Hi, my name is Jessie. This time of year is always pretty rough because I don't really have anyone to spend the holidays with and money is always tight. So here's my wish list for 2009. Some of these are pipe dreams, but hey, it's not called a wish list for nothing. :) If you want to contact me about my address for shipping, email me at jade_kadir @ hotmail . com. I also posted this on my LJ here.

- Once a wish has been granted, it will be crossed off my list.

MY TEN HOLIDAY WISHES:

01: LJ account paid for another year (W/ icon upgrade for a year) I Really Really want this one pretty please someone.

02: Anything from my Amazon Wish List. I'm not that picky. I love all sorts of things. :)

03: Icons from one of my favorite TV shows.

04: An new Michael Parkes Calendar for 2010.

05: Blank CD-Rs

06: Tigana 10th Anniversary Edition - by Guy Gavriel Kay (Book's Wiki)

07: A Playstation 3

08: Two weeks of vacation in Miami

09: True Love

10: Johnny Depp. (Just kidding.)

If anyone wants to play Santa this year, then comment or email me at jade_kadir@hotmail.com

Last year around this time, someone posted that they were making a book full of happy things for a friend of theirs for Christmas and they needed inspiration. I'm stealing that idea this year, so thanks to whomever that was!

Will you please post a quote or the title of a song or a poem or a picture that never fails to make you smile? Will you give me any ideas you have? My BFF is coming up this weekend to shower my son with gifts, so I have very little time to make this happen!

I'm taking part in a collection evaluation project at my local library. I think I want to do the 900s, since the head librarian and I were just talking the other day about how we aren't ordering enough new books for it (it's always the emptiest of the new book displays), but to make things more manageable I need to pick a smaller section to focus on for now.

Poll #1495716 pick a topic, any topic
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Which of these Dewey numbers should I choose as my focus?

Do restaurants at your place come with free Wifi/wireless internet connection for their customers?

What sort of restaurants are they? (Family restaurants/coffeeshops/chain restaurants/fast food outlets/etc.)

What do you think of people who sit for hours on end with their laptops in these restaurants? (They have food & drinks on their table, so they're not in the restaurant just for the wireless connection. There's also lots of empty tables in the restaurant at all times, so they're not preventing other customers from coming in and eating at the restaurant.)

If you work at one of these restaurants, how do you feel when a customer/customers use the wireless connection for hours at a time?

I'm asking because I'm on "vacation" at my home state right now, where I don't have an internet account/connection at home. So 2-3 times per week I go to different restaurants (Coffee Bean, Starbucks etc., I'm at a Kenny Rogers Roasters right now) and sit for an average of 4 hours to use their free wireless connection, which they advertise at their shop entrances with the Wifi logo, that's how I know they offer free Wifi here. At places like Starbucks/Coffee Bean I don't stand out as much since lots of other people go there mainly for their wireless connection as well, but here at Kenny Rogers Roasters, I've been here for 4 hours now and I'm still the only customer with a laptop. :X

There's no tipping culture here in my country, if that changes anything. We get charged 15% of taxes & service charge in the bill instead.

Should I microwave or heat my soup in a pan?

Does Heinz exist in America?
(It may even be an American brand, I don't know.)

Fred Phelps is getting ready to protest at the high school in my cousin's hometown today. She's leaving in an hour to go to the picket/protest.

She is bringing 17 other people with her (and hundreds more are either there, on their way, or going soon). They all want to make their own signs to "picket back."

Phelps is specifically picketing because the town is largely Jewish and supports gay rights (his blog says they teach their "copperhead babies" lies and have been since birth)

So far, she came up with these sayings for some of their signs:

JESUS WAS JEWISH

GOD HATES FRED PHELPS
EVERYONE ELSE THINGS HE'S A FAG

FRED PHELPS HATES
GAYS AND LESBIANS LOVE

Can you think of 14 other sayings they can put on posters so they can go picket?

Edit: just got this IM from her: bonus points for Bible passages that either support homosexuality/gay marriage or judaism.
AND
if anyone lives in the arae would like to come meet us at the circle in 25-30 minutes and you can come with us, we have extra picket signs you can use!!

if you were to design a cover for your school diary, what would you put on it? i can't think of anything interesting :(

or, what would you like to see on your school diary cover?

I have been practicing a little embroidery. This is a (slightly modified) Richard Brautigan quote. (Not modified on purpose..) I think that embroidered handwriting is just so sweet. I'll have to gather more quotes to do this with.

Is there a no-sew (apart from hemming etc) way of making a half or three quarter circle skirt, with no side or back seams? I just can't get my head around how you might be able to do it by folding fabric etc.

Any tutorials or tips would be much appreciated!

Surprise you're a unicorn! But unfortunately mythology got one thing wrong, that's not a horn on your head, it's a penis.

Would you rather it be permanently erect (and painful) or never erect and flop into your eyes like a fringe?

...but a few more beetles have crawled out of the woodwork in the last few weeks. One inspired by counting too many cells as part of my thesis and one by a thundering toothache.



The other beetly family members are here. I've bought some mount board and a mount-cutter to start matting them, but I am a bit stumped about how to do it. Any tips?

Traveling slowly
From here to there
One heart to another
Working cold fingers
Over the bones of
Confusion
Doubt
And love
With little remorse.
Taking baby steps.

Dearest Londo...

I don't know HOW you do it.

It's winter outside, the ground is frozen... and yet somehow you manage to find a NEWT and bring it into the house?!

When I saw you playing with the wriggling thing that was it's tail, I thought it was a worm. Until I saw it...

~Shudders~

In my SHOE!

I mean, really.

Big mean hunter? I can deal with all the mice you bring in in Summer (JUST!), but newts, newt tails and frogs are right out.

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Can anyone recommend a good romantic movie? A genuinely romantic movie, not a rom com. Something that will make me feel filled with love and joy. Foxy actors are also very welcome.

For a very long time I had the desire to paint a gheisha. In my childhood I had visited the office of a doctor and he had a painting with a beautiful gheisha. It was so graceful and serene that I never forgot it. Finally this Saturday and Sunday I had done it. I hope you like it.

Poll #1495665
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Who is sexier?

Hi everyone. My name's April and I'm 26 years old. I live in KY with my fiance, Boo. I'm been a member of livejournal going on 6 years and I'd thought this year I'd post my wish list. (:

So, here it is:

1.) Anything from my amazon wish list, and used items are great too: http://amzn.com/w/1NU058T6T56DU.
2.) More livejournal friends.
3.) Anything Hello Kitty.
4.) Icons of me or of me & Boo, and I love it when the icons are animated.
5.) Blinkies, especially couple related, girlie stuff, dolls and faeries.
6.) More user pics add-on or more paid time for my livejournal.
7.) Horror movie DVDs (new or used).
8.) Scrapbook related stuff, especially stuff having to do with love and relationships.
9.) Horror books or young adult fiction novels (new or used).
10.) A magazine subscription to Cosmo or something like that.

Here's my address:

April Smith
410 Sester Hollow Road
Manchester, KY 40962

And here's my email:

aprillynn_smith@yahoo.com

If you're interested in making me a blinkie or an icon, you can email me about it and I'll email you back with the info.

Thanks so much everybody, and I wish all of you a beautiful holiday season and a very happy New Year! ♥

Hello! My name is Maureen. I'm a 23-year-old Psychology major at the University of Missouri. I live with one roommate and three cats and work at my university's library. When I'm not working, I like to read, write, watch anime, and play video games. I'm very excited about this community. ^_^ Here's my list:


1: Anything Japanese. I love Japan! Anything from Japan or that has to do with Japanese culture would be great. I like candy, keychains, maneki nekos, figurines, dishes, chopsticks -- pretty much anything.
2: Jewelry. I really want some cute barrettes to wear in my hair, but I also love rings and necklaces. Mood rings and cameo necklaces in particular.
3: Cat toys. One of my cats is a kitten and the big cats are not always in the mood to play with her, so I would really love some cool cat toys to keep her entertained. She is quite the bundle of energy.
4: Harry Potter merchandise. Ties and scarves, specifically, but I am in love with all things HP. I have an adorable Snape figurine that lives on top of my television. I also love a good chocolate frog. ^_^
5: Wall art. My walls are sad and empty and there's nothing I love more than pretty pictures, frames, and clocks to hang on them. Or anything that hangs, really. I just want my walls to look cute.
6: Plushies. Any character from video game or anime would be fantastic. I especially love the Final Fantasy series, Kingdom Hearts, Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach, Fruits Basket, and Fushigi Yuugi, to name a few. I'm familiar with most anime, though, so if it's popular enough to warrant a plushie, I will probably know it/love it.
7: Anime. Whatever your favorite is! I watch a lot of anime but don't own much so I would love to watch your recommendations.
8: Gravitation Vol. 12. I have volumes 1-11 but am sadly lacking in the last book of this manga. It's one of my favorite anime/manga series everrr so I would love to have the final volume.
9: Gay fiction. Something you've written yourself, links to recs online, ebooks, or actual novels. I love them all, as long as there are gay men involved.
10: Surprise me!

Contact info:
reeology@gmail.com

Maureen Willmann
900 Moss St
Apt 6
Columbia, MO 65201

преодолевая отвращение к плоскостопию второй степени у шуток дмитрия танковича, смотрел по пятницам передачу "танцуют все". авторитетно поправляя пенсне, неделю за неделей рассматривал танцоров, которым ничего не мешало. пока в черную пятницу зрители не выгнали мою любимую пару артем + викуська. такого удара в ча-ча-ча я не ожидал.

женщина-северный-полюс татьяна денисова пусть посмотрит запись своей первой реакции на результаты, а потом еще раз расскажет нам, что все участники достойные.
но разговор пойдет не об этом, а о том, почему так происходит. почему вдруг финальная стадия отдана на откуп зрителей ни хера, как и я, не понимающих в поддержках?

когда вместо самородка-пианиста в финал передачи "украина має талант" выбрали убогую пародистку аллы борисовны, я чуть не побил дома всю янтарную комнату. кто же талант, если не пианист, играющий на фортепьяно как моцарт?

вскоре увидела свет докучливая реклама концерта финалистов и стало ясно - победили билеты на концерт. кого пойдет слушать широкий обыватель: талантливого эмо-тапера или трехгрошовую пародию, но на аллу борисовну? ответ очевиден.

так же очевиден, как и ответ на вопрос почему лучшего танцора выбирает пубертатный авангард вооруженный мобильными телефонами. импресарио до прожектора станет победителем танцор или ведущий передачи. тлеет надежда, что на этой неделе "гениальный" томильченко еще предложит кому-нибудь начать танец из гробов, они откажутся и вернутся артем с викой.

рявкни на них. танцуют все!

http://dance.stb.ua/video/5439

сперва мтс разделяет бонусный и основной счета, чтобы кормилец не смог на бонусные деньги позвонить в другую сеть. этого мтсу кажется мало и теперь, чтобы перевести бонусы в деньги нужно с пуками и пинами регестрироваться на сайте мтс!?! почему бы не сдавать государственные экзамены перед пополнением счета?
справку из земельного отдела гни прислать, отжаться и подтянуться минимум десять раз, обтираться холодной водой по методу порфирия иванова.

дорогой мтс, ты быть может не заметил, но вокруг тебя существует больше операторов мобильной связи чем пальцев на руке фрезеровщика.

какой логический прием нужно применить, чтобы понять почему в "роуминге" я не могу отправлять смс (ценой в 3 - 4.8 грв) когда у меня на счету денег меньше 20 грв, например 19.99? почему если звонят мне в "роуминг" деньги снимают с меня? надо понимать мне на барбадосе намного легче найти карточку пополнения мтс, чем человеку звонящему из украины?

перед отправкой в эквадор посетила стяжательская мысль.
у мтс есть услуга "перезвони мне": *104*050номер#
абонент получает смску: "перезвони, нашальника!". перед отъездом договорился с родстенниками: один запрос означает "у меня всё хорошо" (можно отправлять до 7 запросов в день). например, бежишь к воздушным воротам на короткой стыковке или закимарил на облучке в амстердамском аэропорту - нажал кнопку, и дома знают, что живой.
два запроса подряд - не могу ответить/нет денег на счету/сегодня 8-е марта 2008 года, я в иордании и даже если бы у меня был миллион долларов на счету я не смог бы вам позвонить/принять звонок/написать, потому что мой оператор - мтс.

но мтс не сдавался и подписал односторонние договоры с эквадорскими операторами. а вот голландцы и антильские островитяне, ничего не подозревая, "роуминг" предоставляли и потянулись на украину бесплатные весточки.

но не будем задаваться дурацкими вопросами, а перестанем миндальничать с мтс. с нового года у меня будет новый оператор мобильной связи. победу над кормильцем, по очкам, одержал мтс. ура!

So it looks like my mp3 player is fucked. I'll be looking into a replacement soon as I can afford one. Any suggestions for what kind? (non-iPod)

Before I quit my job at an erotic boutique specializing in dildos, vibrators, porn and lingerie, I had a wtf encounter at the bus stop.

I was heading home after my shift ( I worked 10-4:30pm). I have to wait for the girl coming on to count the till before I can go and I was rushing b/c I wanted to catch the 4:30 bus so I didn't have to wait until 5.

As soon as she's done counting, I rush out the door and head towards the bus stop. I'm at the bus stop less than 5 mins before a short, stocky indian guy approaches.

He stands there a moment or two and I can tell from his body language that he's getting ready to ask me something. The conversation goes down like this:

Short Indian Guy (SIG) and Me

SIG:"This bus goes to the subway station, right?"
Me:"Yes."
SIG"So..you shop there often? The adult shop?"
Me:"No. I work there actually."
SIG:"Oooh! So you know the other girl that works there."*chuckles to self*
"It's expensive in there."
Me:"Not really."
SIG:"So, what do you do in your spare time?"
Me:"Stuff."
SIG:"You ever use any of the stuff from that store?"
Me:"No."
*Bus shows up and gets close*
SIG:"So...you want to be friends?"
Me:*raises eyebrows* "Noooo....." *Turns back on him and waits for bus to pull up*

He doesn't even get on the bus!! He just walks away.
I think he followed me out of the shop to the bus stop but I was in such a hurry to catch the bus, I didn't notice..

Apparently he's a "regular".
LOL!

I have a confession to make and... it's not pretty and it's one I don't like having to admit to having. But I'm terrified. Absolutely terrified about something. And that something is... Sarah Palin. I know I spend a lot of time here and over on my Facebook mocking and trashing her but in the back of my noodle, I'm terrified that she could wind up as our new president in 2012. Is it likely? No. But it is possible. There is a scenario that's really not that far outside the realm of possibility that makes it possible. Granted, it would take a ginormous clusterf**k, a perfect storm of poo to bring it to fruition, but it could happen. And that thought is enough to give me cold sweats in the middle of the night.

I know, I know... I'm getting my knickers in a twist over nothing, right? I'm sure that's what most people say. But two things... I know a little bit about politics... and I've come to never underestimate the stupidity of the American people... I won't bang on "the people" too hard for the 2000 Supreme Court appointment of Dubya, but the man certainly got a lot of votes... but in 2004 after 4 years of insane policies, out-of-control spending, 2 disastrous wars he obviously had no real plans for and rampant corruption and incompetence... and he still gets re-elected? That's why I never underestimate the stupidity of the American people. We elected the man we'd "rather have a beer with" rather than the man that would have done a better job for this country.

So... leaving people's stupidity aside for a moment, there is a war raging within the Republican party these days. It's an absolute war of attrition in which the more moderate (read: sane) voices are being driven out of the party and the hard, hard right-wing... the religious fundamentalists, xenophobic/racist, warmongering, bigoted elements of the party are winning. This ain't your daddy's Republican party anymore. Ronald Reagan, the paragon of virtue and decency to Republicans everywhere would never be elected by this party and somebody like Barry Goldwater would be pilloried as a flaming, wild-eyed liberal. The GOP has taken about as extreme a right turn as they possibly could have with people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck leading the charge. And it doesn't appear that it's going to get any better (read: sane) anytime soon. And this new "mainstream" of the Republican party makes up Palin's base. They LOVE her (if you ask me, they love her much in the way the Branch Davidians loved Koresh or how the People's Temple loved Jim Jones)... regardless of that though, these hard-right nuts, freaks and kooks totally heart Sarah Palin. She is a dynamic figure... the only dynamic figure in a party desperately searching for an identity and a leader and she absolutely energizes them.

During last year's campaign and election, the country was energized and motivated. Voters... especially new voters turned out in droves for Obama. Judging by recent polling I've seen, that energy, that motivation is flagging. It's possible that as the 2012 elections near, that energy will get ramped up again but I'm not so sure. I think a lot of people... typically apathetic when it comes to politics, got out there to be a part of history and nothing more. I'd hoped that the sudden awakening of the electorate last year was the start of something, that we were turning a corner where we'd see more involvement and activism but a recent poll I saw shows that nearly 40% of Democratic voters have no plans to turn out for the 2010 mid-term elections... an incredibly important election where we stand to lose a lot of seats if the people really don't turn out. And if we thought the Republican stall and obstructionist tactics were bad now, imagine what they'll be like if we don't have clear and convincing majorities. Or if we lose one or both houses of Congress altogether.

It's true that Obama's approval ratings have slipped since he first took office. He's still above 50% appproval, but that's a far cry from the 60% + that he enjoyed early on in his term. Add to that, the massive discontent over his recently announced strategy for Afghanistan as well as on various other issues and we start getting into dicey territory. I'm not thrilled with his Afghanistan strategy but I'm hardly surprised by it... and I'm honestly perplexed that so many others seem to be. But if things in Afghanistan go badly, if his strategy flops and things get even more unstable over there, his approval ratings will plummet and I foresee many people viciously turning on him.

And you can't ignore the Faux News factor... they didn't sling this much crap at Clinton. But they turn anything and everything they can, be it a legitimate story or not, into some massive breaking scandal. They are doing everything they can to dumb down the American people even further by feeding them a steady diet of lies, manipulations and distortions... and most people are either too busy or too apathetic to care about finding out the truth of things. Should sentiment in this country really sour on Obama, Faux News could certainly pump out enough garbage to inflame the people's anger even more. And what if there really were a scandal of some kind? Can you even begin to imagine what the fallout of that kind of sh*tstorm would look like?

So yeah... that's the path to a Palin presidency as I see (and fear it)... an energized and batsh*t crazy GOP, an apathetic and unmotivated Democratic base, massive anger over policy issues especially in regard to the conduct of the war, the specter of some scandal that rocks his administration, the ever present propaganda machine that is Faux News and of course, the stupidity of the American people. I realize that's a lot of things that have to come together all at one time. Like I said, it's not "likely" but that doesn't mean it can't happen.

I think it goes without saying that a Palin presidency would spell doom and disaster for this country. If we thought Dubya was an incompetent boob that was supremely unqualified for the post, Palin would make him look like Thomas freaking Jefferson by comparison. If by some off-the-wall chance she actually wins in 2012, I'm going to be hoping and praying that the Mayans were right and the world just implodes on December 21st. I think that would be far more preferable than enduring even a single minute of her reign.

I was going through my local newspaper's regularly updated mug shot section on their web site, just because some of the photos are bound to be hilarious.

These two gentlemen were convicted of attempted second-degree burglary:

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Do you think the police did this to them for laughs while they were handcuffed? Or were these their pre-applied "disguises?" Ok they put it on themselves, answer the other question if you want.

If you were a cop, would you draw on a suspect's face for fun?

I would, I think it's a pretty hilarious and harmless alternative to just straight whuppin' someone's ass and getting caught on camera and then dealing with ensuing media drama, etc.

I'm thinking of a word. It's something to the effect of tester or probe, or something. Basically, I'm trying to say that Character A serves as _______ in order to put Character B to a test to determine whether they're worthy. It's not judge--it's more like Character is like a challenge to determine their righteousness. Is there a better word for this kind of thing than simply "challenge?" Nevermind, I just decided to change the sentence to make "challenge" fit. :D

Anyway, what are you doing tonight?

Poll #1495631
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There's an out-of-control bus heading for a crowd of people. Mostly everybody gets out of the way except 2 benches. On one bench, is George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condaleeza Rice, tearing up a poster of Obama. On another bench is Lady Gaga, asleep. For reasons not stated in this poll, you can save one of these benches from certain doom. Who do you save?

My current job is as a sailor on a historic tall ship, currently on tour. We're open for tours most days, and we post our hours at the top of every dock we stay at.

Clearly posted hours. You walked right past them. I assume you can read, since you said you heard about use from the newspaper, which also had our hours.

So why are you screaming for us to come answer your questions at ONE IN THE MORNING!? We live on this boat, we work ten hours a day in the middle of winter, we get one day off a month, we are allowed our downtime! Stfu and go away before I wake up our gunner.

Dearest Weirdo,

Why on earth would you climb the trellis when you can't get down? I'm sure J did not appreciate having to go out and help you out.

Dear Spot,

Don't mock your mother, you know she can be a bad tempered little cuss, and as you demonstrated when you tried to pounce her later, she gave you a look and you rolled over like a big baby, you are a great big kitteh softy.

These two events may be releted.
lots of love
The girl who puts milk on the table to photograph you but can't because you insist on waiting to eat until after dark when the blinds are down...

Main problem being, I have VERY thin and fine hair. ( More info and pix intense behind the cut )

guitar players: when learning a song, how do you determine the strum pattern? i've watched a few tutorials for different songs on youtube and each one is different...if i was just looking at a tab or chord page how would i know how to strum it/how many strums per chord/etc?

how do you get rid of a headache?
i drank a coke and took two excedrin migraine, and while it's not unbearable anymore, it's still lurking there waiting to ambush me :(

today, a street magician was able to tell a girl who her first lover was and what she'd buy with $500. how did he do this? [for reference, she wrote the answers down on a small piece of paper that was folded into eighths. he did handle the paper after she'd written her answer down, but in full view and it remained folded].

rosetta stone: y/n?

Damned it you do, damned if you don't. I work in a textbook call center for about 10 zillion different schools and I hate working Sunday Night/Monday morning. People are cranky after weekends are over.

Tonight at work, I get a call from a student X University that everyone in my office hates(not actually sure they're accredited and the people who go there are REALLY high and mighty) who needs her Financial Aid Voucher ID number. We don't give that out for security purposes. For all we know, you're not really the student, and I could give this to a complete stranger who will now steal a couple hundred dollars from the school. The school is the one who is supposed to give it to the students.

I tell this to the student, and she says the school told her to come to us. I explained why we don't give that information out, but she wouldn't have any of it. She was getting very short with me, and I finally ask my supervisor what I should do. Supervisor tells me to verify the student ID and the email address, and if it's all correct, give it to her. I do so, and the customer starts egging me on ("Now was that SO hard?!"). I think she honestly wanted a fight or something. I figured we were done and asked if there was anything else I could do for her and she called me a C*nt.

I follow our policy, I explain said policy to the customer, trying to be patient, and she resorts to namecalling? WTF?!

What is ONE musician you think should drop off the face of the planet?

Since we're getting all music-y tonight...

Do you think there will ever be another band that rocks as hard as Led Zeppelin does?

What do you think of those Your Baby Can Read commercials?

What's with everyone wanting their kid to be a genius?

I just spilled hot soup all over my hands. What was the last dumb thing you did?

how long can a band stay relevant until music styles pass them by?

yeah Bono....I'm lookin at YOU

I recently purchased a Wii. Yeah took me long enough, but now that I have one I feel somewhat disappointed and not sure if I should return it. I have yet to buy any games. I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore gamer, but I did enjoy all the Mario, basketball, and oddly i enjoyed those "violent" games when I was younger... now I'm a female in my 20s... my questions to young female adult wii owners:

1.Were you initially happy with your Wii purchase?
2. Do you only enjoy it with others?
3. What are some good single player games and/or your favorites?

[disclaimer: can contain spoilers. don't yell at me if you are spoiled. I said this even before I made the post.]

What does everyone think of Heroes this season? I watched the premiere but I hadn't been impressed with it at all. So I haven't seen any this season. But I'm bored, and my sister had some DVRed... So I decided to watch a few episodes. It isn't quite as bad as I thought, but wow, the directions they've been going the past two seasons.

I remember someone talked about a book which was about a guy who read the whole encyclopedia.
Do you know title and author? This was about 4 years ago so it could of been a bestseller title back then.

edit: THANKS TQC <3

Slake absolutely loves this time of year, the christmas tree is little more than a giant toy box to him.

Is Monistat supposed to burn and itch like a bitch when you put it in? What is the worst form of medicine you've ever had to endure?

I had the most fantastic (self-made, self-created) pasta tonight. Dreamfields rotini with feta cheese, chopped plum tomatoes, chopped walnuts, oregano, a drizzle of olive oil, and chopped parsley on top. I think it would have been good with some sausage and fennel, too. Even though I'm Italian, and love my mother's sauce to death (and vodka sauce is my onetruluv), I always love a good sauceless pasta. Share with me your favorite recipes/combinations, if you have them! I'd love the inspiration!

Has anyone ever noticed that villains in movies tend to move their tongues around, or do some kind of strange mouth movement?

The two I can think of right now are Barty Crouch in Harry Potter and the Joker in The Dark Knight. But I know there are some others I can't think of,specifically a female one. Can anyone name others?

is it not possible to extract part of a photo in iphoto (the way you do with a lasso tool in photoshop)? it's bugging me out, why is iphoto so ridiculously limited?!

i've tried googling but nothing's come up.

((Dad Notes: bboa (Big Bertha's Outrageous Adventures) is my blog written from my Service Dog's point of view- If you find that amusing, read on, and certainly feel free to friend her! If you're annoyed by that, just sloooop on past, no offense taken!))

Oh my Gawsh, oh my Gawsh... it are time for that shiny aluminum tree, and all the pretty things on it, and the blinky lights on my porch and CANDY CANES!!!

I has a weakness for peppermint, you knows.

I do!

Every year, Dad makes sure there are presents for me under the tree, and sometimes, they come from awesome people who read my blog, ALL OVER DA WORLD!

Last year was Awesome and Amazing, and Dad sez I should Make A List... and he will be checkin it twice.

I dunno why tho.

He can't remember it if he only reads it once?

Oh wells, I loves him anyway, so here goes!


1) I loves me my TREATS!
I can't have rawhide or bones, (Teh Sad!!) but I can have Greenies, and "Edible chews" like nylabones edibles, or "Dental Chews" that are edible. I can have little 'real parts' treats like dried lung chips or piggy ears, piggy snouts or my FAVOURITE EVAR, "Texas Toothpicks" which are the tips of beef tails! OH how I loves those!

2) I loves toys I can FLOG with!
I don't tear up my toys, so I can have any fabric toy as long as any features are sewn-in- no button eyes for me! Plastic eyes and noses are dangerous, Dad says. (SIGH) But if it is sewn-on, I can have it!! (YAY!!) I Especially love toys that have long legs or other super-floppy parts, so I can play my favourite game "flogga flogga" ... this involves holding the toy in my mouwf, and waving my head ALL OVER so that the toy FLOGS EEEEEVERYONE! YAY! Flogga-flogga-flogga!

3) I love Bandannas!
Everywhere I go, people see that I am a Rottweiler, and some of them are intimidated by that. I wear a fresh clean bandanna every day when I work, because it makes me more personable at first glance! People will giggle or smile if I wear very silly ones, or ones appropriate to the holiday at hand. I wear the regular people-kind of bandanna, folded once in half into a triangle- you don't haveta buy doggie ones at all! I get a lot of mine at Walmart! I always always ALWAYS love my bandannas! They make me very happy, and every day I get my cape on to go to work, I go to the Bandanna drawer too,
and expect Dad to put a different one on me!

4) I like fleece blankies!
For my bed, they buy me those little fleecy blankies you can get super-cheaply. I love them very much, and sometimes, I even play FLOG with them! I like bright colours and silly patterns, because you know. I am a GIRL dawg, and we girl dawgs love to have bright and pretty things to wave around before she climbs atop them and gets her beauty sleep! If Dad would let me, I would have a /mountain/ of fleecy blankies!!

5) I love the MOVIES!
Oh, you think I am kidding, doncha... but of all the things I ever-Ever-EVER do for Dad, is that I go with him to the MOVIES! I lay down at his feet, and I keep a close eye on him. See, a movie can contain things which could give Dad a siezure. (and that would be scary and bad!) so if I smell that about to happen, I grab his hand, and poke his medicine container on his belt! Dad takes his medicine, and then he does not have a siezure! Yay!!! ...but I love to /watch/ the movie too!! I lay there, and I watch through the railing- I watch the screen, I watch all the action! -and AFTER the movie, Dad lets me have a reward- my own bites of popcorn!! YUMMY... It is the bestest time EVER. So if you have spare free movie tickets, or coupons for discounts on them, I would be SOOOOooo happy to get them! It is a human thing, but it is the thing I love to do best of all, too. (We have a Regal movie theatre here, and a Lowes, plus some other ones further away, that we sometimes visit.)

Dad said TEN things, but I don't need TEN things! HUMmmm...

OH OH OH!

6) For peoples to help Rescue Rotties!
People like Dad can choose to buy a puppy, or buy an adult dog from a breeder, or they can choose to RESCUE! did you know that YOU can Rescue a Rottie TOO?? Dad has had two Service Dogs in his lifetime, and both of us were young dogs at Rottie Rescues! We both went from a sad life, to a very very happy one! Some people think rescues make /better/ dogs, because we understand that life is not fair, and we really really appreciate it when we can suddenly be right with our human(s) all the time! We pay close attention to our jobs, which is all a Rottie ever wants in life anyway! We're workin' dogs by nature! If you can, drop a bag of dogfood off to help Rescue dogs, especially us Rotties, who get a bad rap sometimes- not ALL of us are bad, you know... and you never know. It might be a Rottie who saves YOUR life someday!

I hope that everyone has a GREAT holiday! (full of yummy yummy foods, and LOTS of peppermint treats!)

Hey there! My name is Sarah and I'm from Australia. I haven't done this before, but it's a great idea and seems like fun. I've already granted a few wishes and thought I'd do a list too, even though we're getting so close to the big day. I'd appreciate anything at all from the list :)

1. vintage jewelry especially rings and bracelets (silver, leather, string, beaded, friendship) of any kind.

2. anything to do with deer or wolves...pictures, postcards, notebooks, artwork, stamps etc.

3. a fanmix of your favourite songs. i love discovering new music.

4. icons/graphics of Twilight, Jacob/Bella, Vampire Diaries, Randy Orton, Alice in Wonderland (the new movie), Criminal Minds (esp Reid and Morgan), Taylor Momsen.

5. anything from my ETSY wishlist.

6. your favourite Vegetarian receipes.

7. a little wooden box like THIS one.

8. movie recommmendations. i love everything from drama to horror to period pieces to comedy.

9. a copy of THIS issue of Entertainment Weekly.

10. donate money or give blankets, food, toys to an animal charity or animal shelter of your choice.

If you can help out with anything, please send me a private message :)
Thanks in advance ♥

Hello from gruesome coastal Massachusetts! I'm 17, I have a 4.2 GPA and a long haired boyfriend, and I work in a tiny bookstore where I wrap stuffed animals until my fingers bleed. And then I come home and wrap some more, just for kicks, while doing Calc homework with my teeth. Everything is pretty much excellent.

1. Little necklace pendants. I like to string a bead or little pendant (not sure what you'd call them) on a piece of thread around my neck and wear it until the thread breaks. My record so far is 14 months... thread is tough stuff. If you have a special bead/button/whatever, I have a loving home for it!
2. Snail mail. Particularly drawings and stories from your life. I like hearing about people and places and things that happen to people other than me. Especially stories about times when you fell in love; those are my favorites. :)
3. Mix cds (or tapes). I'm into Neutral Milk Hotel, Animal Collective, Leonard Cohen, Devendra Banhart- that kind of thing- but if you have a better idea, I'm game.
4. Gifts for a 12 year old boy. My boyfriend is working 60 hour weeks to support his mother and two brothers, and Christmas presents are low on his list of priorities. His youngest brother's name is Ewan, and he's frighteningly smart ("You know, it's difficult to be a kid because everyone has these weird expectations", dreams about "organic machinery", skeptical of reincarnation. That kind of smart). He's into post-apocalyptica pretty hardcore, loves Fallout, and watched A Scanner Darkly about seventeen times. Cory Doctorow-type books would be a plus.
5. I'm a huge Firefly fangirl. If you know where to find any Firefly merch... that would be crazy and great.
6. Makeup. Eyeshadow and good liquid eyeliner in particular. I live on a tiny island without chain stores- no Target, no Walmart, no McDonalds, no nothing. The entire contents of a CVS would be ideal, actually.
7. Advice. Have you ever helped someone disengage from weed culture? Have you successfully disengaged yourself? Oh man, could we ever use a hand with this one.
8. The Children's Book by AS Byatt. This is a stretch, I know, but it's worth a try.
9. Surprises! I'll be sending out ten surprise boxes this year, and if anyone wanted to do the same for me, I would reciprocate right back at you. :)

10. And finally, a gift that costs nothing and that everyone who reads this can give me, consciously or not... please keep an eye open for a friend of mine. ( a brief description follows. )

My address:
PO BOX 1339
Nantucket, MA
02554