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| Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 |
padiwack
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1:52p |
oh! oh y'all... I just got a lovely surprise from my dear friend ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rebelyell123 ! Look!:  A letter (In her own handwriting!), and a lovely sparkly satin/beaded bag containing a beautiful beaded necklace - made by her own hands and to make it even better yet, worn by her for protection while flying around on her motorcycle! I touched the necklace and could see her on that bike. I read her written words and they felt like they had come from a long lost sister. I lifted the lovely purse to my nose, and was reminded of a time when I would bury my head in my mother's satin-lined cape. This is an incredible gift! I am so touched C.J. - more than words or cell phone pics can ever begin to portray. When I wear your necklace, I will feel safe and protected. I will touch the Cross and remember to be brave. You are such a good friend! Thank you so much! ETA:  Current Mood:  loved |
amenaspointyhat
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2:02p |
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auryn24
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1:38p |
Heh.
There is nothing that can make my undies moister (sorry all) than watching two guys sing together, one singing the harmony (the HIGHER harmony).
I am watching last night's American Idol (I already know who won) and loved, loved, loved the duet that the Davids sang....YUM.
Grocery shopped today. Go back to work tomorrow.
Thundering outside right now. I should bathe and hit the bed. |
amenaspointyhat
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1:03p |
"how do you mess up DISNEY WORLD? It's the happiest freakin' place on Earth!"
BTT strikes AGAIN!!
THIS time she just told someone the reason their payroll was rejcted was because they hadn't entered their time in....wait for it...
see you have to enter your payroll online in little text boxes, if you will. It only accepts specific times like 7:00, 7:15, 7:30, 7:45....see a pattern? Every fifteen minutes...
But BTT just told the sub that her time wasn't in 15 minute INCREMUMS
FUCK THIS, BASTARD THURSDAY. |
padiwack
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11:58a |
Que sera, sera
It thundered for a while here, a smattering of rain, and then the sun came blazing out, thus making steam. The weather seems to somewhat reflect my mood today.
Tomorrow I come into the office for a few hours, leaving early to take the Teen Qween for her first gynecological exam in the afternoon. Not too very long ago, it was trips to the pediatrictian and visits to Bippo the Hippo (the kiddie dentist.) Afterward the prerequisite trip to McDonald's to spend time reading while she played ("Watch me, Momma! Watch ME!") My, things are changing, evolving so fast. This time next year she will be a graduate, off on her way to her (hopefully) bright shining future.
Then I will be on my own again, unfettered by most responsibilites that have defined who I am since becoming a mother. I need to start planning just what I am going to do. Right now, I don't have a freaking clue. It's not that heady sense of impending freedom you might think it would be. I'm feeling a little lost.
Back to that old question again, but with a bit of a twist. Instead of who will I be when I grow up has become who will I be when my DAUGHTER grows up? |
padiwack
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11:31a |
Because so many friends have shared good stuff ...from the Daily Om. I decided to go and look around, joined up when I read this: Freeing Yourself Knowing When To Let Someone Go Just as a good relationship can have a positive impact on your life, stressful, draining, or imbalanced relationships can have negative effects on your health and well-being. It's common to maintain a relationship because we feel the other person needs us or we believe that they will eventually change. We may also be afraid of hurting the other person or feel insecure in our ability to find new relationships. But knowing when to end a relationship and acknowledging that the pain will pass can often prevent greater pain and feelings of loss in the long run. If you're in a relationship that isn't satisfying or one that has become unhealthy for you, rather than spending energy attempting to fix the problem or complaining, ask yourself what you really want from the relationship. Consider whether the other person truly considers your feelings or if they are willing to change their behavior. Ask yourself if you've often thought about ending the relationship or if you feel your bonds have atrophied. While every relationship has ups and downs, when there are more downs than ups or the two of you are bringing out the worst in each other, it may be time to sever the connection. Be honest with yourself and your answers, even if the truth is painful. Relationships thrive on honesty, communication, mutual caring, and time spent together. When one or more of these elements are missing, it may be that the relationship, no matter how passionate, simply isn't worth it. It's far better to end a relationship that doesn't feel right than to hold on to it and languish in feelings of anger or resentment. Moving on without struggle, on the other hand, can be the door that leads you to a more nurturing relationship in the future. http://www.dailyom.com/ Current Mood:  thoughtfulCurrent Music: thunder and rain on the roof |
alobar
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11:25a |
Southern strategy redux  The racist idiocy below probably should not surprise me, but it sure does anger me. Preying on fears and prejudice like this sure does not increase my desire to be considered part of the human race. What if the Dems pointed to the "log cabin" gay republicans to make homophobes fearful of all Republican candidates? Puny humans are all just a bunch of fools!
Below from Grackle list. URL at end.============================================ "The 'race card' is out in full force. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the birthplace of Elvis Presley, Republicans want to make their stand against Democrats. The city is at the centre of the 1st Congressional District, where a special election was held on May 13. Reliably conservative, the Republican Party has held the seat for several decades. The seat was hard fought between the Democrat Travis Childers and the Republican Greg Davis. Both are white, and both are fairly conservative. They would have to be to compete in a district that sent George Bush back to the White House in 2004 with a plurality. "The Republican Party sent out its heavy hitters (Vice-President Dick Cheney among others) to prevent a Democratic victory in the Deep South. They did not want the Democrats to use this victory as a harbinger of what is to come this November: an across-the-board Democratic victory against a party too closely identified with the Iraq debacle and the imploding economy. For Republicans, it was far better to turn this election into a mandate on race than to allow the real grievances of the population to enter the ballot box. "One part of the onslaught against Childers, who eventually won the election, was that he was in the same party as Barack Obama. ( Read more... ) Current Music: Instinct Records - Void, Part One (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid- |
padiwack
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10:54a |
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adustierstar
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4:33p |
Well, that took forever XD I have handed in both of Philip's assessments, had a seriously delicious turkey sandwich from a corner shop, and gone into something of a panic over this abstract business. I'm not sure what we're supposed to present, so I'm not sure how to turn what I've done into an appropriate format from which I can then extract an abstract (wow that's weird-sounding). Murgle. I have, however, created what I hope will be a reasonable excuse for an abstract, it's printed, and everything's ready to go in tomorrow whenever I can be bothered to hike back up to the department. I will now take this opportunity to put up that meme I have mentioned a couple of times. Not cut because I feel like it. Courtesy zalia: step 1: put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
step 2: post any damn line I like from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.*
step 3: post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
step 4: strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
step 5: looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!01. "I said 'you're what I've been living for,' she said 'I don't want to know.'" 02. "Take a look at the girl next door; she's a player and a downright bore. Jesus loves her, she wants more - oh, bad girls get you down" 03. "Poor Professor Pynchon had only good intentions when he put his Bunsen burners all away, and turning to a playground in a Petri dish where single cells would swing their fists at anything that looked like easy prey" 04. "Been there, done that, learnt the worst of lessons: want to be loved for who we appear to be instead of who we are" elyndys05. "Everybody is a bastard, my world is like plaster: crumbling apart from pressure of the blaster, waiting for a sign" 06. "Well the cutbacks were a-comin' and the Mountie lost his job, so now he's sailin' with me and we call him Salty Bob!" 07. "Mama, the weeping! Mama, the angels! No sleep in Heaven or Bethlehem" 08. "We pinch at our skin and wonder how we escaped harm" 09. "If you said goodbye to me tonight, there would still be music left to write; what else could I do? I'm so inspired by you" _kyri10. "Snap back to reality - whoa, there goes gravity; there goes Rabbit. He choked, he's so mad but he won't give up that easy" _kyri1 1. "Oh Mama, I can hear you a-crying, you're so scared and all alone; hangman is comin' down from the gallows and I don't have very long" _kyri12. "You are the word, the word is destroy - I break this bottle and think of you fondly" 13. "It's easy not to care what people say; it's harder to pretend to try, 'cause they can only love you from yesterday, and looking at them now, they pose high" 14. "She wouldn't stop, made it drop, Shawty did that pop'n'lock" 15. "Two pills and a slap across your face will put you in a better way; I know it hurts, I know it hurts, it feels like it will never go away" 16. "In the look upon your face there was an element of grace - did I read between the lines or just erase?" 17. "I'm not tryin' to be your hero 'cause that zero is too cold for me, brrr!" 18. "You should have seen that sunrise; it brought me back to life, but you'll be with me next time I go outside" 19. "We'll pass around the easy lie of absolutely no regrets, and later maybe you could try to let your losses dangle off the sharp edge of a century and talk about the weather or how the weather used to be" 20. "Take a shower, shine your shoes - you are young men, you must be living: go now, you are forgiven" *I have skipped instrumentals (duh) and non-English-language songs because I don't want to have to mess with the linguistic heirarchy of whether or not I know the language and whether or not it seems fair to make people guess...so, yes. Not strictly what the rules say, but that's how I roll. Current Mood:  accomplishedCurrent Music: guess! |
padiwack
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10:09a |
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padiwack
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6:46a |
coffee and words for breakfast | Pockets | | | by Howard Nemerov |
| Are generally over or around
Erogenous zones, they seem to dive
In the direction of those
Dark places, and indeed
It is their nature to be dark
Themselves, keeping a kind
Of thieves' kitchen for the things
Sequestered from the world
For long or little while,
The keys, the handkerchiefs,
The sad and vagrant little coins
That are really only passing through.
For all they locate close to lust,
No pocket ever sees another;
There is in fact a certain sadness
To pockets, going in their lonesome ways
And snuffling up their sifting storms
Of dust, tobacco bits and lint.
A pocket with a hole in it
Drops out; from shame, is that, or pride?
What is a pocket but a hole? |
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alobar
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5:30a |
Psoriasis Below from Oxalate list. I take in lots of D3 every day. I still have psoriasis, although not nearly as bad as I used to have.
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( Read more... )
</p>US Department of Agriculture/Human Nutrition Research Center, Tufts University, Boston, MA. Vitamin D is a hormone, not a vitamin. The skin is responsible for producing vitamin D. During exposure to sunlight, ultraviolet radiation penetrates into the epidermis and photolyzes provitamin D3 to previtamin D3. Previtamin D3 can either isomerize to vitamin D3 or be photolyzed to lymisterol and tachysterol. Vitamin D is also sensitive to sunlight and is photolyzed to 5,6-transvitamin D3, suprasterol I, and suprasterol II. In Boston, solar irradiation only produces previtamin D3 in the skin between the months of March and October. Aging, sunscreens, and melanin all diminish the capacity of the skin to produce previtamin D3. Once formed, vitamin D3 enters the circulation and is sequentially metabolized to 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25-[OH]2-D3). The epidermis possesses receptors for 1,25-(OH)2-D3. 1,25-(OH)2-D3 inhibits the proliferation of cultured keratinocytes and induces them to terminally differentiate. The topical or oral administration of 1,25-(OH)2-D3 has proved to be effective for the treatment of psoriasis. Therefore, the skin is the site for the synthesis of vitamin D and a target tissue for its active metabolite. The successful use of 1,25-(OH)2-D3 for the treatment of psoriasis heralds a new approach for the treatment of this enigmatic disorder. Publication Types:
* Review PMID: 2825606 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Current Music: Solar Fields - Magic Eye (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo ele |
alobar
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4:50a |
Bogus "Research" Below "research" is from Alternative Medicine Forum. I read the whole article. Link at end. It sure looks bogus to me.
> "If you give a mouse a high-fat diet, they will eat excessive amounts," he said.
> "It is the same thing as human eating at McDonald's or eating too much
> at a Thanksgiving dinner." I have been on a high fat diet now for over 5 years. During that time, my weight has been stable at 180#. I have no desire for excessive amounts of food, or to snack between meals. Before I went on a high fat diet, I craved carbs and had a had time avoiding them. I weighed 270#.
Of course, I eat healthy fats like butter from cows who eat grass, coconut oil, olive oil, fish oil. I avoid all trans-fats, all commercial seed oils, and I eat only free range meat which is not given growth hormone.
When I used to pig out at Thanksgiving, it was the mashed potatoes and bread stuffing which caused me to overeat, not the fat. > The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and by
> grants from Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly and Co. I am also highly suspicious of ANY research funded by pharmaceutical companies. The "research" sure seems bogus to me. ====================================== Eating Too Much Fat Disrupts Body's Internal Clock, Disrupts Appetite Control
5/20/2008 -
(NaturalNews) A high-fat diet quickly causes changes to the body's internal clock, which can throw off appetite regulation, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Northwestern University... http://www.naturalnews.com/z023273.html Current Music: J. Views - Courage Wants To Laugh (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid- |
babycat_6
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2:27a |
Some things I hate!!
I've noticed that Houston is very repressed. I mean I realized that most cities are repressed sexually but damn... not like this one. One of the things I loved about NOLA was that they were way more open minded when it came to sex and the sex industry. I mean have you heard about the SOB licenses being revoked? Please!!
Another thing is that a few years ago they outlawed the distribution of free condoms around the city because they felt that it condoned sex!! What the fuck? You mean to tell me that they think that by taking away the condoms people are not going to do it? Again you can't stop people from having it so why not make it safer for them? It's like the people want to do it but don't want anyone to know they are doing it. What the hell? What is it just typical fucking Southern Baptist Hypocritical bullshit? It's ok if it's there but we don't want anyone to know it's there!! Who cares? Is it any body else's business what anyone does in their free time? NO!! It's not!! I wish people would keep their noses out of everyone else's business for a change and get a fucking life!! |
babycat_6
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12:49a |
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adustierstar
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12:27a |
"Everyone knows they're in love by the way they dance" I am seriously so tired I feel sick. This was my wedding favor (don't worry, it was entirely my fault lol). I realized halfway through putting together all the work I did on Monday that what I did was only about half of what Philip probably meant by the instructions, so he will almost certainly mark me down for having made an edition of 18 lines instead of the 30-some that doing the WHOLE psalm instead of the first half would have been. You know, even though that would have meant 150ish lines of transcription instead of the 70ish I did. But fine - I've known about it forever, so I should have been working on it ages ago instead of being an idiot, which is my usual state. >_<; I'm just glad at this point that I managed to stretch it out to 1100 words (even though 2/3rds of them aren't quite relevant), which I consider eligible for handing in right now, as it is the best I can possibly do. I also spent 10 minutes updating my CV, so that's all ready to hand in. Which means tomorrow all I have to do is turn my writeup for Philip from last week into an abstract for a conference >_<; It's fine, it'll just take some finagling. Brigitte, I will email you tomorrow, but if you really want my number before that it's on Facebook, country code included. Also despite what I have just realized it sounded like above, I did have a fantastic time at the wedding :D The weather was lovely, we saw ducklings (!), everything actually wedding-related was fun and beautiful, Archimedes and I got to inflict my musical tyranny on a carful of captive audience, there were kilts, chocolate shops (okay, one), and bubbles (!!!). We spent the photography time after the ceremony running around blowing bubbles and pretending to be the special effects team for the pictures (everything is better in shoujo-vision!). In fact, the bubbles were a primary distraction in the events immediately preceeding my unfortunate incident. But it doesn't matter! ♥ I love bubbles :D Basically, my whole story is, everything was great. Now I am going to sleep and it's going to be amazing. Current Mood:  exhaustedCurrent Music: Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness |
| Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 |
alobar
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5:33p |
One Step Beyond - The Sacred Mushroom (1/3) Current Music: Steve Roach - Core Meditation 1 (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-te |
alobar
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5:06p |
Court hearing challenging the closure of Charity this Friday Below from C_3 list.
================================ The Committee to Reopen Charity Hospital in partnership with the Louisiana Justice Institute / Louisiana Healthcare Matters, invites you to join us this Friday May 23rd: Court Hearing: Challenge to LSU Health Science Center-New Orleans’ closure of the Rev. Avery C. Alexander Charity Hospital Friday May 23, 2008 / 9:00am Orleans Parish Civil District Court 421 Loyola Avenue, Room 312, New Orleans (next to New Orleans City Hall, City Council Chambers side, Judge Ethel Sims Julian’s court. Limited seating)
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Forum for the future of Louisiana healthcare:
A discussion of our current litigation to replace the care lost with the closure of Big Charity Hospital, and to give an overview of our vision for the future of healthcare reform in Louisiana Friday May 23, 2008 / 12:00pm [noon] McKenna Museum of African-American Art 2003 Carondelet Street, New Orleans (Please RSVP to sarina@louisianajusticeinstitute.org / Louisiana Justice Institute: (504) 872-9134)
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National Trust for Historic Preservation places Charity Hospital and neighborhood on “America’s 11 Most Endangered Historical Places”! ( Read more... )
Current Music: Amorphous Androgynous - Auto Pimp (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid- |
zeldakitty
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3:42p |
So Beignet... remember Beignet? Yeah it's been a while...
But we keep in touch, a little.
Anyway, Beignet is not letting me lull myself into any sort of false sense of security. We talked, briefly this morning and he really wants me to go to the firing range, shoot a variety of guns, see what feels "comfortable" for me, and begin the process of at least getting comfortable with the concept of self-protection.
I won't say he's pushing me, but he's strangely not one to let me backslide on something he thinks will help me.
He acknowledged that my hippy background leaves me as he put it "rather pre-disposed against this." But after highlighting that just because nothing has happened further and because there is another body in the house, my likelihood of being a victim increases with each day that I do not take sensible precautions. (An aside, I thought that was a tad dramatic but at the same time... when you examine the evidence, he's not entirely too far off.)
He then asked me to consider his peace of mind with regard to all this. (Huhwhat?)
He's right, you know. Iron doors and another person in the house, and how quickly I have forgotten that someone tried the door to my bedroom only recently, not two weeks after the previous break-in. In my haste to "move past" those events, I sort of did feel like maybe all that stuff was indeed, over.
So not this weekend, but next weekend, I go to Baton Rouge to see my friend Beignet, who is still my friend Beignet (which in itself is a little remarkable) and go to the firing range to see what guns I am "comfortable" with in my grubby little hands. I don't have the energy or desire to open up and tell him any of the past issues I have with guns - I'm hoping perhaps I can nurture some of my own power with this little exercise. |
amenaspointyhat
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1:12p |
*dies* So, um, I said that I wouldn't post about BTT anymore and I've withheld a LOT, but this was just too funny. Now, here at KES, we give all of our applicants a test called the TABE-Test of Adult Basic Education. We've heard BTT telling people that it was the "TEB"-Test of Adult basic knowledge" and all kinds of other things. We also have to know their degree status because that determines their pay rate. I often say "what is your highest completed level of education?" but even then I have to rephrase if because people don't seem to hear the 'completed' part. Today I overheard BTT ask someone: What is your highest completed level of literacy?WTF? Jen has been looking at shirts on Cafe Press for nearly an hour and she sent me this one for BTT. WIN! ETA: WANT!!! |
amenaspointyhat
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10:53a |
"St. Louise is listening"
me: my dad asked again yesterday- "where's Timmy?" at work, dad "so what's his status?" what do you mean 'status', dad? "do I need to go shoot his daddy?" LOL no dad "well, I couldn't do it in texas, they execute people..."
Timmy TMI: oh my gosh
my dad could take your dad
he's a badass
me: um no way
Timmy TMI: this should go up on your livejournal
me: what? that my dad would take your dad down in no time?
Timmy TMI: haha
Timmy TMI: my dad was in the military too
he knows his shit
me: that doesn't mean that he could beat my dad!
Daddy's started running again
Timmy TMI: my dad cleans his guns daily
me: that sounds like a threat
Timmy TMI: a promise
me: my dad's gun goes with him everywhere. "my buddy, my buddy! wherever I go HE GOES!" |
zeldakitty
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10:35a |
Here's a sign your hormones are out of control...
When your friends point out that you just might be pre-menstrual before you yourself have put it together.
It's a bad thing when someone picks up in a chat session that you're a little spiky.
It's totally whacked when EVERYONE picks up, whether in chat or on the phone or in person, that you're a little spiky.
Especially when you're tying to be nice, your normal cordial self... what does this say about me? That I'm really NOT the sunbeam of love I perceive myself to be?
I remember a long time ago, Bill Cosby had a fairly funny (for the times) non-raunchy video out called Bill Cosby - Himself. He covered a lot of ground from raising kids, to visiting the dentist to people who work all week and drink and get high on the weekends.
He said that he asked someone why did they do cocaine? The answer - "Because it intensifies my personality."
To which Bill Cosby replied, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"
I have a love/hate relationship with my PMS.
YES, it makes me shoot my mouth off prematurely.
YES, it makes me spiky and temperamental, maybe even slightly rabid.
YES, it makes me scattered and unpredictable.
YES, it makes me pick fights with people I love.
YES, it makes me hate my mind and my body.
YES, it intensifies my inner asshole personality.
In short, sweet sunbeam me does not stand a shot against this foaming mad bitch. Kinda good, kinda bad... nice to let the inner bitch out to play from time to time but man, the cleanup in its wake sometimes is a bit much.
***EDIT***
Please place wine and chocolate on my front porch!!! |
amenaspointyhat
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7:03a |
"What can you see on the horizon? Why do the white gulls call?" from bibliotechGo here and keep refreshing until you've collected five quotes that really resonate with you, then post them to your journal. Her quotes are good onesMy philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Andre Agassi (1970 - ), on "Charlie Rose"
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
Florynce Kennedy
I can never follow rules. Honorable mention goes to Walker Percy, just because this line in "The Moviegoer" has resonated and stuck with me for many years: To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. *sigh* I am on to something... (also, this quote came up *just* as "Into the West came on my iPod. I think I am going to cry: Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)) |
padiwack
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6:46a |
Have a Happy Hump Day!
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amenaspointyhat
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6:19a |
"And even though nobody's lookin', she's falling apart"
Getting old SUCKS. REALLY. Every year I have to work harder and harder to stay awake and to maintain a decent weight (which I always fail at doing) and I am just worn out on the experience of aging. I started working out again on Monday-excercise bike and lifting weights. I've had these things for a couple of years and never really used them. Monday I did fine, and Tuesday not so much. I went to bed last night and my right tricep and elbow were throbbing. I woke up last night several times with a sore elbow. Ow. I guess I'm going to have to take a break from weight lifting for a bit. Sadness. I don't want Oprah Winfrey fat flaps anymore!!!!
Ohhhh, dialing my telephone HURTS! lol. I can go home now? |
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