Red passion flower

Red passion flower,
originally uploaded by JanetD.

Found this on Flickr. I've only seen red passion flowers at the Juice It Up on Venice Blvd.

Mun Mun Endorses Sharon's Sorbet

Mun Mun has had a scratchy throat for many days and has been sampling sorbets from the supermarket to ease her pain. She picked up some Passion Fruit sorbet from Trader Joe's today and cannot f'ing believe how good it is. If you like passion fruit, try Sharon's Sorbet. Mun Mun also likes Haagen Dazs peach sorbet, but does not like the mango flavor quite as much.

Mun Mun is a big fan of passion flowers. There is going to be a noon lecture at LA Central Library soon on passion flowers that she will sadly miss.

Lyrics to Song From "The Daydreamer" by Rankin and Bass

Luck To Sell

I've done enough waiting for my lucky day
I'm gonna start searching for my dream today

Does anybody have some luck to sell?
Or an extra wishing well,
My luck's run out
My well's completely dry

Does anybody have some luck to sell?
Or a mystic, magic spell
The star I wished upon has left the sky

I want to pick my future from a bush, a rosy one,
Where happiness grows,
Find a clover with one leaf over,
I'm charmed right down to my toes

Does anybody have some luck to sell?
Or an extra wishing well
My luck's run out,
My well's completely dry
Does anybody have some luck to sell
To a real unlucky guy

Slowave submission?

I was on a reality show that was being shot at a hotel in Century City. The production values of the show were not very good. The set was not lavishly decorated.It was sort of like MTV's the Real World,but people in their twenties and thirties would be voted off by judges each week. The challenge this week was dressing up for Christmas and I beat out four other people in order to go on with the show another week. I had sparkly make-up on my cheeks and the other people who had survived that week were in costumes. One hairy guy dressed as an elf was vaguely Armenian-looking. It turned out the whole theme of the show was about having Christmas spirit. I had little talent in any other respect, but I had a lot of Christmas spirit.

Dream 12/29/06

Mun Mun has the flu

Yes, Mun Mun has the flu and has not stepped out of the apartment for days. Mun Mun has, however, updated munmunhouse.com finally, just in time for winter solstice. Some of the drawings did not compress well, but have been thrown on the web anyway. Mun Mun stopped being a perfectionist a long time ago.

TK is also horribly sick. We were thinking about making a suicide pact on Sunday when it was really bad, but the worst seems to have past.

TK has a new great nickname for our evil cat, Inkblot...Inkula.

Mun Mun suffered explosive stomach flu last night. Cats were worried. TK super caring, above and beyond call of duty.

TK and I are trying to buy an elliptical trainer so we can be less fat.

Setback/Pitch

I did something very dumb. I downloaded a free trial of a Pitch game program for Macs aka Setback. Then, I proceeded to waste over an hour playing it after watching America's Next Top Model. I'm supposed to be working on my children's middle-grade novel!

Back from the Rockies

Mun Mun was in Colorado for a few days visiting the in-laws. They live on a beautiful ranch in the Rocky Mountains that borders a national forest. It snowed over two inches while we were there. Unfortunately there wasn't quite enough snow for my father-in-law to take us on a one-horse-open-sleigh ride. There are seven horses on the ranch and at the moment they are free to wander at will. They have winter coats and live outside. However, they tend to move as a herd and come back to the corral for feeding time. There were many unfamiliar birds to watch outside the cabin. I was surprised so many birds hang around despite the snow.

On the flight to Denver I enjoyed looking through the SkyMall catalog. There was a do-it-yourself backyard ice-rink for only $700. I mentioned it to SK and EBK, but alas they did not seem interested. I think they are more likely to install a predator proof hen house before they install an ice rink.

TK and I gave his dad and stepmom a run for their money in a Pitch tournament. It's a weird card game with trumping and something called "The Jick." Anybody wanna play?

Diabolical Plan

Sometimes I put out Word Searches in the liberry for the little keeds to look for words from a list in a block of letters. I was thinking it would be funny to create a Word Search where the words on the list were not actually anywhere in the block of letters. The children would lose their minds!