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The Light on the Dark Side of the Moon
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| Hello |
[Apr. 8th, 2012|06:51 pm] |
Hello and HAPPY EASTER!!!
I forgot Live Journal made me change my password a while ago.... wow, scary. I couldn't get in.
Is it a coincidence that the letters FB were generally recognized as meaning f*n b*ch before they started to mean face book? Isn't there some kind of client that makes it possible to cross-post to LJ and FB at the same time? Preferably through LJ since FB gives me such a hard time.
I see when I logged in here, it says it's easier to post pix now... does that mean I don't have to put them into my photo site first? That'd be cool... I'll try it out and see...
Oh... "duh me"... I see a check-box down yonder that says cross-post to FB! LOL! I'll try that too. Well.. it won't let me click it I guess. arghhhhh.... Hmmmmmm.... maybe i got it now.
Okay, so I clicked on the little button in the upper left of this window where it says insert or edit image but nothing happened. LJ hates me as much as FB does! LOL!
Well it still won't open the dialog to add pix but I'm still gonna test this cross-post to FB thing. |
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| Wow... |
[Feb. 1st, 2012|11:54 am] |
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I actually made it to a post screen! I actually gave up entirely on this whole LJ thing for awhile. All I'd been able to get up is a blank white screen. Maybe they've improved a glitch or something. I haven't tried to get to any friend entries yet. I was having a super hard time with that. There were some kind of ads trying to load on some friend pages and they'd crash me. I'd get all hung up and not be able to go further or back out.
I've been trying to keep up a bit better on Face Book but I have to say that I still don't get the point. You sorta stay in "touch" with people on a very superficial level. You know they are alive as maybe they post a few words now and then but there really isn't any depth to getting to know people. I don't get the attraction but at the same time it's gotten hard to go without it on some level if you want to connect at all with people. I would never feel comfortable just babbling on about my day or anything more than a paragraph long there. I've vented there a time or two but in general wouldn't bother unless I'm bursting at the seams.
I sure do want to say that I'm going to get back into journaling now. I do miss it so much but I have learned my track record. Maybe if the screens keep opening okay for me... Some day I'll get to upgrade equipment and that might help a *little* but probably not a lot until some miracle happens where i can get a faster connection.
I really miss my old friends here... now I need to go see who is still here. Every time I make it back I discover more and more have gone away. |
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| Eggstra eggstra |
[Apr. 6th, 2011|06:59 pm] |
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I've had more strange eggs this Spring alone than I've had in many years of eggs... a few days ago I opened a jumbo size blue araucana egg into the pan for my breakfast and not only was there the white and a HUGE yolk but there was a little mini egg in it the size of a shooter marble! The "shell" was kinda hard but a little bouncy like thick leather and it was a pale greenish color inside a membrane. I'm still kicking myself for getting rather grossed out and running it out to the cats before I thought to take a picture... I did take a picture of my wrinkled eggs though.... I don't know what is up with this girl but every other day or three she's laying an egg with wrinkles! The days between, she's laying a normal, speckled brown egg. |
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| Kewpies |
[Mar. 9th, 2011|06:16 pm] |
March 8, 2011 Frames from Fiction: Crazy for Kewpies For this week’s fast-paced Fiction piece, Robert Coover’s “Going for a Beer,” I found myself hunting for images of Kewpie dolls. Chief among my findings was “Harold Angel,” a cheeky photograph of a devilish angel by the artist team Davis & Davis, from their series “Childish Things.” Another image from the series, “Competitive Girl,” inspired a second doll series, called “Small Talents”—which, Davis & Davis explain, are “photographs of found dolls as would-be talent show contestants seen at the beginning, middle or end of their performances.” It’s up to the viewer to decide: “Has the performance finished (or even begun), does the performance rise to the level of talent, and finally, what is the talent in question?” |
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| Just a smile |
[Mar. 8th, 2011|04:37 pm] |
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| A little wheel |
[Mar. 4th, 2011|10:00 pm] |
A few weeks ago I got a decent buy on an antique spinning wheel. It is the CUTEST little thing.... a portable parlor wheel. It was literally a basket case though... all in parts. It came with a flyer but it's not one that goes with it and despite my hopes, it won't work to modify it in any way. I've been trying to work out what the original flyer and spool might have been like but I've run into a few odd glitches that have had me change my plans a few times. I think I have a design that will work now (even if it doesn't make sense considering the age of the wheel and will be nothing like the original) but all that matters is getting something together that will actually function. I have it up to Mom's and I'm hoping that she will enjoy learning to spin and get caught up into it as a new hobby. I'm having a little trouble coming up with the size plywood disks I need since I need them to be more balanced and true than I can get with cutting them out with a saw. I need 3.5 inch disks of around a half inch thick. I found some 3 inch disks online that I could probably work with but they aren't plywood so will probably warp and they are too thick so that would screw up my plans a little. I suppose I can make them if I HAVE to, it'll just be a bigger pain than I was hoping for. The rest of the flyer will be easy enough to make I think and if it works out the way I want, standard Ashford bobbins would fit. They aren't really cheap but less $$ than many others and easier than making them.
So.... I'm just babbling along here.... here's a photo. We have the wheel all back together now and the broken out chunks fixed... it's all oiled up and waiting for the flyer to be built.
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| Good Evening... |
[Feb. 23rd, 2011|09:04 pm] |
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I was glad to have so many old friends drop in to say hello. :-) HUGS to you all... I'm really surprised though to see how many of my friends haven't been here at all in a year, some for two or three years. They still show in my friend list but I went and took a look at the "nudge" page and it shows how long it's been since some people posted.... wow... I'm not talking a few or even a dozen friends but most of them. I guess places like Facebook (ugh, I HATE FB) are stealing everyone away.
No news or nuthin... Here's a pix of our Australian Shep pup, Cosmo, snuggling with little Weena...
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| Hi.... |
[Feb. 21st, 2011|10:51 pm] |
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Hiya.... whoever is still around here anyway! :-)
I don't know why I do this. I recognize the pattern but I still seem to stay caught up in it. LJ has always been such a good thing for me... the thoughts and events I recorded, the amazing people who became so important to me, the connection and interaction that took me outside of myself. I still do what I always do though and withdraw from the things that are best for me... hide from where I am most free to be myself, turn away from what means the most.
I can't believe it was 2005 when I first came here! I have been reading old entries over the past few days. I never used "tags" so I was trying to add some to the oldest entries. There's is so much of my life back there that I had entirely forgotten. That's a little scary. I suppose someday all of this will be lost to me. There's way too many entries to print into a paper version to save and read in the future. This is a whole chapter of my life and recorded moments that will just go POOF on the day that the network crumbles. It's interesting to consider how that makes me feel. It feels like it matters somehow though I'm sure it doesn't... not really, in the scheme of things anyway. When your brain doesn't quite work "right" you realize how fleeting memories really are and if you don't remember them without a prompt or without reading about them, maybe you didn't really need to remember them.... each day starts a brand new life.... a new start... a new time present. All that other stuff was probably someone else anyway.
I got a little depressed reading stuff from 2005 and realizing how little progress I've made with the things that were troubling me then. I'm pretty much in the same place now as then. That's kinda sad. |
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| sizzzzle |
[Jul. 7th, 2010|02:11 pm] |
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Just thought I'd drop by and say hello. I'm avoiding actually getting up and moving. I'm sitting here in front of the fan on high spritzing myself with a mister bottle filled with water and wintergreen scented alcohol.
The cats are sleeping in the bathtub...
Supper will be a vanilla float in cola....
I am SOOOO glad it's my day off.
When you step outdoors the deerflies swoop down from all directions in full attack mode. I thought they liked their blood raw, mine is surely poached by now. |
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