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My beautiful boy is here for the weekend while his parents are celebrating Porter Airlines' 5th Anniversary.
Yesterday when we arrived here with him, the first question out of his mouth was, "Are we going hunting now?"
We had talked with him earlier in the week and explained that his Grandfather thought it would be neat to introduce him to the joys of hunting. Obviously, he thought it would be a good idea too.
This morning, he was up well before dawn, again asking, "Are we going hunting now?" We explained that he had to at least wait until it was light out, and he should have a good breakfast in his belly before heading out.
He ate a hearty breakfast of bacon and eggs and then eagerly got ready.
First, Grandpa outfitted him with a BB gun and they went out front with a cardboard box so Grandpa could teach him how to shoot. Bullseye every time, right out of the gate!
Next came the orange hunting jacket (way too big for him but we improvised).
I thought they'd never return!
When they finally showed up, sans birds, he declared that he didn't think he'd become a hunter. It was too much walking. I told him that he could have asked to come back sooner, to which he said, "No, I was having too much fun!"
He told his grandfather that he liked it, he just didn't like the part of there being no birds to shoot. But yes, he would like to go again.
Methinks John has a convert!


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It has been a very hard week for everyone in the community of Cottonwood and we all know that there will be more hard days to come, especially for the families that have lost their young children. Please remember this community in your prayers.
Char R.
Monday, February 25, 2008
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Friday, October 22, 2010
DAY NINETEEN - Here are my NUMBERS!!!!!! (measure/ pinch #2)
Because you ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE what I'm about to tell you all!!!!!
I was pinched and measured today and I about FELL OVER when I saw the results!!!!!
I was so worried that I felt "puffy"(as I mentioned in my mid day post) and my pinch and inches lost numbers might not be that great... but LOOK OUT PEOPLE...
I kicked Thass!!!
After posting some fairly significant losses after the first ten days I was prepared to not see anything close to those figures - especially since I lost 9 pounds in the first ten days and only 3 in the second ten days (and if you want to be exact - only three pounds in the second NINE days, for we measured a day early) but low and behold...I exceeded the numbers and inches lost from the first ten days!!!!!
I'm so excited, I really can't believe it!!!
So the first column is where I began, the second are results after first ten days on the TAM program and the third column (on the right ) are my results from today!!! Then total losses on far right in red...
WEIGHT : 141 132 129 12 lbs!!!
TOTAL MM's: 133.5 110.5 85 -48.5 !!!!
I have NEVER been below 20% body fat - EVER! Never, ever, ever, ever...until today that is! :)
The first ten days I lost 3.5 % body fat (or 23. 5mm on skin fold test) - the second ten days I lost an additional 4.1% (or 25mm from the skinfold test) resulting in -7.6%!!
and I lost 8 inches!!! and that is in the last TEN DAYS...after losing almost 6" inches the first ten days - almost 14" total - that's CRAZY!
I can post all the exact numbers if anyone cares. Let me know and I will list all the numbers so you can see how much is coming off -and from where. We have been doing a standard 7 point skin fold pinch to measure body fat and measuring 10 points on the body.
Todays' biggest loss in regards to inches was on my belly!! (hence the old man skin, right??)
1.75" lost and ...and my hiney became a little more tiny...by 1" !!! if you add that to the 1"off each of my thighs - that would be a total of 3" off the ole "Thass Region"...in ten days- not too shabby and gettin' less flabby!
You hear that Farmer Celly - you just lost three acres of prime real estate! Ha- suck it!
I also talked to my friend and trainer (the guy who measures me and is REALLY knowledgeable about all things body) and he said that it is very normal to have a "crash day" -where the workout seems impossible - after a couple of great, strong days. He went on to explain what now seems obvious -when you are feeling strong and working out hard - you are giving more, pushing harder and working to your max...so every few days your body just gets tired and needs to catch up - which is why I have been struggling every five days or so - but then it gets better- so hang in there!!
I am so thrilled about my results ... that I am kind of worshiping Tracy Anderson right now.
I would drink that woman's bath water if she told me to!!
Seriously - this is remarkable!
Thanks Tracy, for putting in ten years of hard work on research so I could put in 19 days of hard work and get such amazing results! I can't wait to see what will happen in the next eleven days...hmmmm?
Too bad I can't burn calories when I use exclamation points - I would be down another 3 pounds!!! Sorry - guess I'm excited ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I highly suggest that anyone doing this program measure and pinch before you start - it has really helped to inspire me and put the hard work into concrete numbers. I felt lousy today until I got my numbers and then I was re-energized and ready to rock out the last eleven days...it's helping to keep me focused so I can finish strong.
I have had several requests for a video blog and or some photos - so I promise I'll try and figure that out. Thanks again for ALL THE SUPPORT - and I'm equally excited about everyone else and their progress - keep up the good work! And please keep the comments and updates on your progress coming my way! I love them all!
I think I may go stare at myself in the mirror naked for a while...just sayin'.
and BY THE BOOK!!!!!!
PS- I bought some new jeans today... they were size 26....are you kidding me, I needed a 26??? They are tight...but they fit!!!!! SCHWWWEEEEEEETTTT!!!
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amazing results!!!!! well done!!!!!ReplyDelete
I would love to see your exact numbers!! I am so inspired by your fantastic results!! I really wasn't going to do it by the book but now I absolutely have to : 0 )ReplyDelete
Congratulations! Great job Laura. I've been thinking about trying to do the 30 day boot camp and yesterday I found and read all of your blogs...which are very inspiring and really make me want to give it a try. I still am not sure what to do about the food, though...it seems like a lot of work and maybe a lot of money. Thanks for blogging. I look forward to following you the next 11 days.ReplyDelete
whoot whoot! KILLER!!! :) So proud of you girl!ReplyDelete
Great news Laura! I hope Tracy is following your resultsxxReplyDelete
Melissa from Canada
Awesome!!!! Here in Austin and just FB about this. Here is a copy of it!
Shannon Green Owen^^^^^^^Tracy Anderson Method: I fell off the wagon!!! Went out of town and am sabotaging my hard work. I was on day 8 of bootcamp and feel like a failure. I need someone to talk me off the ledge. And please don't tell Laura (the funniest blog ever) BY THE BOOK because I feel like I just deserved a big "F on the report card!!! She is my idol!!!!! AGHHH Mad at myself! Tomorrow is another day!
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You totally motivate me and I appreciate your honesty and humor. Thanks!
Awesome job Laura! Keep it up :)ReplyDelete


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I call these cards "foolers". When you look at them you think that the technique is so complicated that you could never learn to do it. Nope, that isn't the case! You won't believe how simple they are, but your friends and family needn't know that. ;)
Come to class and learn how to make your punches do amazing things.
I've been eying up the beautiful Basic Grey Curio paper forever, and I knew this was the perfect line to use with these fabulous "medallions". We will be dry embossing, stamping, misting and inking, these babies are loaded with tons of extras that make them lush and lovely. They are the perfect cards for special occasions.
If the cards aren't incentive enough, Gina has generously offered a discount on the punches used in these cards, when placed on special order.
Dates: Thursday March 10, 2011 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cost: $25.00
Supplies to bring:
- basic tool kit
- glue dots
- scissors suitable for fine detail cutting
- pop dots [the thin ones , both large and small recommended]
- scotch tape
- post-it notes, 3"x3" size
- paper towels and baby wipes, we will be getting inky!
Recommended to bring:
- craft mat
- ink blending tool
- Tim Holtz Distress ink Pumice Stone, Frayed Burlap, or Walnut Stain [or all three! ;)]


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This is a great and easy recipe to fix for a very filling meal.
Super Quick Chinese Noodles and Chicken (or Pork)
2 packages Ramen Noodles (Chicken flavor)
2 chicken breasts or 2 boneless pork chops, partially frozen
1/2 onion, sliced vertically
4-5 button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
1/2 package frozen Japanese vegetables
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon soy sauce
2 teaspoons cornstarch
3/4 cup chicken stock
Cook the noodles in boiling water. Drain and keep warm.
Slice the chicken in small strips.
In a large very hot skillet, add the oil and the chicken.
Cook until done and remove. Keep warm. Add the onions and cook
them for about 4 minutes. Add the mushrooms and cook for another
2-3 minutes. Add the vegetables and cook until heated through.
Keep stirring so that nothing sticks.
While this is cooking, mix the soy sauce, stock and cornstarch
together. Add the chicken and cook for another 2 minutes.
Then add the stock mixture and cook until it turns clear and
the sauce is thickened.
Mix the noodles in with the vegetable and chicken mixture.
Serve on hot plates. Add Chinese noodles if you like the crunch.
The partially frozen meat will slice much easier.


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Very few details about the new bike have been released, only that it will be powered by Honda's iconic V4 engine configuration. The Japanese manufacturer is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its V4 engine.
Honda introduced a V4 concept bike in October at Intermot, and many are speculating that the new bike will resemble the futuristic-looking hubless display model.
The official announcement of the new V4 motorcycle does mention the concept bike, but doesn't confirm that it's what we'll be seeing on the showroom floor. The announcement says that the "V4 production model is the result of overwhelming response from customers, media and motorcycle dealers across Europe following the debut of the V4 Concept Model". Motorcycle.com correspondent Yossef Schvetz didn't sound too enthused about the concept bike in his Intermot report. We'll let you know when we find out more about Honda's new bike.


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(music forthcoming)
They bring the thunder,
They bring the rain.
And then a rainbow
We see again.
And the moon looks might pretty
With a veil across her face~
When God made clouds
He let us see His grace.
At dawn He paints them
With pink and gold;
He shows He loves us
With colors bold.
And as the daylight fades away,
He paints the clouds once more
To show though dark may come,
His love is sure.
You may not own a piece of land,
The prices run so high.
You may wander through the earth
And ask yourself just why~
The rich man seems to have it all;
All that gold can buy.
But raise your head,
For no one owns the sky!
A fairy castle,
A sea of blue.
A priceless treasure
For me and you.
A taste of Heaven given
To the children of a King.
He gave us clouds;
He'll give us everything.


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Due to extenuating circumstances, I have been suspended from school for a semester. Mind you.. I go to an extremely strict university named BYU... where rules are not rules in real life. (Example... we have a curfew of 12'oclock). 'Nough said. Technically I suppose I shouldn't blog about such a topic... but for some reason, writing and sharing sounds appealing right now. In effort to leave the monotonous details out... I will simply say that I chose to break a rule that I felt was not of importance at the time, due to the situation at hand. Sometimes it's simply about the bigger picture... and not the nit-picky ideals of pleasant-ville that so many seem to inhabit. I feel that my heart was in the right place, as I sincerely felt I was doing it on behalf of helping someone I cared about. Either way.. I will learn from this experience... and it will make me a better, and stronger person. Needless to say... today has been a long, long, long, marathon of a day.
I can think of nothing more appealing than laying by the side of my pool in Texas, next to my big Labrador puppy named Zeus, who will undoubtedly be trying to sit on my lap... (even though he's 50 lbs.).. as my southern bell of a mother water's the plants and offers me lemonade. This semester has rung me out and hung me up to dry. I am so tired that my contacts are blurring... yet I can't even begin to sleep. First... because I have to study for finals... but mostly because I can't calm the ravenous thoughts in my head.
There's so many things I am craving to do right now. I want nothing more than to run and run and run through a perfectly green field of long grass...until I can no longer stand up... then give in to my exhausted legs and lay beneath the sun until my thoughts are completely at peace. I want to lay completely still, underneath the water and listen to my heart beating slowly and steadily... all along cherishing that perfect organ for being such a steady and trustworthy part of my life. I want to go home to Texas to meet the newest Cooper cousin to be born.. and hold his sweet, warm, newborn body upon my chest as he sleeps.. because nothing in this world is more beautiful and hope provoking than a perfect new born baby. I want to drive in my car for miles and miles and miles while listening to extremely thought and emotion provoking music like the o' so cliche 'Hallelujah' by Leonard Cohen... all while singing at the top of my lungs without consideration of anything around me. I want to read every book on my 'books Ive been meaning to read' list until I can no longer remember who wrote what. I want to jump in the car at the spur of the moment,with my childhood best friend Liz, and drive to Dallas to eat Thai food and talk about everything and anything that has happened in the past fifteen years of our friendship. I want to hug my Dad and feel his big, strong, protective arms around me... and pretend... just for a second that he knows everything, and that nothing will ever hurt me again.How is it that the very brain that is harboring all sorts of mental turmoil and distressing thoughts inside of it, is the exact same brain that so generously allows a blessed escape into my to-do list of imaginary bliss when I so desperately need it most? This very idea of something so bitter and yet so sweet completely depicts so many things in life. You cannot truly understand people until you've been where they are at in the playing field of life. You can not truly understand pain until you've felt it, and the opposing joy to contradict it. You can not truly hate unless you have once loved. You can not be considered a complete failure and disappointment unless there was at one point the opportunity for you to be something great. There truly is opposition in all things.
It's getting late, and my art history book is staring at me. I think he wants me to study him or something. Here are a few of my very discombobulated thoughts. Enjoy. Sweet dreams little reader heads.


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Much of our cultural concept of the English Regency era is based on the tame and polite society depicted in Jane Austen's work, and the popular genre of regency historicals that reflect that same depiction, like the work of Georgette Heyer. Because of the popularity (in our time: Jane Austen was relatively obscure in her own time, amidst a flood of very popular female writers) of Jane Austen and the polite society depicted within, we don't often see that the Regency era was one that loved the scandalous and the shocking, where some of the most popular parties and salons were hosted by known courtesans and attended by the Prince Regent and his coterie of sharp-dressed and sharp-witted gentlemen friends, along with anyone else who wanted a place in high society.
The Regency era loved a good scandal–not to be scandalised at it, but to celebrate it. My current favourite topic of research is Sir Lumley St George Skeffington. "Skiffy" to his friends, and, well, most of London. Society loved him almost as much as they loved to lampoon him: several caricature cartoons of him are mentioned in his obit, including this one with his good friend Montague James Mathew. Both Skiffy and Montague died bachelors–there are quite a lot of lifelong bachelors in the friend group of the Prince Regent and Beau Brummell, including Brummell himself. Skiffy was known for his outrageous outfits, of his own design. I'm particularly delighted by this pink suit: are those feathers?
The courtesans of the Regency have been largely forgotten–they were driven out of the upper echelons of society by the social reforms of the Victorian Era. Victoria was far more restrained than her uncle, who surrounded himself with the most outrageous (and well-dressed) men in England and attended parties hosted by the most outrageous (and well-dressed) women in England. Harriette Wilson was one of the most popular courtesans of the era, even more so after her bestselling memoirs. She's particularly remembered today for allowing high-profile lovers and clients to buy their way out of being mentioned in her memoirs. Julia Johnstone was another leading member
of the "Cyprians", who had such wealth and fame that they could throw balls attended by all the greatest figures of the day, many of them their lovers (Beau Brummell, Ian Kelly, 2006)
Julia Johnstone, Harriette Wilson, and Hariette's sister Amy Dubochet were known to their society as the "Three Graces", and their salons were always full of doting admirers–including the future king.
In addition to the open and popular sexuality of the courtesans, I strongly suspect that "Prinny's set"–the close friends of the Prince Regent and the elite of Regency society contained a lot of homosexual figures. It's hard to confirm, since there's very little serious scholarship on the topic, but a surprising amount of the prince's friends die unwed, living long and popular lives with rather a lot of gentlemen friends. Men like "Skiffy" abounded, and the more shocking and scandalous they were, the more popular they became. Including the handsome and clever Beau Brummell, who even accompanied the prince on his honeymoon.
I get a lot of questions and comments about the homosexual characters in my books not encountering more outright homophobia. But this is the Regency era! This sort of thing may not be depicted in the relatively tame oeuvre of Austen, but sexual scandals and salacious rumours often served to make their subjects even more popular, as we can clearly see with the Cyprians, who capitalised on this to significant profit.
It's also worth remembering that homosexuality has always existed as a human trait. Suppose we use the very generalised modern statistic that 10% of people have homosexual inclinations. That's quite a lot, so let's say that 9/10 of these possible Regency era homosexuals live in denial and never act on their impulses. 1%, then, of society might be actively inclined homosexuals. By the population of Great Britain in 1810, that's 120,000 active homosexuals throughout Great Britain during the Regency. Several of whom were the celebrated close friends of the Prince Regent himself and the toast of Regency society.


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Riding bicycles from Kelley Acres during the winter months has become quite a tradition. Beginning 8 years ago Fred would lead the National Capital Velo Club (NCVC) elite riders (Jay Moglia, Zach Browne and crew) for 4-5hr. epic adventures. This ride has evolved to include a fantastic group of local riders , as well as riders from all over the Mid Atlantic Region.
Mechanical number one~ Lorena's cable broke. Paul managed to get her back on the road with one big gear.
Mechanical number two - Jen flatted and Bill came to the rescue.


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I do have a few little tips that IMO look nice and are things you might want to look out for.
FIRST: To Flash or not to Flash? Some people LOVE to use there little stock flash on there camera. I however can see a big difference when I use it. For Example.
The first two were taken in the same spot, with the same natural lighting. The first one was taken with the flash and the second was taken in manual. Can you see the difference? One is a bit washed out and the body sticks out dramatically from the background. In the second the colors are natural and the background has a beautiful blur.
Even when Edited you can see there is a big difference. I used the same preset for both of these pictures. The first being with my flash and the second in manual.
SO, How can you take pictures when it is dark outside? Either get a professional flash if your a flash lover OR figure out how to use your camera. There are tons of settings that will help brighten everything up. Learn about your ISO and all that Jazz! Its worth it. I have a friend who taught me and it has changed my photography experience! (Thank you Kayla)
SECOND: There are three basic edits I use. I took this photo (first one is unedited) and made it a color, Black and White and a Sepia.
Black and White
Sepia (Here is a little Sepia hint. Its not yellow, its brown! IMO)
THIRD: Vignettes. These will make you or break you. They can either be so beautiful that its just what the picture needed or make the picture look dirty and take away from the picture. For example. This is a picture I thought had a lot of potential(first unedited) that I turned Sepia.
Now that it is Sepia I wanted to make it a bit more "edgy" so I darkened the corners just a little.
Good Vingetting!
Bad Vinetting!! Do you see how DARK the corners are, they go to his face and make it look dirty and unprofessionl (IMO)
FOURTH: "red face" do you ever see an adorable picture and just wish that person would use there white balance or fiddle with there red primary? Like this great picture. Edited before toning down the red. The second is playing with saturation and raising some orange primary and lowering the red. Works every time!
SO, this is alllll just my opinion. Thing I have learned from a few years of trial and error. My real advice. Find your niche. How do you edit pics? Do you like it bright or grungy? What do you like? You have to find out. Do tho, look at other photographers and ask for opinions. Make sure it is pleasing to others. If it isn't your probably going to be the only one enjoying your photography!
SO, give me your photography advice. What are things you have learned from Trial and Error and if you are having a hard time and want to ask questions ask away. There are a lot of photographers that have some serious skill that will be able to answer you!
Bless you all!!


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Better Nation – you are struggling to make much sense here or are you just upset that the Daily Record is giving a platform to a non Labour politician in Joan MacAlpine?
May I ask which Labour are you talking about when you refer to the fact Labour is unchanged?
The Labour of Maxton, Hardy and John MacLean which is the Labour I was brought up on?
The Labour of 1945 whose implementation of clearly socialist mores of equal access were the inspiration for many other European countries post the 1945 war.
Harold Wilson's Labour with its distinct social democratic policies?
Tony Blair's neo-liberal Labour of the centre right which is the current incarnation on public view?
Maybe you mean the disaster area that is Labour's Scottish region which means a Labour of endless negativity, sniping, shooting themselves in the foot, in fighting, back stabbing, micro-management, bullying, mysoginy and lies – all that before we even know what Labour sees as Scotland's future except 'jam tomorrow' and constituency parties which are increasingly turning against London control of all aspects of selection procedures – all reflected in a Caird Hall two thirds empty for Milliband's speech that even the BBC could not edit away.
I return to the substantive point I made – if you are reduced to arguing about the metaphor rather than the content, this can only mean you have difficulty countering the argument.
The PC 'outrage' is simply hubris to deflect from the political reality you are facing – Labour has no policies to effectively argue against the pro-independence position except the too wee, too stupid, too small narrative of Scotland that failed in 2007 and even more spectacularly in 2011.
The pro-independence movement has grown beyond 'Wee Eck' worship and 'Braveheart'.
It is not tied to any political party except in using the SNP as the means to its end. The movement is well informed, litterate and understands clear why it wishes Scotland to withdraw from the Treaty of Union, it acknowledges the risks involved but believes the benefits are much, much greater; based on observation and research of other similar sized countries who are or have recently become independent.
It is ironic the pro-Union side are now where the pro-independence argument was in 2007 – emotive, lacking direction, calling on 'Braveheart' imagery, talking of 'fighting' and all enmeshed in a bubble of fear while projecting their fears onto their Scottish bogeyman – Wee Eck.
Westminster's response to the declared wish for a new UK Union of a confederal nature by (in poll after poll) 65-70% of Scots is to try and legislate to ensure it can never happen through the increasing dog's breakfast that is the Scotland Act Ammendment Bill a bill originally cooked up by Brown and Wendy Alexander to 'kill the SNP and the increasing support for independence – stone dead'. In the same way the 1998 Scotland Act was supposed to 'kill the SNP stone dead' along with the Holyrood electoral system which was designed to ensure the SNP could never get an overall majority.
The pro-Union side appears to have no understanding of the dynamic under pinning their serial failure to kill the SNP stone dead. In the latest poll 71% of Scots stated their first preference is for a confederal UK Union to which Westminster's answer remains the same as in 1997 – maybees aye, maybees naw and only if you vote against independence.
I would suggest the question is now becoming about the sort of Scotland you wish for your children and grandchildren where a vote 'yes' retains the Scottish social democratic ethos, while a vote 'no' drags Scotland down into the neo-liberal privatisation of public services which is increasingly the norm in England.


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"Sun Protection" *SOLD*
12" x 6"
Oil on Canvas
Painting my sunflowers before they become a memory! So....this included my glass challenge, my flower challenge....and, today, limited palette challenge! I had the paints on my palette that I have asked my students to bring this weekend to the skyscape workshop I'm teaching (cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow lemon, ultramarine blue, transparent red earth and titanium white). Since it was already on my palette, I thought I'd be lazy and give it a whirl!
Thanks for looking!


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Monday, August 28, 2006
Hood To Coast 2006
Finishing my last leg
Leg 11: 4.2 miles / 35:35 / 8:28 pace
Approx. 9:35 pm
Down the Springwater Trail in the dark warm of night. I can hear the hobos and raccoons rustle in the tall grass and creekside brush but they don't bother me. I have run this stretch of trail many times and trust the path enough to tuck away my flashlight. All runners are required to wear a reflective vest and carry a light between the hours of 6 pm and 7 am. But I run in the dark on a stretch of recreational trail where no cars are allowed. The smell of blackberries and apples is strong, almost overpowering. Mostly I am alone with my pulse and the cricket song.
One man passes me on this trail but he has long bounding legs with which he clearly uses in a cheating manner. I slaughter five other runners and two more are spared, making their escape when I am forcibly stopped by a race official at a stoplight.
Leg 23: 4.1 miles / 32:35 / 7:56 pace
Approx: 5:55 am
The road has wound through dark farmland on packed gravel shared by both vans and runners, illuminated by nothing but head lights, and a dusty fog of tail lights. Dawn breaks, ice cold and misty. In the van I haven't slept much but a nod. My next exchange point is in a rock quarry just off the road, pebbles the size of fists. I stumble, nearly fall on the rocks after our runner passes me the bracelet. Groggy and cold I launch onto the road, now thankfully paved. I forget the misted forests and glassy still creeks as soon as I pass them. What am I thinking about? Maybe I just say to myself YOU BETTER RUN, YOU BETTER TURN OVER YOUR FEET. I feel clumsy and my nose is cold but I run my fastest time.
One man passes me. His vest has reflective tape cut out in the shape of a huge martini glass. I pick up a little speed and, quenched, draft him for three quarters of a mile. One other man passes me. I earn six more road kills and my left hamstring cramps.
Leg 35: 7.4 miles / 1:03:35 / 8:32 pace
Approx. 3:35 pm
I have been nervous about my last leg all day long. It is one of the longest legs of the whole race and, like my first leg, there is no van access, no support. The afternoon is very hot, but the temperature is getting cooler as we near the coast. Butterflies swarm through me.
I still haven't slept though we did lay in flattened grasses in a field somewhere past the town of Mist. The map shows a steady uphill, and indeed the road rises gradually through the forest. I pass three loggers logging, a cyclist and two police officers on horseback who tip their hats to me.
The shaded road breaks open into vast acres of clear cut land, stumps and dried brush piles. It is dead, void of life except for me and my pulse. Weyerhaeuser has posted signs along the way, a Burma Shave cheer for the timber industry, proclaiming the land before me to be vibrant with wildlife and foresty health.
The road is rough, mostly unpaved and I lose considerable speed churning up and spitting out gravel under my shoes. I start to see other runners ahead of me about half way into the leg, and each one is motivation for me to keep running. The road is only as long as the back of the next runner. I get 12 more road kills, and am killed only twice, and for the first and only time by a woman. She is smoking hot and gone in a flash. I cheer. My right hamstring cramps.
I reach the relay point for our final hand off and she goes running while I drink water indelicately. An hour later the entire team, from both vans united, crosses the finish line with our last runner and are awarded medals for our awesomeness.
Grand total: 23 roadkills, 5 times killed
Overall our team finished about three hours behind our projected finish time due to complication and injury mostly in the first van. Still, we finished in 28 hours, one minute and 34 seconds. All delays included we averaged a pace of 8:31 per mile.
I love this event. 1054 teams, 2108 vans, 12,648 runners (not to mention the walkers and their vans). We are a festive carnival of runningness. I loved having a chance to run on this team but I am dreaming of the day I can enter with my own team. So far, I have myself, Clark, my brother John and my sister-in-law Anita on the roster. I have my heart set on 2008. If you are interested, start training now please.
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A Rose By Any Other Name
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you look so adorable! i am in love with your laced skirt!
merry christmas :)
you're almost done!! <3 maybe you'll be done before new year's eve and you can wear a fabulous dress with those cute glittery tights! :) your red coat is so perfect for the holidays! merry christmas to you dear <3ReplyDelete
I hope you had a great Christmas, Emily!! :)ReplyDelete
You look gorgeous, I love the red jacket! Hope you had a very Merry Christmas lady!
yay! im glad you like the bracelet!!! hope you had a wonderful holiday :)ReplyDelete


text: my summer is full of stuff. mainly swing dancing, i dance virtually every single night. i can hardly beleive how addiciting it is, peoples think im crazy..but only the ones who havent tried it before. i figure i should live it up while i can, then buckle down for school. thats going to be a drastic change, but necesary. schools important. i dont know what else to say but that im exhausted.


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Weekend activities
What is your favorite wekend activity? Fall is the best time to take the kids to the park, take a walk on trail, and get outside and watch the leaves change colors for fall.
Some of my favorite activities for fall are collecting leaves, decorating for the fall, the orchards usually have fall festivals. They offer corn mazes, pumpkin picking, and hay rides.
Get out and enjoy all the fall activities they offer on the weekend in your area. You can usually find free activities in your local paper.
What are some of your favorite fall activities?


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It's always a great day when these two are a part of it!
Wearing: Nasty Gal Dress, Forever 21 shoes, Pink Zone Leopard top, H&M necklace and Thrifted red hat.
I'm not a morning person but I had such a terrible headache last night that I slept earlier than I usually do and woke up early in the morning. It felt wonderful having so much time to do EVERYTHING I wanted to do. I woke up, ate breakfast, got ready, took my mother to work, met up with the girls Twin & Mate, ran three miles, had lunch, got ready for work, went to work, had dinner, hung out with Nate, did some homework, read articles and magazines and now I'm here updating the blog. That headache was a blessing in disguise because normally I start my days at 11am and sleep at odd hours like 4am or so.... I guess I can blame it on the fact I was born & raised in Manila where everything was open 24/7 and my whole family didn't sleep till 2am every night. I'll also blame it on the fact I went to a private school and took classes that started 12pm everyday. No wonder I was always late for school when I started studying in California. Excuses aside, I'm definitely going to try and keep waking up in the morning a habit. It's time to get more productive. How will I ever take over the world with a sleeping pattern of an owl?


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The word on the street is that Beethoven's pianos didn't last long: snapped strings, broken keys, even a cracked frame now and then... This kind of keyboard mayhem, we are told, was unavoidable because what Beethoven meant by fff called for much greater volume of sound than could be extracted from those Broadwood pianos of his day. I'm sure this much is true. I wonder, however, if this is the whole story. Much of what is known about the man suggests that his idea of fff might have included some amount of ugliness and brutality in addition to loudness. After all, Hummel could play forte on exactly the same pianos without snapping strings or breaking keys. And even the young Liszt – in his bombastic period – was not known for inflicting serious damage on his pianos.
Alas, Beethoven never marked his fortes brutalmente (as far as I know), so the question of how his fortes should sound on a modern metal frame concert grand intrigues me a good deal. In Beethoven's day, of course, one could know for sure if the forte was played the way the master wanted it: produce the right kind of damage to the piano, and you provide irrefutable evidence of your dynamical authenticity. With a modern Steinway, however, it would take a sledgehammer to inflict Beethoven's kind of damage, which – given the cost of the instrument versus the box office for a typical piano recital – is out of the question.
What remains is the option of "coloring" Beethoven's fortes with the kind of crude, metallic banging that would carry an unmistakable reference to "ugliness" and "brutality". And some quite famous pianists seem to have done just that in their Beethoven playing. Richter used to come close to"losing it" in his Appassionata performances from the 1960s (although three decades later he played the same piece with stately grace and restraint). In the 1950s Gilels nearly destroyed his piano while playing the same sonata in Prague. (I always sort of expected to see smudges of blood from Gilels' fingers on my Multisonic CD containing this performance.) And it wasn't just the Russians who were into Beethoven-with-a-Bang. Yves Nat, when he played Beethoven, easily forgot about the French virtues of balance and grace: the outer movements in his live Appassionata from a 1953 Paris recital literally scream in agony; there is not one bar without ugliness and brutality.
Even if the bangers indeed represent Beethoven's own idea of fff (and they probably do), I never could appreciate this sort of hyper-cathartic playing of Beethoven's music. As far as I am concerned, whatever Beethoven might have meant by fff over and above "very loud" carries no more validity today than his ideas about personal hygiene. To be a great Beethoven player today one need not appear before the public unshaven and disheveled, in a rumpled shirt, with dirty fingernails, and with body odor reaching beyond the fifth row. Ditto for turning Beethoven's fortes into a piano transcription of Mossolov's The Foundry.
Fortunately, there are recordings of world-class pianists (e.g., Casadesus) whose Beethoven is played with exquisite restraint (without aloofness), impeccable finger work (without didacticism), and beautifully contoured (but not schmaltzy) tone across the entire dynamic range. This kind of Beethoven playing may be inauthentic, but I find it more musically satisfying on repeated hearings than the outbursts from the roaring "keyboard lions".


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Hi Everyone,
Just to let you know that the muffins you made went down a bomb. Thanks for all your help on Sat 3rd Nov. I was asked if the muffins were professionally made because they were so good. We managed to make £472. This will be given to the Great Commission Trust and then sent on to the Nakuru projects to be used where they feel it would be most useful. Please let me know if you have any more good ideas for fund raising, thanks once again.
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
The Third Girl
When after many weeks, neither of the girls had returned, it was generally agreed upon by local editorial boards and talk radio callers that a third girl was going to have to go into the forest and see what happened to them. Not because anyone believed they were coming back, but because the fear of not knowing what they were supposed to be afraid of wouldn't last nearly as long as the fear of something specific and Girl Hungry.
"Well, why's it gotta be a girl?" the Third Girl asked.
"Because obviously it only eats girls," They told her.
"But no one has ever sent any boys in, maybe it just hasn't tried one yet?" she argued. They just shook their heads wisely.
"Well, then, why's it got to be me?" she asked very logically.
"Everyone has to do things they don't like, honey. You're not the only one with problems." And with that they pushed her off.
So into the forest she went, down the same sunny path the First Girl had gone. The forest was still beautiful and there were still little yellow flowers out, but the Third Girl was still arguing in her head with the elders, and didn't notice them. When she got to the dark part of the woods, like the Second Girl she paused for a minute, and thought very hard about just going off to the West, where there was another town and a pub she had been to. But then she remembered that she had been in the habit of sleeping with a bartender there a few times, which was okay because he was cute and fun, but her head was full of serious thoughts about sexism and inequality in the system and the unfairness of being expected to be independent and happy no matter what, and Cute Fun Bartenders Who You Fuck Occasionally don't want to have serious conversations generally. They are full of their own problems. So she kept walking.
The dark part of the forest was indeed dark. Walking was at least easier, since the shade of the towering old trees kept the floor relatively clear, and you could see forward and around you, but then also you saw nothing ahead of you but more trees. After a day of being motivated she suddenly knew she had to stop, as the sun started to get lower and lower somewhere beyond the vast caverns of tree (at least she assumed it was getting lower because the light was getting dim. We assume when the light gets dim, it is the less threatening option, but really it could have been anything, she thought to herself. It could have been a storm. It could have been the sun dying. It could have been a giant crow searching for dinner). Ideally, she would have done what they do in adventure books, climb up a tree to sleep for safety. But the fear of falling and breaking her leg, all alone here, kept her on the damp ground. And the thought of a fire blocking out all the darkness around her kept her cold. She wanted her eyes to adjust.
She barely slept, but when she did close her eyes, she had a dream. At first she was sitting at a bar by herself. There were lots of gay guys in the bar, and she was watching the door for people coming in who she might know, or any straight man worth having that evening's crush on. One man walked in, and she thought to herself "That's like a older not as cute version of my Ex. Like, not as cute in the face, his nose is weird. But same haircut. He can't really pull it off the same way, The Ex had one of those round happy faces that made that haircut okay. Is it always going to be older men now, have I reached that point? And Why am I always going straight for the ones who remind me of him? The last three boys, they all had parts of him I totally recognized, like Billy knew how to open doors and drink right, and Sam had the same mood swings, and I knew that's why I liked them, but he was the worst relationship of my entire life. What's wrong with human girls that we look for the same qualities that made us miserable in the first place? Animals don't do that. They avoid the bad habits, or the bad habits die off. Like this guy. I don't even like that haircut. And I hated that the Ex wore the same clothes everywhere all the time, like a fucking black tshirt uniform, like he worked for the black tshirt company, and this guy's wearing the exact same boring thing. But here I am thinking about hitting on a guy who for all intents and purposes is..." And while she was drinking her beer and having this internal monologue where basically she lamented her terrible mind and it's terrible purposes, the guy in question picked up his phone and started walking around talking on it, and she realized with a snap and a click that it WAS the Ex. There are some mannerisms that will always be obvious to someone who has known you forever, and for all the hours, years, she had spent watching him on the phone and waiting for him to get off the phone and being pissed he was on the phone, she knew it immediately. Her heart filled with terror, and boom, she woke up.
The forest was dark, but there was a light growing in the distance, which could have been the sun or might have been a far off place being bombed, it's impossible to always know. We just have faith that whatever is providing the light is not the worse case scenario. Knowing she wasn't going to be able to go to back to sleep, she gathered up her sweater/pillow/slash only thing in the world she still owned, and kept walking. The forest was unending, and all looked the same. She knew deep down she wasn't going to find the other two girls, and that probably she would find nothing at all. She wasn't a tracker or hunter or ranger or prince, she had no viable skills to qualify her for a search and rescue. She accepted that wasn't going to happen. What was probably going to happen was that eventually she would happen on another town, somewhere on the other side of this void, and there would be other bartenders. Or maybe some crazy hermit would kill her in the woods and eat her. Or maybe there was nothing at all but woods in the entire rest of the world, and she would wander alone until she died of exposure. But there was absolutely no point in turning around and going back to a place that only wanted her if she was good at what they thought she should be good at, when she very clearly was not.
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It's a disheveled ocean of ink and pencil lead
Dancing up and down the pages
And breaking the blue ink barriers
With timely rhymes
And attempted alliteration.
Sandwiched between my
Broken word formations
Are windows into other writer's souls.
Little paper windows attached by 68 cent tape.
These crinkled pages are the pages of my soul
Held together by inky expression.
I'm letting you read this because
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In the Sack family of New York, it is a tradition among the four sisters to donate their bat mitzvah gifts to those in need. Rebecca Sack recently decided to donate her gifts through the United Jewish Appeal of New York's "Give a Mitzvah—Do a Mitzvah" program
Rebecca's eyesight was saved when she underwent cataract and retinal surgery. Following her experience, she decided to donate her bat mitzvah gifts so that a special device could be purchased for Soroka's ophthalmological operating room.
The BIOM, the device that was purchased, is used for retinal surgery and allows for optimal viewing of the retina and a high level of preciseness.
Rebecca and her family visited Soroka last week and met with Dr. Ronit Yagev, a specialist in pediatric ophthalmology at Soroka, Dr. Erez Tsumi, Acting Director of the Department of Ophthalmology, and Dr. Nadav Belfer, Director of the Cataract Surgery Service.
Rebecca also had an emotional meeting with two young Negev girls who had recently undergone eye surgery. She told them, "I want to be sure that thanks to my contribution, the children of the Negev will continue to receive the best medical care available, as I did."
Dr. Yagev noted that Rebecca's donation was highly appreciated and very moving. "There is no doubt," she said, "that the purchase of this device will save the eyesight of many more children in the region."
Ilan Halperin, Director of Resource Development and Missions of the Jewish Federation of New York in Israel, who accompanied the family during their visit, expressed his profound gratitude and hope that they would share their experience with their friends in the US.


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I feel so happy right now with my fifth posting in a row today. I made these earrings awhile ago, but just no got around to taking pictures of them and posting them! I hope you guys like them.
They are currently listed for $6.50:
Also check out my newest section: From The Heart where today I wrote about the crazy weather we have been having here recently! Thanks for reading :)


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I haven't posted here in some time. I have no excuses. I haven't been incredibly busy or sick. I have actually been unable to post because I didn't think that I had anything interesting to post. It's kind of sad to think that your life is uninteresting. My life could be interesting to me. I just wanted it to be interesting to other people. My life will probably never be interesting to others, so if I'm waiting for that I may as well delete my blog.
Today I post because my life can be interesting to me. I post for myself. I post so that I can get these ramblings out of my head. Keeping them in my head keeps me stuck in an uninteresting life. My mind if full of very interesting things. Today I don't know where to start. I don't know where to start in many things in my life. I don't know where to start my blog. I don't know where to start in getting myself out from under all the clutter I have accumulated in the last 12 years. I don't know where to start in my desire to get healthy again. I don't know how to start letting my kids live with the choices they make and not take on the burden myself. I don't know where to start in my journey to wake myself up from this dream called "Jill's Uninteresting Life".
I have my work cut out for me. The advice that I am always given is that it doesn't matter where you start, just that you start somewhere. So I guess I have started with this blog entry. I have a voice that needs to be heard. When I am able to get that voice to speak, life is good. When I stifle that voice, life is not so good. Right now life is bordering on the not so good side. That's not ok with me. Not so good, used to be ok with me. Today I am much more interested in life is good.
So what would life is good look like today? I would always know where to start. It's that simple. So here's a check list of what needs to happen:
1. Writing my blog.
2. Going through boxes of stuff.
3. Start walking again.
4. Letting my kids fall down and get up on their own.
5. Living a fully awakened life.
That's just 5 little things that could make my life more interesting. Does seeing this list make things look easier? Not to me. I still tell myself that it's impossible. There's only one thing keeping me from getting this list underway. Me. I know that I am my own worst enemy. Is knowing this supposed to help? Doesn't seem to help me. I have a knack for making things look hopeless, don't I?
I don't feel hopeless. I know that I will get to everything on my list. I know that it isn't going to be easy. I know that I am waking up a little more each day. My voice is coming out more and more. There will come a time when I hear myself and others hear me too. That's something to look forward to. That is something to help motivate me to just start somewhere.
I'll let you know if it works.
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text: So I just got all my funds together to get a new half sleeve tattoo and i am soooo excited I can't hold it in. Literally I jumped around for about half and hour haha. So I thought I would just pop in and show you all a tattoo that I have fallen in love with this week (It's not mine but I wish it was). I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!!!


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"Hi there,Can anyone please guide me, a friend of my brother got personal loan but after 2 months he was forced to resign, due to this he got anxiety problem and unfortunately has to go back to his home country for proper treatment, his gratuity which was around 14000 DHS including his salary, leave salary and overtime was in his account so for 1 year there was no problem in paying the loan payment.But know for almost 1 year no installment was paid, He was not able to come back due to medical condition one time in last year he came on visit but his health doesn't allow him to stay and look for job.
Now he is planning to comeback again as he wants to look for a job so he can repay his loan. But , worried if he will face any problem at the airport as someone told him bank file Civil case on you He tried to check through his friends from immigration but friends told him nothing shows in immigration systemCan someone please guide him what steps he can take to find out exact status?
you must talk to the bank and inform about the situation and inquire about the loan status.Bank may have filed a police case.


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Apartment hunting in NYC is the worst. I've been straight West Coast (insert flashing gang signs here) for my entire life, so I've never had to deal with the insanity of apartments coming up for rent a mere 3-4 weeks before a move date, nor the absolute RIP OFF of brokers. I'm too anal retentive to leave my housing fate in someone else's hands, much less allow them to charge me a full month's rent (which, in NYC, is substantial).
I was checking out apartments on Craigslist trying to avoid paying a broker and found a gem. Mr. VF cautioned me not to get too in love with apartments since we were waiting to hear from NYU about student housing. Long story short on NYU: I got screwed and didn't get family housing. Apparently you're an idiot if you're married or otherwise coupled and then try to go to NYU because you're the only schmucks not guaranteed housing (singles, on the other hand, are living the dream). Also, no advantage for marrieds or domestic partners. You can be a regular ol' bf/gf (or whatever combo you desire) and get family housing. It's a clusterfuck. I digress.
So I found a great apartment (via pictures on CL) and one of my school friends living in the city was gracious enough to go by and look at it, confirming that it is indeed as awesome as advertised. We find out on Monday if we got the place, so cross your fingers, friends!


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On July 14, the Commission announced in a press release that
Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society would
conduct an expert review of existing literature and studies about broadband deployment and usage throughout the world to inform the Commission's development of a National Broadband Plan.
A draft of the study has now been completed. The
Commission is seeking public comment on the study, and has posted the draft for public review at the following Internet address: http://www.fcc.gov/stag/pdf/Berkman_Center_Broadband_Study_13Oct09.pdf.
Specifically, the Commission seeks comment on the following:
1. Does the study accomplish its intended purposes?
2. Does the study provide a complete and objective survey of the subject matter?
3. How accurately and comprehensively does the study summarize the broadband experiences of other countries?
4. How much weight should the Commission give to this study as it develops a National Broadband Plan?
5. Are additional studies needed along the lines of the Berkman study?
6. Please provide any other comments on the Berkman study that you deem relevant.
. . . . .
All comments should refer to GN Docket Nos. 09-47, 09-51 and 09-137.
Please title comments responsive to this Notice as "Comments – NBP
Public Notice # 13." Further, we strongly encourage parties to develop responses to this Notice that adhere to the organization and structure of the questions in this Notice.
Comments may be filed using (1) the Commission's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS), (2) the Federal Government's eRulemaking Portal, or (3) by filing paper copies.[1] Comments can be filed through the Commission's ECFS filing interface located at the following Internet address: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/. Comments can also be filed via the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.[2]
. . . . .
For further information about this Public Notice, please contact Randy
Clarke at (202) 418-1500.
NBP Public Notice # 13 DA 09-2217 Released: October 14, 2009
10/14/09 Comments Sought on Broadband Study Conducted by The Berkman
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With a great amount of help thanks to another visit from NanaPop. They headed home today, much to the girls' dismay, and things are returning to "normal" as we finish up nesting and settling in for Baby Boy's arrival. Today I am 33 weeks. 4 weeks from full term and 7 from our due date. If I make it to April, I will be surprised.
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In a few decades people will look at our current ads and giggle, just like we do now.
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Empire of the Sun's debut offering of experimental electro-pop and dance-rock is very well-timed, hitting the market just as the buzz surrounding MGMT's Oracular Spectacular has started to recede. Like those similarly colorful Americans, Empire of the Sun's two members embrace the glam lifestyle in spirit and song, wearing festive costumes in concert and festooning their music with oddball flourishes, androgynous lyrics, and a general sense of theatricality that borders on schizophrenia. Walking on a Dream runs an interesting gamut, sampling equally from hip-hop ("Swordfish Hotkiss Night"), arty synth pop ("Standing on the Shore"), and all the stops in between. With its programmed percussion and futuristic keyboards, the music sounds slightly more indebted to Pnau than the Sleepy Jackson; nevertheless, Luke Steele (the brains behind the latter band) takes center stage on the bulk of these songs, speak-singing in a childish tenor one minute and cooing like a lovestruck female the next. The aforementioned MGMT followed a similar path with their own debut -- a fact that simply cannot be emphasized enough, given the vast similarities between both records -- but while MGMT took cues from the likes of David Bowie and Prince, Empire of the Sun's fusion is more reminiscent of worldbeat and fantasy movie soundtracks. The outlandish cover art follows suit, as Steele and Nick Littlemore (dressed up in bizarre Star Wars-styled regalia) are flanked by a decorative elephant, a tiger, and what appears to be the skyline of Atlantis. Like the music it promotes, the cover art is purposely ludicrous, but listeners who have a palette for such whimsy should walk away happy.-- All Music
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There is a new wave of fascination with children clothes lately. Higher end designers are either producing their own line of childrenwear or collaborating with more affordable brands to produce chic children clothing. In the latest Lanvin Resort collection, creative director Alber Elbaz introduced childrenwear with girls all wearing what it seemed miniature classic Lanvin designs. Not sure if this will go flying out of the Lanvin store since the prices for this brand are not exactly affordable but the girl looks super cute jumping out of a Lanvin bag.
Lanvin is not the first high end brand to start producing childrenwear lately; Stella McCartney launched her children collection after her highly successful collaboration with GAP kids last year. Next year Gap is collaborating with Diane Von Furstenberg to produce a second childrenwear designer collection which many eager fashionable mothers will go out and buy. I'm not sure why do children have to look fashionable since aren't they suppose to go out to play and get dirty? The collections are very cool but it seems like we are playing dress up with children and nothing else, and at a very expensive price.
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I went home last night and knit about 5 inches up on the Peace Fleece & Noro - spitting distance of the armscye, what with the choice to make this a quick knit on 11's. It was great, finally a little cooler, so I could enjoy knitting in a bit of a breeze. (It'd been a bit too hot to really enjoy knitting the Peace Fleece last weekend, but I was on a mission.)
This morning, sailing away, I discovered that when I started last night's knitting, I'd manufactured an increase in one of the rows of ribs. How could I not have noticed the shift in rhythm from 6knit 2purl to a sudden 7 knit? The increase cropped up right after the marker at the top of the round. Nuts.
Since it had to come off the needles, I snuck in a fitting - to see where the hem of this lovely soft and drapey boyfriend big rib sweater needs to fall. I hate a fitting that has built-in mid-age body-image sighing built into it. That part took an extra 3 minutes, I swear. And then the real troubles began. I'd thought I was using my noodle and had measured (and fit) the sweaters I wanted this one to be comparable to. This was always and ever going to be a large, comfy pullover, a jeans sweater to upgrade my least-dressed work days when I run between buildings without a coat. And this nice, drapey fabric would be fine, but without the strength of an upper body, it seemed REALLY big.
I remeasured. I spent part of the day playing hookey from my self-imposed work schedule and knit back about half of what I'd frogged, so I wouldn't go crazy and undo the whole thing.
Maybe it's having looked at too many pictures of sharp looking, curvy cropped and current summer sweaters. I must remember that this is not a summer sweater, it'd NEVER suit me cropped, and there is nothing wrong with knitting a simple big rib which of course widens tremendously when yanked off the needles and not finished. And I should just finish the sweater. It will be fine. I don't need to spend an extra half hour rethinking the proportions of the sweater.
Right? I do not need to keep taking steps back on purpose.
Of course, I'm also now fretting about the placement of the remainder of the Noro. I have 3 biggish stripes floating below the bustline. I think I'll have some amount of striping on the sleeves, and I'll continue to think about the contrasting dilemmas for the top of the upper body. Do I run a band across front, back, and top of sleeves when knitting set-in sleeves? Do I have an easier (maybe) time of striping while trying to do a whole lot of "knit the whole thing in the round" experimenting. Is the KISS solution solid upper body and upper arms with contrast accent around collar band?
(This blog business is interesting. I've usually had this fretful second-guess stretch privately. )
The original steps forward were toward a no-thinking raglan roll. I think that was late last winter. I was up to the last sleeve with what was really too tight a fabric and ran out of wool. I was supersizing the sweater (only the sweater, not me) and clearly over-estimated it. The thing sat for a whole winter, and I found an interesting mate in the Noro and a couple skeins of same wool different lot. They sat together for quite awhile. I frogged back the whole thing early this summer.
If it's not finished in summer, I'll never get to it by the chilly part of fall. By then I'll need it. If I'm going to have to look schlumpy on a regular basis, I'm at least going to do it with flair and with beautiful yarn!
Maybe I'll work on the Cambio for a couple days.
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Last week, we examined cost of goods sold and operating expenses. We'll continue our travels down the income statement with a few other expense and income items.
Interest Expense
Companies will often incur debt and subsequently interest expense when they expand the business or fall short of cash. While debt is not always a bad thing (often it's essential in a growing business), when interest expense growth outpaces that of sales and gross profit, it's often a sign of trouble ahead. Interest expense, which equals debt payable plus interest, is generally found just below operating income on the income statement.
Other Expenses
Other expenses is a catchall category for any nonoperating costs or expenses that do not fit neatly into the headings we've already covered.
Deferred Taxes
The income statement presented in a company's quarterly report almost always differs from the income statement that it files with your friend in government, the Internal Revenue Service. The variances are due to gaps in timing that exist between GAAP accounting and accounting for tax purposes. These differences are considered temporary and are expected to converge with time.
Deferred tax liabilities arise when a company pays less tax than due according to GAAP accounting, and deferred tax assets stem from paying more tax than due under the same rules.
Discontinued Operations
When a company decides to sell or abandon a segment of its business, it will experience a gain or loss as a result of that transaction; this amount will appear on the income statement. Since the exact result of the transaction will not be known until the actual disposal date, the company will report expected results based on guidelines for disclosure of likely contingencies. If a loss is expected on disposal, that loss will be reported on the income statement in the same period that the decision was made to sell. If, however, a gain is anticipated, the gain will not appear on the income statement until the fiscal year in which the actual transaction occurs.
Gains or losses that result from operations of a discontinued segment prior to disposal will also appear in a separate category on the income statement. Gains and losses from discontinued operations usually appear after income from continuing operations and are presented as after-tax figures. Gains generally result in higher taxes, while losses often result in tax savings.
Keeping an eye on income from discontinued operations and focusing on income from continuing operations rather than net income will provide a better gauge of future earnings expectations.
Extraordinary Items
Extraordinary items are gains and losses resulting from transactions that take place outside of normal business operations. In order to be classified as an extraordinary item, the event must be both unusual, meaning it is unrelated to typical activities of the company, and nonrecurring. Similar to discontinued operations, extraordinary items appear on the income statement net of income taxes. Examples of extraordinary items could include the early extinguishment of debt or damages incurred from an earthquake.
That's enough for tonight. We'll wrap the income statement next week.
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Vince Hanks gets down to the nitty-gritty and explains how to read the fine print on a company's income statement.
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Welcome to the continuing work of
The New Media Literacies Project and the New Hampshire Early Adopters group
New Media Literacies (NML)New Media Literacies is a research project established at MIT's Comparative Media Studies program and now at USC Annenberg School for Communication. The central goal is to engage educators and learners in today's participatory culture.
New Hampshire Early Adopters Group (EA)NML partnered with New Hampshire's Department of Education to facilitate a year-long professional development initiative using the new media literacies as a springboard for developing innovative curriculum. A group of educators explored the challenges that 21st Century learners face by expanding their own learning experiences using a participatory, digital model of professional development. These educators were able to practice their own skills as teachers by creating, collaborating, connecting, and circulating with one another in an interactive, multi-media environment. For more information about the NH EA group, click here.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Training in Figure Drawing
Works of Wyoming, here in Laramie at the Laramie Plains Civic Center, there will be a figure drawing workshop in conjunction with the Go Clothed! Go Naked! Go Figure! Show which runs through April 4th. Mack Brislawn will be teaching a three hour "Introduction to Classical Life Drawing" class. It is very affordable and includes supplies. All for $20! Join us! Register at Works of Wyoming, a project of Wyoming Women's Business Center. (Art: Felicia Follum)
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Mac's work is gorgeous; I am excited to take a class from him. I will be sure to add my drawings from the class (no promises on quality, I think I have one good life drawing for about 10 bad ones).ReplyDelete
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Carson's pre-school has a Muffins for Mom breakfast every year, and it is so sweet! They are all so cute, and we get to go to chapel with them and they sing songs for us. They have a Donuts with Dad in February, but I can't find those pics right now so I will post that later!
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I was so proud of my little man, when we went to the drink table he asked me what drink I wanted, and got it for me. He picked out a pink napkin and plate for me, and blue for him. He even pulled my chair out for me! I really felt special-he is so sweet!
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The effect of TCP Chimney offload on viewing network traffic
Have you ever run in to a problem where you are attempting to troubleshoot a network connectivity issue with a network capture utility and seen only the 3 way handshake? This will happen if you are using Netmon 2.x, Netmon 3.x, Wireshark, Ethereal and most other network capture utilities. It is relatively common knowledge that… Read more
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So, my first EJB developed with IRAD 7.5 beta has revealed some bugginess. I expect bugs, but I was hoping it would take longer for me to find one than my first EJB in my first IRAD project.
I created a single, simple, stateful session bean EJB, but for some reason, the development tool tells me that they're creating clones of themselves. Attack of the Clones I guess?
It seems the same type of stuff happens in the UTC. Strange...I'm sure it will all be fixed in the final release.
Trying to run any EJB bean except for the last one in the list gives the following error:
"Server Error: The Selection did not contain any resources that can run on a server."
Well, at least it works when I run the last one on the list. At least the working one isn't some mysterious one in the middle.
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text: July 10, 2017July 10, 2017lukespillane Fourteenth book of the year. Just finished the Half-Blood Prince over the weekend and now I have five days to re-read the Deathly Hallows before seeing The Cursed Child! I had a lot more enjoyment reading The Half-Blood Prince this time round, (as I have been with all these re-reads tbh!) especially as I've only ever re-read the last two books once. I seem to recall always finding book six very much a middle ground book with not as much happening, dealing with the aftermath of the Order and setting up Horcruxes for Deathly Hallows but obviously the ending is so much bigger then just that. Originally this book was kind of ruined for me by knowing a "death" was going to happen so I spent so much of it waiting and working out where it was going. This time I revelled in the story so much more and really enjoyed Dumbledore's lessons for Harry of Voldermort's past in the Pensieve, I couldn't remember hardly any of that. I'm even more excited by the fact that I can't remember much about The Deathly Hallows now, here we go… ⚡📚 via Instagram http://ift.tt/2u3sQWW Advertisements Share this:TwitterFacebookGoogleLike this:Like Loading... Related


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If it is an urgent matter, I would suggest calling the school andleaving a message with one of the school secretaries so that they can then pass the information on to me or a guest teacher. Items can also be dropped off at the office.
Non-urgent matters can be e-mailed to me or you can leave me a voice mail. Please keep in mind that guest teachers (substitutes) will not have access to my voice mail or e-mail.
It is very helpful to always send money or checks in a sealedenvelope with your child's name and the purpose of the money on the outside of the envelope. This eliminates the possibility ofmoney being lost or misplaced.
Parents are always welcome to eat lunch with their children. Just meet us in the office area (please sign in first) as we go to the cafeteria. If you would like to purchase a school lunch, please send in a note.
Your child may send in birthday treats. Keep in mind any allergies in the classroom, simply ask ahead of time and I can inform you if there are any in our class. Students also receive a birthday treat from the teacher and of course we sing to our classmate!
Please focus on the homework coming home. If you would like to do more, students can always read more. They also have access to IXL for language arts and math. Please use IXL as a resource at home.
All second graders take the NWEA assessment in the fall, winter, and again in the spring. The test measures reading, language, and math. This computerized benchmark test is unique in that it adapts to each student's ability, more accurately measuring what a child knows, as well as identifying gaps in knowledge. Teachers can then target instruction so that every student is learning and growing, whether they are achieving above, on, or below grade level. We also get the results immediately, with a more complete breakdown sent shortly after the testing is complete. A copy of student growth throughout the year will be sent home in the spring.
Book orders will be sent home about every two months. I will tellthe children (and you) the return date and remind themperiodically of this date. If a check is written, please make itpayable to the Scholastic.
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1) Bolshoi Ballet's Nikolay Tsiskaridze with Sharon and Bruno Lebon 2) Guillaume Côté from The National Ballet of Canada and Desmond Richardson of Complexions Dance Company 3) Christina and Mary Harward with the Kirov Ballet's Diana Vishneva, center 4) Sergei Volobuev and Maria Abashova from the Eifman Ballet 5) Eifman Ballet's Diana Danchenko and Natalia Smirnova 6) Vladimir Malakhov, the Center's executive vice president Judy Morr, Diana Vishneva and Sergei Danilian of Ardani Artists
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Dancers Descend on Orange County
The cast of the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, Russia and the international stars for Tour de Force: A Gala Dance Spectacular are in Orange County and attended a welcome dinner at the Wyndham Hotel on Tuesday evening. Guests lapped up the signature Orange County weather and the dancers mixed, mingled and relaxed before their Center performances which start today (Wednesday) in Segerstrom Hall. Photos of the dancers, Center staff and donors are below with ids.
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I have decided to give this body part that has given me so many issues a name. Hence, I would like to introduce you to my right knee, Nedwina.
Neddie for short.
Neds when I feeling gracious.
I think it's a good name for when I need a little more somethin' out of my knee.
Come on Neds....give me another five.
And then Neds can promptly tell me to go to hell.
Because it's really not her fault she's in this state. I've put her through a lot. And she has stepped up to the plate. Good knee.
Hubs and I sat with the Ortho surgeon as he went through the geography of my knee.
"See here? That's some arthritis and the wear here? Oh, that doesn't look good. And what's going on over here? Huh. How old are you again???"
I am paying the Piper for my twenties. But just to be clear, my twenties were quite a lot of fun.
And so it was decided after much debate that we would cut into ol' Neds, clean her up and call it good.
The surgeon met Hubs while I was in recovery.
"Your Wife? Your wife is waaaaayyyyy too young to have a knee so old."
And then......THEN they discussed my knee without me to defend why she looked that way.
They went into the areas of decreased cartilage, potential bone on bone, craggy arthritis, and some crazy piece of something that what just floating around. And just how long I should hold out for a knee replacement.
Hubs met me in recovery.
"You're a mess," he said.
"It took you this long?"
"The doctor says you should no longer run."
"Never? Never, Ever?" I said. "I can no longer run???"
"You hate to run."
"I love to run."
"No, I hate it. But I hate people telling me what I can't do more."
And so we discussed what the doctor said, bone on bone, knee replacement, blah, blah, blah.
Never let an engineer be the first point of reference for not-so-good news because they take it seriously. Really, who takes doctor's advice that seriously??
Engineers, that's who.
"Oh pshwah," I said. "I'm sure it not that bad."
Seven weeks later Neds is still pissed. I've told her it's time to step up and be the knee she was meant to be and the makes her even more pissy.
And so I took her skiing.
To be fair, skiing is waaaay easier that walking. And in the words of my doc "Well you really can't do anymore damage."
And in the words of Hubs, "No doctor should ever tell you that. The typical patient fine. You? Not so much."
Sadly others in the family agree.
Getting old is a bitch. But as I place an ice pack atop poor swollen Neddie, I give her a little pat and say, "Come on, it was worth it wasn't it?"
And although she tells me exactly where I can go, I think deep down inside she thinks it was worth it too.
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Friday, February 01, 2008
The Enemy Within
many times: "Don't give in to fear." For me, the importance of these
words can't be overstated. How hard I try to stay calm and
composed when it's the question of drawing motivation to work! I have
let go waste tonnes and tonnes of fear which I could easily have used
to push myself into working hard and getting professionally benefited.
I daresay, I would have been able to prove quite a few points had I
let that happen. I have tried very hard to never let that happen
(though I don't always succeed). Same has been true with other sources
of motivation like rivalry, ambition and professional conceit. I have
always shunned them when I could have used them. The central idea was:
"My research is the purest and most beautiful thing I do. I will not
malign it by letting it get driven by things I consider negative." I
mayn't have been always correct in being so pedantic about the matter.
I sometimes wonder if I hadn't looked at certain things like fear,
anger, rivalry and ambition as out and out negative things, I could
have found it easier to get into a habit of working hard. Once the
habit set in, perhaps, I could have worked towards purifying my
thoughts, and then driving myself with purer sources of motivation
then on. Well, perhaps. I will hopefully get a chance to validate that
hypothesis in future. But, let's not talk about that aspect right now.
The above maxim can be partially stated as: "Never let negative
thoughts drive you to do anything good." But it gets completed when we
say: "Never let negative thoughts stop you from doing what you truly
want to do."
That second part of the maxim came to my rescue two and half years
ago, when I had almost got paralysed after suffering nearly 2 years of
fruitless toil on a problem which wasn't moving anywhere. By some
miracle (which is also called 'introspection'), I realised that,
bigger and more immediate than the problem of my research not going
anywhere, it was that deep fear of having to face failure and
disappointment which was my problem. Slowly, I could get clearer and
clearer sight of that 'fear' which used to draw away my energy
whenever I would decide to sit and do something towards my research.
This fear was born and had grown within me; and yet, I could see it as
an external thing -- something which I had cut and throw away from my
system, something I should take pleasure in killing.
When I succeeded in looking at this fear as something not essential to
my personality, but rather something that I could easily throw out of
my system, and survive, I could actually get up and do something about
my plight. I realised that, for the immediate moment, my success lay,
not in doing successful research, but in honestly trying to do so. And
I wouldn't let my fear stop me from doing that.
I think I won that little battle. But the fear is still there and
sometimes becomes overpowering. But, due to that one triumphant
experience during my PhD, I know that it exists somewhere inside me,
am far more capable to identify it in many of its clever disguises,
and with hardly any delay, am able to get up and start smothering it
back to its little dark hole whenever it raises its head.
I do think (may be it's a fallacy) that this tussle with fear is an
essential experience of doing PhD. Perhaps the most important one.
People who have got that momentum right from the first day, due to whatever reason, mayn't perhaps face this problem now.
Perhaps, they already had faced this problem earlier, and have,
consciously or unconsciously, devised ways of handling it. Perhaps, we
haven't been so lucky (or wise) enough to have faced this problem
earlier in our lives. But, whenever someone is trying to do something
non-trivial, I think, this hurdle is bound to be faced. And only when
one learns to combat one's own fear (which is the mother of laziness
and procrastination), one is really going to have a smooth sail to his
or her destination.
All this is not an advice. I just want you to know something now which
I spent an unnecessary amount of time and toil to understand. I don't
know if it's one of those things which can be learned only the hard
way of experience. But, in case it isn't one of those things, I
wouldn't like to miss this chance to share with you this little
thought which was almost life-changing for me.
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- ruSh.Me said...
Beautifully put, Sujit!!!
most of the time forgo the need to realize that our fear is our most prominent driving force..... we need not get affected by the minuses in us...but then we also need to know that our minuses make us realize about our pluses...!!!
- January 31, 2008
- Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti said...
Hi Rush.me! You are right in that fear is our most prominent driving force. But it's also true that it needn't be so.
It's easy to give in to fear and let it rule whatever we do. But it's much more difficult to become immune of it in all ways. I think, the biggest sacrifice one must make to free himself from the ill-effects of fear is to give up reaping benefits from it. We mustn't let the dark side rule us. We must learn to be jedis, not siths.
Star Wars and Spirituality
- January 31, 2008
- Dheepikaa B said...
Well. I quite don't agree with the 'throwing it away from your system', even though I found that contradictory to your mentioning it lies there in you somewhere deeper. On can not throw it away from one's system and that is what makes it more difficult. And, I think the idea is to attend to it and not combat it.
"Fear builds its phantoms which are far more fearsome than reality itself" - Ernest Hemingway.
I think I take care of it in a way that I do not let it create its phantoms rather than smothering the fear itself. I have found it powerful in not letting the fear pursue the detrimental thoughts for me.
My question to the feeling of fear and the thoughts associated with it (which happen in microseconds that sometimes eludes my control) is, does it really mean to arrive to me for good?
Sharing a poem I wrote about that.
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Leveled Texts for Classic Fiction: Mystery
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Each Passage is Presented in 4 Different Reading Levels
Here's a great way to teach fiction using leveled texts to provide access for all learners in grades 3-12! You'll learn how to differentiate instruction with these books featuring excerpts from classic works of fiction. Each title includes 15 different passages written at four different reading levels and matching visuals. Symbols placed in the lower corner of each page represent the reading level and are designed to help teachers differentiate instruction. Comprehension questions are also provided to complement each leveled passage. A Digital Resource CD is included with a modifiable version of each passage in text format and full-color versions of the texts and image files.
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Friday, January 10, 2014
First Impressions: LIVING RUNAWAY
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I enjoyed reading this sample. The things you point out are things that didn't catch my eye but that doesn't mean they could/coudn't be adjusted for clarification.ReplyDelete
When I read about the eyeball part, I got the distinct feeling it wasn't delivered by USPS. More like hand-delivered to the mailbox. Still...ewwww!!
Oh I see what you did there!ReplyDelete
What a great way to end the scene and it definitely grabbed my attention. I agree with Dianne about the mail missing the counter scene, but the other parts didn't bother me as much. What I want to know is who is sending eyeballs through the mail, and who is missing an eye! Great job Tammy and I enjoyed reading your critique, Dianne. (:
Ewwwww! Gross! Yep, I agree with Dianne's points on this one :)ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for having me over!ReplyDelete
Great comments made. Strong piece, Tammy! You caught my eye. Ha! ;)ReplyDelete
Wow. I'm afraid I said, "OMG" at the end.ReplyDelete
And that is a good thing too, LOL.
I agree with Dianne's assessment.
In addition, since this is your first page, nailing that reader's attention is all-important. Don't lose it in the weeds. Cut words with ruthless intent. Example:
"Mom?" I tossed a stack of envelopes on the kitchen island. "I got the mail!"
I pulled the envelope out and turned it over. My name was on it but no return address. No sender. Inside, a round bulge slid up and down.
My opinion: The hook is *very* strong. But use this time to make short, dramatic sentences. Use no, absolutely NO adverbs like 'quickly'. And very few adjectives. Introduce a smell. Oh, yeah. The package is gonna smell. *cringe*
An amazing sub. Really. I wanna know more.
Wow! I'm duly impressed. I did NOT see that eyeball coming. (But I'd sure be interested in where the story goes from here!)ReplyDelete
I agree with Dianne's assessment. Years ago, some of the medical research I did was done on cow eyes. Not exactly the same as human eyes, (They're BIGGER!) but I'd imagine human eyes are pretty darned tough, too, and difficult to puncture, so I don't think it would be "squishy." Not sure how long it'd stay "fresh" in an envelope, though. Maybe an overnight or hand delivery? Might have a bit of an odor, too. Even the ones I picked up from the abattoir... packed on ice... had an aroma.
Great start, Tammy!
I LOVE how this first page ends, no questions asked. SUPER stellar grab-the-reader-by-the-throat. But, as a casual reader, I'm not sure I would have gotten that far. I want to be struck on the first line. I want to know the MC and the trauma of her word in the first line. If this opened with the MC staring at the shipping label and excited to open it, all kinds of anxieties pumping through her brain--with a QUICK reflexive look at her environment--that would have grabbed me. I like the polar opposites of a typical day, nothing out of the ordinary to "HOLY CRAP, WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?" That said, I didn't have any questions or drive from the first line or first paragraph to keep going. Awesome hook. Hook me sooner. =)ReplyDelete
These comments are gold and funny thing is I say the same things when I beta! Choppy sentences are great for action scenes. Guess when it's your own work you miss that. LOLReplyDelete
Great first page. I agree with what Dianne and the others said. I'd suggest getting to the mysterious letter a bit quicker. Until I got there I was wondering why we care about the mail. But sounds like a fantastic start to your story.ReplyDelete
Dianne, I agree with your critiques. I also felt like the buildup to opening the envelope was a little too long, by a sentence or two. Tightening that up and including the information you mentioned would make everything flow much smoother. I have to admit the eyeball caught me completely off-guard, so I would continue reading if I had just picked this up in a bookstore.ReplyDelete
Eep! I meant to get over here sooner but was traveling since Thursday. Awesome feedback here! It's such a compelling hook already, with these suggestions it'll be even stronger.ReplyDelete
WTG Tammy! :)
Hi, sweets. I've read the piece--sorry it took me so long to get over here--and I definitely have some things I'd love to talk over with you in response to this snippet.ReplyDelete