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Amazing.
I can't believe it's finally over.
Now the final push to get organized before the tour starts on Wednesday can go forward without that hanging over our heads. What a relief.
I'm really proud of us, too- all that work, the angst of the situation in general, the tears over old photos and memorabilia (who'd guess old, dried bird poop could make your heart break), the struggle to just not give up, gritting teeth over the mold and dust and dead spiders, letting go of so much stuff...
We didn't argue, we didn't lose our tempers, we didn't get snarky... we just put our backs into it and somehow got it done. We were kind to each other, we were patient with mood swings and the occasional melt downs, helped each other remember to eat and drink so we didn't get crazy with blood sugar issues...
"Stuff" is hard. I'm really glad so much of it is gone. And the stuff we kept... well, that's just stuff, too, and someday we'll let go of that as well. We'll shed all this stuff and just float away like thistledown, wonder briefly what the fuss was all about... and be glad to leave the stuff behind.
- Location:Richmond Beach house sit
- Mood:
tired - Music:Silence...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1
Other bugophiles may enjoy this also.
- Location:Houseboat again
- Mood:
calm - Music:clothes washer filling
- Location:Houseboat again
- Mood: & HOT!
- Music:dishwasher washing
- Location:Houseboat, as usual...
- Mood: calm
- Music:Blissful quiet
I smell of mice but otherwise I am unharmed- no banged shins or squashed fingers, which is nice. Time for a shower and clean clothes and some chocolate.
- Location:Houseboat again
- Mood: tired
- Music:dishwasher washing
- Location:Houseboat, as usual...
- Mood:
accomplished - Music:rain on the roof
- Location:Houseboat, as usual...
- Mood: and determined
- Music:quietness prevails...
Your result for The Quick & Painless ENNEAGRAM Test...
4- the Individualist
Thanks for taking the test !
you chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR (aka "The Romantic")
"I am unique"
Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.
How to Get Along with Me
- Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
- Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
- Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
- Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
- Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!
What I Like About Being a FOUR
- my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
- my ability to establish warm connections with people
- admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
- my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
- being unique and being seen as unique by others
- having aesthetic sensibilities
- being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me
What's Hard About Being a FOUR
- experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
- feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
- feeling guilty when I disappoint people
- feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
- expecting too much from myself and life
- fearing being abandoned
- obsessing over resentments
- longing for what I don't have
FOURs as Children Often
- have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
- are very sensitive
- feel that they don't fit in
- believe they are missing something that other people have
- attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
- become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
- feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)
- help their children become who they really are
- support their children's creativity and originality
- are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
- are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
- are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed
Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele
The Enneagram Made Easy
Discover the 9 Types of People
Harper
SanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages
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- Location:Houseboat, as usual...
- Mood: calm
- Music:Reno 9-11
Eileen is a lame female Mallard duck (no, really) who first came here last summer. She walked right up the side of the houseboat, into the kitchen and right to the cat's dish looking for food. Since they don't eat crunchies (ask me about raw food for your cat!) she was disappointed. We gently herded her outside before she could decorate the floor (not that this would matter after having a parrot as a pet) and then fed her bread. (Really good quality, sprouted seeded bread, for those of you who are interested.) We even have a neat little video of the occasion. Anyway, she stuck around the area, visiting off and on for handouts then she disappeared for the winter. I was a little afraid she'd gotten eaten by something but NO- she's back! We're so happy. She's a very sweet duck.
- Location:Houseboat, as usual...
- Mood: calm
- Music:"Dinner's ready!"
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- Location:Houseboat, as usual...
- Mood: calm
- Music:Dead quiet...
You are The Wheel of Fortune
Good fortune and happiness but sometimes a species of
intoxication with success
The Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change, fortune. Almost always good fortune. You are lucky in all things that you do and happy with the things that come to you. Be careful that success does not go to your head however. Sometimes luck can change.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
- Location:Houseboat, as usual...
- Mood: melancholy
- Music:dadgaderie: "YARP!"
Cheer up friends and neighbors
Now it is Easter tide
Stop from endless labors
Worries put aside
All should rise from sadness
Evil, folly, strife
When with mighty gladness
Springs the earth to life
Out from snow-drifts chilly
Roused from drowsy hours
Bluebell wakes and lily
Nature calls up the flowers
Into life she raises
All the sleeping buds
Meadows weave her praises
And the spangled woods
All is truth and beauty
All is righteousness
All our joy and duty
Bearing this impress
Look - the earth waits breathless
After winter's strife
Easter shows us deathless
Spring leads death to life
- Location:Houseboat, as usual...
- Mood: calm
- Music:dadgaderie & t_op playing a twisty tune
http://www.obsessedwithconformity.com/o
EXCERPT:
When you consider how many songs, poems, paintings, movies, etc. were created with the idea of Love as its core concept, most of us can agree that this one little word has a pretty huge impact on us. On all of us. Across cultures.
So we're proposing a test. On April 4, 2009 (a Saturday), we all post "I Love You" in our social media circles JUST ONCE to see if this innocuous little sentence can have a positive impact on people - and SM as a whole. No, we're not asking you to say you Love Social Media, or Facebook, or Twitter or even your mother for that matter. And we're not asking you to endorse any religion, ethnicity, brand, holiday or any other possible reason you could conjure. We're just asking you to post "I Love You" once in one of your social media streams. In Facebook as a status, in Twitter as a post, hell - you can even post it in Linkedin if you want (it's a Saturday, so no one is going to think any less of you for spreading such a positive message).
Why? Because with all of the shit in the world today we are curious to see whether Love can still conquer all.
...And if you have the time, look up how Estonia got free of the Soviet Union. Music and love rule my life and wow... look what it did for Estonia.
- Location:Bella Luna Pizza, Suquamish, WA
- Mood: busy
- Music:noisy conversation
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1
- Location:Houseboat again
- Mood: cheerful
- Music:Moana begging for chicken
Originally posted by terribleturnip:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop
- Location:Houseboat again
- Mood:baffled
- Music:Tumble dryer tumbling
- Location:Houseboat again
- Mood: exhausted
- Music:Silence...
I do think having Reiki to use made a huge difference in our stress levels over-all. Compared to former flights where I was doing anti-anxiety medication and still being really miserable it was like nothing at all. Even the token crying baby who was next to us on the second leg was adorable, had incredibly sweet and loving parents and hardly cried at all and when she did it wasn't loud. I didn't even have trouble with the fact that pretty much everything that was offered to us by way of food was, because of my problems with grains and rice, inedible. A little Reiki, a little EFT, some nuts, a 9 bar (seeds, nuts, honey and carob- yum!) and tea and I was fine on both flights. We did manage to find a salad in Chicago which worked okay to hold us till Seattle, where Mom picked us up and took us home to an amazing Mom Meal of pot roast, baked potatoes and Mom Salad. What a relief...
I was in bed by 9 PM, I think, and slept pretty much straight through till 10 this morning. So I'm pretty much right back on track again, though a little foggy still.
Oh, one very fun little crossing of paths: a pretty young couple behind us on the plane started talking with us when we landed in Seattle and were gathering our stuff together. It turns out they are friends of suddenlynaked and siouxiequeue! Adam and Anna say hi, guys! So funny... I just love traveling.
Okay, time to get into the van and see if I can remember how to drive on the right side of the road.
- Location:Houseboat again
- Mood: cheerful
- Music:The gathering of pound notes...
There is so much we love about touring in general but some very specific things to touring in the UK. Roundabouts, for one, rock the Casbah of driving. I adore roundabouts (even the little ones) and always miss them mightily while waiting at traffic lights in the States. Actually, I love pretty much everything about driving over here and I always have to kind of gird my loins for the return to the bedlam of US traffic.
Folk clubs. Gods, I'll miss the folks clubs. Coffee houses, concert series, festivals, house concerts, they're all good and we love them but folk clubs are special to the UK and there's nothing really like them anywhere else. They're like little families that get together on a weekly basis to sing and play tunes, tell stories, drink, swap lies (and occasionally spouses), sometimes even vacation together. This cohesion makes for a marvelously tight audience. At the worst everyone has a decent time and goes away contented and at the best... well, there's no other high like it in performing.
Our next tour over here is in May of 2010. Yeesh, that's a weird thing to write... I'm going to miss this country.
*Was... I'm at Manchester airport now indulging in kick-ass free wi-fi and green tea.
- Location:Manchester airport, UK
- Mood: calm
- Music:Busy travelers traveling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rvi
Okay, not maybe as much fun for the sheep as for us but still worth a peek.
Thanks to birdsedge for this.
- Location:Birdsedge, Yorkshire
- Mood: cheerful
- Music:"Baa... baa..." "WOOF!"
- Location:Birdsedge, Yorkshire
- Mood: cheerful
- Music:quietness prevails...
