IHOP Girl: Monday Munchkin Music!

Monday, November 16, 2009

Monday Munchkin Music!

Happy Monday morning!!! I thought everyone might need some chipmunk fun to get you going today ;-). It's also in celebration of my planning a Scottish trip for 2011, I mean come on, I had to find a good song with an accent!! Enjoy!!!!!

5 comments:

shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: that's a catchy little song. WOT and I were bobbing our heads, the long flowing locks of greasy, stringy hair rippling to the beat. i broke the club out and started banging the cave wall, until the neighbor's old lady yelled (i'm more scared of her then any cavebear or sabretoothed cat) to quit that banging or she was gonna shuffle over and wuup-me-up. so i summarily halted. our aged hearing did not permit understanding the lyrics, but who really needs to know???

he!; 6:10 PM
Clair Bannerman (alias) said...: I've gotta a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the key....

Hellllo its the best song ever ;-)
I like this version better than the original, but you know, the great part is that you don't even need to know the words to enjoy the song!; 6:47 PM
Jess said...: What???? A 2011 Scotland trip????? Ooooh! Oooh! *raises hand* TAKE ME TOO PLEASE!! We will learn a Scottish brogue together and then convince the natives that we ARE natives...heheheheh...; 3:57 PM
shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: i don't think someone who majored in "ENGLISH" is welcome in SCOTLAND. haven't you watched Braveheart??? you'll be taken into the highlands, drawn and quartered, then decapitated. And only after that will they really begin to hurt you.

No, no, Scotland's for no posers. besides, you wanna be an aussie. or are you and your aussie-boy having a wee little disagreement?

no, methinks only true Scots can go to Scotland. posers stay away!

Ay!

ps - WOT says we should let you go and what i said was not nice. i of course disagree with her, but we all know WOT's powers of persuasion are strong, and she's not someone to trifle with. so, you can come, only as long as you bring LOTS of cash, and promise not to speak in any pubs while i'm still drinking a pint.; 7:46 PM
Clair Bannerman (alias) said...: Hahah, oh you guys make me laugh sooo hard!!! I'm glad you liked the song, and SFL - Jess 1 is sooo coming!; 10:13 AM

Movie Night In...I love a good movie!

Mega Mind
Taking Chance (Will make you cry like a baby)
Charlotte Grey (A bit of a different take on Nazi Germany)
Series - Merlin (I LOVE BBC)
Robin Hood (Okay, a love Russell Crowe, you'll have to understand that about me...)
Kingdom of Heaven (Chuck full of acting power with an epic tale)
Miss Potter (Such a great film! Story of the creator of Peter Rabbit)
How to Train your Dragon (Possibly my favorite animated movie ever...I'm like a little kid, I watch it over and over)
Buck (Sundance winner, Biography of Horse Trainer, heart touching)
Lost in Austin (Modern day spin on Pride and Prej.)

Life as a nurse...

Great words by Reb Jeff: Vayishlach: Facing Death

"Rachel died. She was buried on the road to Ephrat — now called Bethlehem. Jacob set up a pillar above her grave. It is the pillar at Rachel’s grave to this day."–Genesis 35:19-20

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidui http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_(Judaism), and preparing the notifications to the community, feel like little fragments of the sacred. I have been entrusted with the care and tending of the most powerful, complex and difficult emotions that a person can experience in life. I have been made, in some small part, a guardian of the memory of a departed soul — a life that touches upon many other lives.After dropping off my older daughter at her high school this morning, I made a stop at Treasure Coast Hospice http://www.tchospice.org/, a remarkable organization that sets a very high standard for the loving and respectful care of the dying. There, I visited a lovely man whom I have seen a few times in his hospice room. I sat by his bedside and listened to him (in full possession of his faculties) as he told me about his worries about his family, the support of his wife after he is gone, and the future of his children and grandchildren. I was deeply moved by the way he put any concern for himself — even while facing death — in a distant backseat to his concerns for his family. When my own time comes, I can only hope to have his awareness of the way that one life can touch so many others.Also at hospice, I visited a woman I have known for the past two years — a dear soul who is a former Jewish religious school director. I sat with her, too, singing psalms to her as I listened to her heavy and labored breathing. I have no medical training, but I have come to know the sound of a person who is close to death. The body begins to fight for each breath as it slowly looses it grasp on life. As I held her hand and sang, I realized that being a rabbi is no protection against becoming one of the people caught in the web of connection. I, too, am changed by the loss of a life that has touched mine.Later in the day, I met with a couple from our congregation. She had just learned that her brother died yesterday in a car crash. Coming to terms with the loss is made more difficult for her by the fact that she and her brother had not seen each other or spoken in five years. Sometimes, people think it is easier to mourn the death of someone who has moved out of your life. In my experience, though, it's harder. Grief is magnified by wounded love and regret. I have no magic words to say to ease the pain of mourning. All I can do is listen, become a vessel in which people place their stories, and offer compassion.Actually, there is one more thing I can do. I can have faith that "all I can do" is all that I need to do. It is enough.In this week's Torah portion (Vayishlach) Jacob watched Rachel, the love of his life, die in childbirth. He was overcome by grief. Jacob had worked for his cruel uncle Laban for fourteen years to earn the right to marry Rachel. Now she was gone. Because she died while they were traveling, Jacob had to bury her by the side of the road. He built a pillar of stones on the spot to mark the place as sacred.This is what we all do, in one way or another, when death enters our lives. We grieve and our hearts break. We wish that we could continue to walk along the path of life with our loved ones forever, but the dead cannot fully join us. We have to leave something behind in order to resume our own journey. So, what do we do? We mark the moment as sacred. We erect monuments — both in cemeteries and in our hearts. The stones we place on top of stones remind us that a life may end, but its sanctity is forever.The Torah says that the monument Jacob built for his beloved continues to stand until this day. A life that touches the lives of others never ceases to send living reverberations throughout the web that binds us all.