Shirley's Mind Grapes

Shirley's Mind Grapes

The answers to questions nobody asked

song of the day

Dailies 12/16/13

Dailies 12/16/13

Daily Doodle: Smug Toad

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Song of the Day: Frolic by Luciano Michelini

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjEN__RYxCQ

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m wearing a tailored tweed suit and a bowler hat. I have my hands in my pockets and I’m looking at the sky. Every step I take I land on my heel and take a pivot turn and sometimes twirl.

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Blurb 1/365: I shook all the trees in the whole goddamn town.

Dailies 12/14/13

Dailies 12/14/13

Daily Doodle: Cat Sandals

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Song of the Day: Handy Man by Jimmy Jones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVyBRdBVCiU

and James Taylor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGdWA93e-Ls

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Musical Pipe Dream: In the Jimmy Jones version, I’m singing backup and clapping and two-stepping emphatically. In the James Taylor version, I’m playing the drums with stick straight hair in my face and I’m wearing a denim vest.

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Blurb 1/365: Setting deadlines for myself is the only way I can get things done. I’ve had verbal arguments with myself out loud about why I need to finish this or that or why I don’t have time or I’m too tired to do this or that or to calm the f down about not finishing this or that. Sometimes I don’t even want to get out of bed. I gotta keep motivated, like, I get up and get ready, and then I can have McDonald’s breakfast. Setting deadlines is also a good way to keep busy. It keeps me away from my triggers. Triggers that make me unhealthy. Even if I have to swim through triggers everyday, if I keep busy, it really only leaves me with one option to keep my mind on; whatever I’m keeping busy with. Once I’ve finished with all the day to day stuff, I don’t come home and reminisce about things that pissed me off, I complete the next deadline. Then I get to eat something I like with the people I love. (Futurama reference!) I also reward myself with things like binges on Futurama/Simpsons/Bob’s Burgers/House Hunters, movies on Netflix, shaking trees on Animal Crossing.

The most important and difficult deadlines for me to make are for the things that I want to do. I just have to make those deadlines just like I make every other deadline. It’s just that hard and it’s just that simple.

Dailies 12/13/13

Dailies 12/13/13

Daily Doodle: Puppy Flip Flops

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Song of the Day: I Started a Joke by the Bee Gees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq6YmSVAOG8

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m strumming on an acoustic guitar hooked up to an amp. At the end of a stanza I strum the pick slightly forward as I go down the strings and look up for the cue to start up again.

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Blurb 1/365: If I ever get famous or have a reason to be on a talk show like The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, firstly, I’d have to pinch myself to make sure it was real, and secondly, I’d be sure to sit like a normal person would. I wouldn’t slouch or anything, but I would sit normally where a normal stomach pooch would naturally stick out. I have seen one too many interviews with men and women sitting at the edge of a seat, looking like they need to pee or poo, all seemingly to keep their tummy from sticking out. Not only does it make them appear awkward, I end up looking at their stomachs being sucked in and thinking about it more than I would if they had just sat like a normal person. There shouldn’t be so much pressure on people in the public eye to look like mannequins. Shoooot, mannequins shouldn’t be looking like that either.

Dailies 12/11/13

Dailies 12/11/13

Daily Doodle: Rook Castle

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Song of the Day: Do Right Woman, Do Right Man by Aretha Franklin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhdgFfNsst0

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m playing the organ on the raised back part of a stage. I’m wearing a white button-down shirt and a reddish maroon vest with pea green and yellow undertones on the lining with matching pants.

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Blurb 1/365: I have this bad habit of picking at and peeling the skin around the tips of my fingers. I consider it a step up from my bad habit of scratching my eczema to shreds. Seriously, my hands were just big open wounds of moderate to severe levels over a span of 10 years. I’ve realized that some of my fingertips are smoothing out from the constant picking, almost like a callous, like Marge Simpsons’s quilting finger.

So now sometimes I feel like Kevin Spacey’s character in Seven because I’m losing my fingerprints. It’s kind of cool.

Dailies 12/10/13

Dailies 12/10/13

Daily Doodle: “Aaaaeeeyyy!”

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Song of the Day: Donna by Ritchie Valens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMcHbh6HBDk

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Musical Pipe Dream: On a small stage, I’m singing lead into a bulbous, shiny microphone and strumming an electric guitar. I’m wearing a fitted, black suit with pencil pants that show a bit of my ankle which contrasts from my black, pointed-toe, high-heeled pumps. All the Donnas in the audience are swooning over me.

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Blurb1/365:

Dear Peanut Butter on Toast,

Thanks for being there to comfort me when I get home.

Sincerely,

Auntie Pesto

Dailies 12/09/13

Dailies 12/09/13

Daily Doodle: Link Pajamas

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Song of the Day: Sixteen Tons

by Merle Travis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pfVvqLM_e4

and as performed by Tennessee Ernie Ford

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m slappin a bass. My posture is bent over with my butt sticking out. I’m really into the beat and nodding my head and two-stepping to the beat.

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Blurb 1/365: There is so much beautiful music out there, I just thought it was a good time to say that I’m thankful for my ears and my brain.