No one likes a stalker!

I was just browsing the merchandise at iLL WiLL PreSS, home of Foamy, the Lord and Master of all angry squirrels. There is a cute little spaghetti strap t-shirt that says "No One Likes a Stalker!" on the front. I also rewatched some of my favorite episodes of Foamy, like Squirrel Songs and The Amityville Toaster (making breakfast spooky)

Jeff and I had a nice day. I got to watch Molto Mario on Food Network this morning. Mario Batali is awesoe. And I'm also excited about Alton Brown's new show, Feasting on Asphalt. Food Network is just great.

We had salad, soup for Jeff and a sandwich for me for lunch. I watched my soaps and we played some World Of Warcraft. We did some grocery shopping at Wal-Mart, and invited Harriet and Artie over for some chicken tomorrow.

I didn't really have much to write, I just wanted to post something so I don't go a week without any updates again. Merry Part and Blessed Be!

I like to walk!

I just got back from a long walk. I walked up to the trail that winds along the mighty Tunungwat (sp?) creek (the mighty Tuna for you UPB students and grads) to where it meets Blaisdell Hall. I walked straight from blaisdell to the parking lot over by the basketball hoops, and wrote in my notebook and communed with nature for about an hour. I probably would have stayed a little longer, but my pen ran out of ink. Then I walked home, coming straight down Campus Dr, trying to take the shortest route possible home. It still took about 25 minutes to get home. But I love seeing all the different wildflowers, and the flowers they've planted along the trail and on campus. I like seeing the different people on the trail. There was a woman on a bike pulling her son in a little trailer behind her, and he waved to me and said hello. I also saw an older woman getting onto the trail when I was on my way home. She had a bicycle with a basket, and the basket looked just like the one of my first bike. It had plastic flowers on it. I like the satisfied, sweaty feeling I have right now. I even like the blisters forming on my feet.

Plans for the evening, make dinner, we're doing porkchops on the grill with my specialty, mac and cheese, on the side. Got to get working now, those chops need to marinate for a little while.

More later, perhaps. Merry Part and Blessed Be!

We were wrong, Paul

It's not ogre-chuks or bow-chuks.

It's Beaver-chuks!

See Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth's latest strip for an explanation.

Well, an explanation of the Beaver-chuks. Explaining the origins of bow-chuks and ogre-chuks would take many hours and result in you needing therapy. I don't know why I though ogres riding giant trikes down a grassy hill with lances would be neat, but... It was my first attempt at DM'ing.

Today Jeff and I went to the Highlands Gathering at Letchworth State Park. The park is beautiful, it's set around a deep gorge on the Genesee River with 3 sets of waterfalls. The Highlands Gathering apparently wasn't as impressive as last year. There were only two merchants, although they had some nice stuff. We watched one of the games, which involved burly men trying to pitch a 20 pound bag over a 24 foot bar with a pitchfork.

I think that's all for now, WoW beckons.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

4th of July

Oh
CRASH!
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BANG!
the
ZANG!
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WHOOSH!
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BAROOOM!
July
Whew!

From Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein

For the 4th of July, Jeff and I went down and had dinner with my folks. My Grandpa Harry came up for dinner also. Dinner was great, we had steak, fried potatoes, Texas sheet cake, and strawberries with Cool Whip. We bought a bunch of fireworks in Bradford, at Wal-Mart and at a fireworks tent and set them off in my parent's yard around 10. We also gave a bunch of fireworks to Brandon, our old neighbor from up on Pleasant St. It's interesting, in some ways, America's 4th of July is like a big, secular Midsummer's Festival.

Grey also came down to my folks from the farm on the 4th to give me an awesome present. He made me a beautiful staff. I really, really love it and I can't wait to use it.





Grey gives me such neat witchy things. He also gave me my gorgeous chalice a few years back. Jeff also gives me neat witchy things. He got me a copper bird bath for Yule that can be used as a scrying bowl, it's also great for holding candles. Jeff also bought me my current Witchcraft journal, it's got natural recycled paper, a wooden spine, and actual leaves on the cover.

Boy, I am one lucky Witch :-)

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Expansion for WoW pushed back to October 29th

grr... It's a good thing Jeff asked the guy at EB when the World Of Warcraft expansion was coming out and not me. I might have had an aneurysm. Not really. But I'm still pretty unhappy that I have to wait until the end of October to start my new characters. Kharasa made it to level 52 yesterday. Maybe I'll make it my goal to get her to 60 and get my epic mount before the expansion. I doubt I will though. My other characters are too distracting. I'm really enjoying playing my warlock again, I can't wait til she and Jeff's mage get to level 40 and get our mounts. Mine's free, so I figure I can help him with his.

That's about all here. I worked today until almost 2 PM. I had to get on the phones 3 times. I couldn't believe we only had 12 people on the phones for the 2nd day of the month. The beginning of the month is always crazy busy.

Trying to get supper ready. Merry Part and Blessed Be all!

Something Positive

is really becoming... well, something positive. I just wanted to share these words of wisdom from Mr. MacIntire to his daughter, Delia.

"And in the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or what we did with it"

I personally find that rather uplifting.

Not too much going on today. I'd like to go to Olean and buy some new t-shirts and look at a new office chair for Jeff. His throne finally bit the dust. I cleaned my whole desk. I got all the garbage off it, and moved the computer around and cleaned the desk itself with Murphy's Oil Soap. Which has an interesting smell to it. I also reorganized the books a bit today, I'm trying to get all the Wicca/Witchcraft/Magic books together in the same area. I actually said this morning, "I think I need to get rid of some books" which of course made Jeff ask, "Who are you and what have you done with my wife?" And I'm here, and fine, but I have a lot of books that I didn't buy. I like it when people give me books, but I usually don't read any of them more than once. I should gather some up and make a donation to the Bradford Public Library. I'd take them to a used book store, but from talking to the owner of Books Galore in Erie, they need more romance novels like they need a hole in the head. And there's only a few of my witchy books I'd give away, mostly things I picked up used and haven't looked at since their first reading, anything I've discovered to be crap. I've got this big, boring tome on meditation I got from One Spirit I may keep just because it cures insomnia well.

I think that's all for now, I'm going to log on to WoW and see if I have mail or if anyone else is online.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Good weekend

I was only at work til 11 on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend. Which was a good thing because Lacy and Jay came up to visit! We went to the Old Library with them to celebrate their 6 year anniversary. The Old Library was good as always, my favorite parts of the meal were the baked French Onion Soup and desert. They have this cake it was a Peanut Butter Thunder cake, I think. Chocolate cake with peanut butter icing, peanut butter chips on the outside, and crumbled up little Reese's peanut butter cups on top. Yummy. Today before they headed home we showed them World Of Warcraft, all the funny little jokes and then the videos on Break.com.

I think that's all I have for right now, Jeff and I are just chilling and watching some TV.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

I think I'm a masochist

I just did my Veena and Neena Slim Down tape, and it's really warm in here. I must only like to workout when it's really going to be punishing. I've been doing my dance tapes once or twice a week for a couple weeks now, but they're NOTHING compared to Slim Down.

Heart rate... finally slowing down... okay. Gotta do up a couple dishes and get ready to go to Togi's for dinner. I feel I have earned some baked French onion soup. Yummy.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Happy Birthday Emily!

Today is Emily Shea's birthday. I have been thinking about that everytime I see that the date is June 17th. Jess's birthday is next month. I think Em's email is still the same. I'm going to attempt to email her before bed.

I got out of work at 12:30 today, and then came home and played World of Warcraft. I helped Harriet kill Morbent Fel in Darkshire, which was really, really easy as my level 50 hunter. I also got Seersha caught up to Slogdarr. I made a pizza for dinner. It was warm, so I really wish I hadn't had to run the stove, but my culinary skills are quite limited.

Jeff's listening to Launchcast, and I'm just putzing around on the 'net, posting before bedtime. I reorganized my Favorites list today. I made folders for web comics, WoW, and my various friend's blogs and web pages.

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

Ballerina Bitch-kova

This was Frosh's answer to a Trivial Pursuit question regarding which ballerina said, when she knew she was dying "Get the swan costume ready" He came over yesterday after class and hung out til Jess got out of work. We had burgers and played Trivial Pursuit. I won, Jeff says because we ran out of time. But I had all six pie pieces and was sitting in the middle. I just had to answer one question of the guys' choosing. We also played a lot of World of Warcraft yesterday. Our Undead are now 21-22, and my hunter is level 49 now.

I had a flying dream this morning, which was great. I've kind of trained myself that when something strange happens to the car I'm in a dream , I know I'm dreaming and can get out. So when the Neon was on a roof in Pittsburgh, I just got out and watched it roll off, and disappear before hitting the street. Then I felt all light, almost like what I imagine an out-of-body experience would feel like. Then I was dipping and soaring, and running all around a city. I saw a hot dog vendor, and all kinds of stores. It was great, just to feel free of by body, to be able to move however I wanted.

I also remembering dreaming about walking up a snowy road with 2 other people. I was wearing my leopard print slippers and pajamas. I wasn't cold, except for where snow was getting into my slippers.

I also dreamed that I had rented a condo with Jeff, and I think Jess and Frosh, and all kinds of people I knew from college and high school. Lacy, Jay, Mike and Erin showed up, along with some people I was in marching band with, like Kristy Surles and my good friend Steve Reitz. It was kind of neat. I was introducing everyone around, and it was really crowded but everyone seemed to be having a good time.

Okay, I posted, now I get to play Warcraft. Merry Part and Blessed Be everyone!

But these apples are healthsome and good

I'm having an apple as a healthy evening snack rather than ice cream. Go me! Of course, I'm partially motivated by guilt, as we had waffles and bacon for dinner.

I've spent a large portion of the evening enjoying World Of Warcraft. You're all shocked, I know. I played in Arathi Battlegrounds twice, which was interesting, and Warsong Gulch once. We actually won Warsong, which was cool.

We are currently watching X-Play on G4. Apparently Adam and Morgan really hated Da Vinci Code. I thought the book was great, and the movie was pretty good. Then again, Morgan is hard to please when there aren't explosions.

We're off Thursday and Friday this week. No plans as of yet. Time to get ready for bed, I think. Merry Part and Blessed Be!

No dreams, thank to the Q

Hi all! No interesting dreams to report, as I've got a bit of the sniffles and took NyQuil before bed. Worked a short day today, not too many emails. Then I went out to lunch with Jeff and his parents, who had come up this morning to go to the casino. We went to the Lighthouse and I had a ham salad sandwich and a fruit cup, which is half a canteloupe filled with pears, peaches, pineapple and passion fruit. Really good. I had a tiny dish of rainbow sherbert for dessert.

World of Warcraft calls, so I'll cut this short here.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

201st post!

I was going to just post about the dream I had last night before work, but then I realized I made my 200th post last night! *whistles, confetti, fireworks*

A TV show is prime for syndication at 100 episodes. I wonder what happens when a blog gets 200.

Anyway, last night I dreamed about World of Warcraft. I must be jonesing. Hopefully I get out of work early enough today to play some. I only remember creating a new horde character, an orc warlock, and running around a bit. I think my dream was set after the expansion, Burning Crusade, comes out, because there were Dranei and Blood Elves in my dream.

Anyway, gotta finish my tea and head out so I can stop at the post office on my way to work.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

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Tip for happiness: See pictures in the clouds.on my way home from work on Thursday, I saw a sperm whale, a funny hat, and a cloud bank that looked like coral caves.

I had a dream Wednesday night that Jeff and I were walking in the woods and found an abandoned town. There were old railroad tracks running through it. As we were looking in the windows of abandoned houses, there was one house with really nice old antique looking furniture in it. The door was open, so we went in to check it out. Then we found people in the house. At first they were all young kids, ranging from age 4 or 5 up to age 16. There were probably a dozen of them. They were sitting at a big table, eating a meal. Once we saw the people, the house looked more poor and dingy. I wanted to hide from them and sneak out of the house, but I think Jeff wanted to observe them. We found the kitchen of the house, and there was an older woman there. The kitchen was a very small room, the appliances looked older, like they were from the 50's or 60's. The woman seemed to be in her late forties or early fifties, but she had kind of an ageless quality. She was cooking for all the kids, and working online. She sold things on E-bay, things she found, and things she made. We talked to her for a while (can't remember what about) and we were about to leave when a short, fat, dark-haired man came in. He was yelling at the woman in another language, either Spanish or Italian maybe. He seemed greasy and dirty and he was wearing a stained tank top and pants that were unbuckled. I think he was drunk. He pulled out a gun and was going to shoot the woman. We tried to stop him and he turned the gun at us, and Jeff took it away from him, quick as a flash. We started to run away, and the man had another gun. He was shooting at us, and I ran behind Jeff, trying to protect him from the bullets. The last part of the dream I remember was jumping on Jeff's back.

Definitely a strange dream, and one I think I want to examine the symbols of more. I think the woman with all the children was a Crone/Goddess symbol. She lived in an old house, in an abandoned town, with old appliances, but her livelihood was thoroughly modern. I'm not sure what the man was supposed to symbolize. I think they were the most important things in the dream, considering that even almost 12 hours after waking up, many of the details about them are fresh in my mind.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

I have discovered the exotic belly-dancer within

I spent all afternoon listening to Laundry Service by Shakira at work. There's this great song with an Eastern, belly-dance rhythm to it called Eyes Like Yours.

So I came home and put on my flowy skirt and hip scarf and did my Basic Dance video. I was going to try the Mystic Dance video, but as I thought, that one teaches veil work and I don't have a veil or anything that could be used as such. I need to get 3 yards of sheer, lightweight fabric.

I had a great dream post yesterday, but Blogger was not working, so I posted it at my MySpace page. I'll repost it here so you don't have to go over there unless you want to.

Bonus!

You Are Bart Simpson

Very misunderstood, most people just dismiss you as "trouble." Little do they know that you're wise and well accomplished beyond your years. You will be remembered for: starring in your own TV show and saving the town from a comet Your life philosophy: "I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again!"

The Simpsons Personality Test

I'm not sure why I took this one, as we all know I HATE Valentine's Day with a passion. I think it's because I like candy hearts, and they are the only part of participating in that fake, Hallmark holiday that I miss.

Your Candy Heart Says "Hug Me"

A total sweetheart, you always have a lot of love to give out. Your heart is open to where ever love takes you! Your ideal Valentine's Day date: a surprise romantic evening that you've planned out Your flirting style: lots of listening and talking What turns you off: fighting and conflict Why you're hot: you're fearless about falling in love

What Does Your Candy Heart Say?

I think that's all for now, my exotic belly-dancer within wants water.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Dream Blog

This morning, in between the time Jeff got up to leave for State College and the time I had to get up for work, I had a dream that Grey and I were in a play together. Our scene had nothing to do with the rest of the play, which seemed to be Pride and Prejudice type British play. Neither of us knew our lines, so I was trying to find a way to hide the script in one of my props, but I couldn't find any copies of the script backstage. I saw Allison backstage, but she didn't see me, she was laying behind a curtain playing a GameBoy? The play was being staged in the high school gym at West Forest.

So I'm in West Hickory with Keely, mom and dad are off enjoying a mini-vacation for their 30th anniversary. Jeff is in State College getting re-certified for his holding down crazy people training (it has some official title, like the name of the system they use, but I can't remember it) Keely had a grilled cheese sandwich for supper, and she is watching the Rascal Flatts DVD she got for her birthday. Bedtime soon, we're going to pick up Jeff in Bradford tomorrow when he gets back from State College. I talked to him on the phone earlier, he sounded pretty tired. I talked to my sister Lacy on the phone for about an hour, which was great.

I think that's all for this evening. This computer is not what I would call reliable. Any comments on the new template? Anyone? Bueller?

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Back in the hip scarf

I started bellydancing again today. I did the Basic Dance video from the Discover Bellydance set. It was fun, the moves are ones I'm pretty familiar with from their other tapes. Once I got to the end and where it goes through the routine twice, once with instructions and once with just music, I rewound it and did that part again. I've got to start doing something again. I don't like the way my shirts are riding up over my tummy, or how big my thighs are. I want to be able to buy a new swimsuit I actually like the way I look in for North Carolina, dammit. So I want to start alternating Bellydancing with Pilates again. That seemed to work well, especially for my tummy.

I got out of work early today, which was nice. I had some Chinese food for lunch, and I didn't get cheese wontons, so I was proud of myself there.

I haven't had any coherent dreams since my last dream journal post, just snatches of things here and there. I had one of those dreams this morning where you're dreaming that you're already awake. Except I was awake and I couldn't seem to move. I could hear Jeff moving around in other parts of the house, and I tried to call out to him, but I couldn't make any noise, and I felt very lethargic and heavy. I rolled out of bed (in the dream) and was stuck on the floor. I really hate those dreams.

I think that's all for now. I may add more later on. Back to World Of Warcraft.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Quote From The Break-Up

Gary: There's a really big gap between getting your ass kicked and having a dancing, singing sprite fool you with trickery and then strike your throat before you know that you're even *in* a fight.

I think I need to see this movie. I love Vince Vaughn. Wedding Crashers was very funny, even though I don't care much for Owen Wilson. The best parts for me were with Vince Vaughn's character and the funny little psychotic, nymphomaniac redhead he hooks up with.


Gloria Cleary: Don't ever leave me!
Jeremy Grey: Ever.
Gloria Cleary: Good. 'Cause I'd find you!

Jeremy Grey: Gloria, I've been doing a lot of soul searching recently, and I think I'm ready to take this relationship, our relationship to the next level.
Gloria Cleary: Jeremy, I am so ready to take it to the next level.
Jeremy Grey: Really?
Gloria Cleary: Yeah. Do you want to watch me with another girl? How about those Brazilian twins we met at the ball game?
Jeremy Grey: I was thinking more along the lines of an engagement.
Gloria Cleary: Oh Jeremy, I do!
Jeremy Grey: I love you.
Gloria Cleary: I love you.

That's all for today. Only 4 more blog posts til we celebrate our 200th entry!

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Dreams

I'm considering using this blog as a dream journal. It would be getting back more to the original thought behind the blog, which was to record all witchy type events. There haven't been any witchy events lately, although I've been using my quiet time on the mornings where Jeff and I both work to ground and center, and align myself. In certain traditions of the Craft (Primarily Feri and Reclaiming and their shoot-offs), it is believed that the soul and aura are made up of 3 parts. When all three parts are in alignment, it's easier to understand messages being communicated from one part to another, and it's the best state from which to do any spellwork. But I've rambled a bit here, and the Three Souls takes up entire chapters in books, which I don't want to re-write here. Maybe I'll write up my own version of it, and post it at a later date.

Anyway, back to dream blogging. Last night I had a dream that Jeff and I were at a hospital. I think we were visiting Jess and the baby. Lacy and Jay showed up for a surprise visit. I think we saw Kim Finnigan (now Gutshall) at the hospital too, I remember Lacy and I giving her a big sandwich hug. Then Jeff and I sat with Lace and Jay in a kitchen with an island and stools and ate crackers and cheese. That's all I remember of that dream. At some point early this morning. I had a dream about a cake. It was a layer cake covered in white icing, and it had bright purple violets as decoration.

Well, I'm supposed to finish this now so I can play World Of Warcraft. I hope all your dreams were pleasant ones Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Congratulations are in order!

Attention, attention! My dear friends, Jess and Frosh, are having their first child! I am so excited and happy for them!! Everyone please send out good thoughts for a easy pregnancy and delivery for Jess and a beautiful, healthy baby or two! (Twins run in both their families!)

I'm going to be an Aunt!

Oh, I am so excited!

Merry Part and Blessed Be!