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Neither of these are scary. Unless they are rabid, I suppose. Otherwise they aren't particularly dangerous.
When I was a teenager living at home I came home from work late at night and my bedroom door was shut. I opened the door and a bat swooped down at me and then swooped away. It was startling, I guess, but not scary.
I had a pet rat named Greasy around the same time. :) -
Evidently a very, very long time, since I don't own one.
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St. Louis, Missouri is pretty delightful. I loved Forest Park (free zoo and museums and awesome world's fair history) and the botanical garden. I spent a week there in June a couple of years ago and it was really lovely.
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The only thing that's tough about the holiday season for me is the proximity of the anniversary of my dad's death (dec. 14) and to get through that, I went to Disney World, otherwise I am lucky to have two wonderful and agreeable families to celebrate without drama. Maybe this is why I love the holiday season so very much. Beside which, I'm not through it yet, it isn't over until tomorrow, epiphany, and I'll be keeping it going through the weekend by having a little Christmas party on Saturday with my mom and brother.
I don't do new years resolutions. I use the first as a start date for projects sometimes, because it's tidy, but I usually implement any personal betterment as soon as I think of doing it.
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I don't prepare at all. I usually get some inkling on an idea this week, but that hasn't happened so far. I'm not particularly worried. Normally genre and a working title come to me before I start writing. I'm re-reading No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty as preparation. I like to hand over my inner editor properly by pressing the little button in the book. I'll also be donating to NaNoWriMo the first day.
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We're going in December, during one of the least crowded weeks, instead. We're hoping to go in October the time after that, but the main reason we're choosing December this year is because they're predicting a bad hurricane season this year. It always rains at Disney World, but we're hoping to avoid the torrentials. :)
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The interior stuff is coming out this week! Shaun got me a few things for my birthday that I have already put on display and some mini-pumpkins and the halloween tablecloth is down. :D
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Vacuum cleaner with a hard floor setting, mmm, yeah.
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13. That's kind of how I picture myself in my head, short hair and bright colored dittos doing an Irish jig. I'm definitely smarter and less embarrassing in a lot of ways than I was then, but some cog got stuck at 13. When someone asks how old I am, I think 13 before I think 24.
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We have never had a dishwasher but a few weeks ago we went ahead and got the air conditioning in the car fixed after several years going without. We actually sort of have a weird mobile dishwasher thing but need some attachment to hook it up to the sink, and we never have, because we don't really have the dishes to load a dishwasher, and that's a good thing. Life is simple when you only have 4 plates.
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I googled "nude therapy" and it seems like it ends in lawsuits and books that are out of print more often than not, so I while I believe it exists, I don't think I can endorse it.
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Oh wow. I really, really want to say that I put on my ballooning bonnet and grab a medium format camera and hop to it, but in all honesty, I would probably laugh nervously, explain as nicely as possible that I am horribly afraid of heights, run home, lock the doors and tell the internet "someone tried to kidnap me today!"
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In the very cockles of my heart of hearts I know that litter sweeping can indeed be evil or good. I must believe this. The very fabric of my mind would unthread if I did not maintain this notion.
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A place in Tulsa, OK called Apertures. If you're hoping for an online/mail order recommendation I have heard nothing but good things about http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/
I get processing only, uncut negatives (this is specifically useful for rolls shot in the diana mini, or any other camera that allows overlap, odd photo sizes or double exposure), no prints, and scan my negatives with an Epson V500 flatbed scanner that does both 35mm & 120 negatives. This is hugely responsible for the quality of my 35mm uploads. Among other things, prints received are always cropped. In addition there are so many factors of color & white balance & contrast that the developers hardly ever get it exactly how you photographed it. It's also much cheaper, which helped pay for the scanner. ;) After I have scanned my negatives, I upload them to http://www.adoramapix.com/ & tick the "No. Thanks, Don't Touch My Images" radio button (which stops them from color correcting them), choose my own crop for the images, and selectively order prints on a variety of really great papers of my favorite shots.
This is the culmination of years of research & disappointment in services provided. -
I saw a Shoggoth, and I think HP Lovecraft said it best: "It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter."
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I would mourn my cheese in purple and yellow polka dots. Though, to be fair, I only eat 2 or 3 types of cheese 2 or 3 times a year.
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There are societies where you can meet consenting pies, pies who in fact wish to be whipped and eaten. It's true.
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French Silk Pie! I don't like pie, or whipped things, usually, and yet my favorite dessert is a whipped pie. Go figure. I only have it once a year, a whole pie to myself, usually, or minus one slice to my father-in-law. I love cheesecake too, but it is often rennet-y so, alas, I cannot imbibe.
My favorite desert is Antarctica. Mmmm frozen desolation. -
Whoever you are, you are reliably hilarious. Luckily I am reliably equivocal. Pineapples are quite efficacious if you're seeking a recommendation.
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I'm having a really hard time even imagining this scenerio. I would probably have to tickle fight the other woman, at dawn, to the death! But not really to the death, to the breathless laughter, more like. My husband would then giggle because the woman was my long lost twin and he had accidentally copulated with her in my stead. Then we would all become a hot air baloonists and travel the skies with a ragtag entourage of orphans and rescue circus animals from their horrible life. It would be a musical.
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