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Crazy best uke song

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I can guarantee that most of you won’t make it through ten seconds of watching this video, but I’m posting it anyway. It represents everything free and young in my crusty betraying body!  This is the guy who won a songwriting contest for the movie “Music and Lyrics”.  I know they didn’t use the song in the movie, but he got to go to the movie premeire and have Drew Barrymore carve her name in his ukulele. 

Anyway, I love this song, although at the end it alludes to teenage ‘intimacy’, which bugs me.    My favorite part is at the beginning when he says, “Score one for being us, score zero for being bored.”  It reminds me of a part in one of the Ramona Quimby books where she is doing worksheets and absolutely loves crossing out and circling stuff. On the playground, she gleefully crosses out the pretty girl who won’t let Ramona pull her bouncy curls.  “Circle Ramona! Cross out Susan!”  When arguing with her sister later – same thing:  “Circle Ramona!  Cross out Beezus!”  That is very sastisfying to yell in your heart when you’re ticked off at someone .  “Circle Lauren!  Cross out Lloyd!”

Welcome to my psychosis!

http://musicandlyrics.talentload.tv/video/334/

(I don’t know how to make it have a picture.  Sorry.)

 

For science!

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Which is which?

I began to experiment with Simlpe Green vs. water to remove the border adhesive.  Here you see a completely organized beginning to an earth-shattering scientific experiment.  What you don’t see is how I kept forgetting to go back and re-wet them since I was looking up useless things on the internet.  So, I wound up slopping Simple Green solution over the whole wall.  It was successful for several reasons: 1) I didn’t cover it with plastic wrap and leave it to sit for a whole hour, 2) I used a plastic scraper instead of a metal one.  Hooray!  The goal is to take it off a foot at a time.  At this rate, I’ll be done by Easter!

 

Cute Plane

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I finally got around to going through my valentines from the children, and this one struck me as pretty darn clever.  It’s a roll of Smarties, with a stick of gum on the back held on by a rubber band threaded through two big Lifesavers.   I’m normally not a crafty person, but this was great!  (AnI think I bent the gum leaving it in the bag too long.) 

I forgot to say, “Thanks, Jarod!  And Jarod’s mom!”

Fly me to the moon, and let me sail among the stars.

Not quite the worst day ever

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'Bye, ugly grapes

Change is a’comin’ again!  After ten years,  I am committed to getting the stupid grape border off the dining room walls.  (It came with the house.)  I tore off a little strip last week, and yesterday worked on soaking off the glue.  Guess what happenes when you let glue disolver sit too long on a painted plaster walls  Yeah, the paint comes off.  Grrrrr…

In other news, Lloyd and I went around the house and made a list of things that really need to be repaired around here – the humidifier on the furnace, call the basement people to see about our foundation, the peeling paint around the windows, the constantly leaky toilet, the banister railing needs fixing, and our washing machine that was just repaired two weeks ago is leaking again.  We worked for about an hour, then I had a glass of wine and a two hour nap.  That’s how things get done, right?