Friday5 for August 26 : 1999, the last year before The Great Oblivion?

Friday 5 for August 26: Two Thousand Zero Zero Party Over Oops Out of Time

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! 

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1.What’s your favorite song from 1999?



"In the End, Only Kindness matters"

2. What are some of your favorite films from 1999?
I have three from that year, four actually: "Galaxy Quest"- such a gas, "The Sixth Sense", "Office Space", and "Dogma".  We've watched them several times in the ensuing years.  "Office Space" was one of Elle's favorite movies.  Who could ever forget that red stapler?  Or, for that matter, could anyone ever forget those bad A** angels in Dogma?

3. What’s something interesting that happened on your birthday in 1999?
Harry Potter hammered his way into literature?  Did I use literature in that last sentence?  I've never had the time to read a single word of those books but it's pretty apparent that not only little children feel powerless in this real life world we find ourselves in.  

4. How did you ring in the new year as 1999 became 2000?
At home, with a bottle of Bubbly and some chocolate.  It still is the best way to not get a DUI or have to call a cab at 1 am. Yes?

5. What’s something that’s gotten better since 1999?
The internet has, well, sort of grown but of course some of it was sideways.  It's growth, per year, is astounding, to say the least.  Now if we could just get the spooks out of our back pockets again.  It's painful to sit on them, so well armed are they.

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One's True identity comes with self knowledge....

Just so you know who you're dealing with here.... heehee

Now, some music from the Carter family.

Sunflower bought at Santa Cruz Market

"Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side
Keep on the sunny side of life
It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way
If we keep on the sunny side of life"

Giant sunflower in Trescony Garden. 

Thankful Thursday....

I am thankful for being able to laugh out loud! 

And for the Ted Talk... This is now one of my favorites. There are a whole lot of  "suits" in the audience, and it looks like they are wondering if they got into the right auditorium!  I think they are in shock. LOL!



Thank you, Bee!

Finally the sock toe is nearly finished and I will be moving on to the pink silk and cotton stardust sweater for Elle.  I want to have it finished when we next see her.  I'll post the socks at Ravelry, which is going to be coming back into my life.  Can you imagine it?  I just saw a whole project of baby birds nests that I missed out on!

Thank God tomorrow is Friday!

Saturday Komeekz and Let's Dance those blues away, too...Doobies!

Don't do this at Home......

On a personal note:  There is a good reason for not sticking ANYTHING larger than your elbow into your ear.  Last week I went to the doctor because I did!  Fingernails can do some damage inside your ear.  The kind doctor did not give me a lecture.  He is probably less than half my age, and I'm sure he knew that I knew better.   I'm sure that he was impressed by the damage a fingernail can do.  hehehe

And, it may be time to get out those dancing shoes!  This tiny article appeared in a freebie magazine at my pharmacy, and I plan to take it's advice.

Even if you can't dance, You can move to the groove
when no one can see you.
Just be sure
you don't slip on the floor.
So wear your Jimmy Choooz
and I'll say no more....



If I did this one before sometime, I plead insanity.  Lol!  And, as you can tell, no one has ever accused me of being a poet.  Trala!

Jana sings at the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards + Sunday Stealing

Makes you think about the Real Mother's Day, the very first one.

Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim's post. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme's best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme. 
Let's go!!!

Today we ripped off  a blogger named Danielle,  from her blog Sometimes Sweet.  She doesn't say where she got it--but it was probably stolen from somewhere cool.  Tracing back the thefts of those that we steal from could take a while. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!  


Thinking about:
Getting enough time to read all my books, finish the garden, paint the house, finish promised objects, cleaning up messy corners so that I can sew some pincushions to go with some sewing gifts, and getting enough time to just sit, think of nothing at all, and de-stress.
 
Feeling: 
I'm feeling nervous about the future.  I'm not worried about mine, I just put that into the hands of the Supreme Being, but for the World essentially.  I've been told by nearly every source that reaches my ears to stop worrying, so I'm working on that every day.  I can't think of a Western Religion besides the Quakers, that doesn't use our emotions against us, to get us to do some pretty horrific things.

Reading:  
I'm reading a book that tells me nothing ever changes as much as it remains the same.  Well, two books.  They are in the side bar.  Next up are some translations by Thomas Cleary as soon as I find them.

Listening to:  
I want to listen more on the nano.  I love all guitar and violin music, especially Hawaiian slack key guitar and Classical masters.  I love Country music and Olde Time music.  The list is just endless.

Wondering:  
 If there really is less violence in the world or if it's just in parts of the world that don't matter to certain academics who pontificate there being less violence because......?

Looking forward to:  
I'm looking forward to Fall, but meanwhile, by the end of July, I'm hoping we have the side yard finished.  I'm also hoping to get the hall and entry painted this summer and all baseboards painted and back on. 

Missing:  
I miss my girls and their smiling faces.  I miss making dinners with them, and all the excursions to interesting spots for treks and collecting rocks; I miss going to the thrifts with them, and sometimes to swap meets, and finding treasures with them.  I miss sitting in Elle's and Bee's garden while we are painting our nails, or at plant sales, sitting and knitting at Gee's and Jimmy's and watching happy people take the little plants away to their own gardens.

Watching:  
I watch Swedish movies when I can.  I love the language.  I am trying to learn it.  I also am a Birder, so I watch birds.

Eating:  
I'm so lucky to have a hubby who cooks and likes it!  He took over when he retired.

Making me happy:
I'm happy about a lot of things.  I love our daughters and think about them all the time, try to make things for them that won't clutter up their lives but something they may come to treasure in times to come.

I love to make things.  I love the beauty of Nature, Birds, and the stunningly beautiful Ocean.  I love music, painting things, knitting, hammering on metal, so many things to enjoy.

I feel blessed to be living with a man who loves me, cooks, makes me laugh, gives me lots of hugs, and one who rubs my feet when they ache.

I love going to the gym and meeting with my trainer.  I am so strong now it's incredible.  I walk mostly upright now due to my emulating his stance and carefully following his training.  I have this little Marine in my head who says, "now relax those shoulders." , "Remember, tight abs!" or, "Watch your head, oops!".  hehehe  We talk a lot about things of the spirit, too, as we are both on that long journey of wondering "why".

I love having a crazy little dog who is so darn cute it cracks us up when he does what he does: like whining piteously at the foot of the bed when I'm there knitting, and he wants up there, too.  Also, when he races around the house to find me and then cries to be picked up.  This happens every day when he comes home from a walk with DH.

I also love this mystic:

"I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar
With angels blest; but even from Angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,
I shall become what no mind e'er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones, To Him we shall return."

Jalaluddin Rumi, Sufi Mystic

Music Monday, and another BP Cover -up exposé, all in one post! Sorry,

 Really, this Is Music Monday, and I have a lovely song by Chet Atkins with Dolly Parton.  Enjoy!





This next thing will curl your hair but it's worth it to read just how little the big money boys think of anything but themselves.

http://ecowatch.org/2012/bpcoverup/


EcoWatch finally compiled a complete report on what fancy footwork British Petroleum has been doing to get approval for drilling in other places with the same dangerous procedures.  They slipped their lies right past the Senate and all the regulators who get big money for making sure something like the Gulf Spill did not occur.  Great Job, Washington DC!

Well, it's past my bedtime, so I'll say good night.

"Blind Side", Country Voice, Music, Birds and Flowers

Having just watched "Blind Side" - one of our favorite films - for the third time since March, we dug a little deeper into the music tree at the credits.


This came up.  I am Lov'n it!



Don't ya just love Southern accents?  They are all fascinating - New Zealand, Australian, Georgian, Mississippian, South African, all of them.  I'd include Texan but the list is getting so long.  *Winks at Kara*

Bird report:

I have been trying to get a decent picture of that little hummingbird rapscallion sipping deeply in the Honeysuckle but he's too fast for me.  But I did catch a honey bee inside the Pink Lady lily to the left.  Make it big.  I'd say that she has herself a studio apartment in there, yes?

I just heard a killdeer call and that is a sound of late summer.  They fly around at night and call each other.  Well, there is NO way to get a picture of a Killdeer at night.  But I've got my eye on that Alan's Hummingbird!  See him just up at the top right making a get away?

Good night.  Have a wonderful Sunday, and I'll be knitting that sock tonight before I fall asleep.

Soon, Margie pooh, soon!

Every Teardrop is a Waterfall.

If you want to understand the words, which are amazingly gorgeous, try this one, though it does turn into a promo. Sorry! I didn't know that.

Party on Reggae!

Jimmy Cliff, one of the best in the bidness..  Yay!

I hang my head ... I'm not knitting.  Sis comes today and we will have an excellent chin wag!  Then we might go get some fish and chips and even go to the nursery that has everything under the sun for succulents  of which I brought several dozen teensie plantlets home from the travels.

I cannot get my pictures up for some reason.  Picasa doesn't work and flicker won't up load, ( I blame Google) so no pictures yet.  But I promise lot's of car pixs from "Woodies on the Wharf", and more flowers from thither and yon.  And even.... Cloud pix  from a Rancho!  Baby Birds just banded .. that sort of thing.

The joy in this little heart when she plays is just too good to not share.  Enjoy!

DH will not eat Kimchi.

He has said that he didn't like it and won't eat it.

He also said,"Have you ever eaten it?"

I said, "No, have you?"

He said, "Yes, and I don't like the taste."

I think what appealed to me - before the woman in the video threw in all the raw sea foods - is the process of making something that exotic. Middle Eastern foods, or Asian foods, are about as exotic as I've ever cooked. Well, there was that Bambi-who-came-home-in-pieces-with-the-hunter Venison that I cooked one abortive meal with. This after DH proudly dragged in all his meaty packages; you know, the hunter, in from the kill with the slabs of raw meat.

I was two months preggers and did NOT like the SMELL of that meat. I tried to fry it. Oh UGH! Anyway, there will be no Kimshi making in this house, I am informed that it would be wasted food. About the sad venison- we gave it all away to those who could better appreciate it than MOI.

So, I'll stick with kibby, hummus, tabooli and the new hobby of trying to make some decent round Arab bread. So much easier to buy it, if you know where to get it. I used to buy it at a small International food store in Kearny Mesa, but people who went in and out of there were being watched, and with good reason. Everyone was very polite to me, the wild looking Western lady with a passion for the freshest Pita in town.

I am now official depressed. It's better to make it official than to keep suffering a malaise without acknowledging it. My sister is going insane from worry that her shortfall under disability will crush her. I'm trying to remember that no matter what, she cannot come to live with me. We've tried it, twice. It just does not work. I'm too weak willed to just give her "two tight slaps" when she needs them the most. She will be into everything, color coding it and mapping the locations while I am asleep. She does not sleep! And she will get autocratic. I can't live with autocrats. Never again will I be told anything about how something must be done or not done. Except by DH who has earned his stripes. So to speak.

Ah, something nice! I've been looking for a good list of sizing for socks, and think it's finally fallen into my hands. It's now in the side bar with a twirled button that looks a lot like glass work. Click the button and see if you like the sizing Aid.

I finished reading Music of the Heart. It's a wonderful book. Now the movie makes a little more sense. Merle Streep did a stellar performance as the lead character, but you will love the real Roberta. There is also a documentary called, "Small Wonders" about this woman and the program she created for two schools in New York. The documentary was filmed at the actual school, and is so amazing because you meet some of the parents in it.

We need music in the public schools. Our children need music like the air that they breathe. It helps them to learn to think. It's absolutely critical for training the brain.

Alas, just as predicted by a very wise man, it's been stolen by the worst dragons there are. I don't have to tell you where the children's educations and their houses have gone. We are wise enough to see that for ourselves. Anyway, music programs in the schools are something we, as a civilized nation, should not be going without. Europe doesn't, and why must we? Not enough money? Where is all the money? Follow it.

I'm going to bed. I'm reading a real fire breather next. I'm not telling.

PS> The short ads that no one but myself can see are advertizing Buffalo and Venison for my greater gustatory pleasure. You have to bless the little ad gremlins for trying! Night nIght! I'm off to sleep!

Beautiful Song...

This is a ballad I found while poking around the YouTubes.  



I've only song a duet once, with a friend playing acoustic guitar, and the LOVE that comes up in your soul is just absolutely spellbinding.  There's nothing quite like it in the world of music!  It's like singing in a two person Angel choir,  and I think it has to do with the harmonics that get going in the air around you.

Please feel free to ignore the little commercial at the last. 

We went to see Boyce Avenue a couple of summers ago at the House of Blues because we loved the single Boyce Avenue made of Stevie Nicks song, "Landslide".   You can listen to that one HERE  It's Beautiful.

Katie sings...

She sings this a lot differently but it sounds lovely.

Dante Bucci... hang drum music video.

I find the Hang Drum spell binding even if it is just played by itself.

I have this young musician's albums.

Enjoy!