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  2. Lost_Warrior

    Graduation Day

    By Lost_Warrior,

    Well, now I'm an adult. I have been technically "adult" since my eighteenth birthday, but I didn't feel much like one. I mean, nothing changed. I still went to school. I had my driver's license, but I didn't drive, because I didn't have anywhere to drive to, and no car. Now I'm eighteen, have my license and a car, and I now have my high school diploma. Now things have changed.
     
    That chapter of my life is closed. That stage of my life is over, and in a week I'm going to be looking for a job, starting a whole new chapter. The "adult world". For now what I have to do is to enjoy the interim. I'm going to my dad's tomorrow, I'll be there about a week, to see everyone. A little vacation in between stages of life I suppose, there's no going back now, only forward. Time to celebrate how far I've come, reminisce, and think about what is to come and what I'm truely going to do with my life.
     
    They say when god (or the gods) closes a door, he (they) opens a window. Well certainly, in the course of my high school years I've made some mistakes, and I do have a few regrets. Those doors are closed, now time to start looking for the windows. Of course, once the "real world" hits, it won't matter what classes I took now, it won't matter all that much what happened in high school; and to be honest, most of it will probably be forgotten. but I look back at my former years of schooling, and while I have forgotten much, I am surprised at the things I remember.
     
    As for the actual ceremony itself, well, it was a moving ceremony, and though the crowd was rowdy it was relatively uneventful. We marched into the gymnasium (it was raining so we could not have graduation outside, unfortunately) to a shower of cheers and cat calls (someone whistled so loud that it nearly broke my eardrums) and someone, unfortunately, had an air horn. The superintendant's cap fell off as she was giving her speech declaring us officially graduated, and she simply said "I knew I was going to lose that" and continued on with her speech. I guess after so many years of doing public speaking, you simply learn how to roll with the punches.
     
    Perhaps the most powerful moment of the night was as we were driving home, however. I saw some strange cloud formations, which did not look like much at first, although the colors grabbed my attention. Then I saw, up ahead, a cloud formation which looked to me, exactly as if Jupiter himself were riding a triumphal chariot across the sunset sky. I was speechless. I fumbled with my camara, but alas, I failed to get a picture (my camara is bad at taking pictures of the sky anyway). Aw well. I will have that memory, even though I have no proof of it.)
  3. Lost_Warrior
    Well, I'm back safe and sound in PA. I really missed Pennsylvania, and any thoughts I once had of moving out west are now completely gone. I love this place.
     
    Yesterday we went to Green Dragon...it's a HUGE flea market both indoors and outdoors. It's enormous. I didn't buy anything but a sno cone and a pretzel, but I had a good time just checking everything out.
     
    This afternoon my cousin is getting married. It's going to be so weird that Becky is going to be a Pearson instead of a McJilton! Ack! I'm really happy for her though; I hope she and her new husband are very happy. I made her a vase full of silk flowers for a wedding gift, and painted their names, and the date they will be married on it.
     
    I've come to the conclusion that my family has figured out that I'm Pagan, but are ignoring it. I'm not going to rock the boat and bring it up, they are rather Fundamentalist Christian (I wouldn't go so far as to call most of them "Fundy"...at least, if they were once, they've mellowed out quite a bit).
     
    The other day I officially dedicated myself to Morrigan. I've been dedicated to her for years, I just did it officially in ceremony the other day. Short, to the point, and spontaneous. I'm not sure why exactly she wanted me to do it but I did it anyway. Half the time I have no clue why gods want me to do things.
     
    I wrote a few more posts for Love, Hope and Life and I put in a table of contents. Breaks things up into slightly different categories and lists every post on the same page. It was a pain, now I'm just going to have to remember to update it every time I write a new post. I'm working on getting everything "set up" and then I'm going to initiate myself....on the surface it seems like an initiation is rather pointless, but it feels like the right thing to do. Plus, I want the experience of how ritual initiations work so that if I'm ever working on one for someone else, I'm not "flying blind". If I'm going to screw it up or have some sort of unforeseen undesired consequence, I want it to happen to me and not someone I'm working with.
     
    Today I finally was able to speak to my friend, who is having a very rough time of it. It's a huge load off my mind to hear from her that she's doing quite well. I am still worried about her, and have been for some time; but it was nice knowing that she's alive and well, and that the prospects for her future are indeed bright.
     
    Tomorrow I'm going to New Hope and it promises to be an excellent day!! I'm going to get some Dragon's Blood oil (real thing, and scented. Not the fake stuff I have now, or alternately the stuff that has no scent) and a set of Rune stones. I have been looking for the Runes but haven't found them yet, I know where I will probably get them. They're calling me, I think I'm ready for them now.
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    Well, good news bad news time. Good news: next week I'll be on my favorite evening shift ALL week. Bad news: this week is HELL.
     
    Monday night I had to work till 10:30, but I didn't actually get to leave untill 11, because of some issues with the shift change. I had to be in again at 6 am. OK, well that's sucky, but I can deal with it.
     
    So I get home yesterday, work went very well, and I am happy. I get online and find that this jackdonkey who I have had nothing but issues with in the past has posted an "essay" about the "psychology of bullies" giving detailed report of how he has been the victim of "my favorite bully". Of course, by "my favorite bully" he clearly meant ME. So, I tell him off in no uncertain terms, delete my account from his site, block him and delete the site from my favorites list.
     
    Then, I allowed myself a few hours of angry bitching about him, before making an addition to my Samhain ritual: I ritually banished him from my life. "I mean you no further harm, but I am freeing myself of you. Do not speak to me, do not think of me. You are dead to me." This leaves me no longer angry with him, or what he has done. However I cannot help but be hurt by it, and I think, understandably so. I got online later that night to find that he had posted the same thing on another site, of which I was a member first. I made sure my friends knew *my side* of the story, and reported his post to the admin. Of course, the admin publically praised him for making the post, AFTER I had reported it
     
    I then proceed to spend the evening with my friends. Much fun is had, until I return home. Knowing that I want to get some *decent sleep* I get to bed as soon as I think I will be able to sleep. A half an hour later, I get up. Someone has shot our house (with brand new, not even finished yet- siding!) with pink paintballs. I think, "I hope they didn't get my car too!" and go to check. I find that my car has been egged. The egging was done a while before, because it was already dried. Fortunately, though I was out at 11 PM cleaning eggs off of the back of my car, I got to it in time to save my paint. The only damage done was a few scratches caused by the shell hitting.
     
    As I am checking my car for further vandalism, I find that the front bumper is scratched, the paint is slightly (barely noticably) cracked, and it is covered in white streaks. The streaks cleaned off easily, but it appears as though I have hit something. I don't know what, where, or when. I would think it would be difficult to hit something and not know about it. However fortunately the damage is very minimal, only noticable if you look really close, and can probably be repaired by good use of rubbing compound.
     
    At 12 AM I finally am able to go to bed. (I gave up waiting for the cops, but my mom stayed up.) I get to sleep probably around 12:30, and I have to be up again at 5 and in to work at 6.
     
    My day at work sucked, this morning I felt as if I were on the verge of a nervous breakdown until about 10 AM. I am very grateful to my coworker, who helped me a great deal, and I did my best to help her to, when I started feeling more like myself again.
     
    There was something going on, I don't know what, but whatever it was, it wasn't good as our district manager was there, and everyone was in a frantic search for something, going through trash etc. I have suspicions...don't think I should discuss them though. Anyway, I wasn't the only one having "one of those days" and the district manager asked if I could stay a while longer, as they were changing the schedule around a bit as a result of the assistant manager needing to do management instead of deli duties. I agreed, and he thanked me as I left. "What for?" I asked, considering staying after as needed to be part of my job. My drawer was off a bit, and I hope that it is found, however I am not going to worry too much about it. I am too tired to care much at this point.
     
    I cannot wait for this week to be over!!!!
  5. Lost_Warrior

    Happiness

    By Lost_Warrior,

    Well, I've finally, FINALLY gotten through that book I was reading (I spent several hours just reading on saturday). Now, finally, I get to start on the two Eagle books I have!! I don't expect them to take as long as the other one did.
     
    I found out last week that I won 50$ just by...doing nothing!! And I am getting a silver and lab-grown alexandrite ring for about 10$ (thanks Ebay!). I found my mom an awesome amethyst ring, and I know she will love it.
     
    Last night I wanted to get started reading but ended up watching my coworker's kid (which included kicking the other babysitter out...the other babysitter was happy enough to leave and I know she didn't know me, which pretty much explains why my coworker did not trust her). That was a pain, but I was happy to do it for a friend.
     
    Someone spoke to me yesterday, and recognized my septagram, and gave me her email. I gave her mine, too, and I'm hoping that she will contact me, because I lost her email addy somehow! I think I know where she lives and am thinking of leaving a (non-specific, incase its the wrong house!) note on her door if we don't come in contact again.
  6. Lost_Warrior
    It's been a while since I updated this, so without further ado, I give you:
     
    Tribal Carnival!!!
     

     
    It has been a long four weeks, LOL. Here's hoping the next few are a lot better. I need to ask tomorrow about what we're doing at work for Christmas. I need to know, so that I can make plans to see the other half of my family. Hopefully I'll be able to see them for a few days, at least. I'm sorry to say that my grandmother is not doing so well, and I want to get to see her as much as possible now.
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    Hehe got 2 or 3 more inches of draw length on my bow...my arrows (the ones made for my compound) are almost too short now I don't think I'll be pulling it back any further than this though...I'm surprised how fast my arms are getting stronger (and also that I have absolutely no stiffness from it...which IMO is really amazing). Arrows still keep going to the left most of the time though...can't figure out why they are always going to the left.
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    Home...

    By Lost_Warrior,

    Well this week was very hectic. I got called in on my day off, and relapsed into my flu-like sickness because of it. Subway opened at our store on Wednesday, and it's been crazy busy ever since. I really hope that things settle down a bit because no one is getting their work done for doing Subway.
     
    On Monday my computer broke but it spontaneously fixed itself.
     
    I had a lot of loose ends tied up this week, I got my car fixed from that parking lot oopsie way-back when, and some other issues that have been worrying me were resolved. Overall it's been a productive week, and I am pleased.
     
    I am having this weekend off again, and I had this sinking feeling I would be called in. My manager asked me if I wanted to get some overtime, but I declined. I'm feeling like crap again (actually, I have called off sick today because of it) and I told her I think I really need the time off to recover from me ongoing (2+ week) illness. She said that if I changed my mind and was feeling better, to give her a call she could really use some help this weekend. I'll think about it.
     
    I got my new hand drum, and I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of a beautiful amethyst ring from Israel (made by the same guys who made my mozambique garnet one). I'm burning some "pinon pine" resin and it smells WONDERFUL. It's my favorite, along with Dragon's Blood. (I also have Myrrh, Frankincense, and Copal Resin. The Myrrh is impure and makes a very odd and bad smell after the resin part of it burns away.)
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    Hopeful

    By Lost_Warrior,

    Of the two applications that I put in at the beginning of last week, I got a phone call from one of them (on the same day I was going to call them to "check in"). I had forgotten to fill out my birthdate on the application, and the manager called me to ask for it. No big deal. I come inside from mowing the grass and theres another message on the machine. I almost don't answer it thinking it's the same message as before, but since there are two messages which are nearly identical, I figure it's a new one and not a malfunction so I call her back. I got an interview that same day. She said I'd probably know Monday or Tuesday.
     
    It's now Wednesday, and I haven't heard, so I called her back. She says she's still waiting for approval from the central office. Now this, I can believe, because she seems to sincerely want to hire me and I know that background checks for 18 yr olds take a long time (my mom also works at a franchise). So I'm hoping I'll know tomorrow, because orientation is Saturday so they had better get their backsides in gear and let me know Turns out it's not night shift though, its "all shifts", which means that I could be working...all sorts of funny hours. I'm a bit apprehensive about this, but not totally. I think that while it may be a pain, it will be kind of fun. My adventuresome spirit sees this as a possible opportunity for an interesting experience. ::crosses her fingers. and her toes:: I really need this job.
     
    I still haven't heard back from the place that "lost" my application. Although after talking to the manager there, my mom says I probably wouldn't want to work there anyway (apparently someone in authority who shall remain nameless said "what's she need a job for anyway? She has a car, a place to live, and no bills to pay" My mom can't afford to keep me forever ya know lady.) Besides that, their parking lot is aweful and I fear for my low profile tires every time I have to drive through it
     
    I went to the mall and poked around through the bookstore. Now this bookstore is expensive, and so what I do is keep a little notebook in my pocket, take down the titles of the books I want, go home, and order them off of Amazon for a third the price I did find, on their "bargain books" rack, a large and very beautiful volume entitled Ancient Rome: People and Places. It is actually sewn, not glued, and its glossy pages are chock full of gorgeous pictures! There is more text than I first realized, and it is rather slow reading as I am constantly distracted by the pretty pictures, but it contains a wealth of information. One thing that irks me about it though, is that it does not have a single page devoted to the Roman military. It may be part of a series, in which case the military would be covered in another, similar book which I would love to aquire. But otherwise, I cannot believe the author left out that very important aspect of Roman history!
     
    The next two in the Eagle series are also headed my way from Amazon, and I cannot wait to recieve them. They were shipped yesterday so I should have them soon. UNRV should have three new reviews, in relatively short order!
     
    Not long ago I was promoted to Patrician status! :punk: This made my day, even if I was slightly disappointed by not yet having found out that I have a job
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    Hopeful

    By Lost_Warrior,

    Well I talked to the guy who would have been my boss today. He said that he really was only looking for a subcontractor (and that I really hadn't made an issue by calling too much; I and my friend had both blown it out of proportion). I'm unable to be a subcontractor until I have a shop to work in, but I said I'd give him a call as soon as I had a place to work. He asked for my number as well which shows me he definitely is interested. He also filled me in on the name of the guy in Beaver Lake. I had been looking for him.
     
    So I went to yellowpages.com and searched for the guy in Beaver Lake...I found two that seemed likely and the first one I called was it. I left a message, I hope he calls me back. Wouldn't it be awesome if he could use another set of hands in the shop?!
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    I Can't Wait

    By Lost_Warrior,

    For my new scanner to get here. I hated using my camera to get my artwork online, and my old scanner is beyond worthless, so I decided to get a new one. My dad sent me a Circuit City gift card, but, much to my surprise and dismay, the local Circuit City does not carry flatbed scanners! I've ordered one online and received conformation last night that it has been shipped. I cannot wait till it gets here!
     
    I have managed to get my hands on a copy of Roman Sex and have taken a break from Simon Scarrow to read it. Nonfiction is my true favorite thing to read, and I got halfway through this book in a matter of an hour or so! Of course, it helps that it's mostly pictures, but I am enjoying it. My mother found a copy of another book, I believe it's called Sexuality in Ancient Rome for 94 cents and she got it for me for Easter.
     
    The last part of my Easter present should be arriving any day now, I know my mom is going to give it to me as soon as it gets here. If it's what I think it is, I can't wait to have it. I know I dropped enough hints LOL.
     
    I've written two more essays for Love, Hope and Life, I was "out of the loop" so to speak and only wrote two essays last month. Shame on me! It's a beautiful day, and I think I'll find some lunch and then go for a walk.
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    I Feel Pretty

    By Lost_Warrior,

    I'm so happy...lol today in chorus I actually managed to use my entire range...I can sing anywhere from bass to soprano one on a good day (I normally have no break in my voice) but often I lose the top half of my range...
     
    My scratch art of a retairus I'm making in art class is turning out very well, the hard part is over now I just gotta do the "floor" and the net, I'm really pleased since it was a rather ambitious first attempt at scratch art lol.
     
    I found a new project for shop class, I think it will turn out really cool, it's a feather forged from angle iron, when I get it done if it's good I'll post pictures. AND the wood shop teacher asked me to make some more hooks for him (he already bought some from me last year) because he wants more for his shop. YAY lol
     
    BTW my AP chem test is also done and over with (well this chapter anyway) and I don't know how good it is but at least its done.
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    I GOT A JOB!!!!

    By Lost_Warrior,

    OMG YAY!!! I got a job!! A totally awesome job, with wonderful hours, and I talked to my boss on the phone and in person and he seems REALLY cool. It's doing machine/metal work, and I've done that manner of work before and I LOVED IT!! I'm SO excited to start tomorrow!!
     
    WhOoT!!!
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    OMG, I just got an email from my aunt, my cousin Jennifer Founds (my little Jenny!!) has just started singing professionally, and will be touring soon. Jenny is such an AMAZING singer, a good actress and I hear is getting good on a guitar to. I AM SO PROUD of my little Jenny (now not so little anymore). I LOVE HER SO MUCH!! I can't wait to see her!!!
     
    My mom and I just got back from shopping, we figured out what we are going to do for under my graduation gown, one of those dresses like the Roman women wore (or what they may have worn. As my mom says, "what the Vestal Virgins wear in all the movies". I think it's called a Pella?). My mom is an awesome maker of weird clothes, I have a knitted "legionary tunic" now (I'm serious. LOL it does actually look really awesome). She's going to make it. I also found this most amazing dress (almost in the same style but it's navy blue) at a thrift store, for $6. I just HAD TO HAVE IT it fits perfectly.
     
    We had another bomb scare at school on thursday (second one in two weeks) they made us go home without all of our stuff. Andy found a baby bird though, it couldn't open its eyes but otherwise it seems quite healthy and SO cute. Odessa took it home. She named it "Stick". They then locked all the bathrooms except for one (the bomb threats were written on the bathroom walls.) and students now have to go in one at a time, sign in to the bathroom, and the stalls are checked after you leave
     
    My grandad is actively seeking a Ford Escape for me
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    For the first time in literally months and I feel GREAT!!! I had forgotten how awesome it could be to just dance with no purpose in mind (as opposed to dancing in order to work some Big Time Mojo during which I always wear myself out and leave myself feeling rather icky for days afterwards). WOO!!!
     
    I just received a signed copy of Gladiatrix to review for UNRV which I can't wait to get started on it! I've been busy though, I plan on starting it this weekend.
     
    Tomorrow I'm going hunting for Indian artifacts if the weather holds. I'm going to be tired tomorrow night, though, because I am going after work. I'm not working 9 hour days, starting at 6 am, so I'm keeping myself pretty well beat.
     
    This weekend was the Pow Wow and I had an amazing time! I danced, and danced...and my legs STILL hurt. But I'd do it again tonight, pain and all. I LOVE Pow-Wows and this one was particularly amazing.
     
    If anyone is wondering the Beltaine ritual went splendidly.
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    I Love Days Like This

    By Lost_Warrior,

    Fall is here. You can see it in the trees, feel it in the air. You can smell it in the morning dew. It rained today, it was the kind of rain that smells like snow. The wind is blowing through the trees. I love days like this. It isn't stormy, but there's a certain energy in the air that isn't there at any other time. Only in the fall and occasionally in winter. It's beautiful. I feel so alive when the weather is like this...
     
    This week promises to be much better than last week.
  17. Lost_Warrior
    first off, the AP exams are DONE. The chem exam was killer, but there were some nice "gift" questions in the free response part, so I am really happy about that I'm most happy that it's done, I have no more exams hanging over my head (except finals, but I was never worried about finals). I'm not even really worried about my grade. Although the girl who switched papers with someone and got her score invalidated is now trying to get all of our scores invalidated on a technicality. I doubt she'll succeed as she can't prove anything, but she seems to think that if HER score is to be invalidated because she switched papers, then all of our scores should be invalidated because it was possible for her to switch papers in the first place
     
    My chorus concert (along with the band concert) was tonight, and also the art show. I finished to copper/brass flowers I made, I'll post pictures maybe...tomorrow or Saturday depending on what I feel like doing tomorrow when I get them home from school. I won fifth place in the art show, then commandeered the microphone to publically thank my teacher for all of her hard work, the poor woman was flabberghasted, as was everyone else. She never gets any recognition. I think she was half afraid to let me speak, because she, (along with every else) had no clue what I was going to say.
     
    The chorus concert went better than the last one, but still, I'm not overly happy with the results. I think we really need to work harder, the problem is, that most of the people in the chorus are only there because they think its a study hall, and even six hours before the concert, on stage, at rehearsal, they WON'T SHUT UP and they don't know the music. The director actually had to play the piano for the beginning of an a capella song because the tenors couldn't get the notes right. OOO I AM SO ANGRY WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!
     
    I can't wait till I get to bring all my artwork home though. I love bringing my stuff home and my mom is picking me up from school so I won't have to bring fragile things home on the bus
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    I'm Here

    By Lost_Warrior,

    I have made it safely to MN. The journey was interesting, but not that great. I did get to see Pittsburg (beautiful!! I'd LOVE to go back!) and Chicago (nice, but not great). I was so exhausted from dragging my luggage everywhere (too cheap to rent a locker...dragged it all around downtown Chicago). I was 2 days on the rails, luggage in tow the whole time and gods my arms hurt!! I arrived in Detroit Lakes at 3 AM...and the sun was coming up by the time I made it to bed.
     
    I'm having fun, although I'm really homesick at times. Al is already teaching me stuff, I made a nice scroll today (but it got wrecked unfortunately...oh well I'll make hundreds more) and a really nice twist. I'm thrilled, because I have never done these things so well. Kathy is teaching me about herbs and such. The really awesome thing is that they have a lot of pagan friends; they were even considerate enough to ask if I had a "day of rest" in my religion (I don't, but it's so cool that they asked!)
     
    The dog Shotzy got attacked by a wild cat of some sort. She's OK thankfully but the poor dog can barely walk (getting better though).
     
    I have very little time online, so I'll see you all occasionally...
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    I'm Not Dead

    By Lost_Warrior,

    Just busy.
     
    I got a new fish, pictures posted Here.
     
    He seems to be doing well, still won't eat. BUT his beautiful tail that you see there, is in shreds!!! He must've got it caught on the plant (I removed the plant) and it looks just awful but I'm so worried about stress on him and the possibility of fin rot.
     
    My poor, beautiful baby. And his poor tail. I just fell in love with that tail. I am so sad.
     
    I'm still reading Gladiatrix and I must say, I am pleased with it. I'm almost done, but I haven't been reading as much as I should be. I'm actually pleasantly surprised by the book.
     
    I've been working 9 hour days (well 9.5 hours. Half hour unpaid lunch) and Saturdays usually. Busy, busy busy.
     
    Life goes on...
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    I actually have an 83% in AP Chem right now! That's for the end of the marking period (meaning, that at least that will be on my report card. I say "at least" because I'm almost positive there are some extra credit points in there which have not been added in yet.) I was expecting like...a 70-something. But 83?? YEEEE!! ::dances::
     
    EIGHTY-THREE! EIGHTY-THREE! EIGHTY-THREE!
     
    (ok, I'm done now, lol.)
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    I'm Still Here...

    By Lost_Warrior,

    As you've probably noticed, I've been a bit absent on the forums lately. I spent the past week or so at my neighbor's house, dogsitting. They had a computer (that works better than mine) but my time has been spent cleaning up messes and exploring new sites (I found an awesome Pagan Forum and have been spending time playing on there.
     
    I've also been stuck on the early shift (Oh, joy!) lately, and work has been taking up alot of my time. Between work, my internet not working, and trying to find time still to further my spiritual path (which I am taking much more seriously now) I've not had too much time to mess around on UNRV. Hopefully, that will change very soon.
     
    I still have several books that I plan on reading and reviewing for UNRV, but reading has been slow, I must find time to read as well. I swear, it didn't used to take me two months to finish one book
     
    I'm very happy to be home from the neighbors, I will not miss the sheer *joy* of climbing into bed at 1 am to find that the dog had pissed in it Also, theres something about the carpet at their house which makes it impossible to see stains. They can only be found by stepping in them, preferrably at 2:30 AM when I must be up to go to work at 4:30. It's great to be home.
     
    Yesterday we went to Sonestown Heritage where I found an awesome necklace for my mom (we bought each other early christmas presents, this pendant is worth far more than the fifteen bucks I paid for it. She bought me an amber and silver bracelet with celtic crosses.) and last weekend I bought a beautiful set of brass things for her for $6. I'm giving them to her as a solstice gift. She's pagan/taoist/buddhist so, the brass singing bowl (worth far more that the $6 I paid for it...and I got a whole set for that much!) incensce burner, little bowl, ashtray and silver thing, will be perfect for her.
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    I'm Very Happy

    By Lost_Warrior,

    My mom gave me my "Easter" present today, even though the last part isn't here I already had something suitable. It's just what I wanted, and expected: resin incense with charcoal tablets. We gave it a test run downstairs, where my mom could be there to help keep an eye on it because neither of us had ever done it before. It's interesting to light, instead of flaming at first like normal charcoal, it sparks and smokes in a manner that threatens to set things around it on fire! That rather quickly subsides, however it's quite frightening! The stuff burns quite a long time, I'm not entirely sure how long one tablet will burn, but now that it's not sparking or anything, I really don't think the fire can go anywhere. The bowl its in is barely even warm.
     
    The resin incense (in this case, Dragon's Blood but I have a few different ones) smells *divine* and the charcoal, though it has a slight odor, doesn't give off many fumes. That means, no "punk and wood" smell left over in the room like happens with stick incense, and I can seriously see myself starting to love this stuff, I just have to find a way to control that sparking! It burns long after it becomes useful for incense though, because once it gets REALLY burning (white all over) everything you put on it just evaporates in a puff. It smells good, but doesn't last long at all. Although when it first lights it's good, and a small bit of resin will last a good fifteen minutes.
     
    I also got my new scanner, which works wonderfully. I'm sure some of you have noticed the updates in my gallery
     
    I'm ill again, with flu like symptoms, but I'm hoping that will soon pass. I didn't get much rest at all the other night, which is a likely culprit, combined with stress. I managed to score a whole weekend off! This is the first time in probably over a month. I think it was a little "thank you" gift from my manager, because I agreed to give up two days off in a row and work a dreaded morning shift for her because she had no one else to work that shift.
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    Well, the last part of my "easter" present came today: a small brass cauldron in which to burn my incense. It was a grave disappointment. I wasted two charcoal tablets because they refused to burn properly in that small cauldron; they became starved of oxygen, and quickly went out. Once the igniter stuff is gone from them they are impossible to relight.
     
    I did get figured out how to light it safely though. Going back to the brass bowl filled with sand that I'd wanted to use to begin with, I put the whole kit n' caboodle in the bathtub, with the shower curtain pulled out of the way, and lit it. The sparks can't go anywhere then! And the icky charcoal lighter smoke doesn't end up in my room, either. It ends up in the bathroom. I'm such a sh*thead!
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    Irc Can Be A Pain..

    By Lost_Warrior,

    OK lmao I finally got it worked out. Get this...
     
    I thought I would like to have a chat for Ancient History, so after trying a hundred times to find a server (none of which Trillian would connect to) I stumbled upon BrokenIRC and thought it would be funny if "BrokenIRC" was the only one that wasn't "broken" so I tried it. What do you know, it works. Isn't irony grand? So I join the help channel, get some great help from an admin there in setting up my channel step by step. I had some problems with figuring out the different commands on Trillian, but I got the hang of it.
     
    I get offline to get some lunch, get back online, and I can't get my Ops (I have no control over my own channel in other words)
     
    I DL mIRC but it turns out its only free for 30 days, no good. So I try IceChat which won't connect to my server. I try Visual IRC which keeps freezing and after two restarts I finally get connected-with the same problem as Trillian.
     
    I reconnect and try identifying with nickserv THEN joining the channel and voila! I am operator again! Then I think hey, wait a minute! I go back to Trillian and try the same thing and what do you know, I just wasted an hour trying to fix something that wasn't broke! I feel so stupid...
     
    The channel is working well now. And it does indeed work with Trillian. My only regret is I couldn't get a Centurion bot (I have Guard bot instead)
     
    I posted the channel info on the forum but here it is again:
    Server: BrokenIRC irc.brokenirc.net
    Channel: #AncientHistory
  25. Lost_Warrior

    It's About Time...

    By Lost_Warrior,

    Well now, it seems I've been neglecting my poor little blog over here in the corner...
     
    I went to see my Dad and the rest of my family for Thanksgiving, that was fun I got tons of cool stuff while I was there. Early Christmas presents, because we didn't know if I would be able to make it for Christmas (our weather turns nasty in the winter). I painted Christmas balls for my dad and my aunt, I couldn't post them before in case they happened to wander across this site...but at some point I will. I got a really cool sword and dagger from my dad, and a few other things, namely very nice clothes and a terrycloth bathrobe (which I love). I got to spend time with my Aunt Patty and my little cousin Jenny (who is not so little anymore but still my little cousin..and also an amazing singer BTW does plays and such and sings every chance she gets). I stumbled into an amazing prom dress, which my mom-mom got me for Christmas and my Aunt got me shoes to match. I'm very happy about it, I can't believe the circumstances under which we obtained it
     
    I've gotten a new art program, as you have probably been noticing I've been uploading a very large number of pictures in the last few days...apparently some of you really like my work as well though it still has some problems I'm hoping to improve. At first I was upset that it wasn't GIMP but once I started actually using it, I've found that the features it does have are much better used, with much more control, and I can do things I could never do with the other program. I can't do as much funky stuff, but what I can do is much better quality, so I am quite pleased with it. The new miracle program is paint.NET if anyone is interested. The methods necessary for some features are a little backwards from what you would expect, but the results seem to be top notch Of course, it isn't as good as something like PhotoShop but for a free program downloaded in just a few minutes, its great (and it isn't as...quirky...as GIMP either. It runs much better...knock on wood...doesn't take as long to DL and set up either). So...yea...I'm back to late nights of making avatars and banners I'll never use but I love playing around with it...just to see what I can do
     
    I can't believe it's Wednesday night already...these days off of school have really thrown me off...not that I'm complaining. When I actually think it's Wednesday it will be Friday...and I'll be pleasantly surprised
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