RANDOM Time!

In spite of my sad posts about litter and intolerance, the above video is actually what I've sort of felt like for the past several days. So, I figured I'd share it here.

And I am going to be totally totally random because...well, because that's my mindset right now.

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Did you know that it's already spring where I am? Or anyways, it's spring so far as I'm concerned. It's also spring so far as the plants are concerned. It's beautiful. And I've also got allergies. Fun fun fun. This is my favorite time of year, though, regardless of allergies.

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This morning I let my hair down briefly (it was semi-coming down already and I didn't feel like putting it back up immediately) and one of my classmates grabbed me later exclaiming over my hair. She wanted to know how long I've been growing it out, and what I use on it. So I told her that I'm experimenting with going no poo, but that I did actually use this great 2 in 1 shampoo/conditioner stuff on it last Saturday. So it's been...let's see...three days since washing it and it is still looking great. Maybe I'll share a photo of it later...

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I bought some pop tarts this morning. I haven't had one in a while, and it was amazing the memories it brought back.

When Tall One and I were little we always had pop tarts for breakfast. Dad would play Critter (his hand was Critter, and the middle and index fingers were Critter's legs) as Tall One and I ate. As I recall Tall One had a fondness for trying to flatten Critter...or was that just when mom was playing Critter?

I even remember that I always broke off the crust of the pop tarts.

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The most bizarre thing happened this morning. Realize, I have three classes back to back with the same professor. So the first class I was wide awake, but I was falling asleep in the second class, and then wide awake for the third class.

I have no idea what was going on with me. And no, the professor wasn't boring me to sleep! I had been thinking that it was my allergy medication, but the particular stuff I'm taking has never made me drowsy before and anyways I wouldn't have woken up so quickly if it were the medication.

I'm still clueless about what was going on.

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Have you heard of Google Wave? It's this cool new thing that Google is putting together. It hasn't been released to the public yet, but if you plead your case to them they might let you get an account. How do I know this? Tall One managed to get an account. :)

He invited mom and me onto it, so now I'm playing around with it. It's not perfect, but hey, it's a work in progress! And it's my new play toy. :) I've actually working on a school project on it, and it's crashed twice. Fortunately my work was saved when it crashed, so no worries.

The following video was in a message that I got as soon as I opened my account. You won't see the stuff the guy is pointing to because you aren't in Google Wave, but it'll give you an idea of the cool stuff Google Wave has if you're curious.

And yes, in case you haven't figured out yet, I am a fan of Google. :)

Snoozing on the bus

Sometimes when I'm tired I have trouble keeping my eyes open while I'm on the bus. I haven't had trouble with missing my stop yet...but the keyword there is "yet". So, I've found a solution, and am somewhat proud of myself: I can use the timer on my cell phone so that it will wake me up before I get to my stop.

This tired college kid is finding new ways of coping. :)

I spy...

I spy five pieces of litter...


...and I spy more than five pieces of litter! Can you find them all?



This place is only a block from my house, and I walk by it frequently. Less than a year ago I was compelled to get in touch with some of the people in charge of things where I live and ask for it to be cleaned up. I even offered to organize the cleanup.

It got cleaned up, and now...THIS. In less than a year. I hate to make a nuisance of myself, but this is not ok. It makes me sad, it makes the spirit of land very unhappy, and, oh yeah, there's this little sign that's attached to the fence surrounding the place:



When I get sad I find that Les Miserables helps me to cheer up, so I'm sharing the first several minutes of it here. If you aren't familiar with it, I highly recommend that you check it out from your local library!

Intolerance that leaves me speechless

Something happened the other day to make me sort of sad.

I was on facebook. Well, that isn't what made me sad, but it's something that happened on facebook. Someone's status was:

Go to urbandictionary.com, type in your 1st name, copy and paste this on your status and put the 1st entry for your name under comments.

This was cool. I did it, and it was fun. In fact, the two friends of mine who also did it shared more than just the first entry, which was extra fun. The thing that made me sad was that one of my facebook friends who did it (and who I've actually met face to face just a few times) said that she wouldn't share the third entry on her facebook, but that we could look it up if we wanted to. I looked it up, and it turned out that it said that her name was slang for "lesbian."

I know she's a Right Wing Christian, but this being me I just had to ask "What's wrong with the word lesbian?" She replied "Everything's wrong with it. I do not want it on my facebook." Then she deleted my question and her reply.

I'm wasn't surprised by her response, but it still made me sad. I'm also sort of speechless. How can someone be so intolerant?

Maybe I should blow some bubbles to cheer myself up. Peace through bubbles!

And now, just for the fun of it, here's what urbandictionary.com says about my name:

1) the hottest most gorgeous chick in alaMURda (alameda for you un gangsta ppl) and i love her !!!!

sarita is my sexy woman and i love her

The next two are in the same vein. Who knew I was so hot? Number 4, and the last one, is...

4) The cheapest person ever. Often thinks extremely discounted sales items are overpriced. Used as an adjective to describe obscenely difficult actions to save small sums of money.

Today I pulled a Sarita and 20 miles because the gas is 1 cent cheaper there.

I actually find number four sort of funny. And since Sarita is the Spanish form of Sarah (did you know that?) I also want to share the first entry for the name Sarah:

1) The name "Sarah" is translated from the Hebrew language. It means "Princess"...and rightly so!

The translation of "Sarah" is "princess"

So I guess I'm a hot princess.

Anyways, I figured that a little bit of levity would be good after talking about intolerance.

The moon

I've mentioned before that I'm trying to pay more attention to the lunar cycle. I've always felt disconnected from it, and I find it's easy to forget about the moon. Yes, go ahead and gasp in horror if you like. But it's true. I'm tuned in to the changing of the seasons, but really the only times I pay attention to the moon is if it catches my eye in the sky (hey that rhymes!) and when I start my period.

On Imbolc two days ago I was thinking about how little thought I give to the moon, and that I really ought to pay more attention to it. As I was thinking, I realized that if I do something special to mark the changing of the moon throughout its cycle that I'll have to pay attention to it. So, I decided that I'll do something special every full moon.

I'll probably just light a candle and maybe try to meditate on it, or something equally simple. Not anything fancy, but something that will get me to spend at least a minute or so thinking about it. Whatever it is it needs to be simple, because what if the full moon happens right in the middle of the school week when I'm going crazy because of a crazy schedule?

I don't think I'll need to do anything in particular for the new moon, because my period starts within a few days of it. So I already take note of the new moon to keep track of my own cycle. (If that's TMI for some people I'm sorry. But I'm talking about connecting to the moon and traditionally the woman's cycle is connected to the moon, so...yeah.)

Do you do anything special to celebrate the turning of the moon? If so, what?

Mrs. B.'s cool givaway

I'm keeping this short and sweet tonight.

Mrs. B. is having a givaway for some really cool cooking stuff. I'm entering because I think it will be useful for when I move out of my parent's house (in the distant future...) so I'm getting them for my hope chest. And of course, I'm blogging about it because that means that I can get an extra entry, and am therefore more likely to win!

By the way, how many people know the term "hope chest"? I grew up with that term, but it seems that not many people are familiar with it...

Oh yes, and about my moving out...I sort of doubt that I'll be moving out anytime soon, because I'd miscalculated how much I'll be earning a month. Things sort of got mixed up in my head so I thought that I would be making per month how much I'm actually making per term. And the two numbers are quite different, as you can imagine.

Imbolc

I am such a bad Pagan.

Last night I suddenly realized "Oh my gosh! It's Imbolc!" It was late-ish and I had homework, so I decided to just think nice thoughts and leave it at that.

So I went through most of today thinking that yesterday was Imbolc. I even mentioned it to my supervisor, that I'd missed Imbolc! (We did start talking about the connection between Imbolc, St. Brighid's Day, and Groundhog Day, which was a neat conversation.)

Then I get online, and all my Pagan friends are talking about Imbolc today. So, um, I guess I got it wrong. lol

I am such a bad bad Pagan. I can't even keep my holy days straight.

So I don't know what I'll do for Imbolc. I'm thinking simple, but nice. Maybe a really nice dinner, and a fire in the fireplace? Hmm... And, of course, perhaps chatting with Brighid to find out why Spring has come so darned early where I am. Yep, that's right, it's already Spring where I live. I kid you not.

Happy Imbolc!!!