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Lunchtime-in-Hawaii Life Collection
Jan. 4th, 2012 04:32 pmQuote of the Day:
"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors."
---Norman Vincent Peale
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The best news I got all day:
My mother's blood work for December shows her white blood cells at near normal levels. She hasn't had that in YEARS. She said she though her normally staid dr was going to bounce up and down.
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The Writer's Aid Department:
25 things Writers should stop doing. RIGHT NOW! We all do some of them. Some of us do all of them. I'm particularly guilty of 22: overpromising and overshooting. (I don't chase trends, I tend to run a year early)
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The "Shape it Up" department:
9 Best fitness moves. Give it a try.
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From the Political Desk:
We all know that Romney beat Santorum by 8 votes in Iowa and Ron "The Demented Little Terry Brooks Character With a Gold Card" Paul made a strong third place. And I will maintain my dignity and not get myself into a froth of puns about Santorum surging from behind in Iowa to come out number two. I'm a better person than that. Apparently not.
Alabama considering personhood legislation. These forced birthers will not be happy until 70% of women are in jail for miscarriage, and 40% are on death row for abortions.
Obama appoints Richard Cordray to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Plutocrat Republicans howl. If we're protected from their predation, their profits will be lower!
Republican Pro-Life plank mates with States Rights and takes next logical step: Let states ban birth control!
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The "Hard At Work" department:
8 Jobs with Bright Outlooks. Nanoengineering technlogist? It's fun living in the future!
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The "Bracing for the Zombie Apocalypse" department:
Top 10 Survival Manuals to Download. Everything from dentistry and field surgery to canning and knitting.
Gardening in January. Come the apoc, we'll have to grow our own, and the Pagan Soccer Mom has some awesome links for everything from planning to containers to seed starting.
10 Survival Skills for a post Collapse world.
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The "I totally stole that for my book" department:
8 Gratuitously Violent Horror Movie Scenes (From the Bible). It's Cracked.com, so appropriate warnings. And I used Numero Uno in Power in the Blood.
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The Sacred Circle department:
January Correspondences. Two of my goddesses are listed. Also, it's National Hobby Month.
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National Hobby Month:
I am making this shawl in an ocean blue. I've finished the middle back triangle.
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Youtubery:
Today's piece was number one the week I was born
"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors."
---Norman Vincent Peale
~~~
The best news I got all day:
My mother's blood work for December shows her white blood cells at near normal levels. She hasn't had that in YEARS. She said she though her normally staid dr was going to bounce up and down.
~~~
The Writer's Aid Department:
25 things Writers should stop doing. RIGHT NOW! We all do some of them. Some of us do all of them. I'm particularly guilty of 22: overpromising and overshooting. (I don't chase trends, I tend to run a year early)
~~~
The "Shape it Up" department:
9 Best fitness moves. Give it a try.
~~~
From the Political Desk:
We all know that Romney beat Santorum by 8 votes in Iowa and Ron "The Demented Little Terry Brooks Character With a Gold Card" Paul made a strong third place. And I will maintain my dignity and not get myself into a froth of puns about Santorum surging from behind in Iowa to come out number two. I'm a better person than that. Apparently not.
Alabama considering personhood legislation. These forced birthers will not be happy until 70% of women are in jail for miscarriage, and 40% are on death row for abortions.
Obama appoints Richard Cordray to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Plutocrat Republicans howl. If we're protected from their predation, their profits will be lower!
Republican Pro-Life plank mates with States Rights and takes next logical step: Let states ban birth control!
~~~
The "Hard At Work" department:
8 Jobs with Bright Outlooks. Nanoengineering technlogist? It's fun living in the future!
~~~
The "Bracing for the Zombie Apocalypse" department:
Top 10 Survival Manuals to Download. Everything from dentistry and field surgery to canning and knitting.
Gardening in January. Come the apoc, we'll have to grow our own, and the Pagan Soccer Mom has some awesome links for everything from planning to containers to seed starting.
10 Survival Skills for a post Collapse world.
~~~
The "I totally stole that for my book" department:
8 Gratuitously Violent Horror Movie Scenes (From the Bible). It's Cracked.com, so appropriate warnings. And I used Numero Uno in Power in the Blood.
~~~
The Sacred Circle department:
January Correspondences. Two of my goddesses are listed. Also, it's National Hobby Month.
~~~
National Hobby Month:
I am making this shawl in an ocean blue. I've finished the middle back triangle.
~~~
Youtubery:
Today's piece was number one the week I was born
Tags:
"...when you came together zippers fell away like rose petals, underwear blew off in one breath like dandelion fluff. Tongues intertwines and turned liquid. Your whole soul flowed out through your tongue and into the mouth of your lover."
The Zipless fuck. from Erica Jong's Fear of Flying
I'm reading a book called Smut by Murray S. Davis that deals in the difference between erotic reality and everyday reality.
Erotic fantasy exists because everyday reality is very difficult to block from erotic reality. There's always some messy little detail.
In slash, we can create men who are interested, who never have erectile problems, who don't come off too quick or screw you into the mattress because they can't come.
Things you never hear in slash fic:
1) "Aren't you done yet? The lube's all worn off."
2) "You're done already?"
3) Moan, curl into fetal position because a badly placed knee just took him in the nuts
4) "Not interested."
5) "Well, *he's* interested, but the rest of me's asleep.
The Zipless fuck. from Erica Jong's Fear of Flying
I'm reading a book called Smut by Murray S. Davis that deals in the difference between erotic reality and everyday reality.
Erotic fantasy exists because everyday reality is very difficult to block from erotic reality. There's always some messy little detail.
In slash, we can create men who are interested, who never have erectile problems, who don't come off too quick or screw you into the mattress because they can't come.
Things you never hear in slash fic:
1) "Aren't you done yet? The lube's all worn off."
2) "You're done already?"
3) Moan, curl into fetal position because a badly placed knee just took him in the nuts
4) "Not interested."
5) "Well, *he's* interested, but the rest of me's asleep.
