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We are seeing disturbing images of an American east coast that seem quite incredible. As selfish as this sounds my family are safe and I breathe I sigh of relief. They managed to get out in time but have no idea of where they will go back to or even if there homes are still standing, and yes, they are some of the lucky ones.
Whilst I was celebrating my birthday at least 50 people lost their lives.
It’s a little after 1 AM here and the last of my friends have left and the washing up has sort of been done. They surprised me with a birthday cake, at my age, but, it was chocolate and diplomatically only had one candle.
I want to just add a big thank you for all my online messages and wishes, you have all been truly tremendous.
I came home from a super lunch. I can now say I have found my ideal Italian restaurant. The food was fantastic, the service was brilliant and it was clean, warm and very friendly. Yes, I will be going back again and again. Of course with me it’s always about the company making the event that much more special, and I was in the best of company.
Yay for birthday lunches ! :) It sounds like you had quite a wonderful lunch!
Burning Bridges
16:41 Oct 29 2012 Times Read: 666
With my birthday looming I have begun thinking about how fast the years have gone. More to the point the way in which my life has gone so far.
The thought that keeps popping up is the amount of bridges I’ve burnt in my time. Friends have, over the years warned me not to be hasty but I didn’t listen and they too got left behind. I am left with lonely feelings and memories. I do have a hard core of very good friends but the numbers have dwindled over time.
There will be a dozen of us going out tomorrow for my birthday. I feel good that they want to share my day with me but I still can’t help thinking about closing the door on so many. I don’t want more bridges to fall after me, all those lonely feelings and burning memories. I’m getting older, I hope I’m still learning.
I hope you are having a wonderful day.. It sounds like you will be!
Frankenstorm
20:38 Oct 26 2012 Times Read: 687
I’ve just seen the weather report for the east coast of America during this coming week, it doesn’t look good. Hurricane Sandy is en-route, is all I can say is good luck.
Yes, these storms are horrible- but this one in particular has the opportunity to be worse than 'just' a hurricane... With the possibility of mixing in with another storm. I am concerned for the east coast... And I hate that I have people very close to my heart there. Although, I of course would be concerned for people I don't know.
It was horrendous ... Gosh, I havent ever seen New York like that before!
Choices
23:56 Oct 24 2012 Times Read: 709
Finally. I managed to watch the last of the Harry Potter films today. I have to know is this what they mean when they say it’s a ‘dark film’, I don’t think there was a single scene where I didn’t struggle to make out what was going on. I thought ‘dark’ referred to the film being a little more occult than normal. Sure it was good for the special effect and the magic etc, but still.
Unlike Star Wars where it was obvious that it was good versus evil, dark succumbing to light. This was more about good needing evil as a balance and having choices to upset that balance.
I didn't like the last four movies. :P Saw them once and don't want to see them again. The books, however... those are pure genius. ;)
Things
11:14 Oct 24 2012 Times Read: 723
My kismet was brought to you from the talented vault of Oscar Wilde, just didn't have enough room to add his name to it.
Just recently I have had so many people message me with a 'request' stating that they have rated me and/or added me and would I return the favour. What is that all about? When I use to level it was about getting your head down and rating. I have an option to click the 'See Who's Rated Me' page and will use it as and when I want.
I know I will probably never talk to these members again, in fact unless you are in my coven very few will be messaged by me.
Thus why I am always lurking, I rarely show myself.
Making my own history
12:08 Oct 21 2012 Times Read: 741
As of yesterday my car has been sold. It’s the first time I have been without a car since I was 17 (over 30 years). Living in London doesn’t really warrant a car but my how it was convenient (to some that could be interpreted as lazy). It’s now about getting use to what was an extension of my legs really but I’m sure I will manage.
Unfortunately I rely on a car. Not too much for public transportation here. Some of my friends in Chicago have gotten rid of theirs, while others have kept them since their families live in the next state.
I have at last cleared my blocked list, it was only half a dozen names and it’s not that they did anything that was worth a hanging except be very rude.
The other thing is they have me blocked too but don’t seem to be active on VR anymore. If they do become active again and it does kick off I will just block again.
I think it’s great that so many of the younger members are journaling on VR. They relate to this place and so feel at ease to write about any and everything. Sometimes their grammar makes me cringe but that’s not the point, they are getting their feelings down and not doing something stupid in the real world. If they tend to sensationalise it’s no big deal as they are kids after all, just take it down a notch or two when reading it.
They certainly don’t need comments about their grammar or how silly they are behaving.
What they do need is your understanding. We have all been there or have kids of our own so ease up.
Some of them want grammar comments. Minor mispellings aren't so bad. It helps.
I noticed that as the years went by, my spelling improved a great deal, and my entries. I bet some of them will look back and say they were silly back then. :P
Lol I talk and write ghetto...and I'm a grandmum:) that's the urban in me comn out. It's not how I converse in my professional field. This is the only place I can have fun without being judged for it:P
It’s washing day today, do I have to say more, I have at least three washes to run and then there’s the drying. I’m playing catch up still from the recent Jewish holidays. To spend a day among those warm dryers with my mp3 plugged into my ear will be bliss. This is called making the best of a naff situation!! Some may call it sad, but hey, it won’t do itself!
It's wash day in New Orleans traditionally each Monday- and that means it's Red Beans and Rice day as well. A one pot meal that doesn't need much tending so the focus can be on the chores.
With Halloween around the corner I bet you witches are aching to get at it. Maybe make a spell for the one that had wronged you. How about a Voodoo doll? It’s a great way to get even but sometimes, just sometimes things can go wrong as seen here...
VR and I hit it off years ago. Over the years I have made some genuinely nice friends and one in particular has at last added me after five years, but I do forgive her as our agendas may have been on a different path to begin with.
Other news, I love reading the comments in my journal, I love the way a community with sometimes vastly different backgrounds share their different thoughts on my postings. Of late I also like reading the comments that the community graciously leave me with the honour. Some of those comments leave me very much humbled whilst others make me LOL.
I love reading and commenting in journals - mainly of my friends, but also the journals of people I don't know. As a matter of fact, visiting journals makes for new friends!
If you're a lumberjack and you're OK, recognize a dead parrot when you see one, and know your way to the Ministry of Silly Walks, you're going to want to read this. And then email and Tweet and Facebook it to all your friends who also know every word to "The Ballad of Brave Sir Robin," and think of themselves as card-carrying members of the Knights Who Say 'Ni!"
The surviving members of Monty Python are reuniting for a new movie this spring, Variety reports.
By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News
Don't expect "Holy Grail Part II," however.
"It's not a Monty Python picture, but it certainly has that sensibility," Python Terry Jones, who helped develop the script and also will direct, told the magazine.
The Pythons will play mischievious aliens who grant an earthling the power to do anything he wants just to see what kind of mess ensues. Robin Williams provides the voice of a talking dog. (No, really.) According to Variety's report, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese and Michael Palin have signed on, and producers hope to sign Eric Idle. Graham Chapman died of cancer in 1989.
Producer Mike Medavoy of "Black Swan" calls the film a "classic farce" and compares it to the "Pink Panther" movies. But he also adds that "like all projects originated by any of the Monty Python guys, 'Absolutely Anything' delightfully defies (description)."
After all, nooooo one expects a Monty Python reunion.
I love Monty Python. :) Glad to hear the good news!
Just saying.. again!
12:55 Oct 06 2012 Times Read: 940
It’s amazing how looks and aesthetics mean so much to the young and indeed to some of the older generation too. I admit a pretty girl will turn my head (although not as quickly as years ago).
What the young see as ugly some of us see experience and wisdom which takes on a beauty that can’t be fully described.
Deeds are the most beautiful to some and I can be so easily attracted to that. Making a contact in the mind with someone is bliss, and is not reliant on a flawless face or ideal body.
Physical beauty is prone to wrinkles and deterioration over the years and if that’s all you have I suggest you develop the other areas that can’t be seen with the eyes.
So I guess I need to show up with a trench coat with nothing underneath and offer to make your dinner and a massage with a movie and the thought of you having your way with me...would that suffice? *evil evil grinz*
Well said. The sad thing about it, that the only way certain people are popular is because of looks.
Friday cream night
20:12 Oct 05 2012 Times Read: 957
The plan was to stay in tonight and chill. That’s right I chill. But anyway, I just had a call to pop in on a friend for coffee and fresh cream cakes. Now that’s what I call chilling! The weekend starts here.
This was a young mother telling me how it is. My response is not to be taken as a rant…..
What the hell…. You say you feel accomplished because you are a mother, fulfilled, you have succeeded in life! What crap is that? Accomplished?!
Do you know what you’re saying? Oh, and as seen in the news, kids as young as 12 and 13 are conceiving and having babies, are they accomplished too?
Surely an accomplishment would be being a good parent, to have succeeded at something and as for parenting this is a lifelong contract.
Then they say a guy is not a man until he has a daughter. Let me tell you I’m very much a man not because I have a daughter but because of what I see in my daughter. Oh and FYI, that’s what makes me accomplished.
Omg you brought up one of the subject my friends and I talk about the most. I got called abnormal because at the present I dont want kids. My life and body are mine and it s up to me to decide. I am not going to have children for the sake of society.
Halloween 2012
20:09 Oct 04 2012 Times Read: 991
With Halloween nearly here I just had to share this. It seems even if you’re preggers there is no escape for you!!
...and on the subjet of scarey pics I found the haircut pics from the summer! I think I can get away with it since it is Halloween month but I'm not sure I should put you through this!
Most people make a joke on the subject of divorce when asked things like how long they were married etc. They are embarrassed that the marriage didn’t last that long or worse they get embarrassed that the marriage broke down after so long a union.
Very few come out and say I did the right thing by getting out for whatever reason. They don’t see it as a mistake but more of a learning curve. I see strength and view them as brave as they are sometimes making a leap alone and into something that is not certain.
It's worse if you stayed married to a parner just for the sake of appearances . I kind of agree though staying together for the sake of the children until they lat least come to the age of understanding.
Heh, even my family Doctor told me that 80% of my stress was due to my marriage. I left him after 10 yrs of marriage and now I can be me again. I was so unhappy. A side note: I don't feel that you should stay married just for the kids. They aren't stupid, they know when there are problems and how can you concentrate on your children when your marriage is a wreck.
love marriage and divorce is a tricky thing..it messes with your head and emotions..I agree completely with you though and wish that everyone who went through these issues had you to talk them through it :)
Gotta laugh
00:59 Oct 02 2012 Times Read: 1,042
When I’m reading journals and I know the members are American I sometimes imagine an accent of that person especially if I haven’t spoken to them before. I read in ‘accent’, that does make me laugh when I think about it.
Cancer nailed it and I think it was Oscar Wilde that said, "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about".
This battle just continues on and on. As a journey reader it’s very painful on the eyes. It’s a shame that I can see how this will end and the sooner the better. It’s obvious that the message will not strike home.
Images is nailing it and I’m just thinking about it. I wish I felt better just talking about cleaning but I get over whelmed just thinking about it. This is about ‘the big clean’, the seasonal clean. My everyday clean is fine but the big one….
I need to make a list, not that I'd act on it that quickly but at least I'd be doing something positive. Right? Of course right!
I've been up since 130AM. As soon as my laundry is done- I am going back to bed for a while. I'm doing one of those 'big cleans'. When I get up I have plans for other things to tackle.
..and into October. So far I’ve read some great journal entries that seem and sound positive.
Its' certainly looking festive out here with Xmas décor already in the shops, I don’t mind this but at least get Halloween out the way first.
The Ryder cup is back where it belongs, sorry America but the Europeans were just outstanding. That come back on the last day was just wonderful and the accolade that was spoken about the late Seve Ballesteros was heartfelt.
Miserable weather here but I won’t let that get me down as I need to get on and smile.
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