3rd time's the charm

You know, I've opened up Blogger Dashboard to post twice prior to now, with nothing to say. Still really don't, but I figured what the hey.

We're still working our way through season one of Battlestar Galactica. We just have the last episode to watch now, Kobol's Last Gleaming, part 2. Starbuck just stole the Cylon Raider they had captured and jumped clear back to Caprica, to fetch the mystical thing-a-ma-bobber that's supposed to lead them to Earth. I'm rather annoyed because although I found some cool Battlestar Galactica pictures on IMdB, I can't seem to view them on my computer. They're in bitmap and GIF forms. Anyone who knows a little more about graphics want to point me in the right direction?

I've been playing some World of Warcraft, but I guess I'm really waiting for Jeff to get Slogdenn, his paladin, to level 60, so hopefully we'll have more time to play together as Seersha and Slogdenn. Kharasa, my dwarven hunter, is progressing nicely. I finished up a couple quests in the Wetlands today.

I think I may get offline here and read for a bit. I don't have time to read at work anymore, and I'm still working on reading my new Starhawk book, Dreaming the Dark: Sex, Magic and Politics.

Oh, and also, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire comes out on DVD Tuesday! I'm hoping to get it for Easter. Oh, speaking of holidays I don't celebrate, Ash Wednesday was today, and today was the first Ash Wednesday in a few years I haven't seen anyone sporting the big ash mark on their forehead. Usually the first person I see with it on Ash Wednesday, I just think was clumsy that morning. Then when I see a couple more, I remember that it's the start of Lent, and some people will be giving up things, and only eating fish on Fridays. Note to self: eat a big steak on Friday.

I think that's all for now folks, Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Look, I'm posting!

-Hello everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in so long. Playing World Of Warcraft has been taking up a lot of time. I also won't be posting from work anymore since I got a new position. It means I'm off the phones most of the time, unless the lines are very busy, but it also means no downtime. I am now an Email Specialist. If you email any of the website of the three companies, I will be one of the two people answering them. I also send out emails when people's cigarettes are on backorder. I'm not sure what this means for my schedule yet, possibly more weekends. But when I work weekends it's only 9-3 anyway, so that's not too bad. And during the week it looks like my schedule will be 8-4:30, which is better because I get home earlier.

Jamie came over and we did the Bellydancing for Fitness Slim Down tape. Tonight we're going to do Basic Dance again before game. We tried the Intermediate tape in the Discover Bellydance series, but it was rather difficult. We think we should do the basic one a few more times before trying that again. But I do like the dancing tapes. My only beef with them is that in 45 minutes, they don't spend enough time going over the actual routine with you. They break down all the steps, although not in order, take you thru the routine once slowly, then once at tempo, and then once again at tempo.

Oh, and there's a new Foamy. For gods' sake people, Read your User Agreement!

I think that is all for now. Plans for the weekend include working tomorrow, and going down home on Sunday, depending on the weather and whether or not Jeff is on call.

Merry Part and Blessed Be, and everyone have a wonderful weekend!

The weekend in review

First off - Wooooo! The Steelers won the Super Bowl! It was a pretty exciting game, too. None of the commercials are really sticking out in my mind though, maybe it's just been too long since school and I don't feel the need to memorize them for analyzation anymore. A lot of the people playing World of Warcraft during the game were quite peeved about the Steelers winning. Plus a lot of them kept spelling Steelers wrong (Stealers) and it was really annoying. And I got a little tired of hearing, "The Super Bowl is supposed to be in neutral territory, but look at this crowd, this is obviously a Steelers crowd." Well of course it's a Steelers crowd, Detroit is Jerome Bettis' hometown. Neutral would have been Green Bay, or Tampa, or someplace like that. I wonder when the city for the Super Bowl is picked. I assume it has to be picked before the AFC and NFC Championship games, because there's a lot of planning involved for the host city and stadium, I'm sure. What happens if they picked Pittsburgh and then Pittsburgh went to the Super Bowl? Would they change it at the last minute? Anyone who knows more about sports want to help me out here?

We were supposed to go to Jess and Frosh's but there was a Wind and Blowing Snow advisory, and I really didn't want to get stuck in Port Allegany when I had work the next day, so Jeff and I just stayed home.

Second - We played a lot of World of Warcraft. My main character, Seersha, a human warlock, is now level 18. The spelling of the name I wanted, Saoirse, was taken, so I went with the phonetic spelling instead. I've been working on my professions, Herbalism and Alchemy. I've also been working on fishing and cooking. We used our Lunar Festival invitations (a fun in-game event involving fireworks) to travel to Darnassus, the home of the Night Elves, looking for fish recipes. I also have a Dwarven hunter with a wolf pet and a Tauren Druid named Stampedia.

Third - I don't think there is a third. I guess third would be I finished reading Etheric Anatomy and my thoughts on it should be forthcoming. What is this flower above me, and what is the work of this God? I would know myself, in all my parts - Victor H. Anderson




I think that's all for now folks, I'm going to bed.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

A Haiku to share

My thoughts are petals
floating on the serene lake
of inner selfhood

- Victor H. Anderson, father of the Feri Tradition of Witchcraft


I got some new books yesterday and I just felt like sharing that. It's from
Etheric Anatomy: The Three Selves and Astral Travel It's fascinating, I wish there were fewer calls coming in so I could read more of it. I'll have to post a review of it, or my full thoughts on it once I'm done reading it.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Can't wait to play WoW!

I am so excited about playing my warlock, Seersha, this evening! I just send her a bunch of stuff and gold from Leanora, the character I had started on Jeff's account. Once I got done selling off all her stuff she was just running between the mailbox and the bank in black bra and underwear. Leanora started to dance but Jeff told me to stop since that might earn more money, and I was trying to be done with the character.

Allison, if you don't get a phone call from me this evening please call me. I will try to remember, I need to find out for sure what time you and Grey are coming out.

I think that's all for now, I am at work. I'm currently re-reading The Laughing Corpse, one of the good books from the early portion of the once-great Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, by Laurell K. Hamilton.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Let it be known!

Yesterday Jeff bought me my own copy of World Of Warcraft at Electronics Boutique! I am currently installing the updates for the game. We're not networked yet, I just ran the cable modem across the room to my desk for now, but I'll have my own account, and come this weekend, we should be able to all play together. I am so excited!

In other good news, Jamie came over to bellydance today and she brought my birthday present with her. It's a pretty necklace with my birthstone. :-) I also got my birthday present from Jeff's mom and dad, it's the Discover Bellydance box set from Veena and Neena. These are more instructional dance tapes than workout tapes, they teach you a belly dance routine, but they look like fun! I also helped Jamie make up her character for Jeff's Wild West Werewolf game.

So it has been a good day, and I'm actually looking forward to this week at work, since: one, it's the end of the month, things are always slower, and two, I'm only working Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, then I have Thursday off (for my birthday) Friday off, I work 6 hours Saturday and then I am off on Sunday. Plus I get to see Al and Grey this weekend, if all goes according to plan.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

With my posts it's either feast or famine

And today is a feast readers!

Your Stipper Song Is

The Bad Touch by the Bloodhound Gang "Sweat, baby, sweat, baby sex is a Texas drought Me and you do the kind of stuff that only Prince would sing about" When it comes to dancing, you let your freak flag fly!

What Song Should You Strip To?

I wasn't going to post again today...

But I found this unsettling: Anti-Chinese discrimination in WoW

Gamers, thoughts?

For myself, I can't really tell who's from where when I'm playing. Maybe this is just because I spend a lot of time trying to figure out the game, I'm not chatting with a bunch of different people. If I'm talking to someone, it's usually either someone I already know, a fellow guild member, or someone I'm grouped with.

So I can't see why people are jumping all over the Chinese for gold farming, when I can't even tell who is Chinese, American, Swedish, etc. I've always found it interesting talking to people from other countries playing games online at MSN. I especially appreciate their patience with me trying my high school Spanish on them. I just unnerves me to see something so enjoyable, like World of Warcraft, brought low by an ism.

I'd really like to hear what people have to say on this. Merry Part and Blessed Be!

I need to have something besides WoW to write about...

But the only other thing I seem to do lately is work, and I don't want this blog to turn into a constant gripe fest about that. Although I can share interesting customer names, I always enjoy that. I talked to a woman named Luigia today. Just like Mario's brother, but feminine. And she had their accent too. I was expecting her to break out into the Numa Numa song at any moment. And speaking of Numa Numa, I really should link Break.com (formerly Big Boys) to my blog too. Last night Jeff showed me this hilarious parody of the Switch commercials with someone's World of Warcraft characters.

Damn it! Back to WoW again! Not that I don't love it, but I know not everyone who reads my blog plays, so I want to talk about other things that are interesting also.

I'm looking forward to getting email back from Lisa. When I went to her blog last night she had written something like, "how do you catch someone up on 8 years of your life". And then I realized that it actually had been 8 years since high school. And it made me feel a little old. But it some ways it's nice too, to be able to look back and see how far I've come, how different I am, but in some ways still the same. I'm still Wiccan, still an optimist, but I like to think I've become a little more responsible. I've got a Bachelor's Degree, and gotten married. I made a lot of good friends, and gotten rid of a couple false ones. All in all, I have to say I'm pretty satisfied with the last 8 years.

My only real complaint would be that I could be someplace better career-wise. And at the age I am now, It's hard to see my way back to school to get a different direction. My life with Jeff is in Bradford, and if one of us goes back to school it should be him first. I think I'm starting to understand why if you see people in their late 20s in college, it's because they're still there, not because they left and went back. The people you see going back are in their late 30s-early 40s and they can go back because their children are now in school 8 hours a day and they have that time to themselves again. It concerns me a little that me ever getting to go back to school seems so far down the road, but it seems to me that career was never going to be my raison d'etre anyway. My greatest happiness has always come from family, friends, and love. I lack ambition I guess, or maybe the things I'm ambitious about aren't considered worthwhile in today's society, i.e. happiness, spiritual growth, community, and getting a level 60 character in World of Warcraft.

Damn it! Back to World of Warcraft again! Does anyone have the number for Online Gamers Anonymous? I think we need an intervention....

Just kidding! Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Addendum to original post:

** For some reason, I'm being extra picky about my grammar and spelling today. I've just edited this blog post at least 5 times. I don't know if I'm being more cautious because with Lisa's post I'm realizing that outsiders could be reading my blog or what, but it's very frustrating! **

Nice surprises

I love the Internet! The Internet and this miracle called blogging have helped an old friend from high school find me. So when I have time to revamp the blog again, I'll be linking her. This is just a quick post before bed. Grey, I plan to do the measuring for the network cables tomorrow after work, so I'll get you those numbers this weekend sometime.

That's all for tonight, Merry part and Blessed Be!

The Naming of the Computer

First I wanted to thank Paul for his suggestions. I seriously considered Nuitari. But then I was reading Dragons of Spring Dawning and they were talking about Takhisis in her form as the Five-Headed Dragon. This reminded me of another dragon/god from both D&D and also from Sumerian mythology. I think I shall call the new machine Tiamat.

At work, Merry Part and Blessed Be!

My new computer has arrived...

Huzzah! I will be able to get on World of Warcraft in a couple of weeks and play with everyone. I will be on as Leanora this afternoon on Jeff's account. It's a pretty slow day at work. I'm reading Dragons of Spring Dawning and trying to come up with a name for my computer for when Grey comes out to help me set up our network. I'm thinking of Tatiana, for the woman that the Vampire Strahd, Dark Lord of Barovia, loves, in Ravenloft. But I'm not sure if I like that. I really liked the name for my old computer, Takhisis. Maybe another D&D deity is what I need. Any suggestions? Please comment!

I think that's all my news. Looking forward to spending time with my girlfriend, Jamie tomorrow.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

IT'S COMING!

Status: In Transit -
Rescheduled

Rescheduled Delivery: 01/11/2006
Shipped to: BRADFORD, PA, US
Shipped or Billed on: 01/09/2006

Tracking Number: 1Z E72 A78 42 1007 759 2
Service Type: GROUND
Weight: 45.10 Lbs
Multiple Packages: 2
Note: Your package is in the UPS system and has a rescheduled delivery date of 01/11/2006.



Package Progress:


Location Date Local Time Activity
HARRISBURG, PA, US 01/10/2006 8:23 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
LEBANON, TN, US 01/09/2006 5:48 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
US 01/09/2006 7:20 P.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

My Dell XPS 400 should be here tomorrow!!! Woot!!

Yummy in my Tummy

Jeff and I just had a great dinner. We grilled chicken dressed with worcestershire sauce and Grillmate chicken seasoning, a red pepper, and toasted bread on the grill with some EVOO. We made chicken and pepper sandwiches and boy were they delicious! Just the kind of fun and tasty meal we should eat in North Carolina.

I'm already jonesing for more World of Warcraft. Grey, it's definitely time we discuss networking options. Now that there's no laptop involved I don't think we need to go wireless. I'm also debating buying a new Dell or just pumping more RAM and a new video card into Takhisis. (My PC) I really think I just want to go with the new Dell, because by the time I pay for the new RAM and the video card I would need, I might as well just throw in a little more and get a new computer, with a flat screen monitor. But we'll see.

Our friends at Pitt should be back today/tomorrow. Please give a ring, we missed you !

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

World of Warcraft

is a very powerful drug....

Jeff helped me start a character on his account last night, just so I could get a feel for the game before I decide to invest in a new computer, primarily for the purpose of playing it. So I made a human warrior, named Leanora. I woke up at 7:45 this morning and just now managed to pull myself away! What the hell!!?? Now it's not that I've never had a video game do this to me before (Sims - what happened to the daylight?) But I didn't expect to get hooked so quickly, especially on a game I thought I would be bad at. And I'm not great, I died a lot, but eventually someone gave me some help finishing a couple quests. (He was starting a second character and so was about the same level as me) And the controls were more like Diablo 2 than I could have hoped. So I have been having a lot of fun, despite that fact that it's 1:30 in the afternoon, I've had a nutrigrain bar so far to eat today, and frankly, friends, I do smell a little.

Anyway, I'm mainly posting this hoping that Wendy will read it and either send me her name or put my name on her friends list. I am going to get away from the computer to eat and shower, and maybe watch an episode or two of Nip/Tuck. But then I am sure that this new addiction will suck my back in. Hopefully I can pull myself away before Jeff gets home so I can start dinner.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Oh, and for anyone who may read this who plays WoW and doesn't already know, we're on the Eldre'Thalas server.

So gamers, did you get want you REALLY wanted this year?

For all you World of Warcaft fans:

Check out today's PvP by Scott Kurtz.

Free Beer!

I won free beer this morning from our local radio station, WESB! Every Wednesday they ask a really easy question. This morning the clue was, this Sunday is the first day of the new year, and the question was "What is the exact number of hairs on Frank Williams' head?" The answer was 2006. So I get to pick up a free 6 pack. I don't know what I'll do with it, since I don't drink beer, probably give it to my girlfriend. But I thought it was cool because I won something.

anyway, I'm at work so I have to go, but I just wanted to share my news about the free beer.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

My teeth are falling out of my head!

Not really. But they were in my dream last night, and it was pretty disturbing. I had multiple rows of teeth, and all of them were incredibly loose and wiggly. I looked in a mirror and my mouth and throat looked like a long, gross, fleshy tunnel. In traditional dream analysis, losing teeth generally means that there's something you're holding back, words that need to be spoken. Luckily, on my way to work I figured out that it's probably because I really wanted the opportunity to tear my ex-brother a new asshole tomorrow, and now I won't get to because he's not invited to Christmas Eve. And even though I don't want to have a big nasty scene in front of all the family, I've had a few things to say to that boy for almost a year now. My rage is all pent up, because Mom and Dad didn't want me to get involved. And I'm not willing to drive out to his trailer in Red Brush and say them. Besides, then Yolanda would probably start spreading rumors about the Huffman's psychotic oldest daughter, and that wouldn't look good for Mom or Dad. Although I think the people that knew me in Forest County would find such accusations fairly laughable.

Anyway, I'm at work and we're leaving for West Hickory when I get home tonight, so this will probably be my last post til after the holiday. Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Boxing Day, Merry Solstice, Happy Festivus, Merry Mithras Day, and any other holidays I may have inadvertently forgotten.

Merry Part and Blessed Be

I think one entry a week is sufficient, don't you?

This is going to be a quicky, readers. I'm on my way down to my parents' today for some holiday merriment. Mom is getting her sibs together for a Christmas gathering, like we used to do Christmas Day at Grandma Eb's. We haven't gotten together with everyone at Christmas since she passed away. One of my uncles and his wife have their own family (she had 3 grown or near grown kids when they got together over 10 years ago, and now they all have kids) and the other aunt and her kids spend the the holiday with her husband's family, because his only sibling passed away and now he's an only child, his folks really need to be with all their family on Christmas day. So it will be really nice to have everyone under one roof in December, even if it's only for a day.

I wanted to say thanks for the presents I've gotten so far. Wendy and Grant, that check was just too much. We'll have to do something really nice for you in return ;) And I love the pairs of earrings that Jamie and Adam got me.

I think that will be all for now, I really need to hit the road.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Narnia

This entry will contain Spoilers for anyone who hasn't read the book.

Yesterday Jeff and I went to see the new movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe in Olean. All in all I thought it was a great movie, and a very faithful adaptation of the book. The theater was packed, I was glad we got there 15 minutes early, otherwise we wouldn't have had an aisle seat. As it was we were a little farther back than I usually like to be, but since the other option was 4 rows from the front, I'd rather be closer to the exit. Especially since the audience was primarily kids. They were pretty good during the movie, it's the adults that brought them that got on my nerves. The guy in front of Jeff must have gotten up at least 3 times, and so did this rather large older lady sitting on the inside of our row.

Go to the bathroom before the movie, people, it's not that long.

I felt the scene of Aslan (wonderfully voiced by Liam Neeson) being sacrificed on the Stone Table was well done, it was very sad and the White Witch, played by Tilda Swinton, was just as scary as she should be. There were torches and chanting, the only teeny tiny point that was a little off with me is that the Stone Table was always described as round, and in the movie it was square. And I'm only being picky here because so many other things in the movie were exactly as CS Lewis described them, like the crimson and gold tents that Aslan and the army were staying in.

The only main difference from CS Lewis's original story was instead of focusing first on the Table cracking and Aslan's resurrection, they focused on the battle between Aslan's forces led by Peter and the White Witch's army. Plus the kids seemed more reluctant in the movie than they had in the book to fulfill the prophecy. But I think that made it more realistic for people seeing the story for the first time. The movie I think does well to start of showing England during the World War II, it sets up the Pevensies family relationship very well. I think when the book was originally written it wasn't as necessary to go into detail as to how they ended up at Professor Kirke's house in the first place.

Again, I thought the movie was wonderful, I hope they do more with the series, my eyes were leaking pretty much from the time Aslan knights Peter right up until the end.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!