Can you believe it?!?
Okay, so I didn’t win the Big prize, but don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, eh? I won something really cool!
I am the esteemed winner of a 10 x 10 plot with Highland Titles – ta-daa!
But as you all know, I am already a Lady and therefore decided to bestow the title onto someone else, someone very dear to me who I know would appreciate the gift.
May I Present: Lord William MacGregor of Glencoe, a.k.a. My Dad
Congratulations Daddy!
If you’re looking for an awesome radio show/podcast that will get your brain working, check out Simple Soulful where host Damian John’s mantra is “Death to audio wallpaper!”
Simple Soulful is a weekly program exploring human beauty and human foible, how we as humans establish connections to one another and to all things in the natural world. Using music with ties to the indigenous roots of humans, poetry that is fantastic and wooly, an excellent etymological dictionary, and heartfelt and humorous spoken word, Damian attempts to stimulate the listener and create an experience that warrants listening deeply.
The topic for the last couple of weeks: Zeitgeist – if you’ve never heard of it, look it up, it’ll get your brain rolling in all sorts of directions!
Hooray! It’s my favourite day of the year – International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Don’t speak Pirate? No problem man, all you have to do is watch this short video, How To Talk Like A Pirate, and you’re all set to impress your friends and colleagues with your Pirate prowess.
Being in the midst of taking a language course of my own at the moment I’m particularly impressed with this how-to video, it’s awesome. Enjoy!
For those of you that don’t know, I had started this blog in response to a contest posted by Highland Titles and it’s going to be ending soon, in October I believe.
Regardless of whether I win the contest or not, it’s been great to have a place to post all my fun stuff and stories from the past year. It would be so frickin’ awesome (oops, not very ladylike but I managed to edit it so it isn’t quite the word that initially popped in mind!) to get a trip to Scotland, that goes without saying. But my sweetie and I do have a bunch of Aeroplan miles kicking around from when we built our house so perhaps we can make our way over there regardless!
We shall see. Either way, wish me luck!
You’ll remember I whipped up a felted version of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu in a previous post, and that I was giving him to my bro-in-law Martin.
Well I’m happy to report that Mr. Cthulhu has made it to his new home and is happily installed and settling in with his new sock monkey family.
Awwww, how cute!
Aw man, I was so excited that I was getting to the end of the first unit in our Gaelic course with Rosetta stone that I think I breezed through it a little bit fast. That plus the fact that the last section was huge and I did part of it one night and the other part a couple weeks later – it’s so hard to remember stuff when a unit is broken up like that!
Well, I got to the end of the entire Unit 1, and turns out there is a little real-life scenario that I get to do – it lays out a scene picture by picture, and then folks say stuff and I have to say stuff back. I totally bombed!!!! I think I only got one part right. *Big Sigh*
I’ve decided to go back and do that last section all in one fell swoop, like it should be done, and that plus the repetition should do me just fine and dandy.
I’m a smart gal, I can do these things no problem as long as I have a system that works – complete units done all in one go and no more gaps of weeks at a time! Now that all of our visitors have left it should be easier to do.
Wish me luck!
My dear friend Tamar’s ex-husband is trying to get joint custody of their kids even though he has admitted to abusing their baby son (that’s why he’s an ex), he has a no-contact order against him and he is on the child abuse registry.
Her legal fees are piling up and her lawyer cannot help her fight this latest court battle that he and his family continue to hit her with until she can pay her legal fees, and all this while she is working and supporting her children as a single mom. To top it off he won’t sign the paper that says he is paying her any support, therefore it doesn’t count as income, and she can’t now secure a loan for this latest court escapade.
Tamar is the most brave and wonderful person you will ever meet, it’s ridiculous that she has to continue to deal with this man’s nonsense and abuse. Any little bit that folks can help out with will make a difference. Her children deserve to be safe and happy with their mom!
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We’ve had temperatures in the 30’s this past little while (that’s Celcius of course) and whew! Am I melting!
Don’t get me wrong, I love it when it’s hot, and so far I’ve only had one day where it crossed the line into too darn hot, I had a headache, I was cranky, etc. etc. – I think it was 38 degrees that day. Otherwise it’s just a matter of planning when the fan comes on and strategically eating cold foods or cooking outside.
But one of the great things about this kind of weather is the showers – I have an outdoor shower and it uses one of those solar bags that you hang up and it gets heated up during the day. If I wait until around 6-ish in the evening then the water is a lovely temperature and it’s actually a bit cooling without being so cold as jumping in the river! That’s way too cold for me, but my sweetie loves it. It has to be done around 6-ish though, because today I went in just after 5 and the water was hot! Almost too hot if you can believe it, but solar heat is the best I suppose.
And, the shower hangs in the middle of this snail-shell structure that Damian and I built so that no stupid trespassing neighbours can catch me in the buff (this almost happened last year), and it also works as a handy dandy place to hang my clothes and towel.
Do I live in the best place or what!?!?
I couldn’t resist!
He’s done at long last! The Dreaded Cthulhu!!!
Actually he didn’t take that long to make, I had just spread it out over time. The idea came from Martin, my bro-in-law (who just so happens to create wicked comics called Foreign Matter) when we had done a Skype call and I showed him something I had just finished felting. I think he suggested Cthulhu as a joke, but once I looked up the pictures it was a challenge I couldn’t pass up!
For those of you that don’t know anything about Cthulhu, here’s a bit of info for you: Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by H.P. Lovecraft, and he’s apparently the source of constant anxiety for mankind at a subconscious level; He’s part Octopus, Dragon, and Human and to even look upon his form may cost you your sanity! Cthulhu had once ruled the Earth, and apparently will do so again. Ooooooo, scary!
Anyways, like I said it’s been a while since I started my creation so I think Martin’s forgotten all about it, so I’m going to surprise him with the finished product when he comes to visit this month. Surprise! An evil Cthulhu just for you Marty!
I so love felting, I can make pretty much anything!