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March 25, 2004
odd things about crystallyn.com
Checking my stats confuses me. I have the strangest referrers...
www.countryconcert.com is my number one referrer...and while I despise country music, someone who likes it sure likes me!
Another odd one that is in my top referrers: http://www.iaea.org/ which baffles the hell out of me. I shudder everytime we drive by a nuclear power plant.
And a whole slew of Paris Hilton and Brittney Spears nude related blogs that are also in my top referrer list. NO clue why.
Getting tons and tons of hits because everyone that is receiving their YM (formerly Young Miss) magazine in the mail from MLI Inc. comes here to see what the deal is. I haven't received my Health magazine that I requested yet, but I have two copies of YM that have come in the mail lately, in case anyone wants to know what the latest with Justin Timberlake is. It makes me feel older than anything else has ever made me feel!!
Lots of hits of people looking for Landscape With the Fall of Icarus.
And Bill, the Travelocity gnome.
A few people looking for my friend Ned's Gollum Rap.
Or wanting to know about John Malkovich, one of my favorite actors, in Boston.
Other crazy search terms:
coughing in the middle of the night (which I did do last night)
dr zen zen wine
20 nobel laureates write bush
snow bones
make shyness dyslexia
pictures of tapeworms
pictures of sloppily dressed people
a splash quite unnoticed
poetry car accidents
bump under skin on shin (which I still have from my fall a year ago)
clay aiken oh my!
michaelangelo wedding dress
why must i spend my time filling up my mind
canyon ranch food poisoning (ack! not good!)
most annoying things in america
sloth racing company australia
Who are these people?!
But very cool...866 out of 2006 people this month have added me to their favorites. :)
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March 22, 2004
food for happy thoughts
Wonderful snippets from A Thousand Paths to Happiness by David Baird
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Happiness does not depend upon getting another's approval--it depends upon getting your own approval.
In Peter Pan, flight was within the grasp of those with happy thoughts!
Happy people don't whine about their condition, or lie awake at night worrying about their duty or their sins.
Sometimes problems have to be faced from different angles to find their solutions.
No matter who or what has wronged you, it is meaningless if you choose not to remember it.
Change and the world will change with you.
Try not to analyze everything. Analysis kills happiness.
Give yourself credit for knowing more than you think you do.
In this life, nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Let every action that comes toward you have a positive and creative reaction from you.
Suspicion and assumption are the hands that will pull the rug out from beneath you.
Work to curb any impulsive behavior before it has the chance to go out of control.
Don't panic about anything--keep calm.
Happiness will always find a way. No gates are locked to it.
When real situations at work or home make you want to explode with anger or sink into unhappiness, say to yourself, "I'm glad that this is only a game."
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March 21, 2004
i finally discovered
who does all the little sign art around Cambridge.
This sign was up for a long time.
And these, along the Minuteman, which we always like:
They've always made me inexplicably happy, seeing these little bits of color scattered throughout the city. In 2003, he posted his 600th sign of life. Pretty damn cool, IMHO.
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March 20, 2004
perfect way
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March 18, 2004
my t-shirts arrived
yesterday and if it weren't SNOWING in Boston, I might be able to wear them. And well, if I weren't sick, and if it were nice outside and etc.
I picked up some great tees from Buy Olympia, which reminds me of how much I miss the West Coast and Seattle...and my grandfather still lives in Olympia.
The first one is a boy's t-shirt...they had a capsleeve shirt for the chicks but well, I'm not fond of yellow and I liked this one better. This is an AWESOME t-shirt and it looks great on me. Except, funny enough, with my glasses on, I look like her. Which Joe thinks is cute, so I'll go with that.
And of course, I couldn't not get the kitty-that's-sad-about pie shirt. I figured Joe and I could share this one, except it says it is pre-shrunk...and it's like a dress on me!! So, we're going to wash it and hope.
And I got this one for Joe, which he loves!
Now I'm just impatiently waiting for my star wallet to arrive.
Very impatiently.
Off to go pass out. Still recovering from whatever plague I managed to contract. Blech.
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March 17, 2004
i really
hate being sick.
*sneeze* *cough* *sniffle*
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March 14, 2004
Shining*Star
You are the Star card. The Star is the light of
hope. Shining in the night, sending light into
darkness, the stars provide direction to
sailors and are a field on which to dream.
Humanity used to look up at the sky and desire
to be there, to find out what it all meant, and
now we have been a distance into space and have
elementary ideas of the makeup of all the
different stars. This kind of achievement adds
further fuel to our hopes. The eternal,
slow-moving stars that will be long shining
past the end of our own existence provide hope
of immortality, and the vast space they suggest
and the very mystery they hold provide us with
excitement and knowledge yet to be discovered.
Image from: Danielle Sylvie Taylor
http://members.limitless.org/~morpheum/gallery.html
Which Tarot Card Are You?
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March 11, 2004
Taking Great Strides
Joe and I took a six mile walk on Sunday along the Minuteman trail. Six miles is a little bit, but not too much.
Six miles is what I'll be walking in May for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's GREAT STRIDES.
One of my very good friends has Cystic Fibrosis. He's an awesome kid and you probably wouldn't know he even has CF until you realize that he coughs a bit more than most people and that he ends up in the hospital every few months to undergo weeks of antiobiotics via IV. The ONLY really great thing about it is that he gets out of school...and I can go hang out with him and play video games.
Otherwise, having CF really sucks.
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease that makes breathing a major chore for those with the disease. CF causes life-threatening lung infections and the average survival age of those with the disease is the early 30s. Currently, there is no cure and the future of those with CF lies in the hands of people like you and me.
I wrote a poem for my friend's sister, who lost her life to CF two years ago. You can read it at the Rose & Thorn Magazine. No one should have to lose their sister, or their child, and I want to do what I can to make sure my friend is around for a long fucking time. My mom knew one of the oldest CF victims. She was 54!! I'm doing what I can to help find a cure for this disease so that my friend and all kids with cystic fibrosis can be around much much longer than that.
My goal this year is to raise over $500 and I would really appreciate any help you might be able to give me to help me meet this goal. Any amount would be helpful. $10, $20...anything. Every little bit counts.
There are two ways you can donate.
One: write me with your email address (I can be reached at: poetess AT crystallyn.com) and I'll send you a link directly to my online campaign through the CF foundation. You can pay online from the personal link (from the CF Foundation) that I send you.
Or: you can go https://www.paypal.com and use Paypal to donate. My email is poetess AT crystallyn.com. Either way, I can count it toward the walk. If you use Paypal, please make sure you note Cystic Fibrosis GREAT STRIDES Walk Donation so that it will show up on your receipt.
Your donations, of course, are tax deductible. I will be walking the six mile walk in May, so if you can't help now, maybe you will think of me again in a few weeks when I repeat this post.
To learn more about CF, visit the CF Foundation's Web site at http://www.cff.org, or call (800) FIGHT CF.
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March 09, 2004
QOTD
“Do or do not. There is no try.” -Yoda
and stolen from wheniridemybike, a quote from Julia Cameron's Walking This World, which I have been perusing myself lately.
''When we shift our inner statements from "i'd love to" to "i'm going to", we shift out of victim and into adventurer.''
I'm reading the Four Agreements right now. I need to remember the second one: Don't Take Anything Personally.
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March 08, 2004
What Biological Molecule Are You?
Stolen from Niki.
You are an enzyme. You are powerful, dark, variable, and can change many things at your whim...even when they're not supposed to be changed. Bad you. You can be dangerous or wonderful; it's your choice.
Which Biological Molecule Are You?
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March 05, 2004
mystery solved--sort of
That YM Magazine subscription? Apparently some company, MLI Inc. of Valdosta, GA is sending me a complimentary gift subscription...a thank you of some sort for purchasing a product or something along those lines. The thing is, I can't figure out who that company is--Google is sort of unclear and the names that do come up for MLI are entirely unfamiliar.
At any rate, they changed my subscription to Health , which I've been meaning to subscribe to anyway, so all is well in subscription land!
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March 04, 2004
oh wow
I wonder if I'm in there somewhere...
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March 03, 2004
i am so confused
some sweet person got me a gift...but I have no idea who it could be...or why...
I received a gift card in the mail that someone had purchased me a year subscription to YM Magazine. I have to think it must be a mistake, that perhaps the magazine fulfillment center messed it up somehow.
I last read YM when it was Young Miss--and I was probably 13--when I needed advice on zits and boys and dresses. Oh wait, I still need that advice.
I'll call the number tomorrow during business hours and find out who the kind soul behind the gift is and if they confused the order with a different magazine--I am so touched that someone got me the gift, I'm just confused about who and why. It's not my birthday, Christmas is long since past and I just can't think of any other reason. Anyone want to fess up?
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