You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby.....

On this day in history my beautiful mom was born. I miss her everyday but more on this day. 

Thoughts on a Thursday

Learnin’ to Love lentils...... 

The doctor recently told me I can eat as many lentils as I want.

Bowlfuls!

It won’t bother my blood sugar at all!

 …..yay…… 

Why can’t it ever be ‘You can eat as much chocolate as you want’……?

Wordless Wednesday

Look What I Made

I was fooling around with some of my 'Calder-esque' patterns and I came up with this.

I can't decide if I like it or not... 

It kind of reminds me of the old TV station's sign off signals doesn't it.....? 

(.....maybe it would make nice wrapping paper.....?)

Punny Monday

I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it's getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

(footnote:I'm running out of good puns so I've decided to switch to PARAPROSDOKIANS.

PARAPROSDOKIANS (Winston Churchill loved them) are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous.)

Wish in One Hand……

I wish…..

I could sing like Judy Collins

Paint like Monet

Sketch like Tommy Kane (or Danny Gregory, I’m not picky!)

Compose like Gershwin

Play piano like Liberace

Speak French like a Parisian

Write like Harper Lee…………

“Wish in one hand, shit in the other; see which one gets filled first,” my mother used to say.

Damn her wisdom!!!!

Thoughts on a Thusday

Florida-isms

Who knew when I moved here I would have to learn a whole new language. After all, I didn’t leave the country. I just moved south. I’ve lived in the south before but this is totally different than the genteel south of my youth where if you didn’t address your elders with ‘ma’am’ or ‘sir’ you were just ignored.

This is entirely different.

The dialect is totally unique. Not just the accent but the syntax of the language.

I understand the accent. I understand the different emphasis on the syllables. INsurance instead of insSURance….REcycle instead of reCYCLE.

But what are still completely baffling to me are the idioms.

Down here you don’t ‘call in sick’ to work you ‘call out sick’ or ‘call off work’. (Does that mean everyone in the office gets a day off because work was ‘called off’?)

When things are broken they ‘needs fixed’  (and if you are thinking, like I did, these are just phrases used by less educated locals, this particular one is used in a television commercial for a very large home improvement company!)

If you were born here you’re a ‘cracker’ everyone else is a ‘foreigner’. (and just for the record, in the 16 years we’ve been here I’ve only met 4 ‘crackers’!)

I was taught ‘cracker’ was a derogatory word not to be used but apparently down here it’s a source of pride.

‘Staff up’ for season is another one used in a local commercial. Our economy is heavily tourism based so a majority of jobs are seasonal. But ‘staff up’? Sounds a lot like ‘man up’ to me. In that sense “We need to ‘staff up’ for season' takes on a whole ‘nother connotation …..

Wordless Wednesday

À La Alexander Calder

I seem to be fixated on drawing these stylized hands. Adding shapes à la Alexander Calder's mobiles. Just mindless doodles in my sketchbook as I sit and listen to TV at night. It keeps my mind (and body) from wandering into the kitchen for a snack....and that's a good thing. 

Punny Monday

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

(footnote:I'm running out of good puns so I've decided to switch to PARAPROSDOKIANS.

PARAPROSDOKIANS (Winston Churchill loved them) are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous.)