Two Three Things

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Eden M. Kennedy

1. I go back and forth between singing “Katie Katie potatie, banana fana fo-fatie, me mi mo-matie, Katie!” and “Oh, Katie, you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind, oh Katie! [clap-clap! clap!] oh Katie!” Occasionally Jack or I will try to make light opera out of it (Oh, KATEEEEE, you’re so FIIIIIINE, you blow my MIIIIIIND!) but only when we’re bored. Jackson, sensibly enough, thinks we’re nuts.

2. The other night I dreamt that Ben Affleck broke up with me, but I didn’t really care, I was just dating him because I thought he wanted to. In the morning when I told Jack about my dream he said, “Was it Ben Affleck the writer, or Ben Affleck the activist?”

3. yogabeans!

That’s all I’ve got.

It’s been a week, Intarnet, and it ain’t over yet.

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32 Responses to Two Three Things

  1. Meg says:
    April 27, 2006 at 12:08 pm

    Always the writer. Always the writer. Though I think Matty did most of it.

  2. Maya says:
    April 27, 2006 at 12:23 pm

    We sing to our cats, to – More along the lines of something by David Bowie or Coldplay, though. How is Katie’s head looking these days? We (your loyal Internets) need more pictures of her!

  3. velocibadgergirl says:
    April 27, 2006 at 12:41 pm

    I sing to the cat every day. He has four or five theme songs. My husband even composed a song for him to the tune of the theme from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

    Our future children have much trauma to look forward to, but I’m just glad we’re not the only ones!

  4. auntie wee says:
    April 27, 2006 at 12:50 pm

    OMG!! I sing the same “Oh G-Man you’re so fine” to my dog (his name’s Goliath) how funny is that?? We also have one titled Super-G, Super-G, Super G-G-G…

  5. Kimblahg says:
    April 27, 2006 at 1:22 pm

    i sing “oh jackie you’re so fine” to baby jack. i also sing “jackety jack don’t talk back!” and of course, jack and diane. little ditty…

  6. HRH Courtney, Queen of Everything says:
    April 27, 2006 at 1:38 pm

    See in my dreams, I’m only dating Ben Affleck to get to Matt Damon. You’re either a Matt person or a Ben person, and I’ve always been a Matt person.

  7. Hope says:
    April 27, 2006 at 1:51 pm

    I sing to my dog too! I do the ‘you are my sunshine’ song. I hold his head and make sure he’s looking at me when I sing it so we can have a nice bonding moment.

  8. Kristen says:
    April 27, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    Okay, you have to stop it with the yogabeans. Can’t breathe from all the laughter. Hulk is awesome.

  9. Emma says:
    April 27, 2006 at 2:07 pm

    I sing those same two songs to my dog, too, except her name is Annie. Which rhymes with banan-y. And, because she has bushy fur, a regular hit around the house is “Silver Drawers” (sung to the tune of “Silver Bells,” naturally.)

  10. puppytoes says:
    April 27, 2006 at 2:48 pm

    i make up songs for my dogs all the time… based on a variety of tunes (depending on my mood)…everything from “the brady bunch” theme to one of the songs from “moulin rouge”. i’m so glad to know that’s not weird (wait’ll i tell me husband! i’m sure he’ll be relieved, as well))

    and, may i just say, there are worse folks to dream about than ben affleck, actor and/or writer?

    finally, as usual, yogabeans totally rocks this week! lovelovelove it! : D

  11. Sue says:
    April 27, 2006 at 5:36 pm

    Every one of my pets has a stupid chant or song to go with their name.* It’s a sickness. In a good way. Like your current yogabeans post. :)

    *in fact it just occurred to me that my human daughter does NOT have a song or chant, so SAD!

  12. chirky says:
    April 27, 2006 at 7:28 pm

    When I imagine you singing it opera style, it was totally off-key. I hope it sounds better coming out of your mouth than it does in my mind.

    I know! Record it! Post it! And then we can have a sing-along!

  13. Mir says:
    April 27, 2006 at 11:54 pm

    Monkey calls his ratty blanket “teetee” and so we often play keep-away while I sing “Oh teetee, you’re so fine, you’re so fine and you’re ALL MINE!”

    It’s a very catchy tune.

  14. R. Robyn says:
    April 28, 2006 at 2:50 am

    Oddly, I had a dream a while back about Ben Affleck breaking up with me for some celebrity, but he promised he would still visit me through my window.

  15. Jozet at Halushki says:
    April 28, 2006 at 5:54 am

    I was singing that “banana-fana” song to a group of Brownie Girl Scouts in my car yesterday, and I’m sure the looks they were giving me were as quizzical as Katie’s. I just never really realized how at 7-years-old, learning about our culture is still wide open. You think that because they know how to say “whatever” that they know it all. :-)

  16. Mrs. Ca says:
    April 28, 2006 at 8:03 am

    Now I’m going to have that “Oh Katie, you’re so fine…” song stuck in my head all day. Although it is better than the song that was currently stuck in there, so thank you.

  17. Edgy Mama says:
    April 28, 2006 at 8:15 am

    But was he wearing a Red Sox cap?

  18. Edgy Mama says:
    April 28, 2006 at 8:16 am

    Ben, that is?

  19. Mom101 says:
    April 28, 2006 at 8:32 am

    I vote for Ben the struggling indie actor and writer. Not Ben the struggling alcoholic gambler. If you’re interested…

  20. Jenijen says:
    April 28, 2006 at 8:50 am

    here’s a third song for you:

    k-k-k- katie, beautiful katie,
    you’re the only g-g-g-girl that i adore,
    when the m-moon shines,
    over the cowshed,
    i’ll be waiting by the k-k-k-kitchen door.

  21. Erin says:
    April 28, 2006 at 11:15 am

    Wow, after reading all these comments about creating songs for pets, I don’t feel nearly as odd!:) My husband and I have several songs we’ve altered to describe our yorkie, Rex (8.5 lbs of fury!!). We thougth we were oddballs – now I know ARE oddballs, but there are a lot of us oddballs out there!:)

  22. Jennifer Jane Whiteford says:
    April 28, 2006 at 11:15 am

    My key song to the dog is sung in a fake Morrissey voice to the tune of the line “there is a light and it never goes out” Instead I sing, “George is a dog and he wants to go out” over and over again. The dog, he is not a fan of the Smiths.

    J.

  23. Melissa says:
    April 29, 2006 at 7:47 am

    It’s such a relief to know I’m not the only one who makes up songs for my cat.

    For example, this one, to the tune of “BJ Don’t Cry” by Moxy Fruvous:

    Julia Boolia!
    Smoocheree smoo-oo-li-ia!
    Julia-a Boolia!
    Smoo-oocheree smoolia!

    Most of her songs have to do with her smooch-ability and hug-ability and overall super cuteness. I’m sure she just thinks I’m weird.

  24. SUEB0B says:
    April 29, 2006 at 10:54 am

    All my animals have their had own theme songs, lovingly composed by me in moments of lunacy.

    Right now, Goldie the half-greyhound, who has a considerable snout, has a song:

    She is a big dog (dog)
    She has a long nose (nose)
    And wherever her nose goes,
    Then Goldie goes.

    Sheer brilliance, no?

  25. Mel says:
    April 29, 2006 at 8:22 pm

    Heh. We had a Golden Retriever named Sadie, so of course we sang “Sexy Sadie” to her, with slight moderations:
    Sexy Sadie… what have you done?
    You shed your fur on ev’ryoooooooonnnneee…
    et cetera.
    It’s impossible for us NOT to sing to our animals. Don’t ask me why. It just is. :)

  26. Jenn says:
    April 29, 2006 at 10:33 pm

    SO does it count as singing to my dog if I say in a harsh, heavy metal type tone:
    “Get the hell off my bed
    You ballless jackass of a dog!”?

    I mean, it doesn’t rhyme or anything, but I can see it going metal!

  27. that one guy says:
    May 1, 2006 at 10:00 am

    Walk on the Wild Side is always a good one to sing to any babies or pets who need to be sung to [or to whom you feel compelled to sing], cause when you run out of stuff to say in the song, you just start in on the doot doot doot part

  28. LadySeduction says:
    May 8, 2006 at 9:14 pm

    oh thank god you had one of these dreams too. I actually dreamt of britney and kevin and woke up completely freaked out only to find I had fallen asleep with the E! channel on.

    I was so disturbed by it. It still haunts me.