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| Friday, January 8th, 2010 | | 7:23 am |
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practicallyfame - Starting Anew http://practicallyfame.livejournal.com/536502.html 
08-Jan-2010 1:15a
Pie & I have decided to end our [romantic] relationship for the time being.
This happened before the holidays, but the holidays are no time to bring it up.
I've been mentioning things a bit in my friends-only entries and wanted to make sure everyone knew what was going on - I know I have some lurkers.
We've both been a bit pre-occupied in the last few months - his final semesters of college and my soul-searching, and a relationship kind of requires a bit more work than either of us have been willing to put into it.
He just graduated, then he was in Colorado over the holidays (he's still there), then he's in South America until March doing some soul-searching & some touring. Then he's got to figure out where to go from here - checking out the music scenes of New York, Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles. I'm not really up for that ride, I'm not in a personal place to uproot myself for the unknown, or be a long-distance girlfriend - I require a bit more attention than that.
Maybe someday when he's figured some things out and we've both grown up a bit more, maybe then.
For now, we've ended on good terms, we're still dear friends, and he's still my favorite of any lover I've ever had.
I owe him much for the experiences he's given me, and the direction in which he's inspired me.
I wish him only the best.
New Year, New Start.
I am a celestial being, having a human experience.
Current Mood:  content
practicallyfame | | 12:52 am |
practicallyfame - Lately http://practicallyfame.livejournal.com/535951.html
08-Jan-2010 12:20a
Last night and this morning I had a bout of micro-productivity. I call it that because I was massively productive on a very very small scale. I "cleaned out" my Facebook, deleting all extra groups and a handful of friends I don't know/talk to.
But more importantly, I'm micro-cleaned my room. I'm far from finished, but it's amazing how much I got done.
After cramming books and more books on the shelves after birthday and Yule loot, I finally removed all my books, dusted the shelves, and reorganized them, neatly.
I went through all my little knick-knack boxes and sorted my knick-knacks. Photographs in two, jewelry in another, odd foreign coins in another.
I took all of my Rolling Stone magazines and organized them by publishing date (for the first time ever). I have magazines from 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and they take up two shelves. I really want some old-school RS magazines, maybe someday I'll actually go about collecting them.
I also went through my hatboxes, organized the three nicest - one contains only candles, one contains only candle-holders and nice altar-topper-extras, and the other contains only incense, of which I apparently have... TONS.
I put all my spare cellphone chargers and "techie" stuff, like bluetooths and the like, in one hatbox. Another is filled with old letters. Two more with scarves and sarongs. One still has all my potpourri in it. My mini-hatboxes have: arm warmers, belts, my spare-change collection, nail polish collection, makeup collection, buttons collection, magnet collection.
I found all my reusable shopping bags and put them near the door, which seems appropriate.
I filled one box of things I need to find new homes for. A menorah I don't need, an old '98 Gateway laptop, an extra power strip, and some other knick-knacks.
All in all, the changes are subtle but significant. My shelves and boxes look amazing. I cleared out three bags of trash and got rid of three boxes.
Next I need to organize my closet, my notebook chest (filled with all the notebooks I've written in since childhood), my costume chest, reorganize my DVD shelf (which is full, dammit), and my nightstand. Slowly but surely I am getting rid of everything extra - everything I don't need, everything I pack away with "maybe that'll be useful someday".
The next time I move, I don't want to be "unearthing" anything. I want to be fully aware of everything I own, and make everything that belongs to me something that deliberately belongs to me.
I need a new calender too for 2010. Last year's was Marilyn Monroe... honestly I'm really fond of that.
Watched Almost Famous again tonight. I have seriously seen that movie over a hundred times. I love it. It is the perfect movie. Current Mood:  accomplished
Current Music: Lady Gaga
practicallyfame | | Thursday, January 7th, 2010 | | 11:22 pm |
garden_pixie - [The Sun Kisses of the Holy http://garden-pixie.livejournal.com/226776.html 
07-Jan-2010 8:20p
Knowing Knowledge has two wings, Opinion, one wing. Opinion is
defective and curtailed in flight.
But when the bird has been delivered from Opinion, Knowledge shows its
face to him: that one winged bird becomes two winged and spreads his
wings.
If all the world should say to him "You are on the way to God and
following the right religion."
He will not be made more fervent by their words: his lonely soul will
not mate with them;
And if they shall all say to him," You are astray: you think you are a
mountain and in reality you are a blade of straw,"
He will not fall into doubt because of their taunts, he will not be
grieved by their departure and estrangement from him.
No, if the seas and mountains should say to him, "You are wedded to
perdition,"
Not the least jot will he fall into fantasy or sickness on account of
the taunts of the scoffers."
Rumi (Vol. 3, 1513-1521)
garden_pixie | | 11:22 pm |
erynn999 - Slow and cranky http://erynn999.livejournal.com/534438.html 
07-Jan-2010 7:39p
I'm creaky and cranky today due to nasty crampy bits and the tiny edge of a suggestion of a migraine in my left eye. I've been moving slowly and just feeling really tired all day long. I only just got dressed about an hour ago because I had to take the DoDC+3 out for his constitutional. I'm not quite focused enough to read for very long, so writing has been rather out of the question, but I still feel really positive about yesterday and pretty motivated about the whole thing.
Tomorrow there will be people here to clean out the dryer vents so I'll have to be home all day anyway. Writing will very likely get done then, as will laundry after the dryer has been cleaned up. I have some ideas where to go with the whole thing, I just don't have quite enough energy to even move at the moment.
I did have enough energy to toss my last couple of tilapia fillets in the oven with a little salsa verde, which I baked and then had over rice. Had some nummy mixed herb salad afterwards topped with herbed feta in olive oil and a splash of balsamic vinegar.
Chances are I'll be crashing early tonight because I'm so tired and my brain is so foggy. We hates fibro fog we does, my preciousss. I'm sort of tempted to have a cuppa tea but I think it will have to be decaf because I don't want to be both foggy and buzzy at the same time. It's just a bad combination.
Here's hoping tomorrow will be a more energetic day.
Current Mood:  exanimate
Current Music: Macha: Riding the Rails
erynn999 | | 9:52 pm |
paigemom - Just a thought... http://paigemom.livejournal.com/856154.html 
07-Jan-2010 7:56p
You know, if you're going to get all bent out of shape to the point of "wanting the dog's collar back on so it will hurt when I lift her" (as opposed to the harness my beagle is currently wearing) and insisting she either be on leash or crated in the house at all times because she got into the food cabinet and ate an entire bag of uncooked egg noodles --
you might want to consider moving the food to a cabinet *above* the counter.
I'm just sayin'.
And of course *your* beagles would *never* do such a thing.
Sigh.
If we could afford to move out of my mother's house, we would.
paigemom | | 8:22 pm |
martianmooncrab - (No subject) http://martianmooncrab.livejournal.com/530252.html 
07-Jan-2010 4:52p
Starting to get back on track with cleaning and such, its trash prep day, so I finally went out in the garage and sussed out the one recycle bin I havent used for other purposes. Thats at the curb with my glass in it now.
I need to finish my reading list for 2009, the deadline for that is saturday, I know I did over 330 books, just not sure of final numbers yet. Someone suggested and Excell application for that. I might do that eventually.
Its funny how things look better when you put stuff away in its proper place. duh.
Called to check on my cousin in Salem, I havent heard from him in over a month, his landlord was on his way out the door to dinner, so I need to call back after 7.
Ru got the silk I bought her in China, so I am getting some things accomplished.
martianmooncrab | | 8:22 pm |
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wolfinthewood - Illustrators, Photographer http://wolfinthewood.livejournal.com/86733.html 
07-Jan-2010 11:44p
For those who were interested in my last post, The Google Book Settlement: Illustrators, Photographers, Comic Books and Graphic Novels, I have revised it a bit, having decided that some of it couldn't be right: specifically this point:
It transpires that [the situation where an illustrator counts as an author] applies not only where the illustrator/photographer is also the author of the text of the book, or is named as co-author on the cover, but also in cases where the illustrator/photographer owns the rights to the illustrations and is or was paid on a royalty basis. UPDATE: I am no longer sure this is true. This point has been brought to my attention by the UK author I mentioned above. She writes the text of her books and the artist who illustrates them receives a share of the royalties. She consulted the Authors Guild lawyers on the phone and they have apparently told her that her illustrator is an 'author' within the terms of the settlement agreement, and that therefore Google can make use of the illustrations as well as the text. … There is nothing in the settlement that rules out illustrations by an illustrator who *does* have an 'interest' in the 'principal work'. Therefore such illustrators are members of the settlement class. UPDATE: However, the author has got back to me to point out that the definition of a 'principal work is 'a Book’s principal *written* work’ (1.113). So that argues that the illustrator would also have to have a share of the copyright in the main text. So it is apparently not just a question of being paid a royalty. If all this is a matter of concern to you, I suggest rereading the post. Updates in bright red: you can't miss them.
wolfinthewood | | 6:52 pm |
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garden_pixie - Plant the love of the holy http://garden-pixie.livejournal.com/225860.html
07-Jan-2010 2:46p
In looking up the word plant and I was amused. It said that a plant is something or someone who is secretly introduced into an organization in order to influence the behavior of its members. This implies to me an intentional action, something that was set upon to do for a reason to create some sort of change in a system that perhaps wouldn’t change or move in that direction otherwise. While I am seeking this type of change actively in my life, I thought it was noteworthy to think about the quality of what we put into our daily life and what affect of which that has on our inscape that we are unaware. In this case, the plant is love! The qualities of love are compassion, enthusiasm, mercy, grace and charity. It is also longing and desire. We are asked by Goddess to plant LOVE into our spirit, the longing, desire, the compassion and the grace of the Holy Ones in our spirit.
So who are the Holy Ones? This is not a straight forward answer but a nuanced mesh that leaves many openings for us to explore. My mind moves from “the redeemed brethren” from Rev. Robert Kirk to the ancestors, guides and spirits that live, move and have their being in the divine river of eternal unity, known in Craft as the River of the Goddess. These are our spiritual companions who ever seek the breast of the Sacred Mother as our source and sustenance.
As I wander down the grey paths of the hidden realms, my inner spirit notices two parts to this emerging as active dynamics: One is an active planting of the love agenda or qualities in our spirit, which would then make us more like the holy attributes, and allow it to become that our decisions would be influenced by that inner directive. Like adding a flavor to a soup, we would find our sauce, our veggies and our meat all influenced by this flavor automatically, and ideally made tastier and greater than the soup would be otherwise. A sacred movement of bland to tangy!
The second is those persons who have Love as their trait. This would by extension put us into deliberate presence and relationships with the intention of bringing us into alignment with friends and companions outside us who uphold the very values that we are looking to embrace. This has as the added value of finding ourselves being modeled decisions that follow the inner directive of our spirit, a community in which to ask for wisdom and we could enter into trust with that inner directive because it is brought forward by people whose informants are in league with love as the inner landscape and quest. We also become the community of souls that are available to others to as a medium of mercy and grace to the world.
As I am thinking about this, my mind moves to those who make love into an effete feeling: lacking power or inward strength. Love does not ask us to be door mats and especially does not ask us to uphold actions that are contrary to our spirits. Love asks us to be honest, straight forward, open to the inner hearts of those around us, to be willing to offer ours and those around us the grace to enable change when an incongruity to Love is discovered. Love is the law, not a suggestion. All magical practices, Spiritual practices, inner goals and relationships that we foster should be done through the lens of Love as it’s guide and guardian. Love is not the caboose on the train but instead is the engine that guides the soul on its track towards to the foothills of experience and enlightenment. Love gathers power and builds power, it does not remove it from ourselves or another. It does not mask its needs, it listens intently to its children and feeds them. It does not pretend to know something it does not. It upholds grace and truth as its mantra. We don’t have power, we are power! Current Mood:  artistic
garden_pixie | | 5:51 pm |
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gwenwolfrose - Same shit different day... http://gwenwolfrose.livejournal.com/362818.html 
07-Jan-2010 3:32p
Just to let those who are unaware know, that psycho piece of cunt chowder aka ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) thewillow_witch is up to her same old same old again. The same crap that happens every time they track Jimmy down to force him to pay child support. The harassment has begun. She's decided to send DMs to people on twitter to tell them I'm a dangerous stalker. *rolls eyes* Yeah, that's why my documentation will stand up in court and her so called proof will just get laughed at. For one thing, apparently she's set up google alerts to track her own name and wants to claim all the hits as proof that I'm doing google searches on her name. Why the hell I would even need to google her is beyond me since she's on almost every website I am.
That man owes me enough in arrears that he will be paying me out of his social security some day. I call him a deadbeat because he is the very definition of it. He wont even pay enough to cover the interest they charge him. Some day she'll figure out that I AM going to bitch about whatever and whomever I want in my own blogs and that I have the right to do so. Till then I guess I get to deal with her insanity when they track her deadbeat husband down to pay his child support.
One would think the fact that she prodded her husband into moving to Wyoming five months after I did would be a huge clue in the who is stalking who debate... but apparently in her sick, delusional mind it's not. *shrugs*
gwenwolfrose | | 5:21 pm |
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