Kiss My Knits!

Sick Emily, Jayne hats, and care packages

I’m back, baby!

Well, sort of. Our IP address changed, so things are still a little weird as our new IP propagates across the internet.

Anywho, to celebrate being back, I stole this from .

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I coulda done better if I’d been willing to fight dirty, but having the internet back has mellowed me.

Day two: Internet still not restored. May have to resort to cannibalism.

Our internet is down until at least Monday. Apparently our internet provider subcontracted out to another provider, which folded without telling anyone, so we’re stuck until Monday. That means that pictures hosted at tvini.com will not display and e-mails to jaynehat.com and booboomonkey.com will go unseen. E-mails to wearwithstyle at gmail dot com will be seen when I have access to an internet connection. Boo.

Right now my daughter and I are at Caribou Coffee trying to connect to her karaoke site so that we can sing. Unfortunately, that particular site is moving very slowly. We may have to try again later.

She is reading over my shoulder as I type this.

Anyway, if I don’t answer e-mails, that’s why.

See you all soon!

Eeeee! Look what sent Emily! You may know for her super cute ferret Jayne hat or her Vinnland socks (the green ones I’m making) but you may not have known that she makes soap. These smell fabulous. Thank you so much, ! Emily will be using one of these – or, honestly, probably more than one – in her bath tonight!

ETA: In Jayne news, am working on orders from Oct 20th. Still getting them out faster than the eight week delivery time estimate. Yay!

I was in Dragonrealms this morning, updating my moon mage visions, when I realized that the one I’d written about the orphanage being rebuilt had finally come true. I’m a prophet! Woo!

My next prediction will be:

You find yourself standing on Tvini’s doorstep, holding a check for a million dollars. You hand it over and watch her dance a happy jig. The vision fades.

By the way, if you wanted to do something for my kid’s music teacher, she’s got a request up on DonorsChoose.com. I think it’s about time to get another yarn-for-donations raffle going. Hmm.

Well, Emily had her debut in the musical theater tonight as a member of the chorus. She’s in the pink shirt with the two braids. She’s the tallest one, as usual. The third and fourth graders were off to the sides of the stage, while the fifth graders played the actual parts.

Right: Check out the Wells Fargo Wagon! I wondered how the heck they could afford all the stage dressing, since our school is, we shall say, dirt poor. Then the principal mentioned she’d seen the same production at another school last week, which makes me think that the district shelled out for the rights to Music Man Junior as well as the settings. She also said that our production put theirs to shame, which I totally believe.

Left: sign definitely not needed. The music director stationed this teacher at the back with this little baby. The reverse side says “SING NOT SHOUT.” Emily wasn’t supposed to have the solo she did, but she decided to sing a line along with the soloist. Nice and loud. And she sounded great. I don’t think anybody noticed, but she was fabulous.

Link to an AVI of a bunch of eight year olds singing Meredith Wilson – IF YOU DARE!

Upon coming home, she immediately popped in the DVD of the Music Man which I had cunningly left sitting at the edge of the coffee table. She’s singing along with the songs now. She’s going to be a star, I tell you! A star!

And now, if you’ll pardon me, it’s time for the star’s bathtime and jammies.

Tomorrow night, Emily’s school will be doing The Music Man. I assume they’ll just be doing selections from it, since I doubt they have a pint-sized Robert Preston ready to sing “The Sadder but Wiser Girl.” They will, however, be doing Iowa Stubborn, 76 Trombones, the Wells Fargo Wagon, and Pick a Little Talk a Little.

Apparently they’ve got the stage dressed as River City, complete with a Wells Fargo wagon and horse, “a big orange ball” for some reason, and hats for the kids.

Emily will have two solos – well, duets, since they pair the kids up for the solos. In Wells Fargo Wagon, she’ll be singing, “And once I got some grapefruit from Tampa” and also “Oho the Wells Fargo Wagon keeps a-coming!”

I spoke with her music teacher, who says that in rehearsal, the kids are really more shouting than singing. For those not lucky enough to enjoy this gem in person, I point you to two things:

First, this list of terms used in the Music Man with which you may be unfamiliar.

Second, this audio rendition of David Sedaris reading “Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol” in which he takes on the persona of a drama critic skewering a local elementary school production of A Christmas Carol. Heh.

As for me, I’ll be running the video camera. First karaoke, now Broadway musicals, tomorrow, Hollywood!

Sock eating carpets, Jayne hats, and miscellaneous knitting.