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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
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7:30 pm - The things I'll do to make a little money ....
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Today I made lederhosen to fit a doll the size of a bug.
I need to have my head examined.
current mood:  amused
current music: the very noisy frogs, singing outside
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| Friday, April 3rd, 2009
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6:13 pm - I never knew I was so interesting!
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- In 1982 Time Magazine named marsh its 'Man of the Year'.
- In Japan, marsh can only be prepared by chefs specially trained and certified by the government.
- In Chinese, the sound 'marsh' means 'bite the wax tadpole'!
- Only twelve people have ever set foot on marsh.
- Marsh has little need for water and is capable of going for months without drinking at all.
- Edinburgh imports three thousand kilograms of marsh every year!
- Marsh can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period.
- A rhinoceros horn is made from compacted marsh!
- During the reign of Peter the Great, any Russian nobleman who chose to wear marsh had to pay a special marsh tax.
- It took marsh 22 years to build the Taj Mahal!
Thanks C. This was a good one!
current mood: amused
current music: The wind - it's very blustery, and my rattly windchimes
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| Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
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12:04 am - New ride!
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The Ahiru has been passed down to Steve, who's been Waiting Forever to inherit her. In her place is Roque, a shiny, lovely-if-less-yellow, Civic Hybrid. I'm seriously, seriously jazzed. And the mad fuel efficiency makes me feel just a wee bit pious.
Anyway, without further ado, here's Roque!
current mood:  excited
current music: Tracy Chapman, Fast Car
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| Saturday, January 10th, 2009
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12:28 am - Bad TV
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Here's what I want to know - WHY does the Travel Channel think we need a program called Man vs. Food - in which an overweight guy travels from city to city, visiting restaurants with I-Dare-You-To-Eat-It-All portions and rising or attempting to rise to each challenge, all on camera. This program glorifies gluttony, which is pretty shameful in general, but especially when a good percentage of Americans are overweight.
And who finds this entertaining? No, I haven't watched it. The promos bother me enough all on their own.
For me it's a step or two more disgusting than the Bizarre Foods program on the same channel. Now, I'll confess to watching that one on a semi-regular basis, sometimes hiding my eyes or switching the channel when it gets particularly repugnant (I could have lived forever without seeing Zimmern nearly puke durian, thankyouverymuch), but at least Zimmern, the professional eater on Bizarre Foods, is knowledgeable about food in general and does try to provide a respectful glimpse at cultures other than the mainstream.
And we won't even talk about Fear Factor and similar gross-out, reality TV, competition programs.
I guess I don't get what is so freaking fascinating about watching people eat too much or the wrong (disgusting) things. And while I believe that there's much to be learned about people from the things that they eat and how they prepare them, it seems like a lot of these shows are less about cuisine or foreign cultures than they are about shock TV.
And while we're on the subject of shock TV - WTF Animal Planet?! No, I do not think eco-terrorists attacking Japanese whaling vessels are heroes, nor do I need to see elephants running amok and trampling Indian villagers. And I'm sorry, but no matter how you spin it, the Grizzly Man was a tragic, misguided, mentally unstable man and it's really time to stop raping the video footage of the last months of his life with a variety of different narrations all of them sensationalized.
Now I'll admit that I do enjoy the guilty pleasure of Animal Cops, but come ON ...
Oh yeah, and Nancy Grace - you can go away any time now. You're an annoying, classless, strident hag.
current mood:  ranty
current music: NatGeoHD
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| Sunday, January 4th, 2009
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11:09 am - I resolve ...
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In 2009,  cc_lemon resolves to... Drink four glasses of rpg every day. Apply for a new film. Learn to play the bjd. Spend less time on music. Connect with my inner anime. Volunteer to spend time with ramenkuris.
I should work on some real ones, but I haven't really thought about it yet. These, I think I can live with for now.
current mood:  drained
current music: The Clash
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| Friday, October 17th, 2008
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12:58 am - Little White Lies
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Stolen from Violaine - because it was just too much fun not to.
If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.
It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.
When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.
current mood:  crazy
current music: it's vewy qwiet hewe now
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| Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
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1:31 am - Mad Productive
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Life's been mad busy. I guess that's nothing new, or worth even mentioning, except I have this meme thing to do and I didn't want to meme and run. So first, the mad productive part - took the day off from have-to stuff to do useful want-to stuff, like:
~ shopping for groceries, and more than just the usual New York shopping for just what I needed for the next day or two. Of particular note, bought all the stuff to make chicken soup, not because anyone here's sick, but because it's good and I wanted it, and home made spaghetti sauce, because making a huge batch of it was always an autumn ritual, growing up, making it at my grandmother's house, all day long, enough to feed two households and still have several quarts in the freezer. Oh, and because they looked fab, fresh brussels sprouts and green beans
~ cooked the above mentioned chicken soup and red sauce, both of which turned out really beautifully
~ took a metric assload of photos - enough for thread bumps for days. Edited and uploaded them too.
~ ordered a new laptop - one of the just unveiled today Macbooks - yes, boys and girls, I'm going over to the dark side!
Okay, so all that's boring, but believe me, it filled the day. I think there was something else, but I've forgotten it now.
So now, the Page 56 meme, stolen from several on my F-list
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"The study found that nearly 4 (yes, the book read 4 not four, hmph) percent of hospital patients suffered complications from treatment which either prolonged their hospital stay or resulted in disability or death, and that two-thirds of such complications were due to errors in care."
from "Complications - A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science" by Atul Gawande
This book is my next in line, maybe, unless I decide to put this behind the one I just got the other night - "Death, a Life" - because who wouldn't want to read Death's memoir?
current mood:  caffeinated
current music: TV's on, lights are off, hoping sleep will come soon
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| Saturday, August 16th, 2008
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10:38 pm - Frighteningly appropriate
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'nuff said
current mood:  wasted
current music: the voice of the best enabler in the world, instructing me what i need next
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| Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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10:52 am - I could so get used to this stuff
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So I'm in NY, playing at being magazine writer girl and celebrating the arrival of a doll that is pretty much exactly the doll I'd design if the BJD gods gave me that privilege. For the non-doll-whacko people on the list, this might be a little wiggy or boring, but I just have to introduce the resin man of my dreams, Laith Teufel.
More pics here:
http://s22.photobucket.com/albums/b333/universaldonor/laith/
current mood:  ecstatic
current music: WDST - the coolest radio station EVAR
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| Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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4:48 pm - I left my heart ....
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Responding to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) celticgeekess recent challenge, I offer this glimpse at my overly busy desktop:
And a very special thanks to rkold for selling me Alai's new eyes. They're perfect for him and he's waited far too long for a nice pair.
I just love the grim little guy.
Beyond that, I have absolutely nothing of interest to say. It's hot and humid and my branes are cooked.
current mood:  Wasted
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| Friday, April 4th, 2008
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7:24 pm - Nothing personal ....
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Actually, it's been a while since I posted anything more than a few sentences, and certainly not a meme, but I got tagged by orehime so here goes - actually, first, the rules:
Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 random things, facts, goals, or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people you think may answer - to be tagged, listing their names & why you chose them. Don't forget to leave them a comment (you're it!) and to read your blog for instructions. You can't tag a person who has tagged you. Since you can't re-tag me, let me know when you've posted your blog so I can read the answers!
1) I could live happily in San Francisco forever. Even in a crappy neighborhood. Maybe preferably so.
2) I don't like being in bodies of water I can't easily swim across.
3) I'm hopelessly addicted to coffee, either with or without caffeine, but preferably with.
4) I collect ridiculously expensive dolls.
5) I don't think there are enough Doc Martens boots or Converse sneakers in the world and I guess I collect those too. The louder in color they are, the better, though my favorite boots are the black ones.
6) We need EYES! (maybe one person on the planet will know what that means)
7) I wish I were a better seamstress.
8) I firmly believe that breakfast cereal should not taste like cookies. Or be sweet at all.
9) There is nothing I dislike more than feeling as if I've been played.
10) Some day I'll have something more ambitious than a magazine article published. But I'll probably use a pseudonym.
Okay, so, to tag people. That's hard. Most of my F-list won't thank me for it.
rkold, tb_ll57, kingofbraves, sedens,
petkamui, monaleslie, heartflood
I didn't tag ten. Not sure I could name ten people who won't kill me if I do or who haven't already done this.
current mood:  bouncy
current music: The sound of the sump pump. It's running constantly coz it's springtime
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| Thursday, March 20th, 2008
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4:14 pm - Zuh? Chinese Astronomy?
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It's been WAY too long since I've updated. I'm really boring.
And really busy. The tales of which are really boring as well, so I won't get into them here, but suffice it to say that since the holidays I've spent substantial time in NY, LA and SF and a few points in between, written dozens of pages of fiction and non-fiction, acquired, uhhh, several dolls (a couple of them accidentally), shoveled metric assloads of snow, sewed till my hands ached and either built on or embarked on several very nice friendships.
So yeah.
For the doll lovers on my F-list, here's my latest arrival, Rachiel. Since NY Dolpa I've regretted not getting a Masha for myself. When this one fell into my lap, I nearly imploded. I love the scrappy little thing so much.
And because I'm spoiled, I'm hunting desperately for an Okita, since my first two attempts were unsuccessful and I've already got a name and a backstory for the anxious looking guy. Yes, there's the AE, but right now I'm stalking Y!J, which is sooooo dangerous. *sigh* Somebody hit me.
In other news, life is basically good. The busy continues. I don't think I could stand it if it things really slowed down. No major travel plans until June though, which is good. I need to be home a while. Play with dolls, cuddle the kitties.
Quit caffeine again, because I freaking fell of the wagon and hard.
But that's a whole other entry.
current mood:  blah
current music: The History Channel, I think
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| Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
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12:25 am - Happy New Year
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I love that the first song I heard this year was Joy to the World by The Three Dog Night. I woke up to it, in fact. It gave me my first, sleepy, smile of the year.
Resolutions. Yeah, I have a couple. I make one or two every year and they're always something realistic and attainable. Here they are:
Be more grateful for what I have and for what the world brings my way.
Be more clear with myself and others what it is I really want.
I think I can manage to keep these. If any of you catch me wavering or waffling on them, call me on it. I count on my friends to keep me grounded.
I want to hear yours now. And if you're one of my customers - a few of you read this journal - comment here, PM or email me your resolution. The most entertaining, profound or amusing one will win a free pair of pants. I'll announce that on January 7.
Oh, and because I'm grateful, thank you all for your friendship. Even when I'm cranky, I do appreciate it.
current mood:  Wired
current music: Just the hum of the sewing machine
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| Saturday, October 13th, 2007
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5:39 pm - Sugar and Spice
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This really isn't meant to be a doll-centric journal, but this is too stinkin' cute not to post --
Spent two thirds of the last two days looking for a tiny shoe and a little beaded bag to complete a doll outfit. In the process I found all kinds of other stuff I forgot I even had, cleaned out three junk drawers and an antique dresser. Brought on a dust related asthma attack (coz gee, SOME of us love to clean about as much as we like emergency dentistry), filled two garbage bags, organized the doll room, found and played with my Talking Julia, who, miraculously, still speaks and yes, found the shoe and bag. All in all it was worth the time spent.
So and I'm making spaghetti sauce today, the way my Italian grandmother used to. Simmer it all damned day. Fifteen quarts at a time. Enough to share with neighbors and still have a metric assload of it to freeze for lazy day dinners. And the smell is KILLING me. I've got several hours of this to go. I may not survive it.
I'm not too patiently awaiting the sub of the first episode of Gundam 00. WTF people? I know it's free and all that, but I've got needs.
Also going nuts waiting for a release date for the new Firewater cd. If you don't know this band yet, you should. And if you have serious issues with how our president is running this country you REALLY need to listen to this cd. It's being streamed on Firewater's myspace here:
http://www.myspace.com/realfirewater
Just incredible stuff.
current mood:  busy
current music: Firewater, The Golden Hour
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| Friday, September 28th, 2007
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11:07 am - A question of will
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So I had a dream this morning. In it I asked someone I loved, 'What do you want badly? Today. Something you can have.' I woke up kind of burned by this question, so I'm going to ask my loved ones here.
Now I don't want cheesey answers like world peace, or impossible dreams like a new president. Or wishes, like a mountain of commissions or the perfect body or the shipping notice on that doll you've been waiting for or a magical transportation to an exotic land where bullshit doesn't exist.
What do you really want, in the next 24 hours, that will make you joyful, or fulfilled (even for a few hours) or just plain GOOD? Something achievable if you just reach for it. Even if it's something simple like a haircut or a new pair of sneakers. A conversation with a friend over lemon meringue pie. A long walk in the sun. One really heartstopping, weak in the knees kiss. Things like that.
Now my next question - my challenge to all of you - is, are you willing to take action to have that thing?
I fully expect to hear what thing you want and that the answer is yes, you're willing to make it happen.
I'm going to.
EDIT: Auntie Lynnie - If you're reading, you can tell Marshall that on the way to pie and conversation with a friend, Auntie Marsh saw the moon, full and high, high in the sky, thought of him, and howled at it.
current mood:  Focused
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| Thursday, August 16th, 2007
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1:23 pm - Grass Stains
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I forgot how blessed FUN it is to play in the garden. Yesterday I spent an absolutely wonderful and much needed day out at a friend's house, crawling around in his garden, grinding mud and grass stains into my jeans and shoes, taking pictures of the rezin!kidz. The second such day like this. There are already plans for another.
The rest of the results can be viewed here:
http://s22.photobucket.com/albums/b333/universaldonor/secret%20garden/
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| Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
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12:10 pm - Altered states
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I have absinthe! Real, genuine, distilled, French absinthe. The good kind. I know this because I spent a lot of time researching and chose the brand and the importer very carefully. Anyone who's 'met' or knows of my character Bryn, appreciates this event and how excited I am to receive this particular birthday gift.
Now I just need to be off pain meds long enough to actually have some.
I think I can manage that.
current mood: excited
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| Monday, July 23rd, 2007
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7:39 pm - Mixed bag
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Things are good, mostly, and too busy to keep up with this journal much. But I've been quieter than usual the last couple days so here's a small overview.
Today I received the second of two advance copies of magazines containing articles I've authored. Both are cover stories. One is pretty much a glorified press release, written as a favor to a friend. The other I'm rather more proud of, because it took some fancy footwork to but together an article the subject and publisher were both happy with just from off the record conversations. Long story, but yeah, had minimal cooperation, so mostly I winged it. Winged? Dunno. Anyway. So if you're curious, the August issue of Contemporary Doll Collector and the Fall issue of Fashion Doll Quarterly (FDQ) contain articles by moi. And actually, the FDQ issue has a second, brief article in which I also receive photographic credit for the craptastic pics I took covering a recent doll convention.
I'm actually writing for pleasure again, rather a lot, and that makes me happy. I'm not sure I can even call it so much writing as helping out with plot and dialog, with tb_ll57, though she'll probably hit me for putting it that way. Our collected works are archived on her LJ and I'd be honored if any of you felt moved to go read them. I think it's the best work I've ever done. It's certainly the most fulfilling.
After a decades long search I have finally hunted down, purchased and received a much loved book from my childhood. After I finish the Potter book, I'm anxious to dig into it.
Speaking of the Potter book, I made a now traditional trek to the wilds of Canada to procure the UK edition with petkamui and somehow managed to avoid falling into the landscaping.
Don't ask. You really don't want to know.
Now, the bad stuff.
Sometime in the last twenty-four hours a minor toothache became a badly infected and abscessed tooth, resulting in excruciating pain, a sleepless night and a really ugly travail at the dentist office. Darvocet's not touching this thing. NOTHING's touching this thing. I've decided to stop being stoned off my ass for nothing and gut it out until the antibiotics kick in and pray they can get me in for the actual root canal before August 17.
All things considered, it's not so bad to be me today. Be nice to have better drugs though.
current mood:  ouchy
current music: Summer sounds
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| Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
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2:17 am - Alive or something like it
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Because I’m in a grim, pissy mood I’m distracting myself with quizzies. I kinda liked this one, taken from tb_ll57
| What color is your soul painted? Orange Your soul is painted the color orange, which embodies the characteristics of balance, heat, enthusiasm, flamboyance, playfulness, aggression, over-emotion, danger, desire, strengthens the ability to concentrate, attraction, adaptability, and stimulation. Orange falls under the element of Fire, and symbolizes glory and fruits of the earth. 
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And this one, stolen from manzai
Which literature classic are you?
Virginia Woolf: Orlando. You are a challenge, for outer events, the outside world, the time etc. play no importance to you. Your focus is in writing, in gender issues, and inside your own head. Self-analysis and exploration of yourself as well as the outer world hold great importance to you.
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Aside from this, there’s not a lot to tell. Just got back from a very fast, very exciting trip to New York. Getting my ducks in a row for a trip to LA next week. I’ve been practically chained to the sewing machine and when I’m not (and sometimes even when I am), I’m writing.
Oh, and sleep … even with only very infrequent caffeine, sleep has pretty much evaded me this week. Hence the above mentioned grim and pissy ‘tude.
But I've got the new book by eegatland tonight and I’ll be seeing about half my f-list at AX next week and those are very good things.
current mood:  yyyyyeah
current music: Some crap on TV
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| Thursday, April 26th, 2007
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12:05 pm - Everything and nothing
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So, the last several months have been interesting and moderately chaotic and posting just hasn't been happening, mostly because I just haven't had it in me. It's raining today and I'm feeling lazy and a little self-focused and this meme appealed so I stole it. Thanks Greenapple.
I like this guy.
current mood:  lazy
current music: Firewater, Man on the Burning Tightrope
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