1000th photograph on Flickr

harumph, originally uploaded by smoooch.

bump bump bumpity bump bump bump

bump bump, originally uploaded by smoooch.

Congratulations to Ms. Charlotte Gill and her man on their supercallafragalisticexpialadocious news and the ever expanding heart filled with love that is growing between them that is completly unlike the science model pictured but something much more elaboratly beautiful. I'm quite happy for you both.

you're beautiful

two toes, originally uploaded by smoooch.

She has made this year all about her.
She has taken trips or booked trips that please her. This includes Australia and a trip down the Nile (or an African safari. I can't remember which but both are equally impressive.)
She has decided to hire, pay for and afford a personal trainer.
She gets up early and works out with the personal trainer 4 times a week, often before work.
(This is impressive because I think this scares her.)
She's learning how to cook great food.
She purchased a garlic press to help accomplish this goal.
(I think this also may have scared her but she did it anyway.)
She loves crafts and buys her crafty friends creations.
She's generous and caring towards others.
She thinks seeing a large body of water everyday improves her life.
(Unfortunatly, Trout Lake does not count.)
She's a creative force in the company I work for.
She's not just a creative force but also a organizer and an instigater but creative force sounds better.
She's a problem solver extrodainaire.
She picks out the best in people before anything else.
She supports people emotionally with awesome feedback and encouragement.
She lives in a fantastic apartment with a fantatsic view in a fantatsic neighborhood.
She has a great shoe collection.
She's a friend of mine.
She's an ongoing inspiration and...
She is beautiful.

When your insides are on the outsides and you have no arms to cover yourself, life just isn't quite right.

innards, originally uploaded by smoooch.

don't toy with me

don't toy with me, originally uploaded by smoooch.

all arms

all arms, originally uploaded by smoooch.

Sometimes I feel like despite all my efforts things are still in pieces.

gone in another direction

on the bow, originally uploaded by smoooch.

Hope you're having a great trip baby!!

xoxJill

Retail Therapy

I went off on a moment of madness and decided I had to have the never forgotten, always thrown away NYC take out paper coffee cup. At first I looked at Maggie Mason's shopping extrodanaire sight.. Mighty Goods (Holy Moly, that place is the cat's meow!)

But I didn't find the fabled cup of papier.

With a little goo-diligence, I found the site for "impeccable gifts and unique wonders", where they sell the NYC take out cup in a ceramic version, the original paper version, and the 'lucky panhandler's coin purse' version.

But a little brousing and what did I find but the ultimate in impeccable and unique gifts (maybe). For a skant $5900 US you can become the "Become the Subject of a Documentary, Produced by a Personal Historian." The site goes on to say:


"Executive Producer and Interviewer Jurgen Kalwa will document your own life's journey with a biographical film in the style of a polished A&E Biography, artfully capturing your unique presence and character, and preserving memories for generations to come."

Talk about a home movie. People, Christmas is coming.

post script: The ceramic version should be in the post in a few days but I wouldn't turn away in shame for the "Lucky Pandhandler's Coin Purse".

some do

While some people don't let people comment on their blogs, some do. Like me. Fill up those comments people. I'm looking for content for my next entry.

Leave a comment, be a MKP star.

big greens

big greens, originally uploaded by jbates2255.

A cat that reaffirms my belief that they all came from outer space.

10 choice quotes suitable for tshirt display anytime soon

1. So they took out my spleen and rummaged through my internal organs...
2. It's not selling your soul to the devil if it pays the rent.
3. Well, it's not like you can't say you've never had your bosom in somebody's elbow before.
4. What if they test it and find that it's from his ear?!
5. Mark my words--by sunrise you will be smothered in lesbians.
6. Man, it's hotter that 50 butt cracks in here!
7. The rest of me I want made into steaks and fed to an endangered species. It's not enough anymore to just give them money. You have to give them part of yourself.
8. I don't think he's working now. All he ever talks about is monkeys and robots.
9. Facts are such a distraction from the essence of what's really happening.
10. I find the suburbs to be extremely frightening. I know they all have air conditioning, but still...

Thanks to my favorite need a break website. Hurrah.

No One Cares What You Had For Lunch- 100 ideas for your blog, Chapter 57

Thanks Maggie for putting out a GREAT BOOK. The fun arrived in my mailbox today. I loved the tshirt and I'll love the book even more. I am jived by your suggestions and find you ever so talented. Thank you thank you and thank you. I might just try each and every effervesent bubble of suggestions. Actaully by doing this I've knocked off chapter 57, possibly 37 , and 39 gets a tic . I feel number 26 is coming down the pipe. Was that chapter 14- Watch your language? I'm definitly going to 'take sides' or pull a 55 by saying well done!!

dismantling saturday mornings

dismantling saturday mornings, originally uploaded by smoooch.

You must listen to this mash up of Dubya singing John Lennon's Imagine put to Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side. Crazy.

Mad Mash Up

sailing on sunday

coming up closer.., originally uploaded by smoooch.

This past Sunday, Michael and I jumped into a cab (because we are often running behind)and headed downtown. We went to meet up with my sister and her boyfriend, Gordon. Initially we were going to continue on our way to Horseshoe Bay with public transit but I had a great idea. Let's take the cab all the way there.

The reason to go to Horseshoe Bay.. was to go sailing with my Uncle Ken and his wife Jane. But first we had breakfast, which was amusing for so many reasons that I won't go into them now.

Ken and the boat with my aunt and other family arrived and the 4 of us boarded ship for a three hour tour. The weather was great, the sea calm and it was really a lot of fun. Especially the part where I overheard my sister explaining the dynamics of metaphysical aquatics to my mother and her feigning interest behind her hat and sunglasses.

You can see the whole set of photos here. It was all alot of fun!! Thanks Ken for the wild ride in the dingy. My mother tells me you were purposefully trying to throw me in the water but I obviously foiled that plan.

11627

11627, originally uploaded by smoooch.

Awhile back.. I went to Edmonton and visited the house I grew up in. I knocked on the door to ask if it would be OK if I took photographs. No one was home so I went ahead and took a couple of shots from a distance and over a fence. I stood and looked at the house for a long time thinking about the years I spent there, the things that happened, and the friends I had. I quietly made peace with the time I spent there and moved on. Later I posted the photographs here, here, here, here, here, and here

and then I received this:

:: Please delete the photographs of my house


I appreciate that you are sentimental about your former
home, however I find it unacceptable that you entered my
yard to take pictures. If you had asked, I may very well
have allowed you to come into the yard, but you obviously
did so without requesting permission.

I also find it completely unacceptable that you have posted
photographs bearing my address on the internet, something
which I would never do for any reason.

Please delete these photographs.

To which I replied:

While I appreciate your letter..you can not force me to remove the images. I did not enter your yard. I shot from a distance with a zoom lens and from over the back fence. I do not believe I am breaking any laws and therefore will not be removing the images. I have changed the title of one to not include the full address.

As I find the tone of your letter confrontational and agressive I am formally requesting that you do not contact me again and have gone through Flickr to ensure that you do not.

Geez.. Well, I might have to sign them up for junk mail now.

family bloopers

50's and 60's type music playing over the cafe sound system, I'm singing along when I know the words thanks to listening them on AM radio in my 69 valiant at the time.

her: How do you know the words to all of these songs?
me: My car's radio plays them all the time.
her: But from now right?
me: No, don't tell anyone but I drive a time machine. The car's from the 60's and it receives a radio signal from then too.
her: looks quizically for a second as if this had a possibility of being true.

5 years later....

him: What part of England are you from?
him 2: Birmingham.(mentions a few facts)
him 2: It also where land rovers come from.
her: That's some kind of animal right?
me: Yes. Like the Mercedes. It's a kind of bird.

new digs

free, originally uploaded by smoooch.

If only I had the new digs when this little number for free turned up. Now if the couch gods will turn up and point me in the right direction and land me something groovy for the new apartment...

post script: no change of address has occured..just an addition of a room or 2 and some walls

Thanks Charlotte for making a step or 7 up!.