aka I need to have my head examined.

The beastiette asked if a school mate could spend the night. I said 'yes'. The beasties are performing for our guest now.

*headdesk*

I think that there's going to be some 'happy juice' in my near future.

I wasn't sure that I was going to enjoy this series as much as I did. Part of that is watching one episode per night and then forgetting the intricacies that are interwoven through it. Recaps are just never good enough.

I watched it last night, all 5 in a row, and enjoyed it very much.

One wonders if future series will be like this one, given the budget crunch ITV is suffering and the cancellation of a few of their other series, although Primeval was no surprise.

Triss is coming home today!

He'll be arriving at Washington Regan at 8:09 pm, and we should *knock wood* be home by 11 pm.

Of course, it's pissing with rain and a horrible day weather wise, but... I'll drive carefully.

UPS brought me a package today, and we are all happy. Almost finished getting everything on the new machine that I need to be happy, connected, creative!

Thought this might be of interest to some on my F-List. I know I'd love to attend, but I am on the wrong coast. Alas.

A HIGHLIGHT OF THE UPCOMING SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL CABARET FESTIVAL!

Tarot, Tea, Film, Literature and Live Music at the Pensione Nichols
November 11 - 15th! $15 per night / http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/886-43
Pensione Nichols
123 First Avenue
between Stewart & Virginia

A dazzling array of Dark Arts collide at the Pensione Nichols during the Seattle International Cabaret Festival!
Tarot and literary readings, visual art, film screenings and live musical entertainment all play a part in Poes Peculiar Parlour series. Attendees are encouraged to join in the spirit by dressing in Victorian garb.

SCHEDULE:

WED, NOV. 11th New Yorks Huxley Vertical Cabaret kick off the proceedings joined by Circus Contraptions Shmootzi the Clod.

THURS, NOV. 12th is a meet-the-artist affair, with entertainment from Veronique Chevalier, NYC Seth Bedford and Hollywood/SF-based Agness Twin.

FRI, NOV. 13th, Armitage Shanks plays host to an evening devoted to the great Kurt Weill.
An-Magrith Erlandsen, creator of "Tarot of the Pomegranate", will be at your service reading Tarot from the other side and beyond..! http://www.tarotofthepomegranate.com

SAT, NOV. 14th, The legendary Dame Darcy will be reading palms, screening her films and signing books. The evening is hosted by Diva Le Deviant and features a cabaret performances by Stella Rose + from SF Vinsantos.

SUN, NOV. 15th is the closing night event of a history of the Spirit boards, presented by Gargoyles. It features surprise short film screenings, as well as a reading by Maureen O'Donnell, music by Death By Doll and Lonesome Shack.

The gallery display has been curated by Miss Oblivious.
AkAk
JennyBird
Javier.S.Ortega
Crystal Fosnaugh
Mike Mullins
Sara Devout
Christy Kane
The Seattle International Cabaret Festival takes place at various venues throughout downtown Seattle, beginning November 6 and resuming November 11 through 15. It pays homage to the genre storied roots but focuses on contemporary performances by artists from around the globe.
Its presented by producer Chris Snell, whose Can Can Presents production company has been recognized by such media heavy hitters as the Wall Street Journal and the BBC for its creation, development and management of unconventional music and physical performance acts, is a staunch supporter of the re-energized genre.
Confirmed performers include the Can Cans Castaways, Vagabond Opera (Portland), Kitten On The Keys (San Francisco) and Peculiar Pretzelmen (Los Angeles). DJs include KEXPs Darek Mazzone, Emerald City Soul Club, I (heart) Shiva and Switzerlands Gypsy Sound System.
SICF is presented in association with The Moore Theater, The Triple Door, ACT Theater, Pensione Nichols and Can Can. It is sponsored by the Seattle Theatre Group and Pensione Nichols.

For more information, visit http://www.cabaretfestival.com
For tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/886-43

When the crows shriek their frightening warnings,
When autumn ends, and Winter falls,
You will see a Lady a wondering,weeping through the saddened fields.
She is turning the Silver Wheel of the seasons.

When the crows heed their endless calling,
Look to the Moon to see a Lady, dancing in the blackened clouds,
And when at night you see her coming, fall in wonder of what
beauty she possesses, and shed your tears.
The Great Queen is walking her footsteps once again.
Morrighan, Morrighan, you’ll call her by name.

When the old earth opens from beneath your feet,
crows will catch you before you fall and place you in Her cauldron,
where rebirth waits and death awakens,
your prophecy you will find.
What you see is Her, walking the shadows and howling to the Universe,
forewarning Her arrival.

Black hair falling to Her feet, fill the ocean and become the waves,
Her legs become the forest; Her breasts become the mountains.
Her womb becomes your ancient home.

~Anne-Christine Johnson

I'm going to shoot someone.

Today, that would be Verizon. After having to reconfigure everything so that my damned modem would, you know, actually be able to send out emails, IMs, etc. the service is still crawling along. Thanks for naught, twerps.

I think I'll be switching back to Earthlink in November/December.

P.S. I have a horrible foreboding of doom that this could morph into the horror tale that Alan Davies lived through with Virgin Media. *gets out stakes and garlic, and voodoo dolls... just in case.*

Yes, those wile-filled folks over at Panhistoria know how to procrastinate. I am in the company of genius.


Aporkalypse Bingo!

( My card: )

I had forgotten about these charming little weather indicators until I saw a repost of one on the f-list. Hee. Will have to find a place to put this.

OMG! I'm exhausted!

The day started off not quite so promising as it was raining, but it cleared in the early afternoon as I took the beastiette to the shops to use her birthday gift cards and dosh. Best Buy was a bit of a bust game wise for the DS, but we went to PetCo and Jackpot!

The birthday girl got a $65 hamster cage for $15, and two free dwarf hamsters. They were up for adopting out, so why not. I don't think that her feet touched the ground the entire afternoon. So, Marietta and Toffee have joined the menagerie. My mother thinks I need my head examined, and she's probably right, but having a very happy, newly-minted twelve year old beastiette is well worth it.

Trick-or-treating was fun. We went a bit later as the beasties had a party they were invited to, but still they managed a good haul. The beastie dressed as Tom Baker's Doctor and the beastiette dressed as Romana I. A few people got it and gave out extra candy for the "Hello, I'm the Doctor. Would you like to give me a jelly baby?" One lady had never heard of Doctor Who, and it was a bit of a party house... where I learned a killer new cocktail* The people who had heard of Who joined in the teasing:

"Doctor Who?"

"Yes!"

"Who?"

"The Doctor."

"Doctor Who?"

"Yes!"

The beasties got called back over on the way back down the street and got more extra candy for all the fun that conversation and explanation generated. Just finished supper up and think we're going to save the singing of "Happy Birthday" and cake eating for tomorrow at breakfast.

Right now, they're too busy sorting out the piles of candy.



*Black Widow - Ingredients:

* 2 oz Blavod black vodka
* 3 oz cranberry juice

Preparation:

1. Pour the cranberry juice into a highball glass filled with ice.
2. Float the cold Blavod on top.

Usually about this time of year, I'm talking about the latest NaNoWriMo project that is in the works. This year, there isn't one. It is staying that way. I have enough to finish and polish without bringing a new project into the world.

However, as I was writing in my morning pages, I was getting my priorities and ideals for the coming new year together and wrote that November is going to be my personal NaNoWitchMo^[TM]. I wanted to find a composition book that has blank, unlined pages, I know they make them because I used to have one, but I cannot find any and today decided that I don't need one. I have a regular composition book, blank paper, and a stapler... I am set to go! It is going to be a productively interesting November *wink*

So Chelsea whomped Blackburn 5 - 0 and earlier scored 4 goals to win matchday 2 in UEFA's Champions League.

Carlo! Why the hell weren't the grandpas doing this last year in Mee-lahn?!?!?!??!??!!

*headdesk*

I am just finishing up tweaking the settings on my new 19" monitor.

One of the Elder Beastie's high school friends [and my semi-adopted son] is back in town for a visit after moving out to San Francisco to pursue his dreams, and came for a visit today. He looks great! He's happy! And, he's really grown to be a fine young man. I was so happy to see him, and the beasties were overjoyed as well.

After he left, I took said beasties to Bowe's for their WarHammer, etc. and when I got home there was a box on my doorstep. That Noel [and no, no accent over the e, he is No-el, not Nole] had to have dropped it off. Before he left, he was always the techno-genie and hooking everyone up with gadgets because that is what he loves to do.

We're going to have to have him over for dinner to say thank you.

While I've finished the book, I haven't posted the questions so quickly this time round. Part of it is the laxity of discipline that I've admittedly allowed myself to slide into, but a more significant part of it is the increasingly personal nature of the questions. To be frank, many of them I am just more comfortable working out in my morning pages and not even posting them as private entries. But, as I've begun the process of posting the questions and realise that some are curious to see what the rest of them are, I will post the rest of the questions.

On the whole, I will be rereading the book and re-examining some earlier questions. IT is a lot to take in in one reading, and there are things that I do not so easily accept as valid debate points, but that too is good because I help clarify my own thoughts to explain why I do not necessarily agree with a point.

Today I added the Lilith section. Over the next week, I will add the other 3 sections and post when they are completed.

Thank you.

Operation Keep Connected is full swing. The Thanksgiving holiday week will not be a black-hole of incommunicado doom.

I've done this before, but long enough ago that I might as well try it again.

The problem with on-line blogs: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. So.....ask away!

Then post this in your blog and find out what people don't know about you.

It is a grey day, but that is a-okay with me. The beasties are at the theatre with McMuffin watching Zombieland and I am finishing up the last of the tweaks for the Seahawk.

It took a bit of doing, but I finally got the printer installed without all the bells and whistles that HP packs into the drivers. And the anti-virus is being reinstalled as I type, so *knocks wood* we are very close to 100% functionality.

Now, the hard part... getting myself organised.

Well, 1/2 of the computers are back. Hooray!

The Seahawk Mach 1 is flying well. *pats the ancient HP Pavillion* The only small complaint I have is the monitor, we had to buy a new LCD one, and I haven't been able to get it to adjust to more than 800 x 600 resolution, but, for now, I am not complaining. I know that I will have to tweak and fiddle to get things to display as I am used to, but I can do that. It is far easier than sharing the elder beasts notebook with the beasties.

Less hassle, too!

Now, to start downloading the essentials like Firefox, Trillian, etc.

There has to be something in the high school. The beastie is home again with pink-eye and a fever. The beastiette is coughing, and I've resigned myself to the idea that my cough might be getting company. Stocked up on herbals and tea, soup making supplies, and plenty of juices and teas. We'll be snug and warm this long weekend.

Supper is on the go... pot roast... quick, yummy, and easy, so I might just go take a warm bath and relax for 1/2 hour so I can actually stay awake and have the energy to chat tonight.

Still waiting on word from the repair places on the other computers. An exercise in patience, yes, but one that is now getting old.

This week is over, thankfully, and the worst of it wasn't quite as bad as I thought.

The beasties and I decided to not tell Elder Beast the news about Barbie until he was feeling better. So, he asked how she was. I couldn't lie to him on the phone. He cried a little, and so did we, but he seemed okay when he hung up.

The cough is still here, lingering and making me miserable. Next Monday, hell or high water, I'm walking again and working on getting my energy back.

We're down to one computer for the three of us. It is challenging, especially with homework obligations, but I hope to have some good news from HP soon. The old tower computer is out at the shop, too, getting upgrades so *knocks wood* it will be ready to be picked up this coming week, as well. Then we'll be able to get back to the normal routines.

Muse-wise... I know that I need to get back to Izzy, Roby, and Gwynne. I'm getting itchy and irritated from this lung-gunk, so I am hoping that means the fug is continuing to burn off.

Supper now, and to read and get caught up.