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Long Overdue
Wow, so it's been awhile since I posted anything. I was home in Michigan for the whole week of the 4th. I was insane (at least according to everyone else). I drove each way in only one day. That's 16 hours up and, somehow, 15 hours back. The ipod got a good workout ;)
So, I planned to post some pictures from the trip all last week and never got to it. And now, here it is, the end of another day, and I still haven't had a chance to do it. I will get more up here, but for now, here's one from the fireworks.
Speaking of pictures... I sold my first prints to a couple of people locally :D I'm still working on the logistics of shipping to other locations (which seems to be taking me forever), but these first couple sales were really encouraging. I don't know how successful this whole venture will be, but I've had really postive feedback so far from my friends here, as well as some of you. Thanks :)
once a year pet peeve.
Ok, just a quick post to vent a lil angst.
I have no problem with people who buy fireworks for the fourth of July celebrations. I even have no real problem with people who light them on the 3rd or before.
I do, however, have a very strong problem and frustration with the all the idiots who decide to keep their loud, booming, screaching, whirring fireworks a day or so more n light them after the 4th! I heard bangs and pops and whistles from about 10 pm last night, til around 2. So, didn't get much good sleep, and now I feel all lethargic.
That is all.
I have no problem with people who buy fireworks for the fourth of July celebrations. I even have no real problem with people who light them on the 3rd or before.
I do, however, have a very strong problem and frustration with the all the idiots who decide to keep their loud, booming, screaching, whirring fireworks a day or so more n light them after the 4th! I heard bangs and pops and whistles from about 10 pm last night, til around 2. So, didn't get much good sleep, and now I feel all lethargic.
That is all.
Summer Class Update - My 4th of July - Why No Liv These Days?
Luckily the arm thing seems to have gone away.
Only two more weeks left of my Summer class and then it's all over. Not long after that I'm off to Chicago. I always feel slightly nervous about that.
Fourth of July yesterday. Hope everyone had a good one. We didn't do much. The Strip didn't even have fireworks this year. But Station Casinos put on fireworks displays from each of their casinos in the city. The new Red Rock Casino is one of them and we live just 3 blocks from it, on the same street. There is a little park a block up so 10 minutes before the fireworks were to start we rushed out of the house, rushed to the gas station around the corner to get ice creams and then rushed to the park. There were quite a few people there but not a ton. It is a small community park tucked away towards some tract houses so it's not like it's some major park everyone goes to for fun and games all the time. Just people that live right there. You have a perfect view of Red Rock Casino from the park but we sat kinda down on the hill because up on the top there are lights that were bothersome. From down more, where we were, the view was more obstructed by the houses and trees between us and the casino. Ah well, so we missed the finale. It was alright still. Would have been tons more fun if we weren't rushing. Next year we plan ahead more.
What's funny is we have been asking each other for weeks where we will go for Fourth of July. I just wanted to go park some place further up in Summerlin where you get a good view of the whole valley and the Strip and chill on or in my car during the display. There are plenty places like that that you notice while you're driving around Summerlin but not many of them are places where you can park and chill. They're like... stop signs. lol.
So anyway it was nice anyway yeah.
I have a research paper to do for English and I have no idea what topic to do it on. I have to form a hypothesis. He says that since this is a shortened up 6 weeks summer course instead of a regular 14 weeks semester that we have much less time to do this project than he would normally allow his students, so we should pick something we are already familiar with but would like to just expand our knowledge about in a specific area but also to make it something we are interested in. I'm probably going to have to do something I'm not very interested in because when I think of what I'm interested in or what I have studied before it's guitars, tea, music (snoooooze), gender/sex studies, dreadlocks, .... Yeah. I tried to form a hypotheses for each of the last two topics I listed there but he said I need to narrow it down more still so it is a Research Paper and not just a Report. I need a hypotheses. Yes yes yes... eh. He said one was too narrow, my dreadlock one, and one was too wide, my gender identity one. I gotta find a happy medium! So today and tomorrow I rack my brain about this so I can come up with something brilliant.
Well I will be going now. I don't like how I've been making such sporadic posts lately, it's not me... but ... yeah. I'll try harder! I'm not entirely sure why I don't update as often. I think it has something to do with not having as much alone time as I used to. I don't like to write with other people around, even if they might have access to my blog to be able to read the finished product... The process is my own private thing. So that could be part of it. And I'm a bit busier. But not much, so I can't really say that's it either. Just the alone time thing... I should at least be keeping a written journal. I don't think there as been a time in my life for the past like 7 years where I haven't kept some kind of journal. Especially in these last 4-5 years. Now all the sudden I'm just totally falling out of it. :(
Well hope everyone is well. Sorry I've been bad at keeping in touch.. My computer use at all lately is extremely sparse. I use it only when I need to, only last night did I actually spend some time sitting at it and reading, wasting time. It was nice. I miss a lot of the things I used to do and be involved in on here... Especially MindSay.
Only two more weeks left of my Summer class and then it's all over. Not long after that I'm off to Chicago. I always feel slightly nervous about that.
Fourth of July yesterday. Hope everyone had a good one. We didn't do much. The Strip didn't even have fireworks this year. But Station Casinos put on fireworks displays from each of their casinos in the city. The new Red Rock Casino is one of them and we live just 3 blocks from it, on the same street. There is a little park a block up so 10 minutes before the fireworks were to start we rushed out of the house, rushed to the gas station around the corner to get ice creams and then rushed to the park. There were quite a few people there but not a ton. It is a small community park tucked away towards some tract houses so it's not like it's some major park everyone goes to for fun and games all the time. Just people that live right there. You have a perfect view of Red Rock Casino from the park but we sat kinda down on the hill because up on the top there are lights that were bothersome. From down more, where we were, the view was more obstructed by the houses and trees between us and the casino. Ah well, so we missed the finale. It was alright still. Would have been tons more fun if we weren't rushing. Next year we plan ahead more.
What's funny is we have been asking each other for weeks where we will go for Fourth of July. I just wanted to go park some place further up in Summerlin where you get a good view of the whole valley and the Strip and chill on or in my car during the display. There are plenty places like that that you notice while you're driving around Summerlin but not many of them are places where you can park and chill. They're like... stop signs. lol.
So anyway it was nice anyway yeah.
I have a research paper to do for English and I have no idea what topic to do it on. I have to form a hypothesis. He says that since this is a shortened up 6 weeks summer course instead of a regular 14 weeks semester that we have much less time to do this project than he would normally allow his students, so we should pick something we are already familiar with but would like to just expand our knowledge about in a specific area but also to make it something we are interested in. I'm probably going to have to do something I'm not very interested in because when I think of what I'm interested in or what I have studied before it's guitars, tea, music (snoooooze), gender/sex studies, dreadlocks, .... Yeah. I tried to form a hypotheses for each of the last two topics I listed there but he said I need to narrow it down more still so it is a Research Paper and not just a Report. I need a hypotheses. Yes yes yes... eh. He said one was too narrow, my dreadlock one, and one was too wide, my gender identity one. I gotta find a happy medium! So today and tomorrow I rack my brain about this so I can come up with something brilliant.
Well I will be going now. I don't like how I've been making such sporadic posts lately, it's not me... but ... yeah. I'll try harder! I'm not entirely sure why I don't update as often. I think it has something to do with not having as much alone time as I used to. I don't like to write with other people around, even if they might have access to my blog to be able to read the finished product... The process is my own private thing. So that could be part of it. And I'm a bit busier. But not much, so I can't really say that's it either. Just the alone time thing... I should at least be keeping a written journal. I don't think there as been a time in my life for the past like 7 years where I haven't kept some kind of journal. Especially in these last 4-5 years. Now all the sudden I'm just totally falling out of it. :(
Well hope everyone is well. Sorry I've been bad at keeping in touch.. My computer use at all lately is extremely sparse. I use it only when I need to, only last night did I actually spend some time sitting at it and reading, wasting time. It was nice. I miss a lot of the things I used to do and be involved in on here... Especially MindSay.
July, july, july...
So begins July. Are you happy? I hope you are.
Yesterday was "let my hair down", relax and eat ice-cream day. It was nice. I felt grounded and satisfied with how things are.
The garage sale turned out pretty good. We made almost a $100 even with the poor weather. I think that we should have more garage sales?! Haha. Most of these items I would have happily given to Goodwill but now we have gas money.
To start July off with a small bang I have a new layout and a small batch of pictures to share. Hoorays!
One of my infinitely cool sisters. We got together at the park and had good fun!
Our skies lately have been threatening of rain but with the threat comes the beauty of it's power.
How can something simple as glass capture a deep emotion?
I rather like the moon above the clouds.
Another of my super-fantastic-rockin' sisters plus my soon to be born nephew! *Gets excited*
I still have many, many, many more pictures to go through still. Plus I have a sketch to show. So I shall have an abundance of things to post including my thoughts.
July seems to prove to be a good month so far! Hooray for positive thoughts!
Yesterday was "let my hair down", relax and eat ice-cream day. It was nice. I felt grounded and satisfied with how things are.
The garage sale turned out pretty good. We made almost a $100 even with the poor weather. I think that we should have more garage sales?! Haha. Most of these items I would have happily given to Goodwill but now we have gas money.
To start July off with a small bang I have a new layout and a small batch of pictures to share. Hoorays!
One of my infinitely cool sisters. We got together at the park and had good fun!
Our skies lately have been threatening of rain but with the threat comes the beauty of it's power.
How can something simple as glass capture a deep emotion?
I rather like the moon above the clouds.
Another of my super-fantastic-rockin' sisters plus my soon to be born nephew! *Gets excited*
I still have many, many, many more pictures to go through still. Plus I have a sketch to show. So I shall have an abundance of things to post including my thoughts.
July seems to prove to be a good month so far! Hooray for positive thoughts!
July Newsletter
on July 4, 1776; the Continental Congress as an official way to declare the United States’ independence from Great Britain adopted the Declaration of Independence. Since that day, every year in the United States, Americans still celebrate that independence staging parades, festivals, barbecues, fireworks, and picnics. Since the fourth of July is observed as a federal holiday many people are off work on that day and celebrations begin in the early morning and continue until late at night. Shortly after dusk is when the firework displays fill the night skies.
Summer is now in full swing as they say: Those of us living in the desert southwest area of the U.S. have already experienced sizzling temperatures well above the 100 degree-mark. In other areas of the continental U.S. folks are still enjoying spring like weather. Where ever you are enjoy summer and stay safe in your activities, be that boating, swimming, travel, doing whatever it is you really enjoy.
Reiki Attunement Experience:
In our Question and Answer portion of the newsletter ( see below) I addressed a question I received about Reiki Attunements. I would like to relate to all of you something that I experienced recently while performing an attunement for one of my students. This happened during an Elenari Healing System attunement and during that attunement for my student; I called in all the fairies of the Universe and especially the Fae Fairies of the Elenari Healing System. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a little fairy. appeared to me and she reminded me so much of "Tinker Bell" the fairy known to all of us from "Peter Pan." Her presence was made known to me all during this attunement. When the attunement, had ended, I was going to relate to my student what had happened, but then I forgot. I received an email from my student and she said you never told me about what you had seen during the attunement, but by this time I had completely forgotten about Tinker Bell the fairy, so all I could think to say to her was I don’t remember. Then all of a sudden Tinker Bell appeared again out of nowhere hovering over my left shoulder and reminding me that she was there so I proceeded to tell my student about what I’d experienced and that Tinker Bell was present once again while I was writing her the email. To say the least it was a very comforting experience for me, and Tinker Bell stayed for maybe 10 or 15 minutes and then she was gone. This hasn’t happened again since, and it was one of the few times that I have ever had an experience such as this. Since then I have done the Elenari attunement at least two more times, and I have called her in but haven’t experienced her presence. Not to say she that she wasn’t there, but I didn’t see or feel her presence again.
Question: If I were to learn how to perform Reiki healing on another person will I have to physically touch that person?
Answer: My simple answer to you would be no. When an individual is taught how to use Reiki, the Reiki Healing techniques are given to the student in the form of an Attunement - Attunements will empower individuals to use Reiki on themselves and others (pets as well) and facilitate a definite connection to the Reiki source. Qualified Reiki Master-Teachers during the initiation process do attunements for the Reiki student.
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." words first spoken by astronaut Neil Armstrong as he stepped onto the surface of the moon, on 20th July 1969.
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uly NewsletterQuarterly - summer 2008, Vol. 12
To all our friends, and fellow Reiki Practitioner’s from around the world International and Domestic Welcome to our Summer edition of the Tree of Life Reiki Newsletter.
on July 4, 1776; the Continental Congress as an official way to declare the United States’ independence from Great Britain adopted the Declaration of Independence. Since that day, every year in the United States, Americans still celebrate that independence staging parades, festivals, barbecues, fireworks, and picnics. Since the fourth of July is observed as a federal holiday many people are off work on that day and celebrations begin in the early morning and continue until late at night. Shortly after dusk is when the firework displays fill the night skies.
Summer is now in full swing as they say: Those of us living in the desert southwest area of the U.S. have already experienced sizzling temperatures well above the 100 degree-mark. In other areas of the continental U.S. folks are still enjoying spring like weather. Where ever you are enjoy summer and stay safe in your activities, be that boating, swimming, travel, doing whatever it is you really enjoy.
Reiki Attunement Experience:
In our Question and Answer portion of the newsletter ( see below) I addressed a question I received about Reiki Attunements. I would like to relate to all of you something that I experienced recently while performing an attunement for one of my students. This happened during an Elenari Healing System attunement and during that attunement for my student; I called in all the fairies of the Universe and especially the Fae Fairies of the Elenari Healing System. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a little fairy. appeared to me and she reminded me so much of "Tinker Bell" the fairy known to all of us from "Peter Pan." Her presence was made known to me all during this attunement. When the attunement, had ended, I was going to relate to my student what had happened, but then I forgot. I received an email from my student and she said you never told me about what you had seen during the attunement, but by this time I had completely forgotten about Tinker Bell the fairy, so all I could think to say to her was I don’t remember. Then all of a sudden Tinker Bell appeared again out of nowhere hovering over my left shoulder and reminding me that she was there so I proceeded to tell my student about what I’d experienced and that Tinker Bell was present once again while I was writing her the email. To say the least it was a very comforting experience for me, and Tinker Bell stayed for maybe 10 or 15 minutes and then she was gone. This hasn’t happened again since, and it was one of the few times that I have ever had an experience such as this. Since then I have done the Elenari attunement at least two more times, and I have called her in but haven’t experienced her presence. Not to say she that she wasn’t there, but I didn’t see or feel her presence again.
Reiki and Other Healing Modalities Questions & Answers:
Please feel free to e-mail us any questions you might have regarding our classes, or perhaps you have specific questions about Reiki. We will do our best to answer them in upcoming newsletters.Question: If I were to learn how to perform Reiki healing on another person will I have to physically touch that person?
Answer: My simple answer to you would be no. When an individual is taught how to use Reiki, the Reiki Healing techniques are given to the student in the form of an Attunement - Attunements will empower individuals to use Reiki on themselves and others (pets as well) and facilitate a definite connection to the Reiki source. Qualified Reiki Master-Teachers during the initiation process do attunements for the Reiki student.
| Since our last newsletter, we have added some exciting new courses at the Tree of Life Reiki Center One of our new courses is called: This system combines the Divine Earth Energy and power of Archangels to communicate with and heal animals. Visit our web site for more details on this and other Reiki courses. | Crystal Reiki Hand of Blue Light There are 15 Life Cycle Energy Symbols that you will be attuned to. You will receive the Master attunement to the Crystal Reiki Energy by distance attunement.
www.treeoflifereiki.com
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"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." words first spoken by astronaut Neil Armstrong as he stepped onto the surface of the moon, on 20th July 1969.
The moon will pass through many phases during the month of July 2008, Beginning with the "New Moon" on the 2nd, and merely a sliver of moon visible in the night sky and passing through a "full moon" cycle as it nears the middle of the month and then finally returning to only a mere sliver of a moon once again by months end.
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| To top off your traditional 4th of July Picnic or Barbecue what could be better than to serve your family and guests a piece of "Americana" homemade ice cream and a big delicious slice of Mom’s Country Apple Pie |
| Ingredients: 2 2/3 cups flour 1 cup cold unsalted butter 1/2 cup ice water 1 teaspoon salt Filling Butter to taste Cinnamon to taste Nutmeg to taste 1 cup sugar (approximately) 3 tablespoons minute tapioca 10 peeled apples (Wolf River; or a mix of Granny Smith, Macintosh and Rome) 3 tablespoons orange juice concentrate | Preparation: Slice in 5 peeled apples. Add cinnamon, nutmeg, 1/3-cup sugar, and 1-tablespoon tapioca. Add 5 more sliced apples; press firmly. Add more cinnamon, nutmeg, 1/3-cup sugar, 1-tablespoon tapioca; drizzle 3 tablespoons OJ concentrate on top. Dot with butter; cover with top crust. Trim, fold and crimp crust; cut in vents; sprinkle sugar on top. Bake 60 minutes at 375°F. |
Just A Reminder:
If any of you receiving this newsletter have a business or web site, be sure and let us know we would be happy to add your business or link of your site on our "Related Information" page on our "Tree of Life Reiki Center" web site.A Closing Thought:
I'm a Vibrational Being in a Vibrational Universe. .. You live in a pulsating, vibrating Universe of advanced harmonics. Everything that exists, in your air, in your dirt, in your water, and in your bodies, is vibration in motion—and all of it is managed by the powerful Law of Attraction. There is nothing that exists outside of this vibrational nature, and as you learn to accept your vibrational nature, and begin to consciously utilize your emotional vibrational indicators, you will gain conscious control of your personal creations and of the outcomes of your life experience.
--- Abraham
http://www.abraham-hicks.com/
Love, Light, Joy & Blessings,
Wanda
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY
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