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I'm home!!! And it's getting COLDER here, going to be evil cold tomorrow. Way below zero, with hateful windchill.
No new hair today alas, have to wait another week, or so. Could have made it down fine, but back would not have been fun, way too much snow. Ah well, I still have HAIR, just not as much in as many colours as I wanted for the show...
Lots of comments to read thru with evening tea....
Wait. LOTS of comments to comment on. My replies, views and comments on these comments today could well be a new post! I'm so clever.
Adriana! Glad you are back, I figured you were out of town for the Holidays. Boss asked me if I had written you, and I did mention I had but you must be gone. He then said "The Endless are so good..." How's that for an endorsement? I did very much Get It about After The Gold Rush, again, really well done, and everything a cover ought to BE. An original version of the song. Is the cd not out yet? I had thought it was? Where are people getting it from, and when? It's beautiful to look at and wonderful dreams to listen to. (Fiends, you want this)
And on...Slink is definitely a word. And one of my favorites!
Pratchett, and Austen. Having troubles with both, but love the way they put words together, if that makes any sense. And I can't figure our WHAT is stopping me from reading them! Vexing it is, grievously vexing!
The Flash Girls third cd "Play Each Morning, Wild Queen" came from something someone, who can say who, wrote on my filing cabinet with word magnets....Emma and I just liked it. (speaking of covers, I seem to recall we paired A.A.Milne's Buckingham Palace with a fiddle tune, not exactly ART, mind you, but fun.)
Mistress, well done on getting the paper into the publisher! I am quite sure if you told me what the paper was about, I would have no idea, tho Dr. Score might, but well done none-the-less!
There, I think that covered replies to most of what I missed while hanging out with Tubes, I mean working today. Tube-wise, I am seeing light at the end of the tunnel. One more day ought to see most of it done.
And since it is going to be a long time before I at least get tired of talking about Magic, he is really starting to be interested in me! I hear him now, every time I come in, getting into position for pouncing should the toys come out. He has yet to eat while I am in there, but we have all the time there is.
I feel so good about him. He was a cat no one wanted. Some people felt sorry for him, but he was not a cat anyone wanted to take on, and there wasn't anyone else available to take him on, if they did. The shelter he ended up at refused him, saying they would never be able to adopt him, he had no chance.
He had the option of going to a sanctuary, and I am glad these places exist for Bengals who have no other option, so many are put down, but as he has NO claws, front or back and would have had to just be in a cage.
My decision last year, to make a difference, somehow, lead to this. To him on the way to being happy, loved, and loving in return. I saved him. And not just him, tho he was by far the worst off I have ever worked with. I am not trying to blow my own horn here and say "oh look at me! how wonderful I am!" but, just, when I decided to try and make a difference, I had no idea what MAKING a difference would do to me, and the way I am feeling now inside.
If you have anything you really want to try and do. DO it. You can't know how it will end up, but I can tell you one thing...
You will be loving the feeling.
Love and more Magic,
Lorraine
posted by FabulousLorraine @ 5:44 PM
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69 Comments:
Very sneaksy Missy
*goes to read all at leisure*
If you hold one up, there will at least be light at the end of the Tube!
I could actually explain, sensibly and intelligibly, what the paper is about. But that's what I did all day, and now I'm on to unicorns instead. And lapcats.
Lorraine, you ARE wonderful. If so many others gave up, and you persevered, you are wonderful for that alone, let alone for succeeding.
You are Head Fiend -and- Head Cheerleader and Head "Do it" Coach.
Love you for it.
Erm...make sure the light at the end of the tube tunnel isn't that proverbial train.
Funny, Beez, my first thought was "train" too. :)
You have done (and will keep doing)great things, Q! Nothing like taking in the hopeless and giving hope.
The T.V. is on and an add for Twilight Zone just came on. There is a marathon on New Years. The promo they chose is from one of my favorite episodes. "'To Serve Men'. It's a cook book!!!!" Ah, Twilight Zone.
Related to previous discussions:
Sir Terry Pratchett.
(Q, maybe pass on to Boss, tho he'll probably see anyway?)
Unicorns and LapCats! That's how I want to ring in the new year..
Seriously, resolutions are nothing w/out the RESOLVE to carry them off....and that is just what you've done over the last year, my friend. Well done.
But it is a Fiend trait, I think...and when I am slipping, I can come in here and get inspiration.
Well WooT for TPratchett. You are right, Lorraine, it's how he strings the words together that enamoured me. Who can think of ideas like he does, and keep them fresh for as long as he has? I adore people who use words well.
That's why I adore everyone here.
I'm cold, too, and am heading for my turned-on bed.
Night, Fiendom.
Oh, but before I go - the gig tomorrow night is still on, true? I'd hate to think the weather kept y'all from a party.
(OK, and plus I needed to check the little box so I can keep track of what everyone says after I'm gone.)
(I wonder if when you die there's a little check box so you can keep track of what everyone says after you are gone.....)
Did we know Magic was de-clawed? Poor thing.
Very envious of Twilight Zone marathon.
All hale Sir Terry. Isn't that brilliant
Lys, Unicorns and LapCats, and also the FootWolf that I neglected to mention. Poor puppy, gets no respect. :)
The problem: the warm, rumbly LapCat and the warm weight of the FootWolf combine to produce nearly irresistable sleepiness... I frequently fall asleep on the couch covered in fur.
Speaking of which, I should be off to bed BEFORE the soporific vibrations get to me.
Where did everybody go?
::blink::
::blink, blink::
Oh! ::waving::
HI, Dabbler!
HI, other delurkers!
::sniff, sniff::
Aahahhahhhhhh...
I am here. Feeling like I should sleep or something. I just want to eat...
Lys, it is good to know that you come here for inspiration. You inspire me! You have such a positive energy. So, thank you for that!
I'm heading to bed too. SmallDog and Maximus Cattucus await.
(I'm the mom-as-cushion)
Yay for Sir Terry!
Also echoing what someone said in the last thread, avoid Rincewind. I LOVE Discworld, and I can't get through a Rincewind book.
My favorite stand alone to recommend to people is Monstrous Regiment.
'Night and sweet dreams!
I am sure it will be a long time before we get tired of hearing you talk about Magic!
It is cold.
Fablo you are such an inspiration. All of you fiends are really. So many interesting things being done in so many places. Glad to have stumbled into this corner of the world this year!
More Magic is always good, I promise. I won't get tired of reading about what wonders you have wrought with him. Because, seriously, thank you, Fablo, you've no idea how much your cheerleading (with or without the pom-poms) means to me! You show us by word and deed that great things can be done. And that love is action as well as feeling, and that we can participate and pass it on. That love is NOT a zero-sum game. It is something that grows the more it's given and you, and all the fiends, help me remember that all the time.
Yay Phalia! What a huge, wonderful accomplishment. And now, have fun with the unicorns.
I am thinking of resolutions, and all I can come up with right now is To Do Better. In Everything.
Twilight Zone marathon! When I lived in Santa Barbara lo these many years ago, my little sister and I used to watch it on KTLA Channel 5 in the afternoons. Of course, I saw the cookbook thing coming a mile awy, because of C.S.Lewis's "Silver Chair" (his greatest, in my opinion, sigh). I am only smart because I read books written by smart people! :-)
Much love to all of you as the New Year arrives. You are all inspirations.(And Sally, the sex on sale picture you linked is one of *the* funniest things.)
Thanks Fiends, you mean the world to me.
Lost my internet and cable for a bit there, and it wasn't the sometimes OOPS forgot the bill again thing, some sort of weirdness, but it's back up, and speaking of world, I have something to say on that, if you will listen.......
New Years Eve is upon us, all over the world starting in about 6 hours, in New Zealand, then Australia, then Estonia, then the UK,and Rome, and across the US....
And we, my dears, are having a party!!!!!!!
Math has never been my strong suit, but where ever you are in the world, check in as soon after midnight as you can.
And we will be with you.
I love that this thing with Magic turned out so marvelously. Phiala's right when she says you are wonderful -- for persevering and succeeding as well as for lots of other things.
I struggle with Terry Pratchett myself -- really, really, really loved "The Wee Free Men" and the other two books of the trilogy (I think each was better than its predecessor), but found myself uncomfortable with his other books. I haven't tried all of them but just have trouble adapting to his voice.
... Which does not mean, mind you, that I don't think he's brilliant. I do.
(yes, I did do nine different New Years Posts in nine different time zones around the world, set to post at Midnight plus one minute, in each country.
HA! Not easy, especially when this blog is not set to my time zone.
May work. May not. But it WILL be a party.
Dress for it.)
Going to play with Magic for a little bit....Can't stay away from him!
We're listening, Ms. Fabulous. ;)
Congratulations, Mistress of Skulls! That has got to be a load off of you. :)
Time zones drive me nuts. I am horrid at mathematics of any kind and can't keep track of all the time zones. Lorraine, I think you're about three or so hours behind me?
Something like that. Either way, I have to go to bed. It's just past eleven o' clock here. Must. Sleep.
FoxClocks is awesome for time zones, seriously. I can't keep track in my head to save my life-- that's why I have technology. :D
Q, I love how besotted you are with Magic. Pleased and JEALOUS jealous jealous. :)
Emily, Ms. Fabulous is in the Central time zone, just one hour behind you; however, the blog posts the time on the Pacific coast which is three hours behind.
Do you bake? If you bake, you do math. Music is math, too. Playing most card games, competitively, is math, as are dominoes. Math is a language. It's all in how you look at it. :)
And, no, I don't have a degree in math. I never took calculus, though I used plenty geometry when planning sets for plays in class. And trigonometry didn't make any sense until I took physics (in high school). If you think you'll do badly in a subject, chances are you will.
I am besotted with Magic! I am goofy for him!!!!! We just played, and he got within a couple feet of me.
I tried to do the cat thing where you don't look but extend a finger, not too close. A normal well adjusted cat will reach out for a sniff.
Magic hissed, and growled, and pulled back without moving, so I slowly dropped my hand and got him playing again.
Progress.
His eyes are what do it for me. They were filled with hate and fear, and now, they are still scared, but also full of wonder. He wants to be loved and cared for.
This I can work with.
Where IS everyone tonight? Early sleepers, and not yet home on the west coast, I guess...
Well, since it's just me, lol, my sister's B'day is today, and if you think I am taking things on and saving things, read her letter to me today. SHE has been made a Holy Fool, which is a Lakota Indian thing that happens when you dream of thunderbirds...
"The Lakota native americans believed that when someone dreamt of Thunderbirds it made them a Holy Fool, a special kind of shaman. This person often did things backwards. Especially sacred were BLUE Thunderbirds. Mine were that color, as I had a little blue enamel thunderbird charm that I made in kindergarten. I think they were blue in the dream so I would recognize them. It's an enormous responsibility. See, now instead of just feeling like I'm responisble for everyone, I actually AM. As I said, I think I can handle it, I've been at it for awhile anyways.
I'm sending your Bengals a present tomorrow. You will recognize it as it is not shaped like any other box you've probably gotten (and NO, it isn't a Kattree:)
Oh I am so sick from cheezits and chocolate cake. It's wonderful. LOVE, T.
Magic's working some, eh, magic. Hah! I will never tire of that, no sir.
Love is a good look on you, Lorraine, even if it's occasionally interrupted by TUBES.
And speaking of TUBES, I have one with your name on it. I checked the poster out tonight and it is in -excellent- condition. Sometimes they get a little damaged on the corners from general wear and tear, but I snagged this one before it was displayed.
SO. I will be coming to see you tomorrow, provided everything is still on, yes? I'm bringing a couple of my people-- the more the merrier!
Adri- Monstrous Regiment was my first introduction to Discworld, I fell hopelessly in love. I'm reading The Truth right now.
I just went for a short walk, about a block to the end of my street. I know it's cold and I know the snow makes a mess to drive in, but it's all diamonds and streetlight out there right now. I can't help but love it.
I am here! Just messing about on facebook and IM and generally doing nothing.
Tonight I went to a 'tweet up' which is a meet up for people on twitter. It was quite nice, though the gender skewed heavily male-- pretty unusual for social media. Good for me, I guess, since I usually get on with dude geeks better than social media people, anyway.
Can't wait to find out what the present for the bengals is. Maybe it's just an oddly shaped box. That would be plenty for my boys; they love packaging.
Yes, El, we are very much on for New Years, and looking forward to it! I'm so happy you are coming! We will have some FUN!
Adri, I forgot to say good on you for going to the gym, getting fit is SO in my agenda, the inspiration for Horsie, or one of them anyway. I feel like a PUDDING! Want me some fit!
Yes, I am wondering about this package too. I know the Bengals will love it, they love anything to do with wrapping paper!
You know, I got a check for Xmas from someone, saying I should use it for MY Benglas, for toys, and food and litter. And spend it all on them. Made me teary.
And I have, feather toys, scratching things, another tree, and the very best of all TUNA!
We will never get tired of hearing about Magic from you, Ms. Fabulous.
Why wouldn't you be besotted with him? Most of us are, and we've never been in the same room with Magic, and probably never will. (Which is okay, by the way, as it's in his best interest that way.)
{{hug}}
I enjoyed my time at the gym today-- I'm trying to get in better shape so I can ride again, and dance. Basically rebuilding endurance and lung capacity. I feel like I've been sitting at this desk 16 hours a day for the past two years. Oh, wait, that's because that's true. :)
I said this last year, but I'm hoping it will be true this year-- this will be the year of work/life balance!
(I omitted a fat acceptance / body love / feminist rant re: the gym and people feeling free to comment on my body when I'm working out from the last comment. I am putting this here in its place because I don't feel like I can NOT say anything, but this is a positive place and not my soapbox. Love yourselves, Fiends, as you are!)
Wow, Gaypet.... Thank you for saying that! It is really sweet, plus reaffirms (ooooo, usually I HATE that word :)) why I come in here.....
Oh, right.
It's because my friend Lorraine, whom I miss SO much, is almost next door instead of across the country...and because SHE brings in just the coolest other people to 'meet' and become friends with....
ah....something funny is going on w/my internet...delayed posting.
So Happy Birthday to T!!
Or K. Cause I have trouble remembering dates. But the Lakota Sioux thing was a hint....
Happy New Year's eve eve!!
As I understand it, this place (Socorro) goes a bit crazy with every cowboy and desert rat in the county trying to drink the town dry on New Year's. I just spent several tours trying to convince the Iraqis NOT to indulge in good old celebratory gunfire, now I live in a town that evidently lights up like a firefight with it and random fireworks as soon as night falls on December 31st.
So..... Yes, I will be inside BEFORE twilight tomorrow. Watching celebrations on tv, soothing scared kitties (trying not to go all PTSD myself, as mummy wouldn't appreciate that) and READING THE COMMENTS HERE!
Yay!!
I'll raise a glass at the appropriate time (in England....and New York....and Minnesota....and California...okay, I'll raise many glasses...)
We will do plenty of drinking for you, Quiche!
ps.....BA, are you still on? I missed it if you mentioned before growing up in SB. Please email me! greylemur AT hotmail.com Thanks!
We just got back from the vets...Shiraz this time. They finally did x-rays of her back, which thankfully showed nothing too bad. She couldn't put weight on both her back legs last night, which was scary and upsetting to watch. 'Luckily' it iss arthritis in the knee of her left leg(which we've already been treating), not a tumour or something else as dire.
She is on knock out pain killers for the next few days to let her leg heal a bit.
We keep our vets comfortably well off!
Sally--what do you give them for their arthritis?
We don't have the gunfire here Lys, but we live opposite a school, and all the idiots congregate on the oval and let off illegal fireworks. I hate it.
Ah Adri, that is an entire blog in itself! You live in CA too don't you???
Well here at Fiend-land getting fit has nothing to do with what you look like. No one cares. It's all about what you FEEL like.
It's about doing it for yourself, and feeling really good about it for THAT, not for any sort of IDEAL of what a women should look like.
We are real women, and come in all sorts of shapes. Not important, it's what we ARE that is important, ideas, art, thinking, love laughter, what we DO.
Do I need to lose some weight and get fit? Yeah, I do. But it isn't going to change what I feel inside or think about myself.
When people come to my shows, they have so much fun, they love it. They don't care what I LOOK like. It isn't about that, or I suspect for any of us.
And to hell with anyone who thinks that is important!
Work out. Feel good. But do it for you, and because you want to feel that way.
There. LOL, I thnk I did your rant for you, didn't I, and I can as it is my blog!
Awww...Thanks Lys, I miss you too! When are you coming to visit????
Lys, New Years starts in New Zealand in a very few hours, watch the blog, my Fiends! If you raise a glass for all of them, I will replace Dread Val with you as my designated drinker!
Sally, we paid for out vets re-modeling, I am sure of it!
She's on these injections Lys, can't remember the name but they have them once a week for a month and then a booster each 3 months. The injections have really helped.
Both dogs also have oils to help their joints and ligaments
Quiche....Oh, don't do that! Dread Val is a professional! World Class! A glass once an hour for 24 hours isn't as much to metabolize as it seems, as long as I stay active. But truthfully, I don't have any champagne yet (my bad!)
Only scotch.
And a glass of SCOTCH once an hour, that is probably more than I can be a pro about:)
Re Body Image rant: well said!!
Sally: thank you...I give my guy three pills a day (no prednisone as yet) but it is getting harder to get the pills down him....
Hee-hee Lys....You may be right!
New Years Party starts in 4 hours...Hope everyone is ready!
I am for bed, as there is work before gig...Night all!
Of freaking hell. Its nearly 7 hours until the NY here, braod daylight, and the first illegal cracker just went off, and dogs barked madly.
Check the blog at 12:01 your time Sally tho my converter may have been off...I think I had it at 5 hours from now...
Oh dear, who can't count? 5 hours and 38 minutes to go....
Never tired of hearing about Magic, and such good news at that.
Heehee..Quiche your sister is a heyoka? Somehow I'm not surprised.;)
Right On for the body image rant. People always look at me funny when I tell them I do yoga..a size 18/20 5 ft person doing yoga is not what they expect. But I don't care, I do it because it makes me feel good.
Sally I hope your poor puppy feels better..those horrible fireworks can't be helping. Thankfully I have hours and hours before that starts here.
Oh, and quick, here's my fridge
Aw, :P~~~~~~~~~~~
Sally, that sucks in so many ways.
I love that mandella on your fridge Kali -very neat and artistic.
WHY do i have the unicorn song in my head. WHY?!?
i think this one is more appropriate for this blog though listen
Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child,
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
Love shel, couldn't read fast enough when i was little to read that book by myself. haven't stopped reading since...
DURAN DURAN!!!! i saw them a few years ago when they totally got back together and toured, it was AMAZING. no shame in duran love (john taylor...mmmm yum)
Just think how amazing it would be if we all picked one area within our realm of influence where we could make a difference. :-)
What you've done with the bengals is inspirational. It makes me want to find some area in my life where I can make a difference for other people. In fact, I think I will.
In 2009, I'm going to find a way to make a difference. Thanks, Miss L!
Re: Terry Pratchett. You could try and read The Unadulterated Cat.
I am so glad he got a knighthood! His writing makes wonderful and wicked things to my brain cells (which are all for it, the brazen hussies).
Not sure I can stay awake until midnight: Love is sick (he seems to always get sick for NYE) and I had an awful night of it. Then again, maybe if I have a nap? Or two? I have to write a six sentence story for a contest and my brain is blowing raspberries at me.
Well if you won't blow your own horn, I'll do it for you: Look at you! Look how wonderful you are! :) Ya done good. He's well on his way to nosing your fingertip.
Hurrah for Sir Terry! I would recommend Nation. It's not Discworld, and it's very different from his other stuff. Mr. Jess says you can tell it's the book he's always wanted to write. I agree. :)
Much better today than yesterday, though that's for a given value of "better". If all goes well (i.e., if I survive a trip to Cambridge this morning) we will be at a New Years' Pub Party-- and if not, I'll be here on the sofa watching Jools Holland. Either way I shall endeavour to check in from The Future.
I'm in the future! Wooo! No flying cars yet, though. Maybe that happens at midnight.
Now into the traditional part of NYE for my family -watching the Edinburgh Military Tattoo on TV. Glorious pipes galore
OKay, half an hour of pipes and bands has worn thin. *sigh*
Useful facts learned watching the Military Tattoo. There are over 1 million people in military in India.
Useless observation. Girls Marching Bands are sort of like the terrestrial version of Synchronized Swimming.
Me, bored?
Sally, sorry to hear about Shiraz - hope she feels better soon.
Kali - nice fridge- do you feel like posting the chocolate guinness cake receipe? Even the idea of it is making my mouth water.
I don't know if there are likely to be fireworks here as we are in quite a small village - luckily Tybalt seems unfazed by fireworks (which is wierd, as he is very nervy about lots of things) Mostly now he is ulling rude faces at the next door cat, through the window (they were stalking each other and shouting a lot yesterday, when he went out...)
Hope MAgic, and the King & Queen aren't too unsettled by it all.
And à propos of nothing in particular, I was doing a little bog hopping from ABC Wednesday and found this amazing post. Here dead bits of olive trees just get chopped off...
I haven't even quite gotten used to writing "2008" on my checks yet...
Hurray for online bill pay, I guess.
No fireworks here, so Magic and the King and Queen will be just fine, not to worry, they will just be waiting for me to come home, poor dears!
I know what you mean Dan, went too fast. I d better than online bill pay, I have it set up so they just take the money out of my account, and I have to do is remember to put in the checks...
Thanks for taking care of the body image rant for me, Q.
Today I am working not to have a panic attack about running payroll on Thursday, due to extremely negligent client payments.
I'll probably accomplish this by pretending the real world doesn't exist.
Sally, et al, re: kitty arthritis. Prednisone does work if it's inflammatory arthritis, but sometimes so can eliminating the cause of the inflammation. One of my cats had a BAD limp when he came to us, and switching his food fixed it. Then my husband was able to take the cat's prednisone when necessary. :D
happy new year and thanks so much for all the companionship this year.
xoxo
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