~Mordant~

Writer's Block: Between a rock and a hard place

topaz08 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:31:07 GMT

Anyone that knows me even a little knows the answer to that - a pit of spiders. EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Snakes I'd just pick a few to make pets of.

topaz08 — Sat, 15 May 2010 20:57:08 GMT

Dear Sarah Palin -

No. You do not represent me. You are the worst thing to happen to women's rights in 50 years. You are not qualified to be President. You couldn't even finish half a term as governor of Alaska. Just, no.

me

Get Well Soon!

topaz08 — Fri, 14 May 2010 03:21:09 GMT

I was not aware Ronnie James Dio was ill. Get well soon!!

waimeawahine

topaz08 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:43:54 GMT

waimeawahine, please post something soon to let us know you are OK.

Writer's Block: What do you want to do before you die?

topaz08 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:32:13 GMT

Finish one of my novels. I have 4 (so far).

Writer's Block: Confessions of a couch potato

topaz08 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:23:20 GMT

The hubby and I watched a Monty Python weekend. I made it for 14 hours. I don't remember much after that.

oy

topaz08 — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:26:50 GMT

Does anyone have a frizzy hair problem? And what do you do for it? I'm ready to shave my head except then I'd get a sunburn.

giggle of the day

topaz08 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:38:54 GMT

If you have a sesne of humor and are a Journey fan, this is for you.

If It's Not A National Holiday In Canada, It Should Be

topaz08 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:51:32 GMT

Happy Birthday Geddy Lee!!!!!!!!!!!

Writer's Block: Leave Room

topaz08 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:00:07 GMT

Tiramisu, Flan, and anything chocolate.

Writer's Block: Pick and Stick

topaz08 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:35:49 GMT

Wow, that's a tossup between Italian and Mexican . . . Nope, can't chose just one. Bad me.

topaz08 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:46:16 GMT

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Writer's Block: You're a Winner!

topaz08 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:16:03 GMT

I won a contest on a Detroit radio station to fly to Anaheim to see Rush. We went to Disneyland! It was awesome, especially since it was February and we were freezing in Michigan.

Writer's Block: Teen Time Machine

topaz08 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:41:23 GMT

Well, I guess the 70's were OK. At least they weren't the 60's . . .

Writer's Block: Place of Residence

topaz08 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:47:47 GMT

I want a yurt out in the desert. Solar and wind powered, completely off the grid. Which is the plan, I have the desert, I just need a well now.

Writer's Block: Call Me

topaz08 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:05:32 GMT

I have a landline. I hate cellphones, or actually, their misuse. I don't care to hear other people's conversations, so if you can't be reasonable in public, put the damned thing away. THE most annoying invention of the past 100 years. I have one, strictly for emergencies. Otherwise, it's stuffed in a drawer around here somewhere.

WOOT!

topaz08 — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:46:35 GMT

How about those Red Wings! Stanley Cup Finals, here they come!!!

Writer's Block: Places to Lay Your Head

topaz08 — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:39:50 GMT

Seriously, when I first got married, we moved every six months. I couldn't even count how many times since then. We've moved at least 25 times, 4 states, in everything from houses, to apartments, a courthouse basement, to parent's houses, a parent's basement, and even a tent once for a month when there was no housing available. And now I live in an RV, so I can hitch it up to the truck and move any time I want, easier. Gypsy blood, you know.

Writer's Block: Space Wars

topaz08 — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:25:46 GMT

I don't know if I can pick just one. I watched the original 'Star Trek' when I was really young and loved it. The new 'Star Trek' is awesome and amazing.

SW - well, my favorite character in the newset batch only had a few minutes screen time, so they aren't so high on my list.

Firefly should never have been cancelled. It was a western in space and it was great.

Alien & Aliens rocked. Especially the second one. Aliens and marines, hell ya.

I think I'm done now.

No, I'm not. 'Sunshine' was a sleeper - it required some deep thought, but it was still action oriennted. Another awesome space movie.

Writer's Block: Word for Word

topaz08 — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:02:04 GMT

Many, many songs. Most of them are Rush but there's a good amount of Journey, The Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Live and Queensryche in there. Plus various others.

Etsy Mini

topaz08 — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:46:43 GMT

I love these things - saves me the work of doing it. These are my cabochons.

Etsy
Buy Handmade
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Writer's Block: Beautiful Vistas

topaz08 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:52:27 GMT

Just one? No. I've been to the Grand Canyon, and that is a view! I've lived in the Rocky Mountains and woke up to ice storms covering everything. I've watched huge thunderstorms roll in off Lake Michigan. And the sunsets in the desert - nothing like them anywhere.

The one I want to see but haven't yet - any view from Machu Picchu.

topaz08 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:02:04 GMT

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

The Truth About Columbine

topaz08 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:37:59 GMT

An interesting article about truth, the media, and what really happened 10 years ago at Columbine High School.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-13-columbine-myths_N.htm?se=yahoorefer

Home Again

topaz08 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:33:29 GMT

We had a field trip to Morenci today. Which made for a long day because the wind was fierce last night and I got a total of six minutes of sleep. I did pick up some nice chunks of pretty blue rocks to play with later. The Em-witch hauled home a boulder . . . I bet it weighs 50 pounds. We had to break it up in to 3 pieces, but she ~~carried it~~ drug it back to the bus herself. Jim went this time. He enjoyed it I think. (When he's not feeling well, I have to drag him out of the house or he will sit there for weeks.)

The sad thing - about 1500 people have been laid off at the mine since our trip in October. I hope the recession burns out pretty soon so people can get their lives back together.