Don't Forget! ~ Mt. Monadnock hike, this saturday, meet at 10 AM at the state park parking lot...  Bring friends...  IM/e-mail me for details, directions, etc.!  Yay!

It's time for the Spring Mt. Monadnock hike, so grab your gear and lets go! We will be hiking at a moderate pace, over varied, sometimes challenging terrain. Children are welcome to join us on this hike, but I ask that they be able to maintain close to the group pace, so parents, please use your discretion as to whether your kids are up to this (not sure they are up to it? drop me a line to find out more about kids on this mountain). Everyone, please come prepared for varied weather conditions, please bring adequate water/fluids to stay hydrated, and please bring snacks/lunch to eat while on the mountain. Also, you will probably want both sunscreen and bugspray for this hike.

Date:	Saturday, May 30, 2009
Time:	10:00am - 3:30pm
Location:	Monadnock State Park
Street:	Poole Rd.
City/Town:	Jaffrey, NH

Other info you need to know:
Park Admission Fee is $4 for Adults (and children 12+), $2 for Children 6-11, and Free for Children 5 and under or Adults 65 and over.
Pets are NOT allowed at this site.

If you plan on coming with us, just drop me a line, so i have a rough idea of who to expect. Also, the more, the merrier, so feel free to bring friends/family with you.

Hope to see you on the mountain!

Just one month to go to the NH Childhood Cancer Lifeline Blues Weekend up at Pats Peak! Sunday is the Slient/Live Auction, Live Bands, Raffles, and good food to go along with it all. (And don't forget the skiing and boarding!) Check it out at www.ChildhoodCancerLifeline.org/pats.htm ! You won't want to miss it!

PS - We're still looking for donations for the raffles, and silent and live auctions. Goods, Services, Crafted Items, we'll take them all! Get in touch with me if you think you might be able to help us out with a donation, or to get a copy of the organizations item wish list. Thanks!

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"After less than a minute Miss Tick had crafted a shamble out of:

          One twelve-inch ruler
          One bootlace
          One piece of secondhand string
          Some black thread
          One pencil
          One pencil sharpener
          A small stone with a hole in it
          A match box containing a mealworm called Roger, along
                with a scrap of bread for him to eat, because every 
                shamble must contain something living
          About half a packet of Mrs. Sheergold's Lubricated Throat
                Lozenges
          A button"
 

From Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

Thank you dread_iratepir8  for yet another entertaining Meme... :D Yay!

How to make a TazzyLady

Ingredients: 3 parts jealousy 5 parts brilliance 1 part beauty

Method: Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Add a little lustfulness if desired!

since myspace doesn't seem to function well with their e-vite program, and since some of you on here aren't on there... i'm trying to send as many people as possible the actual E-vite invite to my birthday hike... so if you are interested in the info, get me your e-mail addy, i will send it along to you, or you can click on this link, and it should take you there...
Hike Link
Just type your info into the reply section and it will add you to the list...
You can also use the tools on that page to send the invite to other people, if you know someone who might be interested... All the hike details are outlined in the e-vite...

yesterday morning, i walked out my front door to go to work, and with the temperature at 6 AM, it could have been mid-summer... it was beautiful and warm, and the longer i was out the stranger it felt, becuase though the temperature said mid-summer, the light, it's angle, it's clarity, distinctly said fall... this morning though, this morning, i woke up and fall had arrived... the air was cool, the light crystal clear, the sky somewhat overcast, with pockets of deep blue peeking through here and there... and the trees, with their beautiful greens of summer, had begun in earnest to shed their monochrome splendor in favor of their riotous fall displays of color... the early red and orange start of the maples is being quickly joined by the yellows of the beech and birch, creeping up the edges of leaves here, taking over a branch there, while in the swamps and lowlands the swamp maples look as if they have burst joyously into living flame... it is enough to make me catch my breath in awe... fall, autumn, season of harvest, and celebration of the fullness of life, welcome once again...

I'm posting this here to try to reach those I haven't yet reached through E-vite or MySpaceEvents:

Well, it seems that we’re getting close to the time of year again for my birthday hike! This year i’m reaching that fabulous milestone of 30 years! :D I’m hoping for a good turn out, but i’ll be just as happy with a couple of good friends by my side... I’ve decided this time to limit the inclusion of children to only those who are able to keep up with the adults without assistance, ie, don’t need to be carried or led by the hand during the majority of the hike... The reason for this being we have less daylight to work with this time of year, and i want to be able to summit in a reasonable amount of time. The current plan is to meet at the base, at Monadnock State Park in Jaffrey, at 9AM, on November 15th. Please dress in layers, as the temperature varies drastically between the base and the summit, and please bring lots of water for the hike up and down, as well as snacks/lunch for during the hike. I think that’s about all for now, and I hope to see you on the 15th!

For more details, etc, e-mail me with your e-mail address, and i will send you the e-vite... and remember, the more the merrier, so pass the word along!

For anyone interested... This Tuesday and Wednesday night is the peak of the Perseid Meteor Showers... They happen around this time every august, and some of the meteors hit the atmosphere with so much speed that they explode on contact rather than slowly burning up as they fall... Should be an incredible show... The peak hours are supposed to be between midnight and 4 AM, and since the moon will be well down at that point, the view should be fantastic...

my friend eric is in the hospital... above and beyond the normal concern this would usually generate, is the fact that they can't seem to figure out what is wrong with him... me = very worried at this point :(  healing energies, hopeful thoughts, heartfelt prayers, anything positive you can send his way, would be greatly appreciated... i just want him home and well again...

So, since the hot topic of the hour is Min, i thought i would add my two cents... Min was FANNNN-TASTIC!!! This was my second event, ever, and really was my introduction into the Realms world, since i was only able to make it to the tag end of the weekend for ToC... I don't think i could have had a better time than i did... The food was fantabulous... Yummy steak, tasty chicken, a great lamb soup, excellent sides, and simply delish midnight pork... Yay! The people were fantastic too... I got to meet a lot of new people, from both the north and south parts of our game, and made a bunch of new friends... And i also got to spend a great weekend with the friends i had from up home... Girl Pile anyone? :) I had great fun coming up with a bunch of different outfits to wear for the weekend, and hope most of them looked fine, because half of them were assembled spur of the moment from the pile of garb i brought with me... Also, i got to be part of the dancing both friday and saturday nights, which was soooo much fun that i can't wait for the next event i can make it to that has that, so that i can do it again... Saturday night i got to go out on the night quest... "I'm invisible!" It was crazy and confusing and took way longer than planned, and it was AWESOME! I'm hoping that i will feel comfortable enough with my fighting to be able to participate fully at the next event i attend... The land was great, the storyline well put together, people stayed reasonably healthy and mostly unhurt, and the event staff made sure everything ran smoothly... I can only hope this weekend was representative of how most Realms events are, fun and full of energy and good times...

So, yeah, i'm still a newbie in this game, with only one and a half events, and a couple months of fight practice under my belt... But this is something i've wanted to get involved with for years... Now that I've finally gotten that opportunity, i'm loving every second of it... I think it would be a shame to lose people who make this game what it is over something that out of a weekend of wonderful things took up a microsecond of time... Things like that, they don't deserve the attention given them... Every time something happens to you, Life hands you two choices... You can let it destroy you, destroy your life, your health, your friendships, make you depressed or angry or sad... Or you can let it go, say "fuck that, i won't be miserable over something that stupid", and move on... Life is too short to be miserable... Me, i'm gonna go spend some time with all of my new friends from Realms now... Hope to see you there...

Kittery Trading Post - S-shape Carabiners 
 

For those who have been asking me where you can find these...  i tracked them down online, and you can order them online from KTP...

just wanted to wish you a happy birthday,  chipmunk63084! hope it's a great one...