The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn

BLESS AMY RAY!!!

2008-06-22T16:26:57Z

shay_a_chern @ 2008-02-11T22:32:00

2008-02-12T03:43:01Z

Apparently if you mix Paint Shop Pro 9 and Adobe Photoshop on the same computer then your computer will die. Well, my computer didn't actually die but it came really close. I had to sacrifice one of the programs (Photoshop) but the choice wasn't really all that hard. Don't get me wrong, I actually love 'em both, but Photoshop doesn't play well with the new kid on the block (Graphic Pad). Oh well.

Speaking of exploding tech devices, I have still yet to see if a Zune and an iPod will make each other die if you get them too close. Zune's are better...they get radio and that is awesome! Yay for NPR!

Oh, and I feel like I've missed something rather interesting. Being the way I am, all out of the loop and everything, could someone please tell me why there was all this crap about Scientology all over the news. I'm really not as sheltered as that makes me sound it's just that I can only really get back into the swing of things on the weekends because my weeks are EXTREMELY busy.

Anyway...

shay_a_chern @ 2008-02-09T11:47:00

2008-02-09T16:46:54Z

Dad wrote a love song for mom. It's amazing. It made her cry.

Hardcore Zen and school.

2008-02-08T19:09:14Z

Brad Warner, the guy who wrote Hardcore Zen, is going to be in Atlanta come the end of this month. I will be going.

I am currently working on illustrations for a children's book by my friend Katya and on illustrations for the poem "Father William" by Lewis Carroll.

I got accepted into the art department at Georgia State so now all I have to do is find housemates to live with me and a job. I did get a couple of extra grants and sholarships this time around though which means I should have money to put toward a car and that will be handy.

Other than that not a whole lot is new. Ysabel is passing school with flying colors (whatever that means) and mom still hates her job. Looks like they (my parents and sisters) will almost certainly be moving up near my aunt and uncle come the end of the school year.

I am already working on my vegetable garden for this year, just working the soil at this point. I miss meat a little bit but not as much as I thought I would.

Alright I'm going.

The neatest thing in the whole world.

2008-01-27T20:07:02Z

I'm listening to WAMU, an NPR station out of D.C., and there's this awesome show on called interfaith voices. Perhaps the coolest thing about todays show is this...There's a guy named Brad Warner being interviewed on the show today. This dude is a punk rock musician turned zen buddhist.

He wrote a book called Hardcore Zen and it was easily one of the coolest books I've ever read. If you ever get a chance to read it then do, or go find the interfaith voices podcast on NPR.org.

wintery mix MY ASS!

2008-01-19T17:08:00Z

HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS...IT'S SNOWING!!! It's not just flurries either there are big flakes and small flakes and the snow is all powdery soft for making snowballs with and it's been going on this way since about 8:30 or 9 this morning. This is the awesomest thing ever.

I don think my sister's have seen a decent snow since the oldest was like 6 or something. We had a snowball fight. I lost.

Do you want to know anything?

2008-01-16T21:11:33Z

Because we never really know each other as well as we think, in response to this post I'd like you to ask me a question. Anything about which you are curious, anything you'd like to know about me. Silly, serious, personal, whatever. Ask away. Then copy this to your own journal, and see what people don't know about you.

So...

2008-01-10T03:36:53Z

I now officially have 300 pieces in my sketch portfolio which means that I have to stop sketching and start putting together a professional grade portfolio. Oh, and I have to take the APT (Association of Professional Tattoo Artists) test for my hygiene and desease risk certification plus a background check. So....yeah.

After 6 months of debilitating periods the doctor said there is nothing wrong with my uterus.   Just low calcium. I've had this problem before. Now I have shitloads of it in bottles.

The chiropractor said that I am definitely eligible for a breast reduction because the hunch on my back has become more severe even though I am losing weight. I also had a pinched nerve in my neck and that was not fun but she fixed that part.

Need: Health insurance
            Calcium (have that now)
            Psychologist
            A really close friend that I can talk to face to face
            Dog Biscuits
            Cat Food
            Cat Litter
            Someone to write letters to (preferably someone who will write back)
            Someone who wants a cat and doesn't care if it isn't fixed.

I think that's all.

Hi there.

2008-01-02T02:44:51Z

Happy 2008 to everyone.

And what better way to start of the new year than with a poetry competition, eh?

I stumbled across this in the NaNoWriMo LJ community.

It's the Friends of Acadia - Nature Poetry Competition.

By the way...it doesn't get cold here in Georgia but when it does it gets pretty friggin cold. Lows tonight at 22 (feels like 15). Georgia seems to have that go big or go home attitude.

Ntohing says Solstice like fighting about religion with a side dish of politics.

2007-12-23T04:00:54Z

First things first. I wish everyone, especially those people that I am no longer in contact with, a very happy Solstice/Cristmas/Hannuka/Kwanzaa/Winter Holiday, and I miss you Virginia Lee, I hope that I see you again soon.

Dad said no solstice celebraions in the house so I'm home celebrating Solstice in my head 'cause it's rainy and icky outside (winter in georgia per usual)... and the rest of the grove is already in full tilt boogie.

Dad and I just recently had a pretty big falling out about why I don't believe in god and somehow got onto the subject of politics (he's good at maneuvering a conversation to make it fit his interests) and why I don't "really" believe in gay marriage.

So here you go--

1. Why I don't believe in "the" God

I don't believe in the Christian God because I have a really hard time getting behind all the mythology of it. Big man who lives in the sky with lots of pretty people who have wings and a big red guy with a pitchfork who lives in the uninhabitable core of the earth with all of his minions and hell hounds waiting for the people that don't believe in the big guy in the sky. It's just too fantastical for me to get behind, which is saying a lot since I still believe in earth spirits and the occasional ghost.

It is simply much easier for me to believe that everything is sacred and that the earth is a living breathing thing that I have the obligation to care for. So get off my ass.

2. Why I don't really believe in gay marriage

Most ancient societies needed a secure environment for the perpetuation of the species (perpetuation of the species is a lot of the reason that they said being gay was wrong in the first place). It is an institution which was almost solely created around the idea of bearing children and a safe way in which to do that. I don't care what kind of loop hole you can reason out of it two women or men simply cannot produce a child of their own accord. I feel so much like a traitor saying this but gay couples don't really need the institution of marriage they need the civil rights that the institution of marriage has ammended and ratified into itself and those are (or at least should be if the separation of church and state were doing it's job) two entirely different things.

On a slightly more personal note, I do not want to have anything to do with an institution that has been completely surrounded and infiltrated by ignorant, mean spiritied, candy-assed, self-righteous morons who think that it is within their power to tell other people how they may or may not live their lives. If they want the institution of marriage all to themselves then fine, I honestly don't give flying rat's ass. I'm not asking for marriage, I'm asking for the pursuit of hapiness and, damn it all, that's written into our constitution. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I want to be able to see my partner in the hospital or adopt a child or own a house together without having to find some legal loophole. Hell just the right to hold hands in public without the risk of dying would be a good start don't you think?

*sigh*
Ok, I think I'm done now.
Happy Solstice everyone.

Holiday Traditions.

2007-12-20T05:14:56Z

Coming up on that time of year. Christmas is kind of like a month long period for me when I'm at home. It's starts the day after Thanksgiving and ends on December 27th. All that shopping around and trying to figure out who's house we're going to on Christmas Eve or Morning. All celebrations are going to be at our house this year which is either going to be way more stressful or a lot less stressful dpending on if anyone actually decides to drive an hour and a half to get to our house.

I like our Christmas traditions though. We (mom and me) spend all day on Christmas eve day baking and then everyone gets new pajamas at 8 o'clock and then the girls go to bed and the adults (I'm included in that this year) stay up and get to play Santa. All of the santa gifts are left unwrapped on the hearth of the fireplace and all of the stockings are filled. Oh, and we hide the pickle ornament somewhere on the tree.

On Christmas morning we usually all get up pretty early but no one is allowed into the living room (where all the presents are) until every person has breakfast and/or coffee in his or her hands. We sit down and eat breakfast and then the two younger girls look for the one pickle ornament hiding in the tree (this is an old German tradition) and whoever finds it first gets a special present.

We always pick one person to pass out gifts and they have to pass them out kind of equally so no one gets a huge clump of presents all at one time.

The rest of the day is spent wither at relatives house(s) or just at home with the immediate family. The funny thing is that because we have so many relatives in so many places our Christmas ends up being 3 or 4 days long. For example, this year we are spending Christmas eve and Christmas morning at home, Christmas afternoon in Kennesaw then driving up to Knoxville to see another part of the family. We'll be there for a day. Then we have friends and family coming from Florida and California to stay from the 30th through the New Year. Okay, sorry I rambled.

<<<Just as a side note, I'm really horrible at keeping secrets so here's what everyone in my house is getting for Christmas this year. What do you want from me? I can't go around telling them can I?

>>Ysabel is getting Zelda: Twilight Princess for Game Cube and an autoharp
>>Molly is getting a Nintendo DS and a couple of games
>>Mom is getting a set of autoharp strings (the most expensive set of strings I've ever run across. $80 baseline)
>>Dad is getting a new phone model

***I am hoping for a new MP3 player. Keep your fingers crossed 'cause I can't get far without my music. Just please, no iPod's (blech)***

Just for future reference...

2007-12-16T01:51:29Z

Dear World,

My Gender = Human

and that is all you need to know so stop asking already.

Also, please let my grandpa live through the holidays 'cause that would be nice.

Your frusterated inhabitant,
Leigh in Atlanta

shay_a_chern @ 2007-12-08T16:34:00

2007-12-08T21:47:34Z

Here's some more artwork from my portfolio.

The last one is the new logo for my stuff on cafepress. You can see all that wonderful stuff HERE , but the store isn't updated as of yet. I'm going to go do that right after I get done here.

In other news, I ran into one of my friends from middle school in Little 5 Points today and she gave me a hug and now I feel wonderful. Today was a test of my patience and I think I passed. WOO!

My mom got an awesome raw silk, vintage dress, fish net stockings and the coolest high heeled shoes in the world. She looks like a pin-up girl and that is wicked awesome. Even more awesome is that she is going to a party in her new clothes tonight. Yay mom!

Ok I am going to go update my shop now.

shay_a_chern @ 2007-11-30T21:24:00

2007-12-01T02:36:43Z

Well I've had a wonderful couple of days of cooking. I made a chuck roast, homemade mashed potatos and fresh grean beans for dinner tonight as well as a peppermin pie, which I am extremely proud of despite it's simplictiy.

My dad, who has been working in Alabama all week long came home to a wonderful meal and was very pleased.

I've also recently accquired the Tassajara Bread Book, Tassajara Cooking and The Tassajara Recipe Book and so have been making all sorts of wonderful things but most especially bread.

Also lots of cookies with confectioners icing. Yay for the Holidays and cold weather that makes me feel like cooking.

I plan on doing a nice sunday meal but I'm not sure what yet.

Sigh. I feel great, a little crampy and a little grumpy but that happens every month, but... *shrug* Life is good, right?

I'm posting the recipes for the chuck roast (courtesy of Alton Brown) and the peppermint pie (courtesy of Paula Deen) below because DAMN they are just so friggin' wonderful.

1 envelope plain gelatin
1/4 cup cold water
1/2 cup heavy cream, plus 1 1/2 cups heavy cream, whipped
8 ounces peppermint candies, soft type (recommended: Bob's)
1 prepared chocolate cookie crust
Crushed hard peppermint candies, for garnish

Soften gelatin in water and set aside. Put 1/2 cup heavy cream in a small saucepan with candies and cook over low heat until candy melts. Add gelatin mixture and mix well. Let cool and fold in whipped cream. Pour into crust, sprinkle with crushed peppermint candies, and chill thoroughly

1 (2-pound) blade cut chuck roast
2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons cumin
Vegetable oil
1 medium onion, chopped
5 to 6 cloves garlic, smashed
1 cup tomato juice
1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
1 cup cocktail olives, drained and broken
1/2 cup dark raisins

Preheat the oven to 190-200 degrees F. Place a wide, heavy skillet or fry pan over high heat for 2 minutes. Meanwhile, rub both sides of meat with the salt and cumin. When the pan is hot (really hot) brown meat on both sides and remove from pan. Add just enough vegetable oil to cover the bottom of the pan then add the onion and garlic. Stir constantly until onion is softened. Add the tomato juice, vinegar, olives, and raisins. Bring to a boil and reduce the liquid by half. Create a pouch with wide, heavy duty aluminum foil. Place half the reduced liquid/chunk mixture on the foil, add the roast, and then top with the remaining mixture. Close the pouch, and wrap tightly in another complete layer of foil. Cook for 3 to 3 1/2 hours or until a fork pushes easily into the meat. Remove from oven and rest (still wrapped) for at least 1/2 hour. Snip off 1 corner of the foil pouch and drain the liquid into a bowl or measuring cup. Add some of the "chunkies" and puree with an immersion blender. Slice meat thinly, or pull apart with a fork. Serve with sauce.

Y'all have fun with that now!

Well.

2007-11-28T03:18:38Z

This was a pretty normal day until about 5 hours ago when:

We left to go deposit some checks at a BOA teller and the machine at my grandmas card, which is how we have been paying for all of her meds. Needless to say mom had a hissy fit but we think we might be able to trnasfer her funds to my account until we can get a new card.

We had to go to Michaels so that I can get the stuff to make all of my Christmas presents for this year. One sixty dollar paycheck gone, well mostly. While there we ran into Ms. O'Connor (middle school teacher), Ben's mom, and Kit's brother, who says that Kit is doing fine and should be up and walking in a week or so.

Did I mention that Kit had both of zis wisdom teeth out and then found out that he was sick with what zi hought was a stomach bug but turned out to be Salmonella. Fun stuff.

So now I am knitting like crazy and trying to find a way to help mom out with this whole deal with grandma's bank card and oh, Ysabel is doing extremely well in school with the highest grade in math and literature out of the fifty-some-odd-person K12 family group that we're in. She also loves history, she studying the Catholic Reformation and Counter-Reformation and seems to be loving every minute of it.

Me? Wel, if things work out I might be able to start online classes through Georgia Perimeter College this coming semester so that I can still coach Ysabel through her lessons. If I am able to take classes come next semester I will be taking:

FILM 1010 - Introduction to Film
ANTH 1101 - Introduction to Anthropology
MATH 1111 - College Algebra ( I know, I know. I should have done that by now.)
ENGL 2121- British Literature
and
ART 1010 - Introduction to Drawing

Yay!!!

Sent in all of my paper work for the HOPE Scholarship today, should hear back from them within a couple of weeks and should be able to get in in on late registration if everything runs smoothly.

A letter.

2007-11-25T16:14:47Z

Dear World,

I really AM a good person even if you don't see it, so just back the hell off.

Love,
Leigh in Atlanta

Hectic but good.

2007-11-23T03:20:40Z

Remember the people you love. There are many that I miss, past and present tense alike and to all fo you who could not be here for whatever reason, I hope that you and yours are well.

Edie and Donald,
my cousins Kyle and Ryan
Ryan's wife Jo,
Helen and Jeanie
Grandma Dot,
Grandma Ann,
Phil and Laura,
and Ben and Chae

Plus me, mom, dad, Ysabel and Molly

The house was crowded, the food was fantastic and good times were had by all.

Many thanks for:
-COMMUNICATION
-brand new 4-day-old babies in the family
-wonderful friends
-a wonderful, accepting family
-yeast infections (don't ask)
-a lover who survived another of zis family holiday get togethers
-a level head
-dreams (no matter how painful)
-being old enough to drink
-good, live music and bands who cover Frank Zappa tunes
-games
-huge turkeys
-crockpots
-pencils, colored and otherwise, with no wood on them
-sketchbooks
-cameras
-dogsitting for friends

--the list goes on but I have turkey in my system and am going to go pass out soon--

Birthday.

2007-11-16T19:27:20Z

It is currently 2:05 p.m. and I still have to teach 3 more hours of Math to get Ysabel all caught up.

Dad is probably not coming home from Birmingham tonight and mom and Molly are going to have to be home late from work/school tonight.

My friends Ben and Chae wanted to take me out tonight but, I have the Stomach Flu, typical fall-time congesttion and shit-loads of work to do tonight and through the rest of the weekend.

I am supposed to be house sitting for Wolf this coming week but have not heard back from her as of yet.

No alcohol (I'm too sick to go out) and no cigarettes (fall-time congestion).

Kit is leaving tomorrow for a week with zis family. (Wish zir luck, zi'll need it.)

And I have lost all 15,000 words of my story because I was a fucktard and forgot to back it up on my USB drive.

P.S.

   Dear universe and other random conspiring events,

                           I appreciate you trying to keep me from getting drunk because I know it isn't good for me. I do, however, feel like I deserve a good meal and at least one beer in a public place on my 21st birthday. Please be nicer to me over the next week or five. I will need fortitude that sickness does not allow.

                                                     Thanks in advance,
                                                                                    Leigh

shay_a_chern @ 2007-11-07T20:22:00

2007-11-08T01:44:19Z

13,992 WORDS!

NaNoWriMo is teh coolest thing in da history of evarz!

Seriously , this is easily the coolest thing I have ever done. Between homeschooling my younger sister Ysabel and filling my tattoo portfolio with fabulous things I have written about 1/5 of a novel. I feel incredibly accomplished.

Fall is such a creative time.

Letter.

2007-11-02T01:19:18Z

Dear you,

Please attempt to remove yourself from my dreams until we are able to speak again.

If you feel that it is absolutely necessary to be there then please make yourself audible next time. It is very annoying to have you talking to me and not hear what you are saying.

Lots of Love,

P.S. - Phones suck and so does Solitare!

Hey.

2007-11-01T02:04:45Z

Just wanted to send out a Happy New Year.

I have made my offerings and have been trick-or-treating which means that the god and goddess are pleased with me and I have enough candy to stay up and write my first 1667 words for NaNoWriMo through the early hours of the morning.

I hope that you are well.

Blessed Be.

Your druidic buddy,
Leigh in Atlanta

Join us, friends. Join us.

2007-10-15T04:09:37Z

Kit and I are both officially signed up for NaNoWriMo.

For those of you who don't know NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) Takes place during the month of November. Starting November 1st the goal will be to have 50,000 words by midnight November 30th. If you are in any way interested the get your little bahooki on over to nanowrimo.org and check it out.

The whole idea is quantity, not quality. So it's roughly 1700 words a day.

Join us!

A quick word MSN's articles on tattoos.

2007-10-09T15:00:49Z

There are a couple of articles on the MSN homepage about tattoos. One of the articles states that you would have to be hopped up on any number of drugs for a tattoo not to hurt like hell or that you would just have to be "into" pain.

Pardon the French but, BULL SHIT. Anyone who's ever gotten a tattoo or even has a lick of common sense knows that this is 98% determined by a person's individual physiology. Duh.

The other two percent go to where you get the tattoo and how good your artist is.

Some skin is just naturally more sensitive. I have a tattoo on the inside of my left wrist, one above each breast and one above my right outside ankle and they all hurt like hell because the skin is thin and sensitive. I also have a snake on my upper left arm, a phoenix on my left forearm, writing on my left shoulder blade, a little piece on my right shoulder and a rainbow colored, celtic knotted moon on my right bicep all of which hardly hurt at all because the skin is thicker and generally less sensitive and I have a pretty high pain tolerance.

Don't get me wrong, I'll scream and cuss as loud as the next person if I drop something heavy on my foot or if my cat decides to suddenly attack my leg for no apparent reason. So much of getting a tatto has to do with getting yourself ready for it. If you go into it knowing that it will hurt then you can prepare your brain for it. Certain studies also show that the overwhelming majority will say that getting a tattoo hurt less thn they thought it would. Go figure. I would one of those many people.

I'm not saying that tattoos don't hurt because they do, what I am against is the fact that people insist on portraying people with tattoos as brainless druggies or kinky people who are into pain for sexual reasons.

Just one more thing to add. The same woman who wrote this article said that tattoos hurt more than a C-section procedure. This is just a shot in the dark but don't all good practicing doctors anesthetize you before they do a major "I'm-going-to-cut-you-open-and-pull-out-an-eight-pound-human-being" surgery (like a C-section)? And if so, then wouldn't just about everything hurt more than a C-section since, you know, YOU CAN'T FEEL IT!?!? Duh.

Am I wrong? Do most doctors keep you awake and feeling for this kind of procedure, and if so, then WHY?

Alright, I'm done now.

Well, I posted it there so I'll post it here too.

2007-10-06T02:53:36Z

1. I’m turning 21 on November 16th.
2. My all-time favorite movie is Pulp Fiction”
3. I am an aspiring tattoo artist.
4. I used to have a very serious problem with telling the truth. I’ve gotten better and I haven’t stopped working on it either.
5. I identify as a gender queer lesbian. That means that I am a biological female who likes other women and doesn’t identify with either extreme of the gender continuum.
6. I have a deep love for all things that have to do with physics, quantum theory and quantum mechanics even though I can’t do the math that is involved with any of those things.
7. Right now I am home schooling my younger sister and soon we will be starting up with the k12 program which is essentially public school done in the comfort of your own home with none of the hassle of stupid kids with raging hormones and therefore no crying when you come home from school.
8. I currently have a never-ending booklist because every time I finish a book it seems that two more have made themselves known to me.
9. I write at least five pages in my journal every day.
10. I love algebra, but I couldn’t tell you why.
11. I am the only living member of my “blood family” who has brown hair and green eyes.
12. My favorite games are Scrabble, Balderdash, Trivial Pursuit, Boggle, Scattergories, Dirty Words and online games that have to do with unscrambling letter (eg. Text Twist on MSN games)
13. I like RPG’s as well. Dungeons and Dragons is my favorite though I haven’t played it in a very long while.
14. I have never witnessed a tornado, typhoon, tsunami or monsoon but I have witnessed a blizzard, an ice storm and a hurricane which is kind of odd because I live in a warm landlocked place.
15. I have a strange heritage. I come from the lines of Robert Bruce and William Wallace who didn’t like each other very much as you would know of you pay attention to your history or have ever seen the movie Braveheart. I also come from a line of Scottish horse thieves called Sparks, a clan that’s traced to long before William Wallace and Robert Bruce. Sparks is the earliest line of heritage traceable to my family.
16. The first chapter boo I remember reading is "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret."
17. My favorite writers include but are in no particular order and certainly are not limited to: Stephen King, Mercedes Lackey, J.K. Rowling, Susannah Clarke, Cornelia Funke, T. Cooper, Stephen Hawking, Garrison Keillor, Robert A. Heinlein, Christopher Moore, Barbara Kingsolver, Colleen Redman, Mara Robbins, Fred First, Douglas Adams, Kazuo Ishiguro, Bran Froud, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Amy Tan and Richard Shenkman…oh and Lynn Truss.
18. I have three desks in my room right now. All of them are functional and must be kept that way.
19. I have two younger sisters and currently live with them and my parents while I try to work my way into and through a tattoo apprenticeship.
20. I have nine tattoos, six piercings (all ears), and 2 piercing scars (eyebrow and ear).
21. I love trying new foods.
22. I have eaten shark, alligator, jellyfish and seaweed salad, blowfish, bull testicles and a bunch of other strange things.
23. The channel I watch most on TV is the discovery channel
24. I collect pretty rocks and other cool nature stuff.
25. Sometimes I play the guitar but I’ve kind of stopped over the last 6 months or so.
26. Sometimes I knit just to make people wonder.
27. I love very easily.
28. I was born on November 16th, 1986. On that weekend (I was born on a Sunday) Crocodile Dundee topped the box office charts, Ronald Regan was the president and the average gas price in Georgia was $0.74 a gallon. Remember?
29. I once stuck one of my nostrils over the head of a nail just to see if it would fit. I was six and I got a nosebleed, quite possibly the worst I have ever had.
30. I eat with chopsticks every chance I get just to make my brain try a little harder.
31. I am currently learning how to draw pin-up girls.
32. I have been to Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, Florida, The Bahamas, California, Kentucky, Virginia (existed there for about 9 months), and just about all over England.
33. Eventually I want to live in Virginia because it is the one place that feels like home no mater how far away from it I am.
34. Every once and a while I write some pretty good poetry.
35. If I had the option I would furnish my house entirely from IKEA
36. Sometime I make 20 minute long techno songs on ACID (not the drug, the computer program)
37. I am addicted to icanhascheezburger.com
38. I worked at a renaissance festival for two seasons doing the beanbag toss.
39. I have also worked as a low-class accountant.
40. I smoke roughly 5 cigarettes a day down from about a pack.
41. The most commonly used word in this post so far is “I”, go figure.
42. I miss my last girlfriend a lot. I lost her to my lies.
43. I was accepted into Hollins University but would never, EVER go there.
44. I am still working on my memoir/personal essays.
45. My favorite food is eel sushi.
46. My favorite musician is Amy Ray.
47. I typically use up a 100 page journal in less than a month.
48. I make dream catchers when I feel lonely.
49. Sometimes, when I don’t feel like I can really talk to anybody, I talk to my pillow instead. 50. My favorite candy is DOTS.
51. My favorite drink is Coke but I don’t drink it often.
52. I used to be mildly addicted to caffeine
53. I associate music with seasons.
54. I associate anything or anyone who has made a serious impact on my life with music.
55. My favorite holiday is Samhain.
56. I am a practicing solitary druid.
57. I am bad about bottling up my anger.
58. It very rarely takes me less than an hour after I have laid down to actually fall asleep.
59. Autumn and Winter are my favorite seasons.
60. I have been officially diagnosed with chronic asthmatic bronchitis.
61. I do not have asthma.
62. I have only ever had a crush on one of my teachers.
63. I would like to go ghost hunting at some point in my life.
64. We have 3 pets. 2 cats, Mario and Odei (Oh-Day) and one Guinea Pig named Moose.
65. I eventually want a pet snake.
66. I love to sit on the porch with my mom after it has gotten dark and talk.
67. I have a knack for photography.
68. I know how to change the oil and replace a tire on a car.
69. I’m pretty sure I have only been in one car accident but it may have been two.
70. I typically have really interesting dreams but every once and a while I dream about really common place dreams like going to the store or being in a car crash which is why I say that I may have been in 2 car crashes. I can’t remember if one of them was a dream or not.
71. Over the last nine months I have lost 32 pounds.
72. I have only ever been really drunk once, that number is going to go up this year on November 16th right after we go se Beowulf.
73. I like white chocolate about as much as I like telemarketers or a poke in the eye with a short stick.
74. My mom and I have both had the same recurring dream.
75. My Native American totem animal is the snake, I am also a scorpion, a tiger and a stag according to three other zodiac sources.
76. I have had three MMR vaccinations which is one more than you’re supposed to get.
77. I have also had to get a shot because I was bitten by a squirrel when I was five or something. I don’t remember what kind of shot it was though I do know that it wasn’t a rabies shot.
78. I have moved 4 times in my life.
79. I live just outside of Atlanta in the city of Stone Mountain.
80. Sometimes I shower 2 or 3 times a day for no other reason than that it calms me down.
81. I have given serious though to the possibility that I might be trans-gendered. I’m pretty sure I’m not though.
82. By the age of 19 I had slept with 2 people, that is 53% lower than the average American 19-year-old girl.
83. I really love Broadway and off-Broadway musicals, my favorite is either the Fantastiks or the Producers.
84. I have never witnessed Haley’s comet and won’t until the year 2064. I will be 78 years old. I have witnessed a comet though, but I don’t remember which on it was.
85. I have a 2 dollar bill hidden away somewhere in my room. I have had it since I was eight I think and none of my family members know.
86. On average I draw 2 tattoo designs a day.
87. I doodle when I take notes on something.
88. I went through a phase in which I was really interested in serial killers. Istill am but not to the same degree.
89. There are 50 candles in my bedroom that I know of.
90. I started this blog as a place to keep notes for my personal essays/memoir.
91. I believe in reincarnation.
92. I believe that there is no such thing as a necessary war.
93. I believe that this would be a much happier place if we were all expected to know the workings of all the major world religions.
94. I can’t listen to music and draw at the same time.
95. I do not enjoy doing yard work anymore.
96. I do a casting of the runes twice daily.
97. I don’t really do tarot anymore, it started to scare me.
98. I own four pairs of pants, 5 pairs of shorts, 31 shirts and 7 pairs of shoes.
99. I practice yoga twice a day, right after I wake up and right before I go to bed. I also meditate every night.
100. This took me entirely to long to write, I hope you found it mildly interesting.

In other news Ysabel was accepted into the Virtual Academy and we will be starting that up in about a week and a half. Yay for no more lesson plans.

Also, I could possibly be getting my foot in the door for an apprenticeship at Black Cat Tattoos in the incredibly near future.

Yes, life is busy and good and worth it and all that wonderful stuff.

Kit just got enough credit hours to become a Junior and will be transferring to the Art Institute of Atlanta next semester with a major in *sigh*Sound technology with a concentration in music theory. *sigh* Yay for someone that will sing and play guitar with me.

Lovely.

Is going for book and bed now.

Bai. I luv u!

Tooth.

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I lost one. I fell into an open cabnet and lost my back left molar.

Or, in LOL Cats style:
I'm in ur kichin, loosen mah teefz.

This'll be a fun one to tell the destist on tuesday.