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| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 |
imtboo
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4:56p |
World, you are messed up. Oh my god... My wish for flip flops and dresses seems to be around the corner: Thu  76°F | 52°FFri 83°F | 52°F Ah Seattle... where is your goold ol' moderation ? Do you know how many people are going to get sick from going from 52 high to 83 high in two days ? |
imtboo
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2:08p |
I feel it all. It is hard to work on Radical Acceptance of the news today.My life always feels so small and ridiculous when things like this occur. And yet it is how the world is. And we happen to live in this world less than millions of others. It is what it is. Enjoy every moment. Be yourself. Reject guilt. Send a buck or two if you can. |
imtboo
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11:38a |
Sad day for art. RIP Robert Rauschenberg  |
imtboo
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11:26a |
Can you help ?
Hi all...
I am fairly new at this knitting thing ( well, I learned like 2 years ago but I pick it up sporadically) and Ive endeavoured to make yet another scarf. This one is striped and uses three colors but I don't understand the beginning instructions.
It says :
Row 1:
Knit first stitch through back loop ( knit 2 purl 2) across row until 3 stitches remain, knit 2, bring yarn to front of work and slip last stitch purlwise.
Row 2 : same thing.
Repeat rows 1 and 2 for pattern and at the same time keep this color sequence:
row 1-20:color a
row 21-22:color
etc...
So... What does knit first stitch through back loop mean and I don't understand. Am I knitting with both colors. Which color do I cast on with ?
If someone could direct me to a video guide on this that would rock. I am much better at learning by watching. Something with pictures would work too.
I just doesn't seem that complicated when I look at the scarf so I think there is something I am not understanding in the wording here.
Thanks so much ~! |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
trochee
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7:07p |
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imtboo
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6:57p |
Shoe love. Oh my god, want :    I am actually considering returning my wedding shoes ( which were awesome but I only wore them once) and getting some sandals for summer instead. But the emotional attachment to my wedding shoes is definitely making it that I am not decided yet. |
imtboo
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6:05p |
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imtboo
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4:40p |
My brain has a dictionary in it. It's official. We live in the future. Wow. Why does that make me so sad ? Soon, books will go for a lot of money on Ebay. How did we get here so soon ? |
| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 |
streamsandpools
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12:38a |
Mixtape! Oh, this has been *so* much fun! Thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) imtboo for yet again finding all the coolest things on the internets. So, here it is, a gift from me to my gorgeous friends, a mix for the summer to come.... Enjoy! Current Mood:  bouncy |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
markdascot
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12:48p |
Cacti and Cukes This past Saturday blackwingedboy, Beth and I decided to head over to Yakima to partake in the grand Cactus Bloom Tour at Hillside gardens. Beth and I had just been to Yakima a month ago, where we had a spectacular lunch at The Barrel House along with finding out about said Cactus Bloom Tour. Great food and blooming cacti seemed like a match made in heaven to our desert rat mentality, so we made plans to return for the tour. After speaking with the WingedOne, who also decided this was too good an opportunity to pass up, a trip to the other side was set up. As this is not the Travel Channel, I will refrain from too many travel details. I do, however, want to tell you a bit about the Cactus Bloom Tour. As we neared our destination, it became apparent we were moving towards a housing development, and away from any open areas. After a couple of turnarounds, we found our location. A house. A small house. Undeterred we parked and approached. Once around the side of the house, all became apparent. Here was the grand Cactus Bloom Tour. A backyard. A truly wondrous backyard, lovingly cared for by Ron for over 25 years. In this backyard oasis Ron has managed to collect what seems to be every species of cacti known to mankind. As we walked, he spoke of long hours working on the garden, of folks coming from all over the world to see it, and of the International Cacti Association bussing folks over from Seattle for a tour. Beth and I purchased a couple of particularly interesting cacti, and we bid our farewells to Ron, and to his mind-blowing world cactus tour. After our tour, with stomachs growling, we headed back into town and towards The Barrel House. Parking was a breeze and we hopped out, almost running to the door. SLAM! Closed on Sat the 10th until 5pm. Glance at watch, 3:05pm. Stomach growls. AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After a moment of panic, we started to do some walking, beer drinking, walking, driving, and finished it off by watching the WingedBoyWonder almost get in a fight for ordering water. SUCCESS!! We managed to kill a couple of hours and thus headed back to culinary nirvana. Back story time: What sold me on The Barrel House was it's Rio Burger. When Beth and I were there last, I talked to the chef/owner about his food. He makes his own chipotles, smoking large red jalapenos until they become chipotle goodness. During this time he also smokes bacon in the same smoker, effectively making chipotle smoked bacon. With that, I give you the Rio Burger. It is a beef patty, hand rubbed with chili powder from his chipotle, and grilled on high flame until the outside is crispy black, but the inside is still medium rare and juicy. It's placed on an onion bun, then covered with chipotle smoked bacon, a thick slab of pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, red onion, and a guacamole mayo sauce that is out of this world. The burger ranks as one of my top 3 of all time. End Back Story So, 5pm comes and we run to the door, grab the closest table and settle in for what surely will be a feast. We ordered smoked salmon and sauteed pears and portobello for starters. The salmon was wonderful. A light dry smoke didn't hide the salmon'y goodness, and the caper cream cheese was lovely even on its own. The pear and portobello saute was out of this world to be honest. Texture was perfect, and flavor combo from the sweet to the earthy was...damn sexy to be honest. A glass of a very nice house Merlot, and the meal was off to a good start. A very good start. SCREEEEEEEEEECH!!! Then dinner came. Beth ordered flat iron steak with mushrooms. While the meat was done as ordered and it was certainly not tasteless, it lacked the robust flavor character I associate with a good flat iron steak. WingedOne got a seafood pasta dish with a pesto cream sauce. Kudo's to the waiter for not batting an eye when asked if the dish could be prepared without bacon. The dish itself, however, was rather bland. Pesto sauce was good, but not great, and the seafood while palatable, seemed to have lost all of it's sea essence. We do tend to get spoiled here in Seattle with our seafood, and I admit that could have a bearing here, so I'm not calling 100% foul. For my dish however, there are no excuses. I ordered the Shrimp Saute with Sweet Chili and Cucumber. What I got however was a plate of sliced cuckes that were as limp as overcooked asparagus. On top of those were overcooked (or reheated) shrimp covered in what could only be described as a Safeway brand chili salad dressing from hell. It tasted of chemicals and heavy metals. Horrid. I can only hope that with the shortened day, shortcuts were taken in the sauce dept. Not a bad end to the day, but it could have been better. On this trip to The Barrel House, I give them a 2 out of 5. Changes to schedules happen, mess-ups in stocking happen, personnel issues arise, but you simply cannot put out food that is sub-par to what you are capable of. I'm sure we will be back, as I firmly believe this was not the norm for them. Cheers! |
| Sunday, May 11th, 2008 |
beckyb
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5:32p |
And back to the story...
Okay. The conference was good. The banquet was nice except it was so loud that you could only hear the two people next to you. I met a few people that I am sorry I hadn't met earlier, met a few people who will be fun to know in Brazil, and saw a few old friends that I was delighted to be with. One is N, a friend from grad school who teaches in Boston. She is with me until Monday evening, when she will return home.
On Friday, we took the bus from Campinas to the "small" internal airport Congonhas. This is a 1.5 hour trip. Usually. Because of rain, traffic, some bad accidents, the trip took 3.5 hours. We are supposed to develop compassion for the poor truck drivers who are stuck in traffic. Once we got to the airport, Ricardo picked us up. It was fun to recognize all the love-motels along the Raposa highway. We passed the Wal-Mart and took the exit to Refugio. The entire area is being built up and really becoming suburban instead of mostly rural. We made it to Refugio where Lu met us. As she was bringing us up to the cupola to visit the lamas, we stopped in the shrine room. There have been *huge* changes since I was last here, mostly in the small details. I have pictures that I will post later.
We said hello, chatted for a bit and then said good night. The happy news was that, now, puja is at 8am on both Saturday and Sunday. We'd be able to sleep in! I slept in until 6:30 so that I could do prostrations before breakfast at 7:30 and be at puja, relatively fresh, at 8am. The lama cousin has taken to doing teachings after weekend pujas at Refugio. It was nice to have the teaching on Saturday, even though I had forgotten my notebook. I promised myself that I would remember my notebook on Sunday, but I forgot it then too.
I'm writing this Monday morning and will have to keep writing more later. Now, I need to call the USP professor to set up our lunch meeting and then figure out how to get an ATM to give me enough money to take taxis all over Sao Paulo. I will leave you with the foreshadowing that, other than the truck-stop restaurant where we got coxinha and pao de queijo, the only restaurant I have been to this trip is TGIFriday's. Thank goodness the food at Refugio is so good! |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
streamsandpools
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11:42a |
Dream  I swam back a long way with this one. I think I dreamed it early in the night and although I can barely remember the narrative, I know for sure I've been carrying a golden anvil back with me to the light of day via various other dreamscapes and layers of sleep. Even in a later dream I was telling someone I'd dreamed of it and wondering what the symbolism was. I wasn't even sure what an anvil was - something to do with metalwork was as near as I could get. There was a point where Kerry (my mum's husband) was lending me his special dictionary so I could look it up. All I can remember of the original dream is that there was a woman there and she was insistent that I replace her old broken anvil with a new golden one. It was part of this big machine and I felt like I had really no idea how to do it and no skills in working with such things but it seemed I was not to be given a choice so I set about doing my best. Despite my inexperience there was a small sense of confidence in my general abilities with knowing how things work. Without wanting to analyse it to death, now I'm awake the symbol of the anvil speaks to me of deep work, the deep work of soul-forging. It speaks of strength and great heat, sweat, the making of something enduring, intensity; also of crafting, creativity. Certainly feels like a positive symbol for me right now, as I continue the work of recreating myself each day under what feel like pretty intense and not wholly comfortable conditions. Current Mood:  determinedCurrent Music: imtboo's momtape |
| Sunday, May 11th, 2008 |
imtboo
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6:09p |
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imtboo
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7:36p |
Here you go Mom !!!
I hope you enjoy this mix !
I had a good time doing it and felt like it was a nice way to honor Mom. :)
Current Music: music, mom |
imtboo
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3:40p |
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streamsandpools
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12:01p |
Trusting the Vision, Holding the Fear Really excellent conversation with my preceptor, Kalyanaprabha, this morning. Also a really excellent night and conversation with Suryagita last night. Once again I come face to face with the dualities in me, namely the duality between the part which feels strong, capable, powerful and the one which feels small, afraid and weak. In terms of my current situation (meaning my decision to leave the UK and move to Seattle) there is the part which is adventurous and visionary, which felt the possibilities for me of this new life from really early on in my connection with W. This is the part which knows, which intuits, which is connected to my guides and allies, the part which is just able to say "Yes. This is right. I know it." This is the part which kept pushing the boundaries of my communication with W in the first year or so; this is the part which seized the opportunity to visit for the first time; this is the part which looked him straight in the eye as we sat in Carmelita's and told him "I want this. I am ready now." But then there is the other part. The part which panics as my emotions slowly begin to catch up to all the loss involved in this move. I start to feel just the edges of how it will be to say goodbye to my mum, to Clare, to Debz, to Cath....to the land and culture of England. I feel these things and that second side of me gets afraid. Afraid that I won't cope. Afraid that I've just taken on something too big. And yet another part comes in and tells me I'm stupid; tries to trash my vision and my instinct; my body throws up some pretty feisty ailments and I start wondering if it's a sign that I shouldn't be doing this, if my body is somehow punishing me for my stupidity, my naivete. So we spoke about all these things, and Kalyanaprabha likened it to the Buddhist path of Vision and Transformation. She really reflected back to me that my vision of this move is not to be trashed and reminded me of the depth and power of it, remembering our conversations from a year or so ago. She said she thought that there needed to be more dialogue between these two sides of me, that maybe the visionary side was perhaps inclined to make these big decisions without necessarily consulting with the rest of me, but that that didn't invalidate the vision or make it naive. She said sometimes the visionary side of us, vast as the sky, has trouble realising the patience that is needed for the transformation itself, the slow growth unfolding back on the ground. She talked of acorns and oak trees. So it made me realise (as did the Rosen treatment last weekend) that I've become a bit identified with the small, fearful side of myself lately, feeling that to be the whole of the story. Whereas what I need to do is allow space for both sides. I need for the visionary side to take account of and be patient and loving with the fearful side; I also (very importantly) need the fearful side to listen to and trust in the integrity of the visionary side. If the two aren't communicating or even allowing space for the other to exist then I guess my experience is just this lurching from one extreme to the other, which is tiring and also somewhat crazy-making. This time last year I had such a good strong feeling of trust in my intuition, my ability to follow the threads and currents of my life, to know what I need and when I need it. Lately I've really lost that trust and it's painful. I'd like it back, and I feel it returning, through these conversations with good wise women who know me and have witnessed me and my journey over eight years now. Current Mood:  grateful |
streamsandpools
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9:55a |
To Flip or Not to Flip....   So, my beloved blackwingedboy wants to buy me a camcorder for my birthday. He is such a sweetie and I am just overflowing with the goodness of how wonderful he is. But that's another story. I am having real trouble choosing between The Flip and the Panasonic SDR-S7. They are both tiny, hardly much difference in size between them. The big plus about the Panasonic is it has a 10X Optical Zoom, whereas The Flip has a 2X Digital Zoom, which is probably not much help at all. However, The Flip is just so goddamn CUTE. I have really fallen in love with it and I'm very tempted just to follow that feeling. The serious art-maker in me says that a zoom is actually quite important and would really help me capture things I can't actually get near enough to, like crows and other birds, dogs, faces of strangers, etc. But then I look at the picture of it, all dark and boring-looking and a just feel unexcited. And I look back at the Flip and the child in me grins stupidly and I get a bouncy feeling in my chest and feel like if I had one I'd just love it so much I'd want to be out playing with it all the time. But then I think "what about the zoom?" and wonder if I'm being silly and girly and should just get a hold of myself and choose the one that's going to make the best movies.... But surely the one that's going to make the best movies is the one that makes me happy and inspired and wanting to make movies.... Did I just convince myself? I think maybe I did. However, any pearls of wisdom from the floor would be greatly appreciated. I think I have to make my mind up by the end of the day so there's some chance it may arrive in time for Paris :) Also, I'm a bit torn about colours. I *really* wanted the green Flip, but that's not available in the 2GB model. Really it's between pink and orange, although imtboo has a pink one and I don't want to be a copy cat... Oh, so many decisions, however will I get through the day.... Current Mood: bouncyCurrent Music: blissful silence after stupid party last night |
| Saturday, May 10th, 2008 |
trochee
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7:07p |
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imtboo
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6:05p |
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imtboo
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4:51p |
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imtboo
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11:20a |
Sentimental Heart One of my favorite artists, M. Ward has teamed up with Ms Zooey Deschanels as the She & Him duet and made quite a fine little nostalgic album. Been listening to it on repeat all morning. I am not minding that funny 60's style come back. I like it much better than the 80's come back because I never got to live in the 60's, so it's fun. Besides the clothes are fun, though I'll be *really* happy when the 50's come back because everything will fit me then ! Take a listen.
I know Zooey Deschanels annoys the hell out of some people, but I really like her ! She is like Miranda July cross Bjork. |
| Friday, May 9th, 2008 |
imtboo
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10:35p |
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imtboo
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6:02p |
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streamsandpools
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4:40p |
Wooo! Paris! OMG. We did it! We (my amazingly generous and wonderful friend Debz) & I just booked Eurostar tickets to Paris. She's taking me there for the day for my birthday next month to see an exhibition of Patti Smith's photos / films etc. I am so excited. And grateful. I haven't been to Paris since I was 20. Wooo! Current Mood: bouncy |
| Thursday, May 8th, 2008 |
imtboo
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6:44p |
Do you know someone who has this ? Hello Seattle... I know it's a long shot but I need a new panel for part of my scooter that broke when some jerk knocked it down. The panel I need is highlighted in red on the photo. I need it in red. I'd consider black but would prefer red. Fanks.  |
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