So, imagosdawn sent us, several months ago, a housewarming gift. I'm not to sure of all of the details of this, but it ended up with us. I *LOVE* it. Everyone else in the house is all eye-rolly about it. But really, they're just as redneck as I am, so they can cope. :)

And for those not in the know, she's my high priestess. THAT, darlings, makes it SACRED. :D
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You know what I hate? I have a project that I'm working on that's classified in my knitting projects as the Super Secret Gift Project. There are very few people who know about the project, and I desperately want to show off my progress. Sadly, though, I can't, because the person it's ending up with is one of the people who would gush about it without even knowing that he/she is the recipient of it. *SIGH* Such is the life of a fabulous ar-teest, I suppose.

Intervention with Kristin Chenoweth

Glorious. Fucking HYSTERICAL.

(swiped from da_zhuang)

In your Loud Twitter setup, under "Change post time, formatting, etc" in "text to add at the beginning of the post:"...

You can put in an LJ cut.

Just askin' nicely.

...at least not in my email box.

Now available - Harmony Wood Straights

No, it's not porn, per se. Not unless you're a knitter and want new needles from Knitpicks. They're fabulously colored, and I should probably get a pair just to see how they compare to my Brittanys.

This is awesome. Swiped from illious. And sadly, lynthia is in the woods and won't be able to see this until she gets home on Monday or Tuesday.

Pronunciation Poem
Author Unknown

I take it you already know
of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
on hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
to learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
that looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead -- it's said like bed not bead --
and for goodness' sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt)

A moth is not the moth in mother,
nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there,
nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose --
just look them up -- and goose and choose,
and cork and work and card and ward,
and font and front and word and sword,
and do and go and thwart and cart --
come, come I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Man alive.
I'd mastered it when I was five.

I grabbed this link from polardemonwolf. The main article and product are kind of crap. The real beauty of this is the video at the bottom. It just blows me away.

Go here and look at color 9544. Socks or a hat? Because, really, you need that yarn made into one or both of those.

For lynthia and tikimama:

Because, DAMN.

Seriously. Watch this ad from Israel.

Oh, Grey...... Check it! New DwtS Lineup!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

We have all of $42.89 to last us until Friday. Usually, it wouldn't be a problem. Sadly, though, we have a pre-authorized credit card payment of $76 coming out of the account tomorrow. The other credit cards are maxed out. We have zero money.

I fucking hate my life. Why is it so goddamned hard to stay afloat? $100 would mean the difference between all this stress and surviving.

.....and, patched. Less stress, but still not in a good place.

So, I have three friends who now know how babies are made. I've been knitting baby stuff, but sometimes, there are just things that get said better on a onesie (is that spelled right? What a silly word).

Like this. lynthia, you're totally getting this. Expect it. Also, possibly this one.

And there are such great things here and here.

"And sex. Great muppety Odin, I miss that sex."
-- Buffy Summers, The Long Way Home, Part One

Mother pusbucket.

Stargate Atlantis will end this season.

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Medium
Wrath:	Low
Sloth:	Medium
Envy:	Medium
Lust:	Very High
Pride:	Medium

Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz

drakematrix and I were chatting and we started coming up with a list that we felt needed to be made. What else should we add to it?

Personal Responsibility for Pagans

1) Everything you put out into the Universe comes back at you. Rituals and candles aren't the only time. If you're a professional pessimist, you're going to have to get used to your life sucking.

2) Patchouli: It's not a substitute for bathing or deoderant. Seriously.

3) Learn to read simple things, like prescription bottles and expiration dates, not just pagan books and magazines. When it says two pills a day, ONLY TAKE TWO PILLS A DAY.

4) "Justice" is not throwing every curse you know at someone who cuts you off in traffic.

5) Anything that you do to heal, can also be used to harm. If you can't do one, you can't do the other.

6) If you have "mobility challenges", maybe you should consider it your responsibility to get to workshops at outdoor festivals on time instead of the facilitator's responsibility to wait for you. You're aware of your limitations. Act accordingly.

7) Paganism is not an effective way to hide your mental illness. Go see a therapist.

8) Everything light has a dark side. You can not have day without night, sun without shadow. Learn how to deal with both sides. There are lessons to be learned in each of them.

9) If you work with underworld deities, you better have your shit cleaned up. They will eat you for lunch until it gets that way.

10) Make sure you know what you're getting yourself into before accepting the invitation. You still have free Will. If you're unsure of the deity, do the research. If you're still uncomfortable with the deity, politely tell Him or Her "no thanks." "Touched by" doesn't necessarily mean "owned by."

11) If you make an oath and cannot keep it, be prepared to deal with the consequences. In the old days it was as bad as or worse than death.

12) Those who believe in magic allegedly believe in creating their own change and should, perhaps, not whine so much about the poor quality of handouts and freebies they receive.

13) Being defensive does not equal being offensive, when dealing with those who do not understand.

14) Change doesn't "magically" happen. If you want something in your life to change you actually have to DO THE WORK not just light a candle and sit back and wait. If you are constantly whining over the same old shit, do something different because you are not going to get a different outcome by constantly doing the same thing over and over.

15) A real initiation is a profound, life-altering experience and involves making an oath. If you had an initiation ritual and nothing changed, look into what you missed. Relatedly: not all life-altering experiences are an initiation.

In case you don't watch Shear Genius, this is Paulo. Paulo owns and works at the Ego Mechanix Salon in San Jose. He's a great big scary looking girl, and when I'm in San Jose in February, I want to make out with meet (okay, fine, and make out with) him. Please to be making it happen.

Yes, I have eclectic taste in men. He's dirty hot, and a total squishy sweetheart, and I'd like to be a bit of a starfucker. I can own that title in this case, and I'll own it loud and proud. For real.

kthxbai

See this here icon? I just realized that until Blayne gets his tanorexic retarded ass handed to him and auf'd from Project Runway, I can't look at it. It's a "-licious". And seriously? I had it before he tried to make it a fucking catch phrase.

I hate him. With the white-hot heat of a thousand suns. Almost as much as I hate PETA.

Love conquers all. I FUCKING WIN.

...and they lived happily ever after...


OR

No shit, there we were... (Look! FIVE WORDS!)

I love How I Met Your Mother. On that show, Barney is my favorite character. Neil Patrick Harris is both ungodly talented and debilitatingly hot. This clip should show why. And really, the armpit shot? HOT BEYOND WORDS.

And also, the two people on my flist who were in high school with him and have stories about him? GET ME HIS PHONE NUMBER. It's up to you to help me break him and his boyfriend up. Or at least get me a one-nighter with him. I'm not above a little homewrecking to be a starfucker. Not on this level. And if when it happens, of course I'll share pictures.

Who loves kitty? Are these your shoes?

Ignore the asstarded comments, but Jake Gyllenhaal is playing the Prince of Persia. I've never been a huge fan of his looks. Until now. Damn, I'd do naughty things to him.

Dear Universe,

At least a dozen of the people on my flist have had to have animals put to sleep in the last two weeks. Cut it out. Enough with the rainbow bridge for a while.

<3,
Me.

Between the Worlds Registration closes in NINE DAYS.

You have NINE DAYS to get your registration postmarked.

NINE DAYS.

Did I mention NINE DAYS? Because it's only NINE DAYS until registration closes.

I don't wanna hear any bitching if you don't get it in on time. I'll send a Radical Faerie Dianic Lesbian Log Cabin Republican to be your best friend. My hand to god. Pick one.

Oh, and for those of you who aren't sure, that's AUGUST 17. Yes, that's a Sunday. That means you should probably have it in the mail by Saturday the 16th.

Evidently, Eliza Dushku likes to hunt. This has pissed off PETA (though, seriously, have they ever not been pissed off?) to the point that, shock of shocks, they're making shit up.

95%? Really? You polled THE ENTIRE COUNTRY and found out how many people oppose hunting? FINE, bitches. Let's just put you and your grand and glorious no-death garden (though, why haven't you exploded from the still-living plants that you shove in your fucking piehole? Hm? Oh, that's because you live on dead things the same way EVERYONE ELSE DOES, fuckbag) right in the middle of deer territory where there hasn't been any thinning of the herd from hunting. How's that air-lettuce taste?

PETA pisses me RIGHT the fuck off. Hate, with the intensity of a thousand thousand suns. Times eleventy-pi bajillion. How many of those hypocritical FUCKS wear leather belts? Or Nikes? Christ, I think Republicans are less fuckin' crazy than PETA.

Yeah. I don't often embed videos because it drives me crazy. This one, though, needs to be shared. If you're a fundamentalist Christian, well, first of all, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU ON MY FLIST? Secondly, don't watch this. All my pagan people need to see this, as do ophanim and mkmomwy. Everyone else can giggle, too. Though, it's probably not all that worksafe.
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