Leaky Ink Bottle

That cake is darling! You didn't actually cut int...

2009-04-16T08:56:00.000-07:00

That cake is darling! You didn't actually cut into it and eat it did you?

Brian has asked that I refrain from making cakes in this house. I've made some very oogly cakes over the years. They taste good! But the decorating part.....one looked like monster trucks on a pile of throw up.........

Shellacking doesn't work, Gin. I tried that with ...

2009-04-16T07:24:00.000-07:00

Shellacking doesn't work, Gin. I tried that with that magnificent ginger bread house that our neighbors made for us one year - I sprayed it with shiny craft spray and stowed it into the front bedroom closet - where some months later, I found Cammon and - was it Jess or Elise? - EATING IT.

I've always been interested in cake decoration, but I've come to the place in my life where I know that making birds is a better bet for me.

WOW! Too lovely to eat I'd say. I'd probably jus...

2009-04-16T07:08:00.000-07:00

WOW! Too lovely to eat I'd say. I'd probably just shellack it and put it in the closet until little kids snuck and ate it all up.

feels good to get that out, doesn't it? Sometimes...

2009-04-11T07:04:00.000-07:00

feels good to get that out, doesn't it? Sometimes people and situations can be so frustrating, and you just feel like telling everybody you know about it to try to excise the frustration. It doesn't always work, but I hope this helped!!

I think there are people like that in EVERY major,...

2009-04-10T21:26:00.000-07:00

I think there are people like that in EVERY major, not just the useless ones. They think that by talking about a bunch of useless facts, they'll make themselves look smarter, and the only end up doing the opposite.

On a side note: I think we should force that guy to go spend some time in the British Isles in a little flat (or tent) with barely any heating and THEN see what he thinks about the temperate climate that hardly ever gets really cold. I spent a New Years like that in Northern Ireland and I was freezing the whole time. We didn't get any snow, but we have rain-freezes and I don't think it went above 40 the whole time! At least that's what it felt like.

Spew. What a gross thought. Big hat, no cows. H...

2009-04-10T21:12:00.000-07:00

Spew. What a gross thought. Big hat, no cows. HAHAHAH. How satisfying. Yeah, I ran into a lot of that in grad school, too - those who NEED to know everything. It's the intellectual equivalent of putting really, really big tires on your really really big truck to make up for - other things. And sometimes, it was even the professors - I mean, how manly is English Lit, anyway? Snicker.

Well, people will spew anything they want.

2009-04-10T20:32:00.000-07:00

Well, people will spew anything they want.

Did you ask him if he has actually BEEN to any of ...

2009-04-10T15:46:00.000-07:00

Did you ask him if he has actually BEEN to any of these places that he is so eloquently spewing nonsence about?

I'll give you a hint. Big hat/no cows...

I think the fish have still got to be cute, even i...

2009-04-09T14:10:00.000-07:00

I think the fish have still got to be cute, even if pink. From how they sound anyway. I don't think I ever got to see that purse somehow!

And I'm not a big fan of R&B myself. Some of it's great, and some of the old stuff I really liked, but the current stuff is pretty boring and lame. Thank goodness for NPR and CD players. I never listen to music stations on the radio anymore. They're really awful out here.

This is a great piece of writing, ms. foo. Timing...

2009-04-09T07:57:00.000-07:00

This is a great piece of writing, ms. foo. Timing is good, syntax tight - you allow your quirky cleverness to shine right through the language. Not easily done. And besides, it was funny. I don't really lol much, but I did a couple of times and would have read it out loud to G but I'm too tired and my voice wouldn't carry.

Eighties music can't be classified as "oldies" because it's plastic. Some antique places do have a place set aside for plasticine, so maybe that's how they work it on the radio.

here's hoping Les can save your fish. I feel for them, you know - except I'm getting paler, where they're sort of - in the pink???

I have teenage boys. Does that say enough? In ot...

2009-04-09T07:26:00.000-07:00

I have teenage boys. Does that say enough? In other words, our radio is always hopping from country, to 80's, to rock, to rap, and every once in awhile Colin gets his way (if mom butts in and demands he get his turn) and gets to listen to classical.

Last night on AI (yes, we've stooped to watching this year) this rapper guy came on. Couldn't understand a word he said. Probably is a good thing. After, he gave his plug about how he is touring "worldwide" this year and come and support him. Come to his concert.

I swear if he weren't on public television the bimboes dancing in the background would have been wearing less and would have been dancing around poles.

It would seem that it is sex selling music now a days and not the lyrics, vocal ability, talent, etc. anymore.

Then again, sex has replaced good writing as you well know also. Sex is being used to sell pretty much everything these days.

That is....everything but the things that are important. Thank goodness for the gospel, for our prophets, apostles, and leaders. Find comfort in that.

I love 80's pop/rock but I can't believe 94.1 is p...

2009-04-09T07:04:00.000-07:00

I love 80's pop/rock but I can't believe 94.1 is playing 80's. So, so lame.

From Andy:...seeing as I don't have a google accou...

2009-04-08T23:10:00.000-07:00

From Andy:

...seeing as I don't have a google account to use to respond to your blog and even if I did, this computer is doing a wonderful job of now showing me the word picture thing I'd have to type in anyway.

I almost only listen to talk radio and I'm only 21 so does this mean that I can claim Glenn Beck is making me old?

Chris Brown is a celebrity (singer or something) who beat up his girlfriend Rihanna recently so the song is about them... and those two idiots are still together.
(supermarket tabloids are the source of all my celebrity news, by which I mean just the covers of them so the fact that I actually knew this is coincidence)

For all I know, pink Japanese fish could be great this season (if we could just pull one of those darn fashion experts away from going over every outfit Michelle Obama owns we could get an asnwer to that), but I hope you figure something out.

I think that sometimes in life it is easy to get l...

2009-03-24T15:12:00.000-07:00

I think that sometimes in life it is easy to get lost in the boring and mundane tasks that seem to account for the majority of our existence. This is one of the reasons I love books so much. I get to escape the slow-paced monotony, or seemingly pointless stress of work and school, for an adventure where the characters are constantly moving with a purpose. I often wish that my life had such meaning. But, when I hear stories from people of the past that actually lived and breathed in this world, I realize that drama is not limited to the realms of fiction. These people's lives are stories of achievement and failure, grief and joy, monotony AND adventure. Then I think of my own life and the life of friends and family, those who are still living and breathing, and I realize that the human drama did not die with our ancestors but continues on, even if sometimes it is easy to forget since our stories unfold over the long course of years and decades, not just a few hundred printed pages. Learning about the details of a person's life in the past transforms their name from a lifeless piece of data to a meaningful denotation, and enables us to take on a broader and deeper perspective when considering our lives and the future. The past is an integral part of us.

So, yeah... in other words: archaeology (and genealogy) is awesome!

charlotte! I've been reading your blog for a while...

2009-03-20T01:52:00.000-07:00

charlotte! I've been reading your blog for a while now and thought I'd leave a comment! you are a GREAT writer. So good to keep in touch with you. :)
danika

I love historical things. You can almost feel the ...

2009-03-14T17:41:00.000-07:00

I love historical things. You can almost feel the barrier of time get really thin and you can feel the ghosts right by you.

History is cool but I never get sad for them because I have had heartbreak and sadness in my own life and it what helps us to become what and who we are.

All those events made him into the person that made that last little entry that caught your attention.

To wish it never happened to him is robbing him of the very things that made him who he was! :)

Uncle Mike

I loved this post! How thoughtful and sweet.It is...

2009-03-13T17:24:00.000-07:00

I loved this post! How thoughtful and sweet.
It is really interesting to think of those that came before as real people, with real pain and real stories. It's just so easy to kind of pass them off as not having lived as fully as us, isn't it?
You're a sweetie.

The great joy for me in believing in life after de...

2009-03-13T07:29:00.000-07:00

The great joy for me in believing in life after death is living with the hope of reuniting with those who left us behind. Can you imagine the joy for this man reuniting with his wife and sons lost so long ago? :)

A beautiful song on this subject was crafted by the late Dan Fogelberg entitled "Forefathers" .. it is the history of his own ancestors in song. A humorous, haunting, thought-provoking melody and lyric.

(Enjoy Wales - I'm told that's where my family name is from but nothing concrete to connect to it. Ling or Lyng)

This is a beautiful piece of writing. And it mirr...

2009-03-12T20:48:00.000-07:00

This is a beautiful piece of writing. And it mirrors my own passion for the family history. Not just names, but living human beings. It's so hard to understand time, so hard to believe that lives have been lived - are being lived, outside of our own world of experience, that are as real as our own. I believe that caring about them makes our hearts more complete, and teaches us a deeper love.

Well done.

perspective. this is beautiful, sweet sadness. t...

2009-03-12T13:52:00.000-07:00

perspective. this is beautiful, sweet sadness. this is our journey isn't it?

Least he was okay!

2009-02-20T22:38:00.000-08:00

Least he was okay!

I STILL want you to draw Kris and I! I'm STILL wa...

2009-01-22T16:22:00.000-08:00

I STILL want you to draw Kris and I! I'm STILL waiting for that!
I love your drawings. I always have. I think you're so good.
And the story about poor Jacques! I thought from the picture you were going to stay a spider ate him, and that you were standing on the said spider--I thought you were telling the story pretty calmly if all that happened! You always did have a deeply ingrained dread of those spidery things.
I'm sure he just had a brush with his own mortality and realized he needs to live among his own kind. Probably a good idea if you ask me. I don't like living with quite so many crawlys in close quarters. I don't like rolling over and squishing them in bed at night, and washing them down the drain in the shower in the morning.
He's cute though. I like him. Tell him hi from me if you happen to see him again!

From G: I very much enjoyed the tale of the almos...

2009-01-21T19:39:00.000-08:00

From G:

I very much enjoyed the tale of the almost-flattened Jacques. Nice narrative tone and fun spinning of the story. I'm sure he's cozy in the plant, with sun from the window and shade from the leaves, and a little moisture when I remember to water.

Love you much

Dad

LOL! Sorry, the image of you kneeling and screamin...

2009-01-21T16:55:00.000-08:00

LOL! Sorry, the image of you kneeling and screaming "JACQUES!" is just way to plausible. I totally believe it.

However, I do wish him well. He is a very interesting bug, and I'm sure has led an interesting life in your room. I really hope the cold has not gotten to him (goodness knows, it's been bitter it seems).

And, of course, I love the artwork. But you know that, since I comment on your DA page. :)

Don't stress! We'll get through this semester in one piece!!

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Yeah, I know. I don't really believe it either.....

I haven't seen - can't say hide nor hair of him, n...

2009-01-20T23:19:00.000-08:00

I haven't seen - can't say hide nor hair of him, now can I? Exoskeleton or leg of him, either. Maybe I should look around that plant and see what I can find. Margaret, are you grieving? I think that even little animals are made of spirit stuff, and when they exhibit opinions about water and housing, are probably demonstrating that they are real beings. So you can collect him later maybe and ask his help in spinning worlds.

Nice writing. Nice art. And yes, I'm not laughing out loud, because I need to be asleep, but I found you wry and witty, poops.