4 posts. I must be bored.

Here's what the poem generator thinks of my blog: The shadow sculptures, They are SERIOUSLY cool. I dream in the Squire and cockleshells, and cockleshells, and propped them down rivers and after making gobs of two images which we got lost, we charmed the glass I mean, this big project in Venetian canals. SO damn photogenic! posted by madcoolninjas. and measurements. the squiggles and then leaving tomorrow morning.

Gorgeous.

Imagine seeing this hanging over a canal in Venice. It's a chandlier by Dale Chihuly, the emperor of glass. I saw a PBS documentary on him, and he is so so cool. He did this big project in Finland, and after making gobs of gorgeous glass, he and his team floated them down rivers and propped them up against Stonehenge and floated them away in Venetian canals. SO incredibly beautiful.

CAKE!!

CAKE!!
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We went to Pennsylvania. There were a lot of our relatives. Luckily, there was also cake.

Masters of Deception

Check out some of these movies of Shigeo Fukuda's sculptures. They are SERIOUSLY cool. I especially recommend the shadow sculptures, in which a spotlight reveals that seemingly disorganized blobs of cutlery cast beautiful shadow-shapes. SERIOUSLY cool.

In which we drive to Phoenix...

Who, me?
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...and much merriness ensues. New pictures up on Flickr from the "roadtrip" to K's interview. We sang along to our ipods on the radio, we took a left-hand highway exit, we got lost, we found the spaceship-like Phoenix main library, we rode the glass elevators, we met Rosie, we ate Pizookie, we charmed the waitress, and, as always, K looked incredible in all the pictures. The girl is just so damn photogenic!

TOday

I'm going to lunch with Ch. today, and then he's leaving tomorrow morning. When will he be back? Oh, I dunno, DECEMBER. Whatever. IN other news: Cl. and I are almost done cataloging the pots here at home, and I may be heading to Scottsdale today with K and Cl to keep K company on her drive to her scholarship interview. Yay for out of the house!

Hi

Hi
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I took this with the Elph, sitting in the very chair in which I now sit. It's purty, especially bigger. Hee. I like it.

Aren't they gorgeous?

Portrait
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Here we are, the squire and I, basking in the glow of the new gelateria. Sugar makes us so pretty! The mysterious squiggly action is the strange result of "night snapshot" mode on my new camera. I think it's a composite of two images and it takes the background first slowly (hence the squiggles) and then the foreground fast (hence our faces, in reasonable focus and non-squiggly). But that's just a theory. Anywhoo, we're looking pretty fine.

But wouldn't it melt?

I mean, this is definitely not a long term clothing investment.

Right Now...

...I am eating chocolate mousse. I thought you should know.

ET Phone Home

Tonight was all that and a cup of gelato...until Dad called me home. He's gotten more worry-wart. Hum. I mean, it's not that I'm complaining, 12:30 is great, but they definitely didn't used to call. Something is different lately, and I can't quite figure it out.

Warning: extremities extremely unsafe...

In the past week, I have injured three fingers and two toes. That is a full 25% of my digits! Clearly there is some sort of dangerous epidemic sweeping the land. Beware!

Too much.

As we were leaving Justin's house and his slideshow of the Grand Canyon trip (no, read it right. Slideshow.), Charlie stopped dead in his tracks, threw his arms up, and said "So much Mormon!" Apparently 4 days in the wilderness with a Mormon youth group was a bit much, or as Charlie put it "an exercise in patience." Nice to know he won't be joining the dark(er) side. He then added that he and I would do something "fun" as opposed to the Mormon slideshow and corruption inspection before he leaves, which is, if I haven't mentioned it, in about a week. Harumph. How dare he leave me here? :-)

Daddy, what do Mormons listen to?

Well, little Debbi, as evidenced by the CD Justin gave Mary, entitled "Happiness," they listen to the following (or at least they give it to the girls they propose to):

1. You've got a Friend in Me - Toy Story
2. Piano Sonata - Someone Famous
3. Believe - Yellowcard
4. Don't Worry; Be Happy - Bobby McFarrin
5. Sing to the Lord - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
6. Falling For the First Time - Barenaked Ladies
7. That's What Friends Are For - The Jungle Book (acappella version)
8. That's the Way it Is - Celine Dion
9. Friendship - Anything Goes
10. Hakuna Matata - The Lion King
11. Jackie Chan - Inside Out A Cappella
12. Something very Drum-y and chantey
13. Jellyman Kelly - James Taylor
14. Good Morning Life - Dean Martin
15. Lean on Me - Acappella version
16. Chopsticks
17. Man of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys
18. Favorite Things - The Sound of Music
19. Rejoice - Someone Operatic
20. Rockin' Robin - The Jackson 5
21. Something swingey
22. Me Neither - Brad Paisley
23. Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
24. We Can Fly - Peter Pan

Oh. Well that's good to know!

Someone

...hit Macaulay Culkin with the "hideous mug shot" stick. Man oh man.

Cupcake Nation

The page, it is different!

That's it, I'm moving to Florence

FINALLY, someone who understands the way I feel about chocolate.

One more reason why I can never be a Mormon (no matter how cute he is)

Wholesome Swimwear. I shudder.

Babies are not for me (for a very long time)

Despite her heartbreaking loveliness, I am mildly insane from all of the staying with Splash. I mean, she's lovely, sure, but she bites. All the time. I kid you not. And she can't be left alone for even 10 minutes. She howls the most piteous howl and I have to come down and talk her off the ledge, reassuring her that no, she is not being eaten alive by the vile and poisonous ants from the planet Nobodylovesme. The constant attention-giving? Not for me. Not yet, nor for a very long time. Rest assured, A, no neices and nephews for the forseeable forever. They're so much cuter in controlled doses....

So Cute I Could Just Die

Splash 1
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She is the most adorable thing ever. EVER. OH, and nice picture, A.