Getting ready for Samhain

My cool peasant blouse came in the mail via FedEx yesterday. They put in on the front porch where no one goes, so I'm glad it was still there today when I checked the tracking number.

Working tomorrow night again. Tonight I learned that empty stomach + Swedish Fish = SUGAR HIGH. At least I got all my work done. New things are happening everyday with AJ Prindle. It's a very exciting time. Next week we are doing a 1 week training for Orders Only calls for some temps for Smart Smoker and Order Smokes Direct. The class will have 10 people, it should be interesting. 10 women so far.

I've been working more with the Faeries Oracle. Tuesday night I did a trance journey with a faery from one of the cards, the Journeyman, as a guide. We went from my place of power to the beach, walked out into the ocean and then dived deep. The faery gave me a blessing so I could swim well and breath under water. I swam and swam until my arms and legs were tired. Then I found a volcano and the bottom of the ocean. I've been trying to figure out since what it means. Fire hidden in the depths, molten lava cooling and forming a mountain on the ocean floor. I think I am going to look up the goddess Pele, and see where her symbols lead me.

Off to bed soon. Merry Part and Blessed Be!

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I went to a very nice dinner for work Saturday in Hamburg. There was steak, and a very tasty apple desert, with ice cream. Good appetizers too, I got to have shrimp cocktail for the first time since NC and I have concluded that I like it. Even though I shouldn't after helping Dad de-vein 5 pounds of the nasty little bastards.

Jeff and I are watching an interesting program on History Channel about body language. The only body language I have ever known to work for sure is that if a woman looks at your mouth, then your eyes, then back at your mouth, you either 1) have something in your teeth or 2) she is thinking about kissing you. Hope it's 2.

I have finished reading several books lately, the In The Garden Trilogy by Nora Roberts, Sticky Fingers by Alison Tyler, and I'm working on The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk. All have been very good. :-) Tomorrow I am going to do my bellydance workout in the morning, as Halloween is coming and so is the gypsy blouse for my costume. I've also starting looking at some basic Palmistry information online. I'm thinking about picking up a book on it. If anyone knows any good sites, I would appreciate you sending a link to my email highborn.hunter at gmail.com.

So far, I have learned that my life line and fate lines starting at the same point indicate a self-made individual, one who has made her own choices since the beginning of her life. My heart line indicates that I fall in love easily, and that I easily express my emotions. Hand shape comes into play as well. It's very interesting. Just in briefly checking out Jeff's hand tonight, I could see a lot of differences between the lines on his hand and those on mine.

So this has been a longer post than expected. I want to head to bed soon, I also have to take the Tempo to the garage tomorrow to get a headlight fixed.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Slowly slipping away...

I am back down to updating once a week maybe, will have to try harder. I am working til 9 tonight. Today is Obnoxious Shirt Day at work. Jeff dug me out his ugly old laundry shirt. It is hideous. I have to come up with Team Contest for tomorrow. Tomorrow is Team Jersey day. I will be wearing my Steelers jersey. I was going to buy a Terrible Towel at Wally World today and forgot. I did get my hair trimmed in anticipation of the fancy dinner I am attending for work this weekend. It should be fun. I wish I had a perfect little black dress to wear. I really didn't start worrying about what to wear until this week.

And Duamuteffe referenced Suz's third law in a comment on Teh Kid's blog this week. I don't remember my laws, which were probably about mixing booze and sex. I wish I remembered them, they came from hard experience, so they were probably pretty smart.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

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That is my record for smart vs. stupid today. I didn't turn off the alarm when I got up this morning, I just hit snooze, waking Jeff up 10 minutes later when I was in the shower. Then I locked my keys in the car with it running at Emory Espresso Bar. I could put it down to lack of sleep, but it's probably just me having my head up my ass as usual.

But I had a latte, and I have Swedish fish, and I have good friends in town. How bad could it really be?


Last night we played Ticket to Ride and Bohnanza. I did horribly at both. Couldn't get any good destination tickets for Ticket to Ride, and I usually suck at Bohnanza.

Lacy and Jay brought up a new game called Mare Nostrum which we will check out tonight.

Merry Part and Blessed Be

Prindle Training, Week 1

Starts today. Technically, this is Prindle training #2, We already have 12 people trained. I'm not really nervous, just dreading the sheer amount of work and stress that the next two weeks has in store.

Will be talking to Kelli today to see if she can do Wednesday without me. I really want to come to Edinboro. I need to be with people who recharge me and relax me.

Jeff and I had a great weekend. We played World of Warcraft, my draenei paladin complete the quests for her epic paladin mount. We also did some PVP together in Alterac Valley. We cooked nice meals together yesterday. We had a big beautiful roast with carrots and potatoes for supper that I will be eating again for lunch today.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Live this Life

Big and Rich - Life this Live

Met a man on the street last night
Said his name was Jesus
Met a man on the street last night
Thought he was crazy till I watched him heal a blind man
Watched him heal a blind man now I see

I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Then I will walk yes I will walk
With patience through that open door
I have no fears, angels follow me wherever I may go
I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore

Met a girl in a chair with wheels
But no one else would see her
Met a girl in a chair with wheels
Everyone was so afraid
To even look down on her
And she just spread her little wings and flew away yeah

I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Then I will walk yes I will walk
With patience through that open door
I have no fears, angels follow me wherever I may go
I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore

Met a kid on a bridge last night
Contemplating freedom
Met a kid on a bridge last night
And he said
I'm tired of this maddening life
And I'm ready to go meet Jesus
And I said he's a friend of mine
Met him just last night
And it's alright
Yeah it's all right
Yeah

I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Then I will walk yes I will walk
With patience through that open door
I have no fears, angels follow me wherever I may go
I live this life until this life won't let me live here anymore
Live here anymore

Met a man on the street last night
Said his name was Jesus
Met a man on the street last night

I just re-downloaded Horse of Different Color last night. I forgot about this song. The melody is very haunting, it gets stuck in your head. It's on my myspace page now if you want to check it out.

Merry Part and Blessed Be

Blogging up a storm

I think I'm on a pretty good run here folks. Not quite daily, but frequent.

I wanted to share an entertaining thought the other day. I always thought I would love to work as a phone sex operator. Sex is something I know a lot about, and I think it would be great to shape another person's fantasy.

Then I realized an even better job -- being a quality control monitor for a phone sex business. :-)

Do you think phone sex lines have the recording that says "This call may be recorded for quality assurance?"

Harriet is picking me up for work this morning, as we are having problems with the Tempo. I need to call Fairway Ford this AM to try to set up an appointment. Yesterday at work, someone had to come save me from Pizza Napoli. That's what I get for indulging my taco craving.

Gotta be ready to meet Harriet, Merry Part and Blessed Be!

I wish it were fall already

I know it was officially Fall yesterday, and Happy Mabon/2nd Harvest/Autumn Equinox to all. But I wish the weather would act like it. I want to wear sweaters and drink tea and bundle up. But it's going to be in the low 70's again today. I want to find one of those long sweater coats to wear to work. I almost got one at Burlington two Saturdays ago, but the sleeves were too short. Not a three quarter length either, just too short to cover my bony little wrists.

I am going to work out today. I know instead of bitching about the nice weather I should take a walk, but if I do that I'll be gone longer than expected. I also have things I need to accomplish around the house this morning. So it will be Yoga, and maybe belly-dance too if I'm feeling froggy. Although if I overdo it, I won't be able to work out Friday, so it would probably be wiser just to do one or the other. I need the endorphins from the exercise. I've been having a hard time getting up in the morning lately and work is stressing me out. We're going to have training after training until almost Christmas to handle the expected call volume for AJ Prindle. So I know I am just a touch depressed, I recognize the symptoms. I just need to get off my ass and do something about it. When exercise is a regular part of my routine, I don't feel like this. I also need to get some writing done. The story I want to submit is due by October 1st, and I don't know what has happened to September. I know how I want the story to end, I just need to actually make myself sit down and finish it. I hope writing this nice long blog entry has kick started my creative juices this morning.

Mmm Juice... gotta go get something to drink, then get started. Working 12:30-9 PM today. My friend Harriet will be talking to customers for the first time today, so I will be excited to hear about that when I get to work.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Brewfest!

Brewfest for World of Warcraft started today. Adam, Harriet, Artie, Jeff and I went down to Black Rock Depths to take out the leader of the Dark Iron dwarves, who are attacking the festivities (and taking our free booze) every half an hour. Being drunk in WoW is fun. The screen is blurry and you can't control your movements very well, especially in flight, but your character never gets a hangover.

Went to Olean with Artie and Harriet today as well. The Steve and Barry's in the Olean mall is closing, so I got a couple new shirts on the cheap.

It's probably past my bedtime, so I'll wind this up here.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Just felt like a random Wizard of Oz reference there. When my friend Jammie left work at 6:30, she sounded like Dorothy leaving Oz. "Good-bye! Good-bye everyone!" All bright and chipper and Dorothy Garland-esque. I like adding -esque to words lately.

I get to leave work in about 20 minutes. I can't wait to go home and get to bed, this has been a long day. I did grocery shopping this morning, then came into work at 1 PM. Tomorrow will be longer still because I will be with our training class all day, and we have a good bit left to cover, include the trickiest bit, which is Apprise.

I really intended to do some writing this morning, but time got away from me between grocery shopping and leaving for work, eating lunch, all that jazz. Currently reading the Nora Roberts In the Garden trilogy. It's good stuff.



Tired and sleepy and ready to go home.

Merry Part and Blessed Be, dear readers!

Thanks a latte!

Ye gods I am a dork. Quoting Scrubs in the title there, in case you are not a fan of the show. I picked up Harriet for work this morning. Will be here 'til 4:30 today.

Just trying to get in the habit of posting daily again. Let's see if there are any fun pics saved on my PC at work to share.



Ok, you get Rosie the Riveter. We Can Do It!

Merry Part and Blessed Be

Thanks GraphJam!

more music charts

Trying new things

I've been trying my hand at some writing lately. Maybe if I actually finish something that's more than 500 words, I'll actually let people I know read it.

We went to Erie PA on Saturday to go shopping with some friends. I had garlic shrimp scampi at Red Lobster and it was fantastic. I normally get the shrimp or crab alfredo and I always get too full too fast from the pasta. Then we went to Old Navy, Borders, Books Galore, Burlington Coat Factory, and Kohls. I got 2 Nora Roberts books, Starhawk's Novel, the Fifth Sacred Thing, a new suitI wanted to stop at Krispy Kreme, but the light wasn't on when we went up Peach St. and no one else was hungry yet. I am planning to go to Edinboro/Erie on my next Wednesday off. I want to see Allison, Austin and Grey. I still need to get my butt to a Snow Water Grove event.

Things are very busy at work with the new company, AJ Prindle. We also have a new hire group of 6 this week that includes my friend Harriet. Jeff is doing well in school, he got an 8 out of 10 on his first quiz of the semester. I am very proud of him!

I'm going to be trying to post more often as someone who writes another blog asked to link to me.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

I <3 Synergy

For all the hard work Kelli and I did getting ready to launch our new venture, AJ Prindle, my boss (the awesome-est boss ever) gave us each a $50 gift card :-) I think I am going to spend it on something spiffy like a new book or maybe new clothes. I'd like to go to Burlington Coat Factory again.

Oh! And I just talked to Harriet and she is going to be in my 9/15 New Hire class :-)

I am eating Red Swedish Fish and they are delicious.



Merry Part and Blessed Be!

At the fair

Last night I dreamed I was at a fair with Al and Austin in England and I played a game where you shoot a bb gun at balloons. I did pretty well, and the balloons I shot got pinned to my shirt like trophies. We also had Nerf gun battle, with BFNGs, (that's Big F'ing Nerf Guns) One of them launched big orange ring that had points, it looked like a Nerf energy weapon (kind of hard to describe).

Trying to keep a dream journal again, since I have time in the morning a few days a week now. I got out my Faerie Oracle yesterday and did some work with that. I also tied a string to the single terminated quartz crystal I got a Mohr and More in Erie and made a pendulum. It gave some interesting answers. I do think though that if I am personally invested in the answer, if I have an opinion on it, it affects the pendulum's results. Either it tries to tell me I'm right, or sometimes it gives me the answer I'm afraid to see.

Had to give my Wednesday off this month up to the AJ Prindle gods for a refresher training day. Next month I'd really love to go to Erie and see some friends on that day. Fall is coming, Mabon is just over 3 weeks away. Normally I feel sad to see summer go, but this year I am looking forward to the cooler weather, the leaves changing, etc.

Off to exercise and try to do some writing this morning. Working 12:30 - 9 today.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Blogthings

Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convincing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

You Are Bubble Tea

You are playful, sweet, and light hearted. You almost always have a smile on your face. You don't take life all that seriously, and you're always up for some laughs. You are very modern. You are up on the latest food, fashion, and entertainment trends. You are open minded and open to new experiences. Finding new things to love is a minor obsession of yours.

What Kind of Tea Are You?

You Are an Espresso

At your best, you are: straight shooting, ambitious, and energetic At your worst, you are: anxious and high strung You drink coffee when: anytime you're not sleeping Your caffeine addiction level: high

What Kind of Coffee Are You?

Will try to update tomorrow night or Wednesday morning, very busy week ahead at work!

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Graph Jam

Bonus treat!

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Steampunk Laptop

Greg and Travis posted this to the Coredump forums. It's beautiful technology. It's functional piece of art. I can't get over how freaking cool this thing is.






There are more pics and a video at this link:
http://www.datamancer.net/steampunklaptop/steampunklaptop.htm

Had a great weekend, had lots of fun at Allison and Austin's wedding. More on that later. Nearly bedtime here. Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Lessons Learned

I learned two things this morning.

1) I was stretching after my walk, and as I was looking at the trail upside down, legs wide, head down, I saw a long shape lying on the path. At first, I thought it was a curled up leaf, or a seed pod. Then I realized it was moving. It was a slug. The slug was making its way steadily but oh so slowly across the asphalt path, which was as wide to him as the Mississippi would be to me. He could be stepped on at any moment, the sun could fry him before he reached the safety of the grass on the opposite side. It can take a long time to reach a goal. That doesn't mean it isn't worth it. Don't get discouraged!


2) Peaches are the sexiest fruit. Skin on, they blush at you, like they know a secret you don't. The peach is having impure thoughts. The crease on them is suggestively naughty. It could be a great ass, or the opening of a woman's secret place. (Hard place to describe without being flowery, vulgar or clinical) I was peeling my peaches to cut them up (I plan to pour vanilla yogurt on them later, there's some more sensual imagery for you) and when the knife split the skin, the flesh of the peach and the juice rose up around the knife, covering it in sweetness. Peaches are the sexiest fruit.

More fun with Zombies!

Tonight Chits, Artie and Harriet came over to play games. We played another game of Last Night on Earth. This time, we played a scenario called All Hallow's Eve. We had to find the townsperson who was controlling the zombies, and then burn his Evil Book. We accomplished our goal, by using a lot of dynamite to take out mobs of zombies. Artie, playing the town sherriff, took out the last group in highly cinematic fashion. He ran from the church to the police station, and dropped a gas can by the zombies. He tried to shoot it to make it explode and failed, but then I shot the can on my next turn. I played Becky, the town's nurse. In the end, it was Jeb, the town mechanic who was the Zombie Master, and we defeated him. (really Jeff, who was controlling the Zombies) I like the game more each time I play it. I think after a few more times, I might want to try my hand at playing the Zombies. We also played Ticket to Ride and Carcassone. I am very mad at myself, because I should have won Ticket to Ride. I forgot to connect one very important route between Dallas and Houston, and hence instead of gaining 76 points at the end of the game, I lost 40+ points. I think I was too disgusted with myself to even do the math to figure out how much I lost by.

Starting our next new Hire class at work tommorrow. Prindle is coming!

Merry Part and Blessed Be!