about that nose dent

okay gusti just for you
My nose:

you will note that there is a flat space across the tip and in that space there is a faint shadow-- that is the dent. you can kinda see it in my profile pic as well.

aA rather longish nose with that kinda flat tip--with or without the dent --is the English nose I'm talking about.

I saw variations all over the place in London when I was there. Witness:


King Charles the 1st of England
















his son King Charles the 2nd














Anna Chancellor, modern British Actress (Duck Face in "Four Weddings and a Funeral") here seen in A&E's "Pride and Prejudice".

See!!! an English nose

Seven weird or Funny things

Okay I'll play

1. To continue Reni's tooth theme--all my teeth--100%--are capped or are bridges, due to a combination of getting hit in the mouth with a fast soft ball at age 12, and a genetic predisposition to decay and gum disease.

2.My nose has a dent in it at the bottom--a very English nose. Seymour thinks it's weird--but HIS nose is a very Jewish nose--total opposites!

3. I am a Christmas FANATIC. I put up my main tree the day after Thanksgiving ( it's artificial), play xmas music 24/ 7 for the whole month. have at least 2 other trees --real, for the smell--and have decorations ( a Christmas village , a miniature carousel, santas etc etc ) pretty much everywhere you look. I watch all the Christmas movies, multiple times. I make special homemade christmastime only food--particularly homemade candy...and it goes on. And now I have Channukah decorations as well. I loooooove the holidays.

4.my favorite thing to do is to eat out--preferably at fabulous, one of a kind, creative restaurants. favorite cuisine-rustic fusion.

5.you cannot share a meal with me and NOT have the conversation eventually come around to low carb eating and the evils of grain and sugar.

6.I don't like to cook. Everybody thinks I do Because I do it well, but the only thing I really enjoy cooking is desserts and candy. I just really like EATING good food soooo... ( and hence number 4 above)

7. I talk to my cats. A lot. Outloud.

so there.

I tag Ashley, Kylee and Pam Kimball ( I know Pam you don't have a blog yet --so START ONE already!!!)

one of the little projects we have been working on while I've been here has been potty training Asher. He's doing fabulous, thanks to a little idea Reni got froma suggestion Patience made. he had been resisting even sitting on the potty at all always saying " I don't want to". with great emphasis--and tears if we tried to force the issue

Soooo we started a little game with everyone. After enlisting everyone to hlep, we would set a timer and when it went off we would ask " who needs to go to the potty?" First Reni and I went, then a couple of the kids would go and we would get Asher to come and watch. after a bit we convinced him that it was his turn and he willingly went and we got peeps in the potty!!!! He got a sticker and i did a silly little potty dance. sfter that everytime he would get peepee in the potty he would ask for a "Silly Fanny Dance"

below is an example. so Anyway--threee accidents the first day, only one the THIRD day and today--the fifth day--he even managed to keep a diaper dry on a whole day out at the mall and etc!!!

witness the Fanny Potty dance

Asher story

on Friday we spent most of the day shopping a driving around in the car. it was a long day for everyone so at some point I started playing twenty questions with the kids--which they loved ( and never want to STOP!!!!) we played for alot of the afternoon--Mostly Kensi and Sa,em of course.

along towar evening I was driving with just the boys in the car-- (Reni and Kensi were t a bridal shower and I was fetching Abe from work so....) Salem and I started a game--the other boys werea lseep--or so we thought.

after a bit Asher pipes up from his seat " I want to do one"
okay I said " do you have an animal in your head?
yes he siad " I have an aminal"

salem asked how may legs does it have
" four" Asher replied ( he'd obvioulsy been listening very carefully all aftrnoon!)
" does it have fur?"
Yes , it has fur" ( pronounced foo)
does it have a trunk?
"no, my aminal doesn't have a frunk"
is it a lion?
"no it is not a yiyon"
I give up, what is it?
"um....a balloon!!!" and then gales of giggles

It deteriorated quickly after that--the next animal had four legs and shoes and socks and ears and a Butt!! oh, and a frunk and a chair-thingy on its bottom. (an elepahnt with shoes and socks sitting in a chair, perhaps?

much laughter and amazement from all. he really is quite the two year old!

adventures in Fannyland

So I;/m here in Utah at the little red cabin with Reni ans the kids.

you've seen pictures of the baby so I don't need to tell you how pretty he is and , as newborns go, he's a pretty easy one.

we've gotten lots of projects done( Reni painted the bathroom yesterday) but we've also had some mishaps--I mangled the tip of my middle finger on my left hand with a power saw the second day here--so that hurts! gonna be a nice hunk of scar tissue!!! and yesterday I had some kinda stomach bug ( the egg burps YUCH) and Abe has it today. but we've also had some fun

Asher the two year old is as charming as a two year old can be. He talks very well but uses some interesting intitial consonants--mostly f--for a variety of sounds, hence Thaddeus is Faddeus and Grampy is Frampy. So I am Fanny. Makes me laugh.