I haven't posted here in about three years, and don't plan to any time soon ( Read more... )

The husband is off having a sleep study, so I am watching instant movies on Netflix.( Read more... )

Being as I am currently at home with some crud which I sincerely hope is not the Swine Flu (no, really, this shit worries me more than a little), I have had some time to look at my Netflix queue and read Above Us Only Sky by Marion Winik, which I found at random in the library last weekend and decided to read, even though a lot of it is personal ( Read more... )

East Mountain Road back home, and a pony named Toby, probably eight years gone at least. He threw me at Bridleway the first time I ever cantered, that controlled run. I wept with the fear, eight or maybe nine years old, and my trainer told me why he'd thrown me, how to stay on. To work through the fear. To ride through it. And so I did.

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Ms. Sylvan has experienced the Dark Night of the Soul, and wonders where the Wiccan Elders are, ones who could offer counsel in this. Let me tell you where: hiding from this sort of thing.

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I think Caitlin Kiernan's bit about Lupercalia is spot-on - "if you want to sacrifice a couple of goats and a dog to Lupa, then run around town naked, save for a bloody thong of goatskin -- that's a goddamn reason to get out of bed. This sugar-coated hearts and flowers crap? Not even a weak echo of a genuine fertility rite." (Ms. Kiernan's ell jay ( Read more... )

Facebook is just like high school all over again, just like someone said. The bullshit drama, the backstabbing, blah blah. It's too boring to get into, but suffice it to say, someone who was a backstabbity little attention-whore bitch twenty years ago still is, and proved it in about five posts.

I have no particular grudge against the majority of ( Read more... )

My belly button now has a little smile. Pics to follow, because I find it amusing.

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See, Saturday was SUPPOSED to be spent at Renfaire. It was not. It was spent at the hospital, where after five or so hours, they took my appendix out. It is very painful - the having appendicitis and the recovery immediately afterward - and I do not recommend it at all. But I came out of anaesthesia with no barfing or inappropriate remarks or ( Read more... )