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Fallout 3 is one of my new favorite games. Almost as fun as STALKER, and really reminiscent of it. I like the demos so much I decided to go all out. I got the Limited Edition game, as well as the Collectors' Strategy Guide. The game came with a Fallout themed lunchbox, which is actually an item you can pick up in the game, and make into the Bottlecap Mine.
I kinda want to design a non-explosive replica of it, and it seems pretty easy.
- Is there a such thing as a cheap, inexpensive hobby? (Get your mind out of the gutter Josie!) About seven or eight years ago I took up salsa / merengue dancing as my new hobby. I knew I had to pay for classes, but they were only $30 a month. What broke me was the fact that I needed a new wardrobe to go with it. You have to have the right shoes and the right skirts. The shoes are obvious. Women do a lot of turns and you need shoes that permit turning without making you fall on your ass. You also need a skirt that moves with you without showing everyone your Brazillian wax job. Pants just don't look as good as skirts and dresses when you are doing Latin dances.
Anyway, my new hobby is photography. I have a great camera that I purchased from a pawnshop. I can get some pretty good shots, but what I really need is a telephoto lens. Alas, there is no telephoto lens that fits my camera model. No problem, I thought, I just saw a really cool gadget that is a set of binoculars with a built in digital camera. I bought it and the pictures look like SHIT! I'd have to be in direct sunlight to get a decent photo! I was very disappointed. After all, I've managed to get some good shots with my camera phone for crying out loud. This gadget takes pictures that look like those fuzzy pictures you see of criminals who've gotten caught by a store security camera! Sacre bleu! What I really have is a pretty decent pair of binoculars. Screw you Vivitar! Now I'm on the look out for a digital camera with a very good telephoto lens. Like I have the money for that! Waaahhh!
- Does anybody know someone who's giving away a bed? The bed we sleep on has been my husband's for over 20 years. The other day the box spring bit the dust. Today, I took the mattress off, flipped over the box spring, got some wooden planks and nailed it up. It'll hold temporarily -- I think. I've been scanning Craig's List daily. We'll see what comes up.
- Easter is way too early this year!
- I'm really not impressed with American Idol this year, but I was really impressed with resable's recent top blog post. Okay, that was a terrible segue, but she is dead on with her belief that just because you don't jump into heated political discussions or blog about politics on a daily basis doesn't mean you don't have an opinion. Hell even I keep my opinion to myself sometimes! Sometimes you just don't feel like getting into it with other people. Sometimes you just want to laugh at the antics of your silly online friends and complain about the poor movie selection we have to choose from these days!
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Even though I am suposed to be working at present, I found the time to take pictures of, and post, my Swarovski Crystal earrings I have been addicted to making, and post them for my friends who have been asking to see them ... some of the photos are kinda blurry (my crappy old camera) ...
I've been pretty much leaning towards ecology so it will give me some kind of background to do permaculture gardening. The only problem is that there is nothing offered at the college I go to that has anything to do with ecology.
I believe that a couple months back I made a brief post simply with a few words and linking to the home page of New College of California. NCC offers exactly, exactly what I would need for this, in a way that sounds pretty damn neat.
I'm kind of scared, though...
Here's the things I consider when I consider my future:
1 - If my job must be my life, or very much of it, I want it to be my life because I make it that way, through my love, passion, belief and devotion to it. ...Don't we all?
2 - Well... I guess anything else would only be expanding on #1. So let me try and do that...
What keeps coming to my mind as I sit here is my hands. I have always simply loved working with my hands... Anything that involves that kind of work with the hands being very involved, preferably doing lots of things, not just one mechanical thing over and over (although I can enjoy this too, as is obvious through my enjoyment of knitting... however, I would not like to knit for a living, no way no how. heh). Bring the mind and problem-solving and creating into it, and you will have created a love connection for me. Permaculture design seems to combine these two pretty well, not to mention the whole idea of permaculture is something I can easily appreciate and want to contribute to/be a part of.
This is also why I have considered carpentry. I have also, always, ALWAYS loved building things and putting things together. I remember some years when I saw a show on PBS of a carpenter who made replicas of antique furniture, I thought for weeks and weeks after that, "I want to do something like THAT!" Everyone keeps telling me I would be stupid to do carpentry, though, seeing as not only am I female but I also have so many other, better options open to me. Could be true... Probably is.
Lately I have been learning quite a bit about the art of glass blowing. I was sitting around on campus the other day talking with three guys when one of them asked me if I knew anyone who would like to learn glass blowing. I told him I had thought about it myself before. I won't go any further into that exact incident, but anyway... I've been doing more and more looking into it and it looks just awesome. However, again, another area greatly dominated by men...
I once dreamt of being a writer. Today, though, I honestly do not think I could do that. I am OK and even enjoy being alone and working alone, yes... but ... I just could not be a writer. Not to mention how unrealistic it is. That is just out the window, splat on the ground, dead.
Why I brought it up, I don't know... Probably because as I sat here thinking of more to say I found my eyes lingering around my bookshelf.
So here is another post where I come to no real conclusions. Besides the acknowledgement of the fact that I love working with my hands and figuring things out. I'd probably even enjoy being a mechanic... Unless that REQUIRES some love for vehicles, which I don't much have... But the figuring and hands-on thing is extremely appealing. Again... male dominated.
Notice not much of what I have mentioned has very much prestige. A lot of it might actually be work people avoid or dread... Hmmm... Perhaps I would, too. I really can't know for sure. I'm just making assumptions based on what I know of myself as of right now... Speculating.
I have also had a dream in the back of my mind... That involves own my own business. Which I am also kind of weary of. Also, while at first I may create the things on my own, or hand-made (I am purposefully not saying exactly what it is I am talking about), there might come a point when I would no longer be the one making the products. But ... Oh, who knows...
I can't say I know too too much about anything I have mentioned here.
I always knock myself down...
This is getting quite depressing. I still think sometimes of being a teacher... Maybe I can have just a hobby on the side that involves hands-on work. I just know I need to keep doing things with my hands. I have been doing lots of things with my hands lately and I have been quite happily busy. Playing guitar, knitting, sewing, painting, making other artsy fartsy stuff, I spent all of yesterday moving my room around (I have always moved my furniture around a lot and I used to joke with my sisters that I wanted to be a mover. hahah..... Hmmm....), etc.
Maybe I should start a garden next spring. I have had plants and they always die. It probably isn't a very good idea to be a permaculture gardener if I can't even keep a house plant alive, is it? Then again, at this point I really know nothing about keeping plants. Perhaps I only need some knowledge to develop grandly and do well with... There is only one way to find out.
*sigh*
-Liv-
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Yep. No campfire. HOW did I NOT see that none of these sites had a campfire pit when we visited here last month? ARGH. How very dissapointing to say the least. I am trying to be positive about this, but I probably should have stayed home and worked on my taxes. ( THAT folks is a whole 'nother post! LOL!-I need someone to barter with!)
This is a mom-pop outfit here, 1. NAME THIS SONG THAT FITS THIS MOMENT I can see that back 20 or more years this was probably very family oriented and probably had scads of families here that knew each other and hung out at the community pavilion overlooking a small pond that is now covered with a layer of green frog spit 2. SHOULD A WOMAN KISS A FROG-THE ANSWER IS HERE. Blech. Mark says that is because it is spring fed, but doesnt have an outlet. There is a cute walking trail around it. Then there is the upper pond. Another trail around that, flowers planted by the 'boat' they built there as their home on the 'lake'.. grins... its cute.. I like that feature. You can fish here by the pound. .. first you buy a fishing 'permit' even if you already have a state fishing license for $3.00. Then whatever fish you catch, 3. NAME THE METHOD OF MEASURING FISH IN THIS VID you pay for them by the pound if you keep them. Interesting. I like to fish, but I dont like to clean them, lol..
Mark left this morning for his hunt. Which is about 5 miles down the road. Last night when we got all set up, we went down the street.. woops...road... its definitely a RD, for some ice, we passed a Brown Sign that said 4. NAME THE CAMPGROUNDS F. What? Lol. .. my wonderful hubby told me that park was too far from his hunting grounds, so I didnt pursue going to a nicer park, that had water, campfire pits, and probably PEOPLE to interact with in common areas.
After checking it out on the internet this morning, I find its only 13 miles down the 'road'...Live and Learn. The sacrifices I make to compromise with my husbands hunting 'hobby'. I am currently listening to Survivor 5. NAME THE SONG " on the radio ( is that apropo?) and watching traffic go by on the main 'road.'... yes folks we are about 500 feet from the road near the exit sign of the park. But my hubby is happily hunting.
Now don't get me wrong, I am not miserable here, just slightly disappointed... but there is nice picnic table here that I am sitting out here under our awning, typing away on the internet ( **laughs loudly--oops startled jillie!!) Maybe the next time we will go to 6.NAME THIS ONE INSTEAD, I like that it has a lake with boating available.
Song switch, 7. NAME THIS SONG. I loved this song growing up. It sort of fit right into all the 8. NAME OF THE BOOKS I used to read 24/7. I wish I could remember the title of the first one that I read. I can 'see' the cover in my mind's eye, and it was based on a woman traveling to Norway and working on a ship, and the scene I recall the most vividly was when she was freezing wet and went to her "lover" and he tenderly took off her drenched white sweater and took care of her when she was out of her mind with fever, etc. I would love to find this book and re-read it! Understand that I read this book when I was in 4rth grade! From then on I would read literally bags and bags of those books. I went from Nancy Drew to an insatiable appetite for romance and escapism. 9. NAME THIS ROMANTIC GETAWAY!
Well, I have had fun doing this entry, I hope you enjoyed it too! Now I am going to work on my newsletter to send to my clients. I actually AM enjoying this time, and while it may not be my 'true' idea of camping ( nor yours probably!) but I am using it as time to just relax and enjoy doing some of the things I like to do creatively. I don't know how some of you always respond to my posts, because I don't get to reply to many that I read, and for that I really want you to know how much 10. NAME THIS SONG I appreciate y'all!
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