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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
crochetcrochet
[ tinrocket ]
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4:15p
Greens and yellows.
I am making a scarf for my boss, who has requested red, yellow, green, black (rasta colors). On Monday, I puchased Lion Brand Vanna's Choice in Scarlet, Mustard, Kelly Green, and Black.
He likes the red and black, but we agreed that the yellow and green are not vibrant enough.
What I am looking for, specifically, would be a brighter more primary type yellow, and a more secondary type green (as in primary, secondary, tertiary colors). Those of you who have studied color at some point would hopefully be able to visualize what I am attempting to describe.
Anyone know a widely available brand (I don't want to go on a wild goose chase) that would be similar in feel/weight to the Lion Brand, but closer in color to what I'm describing? I have looked around a couple different Michaels stores but haven't had much luck so far.
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heatherica
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6:49p
Berry, peeking around the corner to say hi!
She gave me quite a scare today! I noticed she was acting strange, almost panicked, so I took a closer look and saw she had a large seed stuck on one of her teeth and half sticking out of her mouth! She couldn't get it off and couldn't eat or drink with it there. I tried to get at it, but she's pretty skittish, and even when I could touch it, it wouldn't budge. I got her out of her cage and held her tight, while Brock put on some gloves and tried to get the seed. She was so scared, the poor thing, she had no idea what was going on. :( We ended up getting it though! I gave her a carrot and she gobbled it up and then finally relaxed and took a nap. I was so scared! We were thinking we would have to take her to the vet. I'm so glad she's ok now!
My cute Big Fat Pig!
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moustacherides
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5:16p
Moustache Rides 03 : *****famous people*****
hand-painted, hand-crayoned, hand-collaged, hand-potato printed, hand-markered, hand-cut & stapled 2 and a half by 3 inch art zine. With repurposed papers-old photo cookbook pages, Asian grocery store pages, & cartoon pages in Arabic. Each copy is different. 20 pages double-sided text, 40 pages double-sided total (including collages & repurposed pages).
With inexplicable photos of Brooke Shields eating food in the 1970's with Matt Dillion & Scott Baio!! With an inexplicable photo each of Olivia Newton John & Diana Ross (+stuffed cheetah!).
Stories of first hand encounters with famous people!
Aaron Neville! Courtney Love! Tom Cruise! Sandra Bernhard! Tammy Faye Baker! Amy Grant! Donnie Wahlberg! Wilson Phillips! Karen O! Natasha Bedingfield! Stevie Nicks! Lindsay Buckingham! Daniel Waters! Bob Pollard! Will Oldham! Al Sharpton! Susan Tyrrell! John Waters! Wavy Gravy! Joey McIntyre! Mr. McFeely! Sheryl Crow's dinner! Neidermeyer from Animal House! Cousin Larry Appleton! David Guest! Smokey Robinson! Peter Tork! Travis Tritt! Lou Ferrigno! Enos from Dukes of Hazzard!
********$5.00 post paid********
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handspinning
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5:48p
Giving things away!
I have a little tiny wooden model of a spinning wheel that I bought for a project for a history class that I'm trying to get off my hands. I know basically nothing about it-- I just needed a model of a spinning wheel. It's not functional-- it's too small to actually spin on (about 9" tall) but when you press the treadle, the wheel moves (which I think is exciting.)It used to have a distaff attached to it, but I don't know where the distaff is anymore. I'll give it away free to the first person in the continental US who wants it.
( Here's a picture of it )
Any takers?
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pippaalice
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9:49p
Why does my cat prefer to be outside in a big massive wet storm with giant bangy bits? I actually threw her into the kitchen but she ran out again. Idiothead.
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(comment on this) Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
airingout
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11:13p
I love vacation in Crested Butte
We got here on Monday night. It is one of the top ten most beautiful places I've ever been. This is my first view of the Rocky Mountains... everywhere I look is like a Bob Ross painting, but better. The happy little trees, mountains, and clouds here seem to be even more joyful. As we headed out to dinner I took in the scenery and the wild flowers. It is amazing.
Crested Butte is 9300 feet high. I'd never been to that kind of altitude, Philadelphia is sea level. I was pretty sick. I woke up on Tuesday at 4am groping the night stand for a water glass thinking why did I drink so much! Then I remembered I hadn't drank anything but water, and clearly, not enough. My head was pounding. Fucking altitude. I took some Advil and ate some breakfast. By 7 am I was feeling better so we headed up the mountain. Yeah, we could have taken a lift but we walked, slowly. It was hard to breathe but the headache never came back. It wasn't the prettiest hike, mostly dirt roads and noisy ski lifts around us, but the views were amazing and it was nice to be the only ones on the trail and the grade wasn't so bad.
Once we got above the ski lifts it was another story... absolutely beautiful steep trail, no ski lifts but gaggles of people. This photo shows the change in the grade, the single tack hiking is just above.
We stopped to have lunch just below the summit and a retarded looking chipmunk grabbed hold of my pack and started running away with it. Yes, these super fat chipmunks were coming right up to grab my lunch. I didn't like it at all. You could tell they were used to being fed luna bars and sandwiches. Do not feed the wild life! They are supposed to be afraid of people and not eat the high fructose corn syrup that is very likely in your food. They are supposed to search for their own food. It is what makes them WILD!
Ok, rant over.
From there, we scrambled our way up to the summit where the air was very thin. The good news is that I felt great. I had no trouble breathing and my climbing experience made me comfortable on the scramble. Alas, we made it to the summit of 12,162feet. The battery light was red on my camera but I was able to get three last photos on the summit before we headed down.
Awesomely, there was a toilet at the top of the ski lift -this made me very happy. Even happier that while I was doing my business Elk asked the ski lift operator how we could pay for a ride down since we walked up. She said it was free for people who walked up! Yippee, our knees and hips were spared! In case you don't know, it is much harder on your joints to walk down hill than up hill. We jumped on the lift. Then elk almost fell off. I laughed, hard. I turned to kiss him but he wouldn't turn his head to kiss me back. You see, in his mind, if he turned his head he'd drop his pack. Ha ha ha ha ha... I laughed harder and we took in the view. Riding ski lifts down is much more scenic than riding up. It was aboslutely stunning.
After our hike we stopped at the bike shop to rent me a cannondale with gears, shocks all over and disk breaks. I was tired though. I knew I needed a nap before a ride.. and some lunch. I went back to the condo as Elk went out on the bike for a few hours. This was the perfect time for me to run to the next town over (an hour away) to pick up a perscription I hadn't realized I was out of until Friday night... and discovered that I had no refills left. Back to the duldrums of real life where I'm burdened with the need for medicines. The drive was pretty though and I brought my iPod. Can you believe there isn't one pharmacy in this ski town? There also isn't any white trash. And I didn't see one Asain person here, but there is a shushi restaurante. ???
When I got back I made us some lamb chops and asparagus. We ate it outside on the porch so that we could look at the mountain... and also because I filled the condo up with roasting lamb chop smoke. It all worked out.
Yesterday, we decided to go for a short hike before the bike shop opened (I wisely didn't rent the bike before I was actually ready to ride). it was a nice hike with wild flowers and a waterfall as the main attraction. We didn't stay too long because there was a ton of bugs since it wasn't very high up the mountain.
Millions of wild sunflowers.
Next it was time to ride bikes! The dude told me I am too tall for a 'petite' bike. HA! I been telling all you mother fuckers for years that I am tall!!! The ride was amazing (how many times have I said "amazing"?) It was nice single track that was easy. I got off for the hard sections in the beginning but did better once I was used to the bike. The trail went on wild flower covered hillside after wild flower covered hillside. Dozens and dozens of butterflies had to jump out of my way. I wish photos could do it justice. I wish I had a helmet camera. But I've memorized the beauty in my minds eye and that is good enough.
After that section we took a dirt road to town and then up a climb... the wrong way. I hate when you climb 3/4 of a mile only to find out you passed the trailhead before the climb even really started. We were on some more gorgeous single track... but this was up hill. At one point I just stopped. Elk's tire hit mine. He asked what was wrong thinking I had a bug in my eye or something. Nope... "I ran out of gas". Literally, i stopped having fun and just hurt. I needed to catch some breath. Elk looked down and pointed to another trail. "I guess we should have taken that one... it is 'lower loop', right now we are on 'upper lower loop' which is much more climbing." I tried not to hate his guts which was easy because once I got my breath back I felt much better.
We continued on through single track and dirt roads until we came back to the main drag and faced a 2.3 mile climb... with absolutely no reprieve. I'm not sure what the grade is but it is not easy. I stopped 3/4 of the way up with cramps. I hadn't taken in enough calories. But each time I stopped for two minutes I'd feel pretty good getting back on. I stopped a few times. But I made it home for a nap, shower and calorie intake.
Here is a two minute movie I took with some photos... (the quality isn't great, but I can't figure out how to export a movie for webstreaming and still keep high quality. When I watch the original the quality is great...)Here are a few of the best photos if you don't feel like watching youtube.
I was in no mood for cooking so we headed into town to look for a restaurant.
We chose wisely and had some buffalo burgers. Holy shit they were good. They also had elk on the menu, I was tempted to get it but then I noticed the elk's head above Elk. I decided I couldn't eat elk with an elk looking at me. So I took a photo. Normally I hate when restaurants have animal heads... ugh, but I didn't notice until after we ordered, there was no time to leave. Plus we were hungry and the burgers were... well, amazing.
This morning we woke up early and elk went out for a long ride. I went out for half the ride we did yesterday. Of course I fell off the bike in the first 50 yards of trail but it wasn't bad. Instead of taking the road back up to the town of Mt. Crested Butte where we are staying, I took the bike path. SMART. There were actually a few moments of reprieve there. I got back fifteen minutes before the bike was due to the shop. Now I'm just waiting for elk to return, looking at maps and plotting our next adventure. Hike to the lake? Hike to the bouldering routes? I wish we could hike up Mt. Baldy (12800 ft) but the afternoon is no time to start hiking up a mountain, maybe tomorrow morning before we leave... or maybe next time. This vacation is lovely but I am a little tired.
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(1 comment | comment on this) Thursday, July 16th, 2009
buenagirl
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11:58a
Mid July
We've been home from our roadtrip to Monterey for almost a week and amazingly I'm still unemployed.
I think I had the fantasy that I'd be going back to work after the trip. Kinda funny.
I really haven't been doing much. I get up with Jacki so I'm not sleeping late, sit around
and do computer stuff, then putter around doing dishes or throwing old stuff out of
the pantry etc. Nothing big. I haven't totally unpacked yet, just not motivated to do that. I have
done some laundry. Jacki fixed up the formatting on my resume, since I saw a job I should apply for.
It's so hard reading the job descriptions. I don't feel like I fit into that corporate world.
Everything seems so boring and "business-y" and everyone seems to want someone with a CS degree :P Too bad I like making 50k a year. har har.
My sister stayed with us for two days while she's working down here. Well she's here in the evenings
and leaves early in the morning so she's only kinda here. It's been a nice diversion though. She might
stay all next week so that will be cool. It's fun reconnecting with her, but not so fun thinking hearing
about how awful my mom was to her and my other half siblings. It's hard to hear, but mostly true I'm sure.
I haven't seen any of my ex-coworkers since I left. I should meet up with my one female coworker for lunch. It's hard to maintain a relationship with people that didn't exactly "Get me" in the first place.
She really likes me though and is lonely as the only woman (and only one not scrabbling for postion)
so I need to get together with her. I know she wanted to quit before I was laid off and I'm sure she is even more miserable now. Feels like a chore though. I know she'll want to talk about work and really, why do I care about that job anymore?
So just rambling mostly. Kinda makes me feel better to write some stuff out...I want to vacuum out my car and pick the suckers off the tomatoes. Woo, fun day planned! haha
current mood:  blah
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bumblev
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6:06p
Butterfly
“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”
- Chuang Tzu
 Originally published at Indie Shopper. You can comment here or there.
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hollyeqq
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11:56a
CARS
Ok, so in my part of the country, they have started showing commercials for "Cash for Clunkers" - bring in your hooptie and leave in a new car with a low car note. Help boost sales and all in a crashing car economy.
So, I decided to go read a little more about it. Do I need a new car yet? Nope, not yet.
But I drive a 92 toyota tercel - yup, a clunker - and it is getting on in years.
My family worries even though I remind them that it only has 130,000 miles on it. It is a TOYOTA.
So, went to this website and read about the program. Ok, sounds good. Up to $4500. Great. If I get a cheap Toyota or something... I shouldn't pay more than 100 - 150 a month. Do-able.
Then I went to this website to find out if in fact it is a clunker.
BUT It tells me they don't think my car will qualify. Apparently it isn't clunkery enough!
So, I go back to the government site to find out why my beater car doesn't qualify when it is cleary clunker enough in most folks opinion. It takes me to this site.
This is what I found out!
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 | | | Based on 20% highway, 80% city driving, 6000 annual miles and a fuel price of $ 2.44 per gallon . Use Your Gas Prices & Annual Miles |
I spend about $550 a year in gas, use about 2 barrels of gas (84 gallons) annually and I have a carbon footprint of 2.6 for my emissions. Oh and I get between 28 and 35 mpg! Which is true. I can't find a picture of my car... but it is the red one on the right. It looks one hundred percent better in this photo.  The past year hasn't been good to it because it sat up under the trees for too long. Guess I should wash and wax it now that I am keeping it!  I don't want a stinkin' car note anyway! Oh well. Holly
current mood:  content
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mcmillan
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1:09p
Essay
I have an essay appearing with many others in ZNet's "Reimagining Society Project," here: http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/22022. Regular readers of my blog will recognize parts of it -- it's mostly a mash-up of previous things I've written, concentrated and adapted for an activist audience.
Excerpt:
"As a people, a people diverse in countless ways yet united in the need to overthrow a mighty empire, we haven't very well articulated what we want, in a way that corresponds to what's possible and necessary. Our energy has been diverted into denial, faith in techno-fixes, fixations on individual lifestyle changes, and secondary conflicts, all of which keep us in thrall to those in power (who know very well what *they* want)."
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library_chair
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12:15p
Michigan has a law on the books that says I can't be fired for being fat. Fortunately.
My brother thinks I'm arrogant because when I talk about fat discrimination issues I make strong statements and act as though I'm right. Well, I am right. And when you have strong opinions, it's difficult to discuss things without opining strongly. (Especially since my strong opinions are unpopular, I am automatically on the defensive and feel that I HAVE to make strong statements and not back down in order to maintain self-respect.) So some things make me angry that would not cause the majority of the population to bat an eyelid.
For instance, I have found out a thing just now which makes me see red. I have gotten pissed enough that I don't have the attention span to read through other people talking about it.
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control, the government's health authority) has put up on its website a calculator that tells you ("you" as in "business owners who employ others") how much your employees' "overweight and obesity" is costing you.
This makes me angry for many reasons, but two of them are (a) the use of such a calculator requires invasion into employees' privacy and (b) it'll probably lead to employers simply deciding that fat people are costing them too much money, and because there are few states that have body size as a category protected from discrimination, fat employees will simply be fired, or not hired in the first place.
So. Government endorsed employment discrimination. Yeah.
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knitting
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12:21p
Hi there,
I just finished a pair of socks for my step-granddaughter. =) I used Red Heart's Heart& Sole yarn in 'Watercolor Stripe'. The pattern was 'Most Basic Kid's Sock from Ravelry.com .
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current mood: accomplished
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blythedoll
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8:50a
Custom frankieDARLING Blythe
I have to let this girl go, thought I would post here to see if any of you guys are interested.
Asking $250 (nude, but can send her with the Paul Frank shirt, it's torn by the shoulder)
Free shipping in USA, $15 outside USA
Work Done:
lip carve, freckles added, lips glossed to natural, new eyeshadow on lids and around eyes, new chips (pink, clear and mustard), new pink pull ring and cord, sleep eyes given, eyelashes removed, sand matted and sealed with MSC, dyed hair (deep cyan blue/green). All work doen by frankieDARLING.
Only issues is that her pull ring isn't working at the moment and her eyes need to be changed manually. This can be fixed easy, just haven't opened her up yet since I got her home. Also, she has light staining on her right and left sides of her head due to the dyed hair, it can too probably be removed as well.
Email me if interested: milkyrobot AT gmail DOT com
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library_chair
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11:21a
Fire and explosions
So this happened, and now it's like this. Everyone here is talking about how they can't get too close to the bridge because it's still smoldering, and how when they put water on it the water just boiled away, and all that business. I heard about it when my mom called me last night and told me, and asked me if I could see it from where I was. Notice: I am in downtown Detroit. I do not live or work in a particularly tall building. No mom, I could not see it. There was a really nice sunset though, that I saw on my way to Katherine's house.
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