"every little nest needs a bird...pop goes the world..."

FLASHBACK october 2011
i'm visiting queenie and tbird in cali. my phone starts blowing up with notifications. people are inviting me to play "family feud". i check it out and i get hooked. i invite queenie. she invites bird. we spend hours...on the patio...out in the cold...playing each other. and laughing at our answers. 
FLASH FORWARD february 2012
i'm sitting in my house...relaxing by a warm fire. my phone starts blowing up with notifications. people are inviting me to play "draw something". i am terrible at it. drawing pictures on my iphone. my fat fingers getting in my way. then it dawns me...DO IT ON THE IPAD!!! i am an AMAZING artist!!
FLASH FORWARD august 2012
i'm sitting around my house...planning our big move. my phone starts blowing up with notifications. people are inviting me to play song pop. i am a musical GENIUS!! jamie will tell you...i know everything there is to know about music, movies, pop culture. my head is full of useless information. no one can beat me. people beat me. no. seriously. people. beat. me. at song pop. not often...but it happens. mostly because they hit me with horrible categories: modern rap and modern country. since i don't listen to either one, i'm playing blind. nay. i'm playing deaf. there is the occasional song i've heard...most often, i'm just guessing. 
i have some advice for beating your opponent in "song pop":

#1~when you pick a category, pick one you know. don't pick one just to throw your opponent off. what good is it if you don't know the genre either?

#2~use your earphones. you want all your attention focused on the game at hand. your musical reputation is at stake here. you don't want to accidentally hit guns 'n roses instead of hanson just because you have the good music on in the background.

#3~try to listen to the lyrics and not focus on the singers voice. some of these songs are not the original artist. i have lost many games because i was too busy thinking "cheap trick does NOT sound like that!".

#4~it's better to listen to a song all the way thru, and be sure you know it, than to take a wild guess and get it wrong. if your opponent gets it right, they take a huge jump in points and you are almost guaranteed to lose that round.

there you have it. my useless information of the day! happy poppin!!!

                    

 

^sometimes you win...sometimes you lose...sometimes it rains^

"all my life...you are a friend of mine..."

FLASHBACK 1981

betsy and i have been friends since 6th grade. we are in and out of trouble. constantly. then it happened. the kind of trouble you don't get out of. the kind of trouble that causes my dad to tell her dad we can't be friends. why? because betsy is, in fact, "a bad influence" on me. 

FLASH FORWARD 2009

betsy and i reconnect after 28 years. it starts off at a "girl's night" that kicked off when we all found each other on facebook. betsy says "do you remember when your dad..." blah blah blah? NO!! what happened?!!! we have no idea. here's what we know: we had gone to king's island; there may (or may not?) have been boys involved; and the first time we ever **ate sandwiches** kim was involved. so we've come to this conclusion: kim is the bad influence. it doesn't even matter that she wasn't involved in the "forgotten debacle of '81".

FLASH FORWARD today

september is "women's friendship month". there is something amazingly special about a woman's friendship with other women. we take on so many different roles for each other: mother, sister, cheerleader, therapist...bad influencer... 

celebrate your female friends this month... awwwww heck...celebrate them every single day...

      

 

^birds do disneyland^

                                                                  

^girl's night^

                      

 

**"eating sandwiches: a how i met your mother reference. if you don't watch, you'll never know!!**

"if there's a rock n' roll heaven...well you know they've got a hell of a band"

FLASHBACK september 18, 1970
"purple haze all in my brain...lately things don't seem the same..."
jimi hendrix died today. official cause of death: asphyxiation after an overdose of sleeping pills. he was 27 years old. 
FLASH FORWARD october 4, 1970
"freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose..."
janis joplin died today. official cause of death: heroin overdose. she was 27 years old.
FLASH FORWARD july 3, 1971
"there's blood in the streets up to my ankles..."
jim morrison died today. official cause of death: reported heart failure, though no autopsy was performed. he was 27 years old.
FLASH FORWARD april 5, 1994
"i feel stupid and contagious...here we are now entertain us..."
kurt cobain died today. official cause of death: *suicide by gunshot*. he was 27 years old.
FLASH FORWARD july 23, 2011
"and in your way in this blue shade my tears dry on their own..."
amy winehouse died today. official cause of death: alcohol poisoning. she was 27 years old.

the 27 club. to join this club you must be 27. you must be a musician. and you must die too soon. 
there are 44 members of the 27 club today. i know. i just KNOW. heaven has one hell of a band!

                         

 

                            

 

*my middle child insists this is not the case. he says it was murder. there is no evidence to support his stance. i repeat: there is NO evidence!!*