Friday, July 11, 2008
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Transitions, Community and being the change you want to see
It's about putting your money where your mouth is... or rather, perhaps, not - as the case may be. But certainly a case of action speaks louder than words.
Words are easy, you know...but actions, they're a tougher breed of thing altogether. Words can be cast around flippantly with little effort to suit the occasion you are trying to manipulate, the message you're trying to convey, the image you are trying to give. But actions.... that's where the energy is.
You can't be flippant about actions, or can we? I was about to launch down a different path with this blog, but I have just digressed myself onto a path worth processing now...
As creatures we invest energy in things - except, unlike the rest of the creatures, we have created for ourselves this easy system where the energy is to easily replaced for a growing majority of us. Most living things expend energy to get energy - they can't be flippant about it becuase energy supply is not guaranteed. The survival of a species can be made or ended on chasing the wrong piece of food. If you don't catch it, that might have been your last chance.
Not us people. Most of us don't expend anywhere near enough energy to burn up the amount we consume. For goodness sake.. a lot of us actually go to gyms to burn off the stuff we didn't break a sweat to gather. What have we become?
Is this the pinacle of evolution that all creatures should aspire to if only they have the cognitive power to do so? Are we now at the top of some ridculous ladder of greatness that some ethnocentric scholar created?
No. We aren't. We're a sad by-product of our own misguided intelligence. And we are apathetic about it. We may not have lost more knowledge in the last half decade than we've gained but I would suggest that the quality of that knowledge and the skills the majority of us have not bothered to pick up translates to make that loss very important. Can you grow things? Do you know how to feed your family from your garden? Do you know how to preserve food for the winter? Do you knit or sew? Can you make tools? Purify water? Do you even know where your nearest supply of water would be if your tap stopped magically delivering it to your kitchen? Some of these things will be things you remember from your childhood. Someone knitted in your family, someone grew things and cooked them and put them on the table for you to eat.
Do you know where the rubbish goes when it leaves your house? What about the water from your kitchen sink or your shower? Humans are the only animal that doesn't live in a sustainable manner. Basically we shit where we live. In the natural world that's stupid.
Unfortunately, due to wonderful infrastructure and management systems, the majority of us live well isolated and disconnected from the way things actually work. Do your kids know where milk comes from? Do they know that beef is a cow? what about bacon? What are chips made of? When things start to go bad, they will do so in such a rapid way we will be forced to exercise our ability to adapt radically to changing circumstances. I yearn to be ready for that.
I decided to be the change I want to see in the world. It started off small. With me doing what I do, saying what I say, thinking what I think. But it's all very well me having the attitudes I do and the knowledge I do and the awareness I do, but in real terms it means little. It doesn't change the world enough to keep me sleeping at night. My desrire for social action is growing to match my ability to make it happen.
Tonight I attended a public meeting. A gathering of people who understand something is happening and want to know what to do. We are not sitting by and waiting for government to do it - because that would be too late, it's already too late. Government is too big and slow and unweldy. We are going to take back what is really important and just start doing things ourselves.
My town is a transition town. We are not the first one and we will nto be the last one.
A transition town is a group of people living in a place wanting to explore ways to live in a more sustainable way, a more responsible way - a way that will provide for us through the period we are moving into - decline of oil supply and changing climate patterns. Transition Town initiatives will facilitate creative and pro-active responses to energy resource depletion as well as being a ripping good bonding time for the community!
We are a group that is re-localising our community to make it stronger, "resilient and truely sustainable".
The meeting raised many issues that people wanted to explore and then we broke into smaller groups based on what drew our attention and focus. We discussed ideas in these groups and created next steps and actions. I am interested in local organic food and this is the area I have been drawn to over the last half year, in particular the concept of permaculture. I keep banging into it everywhere I go so I joined that discussion and by the end of July I shall be part of a permaculture culture! Things are changing, and they are changing now!
It's exciting!
Below are some links if you want to explore the Transition Town global movement.
Totnes - the first transition town
Transition Towns New Zealand
Words are easy, you know...but actions, they're a tougher breed of thing altogether. Words can be cast around flippantly with little effort to suit the occasion you are trying to manipulate, the message you're trying to convey, the image you are trying to give. But actions.... that's where the energy is.
You can't be flippant about actions, or can we? I was about to launch down a different path with this blog, but I have just digressed myself onto a path worth processing now...
As creatures we invest energy in things - except, unlike the rest of the creatures, we have created for ourselves this easy system where the energy is to easily replaced for a growing majority of us. Most living things expend energy to get energy - they can't be flippant about it becuase energy supply is not guaranteed. The survival of a species can be made or ended on chasing the wrong piece of food. If you don't catch it, that might have been your last chance.
Not us people. Most of us don't expend anywhere near enough energy to burn up the amount we consume. For goodness sake.. a lot of us actually go to gyms to burn off the stuff we didn't break a sweat to gather. What have we become?
Is this the pinacle of evolution that all creatures should aspire to if only they have the cognitive power to do so? Are we now at the top of some ridculous ladder of greatness that some ethnocentric scholar created?
No. We aren't. We're a sad by-product of our own misguided intelligence. And we are apathetic about it. We may not have lost more knowledge in the last half decade than we've gained but I would suggest that the quality of that knowledge and the skills the majority of us have not bothered to pick up translates to make that loss very important. Can you grow things? Do you know how to feed your family from your garden? Do you know how to preserve food for the winter? Do you knit or sew? Can you make tools? Purify water? Do you even know where your nearest supply of water would be if your tap stopped magically delivering it to your kitchen? Some of these things will be things you remember from your childhood. Someone knitted in your family, someone grew things and cooked them and put them on the table for you to eat.
Do you know where the rubbish goes when it leaves your house? What about the water from your kitchen sink or your shower? Humans are the only animal that doesn't live in a sustainable manner. Basically we shit where we live. In the natural world that's stupid.
Unfortunately, due to wonderful infrastructure and management systems, the majority of us live well isolated and disconnected from the way things actually work. Do your kids know where milk comes from? Do they know that beef is a cow? what about bacon? What are chips made of? When things start to go bad, they will do so in such a rapid way we will be forced to exercise our ability to adapt radically to changing circumstances. I yearn to be ready for that.
I decided to be the change I want to see in the world. It started off small. With me doing what I do, saying what I say, thinking what I think. But it's all very well me having the attitudes I do and the knowledge I do and the awareness I do, but in real terms it means little. It doesn't change the world enough to keep me sleeping at night. My desrire for social action is growing to match my ability to make it happen.
Tonight I attended a public meeting. A gathering of people who understand something is happening and want to know what to do. We are not sitting by and waiting for government to do it - because that would be too late, it's already too late. Government is too big and slow and unweldy. We are going to take back what is really important and just start doing things ourselves.
My town is a transition town. We are not the first one and we will nto be the last one.
A transition town is a group of people living in a place wanting to explore ways to live in a more sustainable way, a more responsible way - a way that will provide for us through the period we are moving into - decline of oil supply and changing climate patterns. Transition Town initiatives will facilitate creative and pro-active responses to energy resource depletion as well as being a ripping good bonding time for the community!
We are a group that is re-localising our community to make it stronger, "resilient and truely sustainable".
The meeting raised many issues that people wanted to explore and then we broke into smaller groups based on what drew our attention and focus. We discussed ideas in these groups and created next steps and actions. I am interested in local organic food and this is the area I have been drawn to over the last half year, in particular the concept of permaculture. I keep banging into it everywhere I go so I joined that discussion and by the end of July I shall be part of a permaculture culture! Things are changing, and they are changing now!
It's exciting!
Below are some links if you want to explore the Transition Town global movement.
Totnes - the first transition town
Transition Towns New Zealand
Guru Purnima
I went with my family (including 2 year old nephew) to the celebration of Guru Purnima (sacred to the memory of the great sage SRI VYASA BHAGAVAN or Sri Krishna Dvaipayana) last night!
The concept is swell! Although not well thought out or delivered where I live.
It is a hindu festival celebrated all over the world during the full moon of july/august.
it's about showing worship to a guru.. but I worship whomever the mood suits.
It manifests in my town as a gathering of mantra singing and you take an instrument and you play and sing and dance to your hearts content.
At the start we have to sit quietly and meditate and hum a mantra... in the middle of this Rain shouts out "SING SHINEYSHINE SING!" *giggles*
I spent most of our time there dancing with Rain (my nephew) - when he wasn't busy playing his guitar!
MAHARISHI VEDA VYASA
The concept is swell! Although not well thought out or delivered where I live.
It is a hindu festival celebrated all over the world during the full moon of july/august.
it's about showing worship to a guru.. but I worship whomever the mood suits.
It manifests in my town as a gathering of mantra singing and you take an instrument and you play and sing and dance to your hearts content.
At the start we have to sit quietly and meditate and hum a mantra... in the middle of this Rain shouts out "SING SHINEYSHINE SING!" *giggles*
I spent most of our time there dancing with Rain (my nephew) - when he wasn't busy playing his guitar!
MAHARISHI VEDA VYASA
Monday, July 7, 2008
Flowers and the origin of Zen
Although I am a nature girl at heart and always have been, and am well versed in the way plants work - I have never been particularly drawn to flowers.
Don't get me wrong, I love plants. But don't give me flowers. I appreciate them much better when they are on the plant.
I tried to be into flowers once. In highschool... I hooked up with some girls and in an attempt to be cool (little did I know I was cool already.. but that's another story and one you're likely to never hear) I went with them on a "flower raid" which involved going to a botanic garden in the wee small hours and robbing a rhododendron of almost all it's blooms and filling my car with them (an old blue morris minor, the kind with the split windscreen and the flip out side paddle blinkers that handled about as well as a marble... but that's not relevant at this juncture). And I do mean filling. I felt pretty bad for that tree for quite some time after. Actually there were a lot of things I did in my teens that I have taken my lifetime to forgive myself for and accept that that was who I was and now that I know better I do better. But I digress..
I like things to be green.
Flowers are, by their very nature, mostly flashy showy attention grabbers and that is not something that appeals to Shine. It's far to easy to like those flashy things in life. Those things that easily catch your eye. To me that saying "the squeaky wheel gets the oil" is not a positive thing really. I far prefer the quiet underdog aspects of life that not many people take the time to notice and generally flowers just don't fit that bill.
Having said this, it was interesting to note tonight in my bookdwelling, a story about flowers that I do appreciate.
It is the story of one ordinary white flower, and the birth of Zen and involves one of the principal disciples of Buddha - Mahakasyapa.
Buddha was one to prattle on for great lengths delivering the dharma to his disciples - one day, they all gathered, as they did, including Mahakasyapa, expecting to hear him deliver some buddist equivalent of the sermon on the mount.
But Buddha did not speak. Instead he pulled from his sleeve a flower and held it there for hours, gazing tranquily at it.
Legend says that Mahakasyapa was the only one to realise this flower gazing was, in fact, the sermon and he smiled having the realisation and appreciating the special delivery of the dharma that the flower sermon brought him. It was the onlyness of this smiling that prompted Buddha to say
"I have the eye treasury of right Dharma, the subtle mind of nirvana, the true form of no-form, and the flawless gate of the teaching. It is not established upon words and phrases. It is a special transmission outside tradition. I now entrust this to Mahakasyapa."
And thus from this smile was born a new way within buddhism of delivering the dharma in a practical way rather than through the scriptures. This smile, this realization, was passed down through Mahakasyapa and through a succession of twenty eight masters and eventually flowed into what became The Zen.
In writing this recount for you I have just had a realisation myself. I can see why this story is the one I have picked to share tonight, why it has struck a cord with me.
My own dharma in this life comes from a similar experience as was shared between Buddha and Mahakasyapa in this tale.
"Dharma transmission isn't a matter of giving and getting, but an acknowledgement of intimacy, an acknowledgement of One Mind, Buddha smiling at Buddha."
Nothing makes me feel more connected to the strength of my purpose* and worth in this world than this buddha smiling at buddha concept. The intimacy of the shared wavelength, the inside joke, if you will, that comes from a shared experience. This is the closest one can experience to ever really knowing you are understood by another.
It is of course, a fallacy, as it is impossible to be truely understood or understand the reality of another (and you really are fooling yourself if you cling to the idea that you are and do) - but it is the closest to that that you can get. And it is through this that we feel our true belonging and purpose in this world.
That we are validated, that we make a difference, that we are cared for, that we matter.
And it is The Feeling.
*NOTE: the use of one's purpose in this piece depends not one whit on you ever knowing or understanding what that may be, just that one exists for you. The sooner you just accept that you do have one and that it may never be revealed to you and that it is not important for you to know it, the more smootly things will flow.
Don't get me wrong, I love plants. But don't give me flowers. I appreciate them much better when they are on the plant.
I tried to be into flowers once. In highschool... I hooked up with some girls and in an attempt to be cool (little did I know I was cool already.. but that's another story and one you're likely to never hear) I went with them on a "flower raid" which involved going to a botanic garden in the wee small hours and robbing a rhododendron of almost all it's blooms and filling my car with them (an old blue morris minor, the kind with the split windscreen and the flip out side paddle blinkers that handled about as well as a marble... but that's not relevant at this juncture). And I do mean filling. I felt pretty bad for that tree for quite some time after. Actually there were a lot of things I did in my teens that I have taken my lifetime to forgive myself for and accept that that was who I was and now that I know better I do better. But I digress..
I like things to be green.
Flowers are, by their very nature, mostly flashy showy attention grabbers and that is not something that appeals to Shine. It's far to easy to like those flashy things in life. Those things that easily catch your eye. To me that saying "the squeaky wheel gets the oil" is not a positive thing really. I far prefer the quiet underdog aspects of life that not many people take the time to notice and generally flowers just don't fit that bill.
Having said this, it was interesting to note tonight in my bookdwelling, a story about flowers that I do appreciate.
It is the story of one ordinary white flower, and the birth of Zen and involves one of the principal disciples of Buddha - Mahakasyapa.
Buddha was one to prattle on for great lengths delivering the dharma to his disciples - one day, they all gathered, as they did, including Mahakasyapa, expecting to hear him deliver some buddist equivalent of the sermon on the mount.
But Buddha did not speak. Instead he pulled from his sleeve a flower and held it there for hours, gazing tranquily at it.
Legend says that Mahakasyapa was the only one to realise this flower gazing was, in fact, the sermon and he smiled having the realisation and appreciating the special delivery of the dharma that the flower sermon brought him. It was the onlyness of this smiling that prompted Buddha to say
"I have the eye treasury of right Dharma, the subtle mind of nirvana, the true form of no-form, and the flawless gate of the teaching. It is not established upon words and phrases. It is a special transmission outside tradition. I now entrust this to Mahakasyapa."
And thus from this smile was born a new way within buddhism of delivering the dharma in a practical way rather than through the scriptures. This smile, this realization, was passed down through Mahakasyapa and through a succession of twenty eight masters and eventually flowed into what became The Zen.
In writing this recount for you I have just had a realisation myself. I can see why this story is the one I have picked to share tonight, why it has struck a cord with me.
My own dharma in this life comes from a similar experience as was shared between Buddha and Mahakasyapa in this tale.
"Dharma transmission isn't a matter of giving and getting, but an acknowledgement of intimacy, an acknowledgement of One Mind, Buddha smiling at Buddha."
Nothing makes me feel more connected to the strength of my purpose* and worth in this world than this buddha smiling at buddha concept. The intimacy of the shared wavelength, the inside joke, if you will, that comes from a shared experience. This is the closest one can experience to ever really knowing you are understood by another.
It is of course, a fallacy, as it is impossible to be truely understood or understand the reality of another (and you really are fooling yourself if you cling to the idea that you are and do) - but it is the closest to that that you can get. And it is through this that we feel our true belonging and purpose in this world.
That we are validated, that we make a difference, that we are cared for, that we matter.
And it is The Feeling.
*NOTE: the use of one's purpose in this piece depends not one whit on you ever knowing or understanding what that may be, just that one exists for you. The sooner you just accept that you do have one and that it may never be revealed to you and that it is not important for you to know it, the more smootly things will flow.
Ravi Shankar
no... not my car!
Have been meaning to find some more of his music and have just managed to get my hands on a 5 cd set including
Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan-1995
Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass-Passages-1990
Ravi Shankar-Raga-Original soundtrack-1971
Ravi Shankar-Sound Of The Sitar
Ravi Shankar-The Sounds Of India-1968
If you can get hold of them, do it... we can compare listening notes!
No idea who Ravi Shankar is?
Well... he was pretty important to a number of popular musicians so you should know if you think of yourself as a music fan!
Check out these links for a start
Ravi Shankar on Wiki
Ravi Shankar Website
Some free mp3 downloads
Have been meaning to find some more of his music and have just managed to get my hands on a 5 cd set including
Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan-1995
Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass-Passages-1990
Ravi Shankar-Raga-Original soundtrack-1971
Ravi Shankar-Sound Of The Sitar
Ravi Shankar-The Sounds Of India-1968
If you can get hold of them, do it... we can compare listening notes!
No idea who Ravi Shankar is?
Well... he was pretty important to a number of popular musicians so you should know if you think of yourself as a music fan!
Check out these links for a start
Ravi Shankar on Wiki
Ravi Shankar Website
Some free mp3 downloads
Saturday, July 5, 2008
I can't give you details but you will just have to trust me when I say
do not combine brushing your teeth and going to the toilet.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
People at the store know NOTHING - especially when they say they do.
So when you go to the store and explain to them that you want an external hard drive and the other one you have stopped working and even when it did work it did not go on your apple even though the last people said it would and the store people tell you all the ones we have go, you just plug them in and no special measures required... and you tell them that is what the last people said.. but they also said that it it best to plug the external into the apple first before the pc, and the people at this store tell you that is rubbish and it's actually the opposite, you plug it into the pc first and then the mac..Which is useless to me as my pc is not working at all hence the reason I need an external as I have no where else to put my hoarded files...
ANYWAY my advice is , don't bother wasting your breath because these poeple don't know anything.
Don’t listen to anything the people tell you at the store.
Don’t do anything they said
here is what you should REALLY do.
Go to the store and buy the external. Bring it home and plug it in and notice that you can see the drive but you can't copy anything onto it.Then do this stuff which is the 200$ worth of advice I got from the apple store on the phone, for free, coz they rock!
Making a external hard drive work on a mac
Plug in external as directions state
Open finder window and see hard drive just sitting waiting for you to put all your stuff on
Open disk utility and click on main title for hard drive the shop told you would work fine without any special measures
Start special measures
1. select PARTITION
2. under volume scheme select 1 partition
3. next to format make sure it says Mac OS extended (journaled)
4. Next to name put something smart like “Shinestuff” coz , well, you can
5. Click partition
A warning will come up but you don’t need to panic coz the external was useless to you until you do this so DO IT.
You can now use your external to put on all your horded files that you want to keep so you can get a whole bunch more!!!*giggles*
EDIT: Note from future me (7th May 2011) I so rock for leaving this note for myself! This time I got a 500gb and this blog post was like exactly what happened again! This time I created two partitions which load like two drives. Thanks me, we rock!
ANYWAY my advice is , don't bother wasting your breath because these poeple don't know anything.
Don’t listen to anything the people tell you at the store.
Don’t do anything they said
here is what you should REALLY do.
Go to the store and buy the external. Bring it home and plug it in and notice that you can see the drive but you can't copy anything onto it.Then do this stuff which is the 200$ worth of advice I got from the apple store on the phone, for free, coz they rock!
Making a external hard drive work on a mac
Plug in external as directions state
Open finder window and see hard drive just sitting waiting for you to put all your stuff on
Open disk utility and click on main title for hard drive the shop told you would work fine without any special measures
Start special measures
1. select PARTITION
2. under volume scheme select 1 partition
3. next to format make sure it says Mac OS extended (journaled)
4. Next to name put something smart like “Shinestuff” coz , well, you can
5. Click partition
A warning will come up but you don’t need to panic coz the external was useless to you until you do this so DO IT.
You can now use your external to put on all your horded files that you want to keep so you can get a whole bunch more!!!*giggles*
EDIT: Note from future me (7th May 2011) I so rock for leaving this note for myself! This time I got a 500gb and this blog post was like exactly what happened again! This time I created two partitions which load like two drives. Thanks me, we rock!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
80s in my Car
The Ravi Shinecar came with a tape player.. not a flash mp3 playing stereo... the old car didn't even have a functional tape player - so I am using what god gave me and have taken the opportunity to haul out a bunch of cassettes from storage (well until I can be bothered gettign a flash mp3 playing stereo anyway...)
That's right folks... it's 80s revival time in Shine's car! Every time I go out... an 80s album or collection is getting cycled through.
First official two on the list are Nightclubbing by Grace Jones (1981) and Around the World in a Day by Prince (1985)
You might remember Grace Jones from the 80s - weirdwoman errr man person (!) . Kinda androgynous really. She was in a Bond flick and also romantically linked to Rocky IV star, Dolph Lungren (LOL).
Well, don't be scared, this album is great! Produced by Sly & Robbie and containg three coversIggy Pop's Nightclubbing Bill Withers' Use Me and Demolition Man by the Police. Probably best known for the hit Pull Up To My Bumper. Thing I love about this song...naughty double entendres lyrics, amazing bass guitar and the rhythm... it's a loud one in my car!
Playing in the car rating: 5/5
Next up is Around the World in a Day.
This one was a constant as go to sleep music at one time of my life - which is kinda bizarre as the lyrics are quite cryptic and require some focus! It's also the album that contains the hit Raspberry Beret.
Interestingly at the time.. the album was not publized and really just turned up one day in the stores. Quite a bit different to Purple Rain which was the album before.
My favourite track on here is Pop Life. It's a bit of a reference to Prince's feeling of being an outsider in the industry.
Although this album didn't do well compared to Purple Rain... it's my fav prince album.
Playing in the car rating: 2/5
That's right folks... it's 80s revival time in Shine's car! Every time I go out... an 80s album or collection is getting cycled through.
First official two on the list are Nightclubbing by Grace Jones (1981) and Around the World in a Day by Prince (1985)
You might remember Grace Jones from the 80s - weird
Well, don't be scared, this album is great! Produced by Sly & Robbie and containg three coversIggy Pop's Nightclubbing Bill Withers' Use Me and Demolition Man by the Police. Probably best known for the hit Pull Up To My Bumper. Thing I love about this song...naughty double entendres lyrics, amazing bass guitar and the rhythm... it's a loud one in my car!
Playing in the car rating: 5/5
Next up is Around the World in a Day.
This one was a constant as go to sleep music at one time of my life - which is kinda bizarre as the lyrics are quite cryptic and require some focus! It's also the album that contains the hit Raspberry Beret.
Interestingly at the time.. the album was not publized and really just turned up one day in the stores. Quite a bit different to Purple Rain which was the album before.
My favourite track on here is Pop Life. It's a bit of a reference to Prince's feeling of being an outsider in the industry.
Although this album didn't do well compared to Purple Rain... it's my fav prince album.
Playing in the car rating: 2/5
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Ninja's Eat Noodles
Pucca loves Garu, he's a pretty boy.
Ninjas eat noodles.
Kissy-chase, Kissy-face. Bam-wham-bam.
Pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pucca funny love pu-pu.
pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pucca funny love pu-pu.
Puuca loves Garu.
kissy chase, kissy face
wham-bam-bam
*kiss, pucca giggles*
Ninjas eat noodles.
Kissy-chase, Kissy-face. Bam-wham-bam.
Pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pucca funny love pu-pu.
pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pucca funny love pu-pu.
Puuca loves Garu.
kissy chase, kissy face
wham-bam-bam
*kiss, pucca giggles*
Monday, June 23, 2008
Prince Caspian and the Chronicles of Shineia.
I saw Prince Caspian tonight.
Before I go on, let me say that I was not overly fussed with the first one.
This one I liked. The effects were a lot better and in fact, in places very cool!
It was cool to spend the movie wishing to see more of Edmund instead of less...
As for the Chronicles of Shineia - that's the other bit that was cool. I have had a wicked last 10 days. Lots of hard work and strength needed in almost every part of my life (relationships, work, physical, emotional, spiritual - blah blah blah). This movie was a break from all that.
I can't remember the last time I spent an entire movie without thinking about Todd, Craig, work, family or anything even once.
I came out and it wasn't until I ht the pavement outside that my brain mentioned something pressuring to me about work.
It was great while it lasted anyways!
Thanks, Narnia film!
Before I go on, let me say that I was not overly fussed with the first one.
This one I liked. The effects were a lot better and in fact, in places very cool!
It was cool to spend the movie wishing to see more of Edmund instead of less...
As for the Chronicles of Shineia - that's the other bit that was cool. I have had a wicked last 10 days. Lots of hard work and strength needed in almost every part of my life (relationships, work, physical, emotional, spiritual - blah blah blah). This movie was a break from all that.
I can't remember the last time I spent an entire movie without thinking about Todd, Craig, work, family or anything even once.
I came out and it wasn't until I ht the pavement outside that my brain mentioned something pressuring to me about work.
It was great while it lasted anyways!
Thanks, Narnia film!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Please Send a Whale
Please send a whale.
It's simple and easy and fun too!
You can track your whale as it swims to Japan with your message about whaling.
Mine is the orange one with the halo.
It's simple and easy and fun too!
You can track your whale as it swims to Japan with your message about whaling.
Mine is the orange one with the halo.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
LGT is named!
New truck needed a name and it didn't take The SuperNamer long to come up with one!
I introduce you to.....
I introduce you to.....
Friday, June 6, 2008
Right now...
Right now there is a man whizzing over NZ at speeds it really is quite ridiculous to even contemplate people traveling at.
It's Mike Fossum - he's outside the space station and although this may seem like a great place to hang out considering that if he was inside there is the distinct possibility of colliding with a BAG OF PEE - he is actually out there working on attaching a camera.
What a work place!
I would run outside and wave, but he's too busy to notice me.
My name is Shine, I am addicted to NASA TV.
It's Mike Fossum - he's outside the space station and although this may seem like a great place to hang out considering that if he was inside there is the distinct possibility of colliding with a BAG OF PEE - he is actually out there working on attaching a camera.
What a work place!
I would run outside and wave, but he's too busy to notice me.
My name is Shine, I am addicted to NASA TV.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Environment Day
I did not get a free breakfast this morning!!!
In Nelson today people that bike to work got a free breakfast in the middle of town...
Even though I have yet to have a proper drive in my LGT I biked to work...
But from my place to work is not through town, so no free breakfast!
AND I missed lunch because I got stuck at work doing some meeting and greeting (which is good for me to do and I enjoy the experience)
NB: For those that don't know me well, I am only pretending to whinge! And I am doing it tongue in cheek liek the whole prunes thing LOL!
In Nelson today people that bike to work got a free breakfast in the middle of town...
Even though I have yet to have a proper drive in my LGT I biked to work...
But from my place to work is not through town, so no free breakfast!
AND I missed lunch because I got stuck at work doing some meeting and greeting (which is good for me to do and I enjoy the experience)
NB: For those that don't know me well, I am only pretending to whinge! And I am doing it tongue in cheek liek the whole prunes thing LOL!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
A wonderfully Diverse Day....
Started with some drama - two bits... then I had to rush and rush to get to a meeting in town - during which my phone rang (my cell never rings - lucky it is on vibrate and only I noticed!) - meeting went very well.
Got out of meeting and got on my phone to check my message to find that not only had the money FINALLy gone through for my "new" little green truck - but it had gone through TWICE!!! MWUuwhAHhaHAHAHhaHA
Everyone I tell freaks out but it is ok.. the people are real nice and I trust them which is why I am buying a vehicle off them!
So at that stage of the day (10AM) they still had said little green truck AND 8000$ LOL!
(A bit of background on the LGT - it's a vehicle I have been thinking about and researching getting for over a year.. I am a bit of a miser with my money as I never had financial security until the last few years so I am extremely unlikely to spend my money.... finally got lucky and got this LGT for a very good price and it is in amazing condition)
I go back to my office to call the LGT people and giggle about the mix up (this is number three of a series of special bonding screw ups between them and I over this vehicle... it was my turn to do something because the last two were theirs.. including a 360degree spin out during the test drive of the vehicle on some icy road loL!) and I giggle and giggle whiel I am walking into my office and I giggle and giggle when I pick up the phoen to call them and I giggle and giggle after I hang up (my office mate, by this stage, has left the room because my giggling does not include her) and I giggle and giggle some more when my phone rings... and it's the dentist.
I stop giggling.
But I get a surprise dentist visit - this is the best way to do the dentist thing I have decided. "You have fifteen mins to get here and I will do that tooth you have been nagging me to do". I don't have time to stress about the cost or the pain.. I have to just get there as quick as I can!
And now my front tooth which has had a filling hanging out of it after everything I bite for months, is FIXED!
Then I gallop up tot he sanctuary because I have a class arriving for the afternoon and that went very very well! Connection with the kids and gettign them engaged in what's happening up there is very rewarding.
THEN I leave my little grey car at home and walk into town to pick up my LGT!!! It's WONDERFUL - although, I am sad to not be whizzing in my little grey car which I love very much and has been very good to me.
THEN I get some GREAT seat covers for my LGT!!! Check them out!!!
of course the bad thing about them is that the picture is on the side I can't see... LOL!
So that's most of my day.. other things that haven't made mention for various reasons include A trust meeting (515pm until 8pm...), reporting to trust boards, afghan cookies, pottymouthchat, upgrading my virtual car to a '36 jag ss100, Casablanca, dishes, vaccuuming, soup, kindling, feijoas, antique ANZAC pin, and sparkling clementine.
Next steps: a hotwater bottle and david attenborough doco and some sleeps.
Got out of meeting and got on my phone to check my message to find that not only had the money FINALLy gone through for my "new" little green truck - but it had gone through TWICE!!! MWUuwhAHhaHAHAHhaHA
Everyone I tell freaks out but it is ok.. the people are real nice and I trust them which is why I am buying a vehicle off them!
So at that stage of the day (10AM) they still had said little green truck AND 8000$ LOL!
(A bit of background on the LGT - it's a vehicle I have been thinking about and researching getting for over a year.. I am a bit of a miser with my money as I never had financial security until the last few years so I am extremely unlikely to spend my money.... finally got lucky and got this LGT for a very good price and it is in amazing condition)
I go back to my office to call the LGT people and giggle about the mix up (this is number three of a series of special bonding screw ups between them and I over this vehicle... it was my turn to do something because the last two were theirs.. including a 360degree spin out during the test drive of the vehicle on some icy road loL!) and I giggle and giggle whiel I am walking into my office and I giggle and giggle when I pick up the phoen to call them and I giggle and giggle after I hang up (my office mate, by this stage, has left the room because my giggling does not include her) and I giggle and giggle some more when my phone rings... and it's the dentist.
I stop giggling.
But I get a surprise dentist visit - this is the best way to do the dentist thing I have decided. "You have fifteen mins to get here and I will do that tooth you have been nagging me to do". I don't have time to stress about the cost or the pain.. I have to just get there as quick as I can!
And now my front tooth which has had a filling hanging out of it after everything I bite for months, is FIXED!
Then I gallop up tot he sanctuary because I have a class arriving for the afternoon and that went very very well! Connection with the kids and gettign them engaged in what's happening up there is very rewarding.
THEN I leave my little grey car at home and walk into town to pick up my LGT!!! It's WONDERFUL - although, I am sad to not be whizzing in my little grey car which I love very much and has been very good to me.
THEN I get some GREAT seat covers for my LGT!!! Check them out!!!
of course the bad thing about them is that the picture is on the side I can't see... LOL!
So that's most of my day.. other things that haven't made mention for various reasons include A trust meeting (515pm until 8pm...), reporting to trust boards, afghan cookies, pottymouthchat, upgrading my virtual car to a '36 jag ss100, Casablanca, dishes, vaccuuming, soup, kindling, feijoas, antique ANZAC pin, and sparkling clementine.
Next steps: a hotwater bottle and david attenborough doco and some sleeps.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Political Correctness gone MAD!
WAHHHhHHhhhHH
"they" took the glowing red 'like the end of a cigarette' end off the end of the space mans!
That's NUTS!!!!
Now it's just spaceman candy sticks... and I am pretending to puff on NOTHING.
Although, to be fair.. I still don't get why they were ever painted red on the end liek a cigarette anyway!
Whoops
I was distracted in chat and forgot to ration out my prunes and instead found myself eating them straight from the packet... and there aren't many left.
I don't know how many I ate!!!
Only time will tell....
I don't know how many I ate!!!
Only time will tell....
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