My lawn is out of control. I wish for someone able to sorting out my lawn to be sent my way. Someone who doesn't charge and arm and a leg for the privilege. Thank You.

PS! Preferrably within a week or so... *blush*

lalala it's the first post

I'm happy to share this bulletin from CST, the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.

Funk It Up About Nothin', which had its world premiere at Chicago
Shakespeare Theater earlier this summer, met with great success in its
European Premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe winning the Dress
Circle Award for Best Musical Production presented during the Scotsman
Fringe First Awards Ceremony. The Edinburgh Fringe is the world's
largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the
Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place in Scotland's capital
during three weeks every August.

Chicago Shakespeare's production of Funk It Up About Nothin', written
by the Chicago-born and bred Q Brothers, was enthusiastically received
by Great Britain's theater writers. The Guardian hailed the production
for its "crisp storytelling, wit and endearing performances." The
Stage named Funk It Up About Nothin' one of its few "Must See's" of
the Festival, and Time Out London gave the pr















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Because I know Avanites are obliging and because I know I need all the help I can get...

...there's a special responsibility I have to fulfill this weekend and I am scared stiff. My leader/friend told me not to be afraid because "He knows what He's doing" and I know that but I still feel like I'm going to mess up because I'm going to forget that it's His show and start trying to run it myself.

Sooo... yeah. Prayers, thoughts, smiles, hugs... all and more are welcome.

Thank you again and again and again!

PS: Don't think I don't pray for you! >.<""

Apparently, when you wake up at 6 a.m. and go to sleep at 11:00 a.m. after having walked around the entire day doing many, many things, you get a bit tired. Apparently.

Which is why I took at nap today at 6:30 p.m. on the dot. I crawled onto my bed and collapsed. It was the most glorious sleep ever.

But, first news first.

I got a job interview!!!

... at Albertsons.

Which isn't bad. It's a bit further than the Smoothie King, but it works. And I can work later, which I should probably do. You know, until 11 or so.

I walked in yesterday and spoke to the manager. And told him that I didn't really have that much time. And needed a job. And had he seen my application?

He was pretty impressed with my application. As was Smoothie King. But, unlike S.K., he asked me to come in for an interview. Which I did, this morning. And had the most informal interview ever.

It was more a conversation about everything other than the actual position than it was an interview. Which was















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Whew. The past three days have been a non-stop frenzy. I went back to my internship on Monday after being off for a three week semester break. I have to intern 315 hours a semester for three semesters and I have one semester completed. The internship is unpaid and, in fact, I pay over $4000 for the privilege.

Not being independently wealthy, I have been working part-time to be able to eat and stuff like that. My job for the past three years has been working as a corrections officer for the county juvenile detention center. Because I am moving from one county job to another I have to complete my notice before I can transfer. So even though I am at my new job, I am just accumulating internship hours rather than $$. I officially start working in September 8th.

I am not allowed to do my internship at the same place that I work at, so I will be moving to a different building for my internship. Right now I am at a crisis residential center working with the persistently and severely me



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Hi it's me again... asking for prayers... I sent my resume in for a job just a few moments ago and I'd really love to get the job. :D

Thank you!

Can we have a virtual juke box in the lounge? Please? :)

Take a look at all that's within The Library.

:)

Okay, I have been away for quite some time. I regret this. I have also found a remix contest that could be fun to do... so I go to the website and check out the stuff... and because I want to be law abiding, I want to see if I can use samples of other stuff... so I click the rules, and I get this (well, this and a little more, but in a smaller font, if that helps). I found parts of this entertaining, so I thought I'd share. PS - Wilford! No small fonts?

1. You unconditionally accept and agree to comply with and abide by the Official Rules and Terms of Use, and decisions of the Promotion, which shall be final and binding in all respects.

This is the standard "You play the game, you play by the rules and there is no way in ... anything that you can get out of it". Fairly easy to understand... the next one is quite long, though.

2. Ownership.
You agree and acknowledge that: (a) Artist shall maintain ownership of the Track and all of the sound recordings and musical compositions






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Children are afraid of the dark.
Adults learn well light-fearing ways.
But if not darkness nor light,
What, tell me, is to fear?
The flickering movie of lamentable ghosts
Tells a story that isn't here.

Is Wuthering Heights suposed to be funny? Not laugh out loud funny - but silly, rather? I'm reading it for the first time and I think it's very humorous and childish. I was expecting slightly more I guess.

writing..worring..watching..waiting..wondering..wishing..

Sorting... purging... packing... shredding... house cleaning!

seeing as i've been a grumpy butt for the last couple of days, i feel it's important to remind myself what i've got to be grateful for.

- amazingly awesome people from all walks of love who love and support me no matter what i say or do.
- a beautiful dog who saved me more than i saved her.
- financial 'stability'. whatever that is.
- a roof over my head and enough food to eat.
- the warm sunny days of arizona. and the beautiful monsoons it gives me to experience.
- the swing in my backyard that i haven't been utilizing nearly enough lately.
- music. i am so grateful for music.
- laughter. my ability to laugh at myself, the world, and everything else. even when i'm down.
- life.

i am so truly blessed to encounter such amazing people in my life. my friend brian that i met in LA a little over a year ago and haven't been able to see since wrote me a letter today telling me how much he misses me. it was so sweet and exactly what i needed. he has a knack for knowing when to send me some love. actually, a lot of the people in my life are good at just 'knowing' when to write me. i am incredibly blessed.

thank you, youniverse.

~Tough Compassion

Sometime within this next week I want us all to find a place of compassion in our hearts for someone.

On the surface this is fairly easy, as we find compassion in our hearts most days. The trick of this one is that I want us to give compassion to someone it is hard for us to. Someone who has hurt us, someone we don't agree with, someone you may flat out dislike. They don't have to know that you are holding them in your heart, though it would be amazing if you found the strength to show them.

After we have done it, I'd like to hear about your experiences in doing this. How did it make you feel to do this? How are you feeling now? Anything and everything that you are willing to share.

I hope you are all well and smiling!

Peace, love and oj

-J

Preface: I didn't take this picture... this is a google image. And always spice to your liking... not to the recipe

OK... Canadians are reknown for our unique foods and this is no exception.

Tourtière or also knowns as Canadian Meat Pie

Filling:
~2 tbsp Olive or Canola Oil
*1 1/2 lbs of either ground pork or beef or veal or chicken
1 cup of raw potato - peeled & grated (approx 1 medium potato)
1 cup of sliced fresh mushrooms
1 onion, chopped
1 stalk of celery, finely chopped
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1 green apple, peeled and chopped (optional)
2 tsp salt
1 tsp dried thyme
1/2 tsp pepper
pinch of nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon each (optional - use spices that you like with the meat)

* I prefer a mix of beef & pork... the flavours are that much more intense, using a mixture of dried spices: thyme, margoram, basil, oregano, salt & pepper all to taste - no nutmeg, cloves or cinnamon You want to make sure that your meat is 'juicy' but not liquid... and definat



















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I had dinner with my family the evening before I was due to go back home. My nephew, Erik, was pretty sad to see me leave. I tried to cheer him up saying we will probably see each other before Christmas, but that didn't exactly do the trick...

For some reason I blurted out a question asking if he has an e-mail address... ??!??! Why did I do that!?! The kid is only 6 years old! A harmelss question me thought, but a typical Mbiz auntie thing to do. I seem to have a talent for coming up with mischief that is harmless in my eyes but for a kid... *blush*. Anyway. He said no and immediately turned around asking his dad if he could have one. Silently in my head I kept telling myself off. Why can I never learn to keep my mouth shut!?! I too turned around and looked at my brother, his dad, with an apologetic look. But his dad said, "Sure, we'll set one up for you.".

I had asked in an attempt to lure his thoughts away from the fact that I was leaving the next day, thinking that if we can c



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What happened to the donation count on Avanoo - all donations stopped weeks ago??! Were the few real donations just advertising, and is now all a bogus??! What's this "happy community" suddenly all about?? Please explain - clearly!

What happened to the donation count on Avanoo - all donations stopped weeks ago??! Were the few real donations just advertising, and is now all a bogus??! What's this "happy community" suddenly all about?? Please explain - clearly!

I have a "donation" badge in my blog - but it seems slowly to be just an advertising badge! There is no donation count anymore, without any further explanation. Sorry, this smells like another online bogus, there is really too much of it out there!

If you failed to find enough sponsors, that is a problem, but you do not seem concerned at all. It seems right now much more to be a very well prepared coup for gaining popularity and opening another "online community".

	Yes it was all a bogus.
	Who knows? Who cares?
	N

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my initial comment: The real me. This is an interesting thing to ponder. I believe (or think, really) that there are multiple different versions of ourselves. Ones we show to different people, ourselves and yada yada yada.

That being said... is the real me the woman behind the counter smiling and giving free hugs every day? or the one who goes home and sometimes cries so hard she feels like the house is shaking? is it the wanderlusting, dreamer who believes anything is possible or the one who is too terrified to try anything new? (much like the questions you are posing to yourself).

Is there are core truth to us? An essence, if you will? I believe that I am inherently good. That i am in this incarnation for a big reason that may come out through small acts. I think there is the human side of me that holds in all of the fear and hurt from my childhood - and there are sides to that which even i won't let myself see.

I could go on for hours... maybe i'll create my own tangent in





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Did you know that all of the "I LOVE YOUs" you feel and say are captured and recorded here, SnoMuse?

They're actually put on display, sometimes even paraded around, so all can bask in their sublime glow.

Their energy could power a city like Readsboro for 10,000 years, their beauty could bring Mona Lisa to tears, and their healing power has already completely rearranged the time-space continuum.

You love machine,
The Universe

Ever since I rearranged my bedroom (the bed is now completely on the opposite side of the room, flipped) - I've been having bad dreams.

Last evening, I watched the DNC as Hilary impressed me with her speach. It must have impressed me because most of my night's dream has been about her speech, about her and nothing negative was coming about...

However, I was awaken suddenly when my dream switched very suddenly as I watched, what was in my dream two blond SA men, shooting a calf. But the one with the gun wouldn't kill the calf - he was using it as target practice while the other held it down with ropes and tried to stop the calf from escaping. The blond man with gun kept shooting at the calf repeatedly... but never to kill it but to simply - hurt it.

The look of desparation on the calf face... almost begging to be shot dead or to escape was terrifying and heart wrenching. I was helpless. I couldn't do anything to stop this monstrosity. And I yelped and cried and begged ..





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I have no desire to receive untruths about myself. I am here to heal myself, which in turn heals Planet Earth and All Her Relations. That simply, I seek only love and truth. The truth will set you free, is my favorite saying. There is no such thing as too much love. Only by really loving yourself can you truly love another. Seek your own true love for self and true love will seek you. This is what we are all really looking for. This is our true soul contract. We are love.

from my book WILDFIRE-Accessing your souls inner intelligence

avaliable in a little while xxxmuch love

my initial comment: The real me. This is an interesting thing to ponder. I believe (or think, really) that there are multiple different versions of ourselves. Ones we show to different people, ourselves and yada yada yada.

That being said... is the real me the woman behind the counter smiling and giving free hugs every day? or the one who goes home and sometimes cries so hard she feels like the house is shaking? is it the wanderlusting, dreamer who believes anything is possible or the one who is too terrified to try anything new? (much like the questions you are posing to yourself).

Is there are core truth to us? An essence, if you will? I believe that I am inherently good. That i am in this incarnation for a big reason that may come out through small acts. I think there is the human side of me that holds in all of the fear and hurt from my childhood - and there are sides to that which even i won't let myself see.

I could go on for hours... maybe i'll create my own tangent in





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I have this character named Lucas that needs a last name.

Background: born in 1843 Victorian England era, he's an 18 year old vampire in modern times.

I think these may be good choices, but I need help deciding:

Fletcher
Hendry
Howe
Masterson
Raines
Shephard

(These were listed on a long list of common English surnames) but if there are any others you'd think work better - please let me know!! Thank you.

The invite system has recently been streamlined and the process for inviting your Avanite friends is easier except that I've removed the "select all" link that allowed you to check all of the checkboxes.

[Note: To share a post, mouse over the options link. I need to make sharing more prominent since I removed the post-create interstitial page.]

It's a good idea to share your creations. That's what we're about. However, when a company like Yahoo sees the "select all" link, that makes us look like a potential source of abuse.

Could we live without the "select all" link?

Note that Yahoo Mail is currently delaying the delivery of our messages and the resolution of the matter requires my personal attention. Perhaps the "select all" link is not to blame.

Let me know what you think. We'll find the right balance. I don't wish to limit communication.

There is no work to be done.
Just heal yourself,
Listen to your souls inner intelligence,
That’s your work.
To be, not to do.


by wildfire

I've lost all steam.
Not enjoying this process so much.
Not anymore.
Tired of cleaning.
My knees hurt.
My hands are raw.
I'm trying to stay strong but my faith is waivering.
Perhaps I'm simply being impatient.
I took another week off work - the worst they will do is fire me.
And I would be very OK with that.
I'm hoping for a buy-out since I'm leaving anyways.

I fly out to Vancouver Thursday-Saturday for two interviews. I am confident I will be offered a job... which one - I don't know... but I like them both (a third one was also mentioned) and would be happy with either one. But I need to be on my A-game ... which I'm not feeling at the moment...

I'm trying not to stress out about finding a place to live in Vancouver. But I find it prudent to wait until I am offered a job so that I can determine the best location.

I'm tired.
I'm not sleeping very well.
My cat coughed up a hairball on my brand new duvet... staining it.
We haven't had any callers regarding the h


















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