“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
- Neil Gaiman
( 30 Day Meme )
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Please friendlies - tell me what name you think would describe me best?
Poll #1502891 Raini's legal name
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21 What name describes me best? (Thanks so much to anyone who is up for participating!) Edit: Picked an icon that will hopefully not influence any decision making.
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Two holiday gifts... The first, a small holiday gift for a grandmother who doesn't understand this curious system of tubes (a.k.a. the Internet) and thus, it's safe to hide it here as she'll never look. ;] A pet portrait of a cat named Furby, affectionately called a kitty-rat, who's been both spayed and neutered. If only I had a naff oval gold frame to put it in-- oh, wait! I do! The second, for someone who's now isolated from the internet in a cold and lonely land, and will not have the chance to see it online before the holidays.
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I lost some weight. In a rush this morn i threw on some pants and i just realized these pants couldnt fit two months ago.
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Back in the 90's, Usenet was awesome.
The old furry server still runs today, though some of the groups have not seen a single post for several years.
Open your mailbrowser, create a "news" account, enter the following as your server: news.critter.net look for "subscribe" option, wait for it to load, shit bricks...
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Omg! I forgot. Happy Winter Solstice Everyone!
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1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
-Legally married a couple (performed a wedding). Also, joined a gym.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
-Yep, I lost weight...doesn't mean I didn't gain it back though.
3. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
-Under the influence.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
-Patrick Reed and a couple of good customers of mine. Pat's death hurt thee most, but I really can't go a year without a couple people I know dying.
5. What countries did you visit?
-Texas, well, it wants to be it's own country.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
-Too much to list. Most of all I want to leave Southern California.
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
-Jan 24/25, some shit hit a fan.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
-Watching my company collapse and go Chapter 11.
9. What was your biggest failure?
-Not paying off my credit card debt.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
-As usual, yes. Swine flu, nasty gash in my toe, sprained ankle, etc.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
-1990 Suzuki DR650S for $350. Oh, and hookers and blow.
12. Where did most of your money go?
-Right out the damn window.
13. What song will always remind you of 2009?
-"Say It's Possible" - Terra Naomi
14. What do you wish you'd done more of?
-Sleeping, traveling, and not being in CA.
15. What do you wish you'd done less of?
-Wasting time.
16. What was your favorite TV program?
-Law and Order
17. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
-No, I hate very few people, nobody new on my shitlist this year.
18. What was the best book you read?
-Only read a few, none really blew my mind.
19. What was your greatest musical discovery?
-Not that they're all that amazing, but Madcon. Great workout music.
20. What was your favorite film of this year?
-Nothing really blew my mind this year.
21. What did you do on your birthday?
-Fuck all. Had a half-ass night at Dave and Busters and paid for all of my drinks (and half of everyone elses.)
22. What kept you sane?
-Gin.
23. Who did you miss?
-A 6" ring at almost 550 yards with an AR-10, flinched while pulling the trigger.
24. Who was the best new person you met?
-Hard to say, there are a couple of people I was really happy to meet.
25. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
-Sometimes you have to say "fuck everyone else" and put yourself first.
26. What things are you looking forward to in 2010?
Leaving CA, permanently.
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Every have a song strike you in such a way that you keep listening to it on and off, just trying to figure out why the heck it's so stuck in your head, and at the same time it just doesn't get old?
What the hell, Soul Coughing? Why is 'Circles' stuck in my head? And why is it so damned catchy?
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Being the first year in our new home ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) albear and I just HAD to put up some sort of Christmas Lights. Lest we be accused of sending the neighborhood to Hell in a handbasket. (Queers?! In our cul-de-sac?! Disgraceful!!) So to keep up with the Jones's (or rather the Jenkins' who live three doors down and want to take advantage when I'm gone) we got some LEDs from Target.
We got 4 strings to do the peak over the garage and the rest of the house to the right. But wouldn't you know it - one of the strings burnt out halfway thanks to .. whatever. So we could only do the peak. Still, it looks somewhat decent, and I got the (fading) scars from falling off the ladder to prove it. Actually, I only fell a couple feet, but Al was right there. It took some doing to convince him to let me up on the ladder after that incident. There's to love.
Regardless, here's the picture of the first-year house.
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I think I am going to start this 30 day meme that grimmy23 is doing. To get my ass back on LJ more... ( 30 Day Meme! Day One! )
Stop and Stare by OneRepublic <3 Has very special meaning for me right now... that and Best Friends by Toy-Box
Day 01 ? Your favorite song
Day 02 ? Your favorite movie
Day 03 ? Your favorite television program
Day 04 ? Your favorite book
Day 05 ? Your favorite quote
Day 06 ? Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 ? A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 ? A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 ? A photo you took
Day 10 ? A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 ? A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 ? Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 ? A fictional book
Day 14 ? A non-fictional book
Day 15 ? A fanfic
Day 16 ? A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 ? An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 ? Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 ? A talent of yours
Day 20 ? A hobby of yours
Day 21 ? A recipe
Day 22 ? A website
Day 23 ? A YouTube video
Day 24 ? Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 ? Your day, in great detail
Day 26 ? Your week, in great detail
Day 27 ? This month, in great detail
Day 28 ? This year, in great detail
Day 29 ? Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 ? Whatever tickles your fancy
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A week late but I got one of the best birthday presents ever. I love my Rockstar. -huge grin-
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Its sad to know that the British guy that runs the shop down here calls all the girks luv. -_- It wont feel the same anymore. Lol
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In Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, a character named Wilkins Micawber, who has perpetual troubles with debt, expresses his appreciation of his predicament in what is one of the best known quotes from the novel:
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
Mr. Micawber was always short on money. Given my busy schedule lately as work brings us to the end of the fiscal year, I am running short on sleep ... which is every bit as pernicious as Mr. Micawber's bad habit, as I am trying to borrow time instead of money.
So allow me to opine this:
Alarm set for 7:15am, rolling over in bed and seeing that it reads 6:59, result happiness. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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A sign of the times? I have a new mobile phone, so its built-in dictionary is pretty much virgin of all the aspects of my personality that will gradually impregnate it as I send more and more messages and it learns of my ways. So I was quite amused, when I was sending a text message that included the abbreviation "WRT" (with respect to), that the phone helpfully corrected this to ... WTF.
WTF?! :)
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Ok. Im a little goofy today. Did this to a couple friends last nite. Now you. Reply to me with a pic you think will amuse me. ^^
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I never met darkwolfie in person, but I've heard his name before from a more than a few of my east coast friends. From what I understood, he was the type of fur that you definitely wanted to drink with, talk to, and have as a friend.
Wolfie contracted the N1H1 virus not too long ago, ended up in the hospital, and died from complications.
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*ding ding ding, ding ding-a-ding-a-ding!*
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Hmmmmmm, someone's mobile phone, somewhere in the office, is ringing. It's kinda muffled ... probably on the other side of the floor somewhere.
*ding ding ding, ding ding-a*
Yup, it went to voice mail. Probably got abandoned on someone's desk when they went to the bathroom or something.
*ding ding ding, ding ding-a-ding-a-ding!*
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Man, someone's trying to reach that person rather urgently. They really should answer their phone. Oh well ... it went to voice mail again. Back to work!
*ding ding ding, ding ding-a-ding-a-ding!*
Aw, come on, answer your stinking phone!
*ding ding ding, ding ding-a-ding-a-ding!*
*ding ding ... * Oh crud, that's me! Hello! Hello, yes, sorry about that ...
Ah, the joys of having just acquired a new, unfamiliar mobile phone, and then keeping it in my pocket so from under my desk it sounds as though it's coming from far away ... :)
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Brauf
I finally graduated(pending) with a Associates Degree. I feel kinda retarded in that Ive been going to school for almost 8 years and only come out with a AS. But better than nothing I guess. I took the AT-SAT test(aptitude test), scored a 83. Thats kinda sad because I was two points from being considered "highly qualified". ah well. I just took the Capstone Test(CTI exit exam) and scored a 98% on it.
From here on its pretty much a waiting game between me and the FAA, The aviation department head gave us a little speech before we began the Capstone test, and he said that academy can take anywhere from 8-18months... With my AT-SAT test scores im thinking its gonna be at least a year till I get my academy date.
In the mean time I guess ill just be workin at the fam restaurant. Or if I get sick of that I can look for other jobs.
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