Watch out--spring's coming!

so you open up
your windows and doors
and the sun and the breeze
streams across the floors
the river is rising
the birds are returning
the earth is promising
Love     (Jane Siberry)

Spring is my favorite season. I don't just love the return of warm weather, but I love it symbolically. Love the whole birth and rebirth thing. It's fitting that I came out to Nanaimo in spring, and I'm returning to Montreal in spring.

We've had a few spring days here this past month. Not that it's ever that cold--it doesn't get below 0 anymore--but there's a difference between air from the north, and air from the south. You can smell it.

You can tell people are getting restless. The gardening books are selling, the capris and dresses are selling, and this past Saturday there was a hectic feeling in the store. Lots of noise and confusion and kidlets.

As usual when the warm weather comes in I think of the line: "People are like flowers--they blossom in the sun."

For those still being dumped on by snow, or chilled out by winds, or simply depressed because winter does that to us, here's my annual Jane Siberry posting...

Don't you wish this had been your high school experience?

Hey--now we know where ?uestlove went to school!

Love, I am waiting... heartbeats accelerating

Some songs are so good, I'll take any version.

Most recent: Coeur de Pirate


Most well known: Linda Ronstadt


Reggae! Wailing Souls


Original: Kate & Anna McGarrigle

You think I'm crazy... well that's nothing

Love the way he's incorporated his old videos into this one. Re-done them, actually. Still a pretty creative guy.

Nothing makes me happier than a dancing skeleton

Got my headphones on every day of my life, gonna wear 'em until I'm dead

So lose your mind, you psycho--I think I like it too!

Go ahead and tell everybody I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man

Thank God we're counting stars and not dollars (cause I have none of the latter)

Wow--this must be the longest time I've disappeared from my bloggy! Nothing special happening. Mostly doing my crafts...

* Still finishing the gift for Mme Miroir.
* Knitting myself a cowl.
* Converted a 90s dress into a different sort of dress.
* Am plotting a t-shirt dress, made from little kids' t-shirts.
* Am making some pillow cases into knitting needle/crochet hook cases.

* Finished rewatching Game of Thrones--I'm ready for April baby! Got step-mommy hooked too.
* Watched season 2 of 
* Now watching brother-recommended sci fi series Orphan Black.
* Watching a lot of Myrna Loy - William Powell movies.

On the writing front, I dug out an old story that I'm re-reading with the possibility of epublishing. I've wanted to do this for awhile, but couldn't find anything I didn't want to massively rewrite. I finally lit upon a story that's so absolutely ridiculous, I probably wouldn't be sad to put it out in the world. We'll see.

In high school I started writing stories where the characters were based on my friends, only as adults. I continued doing this in my twenties with everyone I met--the above-mentioned story is one I wrote about my co-workers at the bookstore. But the resemblance they bear to real people is so slight, and the resemblance to real events so nil, that I don't think anyone can sue me for libel. Just changing the names...

Songs I'm still enjoying even though they're overplayed:

Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly


Wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older


And finally, kitteh pictures:

Sewing and Flea Poop

Hallos! Been doing my usual crafting and tv watching, not much blogging. Here's an update...

Decided to return home in early May. So now only two months til I leave. Eek!

After watching and lurving I Claudius, I went on to Rome (lurv) and rewatching Game of Thrones. Nothing like a little back stabbing and war mongering while crocheting a dainty scarf.

My friend Mme Poisson gave me a different sewing machine, a cute blue 60s Singer. Works great. I made little baggies for the various feet...

 

Then I took a table cloth I'd bought for its retro pattern, even though holey and stained, and made a cover. Matches perfectly! I even quilted it.

The machine's name is Hellosweetie. Cause like River Song, I turn up randomly at my sewing table, but always enthusiastically. Hello Sweetie!

 

That's my uninteresting life for now. Oh, but Haley has fleas! I can't see them,but she has flea poopoo in her fur. I didn't realize this was a hazard for indoor cats. Hmph!

"There's only room for one sweetie in this town!"

 

I don't think I posted a song for this month's countdown to return home. Here's one that keeps coming on the radio... makin' me sad!

 

 

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