Category Archives: My Notebook
Thought…
Another entry into my Japanese Moleskine of quotes and song lyrics. This one uses lyrics from Regina Spektor (a big surprise).
“Thought I’d cry for you forever, but I couldn’t, so I didn’t.”
Hello
Horriblescopes….
I confessed this earlier with Shimelle in her I Must Confess Class, but I was reminded of it again today when I read my horoscope at Free Will Astrology and was smiling at what it said…
“Success means controlling your own time,” observed actor Rod Steiger. “If you gain control over 60 percent of the time in your life, you are really successful.” In 2008, Virgo, you will have far more power than you’ve had before to fulfill this definition of success. And right now you happen to be in a phase of your astrological cycle when your hard work toward this goal will have maximum impact. The ironic fact of the matter is that it’s an ideal time to slave away in behalf of greater freedom.
Thing Number 5
I needed some inspiration for Thing Number 5– so I decided to turn to Keri Smith’s wonderful book, Wreck This Journal. and I did.
I love this shawl….
I love this shawl…
- Not just because I got all the yarn (except the small row of white) from my first trip to Loop in London.
- Not only for the lovely way that the yarn worked together so wondermously.
- For the lovely colours which just shout (in a very calm way) I am warm and comforting.
- For it calls to your hands. It needs to be touched.
- Because I made it and I feel absolutely wonderful when I wear it.
Thanks, again is due to Shimelle for this wonderful prompt which was much of the fun.
I have for some time been working on a Moleskine Accordian Notebook to create a book of quotes from favorite song lyrics of mine and illustrations to go with those quotes. I have created one of them for Thing 4 for Thing a Day
This one is a quote from a Soul Coughing song, So Far I Have Not Found the Science. “I don’t mind worry following me like a dinosaur.”
I also decided to show you another one that I made a few days ago from a lovely Regina Spektor song, Love Affair. “There was a love affair in this building. The kind of love affair that every respectable building wants to keep as a legend.”
The word is defenestrate.
Shimelle you are -once again- a girl after my own heart. Your prompt today is perfect. I have so many favorite words…. but one of my most favorite words is defenestrate.
defenestrate {to throw someone or something out a window}
My friend Drew and I found this word at some point in high school- or rather he found this word- It seemed so wonderful at the time. A word that existed solely to throw someone or something out of the window. I was thrilled- in fact I am still quite thrilled with it. Yeah words!
This word sounds lovely and works well when you want to say something mean to someone- it confuses them for just long enough to both say something mean and break tension.
Something like “You suck. I will defenestrate you at once!” … “What?” … “Exactly, now what were we talking about?”
Yeah words! I love them.
I liked the word so much that I suggested it to Girl in Green and she used it for her word project. It was word 20 of 30. I loved what she came up with and because of her wonderfulness I get to look at it everyday. Woohoo!
Before…
before we moved to london
after we sold most everything we owned
on a rock
in Prospect Park
with Erin and Jon
in a state of flux
You always say…
Prompt Day 2 from Shimelle…..
You always say that I could have chosen anything to do as a profession, but really, I think that you would not have been pleased if I had chosen garbage truck driver or lounge singer over teaching. Now, honestly the garbage truck driver thing passed quickly enough, but even through college I harbored dreams of being a lounge singer- or a starving artist, but I love food so much. No sushi- are you kidding me? Not really something I want to aspire to.
As a female of my generation I was brought up believing not only that we could be anything, but that we should be Something. It was our duty. Secretly, harboring ideas of becoming a housewife? No, see, because that is not all that you could be doing. We were supposed to find our calling- as long as it was not a “traditional calling.” I have to admit that for a time I even thought that teacher was not enough. I mean- I could be a doctor- a lawyer- a politician. Why on earth would I choose something that women- albeit single women- have been choosing for such a long time.
So I tried coming up with better and more brilliant ideas- but now I am thinking not so much. No one can be everything. And that is just fine by me.
jen h mont 