Why thankee Faerie Kat!  Had a great day at a meeting and chatting with the Nance…

Here are the rules in accepting this award:

1.  Thank the person who gave this to you.
2.  Copy the logo and place it in your blog.
3.  Link the person who nominated you.
4.  Name 7 things about yourself that no one would really know.
5.  Nominate seven ‘Kreativ Bloggers.’
6.  Post links to the seven blogs you nominate.
7.  Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know you nominated them.

I’ll have to work on the 7 other bloggers and the seven things no one would really know as hey, my life is an open book and it seems we are a mutual admiration society and circulate these things amongst our selves…

1. I used to wear lots of makeup, painted my quite long natural nails, spent 3o minutes on my hair ever day, was always in the latest rock n roll fashion.  Today I don’t shave my legs and haven’t for nigh on 20 years and I only paint my toenails in the summer.  Makeup?  Sometimes a little powder and blush just so I don’t look ill (I can be a pale one). And you can’t get me out of my jeans***…

2. I am addicted to potato chips and cheese puffs, if I’m not eating them it’s because I’m trying really hard not to which is most of the time.  I really don’t want to kill myself with junk food, but dang a lang….  I quit everything else.

3. I’m terribly shy with a man I have a crush on.  I am right out there with all other people, can walk up and start conversations with complete strangers but when it comes to a man I like, I just kind of, forget who I am.  I become very tongue tied and can barely speak.  My friends find it astonishing. Good thing it doesn’t happen that often and I’m getting better because I’m seriously getting over them.  Men, that is.  Well, except for #6.

4. I worked at Peaches Records on Hollywood Blvd for about 6 months. Best job I ever had.  I was the cashier and in charge of what music played on my shift.  LOVED that.

5. I adore glitter, especially pink and turquoise and lime green glitter.  You’d never know it by looking at me or my house. It is a super seckrit lust.

6. I’m in lust with a dead man, Steve Marriot, before 1980.

7. I used to play several instruments; violin, and recorders; soprano, sopranino, alto, tenor recorders and can read music in all 3 clefs.  A little piano and flute. I’m not bad with the vocal cords when I’m not feeling very shy.

*** well you can get me out of my jeans but you better be damn cute, damn sexy, very sweet, a little bad, and funny as hell. And don’t forget smart.

Sorry gang, I’m just full of words and thoughts that have to get out.  Prolific this week.

From FaerieKat:

The trick is to let everyone else have their opinion without letting it influence or upset you. Letting others have their say really costs you nothing, but gives them the opportunity to express both their point of view and a place to be in your life, a way to care. It may not be what you need or want, but it is how they know, what they know. I’ve perfected the wise, smiling acceptance of their words while internally blowing them off and doing just as I please/think I ought.

This is really, truly, er, true.  I’ve received some very wonderful advice and commentary over the last couple weeks but I find myself wondering if the lesson I’m in the middle of isn’t contained in these words. Continue reading →

I can’t wait until this is all healed and not red to post.  I gotsta do it now.  I now have one on each arm, I feel more balanced…  The first one was for my self-dedication/initiation many years ago, a faery arm band.  This one for 50 years and recognized initiation.

It’s behind the cut for those who don’t want to see it because they all squeamish and stuff…

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I woke up this morning and I feel GREAT.  Had a good sleep.  Getting my new tattoo in a few hours.  The parents aren’t home until tomorrow at 3-5, I have the house to myself.  Have an answer re: M. I love getting answers, I can stop running in place and actually move again.  Yes!

Had a good talk with my sponsor, I don’t agree with everything she says but I knew that before I asked her to be my sponsor.  She is a very loving person even if she doesn’t really know or get me.  Reading the book with her as long  as we can will be good and I’m sure life changing.

Did I tell you that I feel really great this morning?  I feel forgiving and loving and amiable and well rested and joyful and excited and well, darned glad to be here.

Without further ado, the new design.  The vines feel very god-like, anter-like to me, earthy, and yet female.  I think I’ve covered it all in a very pleasant way.  I’m so excited…  I admit I found the vines online while searching one day for tattoo designs.  I have a huge folder of images of possibilities.  I have a few more touches before I go in, little tiny things, I might have to compromise a bit on the font, so am going in early to talk to their artist, see what will work… But the swirls are kind of necessary.