Saturday, April 30, 2016

Saturday Night Dance Party!



This is how I am feeling right now. 

Dance like no one's watching.

Sing like no one's listening.

"Before You Accuse Me" - take a look at yourself!  1957 R&B!

BONUS - just for the hell of it and because I CAN, here is another version of the same song:


I played this album to death in 1970.

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Silent Sunday Pussy Pix!







Featuring nyla and gigi and oreo and a defiant squirrel atop my bird feeder!  Abby needs to chase this squirrel, the dogs' mother!

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Saturday Night Dance Party!


This is how I am feeling right now. 

Dance like no one's watching.

Sing like no one's listening.

"We Got The Beat" - HELL YEAH!  Shake dat ass!

PS - Please keep Travel Penguin and Dr. Spo and Fearsome Beard and Mark in your thoughts as they deal with serious family medical issues.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Saturday Night Dance Party!



This is how I am feeling right now. 

Dance like no one's watching.

Sing like no one's listening.

"Oye Como Va" - ay yi yi; muy caliente!

PS - Please keep Travel Penguin and Dr. Spo and Fearsome Beard and Mark in your thoughts as they deal with serious family medical issues.

Sunday, April 10, 2016

A Music Award From a Fellow Blogger!



So Debra (the dear) gave me this award.  It won't keep me warm at night, or make love to me, but it lets me wax rhapsodic (see what I did there?) about music.

1 - What does music mean to you?

EVERY FUCKING THING!  It soothes me, it provided me an escape in the abusive home where I grew up.  It has been with me thru miserable high school/college years, marriages, divorce, cancer surgery, job changes, house moves, unemployment stints, gym workouts, car rides, love, grief, house chores, and menopause.   It gives me on-the-job stress relief.  It is background noise when I am knitting.  It can lull me to sleep on a Saturday afternoon.  Without music, my life would have no meaning.

2 - What's your first music-related memory?

My maternal grandmother playing "Theme From A Summer Place" on her turntable.  The year was 1960.


3 - What was the first album you purchased yourself?

"Rubber Soul" - Beatles; I still have the album.  A selection from that album:


4 - What's the latest music you purchased?

"Ella Fitzgerald's Greatest Hits".  Mark turned me on to her music.  FABULOUS!




5 - What's the last song you listened to? (be honest)

Vince Guaraldi's "Cast Your Fate to the Wind".


Now to award my fellow bloggers:

DR. SPO - Spo Reflections

MARK - Tales of the Sissy   

SEAN - Idol Eyes

JOHN - Going Gently  

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Saturday Night Dance Party!


This is how I am feeling right now.

Dance like no one's watching.

Sing like no one's listening.


"Hungry Like the Wolf" - OM NOM NOM!  Dee-lish!

PS - Please keep Travel Penguin and Dr. Spo and Fearsome Beard and Mark in your thoughts as they deal with serious family medical issues.

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Another Spo Meme

OK, so I stole this from Dr. Spo, but I found it on Travel Penguin's blog first.  Props to both!  My comments in red.

1 Leaves the bathroom light on upon exiting. - never; I don't even turn it on cause I can pee in the dark

2 Leaves the TV going when he is not in the room. - never; I don't watch tv

3 Puts keys down next to the ‘key bowl’, not in it. The other fellow continually corrects this. - never; they go in my purse

4 Answers the phone (rather than screening calls) yet becomes annoyed it is a telemarketer. - never; I am a screener

5 Laundry is done infrequently, en masse, when there are no more clean garments, rather than in continual small loads. - 2 or 3 loads a week I do

6 Often eats standing up at the counter in order to watch TV rather than sitting at table with the other. - never; see #2 (heh heh heh, I said "#2")

7 Throws out recyclables even though there is a ‘recycle bin’. The other man retrieves and puts them where they ought to go. - NEVER!  Blasphemy!  Save the planet!

8 Directly drinks out of the milk carton. Despite twenty years of mutual germs this action makes the other one not want to drink milk anymore. - never; I get my calcium via greek yogurt or cheese or ice cream

9 Leaves half-consumed beverages all over the house. - spouse

10 Saves even the smallest of leftovers ‘to avoid waste’ only to have them thrown out later when they go horrid. - spouse

11 Won’t watch something on TV without doing two or three other things as well, only to ask the other what is going on. - see #2 (heh heh heh)

12  Plays Enya. - OMFB NO 1000 TIMES NO NEVER NADA NIL ZERO ZIP ZILCH!

13 Uses 2-3x more pots, pans, and kitchen utensils than is necessary when cooking. - spouse

14 Clothes are folded first by sorting them into taxonomies rather than as they come out of the hamper. We’ve learned clothes folding is best done solo. - never; you think I got time for this shit?  He hangs, I fold

15 Sleeps with the bedroom door open to the certain doom of us all. - both of us

16  Doesn’t put spices and herbs back to their original position which is ~ alphabetical order. - never; you think I got time for this shit?  Just put them back and no one gets hurt

Well, it seems that I am my own person.  Unique.  A blue diamond.  I AM WARRIOR QUEEN, HEAR ME ROAR!

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Saturday Night Dance Party!


This is how I am feeling right now.

Dance like no one's watching.

Sing like no one's listening.


"Hooked on a Feeling" - oohgahshakka!  No wonder we all got stoned in the 70s!

PS - Please keep Travel Penguin and Dr. Spo and Fearsome Beard and Mark in your thoughts as they deal with serious family medical issues.

BONUS VIDEO - since we are attending a Three Stooges convention this weekend...