IHOP Girl: Poor SFL

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Poor SFL

Little SLF is sick with a cold. He would appreciate extra doses of love and affection during his illness. ;-) He'll thank me later.

Since he complained so much about the new music Monday song version, I thought that I'd post the original for him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZGMVKaLLOI&feature=related

Mmm, I'm starting to try and get packed for my vacation trip with the parental guidance's in a couple weeks, and due to the rock hunting nature of the trip I got some heavy duty clothes. My new awesomeness overalls dooooo make me look slightly like an abominable snowman as WOT describes it. However, it does give me permission to wear overalls!!! WOOT! I'm just saying - I'm hoping for an ice age so I can wear my overalls all the time...;-)

5 comments:

shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: i didn't like the original any more than the other piece of rubbish you found! i was not calling for it, but alas you have punished me with the mere sight of it.

FYI i was not going to violate myself by listening however WOT insisted i listen to the "words" since it was done in an era when lyrics could be understood, no matter how nonsensical, irrelevant, or idiotic they were. wasn't this a wonderful time to live?

he!

PS - clair, you don't have to wait for an ice age to wear your arctic overalls. just move to northern canada, siberia, svalbard, or alaska. they have all the cold your overalls could desire.; 8:39 PM
shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: oh, one other thing.

it's sfl, not slf my poor dyslexic thing!

hew!; 8:41 PM
Jess said...: I LOVE your overalls!!!!!! I have been searching for a pair ever since I saw yours......no luck though. Maybe someday. ;)

SFL. I suppose you may have some sorghum today, since you are feeling under the weather. And ONE can of Friskies. Just one. Perhaps I will include some stringy meat in your broth as well. Feel better soon.

Ha!; 8:39 AM
the Wanna Be said...: Morning, girl. I hope you have a wonderful, relaxing Monday nursing SFL. I've been so out of the loop that I had to read back several posts to find out what's going on in your life. I'm sorry to hear that you have to move. I suppose your efforts to keep buyers away didn't work. (I really thought leaving a trail of blood on the front porch would really do the trick. I guess people are just stubborn.)
Well, have a great week- love from the upstate!; 7:49 AM
shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: well you're too kind. i'm feeling much better, and the acts of kindness sent my way have buoyed my spirits and caused much flow of sinusoidal mucousoidal matter towards the centroid of the earth. many thanks!

hew!

PS - Oh Jess... you live a mere twenty minutes or so from a huge carhartt outlet along route 20 towards canandaigua. so get on your horse and get over there. overalls, bibs, and the like are aplenty. you slacker!

i'm pleased to hear you all are finally learning the fine points of overall living. it's so freeing! he! he!

PSS-WOT says you should call first because they don't have as many women's sizes, just big burly men sizes. Ugh! Also, WOT says, try Hank's Clothing dot com for the ultimate in overall overall selection (that was not a typo by the way!); 7:31 PM

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.