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| Thursday, January 7th, 2010 |
petrona
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1:05p |
Thursday thoughts
Girl Scout Cookies go on sale tomorrow in New Jersey. This year they have a brand new cookie: Thank U Berry Munch™: Real premium cranberries provide a delightful tartness in these hearty cookies sweetened with creamy, white fudge chips. They come in a cranberry colored box and are made by Little Brownie Bakers. I was a girl scout and then a girl scout leader, for a number of years. I hope the amount of money that the troops get to retain, from the sale of those cookies, has increased. You'd be surprised at how little of the sales price was theirs to keep for troop expenses. Edit to add: childhood memories resurrected with talk of scouts: singing in round (co-workers are looking at me all kinds of funny): ( Read more... )Looking into the possibility of getting government clearance through my company. Seems this would give me a leg up in seeking employment in the DC area. I know the steps to take to initiate it, but I can't think of any way to get my supervisor to sign off on it, without them fearing that I'm leaving them. Yes, the above is a sign of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) badmagic and I looking to settle down together. All plans and possibilities still pending. My co-workers can be crass. There is a fellow here who microwaves fish for lunch almost daily. If you have ever done this, you know it's a strong smell and it lasts for quite awhile. But C took the cake, when she said the place smelled like a lesbian dorm. I'm no pro, but do women really smell like fish down there? Current Mood:  cheerful |
| Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 |
helygen
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9:30p |
Ticky box!
Before the hectic whirl that was Christmas and New Year, I'd been in the habit of sharing news and links relating to David Tennant, and the Whoniverse in general. I'm still collecting all these niblets of news but haven't had time of late to post them. Now that life is returning to a normal pace, I'm thinking of posting them again but wonder if anyone else actually finds them useful. So ... Poll #1508133 DT and Doctor Who updates
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 18 Would you like me to continue the David Tennant/Doctor Who updates that I was doing before Christmas? Current Mood:  curious |
petrona
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4:00p |
Now that I have the whole story
I can tell the tale. Last night, my 17 year old son decided to go to the Randolph diner with his friends. Said he'd be there around 8pm. At 8:46 I get a text from the local newspaper that a Randolph resident had been hit by at car at the very same intersection as the diner. My heart leaps into my throat, wondering the likelihood that this is related to my son. A second message follows. The person is pronounced dead at the scene. A third message: it's a 17 year old Randolph High School student, who was leaving the diner. Sometimes, being the first one to receive bits of information is more nerve racking than anything else. No, it wasn't my son. Thank God. It was a 17 year old school mate who had just finished her waitress job there and was heading home to her mom, with two slices of cake in hand. It seems to have been just a tragic accident; no alcohol or drugs involved. Tai Grigore stepped into the road at the wrong time. The light was green and there is a 59 year old woman who will always wonder, if there was something else she could have done differently...... RIP Tai. Current Mood: sad |
| Monday, January 4th, 2010 |
illusio_5
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8:11p |
Happy New Year and a Blog Giveaway!
Firstly, I would like to wish everyone I know a truly wonderful Happy New Year to all of you. I hope it is peaceful, joyous, harmonious, loving, giving, generous, prosperous and all that you hoped for. I am not going to make this blog a retrospective of the past year and all my thoughts and views. I have read too many of them already. Suffice to say it's been one of ups and downs, both economically, spiritually, creatively and emotionally. 2009 could have been better in so many ways, and like most people, I am not sorry to leave it behind. I am hoping that with a new year and a new decade that I can be a better person, that I can view life more optimistically and achieve more than I did in 2009. I am kicking off the year with a Blog Giveway!!!Running for the next month, untill January 31st. I am offering a from my A5 Prints range, FOUR FREE A5 PRINTS, AND a set of FOUR FREE POSTCARDS. To enter you need to do the following. Not all mind, but extra entries for doing more than one. Obviously if you do them all, then you get six entries. Please reply here letting me know what you have done to enter, and don't forget to let me know which four prints you like. The postcards set will be a surprise!! 1) Sign up for my Shop Newsletter 2) Tweet this giveaway 3) Blog this giveaway 4) Facebook this giveway 5) Follow my Blog 6) Follow my Facebook page Good luck everyone, and again..a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! |
illusio_5
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7:24p |
Yep. Since I closed my Etsy shop, getting a lot more work done. Two finished paintings, about three nearly done and a plethora of drawings, aceo's and sketchbook work. Despite the shocking light I managed to get some reasonably decent shots of two paintings. Scans of my finished drawings and aceos will have to wait a bit though. My new wide angles lens will be here hopefully tomorrow and I am starting the new year next week with some serious photography and painting. Orla will be at school full time, so when I am not looking for a job, (sadly the terrifying mortgage requires I find work) I will be either painting, drawing or out with my camera. The top painting is acrylic on 10x10 canvas, not for sale as this was intended as a competition piece and I have not decided yet whether to enter it or not. The bottom painting called 'Candy' was meant to be a fun piece and is also acrylic on 8x8 canvas and is for sale in my shop: Art4Sale. Sadly, again because of poor light, the colours aren't as vibrant as in real life, particularly in 'Candy'. Paintings finished: Tidal II and Candy: |
helygen
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12:09a |
The End of Time
I'd planned on re-watching part two before completing my written thoughts on the episode, because I missed a fair amount of dialogue due to sniffing and sobbing etc. After a tearful weekend, during which I've read other reviews and looked at pictures past and present, and been reduced to tears over the most ridiculous things, I've decided that I can't watch it again just yet; maybe next weekend, when I've become more accustomed to the idea that My Doctor has gone. I will, however, post my thoughts on the episode now. I've been writing this over the course of the last two days, jotting things down as I remembered them, and have this evening put the whole thing in chronological order (I hope!). I'll add to it as more thoughts occur to me, but for now, this is my reaction to David's final episode: The End of Time( Spoilers! )So there you have it. Emotional rather than objective, and probably not very coherent, but it will have to do until I've seen it again and can take a less tearful look at it all. Goodbye, Ten. You were, to quote your predecessor, fantastic. I'm looking forward to following your further adventures in your Eleventh incarnation but you - this you - will always be My Doctor x  Current Mood:  sad |
| Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 |
ladyeleanor
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9:27p |
Another year already?
When they said that time flashes by as you get older they really weren't kidding. Goodbye Noughties ( I hated that name). So what will they call the next decade then? The teens perhaps? We bought a silly cheap round car on 4th December and I am terrified of driving. I had no idea how much having a person sitting next to me with the power to control the car themselves if they needed to was so important to me. Now that it's just me I spend every second utterly terrified. And the dreaded parking problems I had, that i agonised over for months and practiced and practiced until i finally managed to overcome... are now back worse than ever! I can't park the silly round car at all. If we go anywhere I have to leave at least 10 minutes extra for wiggling back and forward and back and forward with much grinding of gears and stallings before i can even hope to get anywhere close to parked. I'm way past the crap woman driver stereotype and out the other side into complete caricature. It should be laughable but actually it's just made me very very sad. I have wanted this for so long. Passing my test and getting a car represented independance and freedom, 20 years after everyone else managed to get theirs, but instead I'm terrified driving to Sainsburys!.. Jem keeps telling me that I've only been driving for a month and it will get better. I really really hope he's right. I had become so sick of the theatre that I hardly went there at all in 2009 but i have told myself to give it another shot and I am already booked in to help with shows from now till September. I hope I start to find some pleasure in it again. I know it's good for me to do it because if i dont watch myself I can be antisocial and hermit like. What's even harder is that Jem really couldn't care less if he never saw anyone but me from one week to the next and is always happiest on the sofa with a book. Meaning that I have to be the outgoing one, which is hilarious! I suddenly have the urge to take lots of silly evening classes. Pottery and hat making and Italian and cooking and the like. I'm going to look into what things are available over the next month in an attempt to starve off the January Blues. I daresay I will start things and then not finish them, much as many people do in the desire to make a new year more interesting. But if even one new thing sticks it will be an achievement. I've also resolved not to wear so much black and to try to be less lazy with clothes in general (I'm a comfort and ease frump). Our familes are bothering us again about visiting so I think we will have to find a way to do Canada and the US this year. ( I have promised myself to have more patience with the whole family thing). I'm also going to start looking into possible other jobs i might be able to do. I will feel less angry and sad if I try to find out what else i might be able to do. I've pretty much stopped smoking. Smoking was never a big deal from me, I cold always take it or leave it far more easily than anyone I knew so now I probably only have about 5 a week and half of those I don't even finish. I'm only really enjoying 2 out of the 5 so I'm fairly sure I'll just get bored and stop completly before long. I'm being dilligent about taking my iron and drinking water i i know my skin andmy energy leves have been better. Jem and I have had a lovely holiday season together. We have been married for only 4 years but it's already very hard for me to remember my life before we were together. Loving someone and being loved is better than I ever imagned it would be. So there are many positive things to look forward to in 2010. Which is why I'm writing them down, so I wont forget when I get miserable and depressed again in a couple of days :o) |
illusio_5
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4:34p |
All I got for Christmas...
Were some FABULOUS things. Too many to list all, especially from my lovely hubby who tells me every year that ‘he didn’t get me much’ and then outdoes himself. Bless him he bought me some great dvds; ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ collectors edition complete with ‘Death Eater’ mask, ‘Hello Dello’ and ‘Night at the Museum I & II’. Here are a selection of the fantastic books he gave me, all about photography and as reference/inspiration for my art. He has also bought me a macro lens and a wide angle lens for my camera. Bless his heart. Can’t wait to get out and about with my camera in the new year…  And below were all carefully chosen by my lovely little girl, Orla. The green book in the middle is a lovely embroidered journal with indian Khaddi paper in, and the little pink square item on the right with a littlebutton in the middle is a tape measure, there is also a large slice of ‘cake soap’ and the bag behind is illustrated with Kokeshi dolls. The bag was bought by Luke, but everything else was chosen by her with some help and encouragement. She loved handing me my pressies and the ones she got her Daddy, and this is the first Christmas she has actively participated, and it was lovely to watcher her excitment, not only opening her own pressies, but in watching us open ours too. Hope all my friends had a wonderful Christmas. xxx |
illusio_5
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4:28p |
Art is for all...or rather, all can draw, or rather...all SHOULD draw
You know, over the years I have lost count of the people who have said to me, when having told them I am an artist, or that I had studied art at University, how much they loved art at and painting at school. How much they loved drawing or painting as children. I would then ask if they still drew or painted, and invariably their response would be the same, "naaa, gave all that up when I left school". 'Why though?' I always ask. If they loved it so much, why stop? They usually then tell me that they were not very good, but that they enjoyed it a lot (this whole issue of what can be classed artistically as 'good' could and should be covered in some depth another time I think). It's all about perception isn't it? Drawing and painting is still seen as the purview of the serious (or even amateur) artist, or children. Rarely do people continue to paint once having left school for the simple pleasure of it alone. Most get sucked into the prosaic though necessary business of making a living, and those that do have some leisure time left to them, usually hit the gym, watch television, go up the pub, knit, etc. Fair enough, nothing wrong with all those things. However, it has been proven again and again that the act of drawing, painting, making the mark is mentally beneficial, and indeed as we know is used as therapy for those with mental health illnesses, children and teenagers with special needs, in young offenders institutions etc, etc. It is relaxing, therapeutic, cathartic, and fills a basic and fundamental need in us all to express ourselves through colour and form. An exercise which we as human beings have undertaken since man became sentient. So, to cut to the chase, if you are stuck for a gift for a friend or loved one, buy them a small sketch book that can be fitted into a pocket or a bag and some pens and abjure them to get doodling. |
littlexander
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7:00a |
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helygen
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1:02a |
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| Friday, January 1st, 2010 |
littlexander
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7:01a |
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| Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 |
littlexander
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7:00a |
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| Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 |
helygen
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11:58a |
Wedding dance
I received this in an email at work this morning, and feel the need to share because it's so brilliant .... Talk about a "feel good" wedding! :) Read more Current Mood:  amused |
| Monday, December 28th, 2009 |
helygen
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12:37a |
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| Saturday, December 26th, 2009 |
littlexander
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7:00a |
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| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
helygen
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11:01p |
The End of Time (part one)
Holy Frack! They said that David's performance on these last two episodes was magnificent, and they weren't kidding if this one's anything to go by. I suspect RTD must have found a special brand of crack when penning this story, but OMG what a corker! I need to watch it again in order to try and get the different parts of my brain to agree on what I've seen, and to try and make sense of the theories that are rattling around in there, and just to revel in the most heart-wrenching scenes I've seen for a while. There are SPOILERS in the repliesNote to self: buy another box of tissues for next week. Current Mood:  hyper |
littlexander
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7:03p |
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quietskittery
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4:22a |
the best gift
gifts i got this year with no shiny packaging. no ribbons. no bows. they really meant a lot to me. thanks for: the unexpected hug listening to me freak out and have that 3 day breakdown and tell me that it's normal to feel that way. the summer of laughing all day being called "dorothy" not seeing you since we were 12 and talking til 3:30am Christmas day and realizing to myself how similar, yet different we are. family. hm. odd like that! your smiles and another hundred little moments that made me feel :o) The stuff I open later are just things. bought. sold. re-gifted. my true gifts are all of you that have made my world sunnier. hopefully, i've done the same for you. |
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