I make screenshots of the scenes too which is verrrry time consuming – but worth it.

Here are the ones I made so far:  If you click the links they play on the JibJab site.

Starring (left to right top to bottom) Jeff, Julio, Rich, Marsh (me), Greg, Mickie

“It’s A JibJab Life”

I made this one for Bec with some MYSPACE/FACEBOOK friends:
starring Bec, Gig, Joe, Dwyane
“You’ll Put Your Eye Out”

Hip Hop Yourself – myspace/facebook/twitter buddies~
Jazzy J-Gig-John-Jer

Hip Hop Yourself – work pals~
Greg – Rich – Sam – Shandra

Then JOE put me in one of his:
A Christmas Carol”

myspace/fb friends: Steve,  John, (me), Dave,  Joe (popcorn lover)

/end <– maybe not — check back later..

The still photos from this vid are stored:
here

I will suffer with you

“All she had to say was…..’she’s twenty’…….and my heart was broken”.

A few days ago I stood like many other days at the counter. The lines had calmed down, nobody was waiting. I was looking down at my screen when a women approached. Our normal response is to spew out sometimes robotic words…”Did someone call you up? You have a boarding pass?” …but before I could utter a single word she simply said in a soft voice…
“Can you help me…please?”
As soon as she spoke I looked up at her tears and immediately stared into a face of pain. I let her continue and only got these very basic facts. She was flying alone to Tel Aviv to rush to her daughter’s side who was intensive care. Her reason for approaching me instead of using the kiosk was pretty simple…”I’m too distraught to concentrate”.

My heart softened. I know I was born to comfort people. My nature and that is when I am called upon in time of need, I respond with great compassion. I can be the most mixed up and confused soul when confronted with my own desires and needs but when someone needs me – I become another person. I gave this woman my full attention and checked her in as quickly and quietly as possible – took her bag – tried to calm her.

The thing I chose to tell her was what she needed and that was……”You are doing the most you can, right here, right now; the distance you have no control over.” She nodded and became quiet for just a few seconds.

The last thing I did was give her a few instructions…tell her I was so sorry to hear this story…then she uttered the thing that shook my soul. “She’s twenty.”

Just typing that out makes me pause …once more.

It was as if someone was guiding her to tell me that fact. Then my own eyes filled with tears and I had a hard time speaking.

All I could say was……”my daughter is also…twenty”. In the instant I uttered those words..my mind flashed a hundred frames per second of my own daughter’s struggle, and the deep pain from it over the last year, all the yet unresolved problems, pain and deep love I have for my own child. And it wasn’t simply because I could now relate to her, but it was the humbling way this situation made me ashamed. There is always someone else…that is in worse trouble than you are -

So just before I sent her to her gate, I asked if I could walk around in front of the counter to her in which she sadly nodded in an appreciative way.

I put my arms around her and can’t even remember what I said….some lame words about..may I give you some support from the airline you are traveling with today…something an ad writer would think too schmaltzy.

I do remember uttering……”I am so sorry……..” in which the poor woman sobbed on my shoulder.
Her tears literally made my shoulder wet for an hour. I have never been so moved.

The thought of her remained the entire day….so I made the Photoshop creation above in memory of her.

I will always wonder…..what the outcome was.

Due to copyright you must view the video on NBC which is ok by me – the quality is superb.

Madonna vs Agelina re: babies

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t scorn women who want lots of children, I am the true supporter of all things Mia Farrow. I do however, scorn women that and rich and famous and seem to want only children from another country.  I ‘d like to see both of them go get a white kid off the streets very much in style of Tracy Ulman who has already done a satire on this very subject.

Tracy\’s Malawi adoption <– youtube link

I only hope he survives giving up Taco Bell – that’s asking a lot. They’ve just added volcano beef burritos.

but they smell like plastic.

Seems like Jeff  (Amazon CEO) has done it again — although when I first saw the 500.00 price tag I had to ask myself,  “Wouldn’t that be like buying 35 hardbacks at about 10 bucks?”  How long did it take you to buy your last 35?  I rest my case.  The hidden secret is the wifi connection.  That one time price of 500.00 retail covers downloading books from Amazon indefinitely?  It’s hard to argue that would be high after I compare what I pay with my cable company and cell phone bills.

I can download books on my iphone now.  However, the screen is too bright and tiny for longs periods of reading so the new kindle is an interesting idea.  My old fashioned love affair with “new book smell” might be old hat,  but I’d miss it.  Plus, how do you write a lovely inscription as a gift on an E-book?   As cool as this all is, it makes me want to stroll through some old book stores and browse 1st editions,  maybe stumbling on some  wonderful old illustrations that I can touch, smell and feel.  Anyone see the movie “Definitely Maybe”? Someone wanna give me a lovely old edition of Jayne Eyre?  I’d pass out!  

A part of me is too sensual for technology –I’m torn – I love both.

Learn more about the Amazon Kindle

Let’s have icecream

Is was this video where I took that picture that everyone seems to like. yay for overexposure.

i love her style. cool sites-I’m jealous.

http://10secondstories.com/

http://magda.me/ …from her iphone (wordpress)

As for me, I’ll be at the drawing board all day.