Sorted another box of my dads tonight.
Got to the bottom, some old dust clumps, some, tape or string...? Can beat it out outside and get rid of it. Looked closer...

My hospital bracelet from the day I was born.
I cried. I thanked him. I felt like he was there. Tried to hold his hand.
Grateful for the little things tonight...passing moments with the otherworld...I felt at peace and so thankful for moments like this to process my feelings.

And, other parts of me are so pleased with the proof that you shouldn't dump all your dead fathers things in a dumpster the weekend after he died like some people worked so hard to do..HA MOTHERFUCKERS!! 

Sugar, Sugar

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Lower right corner says:

"Note to Mothers: Exhaustion may be dangerous – especially to children who haven’t learned to avoid it by pacing themselves. Exhaustion opens the door a little wider to bugs and ailments that are always lying in wait. Sugar puts back energy fast – offsets exhaustion. Synthetic sweeteners put back nothing. Energy is the first requirement of life. Play safe with your young ones – make sure they get sugar every day."

Links

So, I'm gonna stop aiming for Friday links, it just doesn't seem to work for me. Fridays always seem to be the busiest for me at work lately, and then the weekend starts...it's hard for me to pre-load the links posts like I do for most of the Saturday Happy Songs because I need to build the links posts. It takes a lot of time and attention, even more so if I am gonna give a blurb about what the links are or what I like about them...And I just haven't been sure if that is worth it in a little while.

So, here is a bug dump of all the things I have liked or found compelling or worth sharing on the internet since the last time I gave you a links dump a couple weeks ago. Enjoy! :) ♥ 

♥Chinese Factory Workers and the Toys They Make
This was amazing. It is a photo study called 'The Real Toy Story' by German-born photographer Michael Wolf. He did a whole gallery instillation using toys made in China held to the metal walls of the gallery with magnets.

♥Amy Poehler writes a short essay about her job the summer she was 17

This pumpkin:

 

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♥'Classic Rock Stars At Home With Their Parents' LIFE Photo Series

Especially this one of Frank Zappa and his parents and cat:

♥The Starwood: Home of Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
I love the punk community...

♥Best Halloween Events In L.A.

Which, through it's amazing header photo that I LOVE of a young girl entering The Bates Motel introduced me to:

♥Carolyn Hampton Photography
LOVE! What an amazing photographer.

♥Malala Yousafzai on The Daily Show:


♥Brides Throwing Cats Instead Of The Bouquet

♥We've all wished we could put tiny clothes on a hamster

♥“500 DAYS IN DOWNTOWN L.A.” Walking Tour

♥Haunting Photos Of 'Dead Man's Curve' Vehicle Graveyard

♥Joni Bakaradze Mummy: Mother Claims To Have Preserved Son's Body For 18 Years Using Alcohol

♥'Shark Cat' Is The Most Important Song To Hit The Internet

♥Maria Tallcheif died... :(

Catch-up of things

Stuff I shared on Facebook and haven't shared here yet:

Lisa Frank gives first video interview EVER:


Ariel Castro hung himself. Fucker. 

20 scientific reasons to start meditating. I miss meditating. I need to go back to it. For real. Before I stab someone.

Also, Happy Birthday Cassandra Peterson, or as we know her best: Elvira

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Friday fascinations dump - on Sunday - ALL the links not posted before!

The Fascinations

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A big catch up of all the things I wanted to share but also wanted to preface, or add thoughts to, or they were too depressing and I wanted to spread out the depressing stuff...Whatever, here it all is. ENJOY the clusterfuck!

• Convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala was found guilty in 2010 of killing four women and a 12-year-old girl in Southern California in the 1970s. Alcala, 69, is a former photographer and a one-time dating-show contestant who has been behind bars since 1979. Police in California previously released dozens of photos, including the ones seen here, taken from a storage space rented to Alcala. Recognize the people in this photo? Please contact Huntington Beach, Calif., Police Det. Patrick Ellis at 714-375-5066  PICTURES HERE (Just above the shoulders shots, though they are creepy, they are safe for work)

• Children that remember past lives

• The paleo-vegetarian diet experiment

• Larky groups all your memberships!

• Avoid "Decoy Habits" to Stop Putting Off Your Goals

• Angelina Jolie's choice is clear to one who faced it

• My Medical Choice - By ANGELINA JOLIE 

• Jolie’s Disclosure of Preventive Mastectomy Highlights Dilemma

• Image Exclusive - Professional make-up

• "Mexican Spitfire" Mystery Solved After 7 Decades! 

• Willam, Michelle Visage & More Star In Amazing New “Downton Abbey” Spoof: WATCH

• The chilling pictures of suitcases left in a New York insane asylum by patients who were locked away for the rest of their lives

• Sharon Needles's Vine (NSFW!)

• THIS great video of amazing people wishing BUST Magazine a happy 20th birthday!

• Tumblr for the assistant editor's 

• Porn sex vs. real sex

  

• 7-tips for keeping your man in the1950s

• Palette Porn (no naked people, SAFE for work)

Why yes Angie, you did turn me on to many of these ;)

Moving - Day 2 - The Last Scramble

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We're moving! Not far, not even out of this town (we love this town), just 2 doors down in our building. YAY! More room! Step-Daughter has decided to stay and so she needed a room. It was such a lucky break to find her one right here in the building. We got a good portion of stuff out yesterday. We have to finish today. I am most worried about our bed, cause it's heavy. But, there is actually lots of work to be done still...

I am about to lose the internet while my man moves the computers next door, then we have to have the bill swapped. So I will be gone for the  next week probably sorting all that stuff out. 

Have a wonderful start of July and I'll catch you up on all the fun we had next week. 

~Sydney  

Dope Corn

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It's an instructable! I LOVE THIS! ♥