky. 

Swallowing blue turns the horizon into an egret that becomes white and tall. But not tall like the trees, more like a glass of cold beer and a good story. 

Which made Red have to pee so she did dribbling a little on her shoe, turning her a nice sunny yellow. 

Yellow being the colour of insanity, she ran around in a circle, bellowing 

"I'm Yellow! I'm Yellow! How could devilish red turn YELLOW?" Distressed, she tore off the sidewalk and into the nearby park. "A maple leaf did this to me... perhaps a red oak leaf will turn me back? She reached for the lowest leaf and ...

Stuck it to the naked colors just in time to wear to the party.

Here are the wonderful writers of this gibberish and members of C.P.S.W.A. Make sure you stop by their blogs and say hello.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Laura Eno

shelly

Elisabeth Hirsch

Bossy Betty

Geoff Maritz

Craziness abounds

Talli Roland

Michael Di Gesu

Have a nice day everyone!