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July 16th, 2009
02:50 pm [Link]	Spam & Snail... First the daily spam... ( You know it's not from... ) Current Location: home Current Mood: amused Current Music: Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who Tags: stuff (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 12th, 2009
01:14 pm [Link]	Happy Birthday Kat! No, not me. The other Kat!* You think i bad... well, I am. But so is she. And when you put the two of us together. muahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Anyone within a 50 mile radius is in trouble. It's just a thing. We can't help it. *wykdkitten Current Location: home about to get off because of thunder! Current Mood: singing Happy Birthday Kat! Current Music: Happy Birthday Kat!! Tags: birthday (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
10:28 am [Link]	Birthday Party The heart of my heart and the soul of my soul ( cut for your protection ) Current Location: home Current Mood: loved Current Music: Baby Love - Joan Osborne Tags: stuff (6 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 11th, 2009
09:35 am [Link]	Opionion time... Look at this and let me know what you think... thanks! Current Location: home Current Mood: thoughtful Current Music: Sally Ann - Natalie Marchant Tags: shop (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 10th, 2009
07:57 am [Link]	Dreams I wish I could remember the rest of it, but I rarely do past first waking. Suffice it to say, I have extremely vivid dreams which involve all of the sense, and Yes Virginia, they're all in color and have been since that last one where all the people escaped from the television and ran around town wracking havoc. Fortunately they were rather easy to catch since they were all in black and white and of course, everyone else was in color. The other one that involved black and white was the one where I fell into the television and I was the only one in color and everything else was in black and white. These both happened when I was three because, you see, I didn't see a color television until I was six and we went to my maternal grandparent's house for my Aunt Jane's wedding (I was the junior bridesmade... heh heh heh). But I digress. What I remember from the dream most distinctly is the parade of pirates in a column of two flying down the road. Yes, Virginia, that's right, I said flying. And no one was surprised by this. Because everyone evidently flew all the time and it was no... big... deal. I know that there was magic in the universe in which this dream occurred. I may have been some kind of apprentice or something or I may have been being shanghaied, I just don't recall. This is, of course, all the fault of my husband's alarm clock which kept going off and which I had to keep slapping from my side of the bed because he spent the night elsewhere due to band practice last night (which involves live carousing & nere-do-welling) as well as getting an early start this morning on helping to build a fence for a friend. Suffice it to say that it was a rich and interesting universe, filled with characters of all sorts. Now, if I could just remember it, I could sell it to the Idea-of-the-Month Club. ::snicker:: Current Location: home Current Mood: awake Current Music: Adia - Sarah McLachlan Tags: stuff of dreams (Leave a comment)
July 6th, 2009
01:10 pm [Link]	CEPT: Dad's surgery Mom let me know that my dad is going to having surgery on Thursday (I think she said Thursday, I don't think she said tomorrow) to remove a lump of fat on his chest. Unless it turns out to be entangled, he'll come home the same day. Here's hoping that he comes home the same day. ::sigh:: My dad hates surgeries... and hospitals... and he's not real fond of going to see doctors either except for the fact that going helps prevent hospital visits. ::shakes head:: My dad. Gotta love him! Current Location: home Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: Help Me - Joan Osborne Tags: cept (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
07:39 am [Link]	I dun good... Yesterday I had enough spoons to get to church. We've got a new associate rector. He doesn't have a bad voice. I still dislike a number of things about the new services. I don't mind tooo much how they're handling the way they're doing the reading of the Psalms. I like having them sung, but quite often they're having the choir singing them and the congregation just doing responses. And when they do the reading of the gospel, rather than singing half of the verses while the priest walks to the middle, the congregation sings the entire hymn and then the priest walks back to the altar in silence. Plus I really don't care for the forms of the Prayers for the People they use. meh. After church I spent my time putting up some heraldic graphics on... duh... the HeraldicGraphics yahoo group I started and maintain. Now if I could just get the other members riled up. They're all vewy vewy quiet. They must be out hunting rabbits. heh. I have some progress on my office. I got my framed prayers up at least, as well as my picture of David's old band (Grand Revue) and the quote by Scribe. I'm not going to put up the picture of the family from the church directory until I have a nice one of Sarah. Because I want the whole family up there, dammit!! I really want to do a portrait of all of us for Christmas to give to the respective grandparents. I think Memama would get a kick out of it. I know my dad would, especially if I can get Jen to wear a bra that's thicker than the one she wore for the church pic. heh. Oh, and there was another thing about church... during the sermon... the woman in front of me (a long-standing member) and I both caught him out on a matter of Bible verse. heh. Current Location: home Current Mood: awake Current Music: Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On) - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Tags: stuff (Leave a comment)
July 5th, 2009
10:12 am [Link]	I didn't do it but the vacuum is dead. Dead as a doorknob. Dead, dead, dead. Kaput. Goners. It shall suck no more. Alas, burned is s/he. It's spirit has left... or rather the beaters shall not move nor shall the gear box work. It's $60 (plus shipping and handling) to replace the gear box because no one sells just the gear box. No, yea verily you must buy the motor and the gear box and not merely the gear box by itself. Why, you ask? Only the shadow knows. And the shadow speaketh not. Given that I have had this vacuum nigh unto... gee, at least 7 years... probably more and it must constantly be broken apart and fixed, I went unto the internet to see how much a new one would cost. Looking at the Hoover vacuums (which this one is, for yea verily it did sucketh much when new and even when not so new) I found that I can purchase one for $69 - 79. Now I just have to get that much money. ::sigh:: So I am thinking Good Thoughts™ along those lines. Current Location: home Current Mood: thinking Good Thoughts Current Music: clock ticking Tags: stuff (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
07:41 am [Link]	Wow! In more ways than one! I got an email this morning that I sold a t-shirt!! Whoot! What a way to start my morning! In other news, the fireworks display was held at SportsCom which is about ooooh 6 blocks from our house. So we went over to our next door neighbor's house because they have a break in the tree line and watched the display from there. The display kicked butt and took names. Especially the finale. Whoot! And we didn't even have to leave the house. I also love the fact that our county allows fireworks so we had other displays all over after that. heh heh heh. The sad news is that Steve McNair was shot and killed in his condo yesterday. They won't know until his autopsy is preformed today, along with that of the 20odd woman found dead with him, but it may be a murder/suicide on the part of the young woman. She had been caught for DUI with him about a week ago. I hadn't known but apparently he had separated from his wife. This bites, not only for his family but for the community since he volunteered a lot. Current Location:* home Current Mood: mainly bouncy, some sad Current Music: clock ticking Tags: store, stuff (Leave a comment)
July 4th, 2009
05:11 pm [Link]	What I've done today... Put in 7 sections in my CafePress store and then wandered over to my Printfection store which I haven't done anything with in a coon's age. It's advantage is that they have more colors in the t-shirt selection and they have cork bottom coasters as well as cutting boards. But no cards or buttons etc. So, eventually I'll probably try to have everything up on both just so folx will be able to pick and choose as they will. I believe in free will. Especially on a day like today. Happy bday America!! I hope that everyone in America (or who is an American citizen) has a happy & safe 4th of July... as for the rest of you... have a happy just another ordinary day of the year. heh. Current Location: home Current Mood: busy Current Music: Something's Gotta Blow - Joan Armatrading Tags: store (Leave a comment)
July 2nd, 2009
11:00 am [Link]	New Shop Stuff ( muahahahahahaha ) Current Location: home Current Mood: busy Current Music: Please Read the Letter - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Tags: store (Leave a comment)
06:36 am [Link]	Today's Activites Today I get to take my children to their orthodontist. This involves picking them up at their father's house in Nashvegas. That's about 45 minutes from here. Then a 45 minute drive back. Sit for about that time in the office. Then the 45 minute drive taking them back to their father's house. Then home again, home again, jiggity jig. After which I shall take medication and proceed to melt into a puddle of goo. Current Location: home Current Mood: already exhausted Current Music: The Banana Song (Day-O) - Harry Belafonte Tags: stuff (Leave a comment)
July 1st, 2009
02:04 pm [Link]	No work... ergo... I've been putting stuff up in the store. ( cut for your protection ) Current Location: home Current Mood: busy but exhausted Current Music: Love is Live - KMFDM Tags: store (Leave a comment)
June 30th, 2009
09:02 am [Link]	Today's report This weekend started with picking up Jefner & one of her bff's from camp. done Then I picked up some groceries & cat food, least the cats eat our toes (rather like my toes... did not want them to be eaten). So, of course, on Saturday I was dead. I tried my best to crack the whip on the kids to get them to get ready to go forth to their father's for their summer visit. Ha! I finally got Jennifer to start her laundry from camp and Corwyn to desultorily pick up his room. ::head:desk:: They made a humongous mess of the kitchen. So bad that I had to make them run the dishwasher twice. And there were still dirty dishes!! Corwyn had to go through 'cleaning up the living room thoroughly' three times, because even though he'd had everything pointed out to him that needed to be done, he was incapable of doing it. ::head:desk:: On Sunday they were a bit better. I was still toast. I was good and managed to get into the pool to exercise about 15 minutes or so both days. Monday it was... contact recheck for Corwyn, then off to Nashvegas for a pdoc visit for Corwyn, then drop them at their father's house where I talked to their step-mom for a bit. Then the drive back home to Smurfreesboro... and again, I am toast. Burnt toast. whee. Today I get to go get my eyes dilated since I didn't get it done at my eye appointment. Wheee! I just wish I had the energy to clean. Having a clean house makes me less depressed. Once again, I woke up depressed and had to drag myself out of bed. meh. And my knees have been hurting more. meh. meh. meh. Oh, and my shoulder is now popping!! wheeeee! Current Location: home Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Kangaroo Cry - Blue October Tags: stuff (7 comments \| Leave a comment)
08:55 am [Link]	Today's Spam... I open my email to see... why yes, Virginia, that is yet another purported email from eBay claiming to be a message from a customer wanting to know if I take PayPal. ::snicker:: What makes this all the more amusing is this... A. It doesn't use my user name. Yes, Virginia, all emails from eBay using your user name. Regardless. ::snicker:: B. I don't sell anything on eBay. Never have. Doubt I even will. And I've been doing eBay since 1993. C. While I do have a PayPal account, you can't have it. You are certainly invited to put money into it, but if you think you're going to mine either my eBay password or my PayPal password (that spam was yesterday's spam of the day), you've got another think coming. D. Oh wait! Spammers are incapable of thinking!! This is why all of their spams get forwarded to the appropriate spam department. Guess what, wanker! I just so happen to have PayPal & eBay's spam reporting email addresses in my address book. And while that may not get you... it sure as hell lessens the odds of you getting away with crap. Current Location: home Current Mood: rolling eyes Current Music: Very Nice - Seven Nations Tags: spams (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 26th, 2009
12:26 pm [Link]	A Quick Note Before I Go... First, I'm running off (leaving the boychild to guard against any Huns or Normans) to go get the girlchild & her friend at Girl Scout camp. wheeeee! Second, my husband is off to the wars this weekend while I have to crack the whip & get my kids ready to go to their father's house for a month. Third, if anyone was interested in it... that nursing slogan t-shirt transfer design I was talking about making is up in my scrapbook now. It's available for anyone to grab. Please don't sell it for profit unless you are using it to benefit a non-profit group. Thank you for your time & attention. Current Location: home Current Mood: busy Current Music: sansa being filled for journey Tags: stuff (Leave a comment)
June 24th, 2009
08:36 am [Link]	Whew! I am back down to 170 after going back up to 174... meh. I just finished printing out our SCA proof of membership. I adore the fact that we can waiver online now!! Whooot! Corwyn had the wart on his nose (on the bottom, poor kid) cut off (they say scraped but if you use scissors...). He did well. I held his head in place and told him about being his favorite place. He said he didn't have one so I started making up a story about a Book Dragon™ because "they don't eat people, they just enjoy sharing their libraries with people they like". I had my appointment with the eye doc. My vision hasn't changed!!! Whooot! This means that all I have to do is get my glasses tightened (done) and send my contacts off to be cleaned & polished (doing Monday when taking in Corwyn for follow-up). Corwyn is having no problem putting his contacts in, it's just taking them out! Well, actually just the left one. I may stop by the eye doc after his pdoc appointment and see if they can help him with that. I have rigid gas permeables and before that hard lenses so I really have no clue about helping with soft lenses. Fortunately the heart of my heart does. Whew! Today is pdoc for Corwyn. Tomorrow is spending the day at the Discovery Education office in Nashvegas. I am not looking forward to this. First of all, I have to drive myself up. Then I have to spend the day in my wheelchair (because if I just sit in a regular chair while out I die). And then I have to drive myself home!! I'm taking pain pills, but I'll have to watch when I take them because of the drive home. Pain medication (up to and including morphine) does not give me any kind of "high" nor do they deal with all of the pain. ::sighs:: Because of the latter and habituation in the body (meaning that they will become even less effective!) I try not to take them. Besides, I can manage at anything lower than a five with no problem. It's when it hits 5-6+ (since pain has been doing a pulsing thing lately which makes it harder to ignore grrrrrr) that I start having problems. meh. Very meh because that's what it's been doing lately. Along with wandering pain, oh joy of joys!! And I may be developing carpel tunnel again. meh. But I adore the song that's playing and I'm using music & aroma therapy. Life goes on. Current Location: home Current Mood: busy Current Music: Your Long Journey - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Tags: stuff (Leave a comment)
June 23rd, 2009
11:33 am [Link]	CROSSPOST! Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Day! Please do not forget nor fail to let at least one of your favorite authors know how much you appreciate them and/or how they have affected your life. If you don't know how to get in touch with them... blog it. Let everyone know about your favorite authors!! Okay, here goes: Those authors whose books I have read at least five times are in italics. Those whom I have read at least 10 times are in bold. Should you run across an author that you have not heard of, please comment and I'll tell you about them and why you should read their book(s). I do have to say that most of these authors have more than one book on my shelves and some fill an entire shelf (or two). mmmmmmmmmm booooooooks In the case of authors who have written book(s) with co-authors which are significant to me (iow I didn't notate all of Mercedes Lackey's co-authors), I have put both authors together. In some of these cases, a series is written with just co-authors. I have denoted this with an asterisk. And in case it isn't obvious... authors whose works I've devoured too many times to count have both bold & italic. *Poul Anderson & Gordon Dixon Piers Anthony (primarily the Incarnation books) *Issac Asimov¹ Robert Asprin* *Marion Zimmer Bradley* Patricia Briggs David Brin Stephen Brust Lois McMaster Bujold Jim Butcher (haven't had this series long) *C.J. Cherryh* Stephen Brust Glen Cook Susan Cooper Carolyn Cushman (I only have one book but I like it) Peter David *Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald *Diane Duane* Suzette Haden Elgin Pat Frank Esther Friesner Randell Garrett (series continued by Michael Kurland, who I must say, did an excellent job!) Charlaine Harris Harry Harrison Sara M. Harvey (sorry booksellers, I consider her work to be fantasy... so there!) *Robert A. Heinlein* Frank Herbert Diane Wynne Jones Gordon Kendall (I only have one book but OMG!) *Katherine Kurtz* *Mercedes Lackey* **Sharon Lee & Stan Miller* *Anne McCaffrey* Elizabeth Moon John Moore *John Morressy* Larry Niven Jody Lynn Nye Spider Robinson J.K. Rowling Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Melissa Scott Mike Shepherd Zilepha Keatley Snyder Wen Spencer Caroline Stervermer Joan D. Vinge *David Weber* *James White* *Roger Zelazney* So, there you have it. The authors whose works have so delighted me so that they live and breathe on my bookshelves so that I can get up at two ack emma and go "hmmmmmmmmmmm, what do I want to read now?" BTW I absolutely read the entire series when a new book comes out in that series. (I am a bad bad woman!) I don't loan my books out because of several fiascoes. One where I lost a first edition Anne McCaffrey (and it took me forever before I could get a replacement... grrrrrr) and times when it was a book I could no longer obtain. Folx are welcome to read my books... in my house. ::grin:: I just wish I could handle working in a bookstore again! mmmmmmmmmm employee discounts mmmmmmmmmmm ¹ When I was a young girl, I ran out of books to read one day. This was a tragic thing to happen in a young girl's life, particularly since at the time I was reading somewhere between 2-10 books a day, depending on what day it was (obviously on school days my reading time was limited). I went to my mother in anguish. I was not in the mood for history, mystery, nor textbooks (Yes, I fell in love with my mother's abnormal psych textbook when I was 11. My major was psych, go figure.) My mother thought a moment, smiled gently at me with a gleam in her eye and said, "Have you tried Isaac Asimov yet?" I perked up, "No, I haven't". Mother smiled evilely (guess where I inherited that... heh) and told me to wait just a minute. She returned with a Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club edition. A 3 in 1. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm I fell into his books. After I demolished those I went on to Heinlein and the rest was history. Current Location: home Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: just pure quiet bliss Tags: science fiction and fantasy writers day! (6 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 22nd, 2009
06:30 pm [Link]	Coyote Run It's all moosl's fault. He posted video of this group on his lj. I innocently asked what their name was because they were really really really good. No, really. Now, I get the feeling that this is supposed to be a "Christmas" song. But I don't care. It sends chills down my back. Deal with it. You'll find their website at http://www.coyoterun.com/index.php Current Location: home Current Mood: awed Current Music: Wise Men (Live) - Coyote Run Tags: music (Leave a comment)
June 21st, 2009
10:36 pm [Link]	House Concerts in NorthEast US Gaffer. Harpist. Gooooooood Harpist. Go check his lj post to see if he might be preforming somewhere near you... or if you could be hosting a performance! ::grin:: Too bad I live in the Deep South... meh. Maybe next tour? Current Location: home Current Mood: bouncy but exhausted Current Music: You Oughta Know (Alternate Take) - Alanis Morissette Tags: music (Leave a comment)

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