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of conquests and new years22:56 Dec 30 2008
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i have successfully slain the beast that was the bathroom! the bathroom that has been shut up for nearly two years and to-be-entered-at-your-own-risk.
it is sparkling and beautiful once more, and while it desperately needs a good painting, i am satisfied. hot, sweaty, and scalded, but satisfied. i'm going to be planning out exactly what i want done with it the next year. such as a jacuzzi tub, painting, new fixtures , new lighting and so on. sure i won't get them all, but i'll get some things. :)
i found cherry wine yesterday, and so i will have my cherry wine and champagne tomorrow (tonight :P) well it's not really champagne, it's a sparkling wine, but that's good enough for me. i really didn't see a reason to spend fifty dollars on the bottle i really wanted. there are better things to spend the money on other than something that i'll drink.
so i'm all ready for my twilight zone marathon starting tomorrow . i never get enough of that!
i'll bring in the new year happily sitting in my underwear, smiling and satisfied with my twilight zone and cherry and sparkling wine concoction.
i wish you ALL everything you desire/ need next year, even if it's not quite what you think it should be!
of psycho, bates and actors16:40 Dec 29 2008
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i watched the 1998 remake of "Psycho" the other day. i'd not seen it before because why watch a remake when the original is so kick ass?
anyway, i watched it and it was actually pretty well done and enjoyable.. if a little... empty... in some areas.
Vince Vaughn is just no Anthony Perkins.
but then, who is these days?
he was alright in the role, but he lacked that queer aspect Perkins brought to the role (and that is not a homosexual joke)
i missed the strangeness, the creepiness... yes the psychoness. the new one felt a tad shallow in that aspect, a little pale.
renewed my admiration in the brilliant actor Perkins was....
can i ever forget him in "The Trial"?
not bloody likely.
of elderberry wine and photography23:21 Dec 26 2008
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i actually had some time to browse some database and make a few additions :D
it's those little things that thrill me.
speaking of little things i've been on a wine trying kick.. i used to like beer, but i've been off alcohol for years. recently i noticed that red wine is part of a diabetic diet i want to try, so it got me interested in wines... and not just grape wines... i bought some blackberry wine in las vegas and was pleasantly surprised, it's a tad high in sugars so it can't be something i drink all the time though. i've also tried elderberry wine this last week and i also found it quite agreeable, it's not very dry but has a bit of a kick at the end. i'm really looking for some cherry wine... someone once mentioned that champagne and cherry wine together was quite delicious, so i've been interested in trying it...
i wonder if i can find some cherry wine in this little town....
makes me miss California and it's aisles upon aisles of wine in every store you went in.... of course i wasn't interested in wines when i lived there.
i'm excited about a new gem i've uncovered :D
been looking at a new photography discussion website and liking it very much. hopefully this weekend i can buy out some time from renovations to browse it further and check out the amazing, inspiring photographs i KNOW are just waiting to be discovered there. i'm very excited through out all my tired busy-ness :) i always love looking at other people's work and sharing my own vision.
photography has always been there with me... as long as i can remember.. from that plastic 'toy' that took such grainy awful snaps to the kodak point and shoot my friend and i took outings with to the 35mm slr i adored since i first laid eyes on it to the digital slrs i give silly little names to and caress like lovers... it's the one constant in my life. my painting fell to the wayside, my drawing failing to fulfill me any longer, the music not calling me any more, the words no longer spilling from my mind. i still love all those forms of expression, and they are still very much a part of me, but photography is ALL me... it's an honest expression of my life, my dreams, my hopes, my visions, my love, my passion and my sorrow. it shines so silvery true to me, my images are me. for so long i didn't realize what photography was to me and that i had a sort of raw vision. it wasn't until people started telling me things, seeing things in my images that opened my eyes to what this form of expression actually was to me. every time i find a website of people who share the passion and who's gorgeous images speak to me on so many levels... i am reminded of just how beautiful this art form is and how honored i am that i can be a small part of it.
thanks Morrigon for the opportunity!
of roommates and neglect18:16 Dec 16 2008
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been neglecting most of the things here i care about, the database first and foremost, haven't had a chance to even look at things people have added, let alone add any myself, i miss it! i barely got a holiday article up for my house and wasn't able to do everything i wanted to for it, that also makes me sad. then there are the few friends i have here that i talk to regular like. i miss you guys, the conversations and laughs you give me :)
i'm hoping that things cool down a lottle (fyi that's a lot and a little combined) soon. the photography jobs are coming out of the walls, people want christmas card photos and photos for gifts so i'm left pretty busy, which i enjoy. plus i may be inheriting a new housemate and so there is much cleaning and preparing going on in various rooms.
being busy is good, but i like the relaxed attitude i have towards everyday life so much more ;]
of missing you16:41 Dec 14 2008
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as each year goes by without your influence in the world. i wonder where you'd be had you stayed. what would your projects be? whose dreams would you be fulfilling? if this year you'd be soaring higher than the last. it's been too long since i've seen you, laughed with you and smiled at the idea of you. your life passed us all by and i feel i missed out on so much.
strange how you cross my mind now and then... how we grew up together, even though we wandered such parallel paths that eventually took us to such different places.
i hear your voice still echoing...like an old saturday morning cartoon... it always makes me smile. i don't acknowledge the day you left... i don't want to remember how that felt... the knowing i'd never see you again. the certainty that pain was all that was left for you... i wondered at how you could feel so worthless.
you never were... never could be.
but i'll never know what went through your mind, you couldn't tell me then and you never will. i accept this life without you, i will always have the memories.
of weddings, anticipation and phobias12:01 Dec 14 2008
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i wish it wasn't always so paralyzing... the horror, the fright, the thoughts of there is no way i can go through with it.
even when it's months away... my stomach gets tight and i worry. when it's people i know well, maybe it's the concept that i am getting paid, these people are relying on me...
i wish i could be free and fearless with my craft, but alas i am not made to photograph people.
i should stick to the things i am comfortable with...
animals, nature and things
of my mind and classes16:59 Dec 11 2008
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in my head i can be as out going and as brave as i want and it deludes me into believing 'hey i can do that!"
some would claim that if my mind says i can then i can. that is all too often not the case.
i've been thinking of learning something more... taking some classes on some things i've always wanted to.. everything from art to zoology.
but then i remember who i am and laugh at myself for even considering i can go to a school, enroll and go to classes week after week without stressing myself out.
sure, some things are available online... and some classes i want may be acceptable in that way.. but i'm such a hands on learner.
of those people17:50 Dec 05 2008
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you know the ones... the ones that just bypass every defense you have and see exactly who you are without even trying. the ones with the eyes that see right through you. funny how they stick with you, they never really leave those sneaky so and so's. every time you turn around they are there, that knowing smile infuriates and warms me at the same time. frustration is the name i call him by and he calls me elation. stupidly, never will i understand nor will he ever be anything more than he already is...
always there, watching and waiting, even when there is reason to leave he stays, smiling and knowing..... and driving me crazy.
08:35 Dec 05 2008
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that little batty N is driving me nuts!
*shakes a fist at Nista*
;]
of what the hell?18:38 Dec 03 2008
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busy!
i apologize for the distance!
i'll be back soon
of vegas, dams and interstate02:20 Dec 02 2008
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las vegas wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, i only had an anxiety attack once, which is quite good..
but i didn't go out much either ;]
the wedding was in a place called valley of fires and it was beautiful there... full of red earth and rocks. if had rained all day so the sunset wasn't as glorious as it could have been, but still it was lovely.
on the way home i was even able to take photos of my transformers on the hoover dam, which i consider quite a huge thing.
i got some stares and some "can i take a photo of that too?"s, but i didn't get weirded out.
i wasn't able to do all the things i wanted on the drive home because my hoover dam stuff put me back a day. it was too dark to do it friday so a stay over in boulder city was required and that put me back a day... so no time to divert off 40 (which is a boring highway to be sure) but it was a good trip all in all.
still not crazy about vegas though :P
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dabbler
00:10 Dec 31 2008
A new loo For the New Year.. Sounds like a Plan, I'm There (in spirit) In Boxers.
MysticalChild
16:13 Dec 31 2008
oh yeah... new places to take care of 'business' is exactly what i need ;)
i have your 'watching the twilight zone in your underpants' place on the couch saved for you! ;]
Shocker124
18:57 Apr 04 2009
if you like berry wines, there is a type i have found in germany that i get homemade from this little vendor who comes to the base.
It's called Elderberry.
don't know how easy it is to find in the states,a nd i am sure i am gonna have a hard time finding it (seems to go that way with most german things i have come to enjoy lol)
MysticalChild
23:40 Apr 04 2009
i actually found an elderberry wine that was made in Arkansas
was not bad at all!