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[08 Nov 2009|11:03pm] |
Quiet day. Went to church then stayed home....which was hard because it was so pretty out there but Dave had some school work that he HAD to finish. My foot was starting to hurt again so I decided it could use a rest. About 4 we went to town and stopped by Books. Jennie made me a wonderful dulce de leche. We then went to Wal-Mart and picked up some odds and ends.
Cody chatted with Dave and me on facebook this evening. Stuff about the camp promotional video that he is working on and so forth.. We have a meeting Tuesday and he's not sure if he is going to make it or not. I almost wish he doesn't show because life is stable at the moment... but we need his input so badly. We have Venture Committee Meeting right afterwards and I still haven't made my phone calls.
Found out that Wes needs to go to summer school and wont' be at camp next summer...and neither will GW. Bad.... On the plus side Adam (the one who was part of the commissioner corp with me in 08) really wants to return. That's totally cool with me.
We go house hunting tomorrow! Of course I highly doubt it will be a house...more than likely an apartment but still...haven't done this in literally ages and am looking forward to it.
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| Tree. |
[08 Nov 2009|01:59pm] |
So, I've been working on this freehand painting of a tree for a few weeks now and I've finally finished it (mostly). I still need to do the bits that extend up onto the ceiling, but I'm in the stage where I step back for a few days and decide where extra foliage (if any) is needed. I'm rather pleased with it..if I do say so myself, so I thought I would share it here..in the saucy place. ;)
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[08 Nov 2009|09:40am] |
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OK, a response in three parts to this one, and rather rushed because it’s Get-In weekend for my play:
( Spoilers and Speculation )
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[06 Nov 2009|07:42pm] |
Went to town today. Stopped by Michaels and bought some black embroidery thread and then just went and hung out at Books. Saw a Scouter..an older gentleman nicknamed "Skeeter'. He was friendly...asked how I was. Saw Tacy there.
Stopped by Subway for tuna salad. At one Subway they would use ice cream scoops and would give me these huge globs of the tuna salad. I felt like a glutton eating those. At this one the lady used a melon ball scooper and put these little scoops of the tun on the salad....much easier to eat. Better to look at as well.
Dave's big boss is having his retirement party tomorrow night. We really don't want to go but feel obligate to do so...but hey...its a free meal so why not?
And he has the day off Monday...we are set to go House Hunting...or apartment hunting or condo/townhouse hunting...whatever we can find.
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| A cross post from the Huffington Post |
[06 Nov 2009|09:19am] |
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I posted this on the Huffington Post this morning. I rarely get political and am usually moderate middle of the road type person but I feel strongly about this.
My sympathies to all who were affected by this event.
I have no idea what this man's motives were Like many here. I suspect a lot but I know nothing. I'll wait and see.
I hear people complain of the US government sending aid oversees because we should feed our own people FIRST. I've heard tht people should not adopt children from overseas because we have children here who need families and should be adopted before those from other countries. I can see their point.
Even though this might have nothing to do with this man's motives we are hearing other stories of the extreme stress that is suffered by military men and women who have to endure two, three or even four tours of duty in these combat situations. Our troops might be the bravest, most loyal and even might willingly follow orders to go back a fifth or sixth time without blinking an eye but for once shouldn't we put them FIRST? I know they accept they might have to put their lives on the line but why are we asking them to endure such extreme hardship? They go over there again and again only to come back with PTS and other mental/emotional disorders and who knows if they will get treated properly and then the rest of us might well find ourselves in harm's way. Think of the possible rise in addiction and other at risk behavior. Its not a weakness, its not a character flaw. It is what it is. The human mind reacting to things it should never have been exposed to on a repeated basis. To be in a war is not healthy to begin with...to be exposed to this on a repeated basis is not only unhealthy, its dangerous and just plain wrong. Our people in uniform deserve more.
I say for once we need to take care of our own...and the rest of the world can do the same.
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| Facebook and my now inflated ego! |
[06 Nov 2009|01:07pm] |
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Facebook is ace for boosting your confidence!
A guy I went to school with has been facebook messaging me to catch up and I noticed he was trying to get me to say I thought he was attractive. Being the difficult and contrary Meerkat that I am I either ignored or glossed over and then bluntly told him he was firmly in my "friends box" and had been since he dated my best friend when i was 15 lol. Have a peek at the convo - i edited out the boring stuff!
Him: Hey! I can't believe I found you after so many years! How have you been? Where r u based these days?
There's a lot to catch up on!
Me: Hiya!
Yeash its been a while - its that particular talent of mine for dropping off the radar :)
I'm not too bad on the whole still cooling my heels in cold wet Scotland! Have done my best to leave a few
times and been foiled - all worked out for the best as I met my partner Carl shortly after my last plans to try
and move to Korea fell through 2 and a 1/2 years ago and have been with him 2 years this month!
What about yourself? Love, life, career the universe?
There is so much to catch up on that questions are actually easier :P
TC
Him: Well love life, i wish there was one at the moment, but i guess there is a time for it.
Well i might make a trip to europe next yr, nothing concrete as yet. but let's see if we can meet up then. Put up
some more pics by the way, would like to see the changes in you, lol.
Me: Yeah i know that feeling! no time for anything other than the job and studies!
(Long boring spiel about guy fawkes dancing and stuff i've been doing in general nice light hearted and friendly)
If you ever make it as far north as Scotland it would be great to catch up :) if you only make it as far as london
as i could always do with the excuse to go see my brother and sister :)
PS Just to make you happy have loaded some pics from a works night out - jamie's night out album :)
[The album had lots of pics of me with Carl and Carl propping me up with a hand on my bum]
Him: cool checked out the pics! by the way i like curves on a woman so there is nothing wrong in that ;) would love
to meet u in person. u can check out my pics, i have got loads there. let me know what u think after seeing
them.
Me: Not bad S! You've not really changed at all just a more grown up version of the boy i went to school with :)
Him: and a few good looks here and there, lol. thx!
Him: actually u and i were pretty good friends in school. i did always find u attractive, i never just told u though.
Me: Yeah we were pretty good mates :) thanks for the compliment :)
I always had low self esteem but with sisters as hot as mine its to be expected! I will always have a lot of time
for you but I put you very firmly in the friends box after you dated Phyllis lol and I had a huuuge crush on some
one that was never going to happen at the time made me blind to noticing other people - a shame - i realise i
missed out on a lot but i dont regret it! And my last year at hebron rocked - who knew being bad could be so
much fun! I never totally ditched the goody-two-shoes image until i got to uni - even now people mistake me
for angelic hahaha!
face palm Yes i know what a blatant fishing for more compliments while pulling out the rug!
On the plus side my ego is nicely bolstered for the res of the week!
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| This Week's Cult Trivia Quiz |
[06 Nov 2009|04:23am] |
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This week's quiz is a picture quiz about the ladies of Science Fiction and Fantasy - I give you 50 pictures and you tell me the name of the character, the actress (where relevant) and the film/TV show/comic that they come from. This is really part 1, because it only scratches the surface of awesome F/SF women, but I'll save part 2 onwards for other times :)
The quiz is screened, so answers (in one post, if possible) by midnight Tuesday, UK time.
( Cult Trivia Quiz 14 of 6 )
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[05 Nov 2009|05:59pm] |
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Happy Birthday Jennie! :)
Stayed home and was cold most of the day. Dave and Kyle went to to a warehouse where they were supposed to distribute a truck full of popcorn...and Kyle would get paid for his work.
Kev's car wouldn't start so he borrowed mine. Then about three I got a call from Dave asking if I could come and get Kyle. I couldn't..no car. He sounded peturbed. Then after Kev came back I got a text from Kyle to come and get him. They KNOW that I don't drive after dark. It was getting dark and it would be dark before I got back. He called and asked and I said no and he sounded peturbed. At one time that would bother me but now I don't care.
I think I'm in a foul mood because a I had a piece of Jennie's birthday cake and it made me feel sleepy...so I laid down and took a nap...with my contacts in. I had never done it before. The doctor said a nap shouldn't bother me but that I shouldn't sleep all night in them. Whatever...still made my eyes feel weird.
And I think its time for my bi-annual glucose test.
On the more interesting side there are a LOT of Americans on my Facebook feed who are really into the Guy Fawkes thing...quoting the 'remember remember' poem and one is even going to have a bonfire at his house later this evening. Most of them only know it from the V for Vendetta movie but I think its all very amusing.
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| Vodashop |
[05 Nov 2009|10:25pm] |
I'm so pissed off with Vodashop Hyde Park Corner.
Vodashop, for those overseas, is the retail arm of the biggest cellphone service provider in South Africa, Vodacom.
Last month we visited Vodashop in Hyde Park Corner, to get a new phone contract (Blackberry), and to upgrade my phone's contract to a different contract. They screwed both up, not activating the first contract, and, despite me signing the upgrade forms, not actually submitting my forms to Vodacom. The first took a day and a phone call to resolve, the second I only found out about today...which delays moving onto the new contract by a month.
This is their fucking core business, and they can't get it right...
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| Secondary totems |
[03 Nov 2009|05:29pm] |
So how do you know if a totem is secondary vs. being primary or tertiary? Is it a time-length thing, a certain "feel" of energy, or something else?
I know WHAT a secondary totem is btw, I just would like to know how you figured out which totem filled that slot.
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[03 Nov 2009|05:48pm] |
A junior at NYU commited suicide by jumping from one of the landings in the school library. When we were in New York Cody showed us around that building and he told us that they had to install special panels in there because at that time there had been at least two suicides. I thought that it surely must be an urban legend but I guess not. The whole thing is weird looking. It has a spidery feel to it... and to top it off the floor has a strange patterned tile. I didn't see it from above but I've been told its all rather hypnotic. Anyway I'm sorry. I don't know what drove him to it but apparently the architecture didn't help. I love libraries but I doubt very much that if I were an NYU student that I would spend much time there.
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My foot didn't hurt as bad as I thought it would so I was able to get some housework done and I was able to exercise my constitutional right and voted for the next Governor of the great state of Virginia. I wonder if we will stay 'blue'?
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Hello everybody. :) I have a few questions to ask. Firstly... I don't think I've posted here before, so hi!
During your experiences with meeting totems or becoming aware of their presence for the first time, (particularly secondary totems) how have they made themselves known to you? Did you find that they were very gradual emergences or did they arrive quite suddenly?
Aside from being curious, the main reason that I ask is that I feel that I've been neglecting my secondary totems recently - I haven't been working with them as much as I'd like to and two of them seem to have dissappeared completely, which makes me a bit uneasy. My primary totem is as strong and present as she have ever been, but my secondaries seem to have vanished. Perhaps they feel that they have taught me everything that they wished to, although I don't feel that this is the case. I sort of feel as though I've only scratched the surface with them. I'm now under the impression that a new secondary totem, Fox, is working its way into my life, although I can't confirm this yet. This new force is gradually making its presence stronger and I find that I've been noticing imagery related to foxes very often recently - I was very excited and surprised to actually see one while I was out walking yesterday.
I'm going to try some divination with totem cards and perhaps a guided meditation, maybe things will seem a little clearer after that. Any thoughts on any of my ramblings are greatly appreciated! :)
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| Open Sauce |
[03 Nov 2009|12:07pm] |
Happy with your thrift find, proud of a paint job, want to show off pictures of your new saucy sofa? Inspired by something you saw or just want to leave a show-me-your... request?
You can show it here... have fun!
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| Dragon Flys and Falling Leaves |
[02 Nov 2009|02:13pm] |
Something happened the other day that was a bit out of the ordinary and I was wondering what those of you here might think.
We were getting into our car (our very cold car as our windows no longer roll up and down and we live in Ky.) and I saw a tiny blur of green fluttering in the corner of our wind shield on the inside. I was startled to realize that it was a dragonfly. (Startled because should they really be out in the cold like that?) I reached my hand out for it (never thinking I would actually catch it as I am neither the most graceful nor quickest creature.) but I caught it easily and when I opened my palm it sat in my hand completely unharmed - almost like it jumped there... and it sat there for several minutes while I stared and my wife gawked... then I told it we needed to go now and it was in that moment that it chose to leave, not a moment sooner or longer then the moment when I spoke to tell it it was time to part ways.
Less then fifteen minutes later we pulled into the local gas station to gas up the car on the way to Louisville and I stepped around the front to go in. There laying on the ground in front of the car was a perfect five pointed leaf. I don't remember the name of the tree that comes off of, and frankly that time p of leaf is not rare around here, but what was odd was that it had been pressed not just into the five points - but into a perfect five pointed star shape from my vantage point when I stepped out of the car. (The wife had to step around beside me to see it - she couldn't see it from her original vantage point.)
Either thing alone would have been cool and somewhat thrilling - but the two together in such a short time period makes me wonder...
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| Oh ouch, why now? |
[02 Nov 2009|08:49pm] |
And all of a sudden, after days of being really intensely happy, all of a sudden you remember that actually you are very heartbroken and that's that.
Ow ow ow.
Not happy.
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So I had a horrible dream last night. I'm wondering if anybody here has had a similiar experience, because I'm just stunned.
Fox has been my totem all my life. In my dreams, he's bright red-orange. In my dream last night, I was walking through a garden at night. Fox appeared, but he was scruffy and pale yellow, looking rather sick or something. Out of nowhere, two dogs come running and grab Fox and completely tear him apart. They just maul him, rip him open...it was horrific. This whole time, I'm standing there unable to move, feeling nauseated at what I'm seeing, and completely helpless. Fox was dead, and I then woke up. Significant? It was horrible!
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