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| Sunday, December 21st, 2008 | | 11:02 pm |
| | Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | | 10:10 pm |
| | Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | | 10:00 am |
interesting
Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test ... Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test... Traditional, Vibrant, and Tasteful
Islamic art is developed from many sources: Roman, Early Christian, and Byzantine styles were taken over in early Islamic architecture; the architecture and decorative art of pre-Islamic Persia was of paramount significance; Central Asian styles were brought in with various nomadic incursions; and Chinese influences . Islamic art uses many geometical floral or vegetable designs in a repetitive pattern known as arabesque. It is used to symbolize the transcendent, indivisible and infinite nature of Allah. People that like Islamic art tend to be more traditional people that appreciate keeping patterns that they learned and experienced from their past. It is not to say that they are not innovative personalities, they just do not like to let go of their roots. They like to put new ideas into details and make certain that they will work before sharing them with others. Failure is not something they like to think about because they are more interested in being successful and appreciated for their intelligence. These people can also be or like elaborate things in their life as long as they are tasteful. They tend to prefer geometric patterns and vibrant colors.
Take What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test at HelloQuizzy ******** For several of these, I didn't like *any* of the choices, so had to pick a little randomly. And, the example painting for carisis' Abstract result, I love, and would have chosen. Otherwise, I'd say this result is fairly true. And the horses are growing on me. | | Monday, September 1st, 2008 | | 7:04 pm |
| | Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 | | 2:24 pm |
OUT! Get Out! GO!!!
 Surreal is having to hip holster a vacuum hose every few hours to get the next batch of paper wasps that have found their way in the living room but will never find their way out. I would seal off the fireplace better, but truth be told, knocking them out via vacuum seems more humane than letting them keel over slowly from the poison the exterminator sprayed their hidden house with yesterday. It's safe to say I'm over my fear of this particular hymenoptera class. No stings thus far. Granted, if they're near the window that easily opens and can still fly, they've earned an easy reprieve. | | 11:59 am |
flowers peeking through volcanic ash
Regarding the recent tragedy at a Knoxville UU church, I liked what this guy had to say, particularly the part that when people look up Unitarian Universalism "'...they'll see a religion that welcomes a variety of spiritual seekers, that sees the good in different religions and rejects what's divisive, that finds the wisdom and leaves aside the relics of incomplete knowledge in the past, and they'll say, "That's me. I didn't know there was a name for what I believed.'" | | Thursday, June 12th, 2008 | | 10:57 am |
now that it's supposed to clear up...
 Of course every time I want my camera I just have my phone with me. I'm looking forward to the school year being over. Everyone has been running around frantic the past week or so. I signed up to help chair the yearbook next year, which might end up meaning I signed up to run it! At least I'll be needed there, unlike in the music dept. Yesterday I put some money down on a car and I'm pretty excited about it. It's still big, but not as big as the 4Runner, whose time had long come and gone. It was a great car and served its cargo purpose, but it's time for a change and if we continue to wait for the market to catch up with what we all want, we'll wait forever. Gotta leap in at some point, and there's nothing to say we'll have to keep this for 11 years again before switching to something hopefully better on the fuel front. (or, wonder of wonders, some phenomenal improvements in public transport.) No guarantees and no more patience from me. I don't want to get more specific until I actually get to drive it home, but I'm still itchy to get it! | | Monday, June 9th, 2008 | | 4:02 pm |
| | Saturday, June 7th, 2008 | | 2:18 pm |
cookie jar!
Popping in here to share this. I've taken a few quarters of wheel throwing (about a year and a half, 8ish years ago, and then two quarters just finished now) and we are gearing up to replace our decrepit garage with a slightly larger one with two wheels and a kiln to make a tiny studio. Not sure if we'll be able to fit glazing into the mix, but at least we'll have a good start at self sufficiency. Meanwhile, I made my first cookie jar! Porcelain with yellow salt, Shino, and Lung-ch'uan celadon glazes and wax resist. I'm so proud. Sure, it has a giant s-crack in the bottom, because on the pot directly before this one I accidentally trimmed clear through the bottom so then I erred on the conservative side and accidentally left this thick-bottomed, and the thickness differential made it crack open. Beginner mistakes, bleh. But still, cookie jar! I'll get some epoxy and fill in the crack but for now I just lined the bottom with a paper towel to catch crumbs. I inaugurated it with a whole batch of toll house, 3 dozenish.    cross-posted to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ceramics | | Monday, May 12th, 2008 | | 12:58 am |
There has been no email going in or out of my account for the past couple of days. Just in case all of you tried to email me. Today was verrah nass. Oh, except for the kitchen pipe leaking in the basement and my having a half-migraine. I honestly forgot to mention those at first, so I must be pretty content overall. Or just tired and loopy? T is a hard worker who also knows when to go to bed. Well, knows better than I do, anyway. Hope you are all doing well for where you are. | | Sunday, April 27th, 2008 | | 11:03 am |
new members of an elite club, and time to rent a corral
To anyone without children, this may not sound as earth rocking as it is, but L woke up this morning in underwear. It was dry. I'll let that, um, sink in for a minute. The final step in her sudden evolution into a potty user happened last night! We are officially a NO DIAPER household. I am giddy about it and deeply satisfied in a maternal way. She is so damned funny, too. She needs to take all her clothes off, even her shirt, to go on the toilet. The other day as I combed her hair into a ponytail she asked me why it's called a ponytail. I said, because it kind of looks like a pony's tail. Okay, so later I'm in the kitchen and she comes out from the bathroom, buck naked, walking on all fours with a foot long streamer of TP stuck in her butt, saying "Look Mom, I'm a pony!" and proceeds to lumber around giggling for five minutes with toilet paper stuck in her butt crack and waving around. Yes, I have pictures and no, they will never be posted to the internet. I will, however, have something of magnificent import to bring out and show her future special friends! | | Monday, April 14th, 2008 | | 4:13 pm |
Take me out
...to the ball game! Whee... we missed out on the Dalai Lama, but of course not the Dalai Lama traffic - my niece barely got here in time to let us leave and catch the party bus to the game, but we made it. First time at Safeco for me, our first time to the annual party and hopefully not the last. Weather couldn't have been better!    | | Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | | 11:31 am |
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| | Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 | | 10:58 pm |
| | Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | | 1:55 pm |
day of suggested mushiness
I woke up with a headache, earaches and a stealth cough that made me gag. Tromped downstairs to find the sweetest ever handmade valentines for me and the kids from T. All Better! (...well, significantly, anyway!) So much to write these days, and yet not really all that much at that. Deadlines are my bane and also my lifeline. Anyone have suggestions for photographing or even merely attending a Bat Mitzvah? | | Saturday, January 5th, 2008 | | 3:31 pm |
first batch
The thought of homemade ice cream will always remind me of hiking up an alpine hill, looking out over meadow flowers, cranking a barrel full of cream, sugar, ice and salt we'd dragged up with us for an eternity (both the dragging and the cranking,) muttering a few expletives, and finally dishing up the sloppy mess and inhaling it before it melted. There are some things that exes are good for, and memories of "firsts" are high on the list. It was time to make a new first. Behold, my first batch of homemade, custard-based ice cream!  Mint Chocolate Chip Scharffenburger semisweet chocolate and fresh mint. The store didn't have much fresh mint left, so I bought a puny little bunch and supplemented with extract... but I didn't want to add too much in case the alcohol hampered the hardness. I put in one teaspoon, which turned out to be perfect in terms of final consistency but a little weak on mint flavor. For the first batch, though, pretty good! ( The family concurs. )On the face of it it looks like a bad idea to buy an ice cream maker attachment right after deciding to cut back on general calorific-ness, but really it's just part of a shrewd plan to not buy supermarket ice cream again. The time, effort, and thought involved ensures that we appreciate each scoop. That's the plan, anyway, though I make no promises to crank up the Martha level for birthdays! | | Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 | | 5:43 pm |
that's the way
Having heard this version all the way through only once, I'm ready to say that it is THE definitive recording of Rhapsody in Blue. I'm biased, though. Fazil Say (fuh-ZEEL SIGH) gives it the same flavor I would, if I had finished the damn thing. I still feel like I let myself, and my uncle Ben, down by not performing the solo WB edition I was working on in high school. But, this guy has insane technique and soul. Ohhhhhhh yeah. http://www.amazon.com/Gershwin-Fazil-Say-New-York/dp/B00003ZACB/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1199324642&sr=8-3Track it down if you love Gershwin. I can guarantee you will NOT be sorry. Also check out his Paganini Variations on YouTube. | | Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 | | 1:04 pm |
| | 10:50 am |
2008
Happy New Year! I wonder how the tree is doing. It is preternaturally green and shiny, yet nobody has been watering it. Has anyone been as childishly excited for New Year as R was last night? He ran laps back and forth from the back door to the couch and caught pitstop high-5's from me in between. He also found a stack of tiny square memo paper and wrote on them with a sharpie, ran up behind us and dropped them before running to write more. He also designated a mailbox on the floor and dropped messages there. Following, a rundown: is it 10 o clook wat do yoou want to to at 12 r we guna hav a kac looc in yor box can we hav samath the leftofr is crem box I am ecsidid for tonite *** Egad, I love this kid! The "is crem" he refers to is the first test batch I made in our new KitchenAid ice cream maker. It is passable, and certainly edible, but not super creamy, and it needs just the right amount of time to defrost. He brushed aside my protestations with "No! It's the best ice cream in the world!" Of course he managed to stay up well past midnight. The Seattle fireworks were beyond pathetic - it was hilarious and a bit unsettling to see them fail to go off and then finally all shoot off in a spastic wad sans music. The commentators were dumbfounded. So funny. This morning as I lay in bed with post champagne cottonmouth, R said for the first time something every mom should hear at least once in their lifetime. "You're the best mom in the world!" It was due to something comically trivial - I'd let him have my paint chip...!? - but still. To hear twice in a row the phrase "best in the world" from my child is pretty great. |
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