lilamp:

• 18:05 good to have short week coming back from vacation; 8 hrs seems like an awfully long time to spend sitting in a cubicle... #

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fairestthings, posting in weloveamigurumi:




Yeah.... she's supposed to be LionBrand's pattern for the heartfelt bear, but I wanted a doll instead.

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x-posted to fairestthings, crochetcrochet and weloveamigurumi

streamsandpools:

What a bloody awful night's sleep! What with frequent wakings to check the time and see if blackwingedboy's plane had taken off yet, girl cramps and weird dreams, I feel like I've hardly slept. I woke again at 6.15, enjoyed the feeling that he was *probably* in the air by now (though not really being able to fully get into it in case he'd been delayed) and finally gave in around 6.45, turned the computer on and am now following a little dot which is currently just a tiny bit northeast of Seattle, but definitely moving. Yay!

One of my dreams was that I'd checked Twitter and there was a tweet from W saying "So many difficulties getting to the airport I have decided to turn around and go home. Will try again another time." Ha! In the dream I couldn't tell if it was for real or just one of his clever little jokes :)

If anyone wants to track his progress in the air, you can head over here and enter some or all of the following info:
Airline: British Airways
From Sea-Tac to London Heathrow
Flight No: 52
Departed: 9.55pm July 3rd
Arrives: 3pm July 4th

So, it's now 7.10am. I could *try* and go back to sleep....  The sun is shining brightly through my bedroom window and I really hope it stays out long enough to welcome my sweetie to this beautiful country of mine. I can't believe he'll soon be here. It's such a wonderful feeling to know he's edging closer every minute.

imtboo:
Today, this happened

10:54 i really should be looking at making breakfast. i really want oatmeal though. #

13:13 feeling really good in my body today. the detox glow has arrived. energy levels up. :) #

14:24 done looking at apartments on craig's list for now. lots of listings appearing... lunch and hydrate and the afternoon for me. #

17:43 shoot, i keep forgetting to drink water today... #

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topteddy:
spent an hour or so in dolores park, sunshine and doggies and good friends.
i got a little more sun than i should have. well i should probably have put sunscreen on, but wasn't thinking, since i have been indoors or in foglandia for so long.

i worked really hard to keep olivia out of the sun, and her giant off road stroller did a pretty good job of that.

then came home and made us a lovely dinner.

carrot ginger soup
baked polenta with black pepper and Parmesan
panchetta with green beans and fresh white corn
heirloom tomatoes with balsamic, salt, pepper mozzarella di buffalo and basil

and for dessert we will have cubed mango with home made vanilla yogurt

yum

the house is full of fresh fruit and veggies and so much yummy potential

imtboo:

• Being able to pay the designer for Naplwrimo.
• The soundtrack of Starting Out in The Evening.
• The I-Tunes Store and instant music.
• No cravings for the first time in three days.
• No headaches.
• Starting my day with 20 mns of cardio.
• Enough space to do yoga at home.
• Leaving our apartment before they raise the rent 110/month.
• Temperatures completely suited to being inside and doing things.
• Friends that are about to be reunited.
  

subtly_modded:
I will visit this place.



Isn't that just the cutest little documentary?? You gotta have a little ...it's not respect exactly, but somethin'...for the people who refuse to leave their BURNING UNDERGROUND city.


There's also an aerial view of the city, with embedding disabled by request. Wow. Just...wow.

imtboo:

I can haz mussel.

imtboo:

After my morning workout...

lylianmae, posting in weloveamigurumi:

I've been using Heaven's Hellcat's pattern to create a smaller version of her two totoros. This way I can expand her blue totoro pattern for the largest of them. So far so good. Eventually I will be posting my adaptation to her pattern.

ursulav:
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imtboo:
Today, this happened

07:59 up early this morning. hope i am not still jetlagged. feeling much better today aside from small headache. #

15:29 haircut and meltdown. stomach ache. i think it might just be panic attacks about our move. #

16:47 craving toast. TOAST ? can't i crave ice cream or chocolate or something more glamourous ? no... toast ! #

17:52 wanting to be excited about dinner. but alas not. boring boring food. #

17:54 early dinner ... hungry. #

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peterfuhry:
 I don't think there's any book I ever read twice.  Actually I think I read MacBeth twice and I tried to read Watership Down again, but I couldn't.

Those of you that haven't read many, I don't think any less of ya.  There's plenty of valuable ways to spend your time.  As long as you don't watch reruns of 'Just Shoot Me'.  Then I will have a problem.



1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (I read about half.)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling 
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (A good portion.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy  
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen 
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell 
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - A.S. Byatt  (Brilliant! Especially if you're into lit crit.  I read it often)
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams  (This is one of my favorite books, didn't read it until I was 35 or so.
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

imtboo:

• Quinoa
• My patient understanding husband
• That I can afford to dye and cut my hair
• Short hair
• That I can afford massage
• Massage
• My in-laws generosity
• Temperatures above 60
• Temperatures below 85
• Long days
• Not having to go to a 9 to 5 job
• My Flip camera working

 

lilamp:
some highlights...

( tahoe )

( yosemite )

blackwingedboy:

That dragon, low, deep in the clouds. The rumble that shudders the glass. He is coming from far away with a belly of lightning. And I wait, closing my eyes with each of his exhalations. I am part storm, part wind and rain and flurry. I remember, I connect to something forgotten when that dragon spreads his wings and turns his head downward.

And tonight I am small and afraid of the journey. My talk of action was safe. This walking is unsure, stepping over hot lava rocks in the failing sunlight, a string of shapes and dancing flashlight reveal the contours of seeking souls.

But when the dragon roars, it makes sense. It always does. And the rumble of the larger and the deeper cuts through my spinning worldview, through my overclocked brain and my hard, desperate clinging to The First World. When the hummingbird turned, I saw it then. When that big dog howled at midnight, I felt it under my skin. And now I hope the dragon will arrive. I long to be engulfed and reminded of what is. I long to have my nature revealed.

I ready myself for both things, uncertain if I am ready for either. But the time has passed to talk. Now, like fingerling fire played on the long bones of the earth, on the crooked teeth of landscapes, it is time to touch the story.

imtboo:

streamsandpools:

I am tired.

Heh. I almost considered leaving it there. A nice succinct little post. I feel like chatting but I'm also too tired to be bothered. Everything is totally big and also normal, somehow. In less than 48 hours, blackwingedboy will be here, eighteen weeks, that's four-and-a-half months since we parted tearfully at Sea-Tac Airport.

So far this week I have taken my laptop in again to get reassurance about her noisily whirring dvd drive, cleaned my kitchen, cleaned my bedroom, been to the launderette, given my talk on forbearance, rehearsed the harmony I'm doing in my friends' song which we'll be performing at their wedding in four weeks' time, cleaned my bathroom, supported my final Dharma study group for this term, been to see The Edge of Love (don't bother), IMed and skyped with my sweetie, defrosted my fridge, taken The Illustrious Bin to the dump (2 hour round trip), had my hair cut, had my legs waxed, watched Three Colours Red (excellent) and a couple of episodes of Northern Exposure. Um, i think that's about it.

I'm so excited to see W, and am playing the moment of our meeting at the airport over and over in my mind. I can't wait to have him here in my flat, which is like an external projection of my self. I can't wait for him to meet all the people who matter the most to me, and to curl up in bed with him at the end of each day. It's been so long coming that I'm almost so accustomed to the waiting that I'm afraid of it coming to an end. There's safety in waiting, in delaying my gratification. I can live slightly outside of the present, knowing the future will be better. Right now I'm feeling extremely pre-menstrual and I keep weeping at unexpected moments, mainly involving dogs. Something about that quality of absolute fidelity, it moves me a lot just now. But I'm afraid of the largeness of all this still. After all the build-up I'm afraid of something going wrong, something rearing up and spoiling the perfect romance of it, which of course it will. What I'd like to remember is to focus on joy and playfulness. Once this trip is over then all sorts of serious heavy bureaucratic wheels will be set in motion and I'll also be trying to get back into full time work. This summer is a chance to really play, have fun, enjoy each other and I really hope that we can find the consciousness to say no to the heavy, or at least to ask it to wait. We are both playful souls but are also both afflicted with a tendency to anxiety and making a great big meal out of things that don't need to be made a meal out of. So, this will be our task.

And now I'm so tired I can hardly stop my eyes from drooping, so I shall go and bathe in my clean bath before slipping under my clean duvet, to sleep my last-but-one solitary sleep for nearly three months.

alecto_chan, posting in weloveamigurumi:

Pattern can be found: http://cthulhucrochet.blogspot.com/2008/05/tiny-cthulhu-free-pattern.html
Yarn used: About 3/4 of a skein total
Time spent: About 3 days straight



It's my first amigurumi.  Pretty decent for my first but there are things that I could have done better.  I attached the arms a bit too far back so the doll is a bit back heavy, resulting in a bit of a balancing issue sometimes.  But Cthulhu does stand on his own.

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All comments are appreciated and thanks for looking!

ursulav:
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locolapapa, posting in weloveamigurumi:

Okay so technically I didn't make him in July.

Sheldon J. Plankton stands at about 2 inches high from head to toe and his antennae are twisted pipe cleaners. He is also kind of cranky. :D



( Felicitations, malefactors. I am endeavoring to misappropriate the formulary for the preparation of affordable comestibles. WHO WILL JOIN ME? )

crafty_shanna, posting in weloveamigurumi:

I finished this purple Amineko on Friday evening, and I can't believe I haven't posted him yet (although I did get him up on Ravelry already). I used to post them AS SOON as they were done.

If you haven't made an amineko yet, you should. They are fun, have lots of personality, and are highly poseable! Here is a link to the pattern: http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~mite/diagram/crochetedCat.html. Mine has some attitude, but generally is a sweetie. I didn't name him since he was for a friend, and she hasn't told me yet what she is going to call him.

Here he is just kickin' back


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theknittycat, posting in weloveamigurumi:


Okay, I don't design and knit this fast.... I admit it, I already made this little guy for my DH for Valentine's day.  ;o)  But I'm putting him in the ami-along anyway.  heh heh

mythrana, posting in weloveamigurumi:

Does anyone know where I can find a pattern for the Kingdom Hearts Heartless creatures?  My best friend really loves them and I would love to make her one for Christmas. 

lilamp:

• 16:21 nick cave 9/19 @ warfield, woo! #

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imtboo:
Today, this happened

08:43 woke up fairly early today to a cloudy 58. body wants coffee. but green tea it is. #

10:23 10 mns cardio done. very effective again. logging out breakfast foods and heading out. #

14:40 back home after a nice time with wonkily. a stop of madison market. and now totally wiped out. bleh. #

15:10 drink water pee drink water pee drink water pee boring. #

16:32 oof. succombed to the nap after lunch again and bad headache. better now. liking these temperatures. #

19:07 dinner !!! #

19:16 the thing that is totally annoying about exercising twice a day is taking a shower twice a day. #

20:50 Le Sigh. #

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blackwingedboy:

Rough night tonight in trying to make progress against what seems a continuing series of difficulties. That seems to be the way of the week leading up to a reunion with streamsandpools.

I left my house at sunset and stood on the porch, gazing at the hummingbird that was stationary on the wire, gazing at the sun. At one point, he turned surprisingly slowly and looked at me and let out a loud tweet, then returned his focus to the horizon.

I'm realizing the depth of this adventure that begins around 6:30 Thursday. I'm seeing the length of the flight, the foreign country, the time away from Seattle. I'm feeling the lurch and the rush and the full weight.

But mainly I'm considering that maybe I can have the thing I want in my life. I'm not sure I've fully considered that a possibility before. It's an overwhelming and yet simple sensation.

I'm not sure I'll be updating again until I reach England. But you'll have pictures and words from me during the entire journey.

Be well. I'll see you in the GMT...

subtly_modded:
I miss him when he goes away. But he brings awesome gifts back for me!





It fits!

topteddy:

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dasko to you... trouble to the rest of the world.
he is your typical energetic and curious puppy.

a good boy who is learning to listen. it is so easy to forget how long he has been here, dasko is doing so well for his short time in his new home.

EDIT: sorry i was not clear, dasko belongs to schoonergirl. we are still waiting on a puppy.

topteddy:

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it's been a bit more than a month since this photo was taken, and it is so amazing how much she has changed.

i can't believe her face is even more round.