such disobedience will no longer be tolerated

so, yaymee was being very disobedient last night and not looking at things i was instructing her to observe. very naughty behavior such as this usually ends up in corporal punishment, but i try to be merciful so she gets a second chance.

while these are NOT what i was trying to show her last night (i got complaints for showing her too many baby pictures - is it my fault i know so many frickin' babies?*), these are required viewing nonetheless... that is, required if you are yaymee - it's optional for everyone else. there is no rhyme or reason to these, they're just pictures. and there are no pictures of babies.

• vegas strip (please note ad for sigfried and roy)
• angel sock monkey
• boutrous boutrous-ghali
• a liger (if a liger were crossed with a monkey and made a ligerkey, if someone were to kill it and cure it, it would be... ligerkey jerky? from a sober conversation i had with crazy mara)
• the beach at biarritz
• i'm pink therefore i'm spam
• cover of one of my favorite books when i was 7
• briard
• old school weird al
• whirling dervish
• blood oranges (yum!)
• rasputin
• this would feel amazing right now

seriously, i would give my month's supply of coffee for a great yoga class... it's been too, too long.

*some of the babies i know born (or en route) since 2002 (not in chronological order): emma, the regan baby whose name i can't remember now, natalie, brian, patrick, dominic, annika, kaylie, anna, aaron, rachel, joseph, wilson, harrison, nicholas, aidan, gemma, max, michael, caleb, the m. bugnacki second baby (argh! can't remember name!), the n. bugnacki baby (never heard a name) christopher, kiera, anastasia, sophia, travis, natalie's brother, nicholas' sibling, gabe's brother, the gregory baby, the peppard baby... that's 33. i may have forgotten some. if i forgot your baby, oops! sorry - i'm having trouble keeping track anymore. and if you're not telling me about pregnant people, shame on you... i practically have a corporate account at target!

now that's fancy

this morning i learned that not only do you have to have sight training, but you also have to be instrument trained to shop at the portland farmer's market.

if it's monday morning...

...and i'm already slightly annoyed about money in general, here's a word of advice:

if you are the financial aid department at the university of denver, and you send me a notice telling me you don't have all the paperwork required to process my request for 2005-2006, and i fax it to you, please don't send me another email saying you only received 2 of the 5 forms, spurring me into action to call you to ask if in need to resend them only to have you be nasty to me saying that of course you got all of them, and my online profile should say that my request is in process and not missing any forms WHEN VERY CLEARLY IT DOES NOT SAY THAT HENCE THE REASON I CALLED YOU AT 8:01 AM MONDAY MORNING BECAUSE I SURE CAN'T AFFORD YOUR SCHOOL WITHOUT FINANCIAL AID.

i'm just speaking hypothetically, of course.

'nother birthday

happy birthday my anniebananie!

much like the situation with jillian's birthday, i have a card but no stamps. so once i get that i'll send it, spit-spot...

love you silly lady!!!

a meme because i'm bored

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
backed by high-level "intelligence" that was allowed to fall into Ger-

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?:
beadboard wainscoting

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?:
meet the press

4. WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is:
9:47

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
9:50

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
Tim Russert, KBCO, dog nails clicking on "wood" laminate.

7. When did you last step outside? what were you doing?:
20 mins ago. taking the trash out.

8. What are you wearing?:
orange pj pants, wifebeater, green flip-flops, grey zipper hoodie

9. Did you dream last night?:
yes. this isn't part of the question, but here's the summary: i had transferred from DU to some other school, and went back to DU talking about people in the new school who LOVED really cheap beer, but the people i was talking about are actually DU people, and my friend david from college was there.

10. When did you last laugh?:
yesterday afternoon with mara in the library

11. What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
mail sorter, 3 photographs, a filipino hand fan, bob dylan/paul simon tour poster

12. Seen anything weird lately?:
yes

13. What do you think of this quiz?:
it's a procrastination tool

14. What is the last film you saw?:
the prince and me

15. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:
pay off all debt

16. Tell me something about you that I don't know:
i crack my knuckles a lot, but don't even realize it

17. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
end cynicism without retreating into naivete

18. Do you like to dance?:
love it

19. George Bush?:
that's not a question

20. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?: i can't tell you, you'll steal it

21. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?: i can't tell you, you'll steal it

22. Would you ever consider living abroad?: that's the plan, stan

eternal rest....

...grant unto him o lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. may his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of you our god, rest in peace.

my friend, i love

there's this woman who's been my friend since 1989. we were 12 when we met in our 7th grade science class. i think we went roller skating the first time we hung out, and i helped her out with her science project (she was studying flexibility and whether stretching increased it). we were wholly unsuccessful at baking together, although the two of us could bake fine when we were on our own. we wrote a kickin' song based on boo radley. once, she called kevin and bean to tell them that bart connor was a jerk.

to her, my friend the woman, i sing this:

"I have a friend in a bright and distant town
She's found a common balance
Where you do your work, and you do your love
And they pay you, and praise your many talents
Well I'm passing through, and we know we won't sleep
She laughs, puts up the tea
She says "You know I think you remember every part of me."
And the water starts to boil
And if I had a camera
Showing all the light we give
And showing where the light extends
I'd give it to my friends"

flashing forward almost 16 years, she's married, she's pregnant, and she's due not on june 10, but 14 days earlier, in my ever-humble opinion. which gives her about 2 more months of pregnantness. and lately, she's tired, and frustrated, and feeling all-over wretched. she doesn't want to give birth just yet, because she knows it's too soon for the baby... but i think that physically she's ready and mentally she's ready, and she's just hit a point of frustration.

she's a mommy, and i am so happy for her. what an amazing mommy she'll be. she has an endless capacity for love, and a really low threshold for BS, she has a wicked sense of humor, and that really rare mixture of compassion and tough love. and she gets to share this with her son, whom i know she already loves, even for all the bladder poking he's doing.

so for her, the tired preggo, i sing this:

"One thing I know
This pain will go
Step through all that's left to feel
I wait to meet my love made real
Don't move don't touch
Don't talk so much
Strip and find the place to kneel
I wait to meet my love made real"

since i can't be there when he's born, i am going to sing this to her son from his mommy (since she swears she won't sing in front of others) all the way from here...

"Those men who lust for land
And for riches strange and new
Who love those trinkets of desire
Oh they never will have you

And they'll never know the gold
Or the copper in your hair
How could they weigh the worth
Of you so rare"

i'm changing the title of this post because it's been #1 on google when people google what used to be the title

today, i wandered around the inside of a mountain. the mountain that houses norad and northern command and strategic command, and of course was host to wargames a movie that was a staple in my childhood.

it was big, it was damp (seriously, the first humidity i've felt since i moved away from the south), and it was a bit of a letdown. i know WHY we can't go to the cool places, but seeing the industrial reservoir that holds the water, cooling the inside of the building, the 25-ton blast doors that take 35 seconds to close with hydraulics or 45 minutes by hand (ok, that was cool), and the air warning center (ok, that was cool too... i guess i wasn't impressed by the reservoir). we also saw the yoga room. and learned cool stuff...

okay, i had a cool day.

and now it's the weekend! yay!