Animal Wednesday: Emily Rabbit's Exercise Program

Hello everyone, it's me, Emily. I have been very busy reacquainting with Gregory Squirrel and Muck, Truck and Fuck Duck in Provincetown. Gregory and I have been swinging through trees and one time we knocked over some sculpture that looked like a naked wrinkled man but it was just standing there below the tree and when we jumped on it, the jellybean bag I was carrying knocked off the head but really what kind of a head would roll off like that just because a jelly bean bag hit it? We hopped and ran away very fast because you may remember Gregory and I were arrested last year and kj said I would have to use the allowance i don't by the way get if I have to ever get bailed out again so I am trying to avoid that.

Anyway, what I want to write about today is exercise. Did you know that kj is working with a trainer and she is pulling and pushing these bars with her stomach and arms and legs and even toes and she keeps saying her muscles like the attention but maybe I'm not supposed to say she is doing this anyway I have some exercises that I KNOW everyone will like:

The Bunny Bop: Jump off a couch and land on both feet at the same time. The more advanced version is to jump off a couch while holding a ice cream cone with one scoop of chocolate and the super advanced version is to jump off a couch while holding an ice cream cone with two scoops of mint chocolate chip , and whatever version you do, part of the exercise is making sure nothing drips.

The Push Somebody: This is easy: you just walk in a crowd and push some one who looks mean and you use your arms or hips or legs to push but the best part of the exercise is you have to look like you aren't pushing because if it's obvious get ready to get in trouble. The person you pushed could even have you arrested.

The Boo Hoo Kick: You lie down anywhere like the floor and kick your feet in the air in all directions, BUT you have to cry from your stomach at the same time while you are BOO HOO HOO HOO BOO BOO HOO ING. This exercise is also for temper tantrums and it works very well but you have to be sure you don't kick an 8 year old cry baby who will tell her mother and get you in trouble.

This is enough to get you started, right? I hope you will not be influenced by the fact that kj has refused to do these exercises except that she did jump up not down one time with a cup of cherry garcia ice cream but that shouldn't really count because cherry garcia is not even one of the exercise ice creams even though I might be willing to consider it.
Yours truly
Emily Rabbit

Notes from my Moleskine

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First off, this may be too l-o-o-n-g. I'm not sure yet. I am writing this alot for myself, so if at any time you lose interest please feel free to skedoodle. (Did I make this word up?)
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Do you have a journal or some notebook where you write things down, carry it along for those moments when a muse may visit you and if you don't record it the inspiration or information will be gone?

I use a Moleskine. I am on my fifth one and because the cover and binding is so solid, when I've filled one up I store it away in my top desk drawer and I think they will all still be there years later. Maybe Jessica, or even Ryan may some day go through my Moleskines and find me right there in those pages.

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I haven't made resolutions for the new year (except will I have book # 2 done and ready to be published?) but right now, right this minute, I am looking back in my Moleskine, starting in January 09, to see what stands out in this last year. I doubt I'll be surprised. There's no order in particular, but some selectivity and omissions.
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One more thing: if it has an * after it, the credit does not belong to me.

. January 09 & on...
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We agree to take time away from one another until Spring but she calls the next day. How many times has that happened--one of us unable to let even a day pass--maybe 500 times?
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Priya the Healer asks me, "What will you add this year? Focus on that, not what you will take away. What will you add?" I write a list, and the first thing on it is "I will literally run toward someone I am excited to see, with abandon, with my arms outreached."
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You might find me in those moments when all those pillows are not enough.
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Sign on a bumper: I Break for Saucy Wenches
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"The moment was short but it lasted forever." *
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She is somebody who walks away. I didn't know that.
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"Don't try so hard. It comes in a shiver sometimes."*
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"One song is worth a thousand history books." *
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There's nothing I wanted more than to be walking on the same path.
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We land at LA Airport and the cell phone message from my brother is that my nephew--his son, died this morning.
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Donna the Past Life Woman: "Let things go into chaos. Let things be out of control. What you resist or run away from grows bigger.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm speaking ill of you and I don't want that.

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I never needed as much as she thought I did but I did need more.
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"God likes it better when I hand the bone over." *
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"Don't shoot the second arrow." *
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I'm learning about clean pain versus dirty pain: Wow God, I get a choice?
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The next time someone tells you they've had a half dozen marriage proposals, you might want to consider that a red flag....
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Euterpe = muse of music and poetry
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You lose two people in grief: the other person and the person you are with the other person.
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Victoria came up with this title for a book and we laughed: "Before the Cat Died"
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Me to some clients: Do you know your little girl--the one inside you who went through all that? You're an adult now. Do you know you can mother her, you can help her know she's safe now?
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You can't remember when you painted that? And you're calling Stella 'some one's dog?' Why do you do that?
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From my 13 year old client in foster care, talking about her mother, "I don't want to be with her because she makes so many mistakes. She would be a very bad influence on me. I don't want to live with someone who keeps making mistakes because then I will make mistakes too."

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I love this child. Can I, should I adopt her if no one else does? I am too old, and the whole idea makes JB very understandably very uncomfortable. But she's only 4 and she's been through so much. I don't think I can knowingly let her be harmed again. Not horrible harm, anyway. And being sent to live with her grandfather in Puerto Rico could be horrible harm.
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Seen on a church sign: Who would Jesus bomb?
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"Stand tall in a stiff wind."* Yup, I like that.
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kj, try this for the first line of a new chapter? "When there wasn't a last goodnight, there was a first good morning."
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Sign on a Springfield Church: Waiting for Holy Winds.
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Okay, these snippets from my Moleskine run through June 2009. There may be a Part 2 to this. Maybe it will be more optimistic. :)

By the way, I do not like being so serious.

Love

kj