So I Used to Eat Wood...

I ate the wood off my crib. I ate the fur off my stuffed animals. It looks like someone took an electric razor to them, but nope it was just little ole Car. For years, I thought my father called me "Dynamite". One day I said something about it to my brother and he goes "He's not calling you "Dynamite". He's calling you "TERMITE" (he's Venezuelan so there's the accent and all).

So there you go. Carla Fun Fact.

I never ate a role of toilet paper though. Glue, yes.

Inspiration

I don't meet many people that make me ask "How can I be like them?" or really more "How can I be a better version of me?" I wonder what purpose said people (person) would/will serve in my life. Will they remain on the periphery? Will they come to mean something profound to me?

The possibilities excite my imagination and me.



(amazing photo taken from flickr. a girl named Mae. her flickr name is maebeitsme. cute, huh? -- she's not who i'm referring to in this post)

"I'll Buy You One More Frozen Orange Juice...

on This Fantastic Day." Ohhhhh, I was singing this ALL DAY. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YDF0kYUduw It was lovely out today. Not that I was really out in it much. I got out for lunch and then went on a walk when I got home. I got a wee bit of sun. It was glorious.

A week from tomorrow my rowing lessons start. I'm getting all nervous. I mean I'm excited, but I'm just nervous if I'll be good at it. I hope I am.

What else? Ohhh, I'm almost 35. Yeah, that's preoccupying my every thought. You know who will be 80 the day after I'm 35? Grandfather. How fun is that? His 80 sort of steals my 35 thunder, but that's okay ; P

Ummmm, ohhhhh. OMG. The most gorgeous wisteria tree (?) is in bloom on Patterson. I talked to the owner of it and he said it's really outdone itself this year. So if you are in the area go down Patterson (I can tell you specifically where I just don't want to write it) and look at it (and smell it). As I told him, it made my whole day.

Today was one of those "the little things made today awesome" days.

Have You Ever...

Seen parts of an iconic film so much that you become convinced you've seen it before? I was certain I had seen "From Here to Eternity". I may have seen bits of it over the years if it happened to be on AMC, but after truly watching it today I can say I never saw the whole film and it was really great.

This weekend was spent entirely on the sofa or in bed. Just didn't have it in me to go out at all (except to Cipollina's to pick up my pizza). This of course gives way to thinking. A LOT of thinking.

Rethinking It All

I'm a Philip Glass fan so I loved, loved, LOVED a doc on his life entitle "GLASS: A Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts". He's such a genius. He was telling about a writer friend of his who writes to escape the chaos of the real world around him. Then he (Glass) asked "Is that escape or is that liberation?" That got me to thinking. I'm sure it's a bit of both, but if it's liberating does it even matter?

His life got me thinking about another thing that's been on my mind a lot lately. He was on his 4th wife and during the making of the doc they split up. I've been reading about several different people lately who are now in their 70's or 80's and they have 3 or more spouses, but were with each a rather long time. I'm intrigued by this since I was the first divorce in my family. I was just bred with the notion that you stick it out until the end and it was very hard on me when that was taken out of my hands by my ex-husband. Having been out of the situation now and seeing that I've blossomed being alone of the last two years, I find my notion of "to death do us part" very much changing. Maybe some couples are only meant for each other for a time. I mean hopefully you are both growing as people and it would be awesome if you are growing in the same direction. Isn't it just as likely that you would not be, and that to stay together is just holding back your growth? I spent 15 yrs in my relationship from beginning to the ultimate end (there were MANY breakups) of me leaving Orlando just to get away from the vicious cycle. Don't get me wrong, I would not be devastated at all if I finally met someone that I was meant to be with until the end. I just question the whole notion of expecting that in your relationship.

So what am I saying, that I'll look back on my life and say I had 5 husbands? God, I hope not, but I am saying that my notion of "forever" is all but gone and it doesn't sadden me like it used to. I have a more positive view of it. One of growing into something different.

(Can I just say that I love that I spend two hours watching a story about a man's life and somehow totally make it about me. I have a real gift for that. ; -P )

St. James Infirmary

So back in Orlando, the latter part of 2007 as I was gearing up for moving here I was rather taken by Oingo Boingo and downloaded a shit load of their stuff to my iPod. My MAC crashed not long before my move and since it took so long to download some of my more obscure mashups and remixes, I have never uploaded the iPod to the revamped laptop nor the new desktop as I'd lose every thing. I find my iPod to be quite the little time capsule of the the last year and a 1/2 in Orlando. There are 798 songs on it and I'd say 25% of it is "my" music and the rest the influences of a very influential music lover I know.

Anyway, back to Oingo Boingo. So I've really been getting into them more and more. They have not trumped Crowded House as my favorite group at yet, but it's getting there. I did a bunch of research on them (I read a wikipedia article) and learned so much about them-- I think. I mean, it is wikipedia. We know Danny Elfman is a colossal success with his composing and marrying Bridget Fonda, but it was interesting to learn that Oingo Boingo was originally The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo and founded in 1972 (I wasn't even MADE yet!!). Elfman's brother was the leader at first.

Of all their songs "Gratitude" is my favorite, because it strikes a chord in me. Then "Just Another Day" gets me so that 'thee' screenplay I have floating in my head (that's inspired by my father) has that tentative title. Then there's "Dead Man's Party" & "Weird Science" that I like because I'm human and they're awesome. "Kiss You When It's Dangerous" I TOTALLY love and sign to the cats whenever I'm kissing them and they're in a mood where they can easily turn on me. Then there is "St. James Infirmary" which I did not know until today was a cover of a song that -- according to Wikipedia -- no one really knows whose it is. Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway and a lot of other biggies recorded it, but I have only heard Oingo Boingo's version and I love it. It sounds SO dirty --- so you know I love it. : - P Here's a youtube link to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvxaaW-4IgM I hope the link works. If not and you want to hear it, just search St James Infirmary Oingo Boingo and it comes right up.

Gooooooood Night!! ;)

Romeo In Black Jeans- No. Make That Dress Trousers

"No Myth" is my current favorite song. I've always liked it, but since I'm putting the intention out there of finally finding my Romeo I've been liking it a lot more. I had a lot of fun this a.m. finding a pic for this post. I love how some of my postings here have become more about the photo I'm able to find. I'm going with just black trousers. No one in them. It's rather appropriate. Who oh who will wear these trousers? We shall see. ; )

(Kudos to me for no remarks about taking them off him. Ohhh damn)