When the red red robin comes bob bob bobbin'

[clevermanka]

This morning I woke up well before the alarm (again). I stayed in bed for a little while, enjoying the quiet. Then I heard a bird chirping. I hadn't heard the birds the morning indigodreamer heard them and thought of me, but I heard one this morning. It was a beautiful sound.

St. Pat's Parade bodice: Done. cedarsong says I'm a machine. I think I've just made myself so many from this pattern, I can pretty much do it in my sleep. Same thing for when I used to make shirts for 0verdrive. From cutting board to buttonholes in three hours. I can now make a bodice for myself in five hours. Cool. Of course, that means it's time to move on to making corsets--something I could wear out clubbing or someplace other than faire.

Here is a newspaper article about my daddy. My favorite quote: "Honesty gives us a thing called inner peace," he said. "Inner peace gives us a thing called confidence. And the more confident we are, the more creative we are." My second favorite is the bit in the very last part of the article. Enjoy.

I don't know if it's the weather, the Spring energy, or what, but my body is jittery and nervous today. Like I have stage fright--the low-level butterflies that live in my stomach the day of a performance. Not (thankfully) the gut-wrenching terror I get before I go on stage. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. For now, it's a quiet expectedness that verges-on-but-isn't-quite discomfort.

Spring?

Comments

Good reporting here.

[bodandra.livejournal.com]

What a good thing for Mr. Ash to a) realize and b) talk about.

The more we know, the better choices we can make.

Re: Good reporting here.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

My dad's pretty darn wonderful. I'm lucky.

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

OK, meeting your dad has now made it to my life list. I think I would absolutely LOVE him!

And boy and howdy is spring in the air! I've got the spring flutters myself :)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

He's awesome. Spring flutters--I hope that's what it is, and not some freakish harbinger of doom.

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

Doom?!?

Gods, I hope not. I get this way every spring so it seems normal to me :)

[nottygypsy.livejournal.com]

Doom's harbinger is doing the laundry! Your Dad is teh cool, I'm the weird one in my family.

[archway.livejournal.com]

GREAT article! THANK YOU for sharing....

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I like to spread the dad-love around. He's a great guy!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/]

You're dad is fancy baby! I didn't know! That's awesome, for you and the world.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/]

"You're dad is fancy baby!"

At least on the psych/philoso level. Of course, I can't comment on the rest of him. :)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Well, he does have really good legs. =D

[magdaleneseal.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing this article on your dad. I printed it out for my own reference. It is a great piece and found it just what I needed today. Thanks!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Hurray! That's great, and you're very welcome!

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Great article! I sure wish our stodgy old traditional Union and academia could instill a bit of that.

Spring! I'm *smelling* it. I love it. I feel more alive and ready for anything. .. did I mention horny? It's in the air, Maybe just went into her first heat.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Spring! I'm *smelling* it. I love it. I feel more alive and ready for anything. .. did I mention horny? It's in the air,

Wow, I took care of that with Fetish as soon as I possibly could. From all the horror stories I'd heard from friends, I didn't want anything to do with that nightmare. My condolences! Have a fun weekend! =D

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

She's not so bad, partly because she just doesn't have a true meow. Her yowl is a funny low call and not very loud. I can just wait it out and then get her spayed, I imagine, .. it's a big house and we can contain her in one room. ;)

Maybe Maybe's new-found voice will help her develop her meow.