Loot the bodies

"Dead people don't shop!"

Incredulax the Magnificator

I think I could get into this

I've been watching Jeff play a lot of World of Warcraft this week. I must say, I'm anticipating the laptop getting fixed rather eagerly. The game looks like a lot of fun, and I read an article in Computer Gaming magazine about the expansion for the game that is coming out. I think the Blood elves would be a very interesting race to play, but they will be Horde, and it seems like most of the people I know who play, Wendy, Grant, Jeff, Vita, all play Alliance characters. So I think I'd like to play a Night Elf. Probably a Night Elf Druid, but I'd probably start off with an easier, non-spellcasting class to learn the game.

Watching my soaps, getting a backrub, and going to Warren to have dinner with my parents and Jeff's parents on tap for this evening.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Body Massage

I am enjoying this brief time with the Internet thanks to Jamie coming over to give Jeff his massage. Then we might belly dance, or we might just go to campus for Buffy. Things ended on sort of a cliffhanger for my character last week. I lied to the other characters to get them to help me rescue a man from this pocket dimension type place that my Evil Dad, Adonais, asked me to rescue. We were also there to get Adam's character, who is currently a brain in some blue goo. It'll be interesting to see where we go from here, and what crazy things Saoirse, my Witch, can get up to next.

Work today was the suck. We were really busy and I had a headache, but Tylenol got me thru. Then I came home and Jeff and I had a nice time making dinner and watching Food Network. (30 Minute Meals with Rachel Ray) My only probably with watching the Food Network while you eat is whatever they are making, no matter how good what you are eating is, looks better than what you are eating.

I'm going to cut this here tonight. I want to look at Something Positive and PvP as well.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

It's been a busy week

Since it's been almost two weeks between posts, I thought I should grab the Internet for a minute while Jeff is taking his pre-WoW shower.

We went to Lebanon last weekend for the Rennaissance Faire. It was a lot of fun. Jeff bought new swords and I got some new bellydance items, a belled anklet and a red hip scarf with little silver coins. I think I might try to put together a belly dancing costume for Halloween. We took some pictures, when I get them developed I will try to scan them and post them here.

I am eagerly anticipating getting my test results from the Post Office sometime in the next week or so. Those jobs are really well paid, even if I could only get part-time to start with, I'd be making the same as I make now. Work less hours for the same amount of money, hey, it's the American dream! In the long term, if I could do that, It might even be possible for me to go back to school sometime, although I'm not sure what I'd want to go for.

I'm still playing a lot of Sims. I'm getting a little bored with it, I'm wondering how much the Makin' Magic expansion costs (I know Superstar was only $9.95, but I'm not sure I can find Makin' Magic outside of a set) and I also wonder if my computer would just curl up and die if I tried to install anymore Sims on it. I suppose I could always Uninstall some of the games I hardly play anymore, like RollerCoaster Tycoon, or Diablo 2. But then again, when we eventually get a network setup, I'd like to have Diablo 2 on my computer still.

Well, that's all for now, I still want to check my email before Jeff gets out of the shower.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Rainy Weekend

I spent most of yesterday playing The Sims. I also went out to Wal-Mart, got some groceries and got the oil changed in the Neon. The TLE guys at Wal-Mart confirmed what Brandon Cercone told me over two months ago, the Neon needs new tires. I'm going to try get that done before we drive to Lebanon next weekend. I also did the Basic Moves Belly Dance tape on my own, and then Savannah and Jamie came over and we did Slim Down. I picked up Jeff from work and we grilled chicken and had salad.

Jamie and Savannah invited me to their Fondue party today, so I am looking forward to that. I am also still trying to decide if I can go to the event in Warren tomorrow, Michelle hasn't emailed me back, and I feel weird about going to meet new people by myself. Would anyone else be interested in going to a Libation to Poseidon in Betts Park tomorrow at 1 PM?

I'm at work, so I'll end this here.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Postal Exam and Demons going Postal on me!

Today Jeff and I drove to Brookville so I could take the post office entrance exam. All in all it was pretty easy, we got there in plenty of time. We had a good lunch on the way down at the Long John Silvers/A&W in DuBois and a good dinner on the way home at Bavarian Hills (the golf course) in St Marys with Jeff's parents.

We came straight to campus when we got back so we could play Buffy. Paul handed out note cards with a few key changes to certain people's characters, and away we went. I tried to make Savannah's character, the half-demon Failin, prettier with a spell but I forced her into her demon form instead. Then I used the spell on myself later, to great effect, and she thought I had just failed on her and done great on myself to embarrass and upset her. I tried apologize, and she called me some names, a drink was thrown, and I was nearly eviscerated. In the aftermath of this, the Slayer, played by Jamie, and Savannah's character are on a plane to CHINA, where the Slayer is orignally from. Tom (played by Adam) and Llyse (played by Harriet) took me to the ER where I got stitched up. I think the Watchers are going to start watching Twilight, WV a little more closely after this. I think they might be most concerned right now because the Slayer, Palti Chan, has gone AWOL with a half-demon in tow. Great role-playing and reacting to everything by all, especially Savannah and Harriet, our newest dice-rollers. This episode I also tried to help Llyse with her telekinesis abilities a bit, advising her to practice on pillows and things that couldn't break or hurt anything until she became more comfortable.

Now I am going to bed, as I have to work tomorrow.

Michelle, if you see this, please email me about Sunday! Did you get my email?

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Comics and Movies

So I have been having fun with the Internet this morning, and I've been thinking a lot about comic books and the movies based on them lately. Now this might partially be because of Jay and Jeff's conversations this weekend. Or because I read something called Marvel 1602 that Paul loaned to us.

This morning I followed a link from Jamie's IM profile to Superman is a Dick, a site which Paul has shown us a couple times during games. It's pretty funny. It has a section called Suffering Sappho! which shows Wonder Woman caught in all kinds of strange and suggestive situations. From there, I began thinking about the new Wonder Woman movie that's due out in 2007 that Paul was talking about, because his Lord and Master, Joss Whedon, is directing and writing it. The IMDb page for the movie mentions several actresses rumored to be in the running for the lead role in this movie, including Charisma Carpenter, Kim Basinger, Lucy Lawless, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sandra Bullock, Nadia Bjorlin, Mischa Barton, etc.

I don't think I'd like to see any of these women play Wonder Woman in the movie, depsite my love of Charisma Carpenter, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Sandra Bullock. Charisma Carpenter hasn't been in enough non-Joss Whedon projects to carry a major movie. Sarah is tiny, and Wonder Woman is an Amazon. Sandra Bullock is one of my favorite actresses, but I don't think of her as an action heroine. And I don't think she has the body for the costume. I kind of like Salma Hayek for the role, but I hear her accent in my head, and that's not what Wonder Woman sounds like to me.



Image provided by Amazing Amazon.com

One of my fondest childhood memories is watching Wonder Woman with Lynda Carter on TV, when I still lived in the trailer with my parents. Heck, I think Lynda Carter needs to have a cameo in the new movie. If she wasn't over 50, I'd say she should play Wonder Woman again. But as I said, the TV show made a big impression on me when I was little. I was even Wonder Woman for Halloween when I was about 4 or 5. So I feel somewhat qualified to make a few suggestions for the new Amazing Amazon. Here are a list of women that I think might be good choices for the new Wonder Woman/Diana Prince.

Jennifer Connelly - To me, she looks like a young Lynda Carter. She's incredibly beautiful, and I loved her in The Rocketeer, Dark City, and of course, Labyrinth.

Kate Beckinsale - (this suggestion came from Jeff) - She has the action movie experience, with Van Helsing and Underworld under her belt. I can picture her in the costume, and she can also be funny, like in Serendipity

I like links.

Carrie-Anne Moss - Trinity from The Matrix. Again, here's an actress with action movie experience, and matches the blue-eyed, dark-haired mold of Lynda Carter. She's not a tiny woman, almost 5'9", which is also nearly Lynda Carter's height, and, like Kate Beckinsale, she looks great in boots with a big heel.

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos - The only non-brunette on my list, but as a model and from being in X-Men and X2, she's used to having to change her appearance a bit for a role. She's statuesque, I can picture her as a Amazon princess. I liked her supporting role in The Punisher.

If you can come up with anything better, make a comment!

That's all for now, Merry Part and Blessed Be.

Blog Spam?

Apparently, I'm getting blog-spammed. I'm not sure what that's about, but I'm going to mess around with Blogger to see if I can block it somehow. And it's not like I think just a bunch of random people "found" my blog either, They're using a generic form-like comments post with links in it.

Lacy and Jay came to visit us in Bradford this weekend, and we had fun. Alumni weekend was kind of a bummer though, we hardly saw anyone we knew. But I guess that's what Kim's wedding in November will be for. We're going to Lebanon in two weeks to go to the Renaissance Faire, and so Jeff can buy more swords.


Jeff is getting a new PC, and we are pretty sure we are getting the laptop fixed, so we'll both have "new" toys soon. Jeff is getting a Dell. Some tea found its way into the laptop (Soth) and fried the motherboard. Until then, we have the cable modem hooked up to Takhisis, my computer. So, Grey if you read this, we found a different way of solving the not enough RAM in the laptop problem! :-)

That's all for today. Jeff's home from work again, he's on call though, so I'm not going in. Keeping my voice has been a losing battle at work for the past week or so, and my throat is all flemmy this morning.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

It has been a long time

I am posting mainly to avoid being accused of not posting for a whole month. It's been an exciting month, our friends at Pitt-Bradford are all back. Jamie and Savannah have been coming over to Belly Dance with me twice a week. I'm role-playing 3 times a week, Mage Dark Ages on Monday, Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Wednesdays and Fridays Jeff is running a 2nd Edition D&D game.

Work is going pretty well, but I'm still I'm going to take the Post Office exam in Brookville next week. I'm pretty excited about that, Getting in the post office would mean a lot more money for me. They make enough I could even work part-time and maybe go back to school at some point. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

In Wiccan news, I went to the Second Harvest (or Mabon, or Fall Equinox) with Michelle, Jamie and Savannah last Wednesday. We had a lot of fun, I have missed going out there for the rituals. I really I hope at some point I can get down to Warren. There is a Hellenic Reconstructionist group that has rituals all the time down there. I've been on their email list for at least a year, and I've never made it to one yet.

I'm getting back into Evolutionary Witchcraft by T. Thorn Coyle again. I am working on making a wand. Wands have always seems kind of... I don't know, too fanciful for me. But I am giving it my best. Maybe through the exercises I will understand why people spend a lot of money on that particular ritual tool.

Anyway, Jeff and I are going to dinner with his family this evening in Smethport.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

I hate losing

I am currently getting whooped on Catan Online. It makes me sad. I will have to play again and try to not suck. I'm watching Angel on TNT. Season 5 was messed up. Angel's all crazy and dreaming that Spike saved the world and no one needs him anymore.

After Angel, or after I win a game of Catan Online, I am going to do my Bellydance tape. I wonder when my new tape will come. :-) I think I'm getting pretty good at the Basic Moves tape, so I ordered Slim Down.

Michelle is coming over on Friday :-) and sometime Jamie is going to come over to Belly Dance with me.

Merry part and Blessed Be, once more into the breach of dear old Catan.

Bellydancing!

For Fitness!

I finally bought the video from Pyramid Collection that I've had my eye on for a long time. It is a good workout, and a lot of fun. I like the Middle Eastern music, and the instructors aren't the incredibly fake and perky types. "C'mon, you can do it! 4 more... 3 more..." I plan to do that again this morning after finishing this game of Catan Online.

I was going to write more, but that's really all I feel like writing just now. Perhaps I will add more later.

MP and BB!

Quickly, before the Internet realizes it's working

Just thought I'd throw up a quick update. We got cable internet, but we've been having signal problems. There's a guy scheduled to come out Wednesday morning to look at it, but I noticed 4 lights on the modem and ran back to check my email and all.

I am getting very anxious for all our friends to get back into town. I am especially missing our boy, Adam. I am also eagerly anticipating role-playing again.

Not too much else to mention here. Work is going well, and we are getting very comfortable in the new apartment. We finished painting the bathroom this weekend. It's very cool, Jeff's mom helped me make stencils using contact paper so we have crescent moons and zodiac signs as a border.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Thank you, all.

I appreciate the emails that I received about Grandma McLaughlin passing away. It was nice to see all the family together. I hadn't realized Grandma McLaughlin had over 70 great-grandchildren and over 30 great-great grandchildren.

I have finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for the second time. I think I will wait to publish my thoughts until everyone has definitely had a chance to finish it, so there aren't spoilers.

In the meantime, Blogger now allows us to post pictures, so I thought I'd share at least one.




It is from our wedding reception in November, when I have more recent pictures, like maybe from Molly and Shawn's wedding, if we ever remember to pick them up from Wal-Mart! Doh!

Anyway, I think I'll end this here. I'm trying to win a copy of Intelligent Qube for Mom on Ebay. She said she really really wanted it and would pay me pack if I found her a copy.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Lucille McLaughlin 1909 - 2005

My great-grandmother, Lucille McLaughlin of Tidioute, had a massive stroke early Monday morning. She was taken to the hospital and passed away yesterday morning. She was 96 years old, and was the matriarch of our family. She raised 5 children by herself in a time long before there was WIC, or welfare or any of the programs we have now for helping single mothers. She had all of her wits about her, if not her hearing, right up until she went to bed Sunday night.

I'm having a hard time being sad, because I know she had such a full, long life, and moved onto the next life, peacefully, while she slept. I actually dreamt about her Sunday night. My Grandma Eb came to pick her up from this fair the whole family was at, and I wanted to go home with them, but Gram told me I couldn't go yet, I had to stay. So I know Grandma McLaughlin is happy, she is with Grandma Eb, and all of her other friends and relatives that have already sailed across the sea to the Summerlands. It's just amazing to see the number of lives she affected, there are cousins and many of her other great, and great-great grandchildren coming from all over the country to be at the funeral on Monday. I'll be going down home Sunday after work for the viewing and will be back Monday after the funeral.


So I am glad to have things to look forward to, like the move next weekend, the party in August, and...

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Now it had better get here on time!! I was having Harry Potter Dreams last night. I was Hermione and I was yelling at Ron and Harry to hurry up. It doesn't take an analyst to figure out THAT one! I suppose it doesn't help either that I was looking through stills for Goblet of Fire last night either.

Playing Settlers of Catan this morning. I've been on a losing streak lately that I'm trying to break.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Harry Potter Paranoia - And Happy Birthday Jess!

I've gotten this odd worry today that somehow my copy of HPB will not arrive on Saturday as Amazon has promised. Maybe this is from the dozens of people I talk to every day asking where their cigarettes are, but still I have this fear that I won't get mine Saturday and everyone else will and then I'll be lost and Paul will know who the Half Blood Prince is before me.

Also today is Jessica Clark nie Mealy's birthday. She is now 25. That's 175 in basset hound years. ;-)

I think that's all for now. I'm feeling accomplished enough for having posted two days in a row anyway.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

The Search has Ended!

We signed the lease Friday for a new apartment here in Bradford. It's at 31 Edwards St, and we're so close to the hospital Jeff can walk to work. We'll be moving in July 23-24.
I am so excited!

Only 6 more days til Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince arrives on my doorstep. I just was thinking this morning I feel kind of bad for the mailman on that day. A lot of people must of pre-ordered. That would be nearly as heavy as carrying the big department store Christmas catalogs. Speaking of catalogs, I got a cool one the other day called Mystic Trader. Here's what I want out of it - Rock Salt Lamps

I've also been playing a LOT of Catan Online, and I must say I'm getting pretty good. I won 3 of the 5 games I played against live players yesterday, and also won a game against computer players.

I think that's all for now. - Oh wait, I wanted to mention that Jess and Frosh's dog, Quincy, was on TV yesterday. They took the dogs to Slobberfest, a big basset lovers day near Erie, and one of the local news stations showed a nice head shot of Quincy. I bet Amelia is WILD with jealousy. After all, she is the princess!

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

My insightful husband

Jeff: Dreaming is just TV for your subconcsious. Lucid Dreaming is finding the remote.

We had a nice drive back up from Lacy's parents last night, and stopped in St. Marys for dinner with Jeff's folks. Today the new upstairs neighbors are working on the hallway. Putting trim along the floor, etc. This results in a lot of hammering and pounding, so I escaped for about 2 hours to go eat lunch and shop. I went to Wal Mart and the Hallmark store. At Walmart I bought new capris and a new purse. At the Hallmark store I bought some Yankee Candle votives. One is called Meadow Mist, the other is Storm Watch. Both are clean, outside smells. I'm currently burning Meadow Mist, and listening to Evanenscence at a high volume to block out the aforementioned pounding and hammering.

That's all for now, I'm playing Catan online. Less than two weeks til Half Blood Prince arrives!

Merry Part and Blessed Be

The Search Continues...

Still no luck on the apartment hunting. The two bedroom house was tiny for what they were asking for it, and it didn't even include a stove and fridge. Jeff also didn't like the parking situation. I'm trying to get us an appointment to see a 2 bedroom on Edwards St, which is just off of West Washington, near Dexters Auto and fairly near the hospital. The building is pretty big, and it looks like it has off street parking. We'll see.

Work is going pretty well. We're going to play volleyball at our meeting this week, barring inclement weather.

The weather is pretty inclement right now, and being on the computer during a storm always makes me nervous so I'll end this here.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Playing Catan Online

And Blogging.

And getting my ass whooped at Catan Online. the people I'm playing with aren't real talkative either. Just very ruthless. But I won the second game, so I am happy.

Lacy and Jay are coming up this weekend!! I am so excited!! We might go to the Casino, or do something else.

That's all for now, later!