Miss V'lu's News

Okay...so Mama has gotten into the spring clean thing, and is busy Freecycling stuff. She told me she wants to get rid of EVERYTHING, so it will be an interesting process. She got rid of a box of stuff from the bedroom and will look at her clothes again, however she weeded them out last year so I'm sure there won't be much now. Her next project is the living room and shelves - some of the things in here are not used and only kept for sentimental reasons and she is, for the first time, weighing out the sentimental things. I think she used to put too much stock on gifts received.

She also tells me we're thinking about moving. I don't think I like moving...the last time, I hid in the wardrobe for two days before investigating. She doesn't think she'll be able to get a big place like this again so it is important for her to get rid of a lot of stuff. In my opinion, she could get rid of some of the other beings around here...but I doubt she'll be doing that, so I'll just keep an eye on what's leaving the house and who's coming to pick it up.

Mama's been beading like crazy lately. She's come up with three more designs for anklets, but I think she's only going to do two of them as the third one took her three hours to finish! It wouldn't be cost-productive, is what she says, although it is very pretty. It was a good thing she made it to fit herself, as there won't be many more like it.

Mama's trying to read around me:

A whack of Asterix books, written by Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo. These have been enjoyed by her since she was in highschool, when she first read them. She says its good to revisit them every ten years or so. Anyway, she got out 10 of them from the library and is reading them before bed.

Mama's still singing in her head:

After watching "Festival Express" on Movie Central, a show where the Grateful Dead, the Band, Janis Joplin and a few others travelled by train across Canada in 1970. It is on again Sunday night at 11:15pm, and I bet she'll watch it again!

And when you walk around the world, babe,You said you’d try to look for the end of the road,You might find out later that the road’ll end in Detroit,Honey, the road’ll even end in Kathmandu.You can go all around the worldTrying to find something to do with your life, baby,When you only gotta do one thing well,You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, babe.You got a woman waiting for you there,All you ever gotta do is be a good man one time to one womanAnd that’ll be the end of the road, babe,I know you got more tears to share, babe,So come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,And cry, cry baby, cry baby, cry baby.

Cry Baby, Janis Joplin

Snoozing by the cold air register in the hallway...

V'lu