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| Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 | |
| 9:37 am | It's like thunder, and lightning, the way you love me is frightening.... My Beloved arrives today!!!!!!! I am frantically cleaning and readying myself for his arrival. As I scurry around, I am thrilled to hear the sounds of thunder, sometimes distant, sometimes right overhead. It seems very powerful and romantic to me. I would love it if it cooled off enough for us to have a fire. But even if not, it is still the perfect soundtrack for my day. He'll be here until the 7th, so don't expect to hear much from me until after that. oodles of love, me Current Music: storm sounds |
| Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 | |
| 7:47 am | bits of news here and there I have been terrible about updating, and not much better about commenting. Sooooooorry. I am a bizzy grrl. So... here's what's been going on of late... we had the BEST tea party EVER on Saturday. Almost 30 people crammed into my house. Thank goodness the weather was great and the more spirited young ladies could hang out on the porch. It was raucous and noisy and high-energy and fun. And took me forEVER to clean up. It is funny, because people keep wanting to stay and help me clean up afterwards. I'm sure they envision me staying up until midnight washing tea cups. Let me tell you here and now, that just ain't so! I usually put away anything that is perishable and leave the dishes for the next day. In this case, I had so many it took me 2 days, due to lack of counter space for drying. I was some, let them dry, put them away, wash more, et cetera ad nauseum... Sunday afternoon, Rhiannon and I went to see the Indigo Girls. A fabulous duo called "Coyote Grace" opened for them. For the occasion, they had added a local musician on fiddle. The pair are a couple. They fell in love when they were both girls. Then Joe did a ftm transition. (and how appropriate for a concert on pride weekend!) There were a couple of songs about how they coped with their changing love. It was just marvelous. Subtle. Poignant. Funny. (at one point in Joe's song about going back to his college, where he'd been a girl, he refers to himself as "a self-made man." Cracked me up) Musically they were marvelous, too. He plays guitar and has a voice that is the aural equivalent of smoke drifting lazily off the end of a cigarette that dangles carelessly from the hand of a riverboat gambler. She plays a standup bass that is taller than she is. I bought a CD. You can check them out at www.coyotagract.com Enjoy. I certainly did. Mark arrives Thursday evening, and I am in my usual frenzy of trying to ready self and home to receive my Beloved. I am never, EVER ready enough. There is always more that I could be doing and wish I could get done. But he seems to love me anyway, so I guess I will try to relax a tad. Oh, who am I kidding? Taht's never going to happen. I'm just thankful he is a patient man, and loves me in spite of my foibles and haphazard nature. xo Current Mood: hungry and antsy |
| Friday, June 27th, 2008 | |
| 2:52 pm | D'oh to dough Starting the south beach diet in which phase 1 includes no starch or sugar 3 days before you host a tea party is REALLY, REALLY SILLY. Die-yet- i'ze doin it rong. On the other hand, it is interesting to see how automatic my filching of cookie dough is, and how hard it was to stop myself from doing it. So I learned something. I guess. And Reminder to all local women... Tea Party is tomorrow at 3, so as not to conflict with the pride parade on Sunday, and the Indigo Girls on Sunday night. Double w00t on that one. Didn't get the evite? Comment here! |
| Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | |
| 10:40 am | Indigo Girls at the zoo xo ETA: SOLD. I'm taking R, aka "The Gothlet," as I have every year for the last 4 or 5. It is a terrific chick-bonding night for us. I do love my girl... |
| Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 | |
| 9:27 pm | o hai. busy, busy, busy... went to the solstice parade, hoping to see ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} salah dance, but couldn't get anywhere near the parade. We sat at the very end where everyone parked their super-groovy floats, so we saw a few flashes of pink dancers and that was it. But for the second half of the parade, lots of people left and we were able to find a spot and look.I went with my daughter and Jeff's girlfriend, and we met up with mooseloon who gave me a leg up onto a cement wall. (I am so repulsively out of shape) and we perched up there and people-watched with all our might. I was wearing a blue velvet dress, blue sparkly shoes, a blue feather boa, a tiara, and big blue wings. I had a blast in that outfit, and am making a public commitment to wear it again at a few random times through the year for no good reason. It makes people smile, and I like to spread the love. Mark says they only smiled because they were at the parade. So I have asked him to accompany me to safeway while I am wearing that and watch to see what happens. I bet just about everyone will smile at me, don't you think so? He is MOST skeptical. The crowds at the parade were monstrous. I am going to have to go at 6am next year and bring a couch and a small solar-powered fridge. It was just nuts trying to park. We ended up leaving the neighborhood in order to find food. Craziness. I wish we had seen more of the parade, but the part we did see was fun. I dropped R off for a sleepover and then headed off to eveofdstruction's for a drink with her and blackavar whom I haven't seen ina bout 600 years or so. That was just delightful. Sunday morning, I went to Ecstatic Dance for the first time. It was super marvelous. I really enjoyed it. I came out sweaty and exhausted, but really happy. I think it will be a part of my regular routine. I told the someone I was going to church, and it felt like the truth. I really want to take Connor. I think he will dig the freedom in the atmosphere. I'm staffing a warriorsage event on the 26th. It is Tea party on Saturday the 28th, and a frenzy of baking between now and then. Indigo girls on the 29th at the zoo with my daughter, as this is our yearly tradition. And then my beloved arrives on 7/3 for 3.5 days of Current Mood: tiiiiiired Current Music: cat snoring |
| 7:24 pm | Hippo birdie... two ewes, Catherine. And many more!!! xoxoxoxoxo Current Music: me humming happy birthday with cha-cha-chas added |
| Thursday, June 19th, 2008 | |
| 11:27 am | I has teh dumb. Need teh geeks, plz? I have several user accounts on my machine, so that no one else can use my stuff or mess with my settings. I just set up a user account for Connor so he can play games. But I can't figure out how to give him permission to use the games that are already installed. Nor can I install them on his sysstem without deleting them from their existing location in my user account. I've been through all the menus and can't figure out how to share things. I know it must be there, as it isn't possible that windows would be set up so stupidly that each user account would be the only one to use any app installed therein. BUT I CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT BY MYSELF. help? Current Mood: dopey |
| Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 | |
| 7:32 am | VOTE! unapologetically yoinked from nocompromiseshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQJ9Xp0 watch it. you will not be sorry. |
| Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 | |
| 1:04 pm | my highland baby sister My babiest sister plays drum in a pipe band in Nashville. They just won first place in a competition and I am sooooooooooooooooo proud of her!!! She is the drummer spinning sticks closest to the camera in this youtube. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mBVHTz5 Current Mood: proud Current Music: BAGPIPES!!!! How cool is that? |
| Monday, June 16th, 2008 | |
| 6:01 pm | cult weekend I was at the cult last weekend and this one just past. This is about the most recent... ( Holy Blissed out Goddess of Love, Batman!!!! ) All in all, it is an amazing weekend. The staff and participants all leave completely spent. It is non-stop, intense practice, and utterly incredible. I grow in my capacity for love every time I attend. I am so happy to have this in my life. It was just fucking AWESOME! Current Mood: blissed out |
| Thursday, June 5th, 2008 | |
| 9:51 am | Tea Party - save the date This month will be on SATURDAY June 28th. It is time for the quarterly kid-friendly party, so please bring your junior goddesses along. We can celebrate as they prepare for their fall transition, whatever it may be... middle school, kindergarten, big girl panties... whatever! I'll get the invite out very soon. I'm trying something other than evite this time, as evite ATE my last attempt at an invite and I'm still mad at it. |
| Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 | |
| 8:15 pm | the good, the bad, and the ugly: a short update on my life. Please start whistling that lovely theme before you begin reading. Why? No reason other than that it amuses me to think of your doing it. My daughter is still struggling, and I'm having a hard time finding a therapist for her. But she is MUCH better, and is allowing herself to lean on her Mommie. That is a positive step. But I can't leave her alone at all, and I've had to hide all of the medicine in the house. that makes me incredibly sad, but it is a worthwhile precaution, obviously. This is still really hard and is taking up most of my emotional energy. I don't dare focus very much elsewhere. Connor is up and down, becoming more openly defiant. I always win, of course, but it is more of a struggle. Inanimate objects continue to conspire against me... toilets overflow, electronics do not cooperate. I am cursed in this area, I swear. My Beloved visited for TEN days!!!! We had a blissful time, and I adore Him more than ever. He is a strong, calming presence in my life and I feel a bit lost without Him here. The job search is in full swing, though, so we hope it is not too many more months until we start our forever. We took Rhiannon (whom he calls "The Gothlet") to see Peter Murphy. She absolutely LOVED it. He bought her a tee-shirt which she has worn every chance she has had since. At one point during the show, she threw her arms around me and told me I was her best friend. It is moments like those that give me hope for her safety and ultimate happiness. Mark has now met every single local relative I have, right out to the second cousins. And He still loves me, so I guess it went okay. One of the best things about the visit was how much I got to cook for him. I dearly love to cook. It is one of the ways I express love. I learned to make meatballs just for him, and jambalaya as well. He says I did a great job at both of them. Hooray! He will be back for the weekend of July 4 for a short 4 day visit. I am spoiled by the last long one, though... I want more! Missing Him is like a physical ache. I love Him so much. Things continue to muddle along. I'm going to Canada to cult this weekend and next. I'll be staffing the Sex, Passion, and Enlightenment again, which is just about my favorite thing to do EVER. So wonderful to see people open up to their inner divinity and passion. Yay!!! Obviously, I am insanely behind on reading LJ. I sort of scanned the last week or two, but that's all I've been able to manage. RL is just taking a ton of time and energy right now and leaving me too enervated to post or comment much. But I still loves y'all. Honest. xoxo |
| Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 | |
| 2:23 pm | Hippo Birdie Two Ewe!!! Great and glorious day to my darling dakinishir. So happy you are part of my life.:: hugs and snuggles :: |
| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | |
| 8:21 am | No Mas, por favor. I am not kidding, universe, back up off it. IRS teenage daughter making suicide threats. dog injured by angry son. I do not fucking need this. (we're all going to be okay. I just wanted to let you all know why I am absent. I was going to say I am coping like a rock star, but that implies drugs and tearing apart hotel rooms. I'm just doing what must be done, and that's all I can manage) Current Mood: coping |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 | |
| 9:52 am | Tea Party Ladies! Sunday 5/18, 3pm at Stately Danger Manor. Tea, cookies, fussy little sandwiches (with the crusts cut off, dammit) and a strong likelihood that there will be cocktails. If you didn't get the evite and want it, please comment. Otherwise, I hope I see you there. xoxo ETA: ARE THERE ANY NORTHEND ATTENDEES WHO MIGHT BE WILLING TO GIVE A RIDE TO dreamingcrow? |
| Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 | |
| 9:19 am | You KNOW You want to see Ariana Huffington And you can. But it is going to cost you one way or another. I'm working with Planned Parenthood to do some fundraising. I love this organization and what they do for health and sexuality in our community. They are having a luncheon featuring the pundit/goddess Ms. Huffington, a remarkably intelligent and entertaining speaker, at a luncheon on May 20. Tickets are $125 each. I'd pay for that if I could, but I can't. I can, however, give lots of my time and effort, and so can you. If you are willing to make 100 phone calls to Planned Parenthood supporters, and show up early on luncheon day to help decorate, you can attend at no charge. I have a limited number of spaces available for this offer, but I can think of at least 4 of you whom I know would enjoy supporting PP. If you can buy a ticket, or know someone who could, that's great. Please let me know. If you want to volunteer, comment here or email me. Love and healthcare for all, me |
| Friday, May 2nd, 2008 | |
| 6:54 pm | note to the universe please. lay the fuck off. seriously. |
| Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | |
| 8:27 pm | **want** I loooooooooooooove steampunk. I wish I were more talented and could put together things like this. I want this for my living room in SUCH a way. Someday, I am going to be Very Wealthy, and I will have it. Or I will take classes and I will build it, which would be way very lots much better. How does one learn to DO this, anyway? http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/fo and is this not a thing of most excellent beauty? http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/fo *flail* *die* Current Mood: full of envy |
| Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 | |
| 7:19 pm | i iz teh stoopud I cannot believe this. I seriously can't. I was browsing netflix to add some john waters, came up on a trey parker film, added that, which of course made them wonder if I would like SouthPark the Movie. and I looked at the title there in regular text, not in the movie logo... and JUST NOW recognized that Bigger, Longer, and Uncut is naughty. What. A. Dope. :: hangs head in shame :: Current Mood: chagrined |
| 9:03 am | How my kids like my Beloved By popular demand... GothGirl and Mark have a sweet, albeit odd, relationship. He makes short jokes, and she attempts to fling shit right back at him. Sometimes, she does it quite impressively. He said something about her being a midget and she accused him of BIGotry. I thought it was brilliant. She's only 13, afterall. I asked her what she thought of him, and her response was quite direct, "He fits into our family. Marry him Now!" Alrighty then. Clear. To the point. Unambiguous. She's been even more in favor since I told her she was going to be my sole attendant at the wedding and could wear whatever she liked. I took the kids to pick Him up at the airport on this last visit. When it came time to go down the escalator, I reached for RocketMan's hand. "Oh," he said casually, "I think I'll just hold MARK's hand." Subtle, but from The Boy(tm), a very clear indicator of approval. We've been talking about step-parents and what that means. They are pleased. So, that's what they think of my man. Current Mood: pleased |