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know what joann said on her blog about _____ shouted in a highly indignant outraged the nerve of her how could she voice so that s off limits too which is probably why people talk about what wonderful weather we are having or their amazingly intelligent and wonderfully charming kids and sweet beloved pets or their beautiful artistic patios or their brand new beautifully green lawns or their fantastic exciting vacations in exotic locales the really interesting stuff not that all this isn t interesting because it is truly white knuckle on the edge of your seat stuff very very interesting really but i want to know what they don t say what they can t say what they dare not reveal on threat of death by bludgeoning thus is the irony the drivel we commit forever to our blogs isn t nearly as interesting as what we really know but dare not reveal as my dear departed mother always said don t put anything in writing that you wouldn t want to read on the front page of the new york times i know i don t often read the nyt but i am deathly afraid that some do gooder out there who knows me would stumble on it while searching for the movie ads and then it would be hey how in the did a loser like her get published in the times and did you hear what she said about ____ said in a totally astonished knock me over with a feather voice posted by jojo s notes from the ridiculous to the sublime at 6 07 pm 3 comments jul 31 2009 the patio ok so if i blog again today then i am caught up through next week or is that cheating angelee whatev take me out and shoot me please big news we finished our patio we had a pretty patio summer and it s a collective we we as in the entire family finished our patio s first angleee of course started it all with her beautiful artfully shaped stained and stamped concrete work of art here s the concrete inspector taking an unannounced look at the finished product then my sister jumped in with her beautiful natural stone with decomposed granite patio walkway installed single handedly by her un sung and underappreciated yet generous and magnanimous little boy sammy with the help of his wing man the very patient and long suffering d maree s stone cold patio my baby nephew threw in his creation which was perhaps the most creative he built a cabana type structure on the deck of his second floor condo shhhh yours truly helped him with that handing him tools and sweating in the hot july heat no photo yet of the undisclosed location and ours is finished now too and may i say that ours too was graced by the loving hard working and generous hands of sammy and wing man d it would not have been possible to do it this summer without his help encouragement and hard work during the hottest week so far we have had in july after sam s excruciating diligence on the excavating compacting and leveling of the undercarriage darryl went to work on the visual piece the actual stone laying and individual leveling he also worked in one of the hottest weeks in july but was able to do so by taking advantage of the very generous furlough fridays graciously donated by our dear governator heres the nit picky job foreman inspecting the first part of the stone laying and here s the finished product so there you have it 3 fine examples of americans capturing and destroying open natural space and turning it into cold hard evidence of our continuing encroachment and domination of the wild lands of planet earth and one guy who built a cabana posted by jojo s notes from the ridiculous to the sublime at 8 34 am 1 comments jul 29 2009 throwing down the gauntlet well here i am again after my 4 month hiatus my niece has challenged me to blog once per week i know i should blog more i actually enjoy it really i do the problem is that i don t have anything interesting to say consistantly that is i have no actual experiences just stuff other people tell me or i hear about somehow no interests i go nowhere see no one sigh so she says why don t you blog about the camping trip we took to lake almanor if you blogged about it then i wouldn t have to don t try to kid me miss angelee you d blog it all whether or not every single person in the country blogged it by your own admission blogging is your crack so anyway i told her i just don t want to look pathetic look at poor pathetic jo she doesn t have her own family so she has to blog about other peoples to which she promptly replied we are your family it would be ok to blog about us no one would think it was pathetic whatever angelee however you want to twist it and that s when the challenge came in she said you should try to blog once per week to which i replied i wish i would i would like to i love it so much oh and get this not only does she want me to blog once per week she also wants me to use pictures too next she ll tell me she expects it to be interesting how difficult can she make it once per week and pictures i have no pictures she has everything i have nothing so here s a picture in which i look good i m on the left of course it was years and years ago but that s not the point posted by jojo s notes from the ridiculous to the sublime at 9 54 pm 3 comments mar 8 2009 the famous birthday song by special request here are the four verses of the birthday song as performed by the roses acebos petersens chambers and in room 1 at bird street school on each and every birthday this pagan rite usually takes place in the presence of some sort of specially prepared dessert type confection usually cleansed by a ritual fire incorporating any number of lighted wax candles but not in room 1 stinkin public education make no mistake this happens on each and every formal birthday get together like it or not come hell or high water it is essential to the success of the year to come i know simple math will tell you that there are really five verses counting the rousing chant at the end but if we thought there were more than 4 and still insisted on singing it at each and every birthday that would be truly crazy happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear jojo happy birthday to you may your wishes come true may your wishes come true happy birthday dear jojo happy birthday to you for she s a jolly good fellow for she s a jolly good fellow for she s a jolly good fellow that nobody can deny that nobody can deny that nobody can deny for she s a jolly good fellow for she s a jolly good fellow for she s a jolly good fellow that nobody can deny three cheers for jojo hip hip horrayy hip hip horrayy hip hip horrayy and a sock to grow a block with a sock in the arm of the birthday victim and a pinch to grow an inch pinch the birthday victim and a smile to grow a mile must say with a high pitched voice crazy huh that s how we roll posted by jojo s notes from the ridiculous to the sublime at 9 26 am 1 comments mar 7 2009 just a short note each time i sit down to write a post it seems they go on forever apparently the phrase to sum it all up has never been a part of my vocabulary however i just wanted to demonstrate that i do have the ability to write a short post in conclusion that s about it posted by jojo s notes from the ridiculous to the sublime at 9 41 pm 0 comments mar 1 2009 jojo has a birthday ugh ok although i would like to ignore it yesterday was my birthday need i say i hate birthdays however i hate the alternative even more my family is funny about birthdays we are funny about a lot of things but today we are talking birthdays we have a thing where we don t let the day go by without acknowledging someone s birthday with more than just the obligatory happy birthday greeting this came about because when the birthday falls mid week it s easy to celebrate it on the weekend when we all have time but we found we were losing track of the real day so we i am not sure if it was a combined effort of angelee and sam but somebody instituted the practice of doing something however small and insignificant to acknowledge the day of birth editor s note after this post my sister informed me that in fact she was the one to begin this revered tradition of course once you get a good idea everyone wants to claim ownership ok maree it was you although my birthday fell on a saturday my sister called me on friday and had her whole class sing happy birthday to me over the phone all four verses it was great and very sweet then my brother pete called me and said that since it was the day before he wanted to be the very first to wish me a happy birthday i told him that maree beat him to it with the class gahhhh he said not his exact words we run a clean show here but you get the idea in his unique way he is always there for me when i need him even though he lives 700 miles away when we talk it s like no time has passed or distance separates us but i digress like i said this year my birthday fell on a saturday so we did the direct celebration which we love not having to drag it out into a week long celebration the birthday person gets to choose whether they want to go out or eat at home duh let me see which do i want this year we went to sierra nevada brewery for dinner joshie crapped out on us and didn t show and we missed him but everyone else did sammy angelee charlee knick huh maree and darryl we had a nice dinner maree has decided that she doesn t like it there but i think everyone else enjoyed the food i certainly did of course those of you who know me know that i have not missed many meals in fact anyone who sees me can tell as well sigh fat wins after dinner we went to my house for excellent home made cocoa can chocolate cake which my sister lovingly prepared complete with singing all 4 verses and candles joshie decided to make an appearance at the house party he probably just came to torment meesha who is always up for a little tormenting from him they have a love tolerate relationship the fam even got me gifts awww gee you shouldn t have in the form of gift cards mostly itunes cards which i usually spend immediately on audio books i have the best family i honestly don t know what i d do without these people i know it s sort of self evident but family grows on you in many varied and exciting ways literally grows on you if you are lucky that is when i started out as a kid our family was small and isolated because of our crazy parents then my sister got married and had kids i got married and although i didn t have kids we had dogs then my sister s kids grew up and some started having kids themselves and things really started to get exciting see since i don t have kids we couldn t have them i always thought we d have sort of a solitary life because of the solitary life example i was raised in i have a wonderful husband who tries in every way to show me that he loves me the most important of which is that he sticks with me for better or for worse usually worse and usually tries to make me happy an impossible undertaking when people ask me what makes a good marriage i immediately say find the right person so once we found we couldn t have kids i thought we would be relegated to the obiligatory christmas and easter visits and then be forgotten the rest of the year i kept waiting for it to happen sort of dreading when it would happen wondering when it would happen thinking at every get together well this is probably the last time we ll do this or enjoy it now next year they won t think to ask us or the ever popular i will miss this sigh but knock on wood it doesn t seem to be happening so far anyway i still get to see and even interact with everyone we still get invited when angelee had her baby we got to be there and got to hold him on the very first day first hour even of his little life without lapsing into maudlin rememberences let me just say that one of the most precious things in my life is that i was and continue to be it seems included in angelee s whole baby experience that is something that i thought i would never ever be a part of by virtue of never having kids and it has been and continues to be an incredible life altering experience then imagine my surprise when on mother s day last year sammy gave me a very sweet card and inside was a very valuable gift which enabled me to buy an ipod it wasn t the gift it was that he wanted to give me something and wanted to acknowledge me on that day i have to say it choked me up then and remembering it now chokes me up still whenever i think about it my sister maree has been nothing but generous with her liberal sharing of her kids with me she never gives me the old and ever popular if you ve never been a mother you ll never truly understand she subscribes to the belief that it takes a village with everyone s contribution however miniscule being a valuable addition to the whole she helps me in so many ways and on so many levels that it would be impossible to enumerate them all and would trivialize them to try simply put she s one of the few people who truly understands the craziness that is uniquely jojo and yet she loves me anyway or appears to as if that weren t affirming enough just recently over the holidays i went through a very scary health issue and there they all were with me and for me every step of the way each in their own inimitable and sweet style they walked through the scary time right along with me laughing joking just being in the moment with me i will not forget their support and their love until and unless i forget everything perish the thought and i will always appreciate it and appreciate them thanks seems trivial but until better words emerge it s all i have i love you guys posted by jojo s notes from the ridiculous to the sublime at 12 34 pm 2 comments jan 20 2009 bad news you know what i hate those of you who know me are saying yes jo we know but tell us anyway well i will tell you anyway because recent events have brought it to the forefront once again i hate news people who are only too happy to gleefully report some gruesome and or tragic story over and over reshuffling and regurgitating it to the exclusion of all else till every last detail is finally wrung out and they can eagerly wait for the next tragedy and if it doesn t look bad enough at the beginning they happily tell us to stay tuned it could always get worse they warn we don t have a final body count yet but we ll let you know when we do or we don t know the extent of the injuries yet or we don t have a damage estimate yet but tune in at 11 00 for a follow up ok i know that good news is boring isn t that the origin of the favorite old saw no news is good news no one cares who lived who didn t get hit by a bus and which kids made it to school safely it s all about who died or disappeared who was maimed and how it happened in gruesome detail hopefully all caught on tape for the 6 00 news so when we had a critical situation last week as usual the news people eagerly leaped to the story reporting that a plane crashed on the hudson river and god knows how many people are probably dead but much t...