Apparently the other was bad, only 9 months old, free replacement (:
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I haven't taken a great amount of time to update this blog in the recent year, and there are times of familiarity when I do come here and visit to which I am very thankful, but I don't always feel terribly comfortable or free to express myself here anymore. I recently reread some of my older posts from 2006 and on, and at that time I had a certain passion for blogging, and a certain fearlessness to post as I felt at all times. My personal space has been violated since then in this area though, and even though I am literally bursting with budding romance, sexual energy, freedom and love at this instant, there is extreme distance between my Vox and I from 2006 until now. I resist posting anything of importance now, which does not serve me as I used this blog as a board of creativity for a long time! I feel like having this space is really important, and so I'm starting a new blog today. If you are interested in reading, please send me an email to sharkslovecupcakes@gmail.com, contact me on Facebook as Monika Sylvestre or send me a message on here and I'll be happy to Invite you to this new location. Thank you and Namaste.
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and then there's this guy:
The Bungler
You glow in my heart
Like the flames of uncounted candles.
But when I go to warm my hands,
My clumsiness overturns the light,
And then I stumble
Against the tables and chairs.
Amy Lowell
The Taxi
When I go away from you
The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum.
I call out for you against the jutted stars
And shout into the ridges of the wind.
Streets coming fast,
One after the other,
Wedge you away from me,
And the lamps of the city prick my eyes
So that I can no longer see your face.
Why should I leave you,
To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?
Amy Lowell
The Pike
In the brown water,
Thick and silver-sheened in the sunshine,
Liquid and cool in the shade of the reeds,
A pike dozed.
Lost among the shadows of stems
He lay unnoticed.
Suddenly he flicked his tail,
And a green-and-copper brightness
Ran under the water.
Out from under the reeds
Came the olive-green light,
And orange flashed up
Through the sun-thickened water.
So the fish passed across the pool,
Green and copper,
A darkness and a gleam,
And the blurred reflections of the willows on the
opposite bank
Received it.
Amy Lowell
Aubade
As I would free the white almond from the green husk
So would I strip your trappings off,
Beloved.
And fingering the smooth and polished kernel
I should see that in my hands glittered a gem beyond
counting.
Amy Lowell
- Boo is fine. She came home around 6:30am. She cried. I let her in. 10 min later, she wanted back out. I think that was when we started the cycle of her crying, me yelling "shut up!" and falling back to sleep. x5, till 11am, when I let Moshi out. Then they both came back in. Then Moshi went back out and, wisely, just before I left for work (11:45 - early for me), Boo decided to go out too.
- Got off work at around 1am tonight. Sucks to get home, turn on the TV, and see that it's already 1:30am. As long as there's work, I'll be in the office for a MIN of 10 hrs a day for the rest of the year... working toward an impossible deadline (but my dept has to make sure that the blame falls on the sw team instead of us).
- ASL Sign Language Question: Should "Damn, I wish I was your lover" be signed as:
- Damn, I wish I will (implied "be") your lover
- Damn, I wish I am (literally signed) your lover
- Damn, I wish I (implied "am") your lover
- I really really want to go to Vegas. I don't know why. NYE would be fun but it's not worth the price (2 nights, with partying at the Orleans is over $450... during the summer, rooms were $18/night... 1,250% more expensive = NOT COOL!!)
- Today I ordered this awesome Bottle Top Tripod. No more trying to take pics of myself in the mirror - now I can set it up on a table and user the timer. Other sites have the same tripod for a slightly cheaper but my link has FREE SHIPPING (which I didn't know when I ordered), so $10 is total cost. WIN (DOUBLE WIN since I didn't know about the free shipping).
- Oh. Wait. Does my new phone even have a tripod connector? Ah, F it... if it doesn't, I'll use the old one. Or my digacam.
- Roku, the Netflix play (which is WiFi compatible) is down to $80. $100 for an HD version. $130 for an HD version that broadcasts to remote TVs. I'll probably buy it on Thurs (payday).
- Hoping-hoping-hoping I wake up in time, and remember, to see It's a Wonderful Life on a movie screen tomorrow. If I don't, I won't have another chance this year.
- Things I always like: Candles (I want one wall in my future "bar" room to be a total fire hazard: covered with candle wall sconces - cause that's what you want around booze!), windchimes (metal and/or wood; tuned)
- Current mental fantasy obsession: How to fit both a jacuzzi and glass stone fire pit (plus seating) in my 12'x12' backyard. If I figure it out, I'm gonna have it built!
- My sinus infection is better but the coughing has started. I'm hoping to end it before it gets out of control.
- Jamilla DeVille won the International Pole Dance Federation's "Instructor of the Year" award. Yay!!~~!
- Gay Progressive Dinner Party on Sunday... and Earl will be there. Should be fun! (maybe I'll be nice and take a pic of Earl while he's AWAKE... I'll have to act fast (even when I went to his house for dinner & a movie, he fell asleep on me!))
- I am totally on board with Crankypant's rant about the Grammy nominations (you have to be in her hood to view that link). Today I heard that the Silversun Pickups are up for Best New Artist. I've been hearing them on the radio for at least 3 years now. "best NEW artist"... WTF?
- Just saw Micheal Buble on Oprah. I really like his voice. Why don't I own any of his CDs (or mp3s)??
- Zero 7's "The Road" is a beautiful song. Beautiful. I got the CD (supposed to be an advanced copy but I think it didn't work out that way) when I renewed my KCRW membership. LOVE the CD (except 1st & last tracks, both strange instrumental mixes). Also got & love the Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix CD (my drive to work, plus putting on makeup in the parking lot, takes EXACTLY the length of the CD). Mixed on Band of Skulls, which sounds like Jack White (who I don't really care for). Haven't listened to the 4th CD yet - don't know what it is. Long story longer: I'll link the Zero 7 youtube vid at the bottom of this - but, fyi, there are no visuals in it.
- update, 2:42am: Just saw that Zero 7 will be playing a local, small, venue on the 16th. A Wed. There is no way I will be able to get off work to go. FAIL!!
- It's 2:35am. I'm going to bed (or going to pretend that I am). Hope you all had a good Friday night. I'd love to read about it my comments!
We signed up for this once we got here. Association Holiday dinner (and meeting) was open to the 300 homes or so in this area. We were sure we would be wanting to leave as soon as we got there. We were wrong!
- 00:16 @joeymcintyre Can you follow a mid-west girl? It's mighty cold in Denver, below zero tonight, some Joey would warm me up!! #
- 10:38 Already looking fwd to sleeping in Saturday morning, and working only a half day Monday! Ahhhh I can't waait. Can barely keep my eyes open! #
- 10:40 RT @TFLN: (818): he took off his pants and apologized in advance if I thought he was too small. --- lmao heard that before! #
- 10:48 @jakecoco "if I were an artist" that was the first song of yours I ever heard, loved it! #
- 11:40< /em> @BigGirlBlue happy bday!! #
- 12:31 @mdcurry booooooo, no pulling out for you. #
- 13:55 I think I wanna make some shortbread cookies soon... Been craving them like crazy! #
- 17:14 @mdcurry so, you're saying you dont have experience pulling out... #
- 17:27 @mdcurry lolol i just like given you shit (= #
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...
It's snowing beautifully here in Houston. When it snows here it's like a little magical gift.
And let me note that this creature, Baby Girl is also a magical gift:
she loves suitcases
i love her
Do you remember the things you did when you first started using the Web and how it has changed your life?
Well it was mostly just AOL and it's chat rooms
oh and of course looking up stuff online to plagiarize for high school, totally worked too, got 10 A's the last few weeks of Govt class on all my reports & projects (=
