Yesterday was an interesting day- M had a HUGE poetry project. She had hers done and she spent the evening helping her friend - "Giving a sista a helping hand". Listening to M's advice, it was totally thrilling to hear her engaged in homework, using her very bright brain instead of hating on all-things- school.

Speaking of M, we have this thing going on. She's all into the song, Electric feel by MGMT.It's a catchy tune, however, a prominent lyric is "shock me like an electric eel" bahahahaaaaaaa!!! She says I am old and out of touch, I say using an electric eel as a lyric is ridiculous. What do you think??

Electric Feel Lyrics....
all along the western front
people line up to receive
she got the current in her hand
just shock you like you won't believe
sun in the amazon
with the voltage running through her skin
standing there with nothing on
she gonna teach me how to swim
i said ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel
i said ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel
all along the eastern shore
put your circuits in the sea
this is what the world is for
making electricity
you can feel it in your mind
oh you can do it all the time
plug it in, change the world
you are my electric girl
i said ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel
i said ooh girl
shock me like an electric eel
baby girl
turn me on with your electric feel
do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
electric feel now
do what you feel now
electric feel now

Well, to celebrate my brand-new address I'm offering a hot special- a Tarot sale on a special reading- the Double-Mini for only $20.00! See details here The Double Mini-reading gives you a lovely life overview, and this special reading is only offered for a limited time! Hurry, special expires on 11/10/2008!

I've got to get ready, I'm an elementary school librarian in my new job and today we're reading "Patrick's Dinosaurs".... It rocks. The little kids crack me up, they are totally filter-free, and I hear the greatest stories.

I've gotta run- I'm voting before work- when are you??? (Go, Barack, go!!!) Nothing like voting to make me feel like a mighty American!!! Get out and vote!!!!

Well, I really did it this time! I've been really pretty busy with my life lately- Dan and i both got new jobs within a week of each other, back on Labor Day. Dan has been working nights- leaving here about 1:30 pm and returning about 2:30 am... I get off work at noon three days a week, so we see each other then. However, from Sunday until Saturday the kids don't see him, and I am the sole parental unit/ driver. In all the excitement I let my web domain lapsed, and it was sniped by some company in Gibraltar!! ARRRRGHHH. I have started a new domain- www.tasteoftarot.com- I just left off the "A". I am frantically updating links and ending out notices... More to come...

I got my hair done yesterday, back to my true red self. Doing a reading for Necia tonight, here's the shuffle...

Outkast-Hey Ya
Seven Nation Army- The White Stripes
Fame-David Bowie
Bridges- Tracy Chapman
Drive- Incubus
The Story- Brandi Carlile (All of these lines across my face Tell you the story of who I am So many stories of where I've been And how I got to where I am...)
Lover Lover- Sonia Dada (You don't treat me no good no more.... Hey JET, wonder what you're up to tonight?)
El Condor Pasa- Simon & Garfunkel
My Doorbell-The White Stripes (when you gonna ring it?)
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness- Alabama 3
I Can I Will I Do- Barenaked Ladies
Sympathize- Amos Lee
Broke-Modest Mouse
Under the Sun- Big Kenny (JET again, There is a place where dreams come true... hoping all dreams have come true )
Standing in the Doorway-Bob Dylan

Hey y'all... am I the suckiest blogger ever??? Last Summer at this time I was wonderful, dedicated- this summer I am a slacker. sigh.

Anyway, there were some requests (well, one...) for new pictures of my grandson Aden, superbaby. Here is my little dumpling. He's still a pretty serious guy- that's the way my youngest son James started out, and I think Aden takes after his Uncle James with his mighty strength and seriousness. (Although he looks like his daddy, my son Dan)

James was very serious, and I always thought he was taking it all in, filling up his memory card, his computer chip, and then when he felt like he had a handle on the world, he was ready to smile.

I am finally ready to smile after spending most of the day in bed yesterday with a yucky summer cold. I am starting to feel like I will survive...

I'm doing some readings, here's what's on my shuffle tonight...
Helpless- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Spy in the House of Love- Was(not was)
Seven Wonders- Fleetwood Mac (I still like Christine McVie better than Stevie)
As Tears Go By- Rolling Stones
Blinded by the Light- Manfred Mann
These Dreams of You- Van Morrison
By the Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth- Clap your Hands Say Yeah
Life By the Drop- Stevie Ray
Even the Losers- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (We smoked Cigarettes and stared at the moon... it couldn't have been that easy to forget about me...)
First Day of My Life- Bright Eyes ( From my M...)
Open Arms- Tracy Chapman
Goo Goo Muck- The Cramps (Ahh, the music of my youth...)

Hey all, Happy Summer Solstice! The fireflies have just really come on this week, they are amazing, like a little light show in our ditch!

I did a Tarot reading for Claire, from the UK tonight, and while I read I wear headphones to shut out the world. I usually shuffle my ipod, and tonight I kept track of my shuffle so you guys can see what kind of stuff goes in my ears when I'm doing your cards...
>At Least We Tried-Moby
>Maybe You’re Right- Barenaked Ladies
>Say Yes- Ellott Smith (a shout out to chlo-aye)
>You Never Can Tell- Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter (Yee hah)
>Rikki Don’t Lose that Number- Steely Dan
>Crying- Roy Orbison & KD Lang
>Speed of the Sound of Loneliness- Amos Lee
>Wishing Tree- Sonia Dada (That’s a Jet special)
>Dry country- B-52’s…(that’s better. Rock gently)
>One Drop- Bob Marley
>Best of You- Foo Fighters (Rock a lil’ harder)
>Anytime Lisa-Was (Not Was) (wow. This is a blast from the past…)
>Meet Virginia- Train (I got this one from my fabulous niece Stephanie, years ago…)
>Heart-Nick Lowe (I heart this)
>Texas Flood- Stevie Ray & Double Trouble. (Speaking of heart…)
>No Rain -Blind Melon
>Burning Down the House- Talking Heads. (Ahh, memories)
>Bad Time- Jayhawks
>Werewolves of London- Magnolia Electric Co (Not the incomparable warren, RIP, but interesting)
>Into the Great Wide Open –Tom Petty
>Closer to Fine-Indigo Girls (I’m trying to tell you something about my life…)
>If I could Talk I’d Tell You- Lemonheads (I was just wanting to hear this the other day)
>Song for you- Leon Russell
>Melt with You-Modern English (A HUGE fave from my rubber bracelet days)
>Keep ‘em Separated-Offspring (One for Dan all pro)
>Showdown- ELO
>Feel Goood Inc- Gorrillaz- (Danny & I both got into this at the same time, separately. Weird.)
>Blame it on the Tetons- Modest Mouse (Man I need a cold one…)
>Kick Push-Lupe Fiasco (From the Divine M)
>Hotel Song- Regina Spektor (Come into my world, I’ve got to show show show you…)
>Praise You-Fatboy Slim..

Reading done now, headphones off and off to bed...

Saturday morning and I am, typically, in bed. James' soccer game isn't until 11:00. Whoo hoo! I love a Saturday morning with a book, a cup of creamy coffee, and the house all quiet and gentle sounding around me. Birds are flitting around in the blooming lilac outside my window- it's like a Disney cartoon. (I am definitely not Snow White, I think I'd have to be one of those fairy godmothers. sigh...) Dan is off hunting for Morels. before the game...

I've got to stir though, readings to do... That's a good reason to stir. Take advantage of the sale. And here I go- hitting the Beyond. (I like to linger on the "Bed, Bath"... and am more reluctant about the "Beyond"... hehehe)

Saturday night- 7:30- doing readings and jamming with headphones- what's in my ears?
Jackson Browne- My Problem is you
Cheryl Wheeler- Ghandi/Buddha
Some Bob Schneider
Life is good.