Some of you may know that Paul Edmund, my devoted husband, had a birthday recently. Yes, old PJ turned a wizened and profound 79 years on the second of January this year. Luckily, we had the children and grandchildren there in attendance along with a good friend and neighbor, Doak to prove this actually happened. Paul was so deeelited by it all he stood and scratched out a few rondos of his famous "funky chicken" dance (again, see yesterday's blog for more details). I was stunned by his fluid body poetry. Paul is, for me, the Mikhail Baryshnikov of love!
Paul Edmund: my Baryshnikov of Love!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owb_Ezc8G70
I just got my hands on a piccie or two from that Glorious Day which I would like to share now with you. Paul received two gifts....a scrumptious orange cake whipped up by the loving hands of his granddaughter, Ariel "Perfect Lips" Wusthoff (see yesterday's blog entry) and a sweatshirt from all of the chirrens. Queen Janita prepared her taste sensation lasagna to be eaten later for dinner.
Wild fun was had by all!
Ariel's birthday was the next day, 3 January but she had to leave. Something about a tryout for Hollywood. In Florida?! The production will be entititle "Girls gone Wild, They get Down!!" which is, I was told, the modern equivalent of the Gidget films of yore ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noXKcm7t1Oc ). Ariel says her "perfect lips" will be her calling card; no study required. I did not hear if she landed the job but I know those dear cherubs had a day of fun and whimsy there on the Floridian Sands!
Lost in a Peaceful Reverie...
Judy (via jeff)
Judy (via jeff)
2 January 2009: The Spirit of the PJ BirthDay!!
The Excitement Builds: Judy & PJ Enjoy the Family
PJ, 79 yo, does the Funky Chicken; sports newest fashion accessory
QueenJanita: One with Lasagna!
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3 comments:
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Judy, I will come to Arkansas & fix you the best martini you ever had. It's time somebody showed that uppity liver of yours who's boss! XO, CB
Dear Cheryl, I may have to go light on those Martini's until my liver gets less uppity rather than the other way around. Don't want the whites of my eyes to even more resemble an egg yolk than they do now...
Thanks so much for those additional verses you provided to Shelley's marvelous "To a Skylark". You may recall from my blog homage to Asako on 11/4 that I, too, love that poem.
Pity Shelley could not have had a few of my years to write longer... I just finished listening to an hour or more of Pavoratti singing and felt sad about his relatively early death.
Anyway, it has been great fun having the children here. Your poem and jolly best wishes for me only made the day all the better!
Tomorrow I go for another of my weekly chemo treatments. I think??? they will end sometime in late March/early April.
Judy
I'm glad that you like the poem; it is one of my favorites. I didn't see it on your blog. A bit difficult for this blog newbie to navigate, I'm
afraid. Howsumever, this part of the poem:
"...Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
...well, it's you!
Hope you tolerate your upcoming treatment well.
XO, C
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