Sisters

Zaheeda has been discussing what to do when these two inevitably start plotting against us.

First Little Bit of Snow

Vaccinated

Yesterday both the girls got flu vaccines - Annah got her flu booster shot and Maya got the mist up the nose. Maya wouldn't go so far as to say the mist up the nose was a pleasant experience but it sure beat getting a shot.

Dancing Ladies

Curtains

We are in the midst of repainting the living room and "need" to get new curtains. Now I don't mean to get all negative but I'm of the opinion that curtains are and always have been a product of the devil himself - in fact, I bet after Eve took a bite of the apple man grabbed his and her fig leaves for clothing and then immediately decided on a need for drapes in the dining room. If Lucifer is not responsible for curtains he most certainly had his hand in the invention of the valance. So you buy a drape and you think, hey, I could cover a window with this. But no, you need to buy two drapes so they part in the middle. Then you need to buy some kind of hardware to hang the two drapes. At this point you would think, ok I'm done.... Enter the valance which is a completely useless piece of cloth that hangs along the top of the curtains which as far as I can tell is there to hide the fact that you have curtain rods - but of course you need another rod for the valance. What next, another set of curtains for the valance to hide the fact that you need it to cover the rod that is there to hold the curtains that is there to hide the window. Do you see what is happening here? We are destroying ourselves! This is all evil! Pure evil! Maybe I'm all wrong, maybe people are not buying curtains for their windows but it's the other way around, and they in fact have windows so they can show of their curtains. Why not cut the window out of the whole deal and just nail the curtains to the side of the house so people could dive by and say, "Would you look at those lovely curtains."

Goofey

Denying our Swedish Heritage

From time to time we like to pay homage to Maya's Scandinavian roots here at mayamac studio... That is until now. I came across this site featuring promotional photos of Swedish dance bands from the 70's. What follows are a few of my personal favorites:

C.C. everyone in the band - "Friday we are getting our promo pic taken, make sure to wear your nicest pair of light blue pants." Unfortunately not everyone got the message.

Now this one really raised a lot of questions for me. Notice the band is called Kent Rogers. Who exactly is Kent Rogers here? They are all dressed the same. Also note there is a woman in the group and what is interesting about her is she is dressed exactly the same as the guys. They were probably considering getting her and outfit of her own but gave up that futile pursuit when it became apparent these outfits were just too damn spectacular.

The Tonny's made the decision to spend the majority of their wordrobe budget on fancy black platform boots. Unfortunately on the day of the photo shoot their jeans covered them up making it look like they were all wearing normal black shoes. Finally the decision was made. "Let's roll 'em up boys!"

Shilling Banco's manager sat them down and gave it to them straight saying, "If you guys want to be big- and I'm talkin' ABBA big here, you are going to have to start showing more cleavage."

From now on if anyone asks, Maya is 50% German 50% Indian - end of story.

Dead Fish

Maya's fish Puss Puss passed last night. I don't know what's going on but Maya's room is fast turning into a Dead Zone for fish. Though Puss Puss the catfish is dead, Obama the snail continues to live on. We are of course referring to Obama the crustacean which survives by eating the slime off the edge of the tank and not Obama the American politician which is the slime that thrives on the backs of the American tax payer. I don't know what our next move is as far as the fish are concerned. Puss Puss after all was a catfish and they are like the Timex watches of the fish world, they go all the way back to the prehistoric age and that doesn't speak well of Maya when a fish can survive what scientists believe was a giant comet smashing into the Earth yet can't take a month in her bedroom. Maybe she needs to move onto something else... Christmas is right around the corner - Chiapet perhaps?

Maya's School on the News

This is from KARE 11 News on Monday.

Conference Report

Maya's review went really well, she is doing very good work and gets along well with others. After the meeting we went to the Mall and got her a little treat for her fine effort thus far. Now she needs too keep it up!

Prent Teacher Conference

It's that time of year again. We are hoping for a good report so we don't have to fill Maya's life with an abundance of unpleasantness.

With the Leaves

Maya trying to teach Annah all about leaves.

Free Mortgage and Gas Day!!!!

Penn on voting

From Crackle: You Can't Vote Against