This is the song that Pink sang to Carey Hart, that got them back together. Awwww...

That's her actual wedding dress. ...Though I'm not sure she wore roller blades at the reception. Though knowing Pink, she might have.

toonz toonz toonz

While looking for "Stranded in the Jungle" I found an album on iTunes for $5.99 with 122 songs--the sexistly named Original Soul Men Classics (even though there are some women on it). I'm quite enjoying it (and discovering where the Beach Boys got half their material from.)

My fave BD!

I bought and read in one evening the new Les Nombrils bande dessinée. So good! And didn't end on a cliffhanger like last time. I wonder if there will be a fifth. Ahhh so good.

yoopi!

So like... for YEARS now I've been thinking about this old TV science show I used to watch as a child. I could remember the music, and the voice of the male host, and the format, but not the name. I just knew they always ended each segment with a little phrase like "isn't that amazing!" or something like that. When I described it to my family, no one remembered it.

Then I was watching a Kotter episode today and Epstein said: "What'll they think of next" obviously quoting from a show of the time. And I was all: EUREKA!

That's the show! What Will They Think of Next! It was a Canadian show, but also showed in the US. But there are no clips on the internets anywhere. I'll hum you the theme song:

laa la la la laaaaaaa
la-la la-la laaaaaaa
la
laa la la la laaaaaaa
la-la la-la laaaaaaa
laaaaa
laaaaaa
laa
laaaaaa
laaaaaaa
laa
laaa-la-la laa laaa
la-la-la-la laaaaaaaaa

WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT aired weekly, I think Nickelodeon aired it on weekends. It was basically the two of them talking about what the future was going to be like. They would talk about new technologies, innovations, and that sort of thing. At the end of each segment, if I remember correctly, one of the two would state “What will they think of next?”

I remember one episode talking about how one day, you would be able to go on your computers and look at the showtimes at your local movie theatre, or see what stores were in your local mall. I watched this in amazement, not knowing that computers would be able to do such things. This was in the days even before the Commodore 64, where they were just hooked up to your TV to type text in.

Ghosts of Christmases Past

Jacob Teddy Marley

Hungrily eying the ornaments.

My brother, apparently outgrowing his jammies.

My Donnie Osmond doll!
(Manlier than Ken. I never owned a Ken doll.)

NUTTY NUMBERS
(We used to get these albums of novelty songs.
They totally rocked.)
Disco Duck!
"I don't like spiders and snakes
and that ain't what it takes to love me
like I wanna be looved youuu."
Pepino, the Italian Mouse
Mr. Custer
Norman
Rama Lama Ding Dong
Little Red Rented Rowboat
Don't Go Near the Eskimos
James (Hold the Ladder Steady)
Chick-a-Boom (back then I thought "chick" meant a chicken)
and the best...
Stranded in the Jungle!

The Hulk, and suntanning doll
My hair must have been changing to a darker blonde.
Looks like I have really excellent streaks!

What is that watch I'm wearing?

With muthah

With fathah

"We are the wee tin soldiers who like to play all day!"
My brother is the tallest soldier.

...
Flashforward several years
(The above photos I have because my dad got his slides converted
to jpgs. So then it's years of regular photos, all in photo albums.
And then my photos, not in e-form.
We pick up the Christmas story when I finally get a
digital camera.)

Fernando and his first nephew, on nephew's first Cmas.

Not sure which winter, but this is when we get to see Mr. Gilby,
when he comes back to town each winter.

2005 tree
Believe I was in school at the time so not much of a Christmas
In fact, ever since I started university in '92, and then went straight into
a retail job, I've never had a real Christmas break.

Very rare balcony snow leopard

The Great Sibling Christmas of 2007
Theme: Swellegant Christmas!

Me and Fernando
(he sat on the couch and sewed)
I'm drinking from the drunken-sot-Santa mug

Playing mini-croquet
(Ever since Pablo and I read Harpo Marx's biography
we've wanted to play croquet.)

Fernando's sister by the Christmas tree.
Since we were at Pablo's apartment, I tried to make the tree
look Cool Yule and masculine.

2008
Ohhh Nombly's last Christmas

And Haley conspiring to knock over the tree

Christmas Present:

I didn't put up a tree this year--there isn't a single decoration.
The gift my parents' sent is sitting behind by Oscar Wilde doll.
That's about it.

Bah Humbug!

books books books and did i mention books?

Since the hero and heroine in the last romance I read were both unusually tall, I couldn't help but compare it the whole time to Heyer's The Toll-gate. So instead of reading The Golden Mean, I decided to re-read TG.

Heyer has some romances where the romance gets resolved about half-way through, and the rest of the book is the resolution of the mystery story. They're as good as her romance-onlies, though. I remember enjoying this one quite a bit.

Meanwhile I've also amassed a pile of magazines to read. I try very hard to ignore magazines most of the year, but at Christmastime something comes over me. I guess cause we used to like buying magazines for New Year's and doing all the quizzes. The glossies still callll to me.

In other news... I had to work today--my boss asked another manager and myself to come in for four hours on our day off. But of course then I had other work to do, so stayed about 7 hours. But I had some gift cards burning a hole in my pocket, so I bought Fernando a bright green faux-cashmere scarf which was on sale, the fourth Les Nombrils where the girls fight to get back the plain one's boyfriend, Vanity Fair and Vogue, and the recently released pocket book of Still Alice (said to be Excellent, about a woman with Alzheimer's.)

I know, I know, I'm not supposed to be buying books. It's soooo haaaaaard. I wanted to buy The Children's Book too, because it's also supposed to be super excellent. But I stopped myself. And I resisted the new Adrian Mole in hard cover--will wait for the paperback. So I think I was pretty good.

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Some html shmoop got into my books posting, so the words were cut off on the right side of the screen. Fixed now.