It's an epidemic, someone stop me

You Passed 8th Grade Science

Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?

In a Past Life...

You Were: A Gentle Spice Trader. Where You Lived: Ontario. How You Died: Killed in Battle.

Who Were You In a Past Life?

You Are Likely a First Born

At your darkest moments, you feel guilty. At work and school, you do best when you're researching. When you love someone, you tend to agree with them often. In friendship, you are considerate and compromising. Your ideal careers are: business, research, counseling, promotion, and speaking. You will leave your mark on the world with discoveries, new information, and teaching people to dream.

The Birth Order Predictor

Tootsie Roll Pop

It only takes three licks to get to your center!

What Kind of Candy Are You?

Seriously, I can't stop taking these stupid quizzes. Help!

You Are Not Scary

Everyone loves you. Isn't that sweet?

How Scary Are You?

Okay, just one more I swear.

You Are Mud Pie

You're the perfect combo of flavor and depth Those who like you give into their impulses

What Kind of Pie Are You?

Okay, I think I'm done. really... okay, make sure you comment and let me know What kind of Scary Candy Pie you are!

And as promised....

Pictures! First, here are my two hot friends, Savannah and Jamie:



Then is here is a semi-recent picture of me for those who have forgotten what I look like:




Here is my lovely Samhain altar:



Here are all the pumpkins that got carved at our house, by Jeff, Adam Hirt and I.



Here is Lacy and I with the bride, Kim Finnigan, now Gutshall, at her wedding.



Enjoy! Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Work makes you free

Um, no it doesn't.... I don't know who said that, but I personally think they were Crazy. I worked from 9 til 3 today, and it was insanely busy up until the last ten minutes too. And damn them, because I had lots of good web browsing to do and emails to read, and that's really hard to do when people want to buy their damn cigarettes.

Oh well. I am looking forward to Jamie and Savannah coming over to Belly Dance today. I am enjoying uninhibited use of the internet at present because Jeff is at work. I just felt like updating because I was recently reminded that people do in fact read my blog.

On Thursday night Jeff and I went to see The Elephant Man at Pitt-Bradford. It was a pretty good show, and Paul was in it. As it's his last show, it may be the last show I see for sometime, unless Dr. Ewert actually picks a script I'm interested in. Sometimes I swear he just gets a pile of the most offbeat, strange, out-there scripts he can, and then scatters them about his office and throws a lawn dart.

That being said, I did really enjoy Elephant Man. The costumes were great, once again Dr. Ewert went with a minimal set, really just a backdrop with a lot of little set pieces that could be quickly changed between scenes. It is a good story, of how John Merrick went from being a sideshow freak to being visited by the creme de la creme of London society at his home in the London Hospital. It brings up a lot of interesting thoughts about the nature of charity and definition of exhibitionism. Was Dr. Treves really trying to help Merrick, or just using him, or was it really any better to be stared at by royalty than at commoners for tuppence?

I may go a second time with Jamie if she goes back again during tomorrow's matinee.

Yesterday, Jeff and I were going to go to Erie so I could take the postal exam for that area. But with the long drive, and the weather reports, and the fact that Jeff would have had over 3 hrs in Erie to kill by himself, we decided just to stay home. We got a Ton of laundry done, and had stir fry for dinner, which was nice.

And in closing today, isn't it nice that sometimes when you are thinking about someone, they are thinking about you too?

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

The Worst Eat N Park ever

So we arrived back from the 'Burgh safely, if somewhat later than orignally expected.

Now what follows, boys, girls and strange people who come across my blog from afar, is a cautionary tale. A tale of desperation and settling for mediocrity, all in the name of hunger. And damn Sundays. The Goddess didn't rest that day, I don't see why anyone else should.

Now, what the hell is Suzanne babbling about? And why is this blog entry entitled the Worst Eat N Park ever? Well I shall tell you now.

On our way back from Pittsburgh, we realized that by the time we got to Brookville, which is approximately the halfway point of the trip and has lots of restaurants directly off of our route, many would probably be closed as it was Sunday. So we started watching the exits on 28 N, looking for an Eat N Park, a Kings, something like that. So we see an exit with a sign for McDonalds, Arbys and Eat N Park and get off there. First off, when I see sign for a restaurant off an exit, I want it to be at the end of the exit, or at least within sight of it. This was not. It was up a hill and around a bend, almost 2 miles from the actual exit. The restaurant was also located on a side road that ran parallel to the main road, which was nearly impossible to tell in the dark. I went to turn left and discovered that, luckily there was no one coming behind me so I could get back into my own lane and out of the way of oncoming traffic. When we went in, I could tell it was a little run down. Seats that were split open, and the whole place felt a little dark. Maybe I'm comparing it to the Eat N Park in Reno, PA, which has always been nice and clean, with lots of fake, but tasteful, green plants. The waitresses were all dressed in Steelers attire, because it was a Sunday and we were less than 20 minutes outside of Pittsburgh. Both the hostess and the waitress seemed like they were in a hurry. I ordered the Chicken Alfredo with Broccoli, Jeff and Jamie both had burgers. When our food came out, there was no broccoli on my dinner because they were out. Now normally at a restaurant, as soon as they know they are out of something they will either tell you right when you order, or come back out and let you know, and ask if you want to change your order. This waitress basically came out handed out the plates, said, "We were out of broccoli, is that okay?" I said, Sure, because I was hungry. But I had really been looking forward to the broccoli, so I was disappointed. And I thought the waitress had kind of an attitude. I will say there coffee was all right, Jamie and I both had some to go, a mocha something and I had a vanilla capuccino. But this was the Eat N Park in Natrona Heights. I do not recommend it. At All.

The rest of the drive home was uneventful. Jeff, Jamie and I all got home safe and sound.

Oh and Jamie is my girlfriend now. Nya nya nya nya nah nah. :P

Merry Part and Blessed Be

Blogging from the 'Burgh 2

Still in Pittsburgh, we're just waiting for Wendy to get back before we hit the road. Jeff and Grant are looking thru the World of Warcraft Atlas Jeff bought at the Century III mall. I got some new rocks at a store there, they also had wooden chirping frogs.

Now to get packed up so we're ready to go, I think I am also going to grab some leftovers from our big dinner yesterday. I'm hungry again.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Blogging from the 'Burgh

Just jotting a brief entry from Pittsburgh, the trip down was fairly uneventful, we got into the city just fine, I'm glad there wasn't that much traffic at midnight.

So far Wendy is making a big turkey, and sweet potatoes, and a green bean casserole. Everything smells great.

Fleur, thank you for reading my blog. Do you have a blog? You can put the address in a comment, I would check it out. I took a year of French in High school. So, Bienvenue!

I think that is all for now. I think I may re-take the postal exam on the 18th. Paul, if you see this today, please respond and tell me what night the play starts. And also, someone would like you to TURN ON YOUR DAMN PHONE! :-)

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

On The Road Again

I am SO Glad to be going to Pittsburgh this weekend. It's going to be really great to just get to hang out with our friends for a couple days. It's been a rough week all around, Grandma Dot went back to the hospital and Keely also went to the hospital on Monday. She had a grand mal seizure Monday morning, and they kept her overnight. I hope my parents have been using the energy I'm sending their way, because I definitely feel tapped. Part of me wants to do my belly dance tape, but the rest of me just wants to sit around and watch TV. I think I am going to the pool tomorrow to swim with Jamie though, so that will be fun.

I also got two rolls of film back. I love finishing a roll of film that's been around over a year. I've got pictures from Lacy and Jay's visit alumni weekend, Jamie's fondue party, Keely's birthday party in May, the Renaissance Faire, pictures of our Halloween pumpkins and my Samhain altar, and from the party I had in August at my parents' house. I'm scanning some of them to post here, and to send to those who will want them.

Oh and Savannah just sent me a bunch of pictures from the History Club Halloween party.

I think that's all for now. I'll post pictures once I get them scanned. Merry Part and Blessed Be!

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!