| Starting off the Summer |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|07:11 am] |
Many wishes for a very Happy Birthday to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) snarky_kat.
I hope you have a fabulous, lazy, creative day. (Filled with too much sugar, of course~!) |
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| Starbucks surprise |
[Jun. 28th, 2009|11:41 am] |
We have a Sunday morning routine: get up, get dressed, get Nan off to work. Start laundry, get coffee, come back and start chores.
This routine is so very common that the baristas at the Starbucks closest to us recognize us on entry and frequently joke with us. It's all good.
But every once in a while something truly different happens, that can make you smile or simply blink in surprise. Today's surprise was that our Starbucks run began to feel like the opening of a bad joke:
"So a Bishop and a Friar walk into a Starbucks...."
No, really. They did.
The two older men in question were both highly intelligent and gently confused about the routine, but perfectly easy about being guided by a stranger. (They even joked that I should work there.) One gent was attired in a neatly-pressed black suit with silver ornamentation and a priest's collar; he simply had an air of authority and charisma that was far in excess of the priests that I've known. He truly felt like he was a bishop who was not wearing his ceremonial robes. The friar was in the traditional hooded robe and rope-belt, also spotless and immaculately pressed.
It makes me wish I'd had a reason to talk to them further - they were fascinating. And they smelled of incense. ♥
Oh, Catholic church, there are some things about you that should never change.... |
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| Bringing in the Birthday~! |
[Jun. 27th, 2009|12:08 am] |
Wanted to be right on time with wishing mewschangeling a very Happy Birthday!!
I hope that whatever options you plan to do for your day are ones that make the day completely excellent.
((hug))
~ Ris |
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| WTF, World?? |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|10:14 pm] |
Last weekend, the laptop I use at home (G-cat's of course) had... issues, yes, issues... with its weekend reboot. Took a bit to restart it. A good bit, in fact, but restart it did.
I store very little on PCs, but G-Cat wisely grabbed her Hello Kitty USB drive and copied off the few files that I had saved.
Today, I had the laptop up and running. Walked away from it for about 20 minutes, and shen I came back the whole screen was dead white. Tapped the keyboard in case the system had found a new sleep mode, then watched as it rebooted without warning. H'ooookay....
Got it restarted. Got Firefox going again, and it even remembered what tabs I had open. Yays. Stepped away to finish dinner. Got back to find my screen is a lovely Mondrian montage, large black squares, side by side on a white background. This baby is going no where. *shakes head*
This is the second PC that's died on me in two years. I used to do all my RPing on my desktop in the library before the hard drive started sounding like it was filled with shattered glass. From there, I switched to the laptop which also allowed me to be with people, instead of sequestered. All good.
But, daaaaaamn. |
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| Amazing amounts of love... |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|11:58 pm] |
It's not uncommon for audiences to love their musical performers, but it's rare to see it to the degree that we had at the Indigo Girls concert tonight.
Everyone was so warm and sincere and spontaneous that the singers - Emily and Amy (several times overwhelmed to embarrassment by the audience's cheering) - would occasionally fall silent and let us sing to them.
An amazing concert all around. ♥ |
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| I've been meaning to do this... (meme-ish!) |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|10:46 am] |
Yesterday I was reminded by vdansk that I wanted to do this, and forgot:
"If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal."
( Thank you, all. ) |
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| Ironic, indeed |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|12:17 pm] |
Happy Birthday wishes to the sweet and wonderful elionwyr!
Instead of lighting candles on a cake, I heard on this morning's news that someone set the old CB haunt site on fire instead.... |
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| Every bride really *IS* beautiful |
[May. 31st, 2009|02:35 am] |
Just watched our friends Jen and Chas get married.
Both of them had the most amazing smiles that I've ever seen. ♥ ♥ ♥
Congratulations, to the both of you. ^_^ |
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| Closing the loop |
[May. 16th, 2009|10:36 am] |
Thank you, all, for the words of support for me beating myself up (wearing myself out?) for a good cause last weekend! By Thursday, my body had forgiven me for running it ragged. ♥
Also by late Thursday, I got the good news:
Through the fund-raiser, we managed to raise just a little shy of a quarter million dollars. Every penny of that will go to PERSAD, to provide free treatment and counseling for the LGBT community.
( Believe... ) |
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| P.S.A. |
[May. 15th, 2009|02:29 pm] |
Just because life is *good* doesn't mean life is *fair*.
[Repeat ad nauseum] |
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