Truly, Truly Truly Outrageous! Ok, I was at Best Buy today and found something on dvd that I never thought I'd see. And now I'm in the midst of childhood rememberance love and the overwhelming need to buy it and watch it again.
Oh yeah. Don't act like you don't know Jem! If you were a girl at any point in time during the 80's you not only watched the show, but you had (or made) a pair of red star earrings and thought you were damned cool doing it. Jem! was like my all-time favorite cartoon when I was a kid growing up. I plotted it on the tv schedule because around here, it came on at some weird times. I had some of the cassette tapes with the little minute/minute-and-a-half songs on it. (One or two on each side.)
I love that show. And I haven't seen it in 20 years. I am so dying to see it again you just don't know.
We'll get there Ok, so we haven't gotten to it. Yet. We will. It's always one of those good-intentions-but-something-comes-up kind of things. Your well-wishings are still appreciated and hopefully will pave the way for a much smoother transition then the last couple times we've tried this. I get so worried because you know, everything is here on my pc and it going down, or things going wrong - ugh. Scary. Then add in the fact that things always seem to go terribly (with unforseen and utterly freaky problems), I tend not to push to have it done. *chuckles*
Silly joke time. Guess which I fall under.
Two Kinds of People
There are two kinds of people. Those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good morning, Goddess," and those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good Goddess, it's morning."
*chuckles* That obvious hu? Mornings are evil. Everyone knows that. And they show up too early in the day. I'd like them better if they were afternoons.
Mkay. Pointless entry. Need to run around and get some things done today. It's 89F outside (which is low) but the feels-like is 97F. Ugh. I hate Florida in the summer. Good thing Rand's coming over. His car has working a/c. And it doesn't overheat.
Out for now. I think with the scattered rain on the schedule today, I'm going to shut down my pc while we're out. Ta for now.
Reprieve Well, due to the continuation of all-week long migraines, we held off from the headache-causing pc upgrades last night. We'll try for tonight instead.
Awake and getting ready to head into the one-day assignment at my friend's company. It should be fairly psychotic. And to think, I woke up with my head still hurting. Oy. This will be fun. Hopefull, it will be busy and therefore the day will go by quickly. Here's to hoping.
I'm out all day so if you're looking for me, that's why I'm not around! If my head holds out, I'll be there until the end of the day. Good vibes and good wishes for a reduction in the migraine strangle-hold appreciated!
Oh no....here we go again My Love wants to try for the upgrade again. To bring the second harddrive in as my new primary harddrive with WinXP installed. (I still use Win98SE which is literally falling apart it's so buggy.) Problem is, this is not the first time we tried this. The last time, within 30 minutes of getting things set-up, my trackball literally bluescreened me to death the second you touched the mouse. Oy. Talk about fucked up. We ended up just sticking my win98se harddrive back in, took out the new one and left it for the time being.
But he wants to try again. I do need to. I'm out of space and my os is so full of holes I could drain pasta. This just doesn't tend to work out well.
So, if I'm gone, that's why. Wish me luck. I need it.
Randomness My head's been killing me the last couple days. Migraines. I think it's because it's, ya know, that time. And unfortunately, hormone fluxuations can cause them. Then, today I'm just exhausted for no reason. I just want to sleep. I've been dozing off uncontrollably all day. Though it's not helping my head. Bah.
Tomorrow I'll be covering at my friend Rand's company. They're moving from one building to another. Their phones and phone system will be down as they make the move. I will be answering a cell phone where all the lines will be forwarded to and taking handwritten messages. It should be an interesting day. *chuckles* I've been hearing rumors that I might be able to get in there on a permanent, part-time basis for months now so who knows? If I could get 25 hours a week, I might be able to even get health insurance - something you all know how desperately I need. We'll see how Friday goes and what their plans are from there. I covered for them last year and they all loved me, which is why they called me now.
Apparently, my last entry - with the Fae photo - was post number 1300. Sheesh. I babble a lot don't I? Funny to think how long I've been doing this now and how it started off as basically a whim. Now I get frustrated if I can't write to it at least every couple days. I really want to do a redesign because it's Summer now and this was the design I made for Spring. Just haven't had any ideas or real inspiration. I think the head hurting has been putting a damper on it.
Sidhe!Shots Thanks to Lani, I came across a new Pagan-oriented weekly photography meme. Just up my alley. The site is called Sidhe!Shots and it sounds like a neat way to incorporate some photography into my journal, in addition to some Pagan imagery. *smiles*
They don't TELL you it's THIRD in a series *sighs*
So I go to B&N the other night to get a book. As everyone should know, I'm an AVID reader and I ALWAYS have to have a book in progress. I've read so many books though at this point, that I generally just grab almost anything out of the sci-fi/fantasy section just because it's impossible to find things if I'm picky.
So. I see this one - Dime Store Magic - and I skim the back cover. Looks good enough. Some witch, yada, protecthing another young witch from some bad guys. Fine.
Take it home, start reading and I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of background here. I look and see she's written two other books so far, but....they're about werewolves. This is about witches. I read some more but the nagging way they keep barely referencing events which clearly happened in the past like you already know about them forces me to put it down. And go on a book hunt.
Nowhere is it clearly labeled that this book is really the third in this series. The first two have a different main character, but....I do discover the first book has an extended title: Bitten (Women of the Otherworld, Book 1). Now, nowhere on the book I bought does it say anything about being book three in that series, BUT, it does have a little blurb on the front cover: Smart, sexy and supernatural: meet the women of the Otherworld.
D'oh!
So while I guess technically, it's a very loose series in that it's all set in the same world but not necessarily contain all the same characters from one book to the next, there's definately been some world set-up that I'm just missing out having picked up this, her third, book.
Which brings me to the rant part: I HATE WHEN AUTHORS and/or PUBLISHERS FAIL TO CLEARLY INDICATE THE ORDER OF BOOKS IN A SERIES!!!!!! ARG! Do you know how ANNOYING that is?? Had I known I needed to pick up the FIRST book in the series, I would have bought that one instead. Now I have a book that I can read, but kinda not really, because I need the other two instead. Dammit.
I don't really have the cash for this one. I'm broke until Friday. So it's not like I can go out and grab another book just so I can have something to read and so that I can read the book I've already purchased. Bah.
To make matters worse, the first in the series isn't actually out in paperback yet. Just in hardcover and a trade paperback. Though they came out a few years ago, making them troublesome to track down. And of course, more expensive then the $6.99 I paid for the paperback.
Bitten - on Amazon, new for $10.40 *sighs* There's also apparently tons of audio cassette versions but who wants the damned book on tape? *grumbles* Not I, that's for sure. I just want to, oh, I don't know, read the book and possibly have it make sense. Is that too much to ask?
Anyone feeling generous and want to buy my disgrunted and broke self the first one so I can actually read the book I already bought?
Posessives This is really out in left-field, but here goes anyway. I often see in books these days (and it seems a recent thing), that authors use "'s" on words which already end in an "s" or are plural. And I swear that is not how I learned it. I remembered - and have always myself written - it as just to add the "'" So, it's been nagging at me. And I looked it up. But the answer I found seemed....well, muddled.
2. If a singular common noun ends in s, add 's - unless the next word begins with s. If the next word begins with s, add an apostrophe only. (This includes words with s and sh sounds.)
* The boss's temper was legendary among his employees. * The boss' sister was even meaner. * The witness's version of the story has several inconsistencies. * The witness' story did not match the events recorded on tape.
3. If a singular proper noun ends in s, add an apostrophe.
* Chris' exam scores were higher than any other students.
4. If a noun is plural in form and ends in an s, add an apostrophe only, even if the intended meaning of the word is singular (such as mathematics and measles.)
* The instructor asked us to analyze ten poems' meanings. * The dog catcher had to check all of the dogs' tags. * It is hard to endure the Marine Corps' style of discipline. source
I think I am confused on the matter, but, I'm positive that some editors and/or publishers are as well. For I've surely seen proper noun ending in an "s" - Chris's - be incorrectly saddled with an "'s" Though, seeing boss's seems odd to me in general. Hrm....
I never claimed to be perfect in grammar (let alone spelling! Of which I freely admit, I'm horrid!), but still. Somethings just don't look right when I've read books lately and I think things are being done incorrectly all over. I might need to do more reading on this. Times like this I miss having textbooks on hand. When you're a kid, you always have books to help you track this stuff down. Not so much nine years out of high school and having never attended college.
Anyway, not really an entry. Just what's on my mind at the moment. (Which, well, happens to be posessiveness! *chuckles*)
Oh, and if you want to take a bite out of other english errors, browse through the common errors in english site. Rather interesting in a dull, dry, academic way. *grins*
The Longest Day of the Year In my grumpiness about the whole father's day thing, I totally overlooked that it was a holiday. So Blessed Midsummer to all my fellow Pagans and a Happy Summer Solstice to the rest. This is the longest day of the year; the day when the sun is at it's peak. From here on out, the days will slowly grow shorter. Though it feels like we've already been in the brunt of the summer heat for several months now, and though we have the dog-days of summer heat yet to look forward to, it is yet a reminder that slowly but surely, the night and winter do approach.
For those interested in Midsummer information, you can check out the articles on witchvox, like this one.
Bad Day I hate this day. I hate that this day exists. I hate that I have to be reminded of the whole concept of fathers and good dads and all that shit. It just grinds the knife deeper that I lived in hell for 14 years with the fucktard sperm donor who did his best to ruin my life, physically, mentally, emotionally (and then some) abusing me every day and that others didn't. It's not that I'd wish that hell on anyone else, but fuck, it's not like I deserved to be put through it myself.
Had to get up early after not sleeping all night. Went and had breakfast with my Love's parents and brother. And don't get me wrong, his folks - and his dad - are great. But it's that much more salt in my wounds that he got that. And still has the beautiful, good, all-american, normal relationship. Just reminds me of how much not only I endured, but how much I missed out. And so I hate this day.
One of my long-time favorite places and concepts, Postcardx.net (px for short) is closing. I wrote this in tribute and wanted to share it here as well.
Reflections on Px I'm so sad about all of this. I joined px several years ago now. And I remember when it closed for awhile but came back. During that time, I was so new to it that it didn't impact me the way the news does now.
Everyday I go to my mailbox. Everyday there's a chance something will make me smile, laugh or be intrigued. It's become more then a website for me, it's become part of my life.
I walk around and I see things - stationary, postcards, trinkets - and I think about how that would be cool to send to someone. I collect things specifically to pass along to others. I have a shelf full of different types of paper, cardstock, postcards, stickers, stamps, pens, markers, crayons, and something from every isle in the craft store which I bring out and use to create. Create something to give away into the world; something which someone else will receive and hopefully enjoy.
I don't get out much. I haven't seen any of the world. But the world comes to me and I get to reach out and touch the world through px. It's a gateway and a portal to the possible.
I've suffered through the drama - both first hand and simply watching it run like a virus through the site. But I've also seen the kindness and the goodness of it. I've seen people come together and lift each other up. Through it all, there's been a light shinning through from the core of it's being. And that light has illuminated us all at one point in time or another.
Thank you px. Thank you Jack. Thank you to our postal workers who carried these small moments of joy into our lives. And thank you to everyone who took the time to spread kindness rather then hate. You've all touched my life and I'm happy I was able to come along for the ride and possibly touch some of yours as well.
It may seem weird, but I'm really honestly hurt by this. It's like losing a long-time friend. The people I've met; the kindness I've shared and received....just knowing that will all go away actually hurts me inside. It's not what I need right now. I'm already in a low point; losing this outlet for me is a blow I will struggle to weather. And here come the rains....
