Well TheMommy has been really tired – she had the shakes a couple of days ago (explained by a sugar low) – then yesterday she was nauseous most of the morning and now today I am staying home from work because she has…well…we’re gonna find out what she has soon.
But let me just say this…if she has what we think she has…it’s name will start with an ‘M’ or maybe an ‘H’.
Hoy, it’s gonna be an interesting day.
Here I am, up at 02:00 local time, watching a cricket match…strike that…THE cricket match of the year.
India vs Pakistan in the 2011 cricket world cup semi-finals.
I don’t really feel it in my gut, just how important this game is to my friends from India, but at some level I MUST get it because well…here I am. I know that many, many, MANY (all?) Indians and Pakistanis regard this game as the biggest game for their side since 2003 – the last time these sides met in a world cup match. Those same fans are up also in their various offices and homes, watching.
Can’t say I would be here, alone in my office, at this un-holy hour, watching this match if it weren’t for those self same colleagues who took an afternoon last summer to show me and others how to play.
I am, amazingly, mostly tracking the terminology and even some of the more subtle details. I don’t have a good idea of pace and run-rate of this caliber game other than what I can glean from the emotion of the crowd and from the tone of the announcers.
I am very happy that the stream includes English speaking commentary – and that the game didn’t start on IST. 🙂
Go Blues!
This morning we woke up and wanted to do/make something. LaGrande reminded us of her birthday present last year – a pottery wheel (such as it is).
So she put in the batteries (yes [sigh] it runs on batteries) kneaded the clay and she/we “threw” a few pot-shaped items.
We all got very dirty and scratched a little bit of that “make stuff”-itch.
Later we all painted fish – for a certain, imminent birthday party. (no pics)
No – not the band.
LaGrande Mermaid (aka a Seagull in this case) starts from the far left in this video of her Animato dance group doing their 1st prize winning rendition of “Positoovity” at a recent dance competition.
“Positoovity” is a number in the Broadway production of “The Little Mermaid”
Take it from a gull who knows.
I’m sure there’s any number of reasons, psychologically speaking, for breaking from the norm:
– mid-life *sis
– personal bets
– learning opportunities
– mimicry
– comfort
– discomfort
– celebration
Whatever the cause (I can’t claim to know or even be objective enough to dive in and find out) this is the result.
I guess I could always just say
The Mermaids did it.
ten years ago
today,
she said yes.
It’s no secret that LaGrande Mermaid spends a lot of time at the dance studio.
What seems to be less evident, at least by a count of dance related bliefs, is how much she likes it.
This last weekend her group, named Animato, competed again; the season runs Jan through Feb/Mar and next weekend *might* be her last Animato performance of the 2011 season.
This weekend they performed two numbers a jazz number called “Proud Mary” in the blue costumes and a musical theater number called “Positoovity” in the white costumes. They did exceptionally well this time.
Positoovity got best overall (out of three numbers), the highest allowable ranking, and a special judges award while Proud Mary received the second highest ranking (both in the same age category) and another special judges award.
Without further ado,
Today the choice was teacup – and looking back it was nice for a change not to worry about the proportions of an organic subject.
I have practice with inanimate, or man-made, shapes.
Here we see LaGrande holding the handle on her left and Biscotti on her right.
TheWeeOne is preparing to take a bite out of a very large marshmallow from our huge cup of snocoa.
This snow was widely predicted (my new favorite weather predictor is Cliff Mass, the Atmospheric Weather Sciences Prof. at the UW – clearly he knows his stuff).
But even as widely predicted as it was it still accumulated faster than I thought possible.
In a few short hours it went from dry as a bone to about 4 inches, that’s fast.
Enjoy it while it lasts (or if you prefer a warmer clime…rest assured it won’t last long).
These are ~13 to 15 second time exposures taken between about 22:00 and 02:00.
(I worked tonight and will continue early tomorrow ’cause I FULLY expect to stay home and and play in the snow with The Mermaids)
While I was in the great state of Tennessee I made sure to pick up a little sumthin’ for The Mermaids.
Figured ya’ll’d like ta see um in’t.
blief 