On March 29, 2008 @ 8pm, join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour. An event created by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Even the lights on the Golden Gate Bridge will go out! The world can be dark tonight and it doesn't take much on your part.
*If you care about the planet you are living on, one hour isn't that bad at all!* (some say you can still have the TV on, lol, just turn off all the lights in the house). Shit turn the TV off for one hour and read or as Fiona says "sit and do nothing, 'cause it's just what you must do when nobody does it anymore". Seriously!
Go to the WWF website to find out more & the history of Earth Hour, who else is turning out the lights and much more. Thanks.
www.worldwildlifefund.org
Take care of yourself and that thing you're standing on! ;o)
never tell
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
I think I finally found my doctor! A good doctor!
And I can't be more thrilled!
And he's very generous when handing out the drugs!
I did a lot of research & he did exzactly what he was supossed to do! Good boy!
I think I like him as much as he likes staring at my boobs.
Finally I feel like myself again, for the first time today and that's a blissful thing!
And he's very generous when handing out the drugs!
I did a lot of research & he did exzactly what he was supossed to do! Good boy!
I think I like him as much as he likes staring at my boobs.
Finally I feel like myself again, for the first time today and that's a blissful thing!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
I just watched the Space Shuttle Endeavour go over my head
And it was fucking beautiful. I wish I was up there with them.
Since a little girl I've always been intruiged w/ all things space, stars, planets. Those stars have got to be more than just balls of gas-they got too much personality. Obsessed with planets and the moon, the sun, eh, not so much.
Since a little girl I've always been intruiged w/ all things space, stars, planets. Those stars have got to be more than just balls of gas-they got too much personality. Obsessed with planets and the moon, the sun, eh, not so much.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Kate & Raven's weekend-San Luis Obispo, ocean, wine, bruises & Solvang!
All of the lovely photos at myspace 
(by the way I'm leaving out a lot of detail here)-
I had such a wonderful time seeing my baby Kate. The weekend was beautiful, one to remember and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
It was Kate's birthday on the 10th, so we decided to celebrate it on her days off that Friday & Saturday. She had to go back to work early Sunday which sucked, but I'll cherish our 2 days (which we fit a week's worth of stuff in them anyways). I took a train ride along the coast and looked out into the ocean almost the intire way. Friday morning I left to San Luis Obispo and she was driving down from Oakland to meet me. Her parrents live in SLO. And what a wonderful home they have! Her parrents-omg! The coolest mom and dad ever. Their funny, interesting, young at heart, and warm. They were very welcoming. Told me I could come back any time and that it was my home away from home. My god, how sweet. So, kate pick's me up from the train station, we went to drop my stuff off at their house, my god-I went crazy in there. We went to meet her Daddy who was working to the bookstore he owned. So quaint and cute. We then went off to a corner market to get the world's best sandwitches. And I am picking because meat grosses me out a lot of the time. But this shit was heaven. I got a turkey sandwitch. The way you order your sandwitch was pretty cool too. You get a red pencil crayon like thing and fill out this little slip & circle what you want. Got our sandwitches to go to the beach. All along the way Kate's showing me where she grew up, her old house & schools, her old apt. on the beach. The town is so green, quiet and peaceful. We went to the beached & talked and had fun- but sand storm had us leaving early-that's ok because we still had dinner to go to w/ her parrents and the hot tub w/ kitties. No the kitties wern't in the water! Came back home, had some wine, talked on the patio, took piccys of the garden, I fell hard (the best fall I ever had) seriously. We laughed for well over a half hour, kate peed her pants & she kept telling me that like 20 times. Haha. I was stuck & couldn't get up. I was upside down on a hill and leggs in the air and the blood was rushing to my head. LOL. I swear I'll never forget it. It shpuld have been on America's funniest videos, oooh we would have won! I tried to stop myself from falling, took 3 steps and there I went down. Haha. As I'm in her mother's big potted plant, her dad walks up the sidewalk, coming home from work. Oh great. What a good first impression. Well, good thing I met him before at the book store. Oh oh oh how can I forget- we stopped @ a liquor store before coming to the house and I found my Sprees! Shit! I almost bust a nut! I can never find these where I live! So, I went a little basurk! So what! Hahaha, those photos were fun! We talked in the garden, then decided to get ready to go out for dinner w/ her mom & dad. I met her mom & we ate at Tahoe Joe's. We all had a nice talk. Came home, hot tub and fun and things. Came home, she put on the PJ's I bought her. I got on the computer as she fell asleep. It was like 2:30 went I crawled into bed. -Next morning Solvang - we been planning this for like 8 months. We had so much fun there! All the little shops and goodies. And that one weird scary resturant we went into just to check it out. Haha. They had a ton of junk and weird random crap around and in the place. It was all too much. We went in and this big heavy lady w/ some sort of cape jacket told us sternly, "this is how we do it here, we been doing for years. She looked like that scary lady from Poltergeist. We go in there, there's this old upright piano, weird junk laying around, life size dolls hanging from the wall BY THEIR NECKS that is. Wtf! Haha. Then there's this one family of mutes sitting at the table eating. They were so quiet and not talking to one another. The resturant was like that- you could hear a pin drop. Eerie kinda quiet, y'all. Everything was a dollar! I wish you were all there 'cause it's so hard to explain. Kate just nugged me to go, she put her hand on my back and she didn't have to say a word. I was out the door. We just laughed & laughed. I mean, who was cooking? I could just imagine who was back there. Eewwwww. We found The Red Viking, a perfect resturant and I will be going back there. The food was to die for. Yummy. So, we had fun there. We came home and her mom and dad were there. Her mom called us in the room to watch you tube videos, she is so cute & young at heart I swear! I had her watch some Kate Bush videos and Paula Cole. She wanted something "happy" she said. We watched America's most wanted while eating her Father's homemade chicken and fish tacos. Omg! He slaved for like 2 hours! Thanks so much! We all talked. Off to bed, I stared out of the window into the garden & flowers as I feel asleep. The next morning when I got up kate already left for work. She had to drive back up to Oakland @ 6am. I spent half the day there w/ her dad. He dropped me off at the train station. Hugs me goodbye and off I go... I was sad to leave. But I'll be back again. I know I will. Thanks Kate for having me and tell your parrents I love them! xo
(by the way I'm leaving out a lot of detail here)-I had such a wonderful time seeing my baby Kate. The weekend was beautiful, one to remember and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
It was Kate's birthday on the 10th, so we decided to celebrate it on her days off that Friday & Saturday. She had to go back to work early Sunday which sucked, but I'll cherish our 2 days (which we fit a week's worth of stuff in them anyways). I took a train ride along the coast and looked out into the ocean almost the intire way. Friday morning I left to San Luis Obispo and she was driving down from Oakland to meet me. Her parrents live in SLO. And what a wonderful home they have! Her parrents-omg! The coolest mom and dad ever. Their funny, interesting, young at heart, and warm. They were very welcoming. Told me I could come back any time and that it was my home away from home. My god, how sweet. So, kate pick's me up from the train station, we went to drop my stuff off at their house, my god-I went crazy in there. We went to meet her Daddy who was working to the bookstore he owned. So quaint and cute. We then went off to a corner market to get the world's best sandwitches. And I am picking because meat grosses me out a lot of the time. But this shit was heaven. I got a turkey sandwitch. The way you order your sandwitch was pretty cool too. You get a red pencil crayon like thing and fill out this little slip & circle what you want. Got our sandwitches to go to the beach. All along the way Kate's showing me where she grew up, her old house & schools, her old apt. on the beach. The town is so green, quiet and peaceful. We went to the beached & talked and had fun- but sand storm had us leaving early-that's ok because we still had dinner to go to w/ her parrents and the hot tub w/ kitties. No the kitties wern't in the water! Came back home, had some wine, talked on the patio, took piccys of the garden, I fell hard (the best fall I ever had) seriously. We laughed for well over a half hour, kate peed her pants & she kept telling me that like 20 times. Haha. I was stuck & couldn't get up. I was upside down on a hill and leggs in the air and the blood was rushing to my head. LOL. I swear I'll never forget it. It shpuld have been on America's funniest videos, oooh we would have won! I tried to stop myself from falling, took 3 steps and there I went down. Haha. As I'm in her mother's big potted plant, her dad walks up the sidewalk, coming home from work. Oh great. What a good first impression. Well, good thing I met him before at the book store. Oh oh oh how can I forget- we stopped @ a liquor store before coming to the house and I found my Sprees! Shit! I almost bust a nut! I can never find these where I live! So, I went a little basurk! So what! Hahaha, those photos were fun! We talked in the garden, then decided to get ready to go out for dinner w/ her mom & dad. I met her mom & we ate at Tahoe Joe's. We all had a nice talk. Came home, hot tub and fun and things. Came home, she put on the PJ's I bought her. I got on the computer as she fell asleep. It was like 2:30 went I crawled into bed. -Next morning Solvang - we been planning this for like 8 months. We had so much fun there! All the little shops and goodies. And that one weird scary resturant we went into just to check it out. Haha. They had a ton of junk and weird random crap around and in the place. It was all too much. We went in and this big heavy lady w/ some sort of cape jacket told us sternly, "this is how we do it here, we been doing for years. She looked like that scary lady from Poltergeist. We go in there, there's this old upright piano, weird junk laying around, life size dolls hanging from the wall BY THEIR NECKS that is. Wtf! Haha. Then there's this one family of mutes sitting at the table eating. They were so quiet and not talking to one another. The resturant was like that- you could hear a pin drop. Eerie kinda quiet, y'all. Everything was a dollar! I wish you were all there 'cause it's so hard to explain. Kate just nugged me to go, she put her hand on my back and she didn't have to say a word. I was out the door. We just laughed & laughed. I mean, who was cooking? I could just imagine who was back there. Eewwwww. We found The Red Viking, a perfect resturant and I will be going back there. The food was to die for. Yummy. So, we had fun there. We came home and her mom and dad were there. Her mom called us in the room to watch you tube videos, she is so cute & young at heart I swear! I had her watch some Kate Bush videos and Paula Cole. She wanted something "happy" she said. We watched America's most wanted while eating her Father's homemade chicken and fish tacos. Omg! He slaved for like 2 hours! Thanks so much! We all talked. Off to bed, I stared out of the window into the garden & flowers as I feel asleep. The next morning when I got up kate already left for work. She had to drive back up to Oakland @ 6am. I spent half the day there w/ her dad. He dropped me off at the train station. Hugs me goodbye and off I go... I was sad to leave. But I'll be back again. I know I will. Thanks Kate for having me and tell your parrents I love them! xo
I saw this lastnight on 60 Minutes and found it very very interesting. It had me glued to the TV.
A Visit To The Doomsday Vault
Scott Pelley Visits One Of The World's Most Unique Seed Banks
March 23, 2008
CLICK ON THE LINK AND WATCH THE VIDEO. YOU REALLY SHOULD WATCH! "Doomsday" Seed Vault Opens In Norway
The Global Crop Diversity Trust
(CBS) 60 Minutes is going to take you on a journey to the end of the earth to show you a place that might someday save humankind. It’s a bank built to last 10,000 years. But as correspondent Scott Pelley explains, it's not money or gold that’s on deposit. Currencies rise and fall with civilizations.
60 Minutes was there last month, when the world's most important assets were made safe from climate change and nuclear war, locked deep inside the doomsday vault.
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Head towards the top of the planet, over the freezing Arctic Ocean, and you’ll a find a collection of ice-covered islands called "Svalbard," Norwegian for "cold coast."
The islands are due north of Europe, administered by Norway, and among the last bits of land before the North Pole.
Down on the water is the northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, with about 2,000 people. But polar bears outnumber the people, and reindeer outnumber everything. It's an otherworldly place, a twilight zone, where, sometimes, the sun never rises and the moon never sets. In the dead of winter, it was the last stop in the 30-year journey of American scientist Cary Fowler.
Fowler admits it's "a world away" from his native Tennessee.
Asked if he ever worried that the project wouldn't get this far, Fowler admits, "I was worrying all the time. But here we are."
From the outside, the vault looks like a concrete wedge pounded into a mountain. But as you walk through the door, you cross from a hostile wasteland into a safe house for humanity.
"Well, I've got to say, it looks like a doomsday vault," Pelley remarks.
"It probably is one. At least we think if there are any big problems on the outside, this is going to survive," Fowler says. "We built it to last as long as we could imagine. I don’t know what was in the minds of the people who built the pyramids. Maybe they were building to last forever too. But I can’t think of anything that’s built in our lifetime that’s been built with this kind of time horizon."
Inside, pipes provide additional refrigeration, despite the fact the vault is only several hundred miles from the North Pole. "We’re going freeze it even further," Fowler explains.
They freeze it colder than the permafrost, so that if the earth warms and the power goes out, the vault will stay frozen for another 25 years.
(CBS) 60 Minutes is going to take you on a journey to the end of the earth to show you a place that might someday save humankind. It’s a bank built to last 10,000 years. But as correspondent Scott Pelley explains, it's not money or gold that’s on deposit. Currencies rise and fall with civilizations.
60 Minutes was there last month, when the world's most important assets were made safe from climate change and nuclear war, locked deep inside the doomsday vault.
__________________________
Head towards the top of the planet, over the freezing Arctic Ocean, and you’ll a find a collection of ice-covered islands called "Svalbard," Norwegian for "cold coast."
The islands are due north of Europe, administered by Norway, and among the last bits of land before the North Pole.
Down on the water is the northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, with about 2,000 people. But polar bears outnumber the people, and reindeer outnumber everything. It's an otherworldly place, a twilight zone, where, sometimes, the sun never rises and the moon never sets. In the dead of winter, it was the last stop in the 30-year journey of American scientist Cary Fowler.
Fowler admits it's "a world away" from his native Tennessee.
Asked if he ever worried that the project wouldn't get this far, Fowler admits, "I was worrying all the time. But here we are."
From the outside, the vault looks like a concrete wedge pounded into a mountain. But as you walk through the door, you cross from a hostile wasteland into a safe house for humanity.
"Well, I've got to say, it looks like a doomsday vault," Pelley remarks.
"It probably is one. At least we think if there are any big problems on the outside, this is going to survive," Fowler says. "We built it to last as long as we could imagine. I don’t know what was in the minds of the people who built the pyramids. Maybe they were building to last forever too. But I can’t think of anything that’s built in our lifetime that’s been built with this kind of time horizon."
Inside, pipes provide additional refrigeration, despite the fact the vault is only several hundred miles from the North Pole. "We’re going freeze it even further," Fowler explains.
They freeze it colder than the permafrost, so that if the earth warms and the power goes out, the vault will stay frozen for another 25 years.
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*Go to the site to read the rest of the article and see the breathtaking photos...
*Go to the site to read the rest of the article and see the breathtaking photos...
an old video from New Year's ...
omg!-haha, I found this just recently. It's from New Year's of 2006 into 2007. Yes, I am drunk. Yikes!
why do I always have dreams about the end of the world?
Had another end of the world dream this morning. It was real-like, so vivid and fucking scary as all hell. So. I guess it will be water that kills us all. Better than fire I guess.No I don't know what's gonna happen, when and if anything at all. The idea I have is that us humans will do ourselves in. Run out of supplies, water, food, gas, electric. The ice caps will melt, loads of animals, sea life and plants will become no more. The sun will make it too hot for any humans to survive and so on. That's how I think the end of the world would be. Scary thought isn't it?
Anyhow- the dream seemed so real-I woke up with my heart beating so fast! I know the dream was really long, but only remember parts of it. The first thing I remember is standing on some old man's back porch. This old man I saw on the weather channel a few days ago. He ws a sailor that survived Katrina. I was watching storms stories. Haha. So there we are on the back porch, shoulder level in water. I was standing there wondering why he was sitting at a table across from another gentleman, having a drink with his legs crossed. I was like "hellllo, flood!" I guess this sort of thing happened all the time? The water level dropped quickly before our eyes & everything was back to normal. How weird. Then the next part I remember standing w/ some other guys on a upper level somewhere, looking down at the freeway. I don't know who these guys were. Out of nowhere, these big 18 wheeler trucks come barreling down the freeway. With all their heavy loads still attached. We said "god, those idiots always drive too fast, wonder why their driving so fast?" Then we see all these cars racing down the freeway, some packed with families and supplies. We then really wondered what they were trying to get away from. All of a sudden I am on a train with about 80 people. We were going pretty slow, then the driver stepped on the gas and we were flying, going the fastest the train could go. It wasn't going fast enough. All of a sudden a few of us see this truck. It was like the van on Scooby doo. About 6 of us got into the van and took off. Before getting off the train we saw a huge humongous tidal wave, just a wall of water coming over the trees, as high as the sky and even taking the clouds with them. That's how high this wall of water was! Sometimes I can remember who I was with, others I can't. I think Ursula was there for a second & told me to stop worrying about leaving my shoes behind. Haha. I kid you not! But they are my fav. flip flops that I wear almost everyday, I love them, we have a bond! We do!
So, we get in this van, there's about 6 people and we speed away, leaving my fav. flip flops on the ground. I cried and reached out "wait, my flip flops!" I was so upset. They are like what linus' blanket is to him. You know. So I try to get over it because the end of the world is coming you know. So, we are trying to outbeat mother nature and we are all screaming and yelling "Go Go". The wave is coming closer and closer and the roar was eerie. I wish I could remember who else was in the van w/ me. Damn it. I remember foam from the wave being everywhere. The water came as close to our back tire!!! And we made it out alive!!! The sad thing was, we were the only survivers. I almost forgot- there was this cute cat that was on the train tracks that was panicing and crying out for help. I tried to snatch him up, but couldn't reach him. When we got in the van I asked the driver if we could go back and get him. We had no time. The wall of water was just over our heads. I remember crying for the cat. And in the end wondering if it made it. We were all surprised we out ran the wave, we were all in shock. Relieved, happy, sad, exhausted, spent and crying. We all just sat on the ground crying hard. It was so weird. So vivid. I wish I could remember more. There was more to the end. Hopefully I'll remember later. I'll come back. The intire world was flooded. Even the North pole. You couldn't see any buildings anymore. No Impire State building, No stature of Liberty, nothing in Paris either. It was one big under water city. One big vast, never ending Sea.
Anyhow- the dream seemed so real-I woke up with my heart beating so fast! I know the dream was really long, but only remember parts of it. The first thing I remember is standing on some old man's back porch. This old man I saw on the weather channel a few days ago. He ws a sailor that survived Katrina. I was watching storms stories. Haha. So there we are on the back porch, shoulder level in water. I was standing there wondering why he was sitting at a table across from another gentleman, having a drink with his legs crossed. I was like "hellllo, flood!" I guess this sort of thing happened all the time? The water level dropped quickly before our eyes & everything was back to normal. How weird. Then the next part I remember standing w/ some other guys on a upper level somewhere, looking down at the freeway. I don't know who these guys were. Out of nowhere, these big 18 wheeler trucks come barreling down the freeway. With all their heavy loads still attached. We said "god, those idiots always drive too fast, wonder why their driving so fast?" Then we see all these cars racing down the freeway, some packed with families and supplies. We then really wondered what they were trying to get away from. All of a sudden I am on a train with about 80 people. We were going pretty slow, then the driver stepped on the gas and we were flying, going the fastest the train could go. It wasn't going fast enough. All of a sudden a few of us see this truck. It was like the van on Scooby doo. About 6 of us got into the van and took off. Before getting off the train we saw a huge humongous tidal wave, just a wall of water coming over the trees, as high as the sky and even taking the clouds with them. That's how high this wall of water was! Sometimes I can remember who I was with, others I can't. I think Ursula was there for a second & told me to stop worrying about leaving my shoes behind. Haha. I kid you not! But they are my fav. flip flops that I wear almost everyday, I love them, we have a bond! We do!
So, we get in this van, there's about 6 people and we speed away, leaving my fav. flip flops on the ground. I cried and reached out "wait, my flip flops!" I was so upset. They are like what linus' blanket is to him. You know. So I try to get over it because the end of the world is coming you know. So, we are trying to outbeat mother nature and we are all screaming and yelling "Go Go". The wave is coming closer and closer and the roar was eerie. I wish I could remember who else was in the van w/ me. Damn it. I remember foam from the wave being everywhere. The water came as close to our back tire!!! And we made it out alive!!! The sad thing was, we were the only survivers. I almost forgot- there was this cute cat that was on the train tracks that was panicing and crying out for help. I tried to snatch him up, but couldn't reach him. When we got in the van I asked the driver if we could go back and get him. We had no time. The wall of water was just over our heads. I remember crying for the cat. And in the end wondering if it made it. We were all surprised we out ran the wave, we were all in shock. Relieved, happy, sad, exhausted, spent and crying. We all just sat on the ground crying hard. It was so weird. So vivid. I wish I could remember more. There was more to the end. Hopefully I'll remember later. I'll come back. The intire world was flooded. Even the North pole. You couldn't see any buildings anymore. No Impire State building, No stature of Liberty, nothing in Paris either. It was one big under water city. One big vast, never ending Sea.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Sweet E.
Your words and the road just rolls out from behind me
What did you do Today Mr Sweet E.?
I think about you in dirty ways
As I stare out into the wild blue yonder.
Was I tragically underrated and ignored?
crooning and weeping in the falling rain
dreaming of the night
we sit side by side
outdoors on the stoop
under the old tree
Laced with glowing Latterns
and the Sea by your cottage
is mine to drown in.
You make me Restless and Melancholy,
it's so bittersweet.
So tragic, so awful.
Sweet E. with your sweet ease
what did you do Today?
I am planning to sit side by side
under that old beautiful tree
and the Sea View by your house and you
are mine all mine
to drown in.
August 21, 2005 (5-6pm)
What did you do Today Mr Sweet E.?
I think about you in dirty ways
As I stare out into the wild blue yonder.
Was I tragically underrated and ignored?
crooning and weeping in the falling rain
dreaming of the night
we sit side by side
outdoors on the stoop
under the old tree
Laced with glowing Latterns
and the Sea by your cottage
is mine to drown in.
You make me Restless and Melancholy,
it's so bittersweet.
So tragic, so awful.
Sweet E. with your sweet ease
what did you do Today?
I am planning to sit side by side
under that old beautiful tree
and the Sea View by your house and you
are mine all mine
to drown in.
August 21, 2005 (5-6pm)
Tahoe Blues
I take two showers
to make sure
I wash
that small town
off my skin.
Watch it go down
the drain.
Cold, cold, winter cold
up top of that Mountain
7,000 feet up.
Bingo & Carla
Monday through Thursday.
Jeff, jekyll and hyde-
will you think about me
when you clean out my
food from your fridge?
green beans..."oh raven"
Broccoli ..."oh raven"
Asparagus..."oh raven"
cottage chesse
Cranberry Juice
and Low fat milk...
"oh raven",
"I'll be thinking of you
Dear Raven and how
I did you wrong."
to make sure
I wash
that small town
off my skin.
Watch it go down
the drain.
Cold, cold, winter cold
up top of that Mountain
7,000 feet up.
Bingo & Carla
Monday through Thursday.
Jeff, jekyll and hyde-
will you think about me
when you clean out my
food from your fridge?
green beans..."oh raven"
Broccoli ..."oh raven"
Asparagus..."oh raven"
cottage chesse
Cranberry Juice
and Low fat milk...
"oh raven",
"I'll be thinking of you
Dear Raven and how
I did you wrong."
Pretty, but aloof
All the glass hammers
and Devil's advocates
and all those voices
between the threads
of that noose
around your neck.
Pretty, but aloof,
she watches through
windows
As he kills
all her white horses
in the cold black night
The evil winds chase him away
Sorrow Swallows her whole
all she knows of...
dreaming on Maple Street
where The Sirens sing
of murder.
I'm stuck in a world
you can not see.
Raven Rogers
12/10/04.
Lake Tahoe, CA.
and Devil's advocates
and all those voices
between the threads
of that noose
around your neck.
Pretty, but aloof,
she watches through
windows
As he kills
all her white horses
in the cold black night
The evil winds chase him away
Sorrow Swallows her whole
all she knows of...
dreaming on Maple Street
where The Sirens sing
of murder.
I'm stuck in a world
you can not see.
Raven Rogers
12/10/04.
Lake Tahoe, CA.
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