Musical Monday and Introducing THE Hands!! :)
Here's a cute little funny that I ran across recently, it makes me smile!
Mother decided that 10-year-old Cathy should get something "practical" for Christmas. "Suppose we open a savings account for you?" mother suggested. Cathy was delighted. "It's your account, darling," mother said as they arrived at the bank, "so you fill out the application." Cathy was doing fine until she came to the space for "Name of your former bank." After a slight hesitation, she put down "Piggy."
I love that! So so so cute!!! :)
Musical Monday today is a band I stumbled across and I really like their sound so much. The band is Azure Ray, and here's some info on them care of Wikipedia:
Azure Ray is an American indie duo, consisting of musicians Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink. They met at the age of 15 at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. They fronted a band called Little Red Rocket, often compared to Veruca Salt, in their hometown of Birmingham, Alabama in the mid and late 1990s and released two albums with the band on Tim/Kerr records.
Azure Ray started in Athens, Georgia, but has since relocated to Omaha, Nebraska and joined the music scene there. Their sound is sparse and understated, with intimate lyrics, elements of alt-country and folk Americana, and occasional forays into minimalist electronica territory. They are also in another Saddle Creek band called Now It's Overhead, with Andy LeMaster also of Georgia. The two have also collaborated with Moby and co-wrote the song, "Great Escape" on the album, 18 with Bright Eyes. Fink also works with Japancakes.
Orenda Fink married Todd Baechle, lead singer of The Faint, in March 2005.
I'm playing two songs from their 2002 album November EP, which is such a good album, although it only has six songs on it - but all six are beautiful and go together so perfectly, it's all the same mood, which I like in an album. Anyway though, the lyrics are pretty long so I'm not going to post them here (cause I want to get to the pictures of Mr. H's sexiest hands known to man (or at least known to this woman!)), but if you want to read along with the songs, go here.
Azure Ray :: November
Azure Ray :: Other Than This World
So, Mr. H had a wonderful idea! He suggested that as I call him "Mr. Hands", maybe I should post a picture of his hands so people know why he has that name! Fabulous! I love looking at pictures of his hands so I should of course have a couple posted here!!! He has the sexiest hands in the whole entire world, have I mentioned that before?! :) (Oh and after writing "Fabulous!" there, I can't get the sound of that British girl's voice from the I think Orbitz gum (or whatever it's called - Orbitz might be the travel site but the gum I think sounds the same) saying "Fabulous!" and showing her pearly whites along with the little sparkle added in!)
Mother decided that 10-year-old Cathy should get something "practical" for Christmas. "Suppose we open a savings account for you?" mother suggested. Cathy was delighted. "It's your account, darling," mother said as they arrived at the bank, "so you fill out the application." Cathy was doing fine until she came to the space for "Name of your former bank." After a slight hesitation, she put down "Piggy."
I love that! So so so cute!!! :)
Musical Monday today is a band I stumbled across and I really like their sound so much. The band is Azure Ray, and here's some info on them care of Wikipedia:
Azure Ray is an American indie duo, consisting of musicians Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink. They met at the age of 15 at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. They fronted a band called Little Red Rocket, often compared to Veruca Salt, in their hometown of Birmingham, Alabama in the mid and late 1990s and released two albums with the band on Tim/Kerr records.Azure Ray started in Athens, Georgia, but has since relocated to Omaha, Nebraska and joined the music scene there. Their sound is sparse and understated, with intimate lyrics, elements of alt-country and folk Americana, and occasional forays into minimalist electronica territory. They are also in another Saddle Creek band called Now It's Overhead, with Andy LeMaster also of Georgia. The two have also collaborated with Moby and co-wrote the song, "Great Escape" on the album, 18 with Bright Eyes. Fink also works with Japancakes.
Orenda Fink married Todd Baechle, lead singer of The Faint, in March 2005.
I'm playing two songs from their 2002 album November EP, which is such a good album, although it only has six songs on it - but all six are beautiful and go together so perfectly, it's all the same mood, which I like in an album. Anyway though, the lyrics are pretty long so I'm not going to post them here (cause I want to get to the pictures of Mr. H's sexiest hands known to man (or at least known to this woman!)), but if you want to read along with the songs, go here.
Azure Ray :: November
Azure Ray :: Other Than This World
So, Mr. H had a wonderful idea! He suggested that as I call him "Mr. Hands", maybe I should post a picture of his hands so people know why he has that name! Fabulous! I love looking at pictures of his hands so I should of course have a couple posted here!!! He has the sexiest hands in the whole entire world, have I mentioned that before?! :) (Oh and after writing "Fabulous!" there, I can't get the sound of that British girl's voice from the I think Orbitz gum (or whatever it's called - Orbitz might be the travel site but the gum I think sounds the same) saying "Fabulous!" and showing her pearly whites along with the little sparkle added in!)
I had a pretty lazy weekend but I did do a few things - I ordered and picked up some pictures of Mr. H and I together and I've put them in frames around my place, I designed and ordered my Christmas cards online (and I'm sooooooo excited to see them cause I think they look soooooooo cool!!!), I made some backup cds of some of the stuff on my computer, I ordered Christmas presents for my dad and a few little things for my grandma and mom, I got a few little things at Walgreens, and I got a bunch of cat food from Petsmart. And I passed a couple of emails back and forth between my mom and Mr. H regarding my mom's dishwasher, and that made me happy! And I took some pictures for Mr. H tonight.
And Mr. H and I had some really good communication (and of course we talked a lot and emailed and texted as well) and I just feel us growing constantly even closer and closer and that's from already being in such a wonderful place and in love - I have SUCH a wonderful sense of happiness and contentment and peace all around me (well except for my few hormonal moments and when I have them I tell Mr. H exactly what's in my mind and he is absolutely fabulous at saying and feeling and reacting the exact perfect way) - yes well anyway I was talking about the feeling I have almost all the time, of such contentment and happiness and joy and it's just so so so wonderful, and I feel through all this that this is just meant to be, this is it and I'm so happy with that and wouldn't want anything different. I'm where I'm meant to be right now, and he and I are where we're meant to be now and have found each other when the timing was just right and we were both ready, and now we have something so amazing and so special and so beautiful, and we have so much to look forward to in the future! And I'm just overwhelmed with such fucking happiness!!! :) But also with that peaceful contentment - I wish I could describe it better but it's just pure contentment and happiness with just absolutely everything.
Three things that I'm grateful for right now:
* my wonderfully and amazingly comfy still-sort-of-new (5 months old) mattress, which I will be going to sleep on in only a few short minutes. I still so often, as I get into bed or as I'm laying there, think about just how amazingly comfy my bed is!
* my super-silky-soft sheets, which are going to make me feel so decadently good for a few seconds before I fall asleep! (And I'm not exaggerating on these sheets, even Mr. H thought they were amazing and that was without me saying anything about them first!)
* beautiful music of all kinds which can bring me into so many different moods or just so beautifully accent my moods. There is SO MUCH amazing music out there, and so many amazing sounds and amazing voices and amazing ways of expressing emotions and feelings - it boogles my mind sometimes but I just love it too!
