Catelynn

Danny

2012-10-20T20:06:20Z

Danny left last night. He had just gone right before I got there to see him. I can hear him in my head teasing me that he waited for me but I was late as usual.
Ed posted online as soon as I called him, he was concerned for people traveling to see Danny Fri night/Sat. I would rather have been able to call some people first but he had to do what he thought was needed. So I am sorry for the people who got the news that way that.

I wanted to take off Friday but we were shorthanded at work and it would have been drama. But all day I was thinking of Danny and the song Now and Forever was in my head all day:

We are the lucky ones
Some people never get to do all we got to do
Now and forever, I will always think of you

Mark and I went around the world to Australia and the first person we saw was Danny. We had a lot of fun. The last few months with all the bad hard stuff, we still had fun.

I am sorry he left so soon but I am glad he is not suffering anymore.

via grrm

2011-12-16T04:46:09Z

http://www.gq.com/moty/2011/peter-dinklage-gq-men-of-the-year-issue

ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

2011-09-12T01:17:52Z

Very glad that today was a Sunday and I did not have to go to work. We got to see the water start at the Memorial last week and it looks good.

Spent the weekend with Mark's sister and family and did fun things and stayed away from the TV.

I hope everyone had as peaceful a weekend as possible.

Writer's Block: Can't we all just get along?

2011-09-03T03:13:55Z

Empower the victims and bystanders to stand up to bullys.

There is a new curriculum for this that is being suggested in many schools. My sister who is a school teacher showed it to me. And shared it with the others in my family who are also teachers.

http://www.amazon.com/Empowering-Children-Help-Bullying-School/dp/1892056542

Some of the thinking on this is that kids need to stand up for themselves but that silent bystanders ignoring the situation also allow the situation to occur.

Vote for Avery!

2011-07-12T04:06:38Z

Originally posted by emmagrant01 at Vote for Avery!

Some radio station in Alberta, Canada is having a contest called "Breast Summer Ever", in which they're giving away a boob job to the candidate with the most votes. Yeah, I know. BUT. BUT!!

One of the finalists is a transwoman named Avery. She's gotten a strong following online and made it to the finals, and has a serious chance of winning this contest. This surgery could literally change her life. She has an awesome video on the site explaining why having breasts would mean so much to her.

GO VOTE FOR AVERY!!! Voting is open until July 17. I can't tell if multiple votes count or not, but who knows?

Pass it on!

Writer's Block: Homeword bound

2011-04-06T02:59:30Z

3 bedroom 2 bath condo/coop in Manhattan GREAT kitchen

BahBahBah

2011-01-04T04:02:41Z

In 2011, catelynn resolves to...

Spend more time with my tes.
Start a tarot fund.
Stop flirting with alricthemad.
Buy new lionessindcs.
Cut down to ten little_bittis a day.
Admit my true feelings to nova_sonya.

Thanks

2010-11-26T04:52:07Z

To all our family and friends for being there all through the year.
I hope you all had a wonderful day.

We went to Ct to Mark sister (with StB in tow) for dinner and it was nice as always. Neighbors came over so more kids running around which was fun.

New York State 's New First Lady

2010-11-03T03:08:34Z

is Sandra Lee from the Food Network. Seriously.

I can hear some of you screaming from here.

Writer's Block: Vote early, vote often

2010-11-02T21:45:21Z

I do both.

I tend to vote Democratic across the board. But I do make exceptions when warranted. This year, after vetting him for crazy (aka anti gay anti abortion) I voted for a Republican for Comptroller; it was hard to ignore all the endorsements in his favor.
I also refused to vote in the US House race as the Democratic is under ethics charges and I could not vote for the Republicans.
It is much harder for me to vote Republican then it used to be. They used to be more moderate and sane.

London in 2014 Worldcom Promo

2010-09-26T19:48:20Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlTaXjDt6_E

PTSD warning not for everyone.

BUT it is a great promo

In Melbourne

2010-09-01T01:49:29Z

All is well. Finally got phones. PeteMosq has number if needed or can pass message. Eaisest way to contact is email but we might be slower then usual.
Mark is at the convention center and I wll be over there shortly. We already hooked up with some friends from various places.

Writer's Block: Acquired taste

2010-06-22T03:43:23Z

Liverwurst on Rye with raw onions(red preferably) and catsup. Don't ask.

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME

2010-06-09T01:32:52Z

Do you like your birth name? If you had the opportunity to change it, would you? What new name would you choose?

This is Yesterday's question but I did not get a chance to answer it.

My name here and what most people now call me is not my birth name. My birth name used to be very common and I liked them fine but several years ago I started using Catelynn to keep my online and non online presence separate. It still sorta works that way but not as much as it used to.

So I really have chosen to change my name even if that is not how it started out. But what has mostly happened and if I did it legally is that I would be changing my middle name to Catelynn.

My last name is the one I was born with. As many of you know, I am very close with my family and would not change it now. But oddly it is not my family's original name; it was changed in the 1920's when my family was emigrating from Ireland and the name was changed by the English on their passports. You can tell when parts of my family left Ireland; some have my last name, the ones who left later have the original name.

PSA

2010-05-25T04:11:10Z

I am so GLAD to be home.

Writer's Block: Question everything.

2010-04-21T05:28:17Z

People walk up and ask me questions all the time. I can be standing in the train station with a lot of people all around but I will be the one people come up and ask questions of.

Have Republicans Been Out-Foxed?

2010-04-17T19:41:46Z

From Newsweek. About time someone said it.

GOP Sen. Tom Coburn scored a perfect 100 on the American Conservative Union's rankings for lawmakers last year. That makes him one of the last people you'd expect to criticize what liberals see as the GOP's most notable media mouthpiece, Fox News, but that's exactly what he did at a recent town-hall meeting in Oklahoma. When an audience member fretted about going to prison for not buying health insurance, Coburn responded, "The intention is not to put anyone in jail. That makes for good TV on Fox, but that isn't the intention." When discussing disagreements with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he described her as a " nice lady" and warned the jeering crowd to be civil and to get their news from more than one source: "Don't catch yourself being biased by Fox News that somebody is no good."
Coburn's calling out of Fox was notable precisely because it's rare for Fox and Republicans to find their messages out of sync.
The image of Fox that one gets from liberal critics such as The Daily Show's Jon Stewart is that it parrots Republican talking points, pushes conservative ideas into the mainstream, and keeps the base animated. But some conservatives are asking whether the news channel has become too extreme and whether, by angering and agitating the base, it may be making it harder, rather than easier, for Republicans to win elections.

David Frum, a prominent conservative pundit and former speechwriter for George W. Bush, led the charge last month when he lambasted Republicans’ handling of health-care reform. In a piece about the health-care vote titled “Waterloo,” Frum wrote, "We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat. There were leaders who knew better, who would have liked to deal. But they were trapped. Conservative talkers on Fox and talk radio had whipped the Republican voting base into such a frenzy that deal-making was rendered impossible…By mobilizing them with hysterical accusations and pseudo-information, overheated talk has made it impossible for representatives to represent and elected leaders to lead." On Nightline, Frum noted, "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we're discovering we work for Fox…The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican Party."

A Fox News representative declined to comment for this story. Despite the criticism, Fox News is hardly suffering. It has seen its best quarter yet in terms of ratings, even as CNN suffers a steep decline in viewership At the National Press Club last week, Rupert Murdoch was asked if it was appropriate for Fox News to be promoting tea-party events, including—according to one questioner—one Fox business host's directing viewers to a tea-party Web site to buy merchandise. "No, I don't think we should be supporting the tea party, or any other party," Murdoch responded, adding that he would investigate the tea-party coverage.

Fox's promotion of tea-party protests might be a case in point. While publicizing anger at President Obama may have seemed to serve the GOP's short-term interests, there are now prominent Republican officeholders with strong chances in a general election, such as Charlie Crist and John McCain, battling in competitive primaries against tea-party favorites who might be less likely to win over Democrats and independents this fall.

Bruce Bartlett, a veteran of the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, notes that when Fox News first began airing, it presented itself as a counterweight to the left-leaning mainstream media, but as the mainstream media moved more to the center in recent years (CNN, for example,just hired prominent right-wing blogger Erick Erickson), Fox, to maintain its distance, moved further to the right. "I have no problem with a network that wears its politics on its sleeve," says Bartlett. "What bothers me is [Fox] pretends not to be that." With so many conservatives watching only Fox, says Bartlett, "people are wearing blinders; they hear no fact that conflicts with their world view. All day long their views are reinforced that Obama is a socialist crackpot."

And, as Coburn and others have recently learned, Republicans who challenge Fox may be picking a fight they cannot win. GOP Rep. Bob Inglis was booed by the crowd at a town-hall meeting in South Carolina last August when he suggested people turn off their TVs when Glenn Beck comes on. Beck's adoption of fringe claims seems to particularly irk moderate, establishment Republicans. "Bill O'Reilly might look like a clown compared to a traditional news anchor," says Bartlett, "but compared to Glenn Beck he looks like Edward R. Murrow."

Bartlett wonders if ultimately "an inherent conflict of interest is growing, in which the very success of Fox makes it harder for Republicans to get out of the echo chamber, to have arguments that go beyond their base, and to reach out to independents and Democrats who might vote for them."

At least one Republican seems unwilling to surrender to Fox just yet. John Hart, a Coburn spokesman, explained the senator's comments at that town-hall meeting and hardly backed off: "A lot of politicians are afraid of offending or alienating people who cater to their base. Coburn is one of the few people in Washington who says what he really believes." And, Hart added, "he wishes that other senators would spend more time on the floor and less time on talk shows."

Baaa...It's Danie's fault

2010-04-17T05:16:24Z

Your result for Awakening the Hero Within: Hero Archetype Test...

You are the Creator

75% Innocent, 8% Orphan, 58% Warrior, 67% Caregiver, 58% Seeker, 50% Lover, 38% Destroyer, 79% Creator, 64% Magician, 67% Ruler, 75% Sage and 46% Fool!

Goal: Identity

Fear: Inauthenticity

Response to Dragon/Problem: Claim it as part of the self

Task: self-creation, self-acceptance

Gift: Individuality, vocation

Addictions: Work, creativity

The Creator is the center of improvement, always striving to create and better her/his surroundings. The Soul is the center of the Creator’s dance, and it seeks to find a deeper sense of self and wisdom even at the price of the Ego’s functions of keeping us healthy and functioning. The Soul is the source of our freewill, and the healthy creator can tap into the potential, creating circumstances while others feel acted upon by her/his actions.

The Creator is driven to be authentic despite the costs. Creators are threatening to Warriors and Seekers, who are very concerned with how things are ‘supposed’ to be.

Shadow Creator:

The Shadow creator creates without any sense of responsibility for what s/he is making. The Shadow Creator often will deny his/her responsibility in events. Most often, the Creator is shunned by the community, and a Shadow Creator seeks to create to disturb the community from which s/he is shunned. If a creation comes out badly, a Shadow Creator will blame circumstances.

Take Awakening the Hero Within: Hero Archetype Test at OkCupid

Ed and Stephen

2009-10-23T02:29:36Z

Ed and Stephen in the Washington Blade

They're BAACCCKKK

2009-08-31T02:55:14Z

Those fraking dragons; my nieces are crazy about them. (Well it is all my fault, I showed them.) We are on vacation so any help is appreciated.

There be dragon's eggs

Cute Result

2009-06-09T04:31:27Z

Your result for The Social Persona Test (Version 2.5)...

The Renaissance Faire Wench (QLAF)

Quirky Liberal Alpha Female

You are perhaps the most popular result on OKCupid, but don’t worry, you are anything but common. I’m guessing you are quite flirtatious, but you are hardly reliant on men. You like to do things the mainstream would consider strange, (like dress in costume, perhaps?), but this gives you an irresistible allure. Eat, drink, and be merry, but make sure whoever you date respects you and does not take advantage of your laid-back attitude. (BTW, you are likely the only type who can see The Sports Spectator (NLBM) for who he is, helping him to bring out the Manga Geek (QLBM) inside. This does not mean you have to date one, however. You are quite flexible and can enjoy the company of many of the types.)

PS: You are one of my favorite types to date. If you happen to be between 20 and 30 and live in New England, perhaps you would like to send me a message.

--BookWyrm85 :-D

You are more QUIRKY than NORMAL.

You are more LIBERAL than TRADITIONAL.

You are more DOMINANT than PASSIVE.

When picking a date, consider: The Lord of the Misfits (QLAM), The Fratt Boy (NLAM), The Snowball's Chance in Hell (QTBM), The Manga Geek (QLBM), or The Sports Spectator (NLBM).

(Image from http://www.buycostumes.com/Lock-Lace-Bodice-Navy-Renaissance-Collection-Adult/27296/ProductDetail.aspx )

Take The Social Persona Test (Version 2.5) at HelloQuizzy

Lunacon and Masquerade

2009-03-25T04:30:29Z

So we went to Lunacon this weekend. We had a good time and saw a lot of friends but Saturday was devoted to
Masquerade.

Since I took my niece 2 years ago it has now become mandatory attendance as she has gotten involved with Masquerade (Costume Contest).

Sarah is in 8th grade and now we also brought her younger sister, Jessie, as well. They both we to $1.98 costuming; Sarah to finish her costume that she had been working on and Jessie to do one. Then they went to other stuff and then end of day was practice for and then Masq.

Sarah had made/put together 2 costumes and a skit to go into Novice category after having been in kid's for the prior 2 years.
Jessie put together something from $1.98 (lots of fabric to just put something together..it is fun esp for kids)

So Kid's category is non-competitive for the most part and everyone gets a ribbon and some recognition; they make the categories up to go with what the kids are doing. Jessie had fun showing and get a ribbon.

But Novice is the first level competition and both kid's and adults who are new to costuming compete.

Sarah's presentation was Little Red and her Dog which was a take on Little Red Riding Hood. She dressed up her youngest sister, Amy, who is 5 as Little Red. Sarah made a fursuit to be the wolf.

She then did a little skit that she was trying to scare Little Red. Instead of being scared Little Red thought the wolf was a Nice Puppy. Wolf hangs their head and says "Kid's today don't scare like they used to" and the wolf slinks away. Sarah did a lot of work on the work outfit.

And much to her surprise and delight on her first try as a novice WON; BEST in NOVICE CLASS. She also got a mention in workmanship.

So it was a lot of fun. The kid's parents came in to hang out and watch the show.

And then something else REALLY nice happened.

Jewelry Sale

2009-03-07T19:30:11Z

Someone I know through the internets is having a sale of some very nice beaded jewelry.

Elisem's Shinies

I just happen to have on a pair of earrings I bought from her called Evil candy.. they are purple of course veg

Meme

2009-02-05T20:35:52Z

I have an Air sun sign and a Water rising sign.

Your result for The Elemental Beauty Test...

Imaginative Beauty

0% Earth, 42% Air, 33% Water and 25% Fire!

Your results indicate you have equal parts of Air and Water.

You tend to feel pulled between your intellect and your emotions in life. Your double dose of Air and Water make you more attuned to both aspects of these personality traits. You don't mind the abstract or the intuitive side of life because you can, and do, experience both. You are very perceptive. You are therefore able to give depth to your ideas and you can detach yourself so that you gain a perspective on your feelings and your deepest desires. You are a very senstive person, internally. You are a dreamer and tend to be a bit fantasy prone. You enjoy escaping reality. You have a wonderful imagination and a great way of dealing with people. You are an effective communicator and have developed skills that allow you to deal with others. Your intuitive side allows you to tune into people and speak with them precisely and clearly.

Take The Elemental Beauty Test at HelloQuizzy

Writer's Block: Gone but Not Forgotten

2008-12-05T06:09:31Z

WEST WING I did not start watching til I was sick in 2005 and I quickly came to love that show.