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Suzen JueL – Don’t Let it Die, Live Performance…Grand Cities Pride Festival, North Dakota

May 24th, 2010
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This was recorded on May 22nd in Grand Forks, North Dakota for our first show of the day, taking place in the park…intimate sort of crowd….great performances by Heidi Stink and Mj Kroll as well… check out flickr.com/suzenjuel for some pic’s etc…or suzenjuel.com

Acoustic . Americana . artist . Blues . don't let it die . festival . folk . gay . grand cities pride festival . grand forks . juel resistance . live . Living Room #13 . minneapolis . minnesota . mj kroll . music . musician . naked acoustic . north dakota . Original . outdoor . park . pride . seasonal . singer . songwriter . summer . susan pilon . suzen juel . suzen kay . talent . virtual
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R.I.P. lil Van Gogh

May 18th, 2010
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Today I let Juju, my lil ferret…out of her cage, as usual when I wake up in the morning…she loves to go in the tub and lick water, play inside guitar holes and well…today she found a new hobbie.

Now I’m used to Juju running around the house, searching for the hairbrush we hide, just cuz she loves to find it and run off with it….then she drinks a bit of soy milk and sometimes shares my coffee, if there is cream in it….then she’s off to find things to get into, curious creatures that they are.

It’s not unusual to have right under my feet ALL morning, or for her to run off for a bit…but, for some reason I noticed it this morning…I was putting the dishes away when I thought to myself…’wow, she’s kind of quiet … maybe she ran into the tub, or is trying to get into things that make noise….but…again, it was just noticeably different, a certain kind of quiet, that you pay attention to.

So I went to see if she was in the shower. Nope.

I thought “OH NO..she’s all over the keyboard again (she loves to run across the keyboard on the com puter) so I came into my Studio…and noticed a quiet movement to my right….where the large aquarium is…where I have had my 3 mice since November….Except, now I only have one.

No anger…but a bit of sadness.

Van Gogh, one of the white mice (there were two white and one mixed)….he scratched off his own ear (thus his name van gogh)…and has a habit of scratching his fur right off…it’s not unusual in mice, but if the habit can’t be broken, their skin is very thin and they can die from scratching themselves to death…Anyway, I had just put Neosporin on his ear earlier in the morning (like I do every morning..helps SO much with his healing) and there is Juju with the two white mice behind her…..in a pile, like furs she was rounding up in the woods to drag off somewhere.

She was searching for the other mouse ‘Mikey’ but Mikey is SUPER FAST and I found him under his rock, shivering a bit….I wondered if Mice can experience severe trauma if they see their room-mates get their necks snaped.

I mean..it’s Mother Nature…and well, I should have REMEMBERED that I had placed a box near the mouse cage, and didn’t realize, this was JuJu’s way IN…..normally, it is impossible for her to get into any of the cages, but a moment of switching something around, certainly changed everything…from a lil morning hug with Van Gogh and rubbing his lil ear…..to having to dispose of of him and his twin brother…..

BUT

Life gives you lemons..you make lemonade right? So now Mikey has his OWN cage (not a 55 gallon aquairium anymore, but a 10 gallon one, PERFECT) and the rats, have been removed from their 10 gallon, to the 55 gallon and HOLY HELL, you should have seen them r unning around and burrowing like two silly little things they are….with ALL this room…

Mikey won’t stop running on his wheel. He’s always been rather nervous, which is why he’s so UNGODLY Fast…I’m slowly re aquainting him to ‘the human hand’….meanwhile I may add a new little mouse for him…..

I know rats do better with a cage mate….Mice aren’t much different….So maybe Mikey will have a new roomie soon….meanwhile, he’s running out his anxiety, I guess…or something…..

The rats

Still nameless……..

remain the easiest little creatures to hold. I got first pick of the litter (Born 4.20.2010) and their personalities are really starting to come through. I had a black hooded rat, years ago, named (try this one on your tongue Rojeje..pronounced Row Sha Shay ) i named her that, because it was FUNNY AS HELL to hear my little niece say it’s name…

but she’s 15 now…back then she was 5 I think, HOW TIME GOES BY SO QUICK!

So it’s 2 less mice roomier in here..and I can’t get Mikey’s Purple Squeeking wheel out of my ears……and well, I don’t wanna move him to a diff room…I think he’s had enough commotion for one day eh?

brother . cage . death . ferret . instinct . juju . mice . rodent . van gogh
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Thrifting and Photo’s

May 17th, 2010
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It’s been an unforgettable spring so far…and it’s only a few moments away before mother nature marks the beginning of summer. I’ve been doing some live shows in Minneapolis and spending time with some wonderful friends, that it seems I’ve known my whole life (as far as this life goes in the era of Minnesota)…This past weekend, my mother came to visit and what a fantastic time we had. It started out early Saturday morning, after our coffee it was just throw some clothes on and LETS GO!!!! So off we went to Cambridge, MN…our first stop, for the Thrifting Experience….these are important experiences!!! The “FAMILY PATHWAY” thrift store chain, does such fun and colorful displays, VERY “Shabby Chic’ which is very ‘SUZEN’ if you know me at all, you know this!!! I LOVE a good find, old treasure chests are some of my favorites, and of course, FUNNY hats and boots. I found out I buy things based on color, not whether or not I’ll use it, wear it or anything…I just like to lay my eyes upon pretty colors!!!

Tea-Thrift Find

So anytime I find one of these Jar’s or is it called a ‘Carafe’ I’m not sure, but they hold almost 2 quarts..which is just enough to shove in my 3 bags of green tea and 2 bags or the Roobios MMMM~! and then Mom and I are now on Highway 65, and Mom’s driving..and Of course I’m a WRECK..any time I’m not driving, it pretty much freaks me out ( 2x in my life I’ve been hit at 70mph..so i’m a bit on edge when I’m in a car)….we were on the search for AUTHENTIC Mexican food and an hour later…(6 hours after waking up) we FINALLY come upon an amazing place I used to eat lunch at, when I worked in the Blaine Area, years ago…I was so relieved it was still there. The rest of the time it was sitting outside around my flowers and plants, looking at the garden we are about to plant..OOOoOoO Can’t wait for that!!!

I missed seeing my sister and dad…but it’s always an experience, to have my Mom time, with the woman who brought me into this world….and is FAR BEYOND a mother to me, she is a soul mate, she is a sister, she is something beyond this life, something that has known me before she herself ever came into this world, by her mother……but that’s a topic for another day.

I received the letter I wrote to Father Mike…I haven’t read it yet. I thought it was 6 pages, it’s actually 9. I can’t believe anyone would even sit down and ready NINE pages…but I was 23 years old and just sooooo desperately needed to pour my soul out to someone… see previous post about Father Mike.

….Moving along to Photos..which is why I even started this in the first place……

If you are interested in any of them, please let me know….they are all 8×10 photos!