Speaking of the Big Guy

Jesus ♥ Coca-Cola, at least according to the new film, 7 km from Jerusalem where a soul-searching Italian man happens upon the Messiah and offers him a ride and a refreshing beverage (and the requisite smile, I'm sure!). When Josh cracks the can, the man replies, "What a testimonial!"

Already sounding like the kind of movie I can't wait to run out and see/read (it's in Italian) Except I just may not get to ::sob:: "The multinational's Italian unit sent a legal letter forcing the elimination of the scene in which Jesus drinks the well-known beverage," the producers said on the film's Web site. Italian media reported that the company felt that the use of its brand was unacceptable and could get the company a bad image.
Bad image? Bad image? Really, what could be worse than denying God's Only Begotten Son (or sumsuch) the most supreme, most sacred, most divinely gifted refreshment on the gahdforsaken planet? I don't wanna know, I really don't. Don't make him settle for Dr. Pepper, or worse Pepsi!

If anyone in this Universe deserves a coke and a smile, it's Jesus!!

Yay Jesus came back to Life!!

I'm so sorry I forgot to blog about it ON his resurrection celebration day, indeed I did not forget to actually celebrate his coolness. Let us not forget, he first appeared to Mary of Magdala upon his, uh, return from the Dead. We all saw Ghost, we know why - she was hot and he wanted to be sure his friends didn't do anything to her. 'specially not Biff, who was probably busy comforting the other Mary anyway.
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Scotty, the coolest boyfriend in the world, created a scavenger hunt for the kids to win a prize of a date with us at a future date; Alex got Lazer Tag, Elizabeth got swimming and Hayden got roller skating! They were very excited. We filled more eggs than they found, the chocolate sits in bowls and nooks and crannies all over the place. I loaded up on the plethora of wonderful dark chocolate available at this time of year! So much for the lust diet ♥
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My friend Schuyler is in Australia. Easter is about Spring, but there it's Autumn... I guess I just assumed they used the same wheel but at it's opposite point (swap Samhain and Easter I suppose). I guess this is testament to the secularization of those holidays, how funny they infiltrated south of the equator as well... ah, it's the ex-pats isn't it?? The Northern folks living Southern, bringing traditions that make no sense. I hope the eggs were at least Autumn colored.

Easter Flashback

Sad, sad, day, when you realize your favorite Easter memory from childhood is an M&M Commercial. I can live with the lies surrounding the origins of this Holy Day, heck, I don't even mind folks forgetting it's Easter's Bunny and that it's really about Spring and not The Big Guy, though his story is pretty cool too, doncha think maybe he deserved his own day?? Anyhoo, as I'm not much in the celebration of Spring, here on the Tundra, I thought I'd put this out there for us old folk to enjoy!

and well, while we're at it, here's some new Easter entertainment...

Sheesh, it's a wonder the guy didn't implode our Sun as Winter Solstice competes with his Birthday... in fact, why doesn't he send Michael down to take care of St. Nick?
I'm taking my smelly Self downtown with my shopping cart, so my muttering will be in context...

Your moment of Satori

and it's all worth it!

Gemini: Plans for a special event will be finalized, and you're guaranteed an obstacle-free (and potentially romantic) time. An exciting moment of intrigue will take things up a level and heighten the sense of possibility.

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goin to work now, really, I mean it this time...

Crackin' the Whip

Gemini: You are ready to go out and play with friends or family, leaving your responsibilities behind, for you may think you can catch up on your work later. Unfortunately, your rational mind has a warped perspective of reality as your key planet Mercury squares optimistic Jupiter. You cannot make up for lost time with good intentions and hard work. Stay on task and relax when you are finished.

Where am I?

Holy Shit! April is here! I am so glad I work well, well, best? under some pressure. It's my little fuck-you to the establishment; the universe at this point.
It's about list making. Another form of procrastination, maybe, I like to think of it as focused procrastination. :::bg::: then this will happen:

and I'll get to work!

I've got stacks and pages and scribbles of my talk at Life is Good, later this month... I'm ready to take a deep breath and actually create ONE document of notes, bullet points and outlined sections becoming what I share. I even have the little Mary Engelbreit notebook for the job. Found the perfect pen yesterday.

The car is CLOSE to being done. It's currently driveable, though Uncle Troy says there's a "rats nest" in the blower, which he'll remove and he wants to replace the waterpump before I go too far. He'll be registered, licensed and insured tomorrow!!! The first short trip will be to Summit, SD (3 hours north of here, just past Watertown), to rescue our belongings and tires from Hermione, say our farewells and see that Howard is broken in well :)

I have a son in a fragile space. He's open and loving and joyful and happy; more often than before. He's also much more open about his grief and his loneliness. I know that while I focus on getting us up and out of town at a non-panicked, calm and jubilant date this month, with time to do the extra stuff we want to do (like the imperative visit to Saylor!!) and still get home in time for the circus, I need to be kind and calm and joyful.

We're going nuts the next couple of months because we love it; because it's what we do and how we live. A couple of weeks of sunshine and great friends, (Life outside of the basement :) not to mention my all time favorite car-time with my boy, I think we'll be revved up enough to get our shit together and move it to our new, perfect home.

Here is my intention for our home. When we return (late April) our easily affordable, roomy, sunny apartment, utilities paid, will be waiting for us in the downtown area of Sioux Falls. Scotty has opened doors for me to bake for his friend Natasha's restaurant and sandwich shop. I will bake her some samples this week (she currently buys at :::wretch::: Sam's Club and would just love to have homemade things). I can use her restaurant's kitchen during the night, a'la Sunnyside Up --Thanks Mary and Jon for the inspiration!! I'll have the extra monies I need, with a flexible work situation. And I give back to downtown, support the businesses a fellow young widowed mother, and do what I love in the, well, all the time ♥ ♥

Today Scotty said he will ask Natasha if we can use her basement to have Amy play in May!! They host a lot of musicians through Sioux Falls Jazz and Blues -- maybe Amy should come back and do Jazzfest in July :)

So there. It all lines up somehow, in the typical diana fashion. At this point I have zero expectations of my trip. I have several route options available in my head ::g:: It's not gonna look like what we thought 6 months ago or even 6 weeks ago! It's gonna be so much fun!!
Life Rocks!

In support of the troops, I think...

My Birthday Already??

This morning, I am greeted with this lovely blog entry snippet from the now-famous Miss Amy Steinberg:
-=Then, I receive a wonderful myspace message from Janet Planet in Hot Springs, South Dakota. (Where?) Now I have never played the Dakota's because I wasn't sure that people actually LIVED there. Snicker. But much to my surprise there is what Janet calls a VORTEX of spiritual energy here in Hot Springs, and she has come upon my music and wants me to come through!

The magical thing is that she got my music from another myspacer who got my music from another myspacer, etc... And it's this song "Exactly" that is drawing this positive force. So incredible! We reap what we sow, and I think that piece has brought a lot of light to a lot of people. Yay. So there's the fill in date, and now I've got my stop between Salt Lake and Omaha.=-

To which I was forced to reply:
Is that your ONLY plan for South Dakota?? I'm just 5 hours due East of Rapid City, right on the freeway, in Sioux Falls. I KNOW I can find a place for you to play here if ya wanna... or I can just hook you up with some great company and some good eats while ya pass through...
Lemme know!! :)
~diana~hoping this is the universe making up for me not being able to see you tomorrow at Lovejoys!~

To which she responded:
this is bizarre and incredible...although totally normal, but miracles and blessings are so abundant i am still shocked by them!

i would absolutely love to come through your city, even if it's just to stay with you for an evening... you saved my life one day...

if you'd like we could look into me doing a show, a small one set coffeehouse gig or something? i have several shows in a row right after it, but it actually does cut the drive into smaller pieces... i am in omaha that tuesday...

date we are looking at is monday, may 28th... let me know your thoughts.

all love
amy

And of course:
Oh man, oh man, oh man! someones love me... all them someones on the other side! My birthday is **May 27** and I celebrate for the next 18 days!!! I get Amy for my birthday! I'm so glad I was borned!! Wooo Hoo!!! I'm a dancin fool!!!!!!
I will ask my wondermous new boyfriend, who happens to be a local musician (myspace.com/wumpus --he's the drummer) to check out the perfect soo foo locale for my gal :) (ooooh and I'll have to tell you how much he deserved listening to Emphatic at the Attic....)

Oh my! Not gonna be sleeping tonight...

Much Love to You, my goddess
~diana <3>

Tena?! Brian?! Jamie?! Wade?! I guess now we know what we're doing for our birthdays!!! Wooot!

24 et al

I dunno if I'm cut out to watch show... or maybe I'm just not cut out to be a good American. (Spoiler alert!!) The Tom situation, the twisting of the truth, blaming of the not- so- innocent- but- really- innocent- this- time- peace- maker, the dishonesty of the VP, the (eeeww) sheeple in the Cabinet... I want to vomit, my head is spinning!! I'm so glad it's just television and completely made up, :::cough, cough, cough, wretch:::: I'm thinking Canada... maybe even New Zealand or Australia... I just don't wanna live in a place where truth never has a "T" and is pliable for anyone to fit their purposes... Lucky for us, this never, ever, ever happens in Real America. We only go to war after the Facts are in (not to be confused with facts) and the ts are crossed and the is are dotted and the egos are stroked and the pockets are lined... oh wait! did I really type that?! No, I can't give up now... I still L♥VE my date with Kiefer (didja know his grandpa was voted The Greatest Canadian in 2004? He's the *father* of their socialized medicine) and I know there'll be some kind of trite "bow wrapping" at the end of the season... and a cliff hanger for next year :)
Ah, shit! We can't leave the country without our Government Mandated- from pharmaceutical companies who remain free from consequence for their actions- vaccinations...
The Constant Gardener, has ruined that for me, too, along with the option of ever wanting to visit Africa... okay, maybe I was already on this path with delaying vaccinations in my kids from suspicion surrounding the government propaganda given to me by any and all medical "professionals", plus all the brain tumor/polio vax schtuff I've discovered (thanks to Mitch's coincidental brain tumor & the crazy- but- ringing- true article in Penthouse, July 2001), then the The Origin of AIDS filling in gaps between the ideas already burned there... this movie, well, it made it all waaaaay to fecking REAL. Yeah, I know it's a movie, I'd really, really, really like to pretend this is some kind of Quintin Tarantino construct or maybe even George Lucas, but I know, deep down in my beyond-human soul, that there is waaaaay too much Truth in fiction for it to sit comfortably with my heart. When the dark-skinned mama is turned away from the American run hospital with her very sick baby by the light skinned American Pharmaceutical Worker who explains, "You refused our vaccinations, we refuse to treat your child." I can't help but just know this really does happen. Welcome to Free Enterprise.
It gets worse. I'm so glad I don't have a car. I may become a "bikini lady" like the one we see walking all over town reading her books, in a bikini when weather permits and humidity demands. She has no guilt when she watches a movie like Syriana. Didja see Traffic? What Traffic did to inspire your faith in our country's drug laws and their incredibly benevolent intentions :::spit, spit, spit, pwew::: for American Citizens & Humans everywhere, Syriana will do for you with our country's relationship with Big Oil, Free Enterprise, Middle-East Infighting and Weak Infrastructure, and hell, America's attitude toward humans in general... Yeah, I hope that story's all made up too... My tummy tells me it's not.
Tonight's movie choices: Serendipity or Crash??? One of these films is more made-up than the other... and it's not the one I wish it was.