lol. I got a song emailed to me today, that I listened to 18 years ago, from a friend who found me on facebook. Yay. :D

Time is so relative.

I admit I hardly blog anymore. Facebook is easier and more of my closest friends are there. I feel a bit bad for over-extending myself to all these social networking websites. It just takes time I'd rather put into real life, ya know?

However I did buy a lifetime membership to LJ some years back, so I'm sure to be here on occasion :) Enjoy the sunshine, green foliage & summer!

well, I signed up for facebook, and had given in to myspace a couple years ago, and livejournal here a couple years afore that. Now that I have three social networking sites going I've become a bit disinterested in them all. It feels like I'm dating 3 guys - It's confusing - which do I spend time with? Where is this going? Where do I share information I want to share? Everywhere? Just one? I am getting confused, by that I mean, overwhelmed.

I like myspace for the music.
I like livejournal for the indepth-conversational posts.
And I like facebook for the spontinatity.

Livejournal is my intellectual, Myspace is my musician/artist, and Facebook is the friend who knows all my friends and I see at all the group gatherings.

Livejournal I've known the longest, but to which has never evolved into more. Myspace is the place I go for new sounds, new ideas, a great idea, but I don't chat or message there. Facebook is the place I can feel surrounded by friends, even if I do nothing, and I can say little or much and, well, it feels like a "party" in it's social options from little to a lot of participation, but it's super-active, not quiet downtime.

I can't give up any, and yet I don't have time to spend on websites: I crave real life. Thus I think facebook will win, since it's where "my friends are". Myspace will be my go-to for music investigations, listening to new local bands, but "just a friend" and livejournal is good when I want to ramble on like a long conversation. It's easier to have the conversation & music on a "as wanted" basis. Facebook is, with it's built-in automatic IM, the place to go when I want to connect to the group of friends.

Yeah, I think overall though, I just need to spend less time on the internet.

Food Safety Modernization Act (HR 875): Criminalizes organic farming.

Don't sit idle: this is a horrible bill. I've emailed my Senator & Representative to not pass it, and I hope you do the same.



Here's a video blip on it from Ron Paul's site:
http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?Food-Safety-Modernization-Act-HR-875-Criminalization-of-Organic-Farms-222

I am feeling a tad down cause this awesome weekend is winding up & it is a school and work day tomorrow ~ the weather was sooooo nice.

The kids had a playdate with Lucas, Carson and Madeline today at my house while their mom Karey & I hung out and talked a couple hours - she has a new part time job doing a theater class for autistic and non-autistic kids on Friday nights & Sat. mornings - sounds really fun and perfect for her degree areas of study and she's still subbing at schools too - it's nice to talk with a grown up and watch the kids have fun at the same time. I don't know many parents, actually - most my close friends didn't have kids (or some of them recently just had babies) _ so it's a treat for me and I had a lovely afternoon.

I went to the Ymca Friday, but skipped going on Sat & Sun and opted for a bit of spring cleaning, an afternoon nap with the kids each day, and just - nice, calm.

I have a list of projects (mostly crafts actually) and I'm thinking I need to reduce my "to do" list so I can have more lazy weekends *grin*. I deserve to take breaks and not work on projects Every Day. It's like I have to re-train myself though - I have always been a "busy" person - finding a list of things to do each & every day. I need days without lists. :)

I want to try making one of these (or more if it's not a difficult task) :)

I was relieved to not wake up to a bunch of new snow, as the weather predictions were calling for, but now at 10:30am the rain is turned to snow. I'd like Spring to feel like Spring. Since that starts "officially" in a couple weeks I'll wait. But seriously, I miss having a mild warm March - snowy March is not my thing.

I am doing spring cleaning despite the weather.

Today at the Myth Baby!!

I worked out last Friday after work for an hour, and then Monday & Tuesday for an hour each, went Thursday for 2 hours & tonight for an hour - 6 hours this week. I was happy the classes weren't cancelled for the snowstorm on Thurs - so many other things I had considered doing that night were cancelled. It was a good week.

Exercise really puts me in a good mood, not sure how it all works but I know there's a chemical-hormonal process that basically: the body rewards us for working out. It's good, and I keep myself strong. I also love the sense of balance I have been developing with all my yoga classes.

I've also seen a lot of friends this month & that's been really core to my good mood. I like to hang out with friends. I hope they like to hang out with me too.

Been reading fiction books again - for quite a few years it seems like I didn't.... it's a nice stress relief & feels better then watching aimless tv shows when I'm awake & not feeling focused or like going out. It's a story like a movie- a story to get lost in for a little while. But nice & quiet without overly dramatic over-music. Heh. Plus I can cozy up & read in bed. I don't like having a tv in the bedroom - the monitor buzz is annoying, books are good.

Planning to see Dropkick Murphy's this Sunday with Rachael & I'm really looking forward to it.
There's also a P.O.S. & Doomtree show on Saturday I'm thinking about but not very comitted to yet.

That's about it right now. :)

I am in love with this lotion: I used to be all about the honey-milk lotion, which I still like, but this Shea Butter Honey lotion does an even BETTER job of smoothing & softening my skin and smells just as awesome.




some of my friends give me grief about Burts being bought out by a huge mega-corporation. but think of it this way: if you want all products to be green, natural & not-chemical, then all these mega corporations are going to have to learn and adopt the recipes and methods of the small home-grown products like Burt's bees.

It's good for everyone if the small organic &/or natural product becomes the mainstream product, why hate their growth? The company does other evil stuff? Yeh, probably: most do, but this is a good thing they're promoting now so why knock it because their other stuff is not perfect? Support the good to eliminate the bad says I.

Ok, I'll get off my soapbox (yuk yuk) now. *evil grin* Yes, pun totally intended.

My cat thinks the house plants are his personal open salad bar. *sigh*

Happy Valentines day U crazy kids!! :D



Doesn't matter who you love - kids, parents, friends and lovers are all a part of what makes our days the bestest. :) Enjoy your loved ones and let em know you care, k?

PS: Here's a mini story about my icon: this water & stone heart icon is from a photo I took on a trip to Massachusettes - we were exploring a special little creek near my neice Izzi's home, and it was fairy-like and magically feeling like the Spiderwick books they got us into - and we had so much fun exploring the riverbed, the mossy trees, and there were quite a few heart-shaped rocks I took photos of. I liked this one best, so I made it into an icon. :D

are tweets and twitters different? I feel I should go out to the twitter site just so I know.

one thing I like about travel is how it puts me in a place unfamiliar, and I have to think from someone elses/other peoples perspective - their town, or state, or country - their "normal" foods, their morning & night rituals - even afternoon - their superstitions, stories, friends and space.

It puts me out of my head and that's an interesting way to get a new view of the world. the same world/totally dif. view.

I had a mini-out/of/head experience this week.

I had to get all 4 tires changed. Well, 1 had a screw in the sidewall & the others were so old, I had to update them to match the tread, turns out it would break my AWD if I didn't (I tried replacing just one: felt like I was always driving on a gravel road: very weird) but I digress:

I was stuck, at a tireplace before work, but I was famiished - I had gotten the girls to school and had an hour or more to wait, nothing to read, as I had changed my timeslot at the last minute (while driving home). I asked what was open that early - and only McDonalds was walking distance.

I went in, expecting ... what I guess people getting the greesy bf meals I like to get there when I'm on a road trip. rushing in & out - the place mostly empty... But no.

The McD was full of regulars - getting hot tea. Lounging. It was cheerful, busy and relaxed ... it was quite a surprise to me/ I was def. out of my space. I looked around after I got my order of food: groups of retired people were sitting one, two or 4/5 to a table - with cups of hot tea or coffee - I saw a few order tea and equal - I mean - they were talking stocks, and news, and laughing and ... almost no one had the greesy food - me and a couple others did - but like, laughter abundant around the room - serious nodding.. I found a table in the middle of the room, the only one left.

There were over 30 people in there - I guess 8am at McD on York is like a bridgeclub - I mean - yeh. It felt like I walked in on a card game - jovial discussions and drinks - I sat there and ate my egg bacon cheese muffin w/a hashbrown and coffee and I listened to everyone else, and felt like I had dropped in, invisible, into another person's body - a club - a big group who mostly knew each other and I was invisible - a fly on the wall or something. It was kinda cool.

I mean, if life was always like that I'd get tired of not being noticed or greeted but for a morning, it was neat to have all the conversations ignore me - no one paused or stopped because I sat down, no one seemed to censor themself or alter their body position or language to me - and I was also lamblasted by the reality that I had been caught in a moment of stereotyping where I was shown how very wrong I could be. There was not an empty place with greesy fast-eating breakfast strangers - it was a totally dif. scene that I Never would have placed there.

Sometimes I like that slap of reality: a wake-up call that I know very little and how much I've experienced in my life is nothing compared to each of those folks - times 30.

It was like I was surrounded by over 1,900 years of collective experience. I was a nothing. It was a good reality check for me.

bubbles fun :D

oh - this is so cute. I have to share.

a clutter-cleaning book told me find images of houses I like and envision how I want my home to be, as a first and also reminder step to living how I want to. I found these images I like quite a bit: