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11:39 pm
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Tarots
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| You Scored as III - The Empress The Empress is a maternal symbol. She is the mother figure who loves, nurtures and protects.
She will protect you, she will always be there when you are in trouble. When you fall over and graze your knee, the Empress will kiss it better.
Yet she is not a weak figure. Her compassion is strength. If her children are threatened she will stop at nothing to protect them. If well aspected in a Tarot spread, the Empress can symbolise security, protection and unconditional love. If badly aspected it can represent over-protectiveness, fear of risk taking and refusal to face the real world.
| II - The High Priestess |
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09:22 am
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11:31 pm
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Well, why not?
Oops that didn't work.
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02:21 am
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What do you know? Snow!
Hey, it snowed last night. I went out in it a minute ago. It's very slippery and my nose got cold. It's a heavy, wet snow, and it's still above freezing so it's all drippy and water puddles are melting through in big patches, but it's still about five inches deep. That's kind of a lot for around here, in the middle of Arkansas. Used to be you could rely on 6 inches to a foot of snow in winter, enough to keep you out of school for a week. Haven't seen that in what seems like decades, though. Still, I have a lot of nostalgic memories concerning snow, even though there was seldom that much. One that I recalled earlier was walking through the neighborhood with family and.. cousins, maybe? Or was it neighbors? All I remember is they started rolling a big snowball along the sidewalk at one of the cross streets at the top of the hill. It just kept getting bigger and bigger, and I was of course very small at the time, so it seemed like it was about 5 feet tall. I remember seeing chunks of concrete that it had picked up embedded in the outside. When they got it to the curb, it was too heavy to roll any farther, so they just left it to sit there, a giant snow ball on the corner. I suppose it gradually melted into a giant snow lump.
Current Mood:  cold
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11:27 pm
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Peas and Carrots
"Peas and carrots do not make a meal, they make a side dish. And you can pile up a mound of mashed potatoes, but you're not gonna get any meat."
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01:44 am
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Kinky Santa on Fetlife
Don't forget to log in to Fetlife to tell Santa what you want (pick out some gifts for a chance of winning). I picked the pink fucking machine, myself.
http://fetlife.com/sit_on_santas_lap
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01:18 am
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Ye olde radio drama
This is a creepy radio drama, if you're into that kinda thing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/2009/06/090617_pontypool_audio.shtml
Paper... paper...
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11:52 am
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November Updates
Haven't written all that much lately. Not too much has been happening, and when I do think of something to write about it I put it off until later and then forget about it. But I figure I should jot done some minor events. For posterity and all that.
Well, October has come and gone. It's normally my favorite time of year, what with the change of season and Halloween, but I just wasn't feeling it too much this year. One reason is because I came down with a bad cold right in the middle of the month, which sapped my energy and enthusiasm for the holiday. It's been a month but I still have some sniffles from that one. Another reason is it was very unseasonably cold here for most of October, so it just didn't feel right. For a week or so it felt more like December, really. But now the other holidays are approaching and I might be more in the mood for that. I was noticing today how it's always feels sorta refreshing just after all the leaves fall.. the sky is opened up, you can see deep into the woods, everything's gray yet bright. Of course, after a few months of that, you definitely start looking forward to some leaves again.
Speaking of leaves, I still need to get mine removed. I hire someone to do that. I'd do it myself, but I have like 11 oak trees in my hard alone... that's a lot of leaves, and a lot of bags. When I was young we'd just rake em up into a heap on a tarp, drag the tarp across the street into the woods and dump them. But now the ruined stone wall we used to dump them off of has an ugly modern house built on top of it, and there's not really an suitable dumping site in the remaining woods.
My gaming computer died a month or so ago. That's not good, ya gotta have one of those. I wanted to replace it with a decent one, but the fancier pre built ones you can get are extremely expensive, upwards of a couple thousand. So I did my research and started ordering stuff, and set about to building my own for much cheaper. It was very nerve-wracking, handling that expensive hardware, hoping not to damage it. It took all evening but I finally got it together... and, amazingly, it worked! It's still working. It's not all that hard once you figure out what goes where, but I still feel proud about it. And better yet, the computer case I got is bright pink! You can't go wrong with a pink computer.
Current Mood:  okay
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07:00 am
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Eh, what?
"And you added giant electromagnets... why?"
"Dude, everything is cooler with giant electromagnets."
- a quote from last night's dream
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09:42 am
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Latex. Paint, that is!
Well it's been a busy couple of weeks, it has. A while back I finally called a contractor to come see about replacing my retaining walls in the front yard. They're currently old brick and are tilting and cracking with the weight of ages. I want to see them replaced with some nice looking field stone. Mmm, rocky. But the price he gave me was way too high. He did, however, give me a reasonable offer on a house painting.
My house was last painted when I was around.. eleven? Twelve? Something like that. Many eons ago, anyway. They painted it themselves, actually, to save money. My mom was always about saving money even when we had plenty of money saved up. She would almost never let us run the AC in the summer. It was only with much persuasion and begging that I was able to get a window AC in my room when I was 16. Anyhow, it's been a long time since the house was last painted and it's been flaking and chipping a lot in the past few years. And some of the masonite siding and wood trim was warped or rotten with age. Not to mention the gosh darn woodpecker holes. So I decided I needed paint far more urgently than a new wall.
Well, it's done now. Except for some odds and ends like the doors and steps. I wanted to go for tannish gray walls and black trim. Little bit goth, ya know. But the gray turned out much lighter than expected, like a very very light beigey gray. I had an anxiety attack or two worrying about how that would look. It turned out okay, though the contrast of the light color and the lack is starker than I had planned. Ah well. The house certainly looks tidier! They replaced a lot of the damaged boards and caulked my cracks... yes. So that should last a long time.
Distressingly, they discovered some termites when removing a damaged board. They hadn't gotten into the framework or anything, just the wet, crumbly stuff, but still. I've never had termite problems before. So I had to get the termite people out here to take a look. They're going to dig a trench around my house and fill it with poison, it would appear. They wanted me to get rid of a ton of cardboard boxes my dad had left in a corner of the basement for some reason.. rainy day boxes, I guess. It's been pouring rain since then, though, so I haven't been able to get to work on that til today.
My basement is really more of a dirt floored, deep crawl space accessable only from the outside.. it's about 6 feet at the deepest end and about a foot at the shallowest. Sadly it's not very suitable for a dungeon. Well, it's dirty and dank and such, so that's not so bad, but it's also full of bugs, spiders, and the occasional Arkansas scorpion (they're small and pale, but pack quite a punch). It's not really a place I would want to leave someone tied up in. Not responsibly, anyway. Alas.
It's been pouring rain for a couple days and the deepest part, which I had to cross, was flooded with several inches of water. I had to take a few spare cinder blocks from behind the house and put them down as stepping stones. Then I moved a ton of dirty old boxes of all sizes out of the cramped corner. They're piled up outside now, taking up half the patio. I'm not sure what I'll do with them, as I'm not sure the garbage men take heaps of loose boxes. Well, at least it's done now. One of these days I need to totally clean out all the ancient detritus from my basement, but I guess I could wait til I have a slave. Slave labor, you know.
Current Mood:  hot
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