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| lättsaltade Potatisnaks |
| 09.28.04 (5:45 am) [edit] |
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Sweden rocks. If Marcus got a job there I'd be so jazzed. It's like home home, wooden hoses painted funky cool bright colours,treees and tress and water and more water, wide open spaces, friendly happy people,moose, a sing song language to learn and just everything. Sweden rocks. That's where I was this weekend, for Civil Wars. fun fun fun. Went for a road trip with one of my best friends and we just had such a grand time. It was large! ferry rides, cups of tea, nordseekrabben on bread ( yum) moose, the giggles, sharing a cabin in the woods with anothe crazy female and a guy and a lemur called max ( okay so max is a stuffed toy) add to that the fact it was an SCA event ( in sweden) and we got to go grocery shopping ( in sweden) and I just love being in sweden, it was a pretty successful trip. We even made our ferry back with time to spare (take that you nay sayers) Did I meantion how much I adore Sweden? anyway if we ever do the road trip hing again...... it will be great! Big hugs and thanks to the Missus Moose Finder for all the driving and the wintermint lifesavers and the rubberband time warp abilities to make two hours seem like 10minutes oh my god where does that time gowhen you are caught up in it???? until then be excelent to each other. |
| monday |
| 09.20.04 (5:51 am) [edit] |
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goooooooooooooooooooooooo od morning it's monday Marcus is home! it's very cold out side it's probably going to rain today I got a nifty new ACER t-shirt Life is good! may the force be with you... does Jedi count as a religion yet? Until then be excellent to each other. |
| the force is in the post |
| 09.19.04 (8:02 am) [edit] |
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whoo hoooo accordingto Amazon our Star wars DVDs are in the mail. oh boy oh boy. I feel like a kid all over again. except this time no waiting in line for 4 hours to see the film on opening night, just waiting for the post man. The theatre where I saw ESN in halifax no longer exists and I remember how that felt, we were sooooooooooooooo hyped. Seems strange to get hypes about a 25 year old film, but you know...... it was special, it is special and there's a bit of my childhood wrapped up in that story as well, it integrated itself in my life, hell it's because of Star wars I met my husband. so yeah, I am hyped about the movies being on DVD. ------------- on othertopics, back to work tomorrow and already the weather has turned ugly wet and dark, that's okay I don't mind workig when it's poopy outsiude, after all there is no bad weather only wrong clothes. I don't mind the stormy grey skies and wild winds. have to tidy a bit this morning too, Marcus gets home YAY and Ishoudl tuck away the evidence of living like a student again, papers all over the place, half empty coffee cups, and so on. then it's back to normal life, thank goodness. :) but now he's sitting in Amsterdam and waiting for his flight out. can't wait!!!!! so until then, be excellent to each other |
| too much internet access |
| 09.17.04 (8:09 pm) [edit] |
 You are Gambit! You are a fierce fighter and a good friend to have. Your preference for solitude and your attractiveness make you very intriguing to those you meet. Unfortunately, close relationships are few and far between for you because you often have trouble opening up to others. Which X-Men character are you most like? brought to you by Quizilla |
| On the bridge of a Star Destroyer |
| 09.17.04 (7:31 am) [edit] |
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The scenario started off simply enough, what would happen if the Empire in all it's glorious burocracy decides that every single member of the Imperial Navy witha rank of admiral ( vice, full,fleet etc...) shoudl be assihgned a personal assistant, after all someone has to deal with the stupid paper work. The premis then jumped to what heppens when one is assigned to Darth Vader? Now who the heck would want to work for him right? The premise was just words and the conversations about the idea were bandied about in the IO and that ended up with a job on board Ged's ship. So what is it like to be on the bridg of a Star Destroyer? awe inspiring! yeah yeah okay, enough with the wild story ideas. Of course the writing process is bloody tedious when you have to wade through the SW canon and sort out all the time lines and stuff. Good job I am just doing this for fun, no one will ever see it , most likely and probably it will never get finished it takes me an average of seven years to complete a book and then I need to tuck it away before I can begin to re-write. Too many ideas but I am not focused, too easily distracted, I seem to like doing the research more than the writing, well that's not true I love the writing as well, but i get distracted. Too caught up in visuals and I want to make images and sometimes IthinkI woudl have made a good director for films, HAH! everyone says that don't they, but who knows.... so today is the task of finishing up some seriously time consuming scrolls, developing plot threads, doing laundry and some general maintenance tidying and get ready for marcus coming home, YAY. This week has been a surreal step backward in time, us apart, talking via computer, sittng miles away from each other with only the bits and bytes to connect us. For me it has shown me that I revert back to "student" like life, late nights irregular meals and a desire to get stuff done mixed with a terrible restlessness, I wonder every now and then if I should have gone to work and not taken the week off but in the end I am happy I also had some serious down time, gather some quiet before the storms start, the whirlwind back and forth searches for an apartment, the process of dismanteling one life in exchange for another. What has been lovely about this week was the weather which was supposed to be terrible but at the last minute has been beautiful bright blue skies and sun, a little cool but normal september weather. And that's about it. so I shoudl get to work, start my day in all its various adventures, from the medieval to the galaxy far far away, it's all an adventure. until then, be excellent to each other. |
| silly sw stuff. |
| 09.16.04 (11:16 am) [edit] |
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http://members.w-link.net/" title="http://members.w-link.net/" target="_blank"http://members.w-link.net/~imperatrix/thrawnfic-com mandments.htm Who knew???? and if you don't get it , read Timothy Zahn's books *giggle* |
| It must be thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays |
| 09.16.04 (8:04 am) [edit] |
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yup it's Thursday, and I am having a LAZY morning. Of course the late nights are not helping. Late nights and early mornings, due to the alarm clock in the AM and the desire to stay up and finish this damn book I have been trying to write since 7 years ago. It's not going that well, and that's okay I write it for me anyway. A fun story that ties in with Star Wars and the Imperial order. 3 x w.imperialorder.org so you will have to type the url out yourself because the blog wants to redirect it back to this page...how weird. ( if the website is back up and running, I think Ged was updating it) I like the story that has all sorts of fun stuff, and sometimes it is just way cool to dump one's alter ego into someone else's sand box and play. After all, as nasty as he was, who wouldn't want to meet Darth Vader at some point??? Oh wait I did and he was cool! ( even got an autograph). dark side rules! Luke was too whiney for my tastes. this is the escape from the scrolls I am also doing, and one in particular that is not just BIG HUGE AND MORE HUGE but a hell of a lot of writing tiny tiny calligraphy in batard script yoiks. It will look STUNNING when it's done but jeeze louise I had to give myself work while on holiday. Which reminds me ...laundry...dishes.... where is a mouse bot when you need one? The weather here is stunning today crisp clear september days with atht break your heart blue sky you only see when it's cooler. Bright white fluffy clouds skimming along on the winds of ex frances. curious about our weather???? 3 x w.wetter.de it's in german but there's pictures you can navigate. So what else is new? I have NO idea what to say, I am on my own toodling about the house getting stuff done and relaxing and it's very nice. I make coffee in the morning and sit at the computer reading my emails and browsing my favourite web sites while watching the ctv news via streaming 3 x w.ctv.ca/ctvnews It's a nice way to stay in touch with what is happening at home and I like the Lloyd Robertson news cast. then I check out 3 x w.fbofw.com and get my strip fix, then go to 3 xw.michaelmoore.com and look at what Mike has to say, then get about my day to day stuff. This is my standard day at home alone and it will probably be the same when we move to Swizterland. There I will go back to being at home a housewife/artist/what ever Sunday Marcus gets back from his big advernture and life will resume it's standard orbit :). until then,be excellent to each other! |
| some fun things and some sad things |
| 09.16.04 (7:45 am) [edit] |
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fun: http://klingon.dw-world.de/english/index.php" title="http://klingon.dw-world.de/english/index.php" target="_blank"http://klingon.dw-world.de/en... Klingons so rule! sad: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/" title="http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"http://riverbendblog.blogspot... a blog from Iraq. |
| fascinating |
| 09.16.04 (7:25 am) [edit] |
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How very vulcan like, http://www.mindmedia.com/" title="http://www.mindmedia.com/" target="_blank"http://www.mindmedia.com/ Your Brain Usage Profile: Auditory : 38% Visual : 61% Left : 64% Right : 35% you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and show a preference for visual learning, although not extreme in either characteristic. You probably tend to do most things in moderation, but not always. Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that your learning style is organized and structured, detail oriented and logical. Your visual preference, though, has you seeking stimulation and multiple data. Such an outlook can overwhelm structure and logic and create an almost continuous state of uncertainty and agitation. You may well suffer a feeling of continually trying to "catch up" with yourself. Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor. You can "size up" situations and take in information rapidly. However, you must then subject that data to being classified and organized which causes you to "lose touch" with the immediacy of the problem. Your logical and methodical nature hamper you in this regard though in the long run it may work to your advantage since you "learn from experience" and can go through the process more rapidly on subsequent occasions. You remain predominantly functional in your orientation and practical. Abstraction and theory are secondary to application. In keeping with this, you focus on details until they manifest themselves in a unique pattern and only then work with the "larger whole." With regards to your career choices, you have a mentality that would be good as a scientist, coach, athlete, design consultant, or an engineering technician. You can "see where you want to go" and even be able to "tell yourself," but find that you are "fighting yourself" at the darndest times. |
| home alone with a jar of Nutella and a spoon |
| 09.14.04 (6:15 am) [edit] |
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So it's tuesday and it's sunny out inspite of the fact it's supposed to be wet windy and miserable. So far my week off has been quiet and restful. I tend towards sleep a lot. star trek and sleep. This means some pretty odd dreams I tell you. I cleaned up my studio/swamp yesterday so that I can do scrolls the rest of this week, have a LONG list of things I need to get done by civil wars. ( road trip with the queen!) Mostly because after CW I will be out of major work time til university then it will be another round of 18-20 hour days. Be ever so glad when we get to Lugano and I don't have to put in a 40 hour work week any more and then do the same thing when I come home when deadlines come up. I think the operative word is spoilt but you know I wirk at home, house work look after the home part of things is also a lot of work. I miss being an artist. well you might say you never stop being an artist, so I will rephrase the statement I miss having time for the artwork. Marcus is away in taiwan this week, so far away it's just plain weird to do this long distance thing again, we chat via chat programes, this time we have web cams well I do so he can see me and home and while the days without him are fine as normally we are separated anyway the evenings and nights are surreal and a bit empty. I talk to myself a lot and tend to be fairly vocal to the TV. lately I have been watching a LOT of Star Trek all sorts, the films, Voyager, The next generation, the origionbal series and so on, we have the dvds and I watch them all the time, well more like they are on in the background all the time. I think this particular time line and future sounds very nice in comparison to what we have now. Be cool if this future ever some how came true. It has been nice to have some time away from work to re evaluate all that crap that went on. I try to see things from all sides but in the end it gets tedious trying to figure out the reasons for everyone's actions and it comes downto two people as I see it who in the end just don't like or trust each other. Though I am not really sure why this is and the whole thing is just very strange. I am hoping that by stepping back a bit and slowly letting my counterpart take over what I have been doing that eventually she willbe accepted as the person who is "in charge" so to speak, we'll see. I know that I feel I am now taking a back seat and that is a good thing, I have attained my goal and the chaos that we had when I started is no longer chaos but organised and well run. That was my goal and we have managed to get it to a good point for me to leave. I think that from here on in the job itself won't be as interesting or as challenging any more because the really cool part has been done and now the dust has settled it's just the work that's left. That and some pretty hard feelings about things I am not so sure I really understand or want to be involved in. Particulalry theh jealousy-anger part about who got what job when and where. I know I have three months or so left and during that time I am away a fair bit to go on the house hunt in Lugano and stuff. Non paid vacation, but I don't care I am more worried now about where we will be living as opposed to where we are now and goingto the 9-5 everyday. As I keep telling people, it's not always about the money. Sometimes it is just about living well and keeping sane. Inthe mean time I will beworking on something I love, scrolls and listeningto cbc radio or star trek depending on the level of annoyance I get with hearing the news. Enjoying the solitude and time off. until then be excellent to each other. |
| lost words |
| 09.10.04 (5:31 am) [edit] |
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so this was already written and it went bye bye to a computer hiccup.. instead I give you the lost website of Bertrick enjoy http://www.bertrick.nl/pentathlon.html_" title="http://www.bertrick.nl/pentathlon.html_" target="_blank"http://www.bertrick.nl/pentat... someone reads too much Douglas Adams more later until then be excellent to each other. |
| eye of the storm |
| 09.07.04 (4:29 pm) [edit] |
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What I find fascinating about people is how good they are at not getting to the point. How can you sit and tell the same thing over and over and over for 5 hours and not get to the frigging point? what is the underlying problem? Well i have a pretty good idea now jealousy and hate, fear and a few other nasty little things rolled up inside one person. Took a while for all this to come about but when it did kabloooooey. so five hours of bitch and blah and contradictions later what did we accomplish aside from losing a day's work to listen to one person monopolise the conversation (if you can call it that?) not much, i go home sick, everyone else is left to their own thoughts and feelings. and there were NO solutions. so what did I learn from this? well, there is always one person who feels they have gotten the short end of the stick. there is always one person who gets the brunt of the gunshot even if they were not actually in the line of fire. that some people just don't get it and never will and some people should just walk away. How many groups of people does this happen to all over the world? How many wars have started over misunderstandings and people who snoop into things they should leave well alone? And how many nasty little rounds have started like this because of jealousy, looking for another reason to bite back when hurt because the real reason hurts to much to say out loud? in the end I am reminded of someone I knew a longtime ago who was also bitter and looked at the world as though it owed them everything and this person to the best of my knowledge was never happy either. I am glad I am who I am, i like who I am flaws faults failings included if someone else has issues with me or my flaws that's their problem not mine. 73 days and counting. and now my keyboard squeeks! my head hurts and my stomache hurts and I am starting to get sick of gatoraide. but it's good for me, lost too much electrolytes and salt yesterday. Dehydration is not good. so apart from the happy happy joy joy joy down in the funny farm, everything else is going along as normal. The moing estimate person was in, it was sad and I cried after wards, I so loath this process. But in the end it will be okay a new life and new country with a new language. Could be kinda fun you know. maybe I will take up snowboarding. so I need to go hunt down asperine, look up my scroll to do list and make mashed potatoes. a mhd is a gooooood thing!!!!! until then be excellent to each other. :arrow: |
| Autumn |
| 09.01.04 (12:24 pm) [edit] |
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9 days of summer is all we got, not much but better than nothing. The last few days hav ebeen windy, wet and wild, today it's cool and sunny and very windy with showers. The last few weeks have been busy as hell, it doesn'thelp that Marcus is often away for business, and although occasionally I get to go too when I take some time off, most of the time I am home holding down the fort. We have this weekend to get the flat presentable for the moving people to come in and make an estimate and now we have to start ending things like belly dance classes and our apartment contract. I have 77 work days left. It's all starting to be very in your face and on top of the usual day to day crap we have other stuff to deal with like an event, for me all the kingdom scrolls and stuff as well as normal work and house and and and..... In October we start the looking for a place to live in Lugano stuff and that will be interesting then I think. I hope we find the right place, it sucks not knowing where one will be living. :shock: By the time we go it will be winter. anyway.... things are a bit crazy now, I forget more than I remember and we should start with lists because soon it will be too late if we don't everything sorted out. so until then, be excellent to each other. |
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