You totally should go to dooce.com and read the post about thoughts before 7 am. It is so funny and I completely do that.

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair. Just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.

By and Large is a nautical term. By means into the wind, while large means with the wind. By and large is used to indicate all possible situations "the ship handles well both by and large".

The other night my mom was watching Lily and Lily asked to watch some George. What she means is Curious George, and my mom knows that but George of the Jungle was on so she put that on. And Lily goes "no no no, BROWWNNN George."

HEHEHE.

Lily asked where daddy was today and I told her he was at work. And she says, totally unsolicited, "poor, poor daddy."

tags: lily

Oh, Jeanette.
I don't know if this is for everyone to read, but I love her expressions and I understand her Virgoness and it's a thing of beauty.

Natanya, you might especially enjoy her thoughts about creating.

http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/column/column_item.asp?columnID=116

Sweet!
Got another paid gig writing an article for the same place as before. I'm excited.

I've been asking the universe for this and it's delivering pretty well. I'm going to keep asking and then doing the work so the Universe knows I mean business ;) I think it's great prep for the marathon that is book writing. Again, writing that 7000 word article gave me the HINT of a taste of that undertaking, yet still knowing I could do it.

So, I'm putting a call out there to you too, LJ. If you hear of anyone looking for interesting writing content, preferably about astrology obviously, I'm totally looking to freelance more more more.

I'm also interested in anyone's ideas about where to look for this kind of gig. Websites, newspapers, anything. All the creative places/websites/what have you, obvious or not, that I could go to see if someone's looking for a freelance writer.

Example articles and references available upon request :)

mood: hopeful music: celtic voice tags: freelance writing

Anya: "I'm just trying to find my necklace."
Willow: "Well did you try looking inside the sofa in hell?!"

Willow: "I'm a blood sucking fiend! Just look at my outfit!"

WOW.
I love Alanis.

And here's the lyrics to her song Madness (thanks delenn99!) which is SUCH a perfect way to express what happens in an 8th house sexual relationship.

Madness
I've been most unwilling to see this turmoil of mine
The thought of sitting with this has me paralyzed

With this prolonged exposure to mirror and averted eyes
I've feigned that I've been waiting: such mileage for empathizing

[Chorus]
And now I see the madness in me is brought out in the presence of you
And now I know the madness lives on, when you're not in the room
And though I'd love to blame you for all, I'd miss these moments of opportune
You've simply brought this madness to light and I should thank you
Oh thank you, much thanks for this bird's eye view
Oh thank you for your most generous triggers

It's been all too easy to cross my arms and roll my eyes
The thought of dropping all arms leaves me terrified

[Chorus]

I'd have to give up knowing and give up being right
You inadvertent hero, you angel in disguise

[Chorus]

location: my office mood: good music: alanis morrissette - madness tags: 8th house, alanis, astrology

So, here's an impulsive thing. I knew (sagittarius intuition) that I wanted these, and I didn't freak out about the cost/value ratio. I knew the cost was good and that I could spare the money, so I bought these two prints for my office "Red Arboretum" and "Kiss the Moon":

http://www.wolffantastic.com/PRINTPURCHASEGALLERY.htm

I super heart the new Alanis album. As I expected.
It came in the mail from Amazon yesterday. As deeply as I hate junk mail, that's how much I love it when I get mail that's relevant.
Anyhoo, also what came is this book which I saw in a newspaper, of all places, about two weeks ago and decided to get. So far I am not very far in and it's kind of pissing me off. But not in an unforgiveable way so I'm being patient and hoping it has good things to offer.

Ok, so here's a meme. Unfortunately it's astrology based (well, that's not unfortunate except that some of you are not astrology speakers). SO, to enable you non astro geeks to play too, here is a basic and inferior list of what the 12 houses mean so you can play. here is an example of where I stole it from, if you want to see others' examples, and I've included my example as well, obviously, as the template. So reply, delete my answers, and add your own!

What you do is make whatever statement you want that's relevant to you, your life, your attitudes, your activities, that falls in the category of each astrological house (1-12).

What each of the 12 houses mean:
1st house: body, appearance, self-image
2nd house: finances/resources, self-esteem/worth, confidence level
3rd house: communication, siblings, traffic, busyness
4th house: home, family, inner life, subconscious realm
5th house: creativity, what you do for fun and to relax, children
6th house: work, errands/to do list, health
7th house: primary relationships
8th house: sex, death, psychological issues/deep fears, other people's money
9th house: travel, education, philosophy/religion
10th house: career/'calling', reputation
11th house: dreams/goals, peer groups, organizations you are affiliated with
12th house: spirituality/connection with divinity (your own and larger), superconscious realm

Here are my answers:

1. Black vneck tshirt, jeans, black heeled sandals. Very typical.
2. Got the check for selling some astrology articles, a raise at my part time day job, and a bonus for a referral. It's good!
3. Been serving as a confidante even more than usual lately.
4. House a mess as usual but my flowers are looking lovely!
5. Taking breaks by playing very old computer game: Theme Hospital. Heart my daughter. heart heart heart.
6. Too fat. Too busy. Eating poorly.
7. Relationships are all strengthening.
8. Inner mind has awakened again and is finally talking to me again, deep thoughts=happy me.
9. So longing to travel; have to wait until after August event. So longing to return to school, getting that together now. So longing to finish Jeffrey Green correspondence course, going too slowly!
10. Career still in high orbit - so loving it.
11. Many dreams, many goals. Recently discovered source of disappointment is that I can't do them all at once (prog sag moon here). MUCH networking going on still as my reach grows longer.
12. Prog moon moves into 12/Cap next year. Predicting hibernation period while writing a book, to be birthed at 1st house entry. Also predicting loss as it corresponds with my Pluto square.

mood: okay

I love her new album already and I've ordered it and it just released today. I heard Underneath. Check it out: http://www.alanis.com/video/underneath.html

My mantra!
Seriously though, the clever way she puts complex lyrics to music and the stuff she talks about. Love her. LOVE.

tags: alanis

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307698,00.html

"Thoughts of Death Bring Happiness, Not Sadness, Study Finds"

This literally made me laugh so hard I cried. A lot. Laugh attack. Repeated. Oh god.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqXdLEn5OSU

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24650776#24650776

GO PLUTO IN LIBRA GENERATION!
Goose bumps!

I will do a real update soon with highlights such as career developments, Oloteas Beltane and Jesus Tyler (Jesus x2 actually), and Lily but for now, check this out! (this is obviously going to give away one of my career developments) :)


Create Your Life Weekend promo

tags: astrology

This is kind of fun - do it!

I was born in California but primarily raised in Utah.

What do you call:

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.

stream

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.

cart

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.

Lunchbox

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.

pan

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.

Couch

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.

gutter

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.

porch

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverage.

pop

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.

Pancakes

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.

hoagie

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.

swim suit

12. Shoes worn for sports.

tennis shoes (tennashoes)

13. Putting a room in order.

picking up or cleaning up

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.

firefly

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.

potato bug

16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down.

See-saw

17. How do you eat your pizza?

if its very messy or hot, with a fork, but otherwise, pick it up, eat from the small end to the big end.

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?

Yard sale or garage sale

19. What's the evening meal?

dinner

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?

basement

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?

drinking fountain

22: If something is diagonally located, where is it in relation to you?

kitty corner (or just diagonally across the street)

23. What do you call the place where the water comes out of the sink?

Faucet

Apparently I seem like a moron. The spam I just got was about a winning lottery ticket from the Government Bureau Consular de Blah de Blah @gmail.com. Yeah. Government's trying to conserve funds to pay for the lottery so they decided to go with gmail accounts.

So I love Friday night stand up on comedy central and I often find myself watching it. Tonight I am watching someone so freaking funny I'm forced to put it on my LJ: Tommy Tiernan. Irish guy. So animated. Hysterical.

seriously. need to have one.

go to these websites.

http://www.3days3ways.org

http://www.buildmydisasterkit.com (this one will help you week by week building up emergency kits and plans).