Pandoracle says, Taylor Swift's Blank Space.
She said she interpreted it as us getting some much needed breathing space.
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Oracle Readings Received: Psychic DJ Oracle (Feb 28 2015)
Question: What's Next?
Pandoracle says, Taylor Swift's Blank Space.
She said she interpreted it as us getting some much needed breathing space.
Pandoracle says, Taylor Swift's Blank Space.
She said she interpreted it as us getting some much needed breathing space.
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Common House Residents Journal #15: 2015-02-14
Entry #: 15
Journal Type: outworld
Date: 2015-02-14
Replies: yes
Author: Maureen
Trigger Warnings: language, food/health issues
Some jerk on the bus this morning was eating a peanut butter bagel. The smell of most peanut butters makes us nauseous bodily (we aren't allergic bodily that we know of, but that's been a known vertigo trigger since the body was probably 7). For some of us, like me, the dizziness is worse than others (inworld I am actually allergic to peanut butter among many other food allergies).
It's supposed to snow again tomorrow. Apparently we're supposed to get thunder snow in the wee hours of the morning tonight/tomorrow. Carlos, Cecil and I might set an alarm to watch that.
Tomorrow I might mess around with our hairchalk and see if I can do my faux undercut hairstyle better with elastics since the bobby pin method doesn't hold very well.
Also going to do a lot of writing and catching up on online classes. Hopefully the power won't go out.
(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)
Journal Type: outworld
Date: 2015-02-14
Replies: yes
Author: Maureen
Trigger Warnings: language, food/health issues
Some jerk on the bus this morning was eating a peanut butter bagel. The smell of most peanut butters makes us nauseous bodily (we aren't allergic bodily that we know of, but that's been a known vertigo trigger since the body was probably 7). For some of us, like me, the dizziness is worse than others (inworld I am actually allergic to peanut butter among many other food allergies).
It's supposed to snow again tomorrow. Apparently we're supposed to get thunder snow in the wee hours of the morning tonight/tomorrow. Carlos, Cecil and I might set an alarm to watch that.
Tomorrow I might mess around with our hairchalk and see if I can do my faux undercut hairstyle better with elastics since the bobby pin method doesn't hold very well.
Also going to do a lot of writing and catching up on online classes. Hopefully the power won't go out.
(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Common House Residents Journal #14: 2015-02-10
Entry #: 14
Journal Type: outworld
Date: 2015-02-10
Replies: yes
Author: Maureen
Trigger Warnings: none
It's been a week. All this snow is annoying. We don't usually read the news, but this is definitely the hilarious thing of the day Break-up Letter to Snow from the City of Boston. (Also totally my sense of humor.)
Tomorrow we're stopping by the bank to deposit money so we can order our early birthday present from fiancé: tickets to the Welcome to Night Vale Live Show when it comes to Boston. It gives me all the more reason to finish updating my cosplay of myself around our actual birthday. I think we're also going to see if we can pick up the rest of the pieces to make a few other Night Vale cosplays around then (bonus if they can also double as actual clothes). I might also put our gift certificate to David's Tea in our purse. Maybe I'll go get a cup of tea while we're downtown.
I'm also poking at different online things. Hoping I can figure out what to do about money. Not sure what exactly we're going to tell KR (our MRC counselor) tomorrow. But we're doing what we need even though there's a pretty big learning curve right now for the three things we want to do.
I got 1.5 weeks of one of the MOOCs we're studying done this morning. Hoping I can do another 1.5 -2.0 done tomorrow.
Also might have to restart the artist's way again (we are so behind on it might just want to do a re-do again I'll figure it out tomorrow. It is the end of mercury retrograde after all. Also this E-squared book Carlos adores is actually kind of fun. The first experiment only gave us small blessings (admittedly we were in a bad mood so that could be why), but the second experiment has been somewhat successful: I spotted 6 sunset-beige cars today. Tomorrow I have to keep an eye out for yellow butterflies. (I'm using the 48 hour rule loosely because the snow has thrown off all the local timing; we're doing things on more like a 72 hour cycle).
(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)
Journal Type: outworld
Date: 2015-02-10
Replies: yes
Author: Maureen
Trigger Warnings: none
It's been a week. All this snow is annoying. We don't usually read the news, but this is definitely the hilarious thing of the day Break-up Letter to Snow from the City of Boston. (Also totally my sense of humor.)
Tomorrow we're stopping by the bank to deposit money so we can order our early birthday present from fiancé: tickets to the Welcome to Night Vale Live Show when it comes to Boston. It gives me all the more reason to finish updating my cosplay of myself around our actual birthday. I think we're also going to see if we can pick up the rest of the pieces to make a few other Night Vale cosplays around then (bonus if they can also double as actual clothes). I might also put our gift certificate to David's Tea in our purse. Maybe I'll go get a cup of tea while we're downtown.
I'm also poking at different online things. Hoping I can figure out what to do about money. Not sure what exactly we're going to tell KR (our MRC counselor) tomorrow. But we're doing what we need even though there's a pretty big learning curve right now for the three things we want to do.
I got 1.5 weeks of one of the MOOCs we're studying done this morning. Hoping I can do another 1.5 -2.0 done tomorrow.
Also might have to restart the artist's way again (we are so behind on it might just want to do a re-do again I'll figure it out tomorrow. It is the end of mercury retrograde after all. Also this E-squared book Carlos adores is actually kind of fun. The first experiment only gave us small blessings (admittedly we were in a bad mood so that could be why), but the second experiment has been somewhat successful: I spotted 6 sunset-beige cars today. Tomorrow I have to keep an eye out for yellow butterflies. (I'm using the 48 hour rule loosely because the snow has thrown off all the local timing; we're doing things on more like a 72 hour cycle).
(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)
Sunday, February 8, 2015
[FICTION] IF I STAY BY GAYLE FORMAN
If I Stay by Gayle Forman is a YA novel about having to make the ultimate choice after tragedy.
After a tragic car accident, Mia spends one day in an out-of-body experience telling her story through flashbacks to her past as she considers the choice she has to make: if she stays.
While it’s marketed a bit to Twilight fans on the cover, that’s not the impression I find fits with it. Looking at the other books inside the cover that are marketed as “other books you may like” to me the one that this fits best along with is Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer, which is one of my favorite YA novels of all time because it grapples with identity, hope, family, and difficult situations.
I enjoyed this book because the pacing is well-done and I have a weakspot for flashback fiction, but what I like in this book, is the fact that between the flashbacks and the narration, there is the underlying theme of family of choice: that family doesn’t have to be your immediate family and it can include friends and other loved ones as well. The other thing that drew me was the role music plays throughout the storyline’s flashbacks from Mia’s passion for cello to different aspects of her life where music is central to her family and her relationships.
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