You’re dying to know, aren’t you? I am a beautiful unicorn!! But look, I have also a Shadow Creature! Take the quiz yourself.
Your Primary Mythical Creature

Air Types
The main strength of the Air types is intellect. The second element indicates the most probable focus for this intellectual activity.
Unicorn
Air with Water
Astrologically associated with Gemini and the Third House
Unicorn types are very concerned with the communication of ideas. They are witty and likeable but can also be quite shy. They are easily bored and easily distracted, and may seem unpredictable and superficial for this reason. Actually they are very deep and are usually trying to find the connections between the people and things around them. They are highly imaginative but not very practical. They love knowledge for its own sake and are not concerned about putting it to use. They are socially astute and sensitive to others’ feelings, but may still appear somewhat aloof. They are drawn to grand schemes for unifying people but these often don’t extend beyond the initial idea. Very logical and rational, Unicorn types are also unconventional and even bizarre. Other people may regard them as fey or just strange.

Your Shadow Creature

Earth Types
All the Earth types have problems relating to productivity and stability. The weakest element indicates the main focus of these problems.
Wodwose
Earth and Fire
This shadow is beset by inertia and a feeling of hopelessness and stagnation. They are prone to depression linked to apparently insuperable odds. They exhibit an attitude of defeat that is betrayed by their fatalism and pessimism. They often find themselves trapped in a rut of grinding routine. They have no energy or sense of direction. They often alienate others because of their negativity and narrow outlook and because they feel anger and resentment toward them. Passive aggression is used to good effect. They are self-neglectful of their physical needs although they may binge on unhealthy foods and substances. The biggest obstacle of weak Fire is to overcome anger and aggression; the biggest obstacle of weak Earth is to overcome self-centeredness and greed.

Admit it, you regard me as fey or just strange.

Well, I finished my fifty thousand words. I put them all in a row, with punctuation and capitalization and such. These words, while not created by me, are arranged in a particular order that came only from my brain. The decision to put commas, periods, quotation marks, question marks, exclamation points and even the occasional semicolon was mine, and mine alone. The images and ideas that come to mind, when one reads these words in their particular order, are mostly lies and fabrications. They never happened. If they did, they did not happen the way I portrayed them. Any resemblance to people or events is purely coincidental.
If all that makes a story, I guess I wrote one.

NaNoWriMo donations have exceeded the $60,000 goal, and it’s not even the end of the month! Which means that they’ve raised enough money to fund three new libraries for children in Cambodia. How cool is that?
guh… I’m still full!
Happy Thanksgiving!

The are installing the new sewer line. I’m pretty excited about it. Because they are professionals, and have all sorts of fancy machines, they do not have to dig a trench the entire way. Just a hole by the house, and then a gigantic hole by the curb, next to the street. Unfortunately, a lovely magnolia tree had to be sacrificed. In reality, the roots of the tree were probably the cause of the problem. We wanted to save the tree, but it was not possible.
I am a huge fan of trees. It’s one of the reasons I live here. And I hate to see a good tree die. I’m saddened.

click for larger image. that’s my stepdad next to the tree.
Rest in peace, sweet magnolia tree.

i’ve been wanting to do some red for a long time. Using the bigger banner babe made that possible. The smaller version was free, and it was hard to select all the tiny pixels of the bikini to change colors. So I broke down and bought the image, and it’s much easier now. And she’s bigger!!
Cuz…. size matters.

Well, after hours of messing around, I finally got my blog converted over to MovableType 3.x compliant styles and tags. And now the TypeKey link is working, so if you have one, you can log in when you make comments, and you won’t have to wait for me to approve them. Again, I think it’s a pretty safe thing to sign up for. And once you have an ID, you can use it on any MT 3.x style blog that requires one.
Since they changed so many things in the style sheet, I couldn’t make it look exactly like it did before. But it’s close enough, right? I’m not CSS expert, I’m self taught and I learn by messing around. And I’ve done plenty of that over the last few days. Now I just have to fix up the booklist page, and I can get started on Satan’s Bookclub!
What do you think the chances are of me winning NaNoWriMo this year? Outlook not good.

yeah, i know. i’ve been messing with things. but i can’t fix it right now. i have to pay attention to my day job. the one that pays me.