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FREAKEN BUUURRRRRR! it's cold and snowing... my mind is blown.. it was 68 f yesterday and now it's like 30 something now...
jacob is running around in his (mantiees lol) boxers while i'm in my flannel pj's, flannel fuzzy housecoat, house shoes (yeah i'm the one that goes barefoot every where), the heat on 70, and all snuggled up to a hot steaming cup of tea.... i'm freaken freezing
i think i'm going throu the opposite of menopause... instead of the hot flashes i have very cold flashes.. i get so cold that even hunkered down under 3 comforters i'm still shivering... besides having manic mood swings, ashma, and being fat there is nothing clinicly wrong with me. i dont understand... perhaps i'm part adbonible snowman (yeah i know it's spelled wrong)
anyways.... i'm freaken cold and it's snowing..lol
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The Names of the Festivals
Most of the names originated with real, ancient festivals, but the names Litha and Mabon were invented by Aidan Kelly in the 1970s and have continued to gain popularity with North American Wiccans. The word "sabbat" has the same roots as Sabbath (Christian) and Sabbath (witchcraft). It stems from the Old English sabat, Old Frenchsabbat, Latin sabbatum, Greeksabbaton, and Hebrew shabbat, which means "to cease or rest".
Festival Dates
The dates of the festivals vary due to the numerous traditions, forms, and styles of Witchcraft, Wicca, and the modern Neopaganism. However, while each festival has somewhat different traditions associated with it and the dates can vary according to path, the meanings generally remain consistent.
The Effect of the Hemispheres
The Wheel of the Year originates in the Northern Hemisphere, so to compensate in the Southern Hemisphere most Neopagans advance the dates by six months or so to bring them into alignment with their local, natural seasons.
Quarter Days
Cross-quarter days traditionally fall at the end of the months, but some Neopagans consider them as having occured at the midpoint of the two surrounding quarter days. These modern-day calculations typically result in celebrations being held a few days after the traditionally observed dates.
Sun Sabbats and Moon Sabbats
Observance of Moon Sabbats:
Imbolc: new, crescent, 1st quarter
Beltaine (Beltane): 1st quarter, gibbous, full moon
Sun Sabbats refer to the quarter days, based on the astronomical position of the sun. Moon Sabbats are usually observed during Full Moons, normally the Full Moon closest to the traditional festival date, but sometimes during the 2nd Full Moon after the preceding quarter day. This places the Moon Sabbat anywhere from 29-59 days after the preceding solstice or equinox.
Origins of the Festivals of the Wheel of the Year
The festivals of the Wheel of the Year take their names from old, Pre-Christian Celtic and Germanic festivals. However, the forms and meanings have changed in most cases. This is primarily due to the influence of late eighteenth century romanticism and elements introduced through the advent of Wicca.
Prior to modern Wicca, the Wheel of the Year was unknown, and at first, only cross-quarter days were observed. In 1958 members of Bricket Wood Coven added the solstices and equinoxes to their calendar to increase the number and frequency of celebrations. Gerald Gardner, the coven's high priest at the time, was on holiday on the Isle of Man when the coven increased the number of celebrations, but he did not mind, as in his opinion this change served to further their alignment with the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids, a style of Neo-druidism created and promoted by Ross Nichols, Gardner's friend.
There are no records that prior to the birth of Wicca all eight of the festivals were ever observed by anyone, anywhere.
♥ i'm so freaken excited right now.. i just had to share... i made my very first cheese cake from scratch 2 hours ago.. i ha to wait for it to harden and stuff .. i'm eating it now and it is so devine... ummmmmmm... nice gooey cherry topping.... ♥
what the crap is up with the price of eggs?? seriously... jacob and i went to food city to get some eggs so that he could color them since we are not envited to any of the "family" easter stuff this year (which really hurt his feelings, he didnt even get a chocolate bunny or even a card or a happy easter. this didnt really surprise me too much considering the way x-mas went)... for a cartoon of eggs it is now $2.99... what the crap?!? we managed to find something called " clearbrook easter eggs" for $1.99. it is a dozen large eggs with a coloring kit included. i thought the eggs were already boiled till about a few minutes ago when i broke one. now i've got them boiling... so how come all the other eggs are so high? this is getting ridiculous.. food prices are going up faster then gas prices...
yes jacob is still having easter.. it's just the 2 of us as it was at x-mas... most people will be having ham or rabbit or what ever and we will be have steak..lol.. it's actualy cheaper then ham and the kid loves it. i didnt go out and waste money on the premade baskets that dont have crap in them.. instead i bought him a segma6 gun (yes a toy im not that much of an idot), 2 bunny shaped boxes of "ferrerp rocher" candies, a carton of egg shaped reese cups, a tiny chocolate bunny, a bag of apples (he loves his apples), some cotton candy bunny tails, some jelly beans, and a 3 pack of bubble yum gum. all of this i put into an easter basket from a few years ago i had put up. i think he will be happy with it. yes i got katie sum stuff and done gave it to her. Jacob picked me some flowers and said happy easter to me earlier... so i'm happy
it's just so sad how heartless and stuck on themselves some people can be....
Science and religion have often been at loggerheads. Now the former has decided to resolve the problem by trying to explain the existence of the latter
Illustration by Stephen Jeffrey
BY THE standards of European scientific collaboration, €2m ($3.1m) is not a huge sum. But it might be the start of something that will challenge human perceptions of reality at least as much as the billions being spent by the European particle-physics laboratory (CERN) at Geneva. The first task of CERN's new machine, the Large Hadron Collider, which is due to open later this year, will be to search for the Higgs boson—an object that has been dubbed, with a certain amount of hyperbole, the God particle. The €2m, by contrast, will be spent on the search for God Himself—or, rather, for the biological reasons why so many people believe in God, gods and religion in general.
“Explaining Religion”, as the project is known, is the largest-ever scientific study of the subject. It began last September, will run for three years, and involves scholars from 14 universities and a range of disciplines from psychology to economics. And it is merely the latest manifestation of a growing tendency for science to poke its nose into the God business.
Religion cries out for a biological explanation. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon—arguably one of the species markers of Homo sapiens—but a puzzling one. It has none of the obvious benefits of that other marker of humanity, language. Nevertheless, it consumes huge amounts of resources. Moreover, unlike language, it is the subject of violent disagreements. Science has, however, made significant progress in understanding the biology of language, from where it is processed in the brain to exactly how it communicates meaning. Time, therefore, to put religion under the microscope as well.
I have no need of that hypothesis
Explaining Religion is an ambitious attempt to do this. The experiments it will sponsor are designed to look at the mental mechanisms needed to represent an omniscient deity, whether (and how) belief in such a “surveillance-camer a” God might improve reproductive success to an individual's Darwinian advantage, and whether religion enhances a person's reputation—for instance, do people think that those who believe in God are more trustworthy than those who do not? The researchers will also seek to establish whether different religions foster different levels of co-operation, for what reasons, and whether such co-operation brings collective benefits, both to the religious community and to those outside it.
It is an ambitious shopping list. Fortunately, other researchers have blazed a trail. Patrick McNamara, for example, is the head of the Evolutionary Neurobehaviour Laboratory at Boston University's School of Medicine. He works with people who suffer from Parkinson's disease. This illness is caused by low levels of a messenger molecule called dopamine in certain parts of the brain. In a preliminary study, Dr McNamara discovered that those with Parkinson's had lower levels of religiosity than healthy individuals, and that the difference seemed to correlate with the disease's severity. He therefore suspects a link with dopamine levels and is now conducting a follow-up involving some patients who are taking dopamine-boosting medicine and some of whom are not.
Such neurochemical work, though preliminary, may tie in with scanning studies conducted to try to find out which parts of the brain are involved in religious experience. Nina Azari, a neuroscientist at the University of Hawaii at Hilo who also has a doctorate in theology, has looked at the brains of religious people. She used positron emission tomography (PET) to measure brain activity in six fundamentalist Christians and six non-religious (though not atheist) controls. The Christians all said that reciting the first verse of the 23rd psalm helped them enter a religious state of mind, so both groups were scanned in six different sets of circumstances: while reading the first verse of the 23rd psalm, while reciting it out loud, while reading a happy story (a well-known German children's rhyme), while reciting that story out loud, while reading a neutral text (how to use a calling card) and while at rest.
Dr Azari was expecting to see activity in the limbic systems of the Christians when they recited the psalm. Previous research had suggested that this part of the brain (which regulates emotion) is an important centre of religious activity. In fact what happened was increased activity in three areas of the frontal and parietal cortex, some of which are better known for their involvement in rational thought. The control group did not show activity in these parts of their brains when listening to the psalm. And, intriguingly, the only thing that triggered limbic activity in either group was reading the happy story.
Dr Azari's PET study, together with one by Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania, which used single-photon emission computed tomography done on Buddhist monks, and another by Mario Beauregard of the University of Montreal, which put Carmelite nuns in a magnetic-resonance-imagin g machine, all suggest that religious activity is spread across many parts of the brain. That conflicts not only with the limbic-system theory but also with earlier reports of a so-called God Spot that derived partly from work conducted on epileptics. These reports suggested that religiosity originates specifically in the brain's temporal lobe, and that religious visions are the result of epileptic seizures that affect this part of the brain.
Though there is clearly still a long way to go, this sort of imaging should eventually tie down the circuitry of religious experience and that, combined with work on messenger molecules of the sort that Dr McNamara is doing, will illuminate how the brain generates and processes religious experiences. Dr Azari, however, is sceptical that such work will say much about religion's evolution and function. For this, other methods are needed.
Dr McNamara, for example, plans to analyse a database called the Ethnographic Atlas to see if he can find any correlations between the amount of cultural co-operation found in a society and the intensity of its religious rituals. And Richard Sosis, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut, has already done some research which suggests that the long-term co-operative benefits of religion outweigh the short-term costs it imposes in the form of praying many times a day, avoiding certain foods, fasting and so on.
Leviticus's children
On the face of things, it is puzzling that such costly behaviour should persist. Some scholars, however, draw an analogy with sexual selection. The splendour of a peacock's tail and the throaty roar of a stag really do show which males are fittest, and thus help females choose. Similarly, signs of religious commitment that are hard to fake provide a costly and reliable signal to others in a group that anyone engaging in them is committed to that group. Free-riders, in other words, would not be able to gain the advantages of group membership.
To test whether religion might have emerged as a way of improving group co-operation while reducing the need to keep an eye out for free-riders, Dr Sosis drew on a catalogue of 19th-century American communes published in 1988 by Yaacov Oved of Tel Aviv University. Dr Sosis picked 200 of these for his analysis; 88 were religious and 112 were secular. Dr Oved's data include the span of each commune's existence and Dr Sosis found that communes whose ideology was secular were up to four times as likely as religious ones to dissolve in any given year.
A follow-up study that Dr Sosis conducted in collaboration with Eric Bressler of McMaster University in Canada focused on 83 of these communes (30 religious, 53 secular) to see if the amount of time they survived correlated with the strictures and expectations they imposed on the behaviour of their members. The two researchers examined things like food consumption, attitudes to material possessions, rules about communication, rituals and taboos, and rules about marriage and sexual relationships.
As they expected, they found that the more constraints a religious commune placed on its members, the longer it lasted (one is still going, at the grand old age of 149). But the same did not hold true of secular communes, where the oldest was 40. Dr Sosis therefore concludes that ritual constraints are not by themselves enough to sustain co-operation in a community—what is needed in addition is a belief that those constraints are sanctified.
Dr Sosis has also studied modern secular and religious kibbutzim in Israel. Because a kibbutz, by its nature, depends on group co-operation, the principal difference between the two is the use of religious ritual. Within religious communities, men are expected to pray three times daily in groups of at least ten, while women are not. It should, therefore, be possible to observe whether group rituals do improve co-operation, based on the behaviour of men and women.
To do so, Dr Sosis teamed up with Bradley Ruffle, an economist at Ben-Gurion University, in Israel. They devised a game to be played by two members of a kibbutz. This was a variant of what is known to economists as the common-pool-resource dilemma, which involves two people trying to divide a pot of money without knowing how much the other is asking for. In the version of the game devised by Dr Sosis and Dr Ruffle, each participant was told that there was an envelope with 100 shekels in it (between 1/6th and 1/8th of normal monthly income). Both players could request money from the envelope, but if the sum of their requests exceeded its contents, neither got any cash. If, however, their request equalled, or was less than, the 100 shekels, not only did they keep the money, but the amount left was increased by 50% and split between them.
Dr Sosis and Dr Ruffle picked the common-pool-resource dilemma because the communal lives of kibbutz members mean they often face similar dilemmas over things such as communal food, power and cars. The researchers' hypothesis was that in religious kibbutzim men would be better collaborators (and thus would take less) than women, while in secular kibbutzim men and women would take about the same. And that was exactly what happened.
Big father is watching you
Dr Sosis is not the only researcher to employ economic games to investigate the nature and possible advantages of religion. Ara Norenzayan, an experimental psychologist at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, has conducted experiments using what is known as the dictator game. This, too, is a well-established test used to gauge altruistic behaviour. Participants receive a sum of money—Dr Norenzayan set it at $10—and are asked if they would like to share it with another player. The dictator game thus differs from another familiar economic game in which one person divides the money and the other decides whether to accept or reject that division.
As might be expected, in the simple version of the dictator game most people take most or all of the money. However, Dr Norenzayan and his graduate student Azim Shariff tried to tweak the game by introducing the idea of God. They did this by priming half of their volunteers to think about religion by getting them to unscramble sentences containing religious words such as God, spirit, divine, sacred and prophet. Those thus primed left an average of $4.22, while the unprimed left $1.84.
Exactly what Dr Norenzayan has discovered here is not clear. A follow-up experiment which primed people with secular words that might, nevertheless, have prompted them to behave in an altruistic manner (civic, jury, court, police and contract) had similar effects, so it may be that he has touched on a general question of morality, rather than a specific one of religion. However, an experiment carried out by Jesse Bering, of Queen's University in Belfast, showed quite specifically that the perceived presence of a supernatural being can affect a person's behaviour—although in this case the being was not God, but the ghost of a dead person.
Illustration by Stephen Jeffrey
Dr Bering, too, likes the hypothesis that religion promotes fitness by promoting collaboration within groups. One way that might work would be to rely not just on other individuals to detect cheats by noticing things like slacking on the prayers or eating during fasts, but for cheats to detect and police themselves as well. In that case a sense of being watched by a supernatural being might be useful. Dr Bering thus proposes that belief in such beings would prevent what he called “dangerous risk miscalculations” that would lead to social deviance and reduced fitness.
One of the experiments he did to test this idea was to subject a bunch of undergraduates to a quiz. His volunteers were told that the best performer among them would receive a $50 prize. They were also told that the computer program that presented the questions had a bug in it, which sometimes caused the answer to appear on the screen before the question. The volunteers were therefore instructed to hit the space bar immediately if the word “Answer” appeared on the screen. That would remove the answer and ensure the test results were fair.
The volunteers were then divided into three groups. Two began by reading a note dedicating the test to a recently deceased graduate student. One did not see the note. Of the two groups shown the note, one was told by the experimenter that the student's ghost had sometimes been seen in the room. The other group was not given this suggestion.
The so-called glitch occurred five times for each student. Dr Bering measured the amount of time it took to press the space bar on each occasion. He discarded the first result as likely to be unreliable and then averaged the other four. He found that those who had been told the ghost story were much quicker to press the space bar than those who had not. They did so in an average of 4.3 seconds. That compared with 6.3 seconds for those who had only read the note about the student's death and 7.2 for those who had not heard any of the story concerning the dead student. In short, awareness of a ghost—a supernatural agent—made people less likely to cheat.
Who is my neighbour?
It all sounds very Darwinian. But there is a catch. The American communes, the kibbutzim, the students of the University of British Columbia and even the supernatural self-censorship observed by Dr Bering all seem to involve behaviour that promotes the group over the individual. That is the opposite of Darwinism as conventionally understood. But it might be explained by an idea that most Darwinians dropped in the 1960s—group selection.
The idea that evolution can work by the differential survival of entire groups of organisms, rather than just of individuals, was rejected because it is mathematically implausible. But it has been revived recently, in particular by David Sloan Wilson of Binghamton University, in New York, as a way of explaining the evolution of human morality in the context of inter-tribal warfare. Such warfare can be so murderous that groups whose members fail to collaborate in an individually self-sacrificial way may be wiped out entirely. This negates the benefits of selfish behaviour within a group. Morality and religion are often closely connected, of course (as Dr Norenzayan's work confirms), so what holds for the one might be expected to hold for the other, too.
Dr Wilson himself has studied the relationship between social insecurity and religious fervour, and discovered that, regardless of the religion in question, it is the least secure societies that tend to be most fundamentalist. That would make sense if adherence to the rules is a condition for the security which comes from membership of a group. He is also interested in what some religions hold out as the ultimate reward for good behaviour—life after death. That can promote any amount of self-sacrifice in a believer, up to and including suicidal behaviour—as recent events in the Islamic world have emphasised. However, belief in an afterlife is not equally well developed in all religions, and he suspects the differences may be illuminating.
That does not mean there are no explanations for religion that are based on individual selection. For example, Jason Slone, a professor of religious studies at Webster University in St Louis, argues that people who are religious will be seen as more likely to be faithful and to help in parenting than those who are not. That makes them desirable as mates. He plans to conduct experiments designed to find out whether this is so. And, slightly tongue in cheek, Dr Wilson quips that “secularism is very maladaptive biologically. We're the ones who at best are having only two kids. Religious people are the ones who aren't smoking and drinking, and are living longer and having the health benefits.”
That quip, though, makes an intriguing point. Evolutionary biologists tend to be atheists, and most would be surprised if the scientific investigation of religion did not end up supporting their point of view. But if a propensity to religious behaviour really is an evolved trait, then they have talked themselves into a position where they cannot benefit from it, much as a sceptic cannot benefit from the placebo effect of homeopathy. Maybe, therefore, it is God who will have the last laugh after all—whether He actually exists or not.
Posted Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:20pm AEDT Updated Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:56pm AEDT
Dr Jensen believes while traditional religion is still pertinent, young people believe it is less relevant. (Sydney Anglican Church: Madeleine Collins)
In his Easter message this weekend, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Dr Peter Jensen has warned of the occult.
The Archbishop is particularly concerned about people using the supernatural to contact deceased loved ones.
Dr Jensen told ABC radio's AM program there has been a surge of interest non-traditional religions.
"There's become a great deal more freedom than there used to be decades ago, with mind and spirit stuff; new age religions," he said.
"All the sort of stuff you see very prominently in book stores.
"But there's also been a large migrant intake into this country from people who haven't been impacted by Western cynical secularism, but culturally have a strong belief in the afterlife and in supernatural beings; in ghosts and spirits.
"And a surprising number of people therefore who are now living in Australia are quite concerned about, and fearful of I think, of this supernatural realm."
Dr Jensen believes while traditional religion is still pertinent, young people believe it is less relevant.
"We are actually incurably religious, and we will worship, we will dabble in the supernatural, we will think of these things," he said.
"And there's a spiritual vacuum caused when Christianity declines in any way.
"People search for meaning they search for purpose and of course, they're worried about the big one - that is death itself.
"It's interesting to see how modern people are coping with, or actually not coping with death."
He says if a grieving person tries to and then believes they do make contact with a loved one, and then achieves some type of closure or comfort from that, there is no way to be sure a supernatural visitor is actually the person.
"From the biblical and Christian point of view, this universe has within it spiritual forces, many of which are evil or occult and which will be quite keen to open us up," he said.
"If we're prepared to dabble in occult things then we will open ourselves up to these evil forces. You can never be sure that the person you're contacting is really - in fact you can be pretty sure, it's not the person you think it is.
"And so there's a great deal of fraud in this area of course, we hasten to say a great deal of fraud.
"But there is also something there that is true and spooky and a person who dabbles in that area is doing something very dangerous; dangerous to their own stability and health I think, and dangerous spiritually."
Wiccan necklace may have been reason for discharge
A Starbucks employee who wore a Wiccan necklace to work raised material fact questions as to whether she was fired because of her religion, concluded a federal district court in Oregon, denying summary judgment to her employer. She was fired purportedly for a third corrective action notice when she failed to report for a scheduled shift. But the employee said she told her manager she would not be there due to an injury she sustained at work. (Hedum v Starbucks Corp, DOr, 90 EPD ¶43,107)
The employee made out a prima facie case of religious bias under Title VII and Oregon law. Her performance reviews rated her satisfactory or above in all aspects of her job other than punctuality. While punctuality was part of her job description, her employer pointed to no rule or comparative evidence related to corrective notices, and it was unclear if her manager knew she had attendance issues at a prior location. Her managers' repeated, pervasive and disparaging remarks about her necklace, prompting her to contact HR about permitted jewelry, and her coworkers' display of Christian religious jewelry with impunity, created an inference of bias.
Her employer asserted she was discharged for ongoing tardiness and failure to show up for a shift while on a final written warning. But the employee raised a genuine issue of material fact as to the truth of her employer's purportedly legitimate, nonbiased reason for its actions. At a prior location, she was placed only on an "action plan" when she received four discipline notices in three months. Yet, after receiving three notices in 12 months at her current location, where she was repeatedly subjected to remarks about her religion and religious jewelry, she was scheduled to work a shift she said she could not work and fired for not showing up, noted the court.
Open your eyes...A chill passes you by. A premonition coming strong. Rich with desire...A superstition in disguise. Draws me into where I belong. *Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky? Or fly to the heavens that watch over you? Telling me it's all voodoo, voodoo too?* Instill the body...So warm with every breath. Dance to a vision so seductive. Rain down upon me...it cleanses me with every drip. A scent you've promised for the nourishment that I've been gifted.
Candles raise my desire. Why I’m so far away. No more meaning for my life? No more reason to stay. Freezing feeling, breathe in - breathe in, I’m coming back again! I’m not the one who’s so far away, When I feel the snake bit enter my veins. Never did I wanna be here again And I don’t remember why I came. Hazing clouds rain on my head, empty thoughts fill my ears. Find my shade by the moon light, why my thoughts aren’t so clear. Demons dreaming, breathe in - breathe in. I’m coming back again. Voodoo, I’m not the one who’s so far away.
i'm not happy right now.. jacob does not want to go to the fossil site (sighs sadly).. instead he asked if we could just rent movies... so i get up and start smearing anit-itch goo all over my face to prepare for leaving... the little turd goes out side and down the road to play... he'll be gone till about 6 tongiht.. so here i sit all alone and broken hearted.... i really wanted to go..dag nab it...
Before Time Was
Before time was, there was The One; The One was all & all was The One.
And the vast expanse known as the Universe was The One, allwise, all-pervading, all-powerful, eternally changing.
And Space moved. The One molded energy into twin forms equal but opposite, fashioning the Goddess and God from The One and of The One.
The Goddess & God stretched and gave thanks to The One, but darkness surrounded them. They were alone, solitary save for The One.
So they formed energy into gases and gases into suns and planets and moons; They sprinkled the Universe with whirling globes and so all was given shape by the hands of the Goddess and God. Light arose and the sky was illuminated by a billion suns. and the Goddess and Gods, satisfied by their works, rejoiced and loved, and were one.
From their union sprang seeds of life, and of the human race, so that we might achieve incarnation upon the Earth.
The Goddess chose the Moon as her symbol, and the God the Sun as his symbol to remind the inhabitants of Earth of their fashioners.
All are born, live, die and are reborn beneath The Sun and Moon; all things come to pass thereunder, and all occurs with the blessings of The One, as has been the way of existence before time was.
ssssshhhh... don't read too loud... there is a huge fuzzy spider on the loose..seriously, there is...
i've sprayed it with spider killer and it jumped at me..talk about squilling like a little girl....
speaking of little people.. jacob and i got into a huge fuss this morning while he was on the "throne"...
i was telling him how much it cost for us to get into the fossil place, he went off on a wild tangent about how he was a preteen and not a child... usually if i tell him he's a manchild he shuts up...this time i guess he just wanted to fuss... he's 9 and claims he's a preteen... ummm no..he's a children until he's 12.... oh noooo not him...he tried to go further with this claiming he had manhair.... ummm sorry son but the only manhair you have is on your legs (the boy has massively blonde hairy legs).. we went round and round on this until he started trying to moon me ... from there it just turned into a wrestling match that ended with him passing gas in my face making him win...
holy crap!!! the spider is on the ceiling over my head.. i'm so outta here....
Welcome to the East Tennessee State University and General Shale Brick Natural History Museum and Gray Fossil Site!
Scientists have discovered an entire ecosystem that existed on this site 4 to 7 million years ago. For the first time the world knows what the southern Appalachians looked like at the end of the time known as the Miocene Epoch.
Many of the plants and animals are extinct—others are still around, but not in eastern Tennessee. Some plants, like the oak and hickory tree, were part of the main diet for our Miocene animals and are still in the landscape today. Animals like the saber-toothed cat and pot bellied rhino are now extinct, but four species of turtle found in the Miocene world continue to lumber in our forests. The Gray site has provided the largest cache of tapir fossils any where in the world. Two new species, red panda and badger, have been discovered here..
The limestone bedrock—typical of Tennessee—led to the formation of a sinkhole which filled with sediment and water becoming a vibrant pond, rich in plants and animals. Like a magnet, this watering hole attracted a variety of animals. Some, like fish and frogs, lived at the pond permanently. Others, like rhinos, tapirs, and saber-toothed cats, visited from the surrounding forest to drink, swim, browse and hunt. Many died here leaving their bones for scientists to study. The fossil remains of the Gray site have been uniquely preserved by the rich organic matter that filled the sinkhole. As the climate changed, new ecosystems came and went. While Ice Age animals and humans moved in, the fossils, preserved in the sediment of the waterhole, waited centuries to be discovered.
Our paleontologists, staff, and volunteers have excavated thousands of specimens including alligators, camels, sloth, elephant, rhino, tapirs, peccary, and species totally new to science. The Gray Fossil Site is nearly five acres in size and 100 feet deep. There is plenty more to be discovered!
we just watched an awsume movie... TRANSFORMERS.... it sooo freaken rocked.
brought back memories of when i watched transformers cartoon as a child..lol. i use to steal my brothers toys (they stole my barbies so we were even) and sneak and play transformers with the neighborhood boys..ahhh, those were the days.
the worst part of family movie time was that jacob wouldn't shut up. i so hate when people talk when your trying to watch a movie or are trying to do something... like right now..grim reaper is on (jacob is watching it), i'm trying to think and type at the same time as jacob is going on about lottery cards and how badly he wants one... geez no wonder my comments don't make a lick of since...
i am bored beyond stupid... if there is such a thing.
there was something that i wanted to look up online and for the past 4 hours i cant freaken remeber what it was... ugh i hate when i get like this.
iv'e gone from freebie sites, to game sites, to dollmakers, to myspace, to here, to there, to every freaken where...
it's 140am and i cant sleep. jacob is hogging the tv. the cat is hoggen my seat... ugh..
why is jacob still up at this hour... well he goes to a year round school. they are in for 6 weeks and out for 6 weeks. guess what.... he's currently out and it's only been 3 days and he's already driving me nuts. yesterday we went to bed at 6am, got up at 1pm... tonight/day i have no clue when he will go to bed.... hopefully not to late because if the weather is decent then we will be going to the Gray Fossil Site and that's an hour drive there and an hour back.
oh hum.... i guess i could try to find koc....
What animal sprit are you? Wolf, stallion, rabbit or cat.
CaT! Your personality is the cat! You are strong willed, smart, cautious and opinionated. You like to watch things from a distance and analize the situation. You value your friends and help them out when ever you can.
When tossing salad........ make sure you have a broom make sure there is no ham in salad make sure there is no cheese in salad make sure the bowl is plastic and not glass make sure you don't throw it at the wall or floor make sure your ungrateful child does not piss you off don't make a salad while trying to stop smoking be sure and check the floors of all rooms for glass hards and ham
Jacob brought home a library book today. One of my most favorite books ever.. I read it in the third grade and it's stuck with me ever since.. It has my favorite poem in it which I am about to type below..
written by: SHEL SILVERSTEIN
THERE ARE TOO MANY KIDS IN THIS TUB THERE ARE TOO MANY ELBOWS TO SCRUB I JUST SCRUBBED A BEHIND THAT I AM SURE WASN'T MINE THERE ARE TOO MANY KIDS IN THIS TUB..
Ostara date around March 21 Ostara (pronounced "O-STAR-ah") is one of the Lesser Wiccan Sabbats and is celebrated on the Spring Equinox, most often March 21st, but varies somewhat from the 20th to the 23rd. The variance, as with all Solar festivals, is due to the differences between the actual astronomical event and our calendar, so be sure to check the calendar each year.
Other names this Sabbat is also called by are the Vernal Equinox or the Spring Equinox, Oestara, Eostres Day, Rite of Eostre, Equinozio della Primavera (Aridian Strega), Alban Eiber (Caledonii Tradition or the Druids), Bacchanalia, Festival of the Trees, and Lady Day. Christians celebrate their holiday - Easter - near this same time and it is based on basically the same principles as ours in the Old Religion. Easter is actually determined in a very Pagan manner... it is always the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the Spring Equinox.
This Sabbat is a time to celebrate the arrival of Spring, when light and darkness are in balance but the light is growing stronger. The forces of masculine energy and feminine energy are also in balance and this day marks paves the way for the coming lushness of Summer. Ostara is a time for the celebration of fertility and balance, a time when all elements within and without us are brought into harmony. A time of new life and rebirth, as well as the end of Winter.
Symbols used to represent Ostara include the egg (for fertility and reproduction) and the hare (for rebirth and resurrection), the New Moon, butterflies and cocoons. Symbolically, many Pagans choose to represent Ostara by the planting of seeds, potted plants, ringing bells, lighting new fires at sunrise, either in the fireplace (if the weather us still cold enough), in the the cauldron, or light a balefire (if outdoors). I always give myself a gift of a newly potted plant or take a seed and plant it within my cast Circle. Ritually, a fire may be lit in the cauldron during (not before) the rite itself. You may want to decorate your altar with a colorful bouquet of Spring wildflowers. Other traditional activities include working on magickal gardens and practicing all forms of herbal work --- magickal, artistic, medicinal, culinary, and cosmetic.
Here is a traditional Vernal Equinox pastime according to Scott Cunningham: go to a field and randomly collect wildflowers. Thank the flowers for their sacrifice before picking them and it is also best to leave an offering to the plant and/or the Earth for taking the flowers, such as some milk and honey, a small crystal or even a coin. Or, buy some from a florist, taking one or two of those that appeal to you. Then bring them home and divine their magickal meanings by the use of books, your own intuition, a pendulum or by other means. The flowers youve chosen reveal your inner thoughts and emotions. A particular suggestion from Scott Cunningham that I really enjoy each year is to do the following... at this time in the turn of the Wheel of the Year, when all things are green and renewed life is all around us, it is a very good idea to plan a walk (or a ride) through gardens, a park, woodlands, forest and other green places. This is not simply for exercise, and you should be on no other mission. It isnt even just an appreciation of Nature. You should make your walk celebratory, a ritual for Nature itself. Other Pagan activities may include the planting of your herb and/or vegetable garden.
Another very popular Ostara activity is decorating and coloring or dying hard-boiled eggs - or other eggs such as wooden or paper mache (I call them "Ostara Eggs"), and drawing Pagan and magickal symbols on the colored eggs. You could then choose to either keep the eggs, bury them in the Earth or cast them into a fire as offerings to the Goddess - the choice is yours. If I use hard- boiled eggs, I usually bury them in the Earth when the ritual is over, but - alternately - here is my personal choice... I usually make my eggs from the paper mache ones (the cost factor comes in to play here, they are a LOT cheaper than the wooden ones, but the wooden ones are much smoother). I buy them at the local craft store (such as Hobby Lobby). These eggs can be reused next year and you can even add new ones to the old, if you like. The first thing I do is paint them each a different color - whatever shade strikes me - whether it be dull, bright, pastel, or primary. Then I use gold and silver paint pens to draw Pagan designs and magickal symbols all over them. You may opt to use other color combinations. It is entirely up to your personal choice. I have one egg that is totally covered with interconnected triangles (Triple Goddess), a couple with pentagrams and God and Goddess symbols, some with words written in Theban script, etc. Just let your imagination take you there - its a lot of fun!
Appropriate Deities for Ostara include all Youthful and Virile Gods and Goddesses, Sun Gods, Mother Goddesses, Love Goddesses, Moon Gods and Goddesses, and all Fertility Deities. Some Ostara Deities to mention by name here include Persephone, Blodeuwedd, Eostre, Aphrodite, Athena, Cybele, Gaia, Hera, Isis, Ishtar, Minerva, Venus, Robin of the Woods, the Green Man, Cernunnos, Lord of the Greenwood, The Dagda, Attis, The Great Horned God, Mithras, Odin, Thoth, Osiris, and Pan.
Key actions to keep in mind during this time in the Wheel of the Year include openings and new beginnings. Spellwork for improving communication and group interaction are recommended, as well as fertility and abundance. Ostara is a good time to start putting those plans and preparations you made at Imbolc into action. Start working towards physically manifesting your plans now. The most common colors associated with Ostara are lemon yellow, pale green and pale pink. However, also appropriate colors include grass green, all pastels, Robins egg blue, violet, and white. Stones to use during the Ostara celebration include aquamarine, rose quartz, and moonstone. Animals associated with Ostara are rabbits and snakes. Mythical beasts associated with Ostara include unicorns, merpeople, and pegasus. Plants and herbs associated with Ostara are crocus flowers, daffodils, jasmine, Irish moss, snowdrops, and ginger. For Ostara incense, you could make a blend from any of the following scents or simply choose one... jasmine, frankincense, myrrh, dragons blood, cinnamon, nutmeg, aloes wood, benzoin, musk, African violet, sage, strawberry, lotus, violet flowers, orange peel, or rose petals.
Foods in tune with this day (linking your meals with the seasons is a fine way of attuning with Nature) include eggs, egg salad, hard-boiled eggs, honey cakes, first fruits of the season, fish, cakes, biscuits, cheeses, honey and ham. You may also include foods made of seeds, such as sunflower, pumpkin and sesame seeds, as well as pine nuts. Sprouts are equally appropriate, as are leafy, green vegetables. From Scott Cunningham: flower dishes such as stuffed nasturtiums or carnation cupcakes also find their place here. (Find a book of flower cooking or simply make spice cupcakes. Ice with pink frosting and place a fresh carnation petal on each cupcake. Stuff nasturtium blossoms with a mixture made of cream cheese, chopped nuts, chives and watercress.) Appropriate Ostara meat dishes should contain fish or ham.
May the Lord and Lady bless you all with fertility, abundance, success, and all things new!
Muscle cramps can be broken down into three main categories.
Ischemic
Metabolic
Biomechanical
Ischemia is the term used to describe a situation when there is insufficient circulation to tissue. When blood flow to a muscle is inadequate, the muscle will cramp. The pain that accompanies the cramp prompts us to walk or rub the cramp which in turn results in increased circulation. Ischemic cramping typically occurs at night and is called nocturnal claudication. Muscle cramping due to ischemia can also occur with exercise and is called intermittent claudication. Doctors will often ask patients with poor circulation to describe how far they can walk before the cramp and will use this as a measure of their peripheral vascular disease.
The most common metabolic deficiency that causes foot and leg cramping is low potassium. Hypokalemia (low potassium) can result from over exercise, use of diuretics (water pills) and a host of other reasons. Potassium is one of the two primary molecules that control how our muscles work. In addition to potassium, sodium works to initiate muscle contraction and an imbalance or lack of these two salts will result in cramping
Biomechanics is the science of how the body moves. The biomechanics of walking and running is quite complex. The act of walking is a finely tuned symphony of brain messages and muscle contraction. If an imbalance is found in muscle groups and one group is forced to work too much, muscle cramping can occur. Muscle cramping happens often in the foot as evidenced by a cramp of the big toe or calf.
Today has just been a BLEH day.
Jacob left yesterday at 3:45pm to go to an easter party with his best friend. He didn't get back home till after 8pm. I was massively bored and lonly.
We spent the night noshing on pizza and watching tv. Bed time was at 2am.
I got up at 10 this morning, reheated pizza up for Jacob and returned to bed till 1 (i think). It's raining and miserable today.
I was worried about scubadiva because of the tornado that hit Atlanta yesterday but after stopping by her blog I seen she was oaky.
I wanted to check earlier but we had massive t-storms and with my luck the computer would have blown up or something.
We've watched vampire movies all day on sci-fi and will probably watch them all night too.
It's just one of those days....
I wanna crawl back in bed but my "little hemaroid" won't let me. He's currently running around the apartment with a gun acting like he's shotting vampires with wooden bullets.....
Last month in Stanway, England, archaeologists uncovered what is thought to be the first Druid grave ever found. According to a report published in the journal British Archaeology, the contents of a wooden burial chamber dating to 40-60 A.D. included a wine warmer, cremated human remains, a cloak pinned with broaches, divining rods, surgical instruments, a strainer last used to brew a tea containing the herb artemesia and other objects suggestive of the Druids.
A class of sacred priests and priestesses, the Druids led the ancient Celts in a nature-based religion long before St. Patrick was a gleam in the eye of Ireland. Druidic men and women were the healers and magicians, advisors to the kings and sacred storytellers. They were the keepers of the rituals that marked life and seasonal passages, the prayers that insured an abundant harvest, well-being for the villages and victory for the warriors.
Since theirs was an oral tradition, not much is known about their specific practices. Incursions by Christian missionaries, beginning in about the third century, both sounded a death knell for the old ways and also captured in writing some of the ancient myths. Some of the most detailed accounts are said to have been written in 55 B.C. by Roman political and military leader Julius Caesar. Still, daily life in Iron-Age Britain is pretty much a mystery.
awwww dude!!! I am so massively stoked at the moment..... Sully Erna of GODSMACK added me to his myspace. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ~dancing around in little circles~ This is like soooo freaken cool! I know I'm an adult and stuff... but still a kid at heart... ok, ok.. ~breathes deeply now~ i'll share with you my favorite picture of him...
Isn't he so yummy all half naked and stuff.... He has a sultry voice that gives me goose bumps.... ~sighs~ GODSMACK so freaken rulez... ~lol now make to my normal self~
~listening to twisted sisters burn in hell~ ~singing @ max volume in a deep voice~
HEAR NO EVIL, DON'T YOU SEE NO EVIL OH, BURN IN HELL DON'T YOU LAY NO EVIL DOWN ON ME YOU'RE GONNA BURN IN HELL SPEAK NO EVIL, DON'T YOU THINK NO EVIL, OH, BURN IN HELL DON'T YOU PLAY WITH EVIL, 'CAUSE I'M FREE YOU'RE GONNA BURN IN HELL HEAR NO EVIL, DON'T YOU SEE NO EVIL OH, BURN IN HELL DON'T YOU LAY NO EVIL DOWN ON ME....
i finally hit the bed this morning at 8:30am. of course one of my neighbors came knocking on the door @ 11:30am trying to bum a cigarette. i think i answered the door with my night shirt hiked up and growled at him with a deep sleepy voice, he ran off in a hurry. course it could have been my hair sticking up all over the place. hell i dont know nor do i care. i just wanted to shove my foot deep in his ass. after he left, i sat and smoked a cig and was heading back to my lovely bed when i get another knock. (grrrrrr). it turned out to be my mental health casemanager with papers for me to sign and to tell me she will be back tomorrow at the same time. that is 3 days in a row that she has been here at the sametime (my sleep time). after an hour of talking with her i couldnt go back to bed so i have been lurking in myspace. muwahahahahhaa! i found sully erna's myspace page (grins ever so wickedly). anyways.. i am a mondo GODSMACK fan so i was excited to find his page (drooling now). damn it.. i fogot what i was going to type..... i have done 4 loads of laundry and hung them out to dry, i have vaccumed, semi dusted, folded clothes, washed dishes, went to sullys page again, commented on here, made dinner, played with the cat, paced the floor singing(to music), played with jacob, walked him down the block, visited sullys page, surfed the web, and took out the trash. i only got 3 hours of sleep..with doing all that instead of just sitting around i hope that i can sleep tonight. if not..i'm going to be so freaken evil...
~silent lucidity by queensryche is now playing~ ~ still singing in a deep voice~ Hush now, don't you cry Wipe away the teardrop from your eye You're lying safe in bed It was all a bad dream Spinning in your head Your mind tricked you to feel the pain Of someone close to you leaving the game of life So here it is, another chance Wide awake you face the day Your dream is over... or has it just begun
As if all the angst about drug-resistant staph bacteria wasn’t worrisome enough, now it turns out you might get the deadly germ from your cat.
Suspicions about that calico on the couch are being raised this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. German scientists reported that a woman endured a series of nasty abscesses caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, until a veterinarian screened — and treated — the family cat.
It’s not an isolated case, or critter, according to researchers in the U.S. and Canada who are studying the connection between pets, people and this dangerous, drug-resistant bug linked to more than 94,000 infections and nearly 19,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2005.
Owners should be aware, but not worried, about the possibility of getting MRSA from their pets, said Weese, who is part of a team led by researchers at the University of Missouri, Columbia, studying the prevalence of MRSA in humans and companion animals.
The question perplexing scientists is whether people and pets swap the MRSA germs back and forth, creating a loop of infection and reinfection that could endanger humans and animals alike.
People and pets carry MRSA germs So far, it’s clear that humans and pets can be colonized with the MRSA bacteria, said John R. Middleton, an associate professor of food animal medicine and surgery at the University of Missouri. That doesn’t mean they’ve got active infections, just that they’re carriers of the germs that are resistant to most frontline antibiotics.
An ongoing study of some 600 people-pet households across the U.S. showed that staph aureus germs were present in nearly 28 percent of people and about 13 percent of pets. About 10 percent of households had both a human and an animal colonized.
MRSA, the drug-resistant strain, was detected in more than 5 percent of humans and about 3 percent of dogs and cats, Middleton said.
What’s not so clear is whether people got MRSA from their pets — or whether they gave it to them, researchers said. One theory is that pets may pick up the bacteria from people, but then serve as reservoirs, harboring the bugs so they can reinfect humans.
“Pets could be innocent bystanders, or they could be significant sources of infection,” Weese said. “They’re probably somewhere in between.”
For many people and their pets, the MRSA cycle is not serious. Most MRSA infections are minor skin lesions that are cured quickly with proper hygiene and secure bandages. The bacteria become dangerous when they travel inside the body, where they can lead to bloodstream or surgical site infections or life-threatening pneumonia.
If infections don't heal, test pets In homes where people are suffering serial MRSA infections or from surgical wounds that just don’t heal, it’s a good idea to consider the non-human family members, scientists said.
“They’ll go ahead and treat all the humans, but they haven’t treated the pets,” Middleton said.
Most vets should be able to conduct the simple swab tests to determine whether a pet is colonized with MRSA, he added.
If the test comes back positive, don't panic, said Lori Spagnoli, 59, of New Jersey. Her oldest cat, Momo, has had a lingering MRSA infection since 2005. Spagnoli's husband, Joe, tested positive for MRSA colonization once, but not again. Spagnoli attributes her family's MRSA-free status to scrupulous sanitation and supplements that boost the immune systems of people and cats alike.
She never considered giving away 15-year-old Momo, or the cat's offspring, Fluffy and Dotti, both 14. Instead she sought advice from the United Kingdom-based Bella Moss Foundation, which helps people whose pets have MRSA.
"I view it as any other bacteria that a family member having it could enter the home," she said. "You're on notice that it might be an issue."
I went to the grocery store yesterday (ingles) and bought 5.45lbs of ribs for $6.49. I thought it was a good deal (i have no clue when it comes to meat).
Well, Jacob informed me last night that he loves to poke holes in the plastic wrap covering the meat. I didn't really pay attention to him untill I was looking in the freezer earlier today trying to decide what to lay out for dinner.
There were little holes in the 5.45lbs of ribs plastic wrap. Needless to say..we are having ribs for dinner. That's it..no salad, veggies, rolls or even fruit..just 5.45lbs of ribs. Maybe that will teach the little booger to leave my meats alone.
Thank goodness he didn't touch the lamb or the rest of the meats. The price of lamb has gotten outragous so he saved his own butt by leaving it alone.
So in between playing neopets, searching the web, reading blogs (commenting to),washing my hands so i can scrub at my itchy face, i'm boiling way too many ribs. I've got one pan covered and in the oven and another one on the way.. i don't know what possed me to get so much when it's just the two of us and the cat..
~ on another note ~
the hydrocortisone made the peeling stop but i'm still itching...
i'm sitting here with my face all covered in goo looking like an albino ready for the beach..
why am i sitting here like that you might ask..
well..i'm having a massive problem with my skin right now. i call it "dragon skin" and yes, it's on my face (screaks with fear).
first i break out in hives, then it turns all tight and itchy and now it's freaken peeling. i look like a shedding reptile (thus the name dragon skin).
i wash my face with just tap water and it's like i get a chemical burn or like i washed it with pure bleach. a buddy of mine suggested that i use spring water, so i did. same thing. then i started putting plain old olay of olay on it...still..samething. i drink alot so i know i'm not dehydrated. there is condensation on the windows so i know there is moisture in the air. i'm not taking my meds so of course i know it's not them, i've been in the house with the heat down on 69 to 70 so it's not any of that.
i asked my darling buddy scubadiva if she had any ideas... she suggested that i try hydrocortisone cream on my face. after being attacked by flying chopsticks from my closet of doom i found some. that is why i'm sitting here with goo all over my face.
it was cooling at first, now it's itching and burning slightly. i checked in the bathroom mirror just now (had to find the tube so i could spell hydrocortisone) and i look as red faced as a native american going into battle...
i don't know what to do...(whines alot). i'm not the best looking person in the world but i am very vain about my face... i dont like bumps, i dont like things in my face (especially little dirty fingers of jacobs)..so yeah this is driving me nutty along with itchy..
yes i asked a medical professional and they suggest benadril... now that will not do a danged thing but put me to sleep. it has no effect on peeling skin.. i asked them friday...and tried it saturday..
would anyone have any ideas as to what is causing this or how to help it without making my face peel off any more.. i am about to go get a brillo pad and start itching my face with it..
I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider signing yourself.
When I stand up for myself and my beliefs, they call me a witch. When I stand up for those I love, they call me a witch. When I speak my mind, think my own thoughts, or do things my own way, they call me a witch.
Being a witch entails raising my children to be strong people Who have a solid sense of personal and social responsibility, Who are not afraid to stand up for what they believe in And, who love and respect themselves for the beautiful beings they are.
Being a witch means that I am free to be the wonderful creature I am, With all my own intricacies, contradictions, quirks and beauty.
Being a witch means I won't compromise what's in my heart. It means I live my life MY way. It means I won't allow anyone to step on me. When I refuse to tolerate injustice and speak up against it, I am defined as a witch. The same thing happens when I take time for myself instead of being everyone else's maid or when I act a little selfish.
I am proud to be a witch!
It means I have the courage and strength to allow myself to be who I truly am and won't become anyone else's idea of what they think I "should" be. I am outspoken, opinionated and determined. By Goddess, I want what I want and there is nothing wrong with that!
So, try to stomp on me, try to douse my inner flame, try to squash every ounce of beauty I hold within me.
You won't succeed. And if that makes me a witch, so be it. I embrace the title and am proud to bear it. I love this, I can call myself a witch now and not feel bad about it!
I have already started work on my garden. Of course it was during one of those weird 70 degree days...
I bought me a huge shovel this year instead of one of those little spades that break easily. Jacob and I had a fun time digging holes and eewwing really loud over the earthworms and grubs that we found.
One of my neighbors came over one afternoon and asked me who I had buried in it (i mounded up the dirt so i could plant my eggplants). I started to tell him I had murdered my son but just then he came outside (dang it!) so we just laughed at his little joke.
This year we plan on planting (by hand mind you):
dill thyme sweet basil sage sunflower early calwonder peppers lettuce cantaloupe black beauty eggplant squash radish cucumber cabbage cayenne pepper beets tomatoes tommy toes bells of ireland zinnia aster impatiens cosmos sweet william tall sweet william snapdragon perennial mix some mix of flower seed helichrysum bag of pinto beans which turn out to be regular green beans
plus the parsley, catnip, and thyme from last year is still growing. I don't know if they will make it or not.. I guess that is part of the joy of gardening. I haven't figured out yet what I want to plant around front..probably just sunflowers and marigolds again... I can't wait for the frost to be over with...
For those who need a little review on the original Deadly Sins they are as follows:
Pride (Vanity) - Now there is nothing wrong with pride, but pride that gets in the way of one's belief in God or over shadows ones belief in God is what is meant here.
Envy - An excessive jealousy of someone else's possessions, abilities, or attributes.
Gluttony - This is basically eating too much. Eating more than you body needs to survive is considered gluttony.
Lust - A more than healthy need to fulfill ones sexual appetites
Greed - When the desire for wealth overrides the need for spiritualization.
Sloth - Those who avoid work both physically and spiritually.
Now the newest 7 deadly sins are:
* Genetic Modification
* Human Experimentations
* Polluting the Environment
* Social Injustice
* Causing Poverty
* Financial Gluttony
* Taking Drugs
The Vatican and Pope John who ever has gone nuts. Who is he to say what is or is not a sin.. sounds to me like the beginning of "The Burning Times" again only he is going after the entire world this time.. It sounds to me like this guy is related to Bush... I mean come on now..
do you recall the days of the "hair bands"? ahhhh, those were the days of good music and times....
there is a site called www.playlist.com playlist dot com where you can have a music player for your myspace (i haven't tried it for tblog yet just give me time) or for your computer (it's free). all you have to do is sign up and pick your songs....
well me being a kid in the 80's i got to listen to all the good stuff.. like Dokken, Bulletboys, Bang tango, twisted sister..ect... now i have found my songs...muwahahahaha
i am happy as a lark right now singing cinderelle's Gypsy Road at full lung.. course the cat don't like it.. she took a swipe at me..lol and jacob is off playing so i am able to sound like a dying calf in a hail storm... the perfect end to a crappy day.....
when walking around late at night..with the lights off.. it is wise not to step on little plastic army guys. Also it is important to remeber where the tv antennas are and where the blasted wall and kitchen table is.
when roasting marshmellos on a knife late at night.. it is wise to not let it drip on your fingers. it is also wise to wash your hands and face afterwards or you will wakeup with a black mouth and fuzzy hands.
when running to the door to see if that is the school bus outside.. it is wise to first unlock the screen door before smashing your face into it..
that being said.. i'm going back to bed as i slept like crap last night and it is 29 degrees and i'm freezing even though the heat is set at 70 degrees... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz good day to all...
*dancing in my seat to apple bottom jeans-flo rida, and watching jacob play san andres*
I spent last night watching tv while jacob played on cartoon network. Fx had some pretty good movies on. First there was "THE RUNDOWN", starring the rock (drool drool). Then there was "HOUSE OF WAX". On commercial breaks I switched it back and fourth to history channel's, " WHEN PEOPLE ARE GONE". (told about what would happen to cities and manmade stuff when people are gone)
These shows were actually pretty good, course anything with the rock in it is worth watching just cause you get to drool oops I mean look at him. I'm a horror movie buff and thought house of wax was actually pretty good . After that I switched over to SCIFI CHANNEL and proceeded to watch "ORGER". The gore on that made it interesting even if it was a B rated movie.
Around 3am I finally remebered to set the clock ahead. Course that was because the tv guide channel had me all confused (which isn't hard to do that late at night/morning).
All in all I had a warm cozy night reclined back on the couch with the preggo kitty on my lap and well in my face and just all over me...
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