Here are a couple of Star Wars icons that I made last summer and the summer before. Hope you like them.

10 icons include:
Han/Leia

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The reason the Gods punish hubris.

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Whoo! It's been a while since I logged in as myself. (I've been logged in as girlgeniuscomic for the sake of convenience, but I finally fixed the network so that my work machine can talk to the internet again. Whew.)

My beloved TypeStyler is back! Aaaahhh! I am so very happy. Typestyler choked and died when the Mac went to OSX, so yes, it's been a while. Obviously, I've been doing all right without it, and I also like Art Text, but Typestyler was once one of my favorite tools, and I'm glad to have it back.
The only problem is that it isn't recognizing my old serial number as a TS serial number. Weird. And here I kept it all that time...

So, I am very much behind in posts. Let's start with Steamcon. Amazing! Many of my friends who are less...shall we say... into the things I like (cough, cough, manga and video games, cough) wandered through, and were later wondering out loud why they enjoyed Steamcon more than they usually enjoy conventions. That one was easy. They stripped away all the extras, and cut straight to the tasty Victorian-flavored costumes and "historically-influenced" gadgetry. And Tea. Always tea. Of course my friends who are mostly into historical costuming and vintage everything loved it. Of course they did. I loved it, too.

Next. Windycon. This will probably need its own post. Or series of posts. And I don't have much time tonight. But if I wait until I have time to write about EVERYTHING, well, that's why I haven't been writing a lot. I sort of get bogged down in the sheer volume of things I want to say. Blah.
Oh, peachy. And, in fact, now I must go deal with the real world. Back later...

I tee a tweet!

• 11:31 I'm glad I had a bumper crop of basil last year cause this yrs crop was a bust... Basil,garlic etc - the smell of Sunday sauce. Pasta today! #
• 11:35 last night hubby went to open a chilean wine he got from Zagat.com, it had mold on the cork under the metal wrapping.... ewwww... not good. #
• 13:07 hubby just chase the dog around the circular coffee table - 15+ times... hubby dizzy - dog won! ROTFLMFAO #
• 18:01 Pasta in the pot, bread in the oven, sauce = perfection, red wine from Portugal.... OK I'm ready! Dinner is about to be served. #

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My current Group! ^_^
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My Friend Kallipso. (posted with permission)

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WILL CLICK IN RETURN! ^__^

Thanks for clicking!



And for a friend (w/ permission of course):

In looking at this press release of one of Jim Balent's witchy projects, this particular sentence sticks out:

His popular comic, Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose, in it's 9th year, challenges socio-sexual stereotypes with it's artistic nudity, gender equality and pagan storyline.

First of all, be proud of me: I'm going to resist the urge to remove that extraneous apostrophe from "it's". Instead, I will focus on my main rant at hand:

Uh, 'scuse me? Gender equality? Where? Is it in the amazingly unrealistic and disproportionate depictions of female bodies, none of which appear to be over the age of twenty-two? The fact that the only character who seems to have a regular job works in a lingerie store? Or maybe it's the gratuitous pornographic artwork depicting socio-sexual stereotyped women "artistic nudity" that Balent takes every opportunity to draw because he's made himself an excuse to draw such things over and over ad nauseam? (Because, you know, men drawing unrealistic pictures of women being sexual in ways that said men find exciting totally equals real-life women having the freedom to be sexual in whatever way they please without guilt.)

Sorry. Having female protagonists doesn't count as gender equality if they exist primarily as hetero male wank material. And while I've no problem with porn, trying to present Tarot as some paragon of gender equality (cause she's, like, a girl and stuff) is like trying to present Jenna Jameson's movies as serious commentary on the dissolution of traditional gender roles in Western society. There's no problem with these things existing in and of themselves, but don't mistake them for something they aren't.

Jim Balent = feminism FAIL. But what do you expect from the person who wrote the line "You have to get out of here! Your VAGINA is HAUNTED!"?

ETA: As an addendum: Women having sex openly does not automatically equate to feminism and gender equality. Here's a superb essay from the poly perspective about that.

Thanks in advance :)

The weather's gone to crap. Supposed to be snowing and generally grey and dull until at least Tuesday.

Had our little orphan's Thanksgiving and managed to get just the right size of bird since we're only down to two drumsticks as of today (everything else is gone). Trying to make plans for a good SolstiChristmaHannaKwanzaka dinner for just the three of us as well. It will likely involve the rump roast from the most recent beef order.

The chickens seem to be holding up well to the crazy ass weather (it was in the 60s yesterday when I let them out to roam while I watered the trees but it managed to snow a bit today with more snow called for on Tuesday). They look a little scraggly as they go finish up what I assume is a molt. Three months is about the same age the first batch went through a phase of my going "Why in the hell are there so many feathers around here?!" I've got them on a maintenance diet of scratch and kitchen scraps (and green leaves when the day is nice enough to let them out) for the winter and will pick up with a brief period of grower ration in about February or March to help them get going again before introducing laying ration.

Garden planning is still in the very beginning stages. Aside from it being generally expanded next season, I've decided to break it into two areas. The original bed inside the fenced in backyard will be the home of the more tender and needy plants like tomatoes, beans, and leafy things. Corn, sunflowers, squash, zukes, and other hardy/pest-resistant items will take up residence in an area on the north side of the house that has ample room for wide roaming things and gets a metric ton of direct sun exposure over the summer (there will be mulching. no worries).

A project for the immediate future involves the donning of protective over clothes and goggles to venture underneath the house to seal all possible vermin entrances from that side. Tired of the mice taking up residence over the winter and generally just exhausted with keeping up with the cleaning needed to help discourage the mice in the first place. Ya know, 'cause getting a cat would be too much of a pain in the ass according to Ben. Eh, it'll also give us an opportunity to see the substructure of the house. Even though the building inspector passed the house for the sale, we have ridiculous standards and have already started throwing around ideas on how to improve things.

Speaking of improving, we are probably going to have to start putting away money for a new septic tank to replace the poly one that's currently installed. The inlet side is showing evidence of smooshing (industry term. promise.) by way of an elliptic shaped inspection port instead of the circular shape it's supposed to be. Makes sealing it back off rather difficult. It may turn out to not be that bad and we'll just have to pump the tank, dig it up, and re-install the same tank. It's like they jammed the dirt back too hard on the one side when they first installed it.

Well, that's about all there is right now. Take care.

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So tired of coughing my head off. It prevented me from getting a good amount of sleep last night. I have a silver egg that I'd be willing to trade for a frozen or lava egg. To view my Valenth babies please view my pixelbabiesrluv post which is here. Don't forget dragonspam_er for when your babies are down to 3 days or less and dragon_er for when your babies have less than 2 days left. Thank you for clicking, feeding and visiting my babies.

( Here are the babies to luv, hidden here because there are just so many )

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Thanks to all of you for your clicks.
The cheese egg was gifted by ookamixnoxkiba
Finally got them all moved to Jabberwock's scroll.
She caught the three eggs herself. Still no magma egg. :( I've been trying.
I haven't managed to get any for myself yet, either.
The new dragon babies sure are adorable! Great artwork!

I'll be clicking back 24 hours

Thanks for the clicks! Off to return the favor now \o/



And for a friend (w/ permission of course):

....to be watching for Yule and other December events in the local San Antonio pagan community. Please drop by periodically to see what's coming up....

http://sanantoniopagans.us/

crossposted to txpagans, satx_pagans

Two new dragons just waiting to be clicked! Will be clicking back, of course. :D

We are off to Connecticut today to return Ariel to her dorm room but first we are visiting the Connecticut Davids. So I have to get everyone up in about 5 minutes because we have a ferry to catch.

Yesterday was a family day where we did lots of stuff as a family including a holiday parade. It was nice to do so. Caroline is going to miss Ariel a lot. They had a sleep-over in Ariel’s room yesterday.

This week is all about getting ready for Caroline’s birthday party which will be on her birthday this year. I think I am going to plot out the week on the boat. While Peter works on whatever he has to work on with this computer.

I also want to get our Holiday decorations up this week along with taking care of the leaves on our lawn. A lot to do and only 24 hour days to do it in.

I am grateful for less wind today.

had to take a break, I'm back now well at least I try

clicked around a bit

how about helping my little ones too?





thank you~

Once these two grow up I'm gonna try for some of the new ones (try being the key word) -

Other hatchlings -

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Thank you all so very much

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Portland residents be aware: e.coli found in water, Portlanders west of the Willamette as well as at Valley View, Burlington and Palatine Hill Water Districts need to boil water

As I usually do in the mornings I pull a single tarot card - light incense and light a candle. The tarot is used to give me insight into the day. Today I pulled the Tower... and since I don't like pulling the tower and want to see beyond it - I pulled a modifier... the 10 of swords (some modifier!)....

Anywho - went off to work... get there put my coffee and a bagel on the shelf outside the lab so that I can unlock the door... yep spilled coffee and bagel (that is twice I've done that - beginning to think that bagel is not what I am supposed to have in the morning.) So I clean up my little mess - hit the kitchen and get myself some more coffee, fortunately the bagel was mostly unscathed.

I got quite a lot accomplished and was getting ready to leave when I noticed I didn't hear anything... I put on my coat and started to leave and noticed all the lights were not on - since they are motion detector lights I wasn't concerned... but I was getting that feeling that I was alone... I get to the door to go out and that realization was dead on... I was locked in work!

I headed back to the lab and hit the phones - I finally got in touch with someone who came and let me out. I can not believe how dead on the cards were this morning...

The tower - "We will feel afraid, shaken and insecure. It is a time of great turmoil as we seek to understand how we could have been so wrong, so fooled, so naive, or so blind. And Oh God, what will we do, how will we manage?!"

The 10 of Swords - The Ten of Swords portends a difficult experience of loss or release, but a new awareness and a positive sense of relief that the difficulty is finally finished will eventually follow the pain of this experience. Though this card may seem negative at first glance, it is a card of hope and an indication that our troubles will not be permanent.

So a bad situation was not as bad as it could have been - I just think it was a weird day...

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Declaration that OP is a fictional superhero symbolized by a winged, cave-dwelling, nocturnal rodent.

I tee a tweet!

• 23:31 dang tis windy out - where did all this come from. I hope it goes away before I head to work tomorrow... #
• 07:49 we lost power for a couple of minutes... hard to do since our lines are underground... I gotta go to work --- I hate icky weather conditions #
• 15:04 pulled the tower this morning.... then this afternoon tI got locked in the building at work - they forgot I was there... now that's a pickle #

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