Thursday, May 31, 2007
It's a good day to be ME (it's still my birthday)
Gemini: Follow your hunch, even (especially) if it takes you off the beaten track. You may not end up where you thought you would, but in actuality, you could land somewhere even better -- and you'll learn a few things along the way.
Gemini: Today's Full Moon is opposite your Sun, overwhelming you with your feelings. You are being pulled beyond your normal boundaries and must stretch into a new shape. But this isn't about physical form; it's all about your attitude. Rather than fearfully returning to a previous mindset, consciously allow the pressure to mold the emotional changes necessary for your growth.
I'm emerging, I can feel it, I can see it in the pictures of me lately...
It was good to see my sisters at the end of this funk, for all of us to receive soulful commiseration and inspiration.
I made an adventurous dinner, for me anyway... my first stirfry! (thanks to the frozen remnants of an amazing gift ~ ala zing!)
My dishes are clean, my house is picked up, laundry is done and I still have time to enjoy some sunshine and rapidly growing flora on the porch and blog about it.
There's the mysterious red plant...
Sandra's Morning Glories...
The whole shebang ...
Gemini: Today's Full Moon is opposite your Sun, overwhelming you with your feelings. You are being pulled beyond your normal boundaries and must stretch into a new shape. But this isn't about physical form; it's all about your attitude. Rather than fearfully returning to a previous mindset, consciously allow the pressure to mold the emotional changes necessary for your growth.
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I like horoscopes like these... They're certainly thoughts that would apply to more than just today, they seem a *big picture* reminder.
I'm emerging, I can feel it, I can see it in the pictures of me lately...
It was good to see my sisters at the end of this funk, for all of us to receive soulful commiseration and inspiration.
I made an adventurous dinner, for me anyway... my first stirfry! (thanks to the frozen remnants of an amazing gift ~ ala zing!)
My dishes are clean, my house is picked up, laundry is done and I still have time to enjoy some sunshine and rapidly growing flora on the porch and blog about it.
There's the mysterious red plant...
Sandra's Morning Glories...
The whole shebang ...Tonight the full moon shines upon us. As her light recedes in the coming days, so shall the shadows cast over us.
Amen.
Amen.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
OH. MY. GODDESS!
Amy's in my bed right now. Yeah, Amy Steinberg. That cool chick and I got to meet, hug, and talk our fool heads off -- without any immediate cosmic freak-out (unless you count the moment I had to revel in her presence before I could greet her!) -- In fact, we've decided that this meeting is the commencement of greatness for our collective selves (I imagine that means you, too!).
Thought For the Day:
In those times where you're standing on the edge of a cliff, you can do one of two things: you can take steps backwards because you know you'll be safe or you can just take the leap and know you'll fly!
-Devin Crouch
I'm gonna sleep now, so I can awaken my goddess in the morning... wait til you see the pictures!!
Thought For the Day:
In those times where you're standing on the edge of a cliff, you can do one of two things: you can take steps backwards because you know you'll be safe or you can just take the leap and know you'll fly!
-Devin Crouch
I'm gonna sleep now, so I can awaken my goddess in the morning... wait til you see the pictures!!
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Oh yeah, it's my birthday!
A fresh honey covered fluffy cloud of amish bakery buttery soulfull goodness, I'm so glad I was born!I totally scored on the baked goods for my birthday ♥ Scotty's parents came up yesterday with those butter rolls & honey, pecan caramel rolls, donuts, honey wheat bread, 20 lbs of flour and brown eggs! I'm in full-on carbohydrate addiction mode ♥ (Thank the gods for the Jon Gold Freeze-It-All inspiration!)
We had a great visit, including the sating of my chinese food cravings! AND I got to ride in their totally cool, leather seated, electric windowed Swede. I do so ♥ Volvos! It's blue and boxy. Sexy.
I got to meet both of Karin's kids, they're very sweet. Lily brought me a My Little Pony picture she colored for my birthday ♥ The boys played PS2, Hayden even sent Zach home with one of the Simpsons games and an extra memory card, unearthed in the move.
Scooty's got cool parents, we laughed a lot. I channeled Marty's mantra: witty and charming. I think I pulled it off. They wanna come back and visit some more. We wanna go there so Hayden can help Larry chop wood. Maybe when Lizzzardbits is in town this summer :::vbg::: When your mom told me you read my blog, my first question was: The family one or the psycho chick one? (and I said this aloud) She told me you made the Scotty connection through my blog, so I realize it's this one ♥ Thanks for not warning off your brother :) Sorry if you tried to warn him off he swears he hasn't received any messages ;)
Today I am Scotty-less and Hayden's still asleep. I, however, look and feel amazing. Maybe today I'll take my picture. That's what I should do, this beginning of year #40 as diana.
I took vitamins this morning. And St. John's Wort. Why not? Even drank water. Then a giant cup of amazing coffee with fluffy milk. Then some more water. Then a coke, just to keep things in balance. Can you hear that? The pecan rolls are telling me I need to keep a constant high to my sugar levels today, I should warm one up before I crash. Hmmmm... I'm gonna go check that out right now!
Friday, May 25, 2007
That book thing..
Gemini: Think of your life as a good book. Sometimes there are twists and turns you didn't see coming, but when you think about it, you realize they were pretty much inevitable. All your hard work has prepared you for this.
One more cup of coffee...
and by golly, it will feel like home! Two cups today :) the last of the Ethiopian from Sunnyside Up, there's just nothing in the world like it (even a month later, it's wonderful). I'm on a crazy buzz and there's nothing to be done about it. I've unpacked all I can. All three of our dishes are clean. I'm in desperate need of a hammer and nails, to complete the super-diana-takeover of the space! And that super jumbo pack of 25 second batteries my parents donated to my cause, so I can document my madness.I'm still on a quest for my cherry dishes... Susan vaguely remembers me stashing them, she thinks in the laundry room, behind the six boxes of goodwill donations I've stacked in front of the shelving unit!! So today at the old house ;) I'll be directing schtuff to be moved to the garage for yard sale organization, collecting some more *must haves* and preparing for truckage for the big things.
I'm shocked and saddened by the mass amount of *think about later* belongings we've schlepped with us over the last few years. My packrattishness has gotten worse since the advent of parenting. Oh, I've had it in me, it's genetic. Goodness, Mitch and I moved here in one of those teeny-tiny u-haul trailers. How did our *must haves* explode like this? I had no idea how hard it would be to get rid of anyone else's stuff. Mitch is down to a cardboard box in the closet. Pictures, tee shirts, softball gear, grass stained lawn-mowing tennis shoes and his steel-toed boots. What will I keep in Hannah's box? How does one feng shui memories? Worse, how do I part from the toys Hayden hasn't looked at in years and I just know he'll want to play with them the tomorrow after I ditch them? There is joy in the discovery.
Sorting is cathartic. Purging is cathartic. Mindful of the process is cathartic. Bodhicitta.
Monday, May 21, 2007
I just have to say something!
White House hits back at Carter
By Edward Luce in Washington
Published: May 21 2007 03:00 | Last updated: May 21 2007 03:00
The White House on Sunday took the unusual step of hitting back at a former president, Jimmy Carter, who on Saturday described George W. Bush as having run the "worst administration in history".
How can you not love this guy? He's actually BTDT, even down to having an election stolen by his opponent, he gets to share his opinion.
Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, said: "It is sad that President Carter's reckless personal criticism is out there. I think he's proving to be increasingly irrelevant with these kinds of comments."
I'm glad Jimmy's in his 80s and has no stake in what Tony has to say. FWIW, Mr. Fratto, irrelevant folks (like me, for instance) don't get mention by White House spokesmen. He's relevant, that's why you got something to say about him. Yer boss is skerred!
Mr Carter, whose own administration from 1977 to 1981 has not been ranked highly in the American presidential pantheon, was a consistent critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But in his comments to the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette, White House officials said he had overstepped the boundary.
Jimmy Carter was President of America. Ya know, the place where we've got freedoms like speech and press.
"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Mr Carter said. "The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me."
Amen, Mr. President, sir!
Mr Carter, who is promoting a new book, Sunday Morning In Plains, a collection of Bible lessons from his hometown in Georgia, also had harsh words for Tony Blair, Britain's departing prime minister, who made a farewell visit to Washington last week, in a separate interview with the BBC.
Jimmy's new book. It's gonna sell, he's a darn cool guy, no denying. There's gonna be lots of money. This means there's gonna be bounty for many! Taxes will be paid on those profits, no doubt about it, Mr. Carter's a good, upstanding American Citizen. Then it will be given, surely, to Habitat for Humanity. Directly resulting in homes being provided for the working poor. What direct impact have you had with your wealth Mr. Blair? Mr. Bush?
"I think that the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world," he said. He called Mr Blair's relationship with Mr Bush "abominable, loyal, subservient and blind."
Call it like you see it.
Mr Bush's response on Sunday marks the first time he has responded to his predecessor's criticisms in an almost unprecedented exchange between a sitting and former president. "It is also unprecedented for a former president to say this about a sitting president," Mr Fratto said.
The president's official response is to call Mr. Carter increasingly irrelevant and his comments reckless?? Did he spit, too?
Mr Bush's approval ratings recently dropped to 28 per cent - the lowest for any president since Mr Carter.
That's funny. I think Jimmy lost points for being too nice, too soft hearted. W lost points for being too soft in the head, too stupid. Nice is better.
Mr Carter, who pulled off a diplomatic breakthrough in the 1977 Camp David agreement that led to peace between Israel and Egypt, also criticised Mr Bush for having "zero peace talks" on the Israel-Palestine question.
Peace building would contradict his agenda of war-time profiteering.
The former president, who won the Nobel Peace prize in 2002 for his foundation's work in promoting democracy and human rights around the world, also attacked Mr Bush for mingling his private Christian faith with public policy in the White House's "faith-based and community initiative," which channels some welfare assistance through religious institutions.
When the most Christ-like of all presidents calls you on this kind of shittiness, you're in deeeeep sinful sludge, m'boy.
By Edward Luce in Washington
Published: May 21 2007 03:00 | Last updated: May 21 2007 03:00
The White House on Sunday took the unusual step of hitting back at a former president, Jimmy Carter, who on Saturday described George W. Bush as having run the "worst administration in history".
How can you not love this guy? He's actually BTDT, even down to having an election stolen by his opponent, he gets to share his opinion.
Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, said: "It is sad that President Carter's reckless personal criticism is out there. I think he's proving to be increasingly irrelevant with these kinds of comments."
I'm glad Jimmy's in his 80s and has no stake in what Tony has to say. FWIW, Mr. Fratto, irrelevant folks (like me, for instance) don't get mention by White House spokesmen. He's relevant, that's why you got something to say about him. Yer boss is skerred!
Mr Carter, whose own administration from 1977 to 1981 has not been ranked highly in the American presidential pantheon, was a consistent critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But in his comments to the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette, White House officials said he had overstepped the boundary.
Jimmy Carter was President of America. Ya know, the place where we've got freedoms like speech and press.
"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Mr Carter said. "The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me."
Amen, Mr. President, sir!
Mr Carter, who is promoting a new book, Sunday Morning In Plains, a collection of Bible lessons from his hometown in Georgia, also had harsh words for Tony Blair, Britain's departing prime minister, who made a farewell visit to Washington last week, in a separate interview with the BBC.
Jimmy's new book. It's gonna sell, he's a darn cool guy, no denying. There's gonna be lots of money. This means there's gonna be bounty for many! Taxes will be paid on those profits, no doubt about it, Mr. Carter's a good, upstanding American Citizen. Then it will be given, surely, to Habitat for Humanity. Directly resulting in homes being provided for the working poor. What direct impact have you had with your wealth Mr. Blair? Mr. Bush?
"I think that the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world," he said. He called Mr Blair's relationship with Mr Bush "abominable, loyal, subservient and blind."
Call it like you see it.
Mr Bush's response on Sunday marks the first time he has responded to his predecessor's criticisms in an almost unprecedented exchange between a sitting and former president. "It is also unprecedented for a former president to say this about a sitting president," Mr Fratto said.
The president's official response is to call Mr. Carter increasingly irrelevant and his comments reckless?? Did he spit, too?
Mr Bush's approval ratings recently dropped to 28 per cent - the lowest for any president since Mr Carter.
That's funny. I think Jimmy lost points for being too nice, too soft hearted. W lost points for being too soft in the head, too stupid. Nice is better.
Mr Carter, who pulled off a diplomatic breakthrough in the 1977 Camp David agreement that led to peace between Israel and Egypt, also criticised Mr Bush for having "zero peace talks" on the Israel-Palestine question.
Peace building would contradict his agenda of war-time profiteering.
The former president, who won the Nobel Peace prize in 2002 for his foundation's work in promoting democracy and human rights around the world, also attacked Mr Bush for mingling his private Christian faith with public policy in the White House's "faith-based and community initiative," which channels some welfare assistance through religious institutions.
When the most Christ-like of all presidents calls you on this kind of shittiness, you're in deeeeep sinful sludge, m'boy.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Why I'm glad someone understands the stars...
Gemini: Some recent upheavals had you in a whirl, and various mundane life matters had to fall by the wayside. Enlist loved ones in your efforts to get things back on track. Things will be ship-shape before you know it.
I must say...
I gotta pick up that book before I make comment on how well it represents me... I think George has it around here somewhere... I even went back to the quiz to see if they'd give me a different book, Noooo! fine.
So I did a political quiz, "Presidential Running Team '08" or somesuch nonsense :)
So I did a political quiz, "Presidential Running Team '08" or somesuch nonsense :)
You're Camejo-LaRouche!
As Peter Camejo, you have strong convictions that you take with you wherever you go. You believe in peace, justice, and a very un-American way that challenges big business and the status quo. You want to shake things to their very core, but can never seem to quite get a foothold in your endeavors and often fall a little short. In spite of all your egalitarianism, you live in a rather spoiled suburban environment.
You select Lyndon LaRouche as your running mate enlist his cult in your outreach efforts.
Take the 2008 Presidential Ticket Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
These guys are funny! Too bad they don't come in a cuter diana-esque package :) They're certainly stirring up shit and making folks think about imperative things they'd really rather not think about - kinda like me! :::vbg:::
When *I* become president... I think I'd prefer Goddess or Queen or Benevolent Tzar (I like this spelling)... I'll be the very first real person to live in the White House. I know I'll run on the Still-Evolving ticket :)
When *I* become president... I think I'd prefer Goddess or Queen or Benevolent Tzar (I like this spelling)... I'll be the very first real person to live in the White House. I know I'll run on the Still-Evolving ticket :)
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