Tupperware Party

As an independent Tupperware Consultant, I go to people's homes and demo the benefits of Tupperware products. Here's a fun spoof on Tupperware parties -- none of my hosts' guests get this excited about plastic -- must be my technical presentations.



Even more fun is this picture of lamps I found online. How does the plastic keep from melting or burning? Must be that lifetime warranty!

80's music

During the early-to-mid 80's, I loved music. In 1986, I published a fanzine called Blank Expression. It was a way for my friends and I to write about the music we loved. For the first two issues, we reviewed bands we'd seen and records we'd bought. We included poetry and comics. It was fun because it was a way to combine my love of music with everything I was learning from working in magazine publishing. I remember reading the reviews while I typed them into my Macintosh Plus, and laughing because we were just being ourselves when we wrote. It didn't matter if we didn't even know which band we were reviewing. Here's are some of my favorite bands from that era:

New Order "Love Vigilantes"



The Rain Parade "This Can't Be Today"


Danny and Dusty "Baby We All Gotta Go Down"

Wild Music

Eric and his friend Tai like to play "rock band." They put on sunglasses, and pick up whatever instruments are lying around, and start jumping on our green plaid couch. Eric calls this form of music, "Wild Music" because "it's fun." I call it, "go ahead and destroy my beautiful 30-year old couch with the saggy cushions because I really want a new couch."

(Don't let my husband read that, he LOVES the green plaid couch -- kinda matches his 30-year old golf pants, right?)

The Cookie Song

Here's Eric's favorite song, he calls it the "Cookie Song" aka "Ce Petit Coeur" by Francoise Hardy.





ce petit coeur qui ne bat pour personne
ce petit coeur qui ne bat que pour lui
á peine si ce petit coeur s'étonne
d'avoir pu changer ma vie

ce petit coeur ennuyeux, monotone
qui ne sait rien faire que pleurer sur lui
tout juste si ce petit coeur frissonne
lorsque le mien lui sourit

peut-áªtre qu'un jour il souffrira
mais ce ne sera pas pour moi
et ce jour lá il m'oubliera
ce petit coeur que je n'oublierai pas

peut-á tre qu'un jour il souffrira
mais ce ne sera pas pour moi
et ce jour lá il m'oubliera
ce petit coeur que je n'oublierai pas

ce petit coeur qui passe tout son temps
á s'écouter et á se regarder
ce petit coeur á qui il plaá t tant
de se savoir trá¨s aimé

ce petit coeur c'est bien lui pourtant
dont le mien ne peut se passer
oui, ce petit coeur c'est bien lui pourtant
dont le mien ne peut se passer

Let go of my Lego

I was working from home this afternoon when a friend called to say her son wanted a playdate with my son. Thinking this was an invitation for my son to visit, it turned out to be a request for babysitting at our house. After much deliberation, I decided, well, let's try working at home during a playdate even though I've got to get my work done AND get the house ready for a birthday party this weekend (how can I clean up during a playdate?).

Two hours later I discovered that while I was concentrating on work, the boys had taken down my LEGO Batman Arkham Asylum and my friend's son had smashed it on purpose (I'd worked 'til 1:30 am putting those bricks together!). At the time, I reprimanded both boys because even though my friend's son started it, my son didn't stop him from continuing. Luckily for both of them, I'm a Lego expert so I was able to put everything back together in record time this second time around.

Glassmaking

I went to a glass making studio with my co-workers today, and made 4 glass flowers and 4 glass ornaments. Not sure what to do with the flowers -- it's not as though they have a nice scent, in fact, being glass, they don't have any scent at all. The ornaments are nice and spotty. It was hard not to pass out from the heat and being all out of breath.

Eric had a playdate at Tai's this morning so that I could go to the studio. Eric made reindeer antlers at school. He loves school.

My First Post

School was great today. Teacher Kerry played the "Heigh-Ho" song from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. A couple of the girls danced and played the musical instruments they'd made. Eric sat still in his chair -- not wanting to lose his seat.