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Monday: Misc & Whatever
Tuesday: Sewing & Fashion & Whatever
Wednesday: Art, Craft & Design & Whatever
Thursday: Health & Food & Whatever
Friday: Prose & Poetry & Whatever
Saturday: In the Garden & Whatever
Sunday: Sunday in Seattle & Whatever
What it’s all about: Explore: Rainbow Sky Backlights the Born-Again Burning Man 2007; Burningman (via aeionic)
Ah, man, I was there for that. One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen - how it looked like there was a whole different world underneath the rainbow.
Dita Von Teese wearing Valentino in Harper’s Bazaar Russia.
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Random thought of the day: People look better when they wear lipstick.
Seriously, they do.
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Oooh! An amazing spanish-language trailer for the upcoming season of “Lost”! I can’t wait!
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According to the National Domestic Violence hotline, these are some signs that you may be in an emotionally or physically abusive relationship.
Does your partner:
* Look at you or act in ways that scare you?
Check.
* Control what you do, who you see or talk to or where you go?
“Stay away from the werewolves. I love you.”
* Make all of the decisions?
Check.
* Act like the abuse is no big deal, it’s your fault, or even deny doing it?
“If I wasn’t so attracted to you, I wouldn’t have to break up with you.”
* Threaten to commit suicide?
“I just can’t live without you. In fact, I’ll run to Italy and try suicide by vampire if anything happens to you.”
* Threaten to kill you?
On their first date.
These are some more signs of an abusive relationship.
Has your partner…
* Tried to isolate you from family or friends.
Bella doesn’t have time for anyone else!
* Damaged property when angry (thrown objects, punched walls, kicked doors, etc.).
Check.
* Pushed, slapped, bitten, kicked or choked you.
Does tossing her through a glass table count?
* Abandoned you in a dangerous or unfamiliar place.
“We’re breaking up. And I’m leaving you in the forest.”
* Scared you by driving recklessly.
Check.
* Forced you to leave your home.
She had to run away with him to flee from the other vampires in the first movie, and she had to drop everything and run to Italy in the second.
* Prevented you from calling police or seeking medical attention.
Check. Even in the hospital, nothing is a big deal.
* Views women as objects and believes in rigid gender roles.
Well, they are Mormon… (I know, I know, cheap shot.)
* Accuses you of cheating or is often jealous of your outside relationships.
Check, wolf-boy.
Now I’m pissed. According to the NDVH, “If you answered ‘yes’ to even one of these questions, you may be in an abusive relationship.” This list is fifteen.
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BEFORE: Kitchen prepped for painting
BEFORE: Kitchen prepped for paintin
AFTER: Kitchen
AFTER: Kitchen
AFTER: Kitchen
Dear god, it took me two+ days to paint the kitchen. Granted, it was a solo job because Ivan was working/pulled his back, but the office only took a day.
All of the surfaces of this house are textured (which I loathe) and I had intended to have solid color walls, but I ended up using 1 coat of Benjamin Moore “Baby Fern” on the walls and the original wall color shone through creating what I like to call a “Bohemian Italian Fresco” effect.If in a few weeks I decide that I don’t like it, I still have enough paint to make it solid.
I used BM white “Cotton Balls” around the windows and on all the downward facing surfaces which both freshens and breaks up the green. I also used “Cotton Balls” on the beadboard at the south end of the kitchen which creates a farm-house feel.
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Day TWO of painting the kitchen. Meh.
I have given myself a 5:00pm deadline to get it finished. That’s about 7 hours. Easy, right?
Another (sort of) weekend, another ferry ride.
This time we are crossing the Sound to Bremerton to have Thanksgiving dinner at our friends, Ali and Erik’s, home.
Awesome. Just awesome.
Quoted from the link:
This phenomenon is considered to be due to critical mass. When a limited number of people know something in a new way, it remains the conscious property of only those people. The Hundredth Monkey Syndrome hypothesises that there is a point at which if only one more person tunes in to a new awareness, a field of energy is strengthened so that new awareness is picked up by almost everyone.
The Hundredth Monkey Effect was first introduced by biologist Lyall Watson in his 1980 book, ‘Lifetide.’ He reported that Japanese primatologists, who were studying Macaques monkeys in the wild in the 1950s, had stumbled upon a surprising phenomenon. Some anthropologist were studying the habits of monkeys on some islands in the ocean off the shores of Japan. They found one particularly smart little fellow, and taught it to wash its food before eating it. He learned to do this quite quickly. Soon the other monkeys in his family also began to wash their food before eating it. Later this behavior spread to other monkeys in the clan. About the time one hundred monkeys were washing their food prior to eating it, suddenly all the monkeys on all the islands, some thousands of miles away, began to wash their food before eating it.
This surprising observation became known as the Hundredth Monkey Effect and has been repeatedly observed. This same phenomenon is true in humans as well. It is part of the reason we have trends in fashion, the economy, and politics, etc. When we understand this concept, it becomes very important for us to develop our positive thinking. Humanity will be free, free at last. Free to build a better world, by “giving” - from the immense power of love, instead of “taking” - from the energy of fear.
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Now this is fantastic idea! Due to the smallness of our bedroom and, consequently, the required placement of our bed underneath a window, we don’t have a headboard.
Long, thin pillows attached to the wall, though? That could work.
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