| And the fun begins all over again |
[29 Aug 2008|07:51pm] |
I was up all night last night with withdrawal symptoms from stepping down the Geodon again and I'm still feeling really crummy tonight. I will be so relieved when this part is over. I still can't believe the doctor who prescribed this for me didn't tell me about the withdrawal. And I'm still the biggest bonehead on the planet for not doing the research myself before I started taking it. If I'd had any idea what this was going to be like, I would never have agreed to start on it. Yuck.
I'm just praying I'll get some sleep tonight. And that I'll feel better in the morning. Meanwhile, this is still the suck.
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[29 Aug 2008|08:03pm] |
i'm tired. it only seems like i make customers happy, and that's a select few. and i never obtain what i want. sigh. it's not that i *want* it...tangibly...i just want it acknowledged and reciprocated in the same way, and understood in that fashion. that sounds complicating, but i suppose it's good that it's not happening because i'm not ready for some things to go my way yet.
i tried bugging sassy, but it didn't seem to work. she woke me up about 6 times last night coz she wanted attention or something. cutie...
i'm bored and tired...guess i'll play some zelda til i fall asleep.
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| ЖЖ-шное |
[29 Aug 2008|04:00pm] |
Теперь у нас рекламка дивного размера сразу после первого поста... Однако, мерзость.
Вроде как можно убрать, хотя вот тут пишут такое - http://egarimea.livejournal.com/331453.html?nc=4
В общем, пытаемся не обращать внимания.
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| Second August New Moon: Virgo 7, Virgo 8 |
[29 Aug 2008|05:03pm] |
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6 am Sydney time. Sun conjunct Moon conjunct Saturn, Venus conjunct Mercury conjunct Mars.
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[29 Aug 2008|12:02am] |
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sometimes i think sassy thinks she will be "thrown away" again. not if i can help it...she was sleeping, and made a noise, switched positions so she could face me, looked at me, and got all comfy again. very fucking cute. happy cat. she just switched positions again...her head is somewhat tucked under her legs, and she looked at me again...silly.
about the apartment...i'm not sure it will work out...i would love to move out, but i don't think i can do this unless there are at most two other people living with us. i have to take his being in the reserves into consideration. he could be swooped up at any given time and that thought is hellish. another thing: sassy. i'm not going to abandon sassy. i don't want to leave rajah either, but she would be unhappy as an 'apartment dog' because she enjoys the outdoors. he has a cat as well....will they get along? sassy is declawed, but his cat isn't. will punki try to kick her ass? yar....
today, na was neat. i enjoyed this meeting the most because it was in olde towne petersburg, and there were some young kids...sadly, they were institutionalised, but for the better??? it's difficult to say...better to catch them when they are young.. ? the meeting i went to before this, there was this teen who could barely read...that's so fucking mind-boggling. in this day and age, in america, who the *fuck* CAN'T read? you'd have to be exposed somehow, though apparently it's possible not to be. it killed me.
this nation is in a fucked up state, and it's regressing. i don't feel like i can help at all. i don't know if i want to. would it even help?
i feel all sorts of overwhelmed. it's hard to put things into perspective when i don't want to focus on only myself [well, shit, either way, really]. any effort feels for naught. even when it's just thought. i must be tired of helping people. it feels so wrong to "give up," and so nice to have some energy.
this is weird...hm...
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[28 Aug 2008|09:20pm] |
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My cousin's body was found under a bridge in the Yuba City area. She'd been shot. We don't know anything more yet.
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| While visions of sugar plums fricasseed in their heads... |
[28 Aug 2008|03:46pm] |
It's 90 degrees outside, with a slight wind, and it's raining grey flakes of ash. Announced on the breeze, the scent of distant but-not-distant-enough-for-comfort smoke pouring slowly but surely in from every open second-storey window... must be fire season! Lucky us, it's come early this year.
Judging by the smudge of smoke haze over the mountains to the southeast, Spring Valley is in no danger. But the overpowering heat and smoke smell are making me remember last fire season with a kernel of dread threatening to knot up tight in my belly. Blech. My brother and I have asthma, and Mom just got home from the hospital yesterday with double pneumonia. So the bad air quality alone gives me cause for concern. At least she's on oxygen, but smoke is the last thing her poor lungs need this week. So I closed up all the windows in the house. It's getting warm up here on the second floor, but at least we can all breathe a little easier. Yuck, yuck and more yuck!
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[28 Aug 2008|11:26am] |
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/eamon-mccann/eamonn-mccann-what-if-mormons-are-right-and-catholics-and-protestants-wrong-13955402.html
Eamonn McCann: What if Mormons are right and Catholics and Protestants wrong?
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Why are the Catholic bishops so concerned about Mormons baptising dead parishioners? The Mormons didn’t invent baptism of the dead. The practice has a significant history within mainstream Christianity. The decision to order its abandonment was taken only after heated debate, and was a close-run thing.
What’s the difference, anyway, between baptising the dead and baptising babies? A tiny infant will have as much understanding as a dead person — none at all — of the complex philosophical belief-system it’s being inducted into when baptised, say, a Catholic. Transubstantiation? There’s daily communicants go to their deaths without any clear understanding of the concept. So what chance the mewling tot?
Indeed, given that all Christian Churches believe that the soul lives on after death and retains understanding and consciousness of self, doesn’t it make more sense to baptise dead adults than live babies?
Apart from which, if the Catholic bishops hold that the beliefs of the Mormons are pure baloney (as they must), and their rituals therefore perfectly meaningless, how can it matter to them what mumbo-jumbo Mormons might mutter over Catholic cadavers?
( Read more... )
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| The Return, although only for a day or so |
[28 Aug 2008|04:21pm] |
Hello!
I have come back from Montenegro with my baby and 50% of my luggage. The other 50% is enjoying an extended holiday in Vienna. This would only be a relatively minor inconvenience were it not for the fact that I am travelling again tomorrow morning and have had to spend today doing various bits of frantic admin and running around trying to acquire new essential baby things (although on BA's money, hurray).
I have forgotten my camera in Belgrade so therefore I have no photographic proof to offer of my son's two brand new teeth, or his new hair, or the fact that he likes nothing better than engaging in various kinds of acrobatics and pulling himself up to stand. Also, as a small snapshot of the many ways in which looking after this fearless hellion gymnast/stuntman/avid explorer of a child has aged me I leave you with this:
*Age at which Matei learns to pull himself up to stand holding on to bars of his cot - 7.5 months.
*Age at which Matei manages to vault himself over the side of his cot and flings himself headfirst towards earth - 1 week after that.
It is difficult for me to believe looking at him that my genes had any part in his creation. Each day I am becoming more and more convinced that it would have been far more just for him simply to have emerged fully formed from his father's head, like Athena.
So, although Z's genes have solidly thrashed mine in this battle I hope that mine will WIN THE WAR, because if I have another child this active I will hand in my resignation and go off to the Bahamas.
I have missed you all. x
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| И снова к вопросу натурщиц |
[28 Aug 2008|05:46pm] |
Вот такое нашлось - Джордж Петти (George Petty) собственной персоной с одной из своих натурщиц.
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[28 Aug 2008|08:33pm] |
Amen.
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| Meme and a Request. |
[27 Aug 2008|10:37pm] |
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Post a screen cap of your current Winamp skin with a link for others to get it.
Mine:
Link:
http://kimimisae.deviantart.com/art/Trinity-Blood-Broken-Wings-71146527
Now for my request.
Does anyone know where I can get good Winamp skins of Macross Frontier?
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| wiz war. |
[27 Aug 2008|11:48pm] |
you must play.
tonight, i played this game with goofy people and star wars pawns. it's great.
also, my crush is growing =/ he's so adorable...and he gets confused as to why i laugh at everything he says/does...it's coz i'm easily amused, he's just that fucking adorable, i'm mocking him, nervous, and laughing is just damn good for my health. he shall never know. so don't tell! even though no one really knows him here, ha! bwah...excellent. my plan will never be foiled muwahahahaha...bah.
today was a decent day. i accidentally thought i ended work at 4.30 today >.< twas actually 4.15, so i stayed an extra 15 min and had a "meal break violation" aka "we had to give you 30 min worth of extra money woe is starbucks".
ooooh, one of my ex-co-workers asked if i would move in with him if he were to get a place. eff yeha i would, if i could afford it. the only problem is the $$$$...rent is 700$+ and divided in half...not so good...if his girlfriend were to move in, that would be awesome because everything would be split 3 ways. i think i could handle it. would make going back to school easier, but it would give me a new experience..much needed...
i should actually try to get some rest. i was going to yoga, but i dunno if i can do it as easily. i guess early morning is better anyway.
wonder if there is any chocolate...
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| Oh, that Cainer |
[27 Aug 2008|11:39am] |
Aries: There's definitely water on one of Saturn's moons. There may even still be water on Mars. Where there's water, there's likely life. Any day now, we can expect a giant spaceship full of haddock to land. Presumably, it will put down on the beach, so that when the hatch opens, the invaders can swim straight out into the ocean, find the nearest cod and say, 'Take me to your leader'. Something very fishy is going on in your world at the moment. If a story sounds only half credible, that's because it is only half true.
It's funny, because it's true.
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| Painting Glass |
[26 Aug 2008|05:45pm] |
Cross-posted to the Genie
Question for everyone. I have some glass I want to paint, clear glass candle holders. In the past I realized that paint (at least the acrylic I use) doesn't stick to glass. It will dry on fine, but it rubs off with a little pressure.
What can I do to make the glass paintable? I have some Krylon Matte finish spray, and I thought coating the glass in that first might work, but I'm sure. Does anyone have any experience, or at least good ideas on if the matte finish would work, or anything else I can do to make it paintable? Thanks
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| Aries moon in action |
[26 Aug 2008|09:23am] |
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Last week, Rhiannon stayed by the refrigerator and played with her magnetic letter set for about 20 minutes. She just kept sliding the letters into different patterns and saying their names and/or sounds. I think she knows at least half the letters now. Maybe it's more, but I didn't count.
Yesterday she came up to me and handed me two of the letters, while saying, "Mmmmmmmm!" Sure enough, one of the two was M. She's known M for a while now -- it was one of the first few she identified when I gave the set to her about a month before her birthday. It was supposed to be a birthday present, but she seemed bored with her toys, so I gave it to her early. Truth to tell, I was kind of bored, too, at the time.
The other letter she handed me was W. I noticed about a month ago that when she would see W in one of her picture books, she would say "Mmmmm." Makes sense, since W is pretty much M upside down. Well, when she handed me the W and said, "Mmmmm," I held it up and said, "W -- wuh, wuh, wuh." She fixed me with this look and very carefully and deliberately took the W out of my hand, turned it upside down, put it back in my fingers next to the right-side up M, and said, "Mmmmmmmm!"
She did that to me three times when I tried to correct her. I can't even explain the look she gave me when she did it. Like, "Yeah, okay...I don't care if you say it's W. Maybe it even IS W. But in my world, I make it an M, and that's just the way it is. Deal."
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[25 Aug 2008|11:57pm] |
To those on my flist who are going to ConVocation, get your hotel rooms booked now if you can. It's not even September (and ConVo is in February), but the hotel is already booked solid, thankfully there is another hotel just down the street, an eight minute walk. So if you're going, get rooms now. I got a heads up from a friend that rooms were going fast, and I checked the site about six hours later to get my room, and they were all gone.
Vatican plans to exhume a possibly gay Cardinal from beside his lifelong lover. On one hand, I do agree with their reasoning in their tradition of having the body available as a reliquary if he becomes a saint. Then again it was his final wish, quite clearly, that he be laid to rest beside the man he loved. Interestingly enough, I didn't know that Cardinal Newman was rumoured to have been gay, which I personally find amusing, as for three years in a row, for a week each semester I went to Cardinal Newman Catholic Highschool, and did anti-homophobia workshops.
Sociologist Dr. Kristin Aune says "women are abandoning the church. Because of its focus on female empowerment, young women are attracted by Wicca, popularised by he TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer". While the rest of the article is more general on the trend of women leaving the Catholic Church I was amused that apparently it's largely Willow's fault...that's what we get for trusting sexy evil redheads who taste like strawberries.
For people who wonder, I get a daily email from the New Oxford Review, which is a fairly hardcore/orthodox Catholic newspaper. I get a lot of fascinating stories in it, about saints, history, Vatican politics, etc, and then I tend to get a lot of funny ones (well, funny to me at least)
Anyways, the real point of this was the heads up for rooming for ConVo, so with that, I bid you good night.
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