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I'm making a separate entry
for gift suggestions for
Jerry's b-day (party)
next Sunday.
To those of you who see this in que... sorry. I've no better place to do this.
First, he's got a wish list on AMAZON
http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/S6XBNN5O4WHV/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go
We are IN LOVE with, and have none of the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON movie toys.
(Loathe though I am to send you to Wall Mart, thats the only place I saw them.)
Hes in to the following, and can ALWAYS build on the series.
Thomas/Brio trains- wooden series.
(YES, Imaginarium / generic versions are fine YES.
-BUT NOT IKEA brand-
No more trains themselevs please, thankyou.)
Lego
Knex (standard size)
Magnext
Tinker Toys (standard size)
Quadrilla
(On SALE at O'Doodles in chestnut hill.)
Leapster 2 GAMES.
Hot Wheels 'trick track' seres sets.
(NO WATER version toys... THANKYOU.)
(Look for trick track compatable cars only, if you are so inclined.)
*** Fave books (Kid friendly novels or storybooks),
kid friendly art supplies, movie passes (AMC preferred),
-Build a Bear Workshop- or -Toys-r-Us- gift cards,
& age apropriate (or older) games are always welcome.
Please avoid mass produced plastic toys from china UNLESS they are on the above list. You know the ones with the teeny tiny parts that hide in our carpet and get stepped on, and hurt us while they get broken... if they arent first vaccumed away, or chewed up by cats. THANKYOU for understanding.
I will add more to this post this week.
THIS IS NOT AN OPEN INVITATION.
Things do fall thru the cracks, so if you expect /ed to see an invite, drop me a p.m.
if you dont see one in a day or two.
If you were not directed here by an e-vite from me,
please understand,
this was the best place available to me for posting
my usual exhausting littany of details.
Check back HERE for DETAILS as I build this entry.
...the techno monkies are giving me a HARD TIME today...
Come and celebrate
Jerry’s 5th birthday milestone
in High Egyptian Style
~
(5 thousand miles, ‘Due UP’ in to the cosmos, to be exact!)
FYI. This is not just some dumb kid party,
Jerry will be the center of attention, of course,
but there will be plenty of g’rup (“bonk bonk, to the head“)
interest to keep the ‘dults sane.
Were having a ~STARGATE~ party…
JUST for the excuse of building a BIG ArSS pyramid
out of cardboard boxes
The serious event info, like time, date and place,
are in the e-vite.
RSVP on the e-vite web site, thankyou.
all DETAILS behind cut
( Read more... )
HENCE, pyramids and aliens. (Which is okay, cause we all KNOW the aliens REALLY built the pyramids... even though some FOOLS think it was Elvis. I imagine -that- has SOMETHING to do with the Memphis connection...)
So, dry clean those space suits, dust off the pith helmets and set phazers to FUN!!! (Lord help us... the puns are fruitful.) (see **** note below.)
Tentative schedule and list of silly entertainment:
noon
Open house for the early birds who want to be set to a task.
(I promise there will be no giant bricks to push up ramps.)
1:pm
Decorating of boxes and crafts begin.
2:pm
Time to start building our pyramid!
2:30
Lollipop pyramid game.
We KEEP playing till every -kid- wins a trip in to
Tot-n-quacken’s tomb,
(which they get to raid,) for prizes.
3:pm
It's toilet paper Mummy time!
(Moar Prizes. Like: Most MummyRiffic wrap job
AND best ‘Walk like an Egyptian!’)
4:pm
Showtime!
4:30
CAKE!
5:pm
SPACE Pinata.
(There's no talking the lil man out of it.)
What will fall out this year? Ducks, tooth brushes, who knows...
5:30
Awards
for Boxes and Costumes!
6:pm
Wind down time.
7:pm
Yer helping me clean up
if yah love us SO MUCH that yer still around
~
Available to the kiddies all day:
- Crafts (Egyptian ‘jewelry‘ decorating.)(Pyramid box decorating.)
- Rob’s stupendous STARGATE obstacle course.
- Sand box dig for artifacts of alien or earthly variety.
- and whatever else we dream up.
* (all the above are Subject to reality!)
Eric (Jerry's papa)
has agreed to entertain the kids (big and medium)
with a little show. (An ageless juggling variety act.)
And can you say 'super duper splediferous photo op'
with a bunch of toilet paper wrapped mummies
in front of a cardboard box pyramid
wearing self crafted Egyptian jewelry?
I CAN!!!
BRING YOUR CAMERAS!
RAIN?
NOW HERE'S THE THING... Its April...
so IF it threatens to rain, the party will be shunted back three weeks.
Rain postponement will be decided by the 16th.
(**Rain Date, May 8. Unless it rains again,
in which case you’ll be contacted again.)
As ALWAYS, I'll probably endeavor to overdo it
on the “finger food…”
Plan to enjoy!
You need not bring fudz unless you’ve got one of them persnickety kidlets
who wont eat anything.
HOWEVAH!!!
If you've an Egyptian delicacy or Alien edible to show off,
do feel free to bring it!
( LET ME KNOW NOW ABOUT ANY ALLERGIES!)
(last year there was a last minute peanut allergy surprise
that caused me to loose part of my menu.)
See our cell numbers on the e-vite.
Use Rob’s only DAY OF please.
Driving and Parking.
GPS and MAP QUEST have some trouble finding the house…
We are closest to the corner of State and Beverly.
BEST parking option on BEVERLY.
(DO NOT PARK in the Jewelry store lot.
Use that for loading and unloading ONLY.
* FYI: We have cats. (and dust) Be medicated!
** A note about the BOX PYRAMID.
Please bring larger boxes, in clean and decent-ish condition.
ONES YOU WONT NEED BACK. Close to plain-ish brown preferred.
FEEL INSPIRED TO PRE-DECORATE!!
(Beer or liquor store boxes, turned inside out, would work great.)
If each family/group/person/couple brings five boxes,
we should have a fantastic result.
*** T.P. Mummies.
We have t.p. for each kid sized contestant. If you, the parent, know your kid will probably want to wrap YOU instead... or if you wanna do it too just for giggles... you MIGHT wanna bring some more t.p. from home.
**** Dress.
Come in play-clothes for an interstellar safari
that MAY involve tempera paint, markers, sidewalk chalk,
Flying Alien Guts and/or excessive Glitter!
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!
(Military Fatigues, Egyptian formal wear, archeological finery,
safari wear, little gold symbols painted on your foreheads or
-an anachronistic blend there of- encouraged
by tempting you with PRIZES for costumery for all!
Yes, you can even do trendy steam punk!)
NEED GIFT IDEAS?
Check out Jerry’s AMAZON wish list
for gift suggestions.
http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/S6XBNN5O4WHV/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go.
AND/OR check back here
for an occasionally updated list of ideas.
SEE SEPARATE POST ABOVE FOR IDEAS
~also~
CASH is Pharaoh!
(Get it, cash is KING?…)
The kid does not lack for “STUFF” and
our apartment is small,
so
donations towards memberships at cool places like the zoo
or such like would be FANTABULOUS!
Sorry if that seems crass,
but it’s Thoth’s honest truth!
toast dirk... psst, pass this on.
Feb. 19th, 2010 09:58 pmRaise your glass and
raise some magic for Dirk
at midnight (Saturday) e.s.t.
psst... pass it on!
A COAST TO COAST and beyond
toast for ~Nathan DIRK Smiler~
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=32
At -midnight e.s.t.- (eastern standard time)
this Saturday Night, February 20, untill a wee while later...
Join us in raising a toast, in your choice of tradition,
for our recently departed -Nathan ~Drik~ Smiler-.
Friends and Family will be gathered in VA to celebrate.
At midnight, Rabbit will lead us ~all~, wherever we are, in a toast celebrating his life.
I asked that it be 'official' to 'syncronize' toasts
for whomever wants to join...
and the Rabbit sayeth:
"Yes, that would be very appropriate, having all of his friends around the world toasting him at exactly the same time! I will add/update my post, and if you would also like to spread the word, that would be good."
Psst, pass it on by event evite or txt.
to whomever you think might be desirous,
wherever we/they are in the world.
Raise your glasses and raise some magic!
-Requests and offers of web casts have been made.-
-Offers to recieve people via Cell phone have been planned.-
Watch Dirks pages for confirmation and details.
(If you miss that toast time, it has been suggested
that YOU do it at MIDNIGHT wherever you are.)
I have a car i could probably trade for the week. (I say probably because I havent asked rob about it yet.)
I jsut posted a requested endorsement of my birthing team to http://www.wombtobloom.com .
( http://www.wombtobloom.com/baby-pregnancy-directory/midwives/womanwise-midwifery.html )
Im pretty happy with, it so im also sharing it here.
When I was 14 years old, I saw a documentary about birthing in water... it made so much sense.
On discovering motherhood was eminent, my research in to water-birth as an option yielded little fruit.
Half way through my pregnancy, a friend asked: 'Please tell me you're going to have the baby the "normal" way?...'
I answered: 'Well, if my normal, you mean -squatting over a leaf lined hole in the woods the way American Indians did... then no...'
Lack of spiritual birthing options led me toward the idea of home birthing, which would seem as ordinary as the sun... but can be a daunting idea for the modernly medically inundated. Woman Wise held my hand, even though I decided late in to my pregnancy that I even wanted a home/ water birth.
Woman wise, from the moment we met them, were kind, engaging, comforting, educating, obliging and pragmatic.
All elements of major necessity in ANY birth.
I shared the home birth experience with Woman Wise, my partner, my mother, my baby's goddess mommy, a photographer, a videographer and a FEW -more- of our closest friends... How else could one enjoy such a blessed home birthin accidental hot tub/sauna party!
My partner was there in the birthing tub with me to hold my hand, and to truly share my experience. He guided our son from the inside safety of me and introduced him to the outside world.
Cardinals were singing in the garden outside our open spring windows as our boy drew his first breath.
The woman wise team sat jovially on the side lines cheering us on. Quiet when appropriate, channeling deep guttural groans when necessary, and joking when called for.
I was happy to share my home birth with Karen and Woman Wise, and I hope to do so again.
The experience was worth every penny and every effort.
PLEASE dont desitate to contact me if you wish to discuss my birthing experience.
Namaste!
Martine, proud mama to Jerry.
PHOTO because i really enjoy making my freinds squirm...
moonflower
Jul. 21st, 2009 08:21 pm
Today at 2:pm, I found a moonflower ready to pop, so I snapped some pictures...
and at 6:pm i came back and squeesed off some more....
Then i headed out to the veggie patch for one hour to do some gardening, expecting to come back and get another image
and one more just to show scale.
theese images as of yet untweaked
(no subject)
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photographers gave us an assignment/chellenge.I didnt shoot something new, but had a perfect entry.
Theese images unedited in any way, straight from camera, a lil bit cropped,
shot from the hip on the fly.
i have plans for this one... and someday when im all unpacked... ill do it
great grandmothers hands:
an 'expected' image, but presented here for the sake of greasing the creative wheel.
and two more
on the left, comparing great grandmoms hands.
on the right, and absolutely unsoliscited kiss.
in this image, ages 3 and 87
all cross postie n sheit
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kylecassidy 's photographers group.Hello all.
I figure since ive popped up making comments on images of late,
I might as well drop a few images to give myself some credibility.
Ive been 'shooting' since i was about 8.
THIS is what I consider to be my first true "photograph".
Taken with my mothers brownie camera (from her childhood) in the mid 70s.
When you are 8, turning the square format brownie camera is QUITE the innovation!
I shot ALLOT thru the late 80s and early 90s.
Even though i worked for MID CITY CAMERA...
Was engaged to the lab mannager there...
The endeavor was too expensive for me.
Between the costs, and splitting with said lab mannager
I hung up may camera for the most part in 1994.
With the coming of my first son, i invested in a meduim level digi camera
(which im still limping thru with today, cause I cannot afford a better one due to the divorce)
that Digi camera has helped keep me sane thru parenthood.
New parents get very little time to them selves... and on rare occasion
the microcosim of fungus and mushrooms were a fantasy world I could dissapear in to for a little while.
Here are a few:
from the TINY
to the enormous
to being interactivly creative
theres alot of fungus amungus
its an easy target to be sure...
but there are considerably more worlds in there to be seen than i ever immagined.
Theese fungus images are not tweaked by any editing programs. I try to shoot straight form the hip, so to speak...
for me image editing isa different area that photography... so I wanted my introduction to be 'straight up' images
without after thought.
if you are a MySpacer, you can see more fungus shots here
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cf
then you can go on to blissfully net stalk me in all my photo files.
(The images that were not BY me are marked so...)
(Unless theyre OF me... which sould make it balringly obvious theyre not by me.)
Im not nessecarilly looking for a crit or input.
I just wanted to make my introduction of sorts.
...I'd call myself an 'advance beginner shutterbug' at best...
Hope you enjoyed!
(no subject)
Jul. 7th, 2009 12:46 ami dont often shout from the roof tops about a flick
but this was damned cute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnk4g1yiY..G0
you can catch the full length its snipped from on sundance
http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500..331085
(paris je t'aime)
J-bear and I hit the franklin to see an I-max under the sea movie... and to view the STAR TREK exhibit... scroll on down to see HOW DEEPLY i can implant my FOOT in my MOUTH at a geek fest exhibit!
MEANWHILE... if YOU go to the exhibit, dont wear any GREEN, cause if you do, the green screen photos dont work out so well. AND do bring the extra cash for the 3-d flicker pic of you in the transporter...
FD @ KD 2009
Jun. 9th, 2009 12:47 pmFreak Day,
Kings Dominion.
Saturday
27th June, 2009
(hope i didnt botch the date...)(confirmation?)
quoth the
kitteblue The dark horde descends upon KD for our annual debauchery and enjoyment. Meet at noon in front of the park, or again at 5PM by the bumper cars. Presale tickets are $30 ($44.99 at the gate) and can be bought on the Kings Dominion web site through corporate partners and the code is now DCFRK02.
Last years pics: http://justaputz.multiply.com/photos/alb
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Thousands of years ago... back in1989 (that's 20 years folks)... civilization as we know it was a weird an' wacky animal. Jack Nicholson was the Joker. TV thought a show like "Baywatch" was a good idea. The Album of the Year was "Don't Worry, Be Happy" (for #@*!! sake!) Fortunately, some freak outa Cleveland just put out "Pretty Hate Machine", so there was hope.
An a pack of prime-evils started a little thing called Freak Day at Kings Dominion!
Meet at the main entrance around NOON for photographs and discount passes. Then around 5 o'clock, gather at the Bumper Cars for our group photos and ritualized combat between age 'n' treachery vs. youth 'n' their mad skillz.
pstt... pass it on... a 20th anniversary extravaganza!
all cross postey and cat shit
May. 26th, 2009 02:15 pmCome to the Second Annual City Kitties Art Auction!
For five measly dollars, you can:
- Buy great art from local (and not so local) artists
- Win fabulous raffle prizes
- Listen to great music
- Eat and drink with everybody who's anybody
- Support a great Philadelphia charity
When: Friday, May 29, 6:30 - 10:00pm
Where: Studio 34 at 4522 Baltimore Avenue
How Much: $5 at the door (which goes towards any winning bid)
Bidding starts as low as $5! For more information, including information about the artists and performers, check out our website: www.citykitties.org/art
See you there!
A reminder for my
phreaky parent phriends
in the Philly area
this coming sunday, may 31
meet us at the
Laurel hill cemetary
for the (raindated)
semi annual
KINDERBATS picnic.
Pack a Picnic.
Bring a treat to share.
Dress for pictures.
We will have our (belated but still fun) egg hunt for the kids.
Feel free to bring filled eggs to hide, and or other treats.
(Consider bringing a small toy/toys that your kid/s have lost interest in
that can be hidden. It will be new and exciting to someone else.)
the event is free. (But we sugget a donation to the cemetary.)
Meet inside the gate at high noon.
Donations are accepted towards Members of Laurel Hill or goodies from the gift shop,
their t-shirts are beautiful and everything goes towards the restoration of the grounds.
Otherwise, free entry and parking inside the gates.
Laurel Hill was founded in 1836 as Americas 1st rural garden cemetery.
Its honored as a National Historic Landmark & unique destination
for connoisseurs of history, art, architecture & horticulture.
And also for educating our children in such a beautiful place.
Sunday hours 9:30am-5:00pm
After meeting inside the gates, we shall wander en mass to our fave spot
where someone (prolly ME) will have run ahead to hide all goodies collected
at the gate.
Drop me a reply if you think youll attend.
My advance apology for posting this sixteen times this week.
more about Kinderbats and gothparents meetups
http://gothparents.meetup.com/13/
more about laurel hill
http://www.thelaurelhillcemetery.org/
kinderbats
May. 18th, 2009 11:30 am
FYI Y'all
The kinderbats
annual picnic
at Laurel HIll Cemetary
is in TWO WEEKENDS
SUNDAY May 31, noon.
Pack a Picnic.
Bring a treat to share.
Dress for pictures.
We will STILL have our egg hunt for the kids event though its a BIT late for spring 'fertility rituals'... but thats okay... the kids love the spoils anyway!
Feel free to bring filled eggs or other items to include in the hiding.
*A great chance to recycle an item you little one is no longer interested in.*
(Remember, eddible items inside the eggs should be WRAPED -by factory or by you. And also remember WE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE for our trash.)
Stay in the loop... join:
almost elloquent
May. 14th, 2009 11:04 amSharing almost elloquent discourse from a discussion elsewhere. I said: "Often the simple act of voicing words out loud forces a persepctive that the internal dialog does not provide. Our internal dialog is more peppered by abstract concepst than we consciously believe, and the exercise of lining up those pictograms to translate to others often causes us to distill that which we are otherwsie not aware are as amrophic as they are. Sharing dicsourse with others is the ONLY way to truly gague our choices by anything other than a self absorbed litmas. It is my opinion that the only way to truly expand our mind and selves is by sharing REGULARLY with others in a verbal manner. It can be hard, nay, distastefull, to hold up that magnifying glass... and I for one am proud and honord to be chosen to hold the magnifying galss up to others, and invite you to do so with me. (Yah know, so long as the intent of the magnifying glass is not to FRY me like a bug... and Ive several -recent- years of being fried like a bug to know what Im sayin...)" t'would be elloquent if I could spell. ... and HE called me a "lazy communicator". FEH YOU!
heres another: http://www.youtube.com/wat..ch?v=S2EbK0NEl5A