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Webcam

I get hits on the webcam page, and I feel bad because it’s never on. It’s on now, although I cannot promise I’ll be in front of it if you look… I’m seriously thinking about contemplating scheduling some times to consider doing the dishes.

Anyway, if you are all up in the twitter, I’ll try to remember to send a tweet when I turn it on.

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A MEME IN PICTURES

Which I got from Hilly. It looked fun. Different.

Here’s how it works:

1. Go to www.photobucket.com

2. Type in your answer to the question in the “search” box

3. Use only the first page

4. Insert the picture into your Blog

1.) What is your relationship status?

married

2.) What is your current mood?

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3.) Who is your favorite band/artist? (I don’t have just one, so I picked the first of my favorites to show up in iTunes)

Neko Case - Blacklisted



4.) What is your favorite movie?

Amelie

5.) What kind of pet do you have?

Photobucket

6.) Where do you live?

canada

7.) Where do you work?

home



8.) What do you look like?

goofy

9.) What do you drive?

Subaru

10.) What did you do last night?

Airdre Apache sire of Bellaire

(that is misleading. I did not go horseback riding. I am afraid of horses. Good luck figuring this one out.)

11.) What is your favorite TV show?

House

12.) Describe yourself.

Photobucket

13.) What are you doing today?

no loafing

14.) What is your name?



Jodi

15.) What is your favorite candy?



Negative Peanut Butter Twix

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Important question

I was just watching 60 Minutes and I have an important question. Why don’t old men trim their eyebrows when they grow enormous and bushy? I have no idea what Andy Rooney was saying because I was too distracted, unpleasantly so, by the ginormous bushy eyebrows on his face.

Why why WHY??

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I have more potential than this.

I’m tired today. Emotionally tired. There are times I feel like my only purpose is to clean and procure more food stuffs. Nobody wants or needs anything else from me. Expectations are low. The return is even lower. I’m defeated.

I’m in a bad mood. In fairness, maybe I should mention that it’s possibly a tiny bit hormone fueled. But I don’t think that should invalidate the feelings themselves.

It’s ok, tho. Real Genius is coming on the tv in a half an hour and I just bought a new box of Safeway brand Strawberry Frozen Yogurt dipped in Dark Chocolate bars. Who could fail to be cheered by that?

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Daylight Savings Time broke my blog

Ok, maybe not. But losing an hour bugs me. And having it so early in the year still feels like a bad idea to me. I don’t like it. April and October, that’s how god intended it to work.

It was actually I who broke my blog. More specifically I broke my MovableType trying to upgrade it. So if you tried to leave a comment yesterday, and could not, I apologize. They should be working now. My web hosting service, Living Dot, fixed it for me.

Nonetheless, DST in early March is just wrong.

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Action Plan

A few weeks ago, Roland asked me to fill out his Action Plan. (It took me a while, sorry, Rols.) Perhaps he is trying to pry me away from my television set? Cheeky.

1: Name three things about yourself you would like to improve:

– I procrastinate too much and I am very lazy. This means I don’t accomplish a lot of things I would like to accomplish. I’ve been unemployed for a year now and I really don’t have much to show for it. Which is a shame.

– I wish I spoke a second language fluently.

– I’d like to have more confidence about my writing. Oh, and I’d like to play the cello for reals.

2: Name something you would like to achieve:

a) Within 1 year: Finish a story/book

b) Within 5 years: buy a house

c) Within 10 years: Well, by then I hope to have several published books to my credit. And a swing for the front porch on that house I bought 5 years ago.

3: Name something you would like to help achieve for somebody else:

I would like to be happy, healthy and safe for my mom’s sake. Sure, I’d like it for myself too, it’s a win-win really. But I know that happy, healthy, safe and content children would give my mom a great deal of peace. It’s the least I can do, right?

4: Name one place you haven’t been, but you’d like to go:

Paris

5: Name one person you haven’t met, but would like to:

My new cous-n’phew Julian. I haven’t been able to travel to the states since he was born last fall

6: Name three material things you would like:

a). a house

b). an iPhone

c). a pet dolphin. The dolphin will need a pretty amazing dolphin habitat as well, so I’ll need one of those.

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Hell, yeah I am…

Before the quiz silliness –

Thank all of you for your comments and emails. You have no idea how much it means to me. No, seriously, you have NO IDEA. Quit thinking you do. Cuz you don’t.

You are The Empress Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation. The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful. The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

What Tarot Card are You?

Take the Test to Find Out.

But I have some better looking empress cards.

Phantasm Empress

Voyager Empress

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I used the thesaurus for this one, kids.

I used to be fierce.

I was funny. Entertaining. Smart. People enjoyed being around me. People sought my company. Wanted to spend time with me. I was definitely all three dimensions. I pretty much did whatever I wanted. I may not have always been happy, or healthy, but gol darnnit I was independent. I was an individual.

I’m not going to lie to you. For the past 3 months, life has been The Suck. And I decided, several weeks ago, to just stop doing things. I haven’t cooked a meal in a long time. What little interest I had in housekeeping has long since fled. I have developed a close friendship with my high definition tv.

I flattened.

When I was single and alone, I could tell you everything. If I wanted to. Life gets more complicated and sometimes I chose respect for others and privacy. This is what I am doing now. So I apologize if you sometimes get the “what” without me giving you the “why.”

I am not good at writing from a place of pain. I don’t write poetry. I’m not especially elegiac. I write in paragraphs, not short burst of emo. It’s not my shtick. When I write comfortably, I write from a place of humor.

But I’ve lost mine. I’m working on getting it back. But I can’t promise some anger, frustration, sadness and other ick doesn’t seep out.

I’ll do my best.

Because I used to be fierce and I can be that way again.

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My perspective alone

I am married.

I am a married woman. I have a husband. In some way, this factors into everything I do and every decision I make because it should. We are partners.

There are aspects of my life that have nothing do with him. When I had a job, for instance. But even then he was with me. In my heart and mind. Ok, I never wrote a bug report or technical document with his opinion in mind. But like the ring on my finger, this aspect of my life is always there. Even when I am on my own, doing my own thing, expressing my own views.

And I’m proud of that.

And I respect it.

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Northern Voice 2008

Hey kids.

Long time no see.

I wanted to let you know what’s up, because I said I would be a couple of weeks, but I have decided to give myself a month. I have until next Wednesday before I insist I quit these moody shenanigans and get back to blogging. I haven’t purposely taken time off from the blog in over five years. And it’s given me a some time to think about what I want to do with it in the future. I want to upgrade my MovableType to 4.x version. And I’m beginning to plan a new design.

I am, in no way, planning to stop blogging. On the contrary.

Tomorrow I will attend the kick off party for a local blogging conference, Northern Voice. I’ve been looking forward to this for some weeks. An extremely kind local blogger I’ve traded comments and emails with, Airdrie, has volunteered to introduce me around. Should be a good times.

So I will see you next week, m’kay?

Love ya! Mean it!

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