True love is ......

The Science of Love

2009-07-03T18:00:00.001-07:00

A great article about the science of the brain related to love and attachment in long term relationships.

As a long term-er, this had me cracking up because it sounds so much like my husband!

Do I Love My Wife - An Investigative Report.

I've done a bad thing

2009-07-03T17:00:00.001-07:00

I've started to play with Apophysis.

metal boxes

fish bones
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Osprey Circles

2009-07-03T16:00:00.001-07:00

Inspired by some conversation about white space on the WOM-PO list. I had to load it as an image because there's no way I would have got the html to cooperate.

This almost qualifies as a concrete poem. Maybe an impressionistic concrete poem, if that isn't a contradiction in terms: I think the shapes are suggestive of the subjects. It also can be read in rows or in columns.

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tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock...

2009-07-03T15:00:00.001-07:00

Half an hour to the deadline for Royal Holloway Masters Funding Applications have to be in... and one reference is "In Progress" but not submitted. RHUL admin haven't replied to query whether I can submit this thing online without one of my referees and whether this referee can upload her form later... sigh, its gonna be a tight one!

I hate having things done last minute... my heart is genuinely up in my mouth... I havent actually managed to eat anything today which is unusual to say the least, usually because I am always eating something! I never ever like to leave things to this last minute!! I don't know how people stand the pressure.... then again I just remind myself that if it all goes belly up, I probably wouldn't have got the funding anyway... some consolation? Meh...

Argh.... the stress and all the clock is doing is tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock....

Ã Festa Vol VII By Marcelo Studio Mix

2009-07-03T14:00:00.001-07:00

Marcelo Studio Mix, traz para nÃ³s o Ã Festa Vol 7, um Dj com estudio proprio.
Onde faz grandes mixagens nos da uma grande Festa.
o blog do Marcelo:
http://studiomixrecordsbr.blogspot.com/

A capa sempre uma obra de arte do DJ LÃº

One-of-a-kind bras for Breast Cancer Awareness

2009-07-03T13:00:00.001-07:00

Members of Quilters of South Carolina have created one-of-a-kind bras for Breast Cancer Awareness. The exhibit consists of 49 original works of art which are unique, entertaining, humorous, and beautiful to make the public aware of breast cancer, to memorialize those lost to the disease, and to honor survivors.

Don't miss the captions!

Thelma and Louise (A Pair of Perky Hooters) - Karen Kendo

Thoughts of A Dying Atheist, Muse

2009-07-03T12:00:00.001-07:00

Eerie whispers
Trapped beneath my pillow
You won't let me sleep
Your memories

I know you're in this room
I'm sure I heard you sigh
Floating in-between
Where our worlds collide

It scares the hell out of me
And the end is all I can see
And it scares the hell out of me
And the end is all I can see

I know the moments near
And there's nothing we can do
Look through a faithless eye
Are you afraid to die?

It scares the hell out of me
And the end is all I can see
And it scares the hell out of me
And the end is all I can see

It scares the hell out of me
And the end is all I can see
And it scares the hell out of me
And the end is all I can see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVolJX7hbvk

Apologies to one and all... well actually just one...

2009-07-03T11:00:00.001-07:00

I just want to atone really in this blog. I may have just diss-ed my lecturer who wouldn't giv me my reference. I now feel really bad since I have learnt on contacting another lecturer that she has fallen off her motorbike and broken her collarbone which wasn't diagnosed for three weeks. So I apologise for my rants, sobs of frustration, unreigned anger and pestering emails! On the upside... I shall let you know if I get my application done tomorrow!! EEP deadline... I never EVER leave anything this close to the deadline in my life!! This is scary! I don't know how people do it. I have been so organised with this for sooo long... now it is all coming together at the last minute!

Also, I had a lovely email from potential dissertation supervisor, who was really enthused about my topic "Feminist Eugenicists" and ACTUALLY suggested articles and arguments, and directions to go. This is really new for me. I have guidance. I am really thrilled and very excited at the prospect of studying all this again! Bring it on, I say! Or as the advert goes, "Bring on the trumpets!"

In the Groove

2009-07-03T10:00:00.001-07:00

The wheels are spinning madly out of groove,
the horses thrash the chariot through the sky,
their tangled traces need to be cut loose.

Poor Phaeton, he wanted just to move,
to drive his daddy's big-wheel, make it fly
but couldn't keep his rhythm in the groove.

Hell of a way to go, but really, who's
in charge of their own end? Live fast and die
when Titan-hammered thunderbolts cut loose.

Falling rock star, kid with lots to prove,
he jumped the track too soon. To improvise
you have to learn the edges of the groove.

So play it straight a while, pay your dues
and keep in mind that "mastery" implies
you got it right before you cut it loose.

No, I won't listen to those boredom blues,
those "free expression", "do your own thing" lies.
I'll walk the straight and narrow, in the groove
before I try to play it fast and loose.

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Dinner In Bed

2009-07-03T09:00:00.001-07:00

Good for one dinner in bed. Utensils optional. Redeemable Anytime!

Princess Zara

2009-07-03T08:00:00.001-07:00

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Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Fantasy Sex Night

2009-07-03T07:00:00.001-07:00

Good for one free "fantasy sex night." Whatever you want to try goes!

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Amongst Loved Ones

2009-07-03T06:00:00.001-07:00

"Amongst flowers there are roses, amongst stones there are diamonds, amongst friends there are loved ones, amongst loved ones there is you..."

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Blank Card - Baby Bear

2009-07-03T05:00:00.001-07:00

Image of black bear cub with dandelion flower in mouth.

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Geeky Wedding Cakes pt. 2 - Stargate Cake

2009-07-03T04:00:00.001-07:00

Here is yet another fun and geeky wedding cake for you Stargate fans! (found on cake wrecks)

The Light That Failed

2009-07-03T03:00:00.001-07:00

Thank You
For Downloading this free book.

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

GOOD NEWS FINALLY!!

2009-07-03T02:00:00.001-07:00

I have been asked if I would like to (as I had pestered them before) work in the chapel archives at work!! YAY!! I will be working with old books!! yay yay yay yay yay yay!!

Finally!!

yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay

Details to follow when I know what I am doing. I think I shall try and angle it for one day a week!! :D

Erotic Massage

2009-07-03T01:00:00.001-07:00

Good for one Erotic Massage!

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Undertaker (illo)

2009-07-03T00:00:00.001-07:00

The following poem was left at Miss Rumphius' acrostic prompt by Jane Yolen. I've taken the liberty of illustrating it with a slightly macabre fractal.

Undertaker

Victim look up.
Under a low and
Lowering sky, the undertaker comes
To carry your particulars
Up to a bleak, black heaven.
Read the set of wings, cruel beak, hooded eyes. This is no
Easing into eternity but a short, sharp shock.

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Lady Rosamond's Secret

2009-07-02T23:00:00.001-07:00

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Love
Loving Say
I Love You

The House of the Rising Sun

2009-07-02T22:00:00.001-07:00

This is one of my all time favourite songs- no matter who sings it, though Muse, The Animals and Sinead O'Connor do my most fabulous versions. I think the sombre and almost macabre songs are appealing to be the most at the moment....

LYRICS:
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk

Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

Love Song's 46 By Arnaldo King

2009-07-02T21:00:00.001-07:00

01.Tim Maia - Day by Day
02.Brenton Wood - Me and you
03.Cameo - I never knew
04.The Jimmy Castor Bunch - I Don't Want To Lose You
05.Don Costa - Adios
06.Bloodstones - We Go A Long Way Back
07.Clyde McPhatter - Just to Hold My Hand
08.Stephanie Mills - I Feel Good All Over
09.Johnny Mathis - Stop, Look,listen ( To Your Heart)
10.Abraham, Martin and John Abraham- Moms Mabley
11.Lou Bond - To the establishment
12.Tina Charles â" Why
13.Timmy Thomas - Whi can't we live together
14.Swamp Dogg - Everthing You''II Ever Need
15.Melisa Morgan with Kashif - Love Chances
16.Verdine White - That's the Way of the World

You're In My Heart, No Matter the Miles

2009-07-02T20:00:00.001-07:00

Time may take us apart, that's true, but I will always be there for you. You're in my heart, you'll be in my dreams, no matter the miles between.

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Wolf's Tooth

2009-07-02T19:00:00.001-07:00

O I have put my hand on the wolf's tooth
hidden among green parasols and whorled towers
of purple and white. O scorpion bedded upon agates,
stonefish at the gate of a jewelled coral castle.
Venom at the heart of the gaudiest blooms,
poppy blowing sleep into the sultry air.

Now the howls of the black dog pull the edge
of evening over the city like a velvet painting
of Elvis in a suit of lights. Now three-legged cats
with angular bodies stalk the top of the fence.
Gull and crow negotiate meticulous division
of a dead squirrel. A sacrifice is exacted.

The wolf licks my blood from his lips and grins.
I use his tongue to warn the cats away.
Spangled velvet shadows full of poison glide
before us and toss their heads like giant bulls
scenting the arena. Diamond scales glitter
at my bitten wrists, streetlamp bracelets.

Have you seen me?

Look again where the oak roots have lifted
the sidewalks away from the blind earth. Worms
flee the drought into deep soil. If there is
brightness there it may be the sun glinting on
the teeth of my companion.

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Ã Festa Vol VI By Paulinho JF

2009-07-02T18:00:00.001-07:00

Ã festa vol. 06
Fui um dos sortudos a participar desse projeto!!AgradeÃ§o Ã¡ todos!!
AgradeÃ§o ao Edson P20 (obrigado manow pelo convite)..brigadÃ£o amigo DJ lÃº bela capa!!
Set 1...raridades dos anos 90 e atuais em RnB...minha especialidade!!destaque a ultima musica que atÃ© HJ nÃ£o existe Cd na praÃ§a(Paola-coisa linda)...
Set 2....classicas do Rodney O joe cooley (10 sons)
Set 3......O que considero de mais moderno no RnB atual......tudo fruto de pesquisa....sem samples tudo com instrumentos!!!((Isso Ã© raro HJ em dia ))...........
Festa Ã© isso.....inventar e fazer acontecer.....sair do anonimato.........desejo a todos bons songs!!
Set-list.....

Until There Was You

2009-07-02T17:00:00.001-07:00

Until there was you
I walked the earth alone
No hand to hold in mine
My heart was all my own

Until there was you
True love was just a dream
Dreams of wonder and tears
Dreams of hope and fears

Until there was you
My life had no direction
A road of uncertainty
But now we have a journey
Together you and me

So I thank my lucky stars
And God from the heavens above
For my heart and soul could never
Feel the impact of true love
Until there was you...

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

My Love For You

2009-07-02T16:00:00.001-07:00

You're the one, who stole my heart,
Who can take my breath away.
You're the one, that makes me smile,
In everything you do and say.

You're the one, I'm dreaming of,
You are in my dreams every night.
You're the one, I want by my side,
So you can hold me so tight.

You're the one, I want in my arms,
To hold just you all night long.
You're the one, my passion burns for,
To show you our love is strong.

You're the one,I'm longing for,
To always feel your tender touch.
You're the one, my heart belongs to.
Because, I love you so very much.

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Stranger In Paradise

2009-07-02T15:00:00.001-07:00

I'm a stranger in lovely Paradise,
With out the love of your embrace,
Listening to birds sing love songs,
Leaves me feeling so out of place.

I wish you could be here with me,
Come to me darling, take my hand,
I need you here forever by my side,
Let us unite in this Paradise land.

I want your arms to hold me tight,
Feeling your heart beat against mine,
Whisper love words to me tonight,
Kiss my lips with desire so divine.

I am a lost stranger here in Paradise,
End my loneliness, my darling true,
In a land meant for lovers to share,
Come to Paradise where I wait for you.

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Love Song's Vol 47 by Chubb

2009-07-02T14:00:00.001-07:00

01 - Karavan - Never Alone (1983)
02 - Cynthia Hinds - Let's Fall In Love Again (Instrumental Dub) (1987)
03 - Debbie Gibson - Foolish Beat ( Instrumental ) (1988)
04 - Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam - Don't Say Goodbye (1991)
05 - Meli'sa Morgan - Do Me Baby (Interlude) (1985)
06 - Glenn Jones - Giving Myself To You (Instrumental Version) (1986)
07 - Ray Parker Jr. - After Midnite (1987)
08 - Guy - Let's Chill ( Extended Remix Version ) ( 1991)
09 - Terry Tate - Babies Having Babies (Instrumental Version) (1989)
10 - Az One - All Of My Heart (Singalong Version) (1990)
11 - Chris Jasper - The First Time ( Instrumental )
12 - Rosie Gaines - I Only Wanna Be In Your Arms (1991)
13 - Angee Griffin - Toby ( Instrumental)
14 - E.U. - Taste Of Your Love ( Instrumental ( 1989 )
15 - The Jets - AllÃ¡ Tu ( Make it Real Spanish Version) (1988)
16 - Troy Johnson - Virgin Girl (Instrumental) (1989)

Tie one on...

2009-07-02T13:00:00.001-07:00

Over the course of the weekend, the question of how to tie a Windsor knot came up. Ask me about the evils of of pantyhose and I'm all over it, but tying ties, not so much.

Off to Google and voila, you have tie-a-tie.net.

It' a great little site that shows how to tie the most common tie knots. It has pictures and explanations on each and if your still not totally sure, you can do an instant download (for $6.95) a video series on how to tie a Windsor, Half Windsor, Four in Hand, and Pratt knot.

But wait, there's more. You also get a .pdf book that goes into even more detail!!

All in all it seems to be a helpful little site...if your into tying things around your neck every morning!

Love Song's 45 by Markitto

2009-07-02T12:00:00.001-07:00

1 Angela Bofill - Love In Slow Motion
2 Burt Bacharach & Luther Vandross - Anyone Who Had A Heart
3 Curtis Hairston - You're my Shining Star.
4 Dennis Taylor ft. Wincey Terry - Am I Dreaming
5 Ecstasy, Passion & Pain - Born To Lose You
6 Ed Calle - Me & Mrs. Jones( instrumental)
7 Glenn Jones - My First Love
8 Heather Headly - I Wish I Wasnt.
9 Jr. Walker - My Love(instrumental)
10 Kenny Lattimore and Chante Moore - Close the Door
11 LSG(Levert, Keith Sweat & Johnny Gill) - Round And Round We Go
12 Major Harris- Love Wonât Let Me Wait
13 Maysa - Betcha by Golly Wow
14 O'Jays - We Cried Together
15 Paul Taylor - Open Your Eyes Feat Regina Belle
16 The Dramatics - You The Best Thing In My Life

Decor - La Case de cousin Paul

2009-07-02T11:00:00.001-07:00

If you are looking for insanely cute lighting for any event check out La Case de Cousin Paul (based in Paris!) This site has one of the coolest interfaces ever!

I love that you can fully customize them from the color each individual lantern, to the color of the wire! They come in lengths of 20, 35 and 50 and you can even see what they strand will look like illuminated against any color wall! Aside from being a fun and festive way to decorate a reception space, it can make a great keepsake for your home after the wedding.

Go play.You know you want to

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Love Messages

2009-07-02T10:00:00.001-07:00

I will lend you my shoulder for you to cry on, my ears to listen to you, my hand for you to hold, my feet to walk with you but i can not lend you my heart because it already belongs to you.

Whenever you feel blue, i will be there for you, whenever you are sad, i will stay by your side, whenever you need someone to love I will always be there for you to have.

If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put you and I together.

Thru the sky I saw a smile. Thru the smile I saw joy. Thru joy I saw friendship. Thru friendship I saw friends. And thru friends I saw you.

Hearts could only love 4 a while. Feet could only walk some miles. Clothes wont 4ever be in style. But my friendship to u will never be stolen by time.

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Bottom Wakes

2009-07-02T09:00:00.001-07:00

Bottom. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to
say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go
about to expound this dream.
--Midsummer Night's Dream, IV.i. Wm. Shakespeare

so here I sit:
under a tattered umbrella-- no,
it must be the sails of a windmill
which, as all men know, means madness.
Poor Bottom, first a fool, then mad,
preyed on, like spring lambs by eagles,
by visions no sane man would harbor.

But I would not trade this donkey head
for common wisdom, weights and measures,
the petty daily round of common life.
I'll eat grass like Nebuchadnezzar--
mad, but still a king. I'll go on all fours,
Bottom, but still a donkey. Into the arms
of spinning windmills, Sancho, ride me!

--image courtesy of oncle Jim via Read Write Poem

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Green Wedding - Where to start

2009-07-02T08:00:00.001-07:00

There are many ways that couples can go to have a carbon neutral wedding. Hear are just a few simple ways to get started..

1. Choose a location that reduces travel for the most guests.
2. Buy carbon credits for those who fly.
3. Request as wedding gifts, donations to environmental organizations.
4. Hire a caterer who only uses organic food.
5. Choose not to serve red meat.
6. Get married at a "green" venue; a place that supports sustainability
7. If you use plastic utensils, buy the soy based biodegradable products.
8. Get serious & calculate your CO2 emissions, so people take you seriously.
9. Educate your guests about the wedding being carbon neutral.
10. Email invitations instead of paper.
11. Use 100% recycled paper products.
12. Divert 100% of all trash from landfills through recycling.
13. If you buy diamonds, make sure they are Conflict-Free.
14. Hire businesses that practice sustainable principles internally.
15. Register for "green" products.
16. Transport your guests from their hotels with a shuttle.

Wonderful Wedding Graffiti

2009-07-02T07:00:00.002-07:00

Wonderful venue? Check. Beautifully designed tables? Check. Big blank wall that the venues won't let you hang anything on using tape, nails, or anything that might damage the walls. Check...

If this is the case then Wonderful Graffiti Wedding might be just what you need!

Wonderful Graffiti is very thin pieces of matte vinyl that look "printed" when applied to most smooth surfaces. Your entire wedding Graffiti design arrives on one sheet of transfer paper. Just tape the transfer paper into place, burnish it down and peel it away. Only the individual letters and graphic elements remain. Wonderful Graffiti removes quickly, and won't harm underlying surfaces.

There are so many designs to choose from or you can design your own.

I love the site and am looking at their home graffiti section for something to put up in my redesinged bed room!

Raridades VIII By P20

2009-07-02T07:00:00.001-07:00

01 The Chi-lites - Have you seen her
02 Barry Biggs - SideShow
03 Gladys Knight - You and me against the world
04 The Flairs - Where You Live
05 Jae Mason - Woman
06 Travis McKinely - Baby Is There Something On Your Mind
07 Ray Goodman & Brown - Baby Let s Rap Now
08 Major Harris - Talking To Myself
09 Toppiks - Surrender
10 Esther Phillips - And I Love Him
11 Four Tops & Supremes - Hello Stranger
12 Dinah Washington & The Dells - Just Have To Live With It
13 Shirelles - Don't Say Goodnight and Mean Goodbye
14 Uptown Syndicate - You're a Woman
15 Don Hart - I Shed a Tear
16 The Commands - No Time For You
17 Joy Tones - This Love
18 Yvonne Elliman - Love Me
19 The Specials - You Stood Me Up
20 The Mad Lads - So nice
21 Bonus Track

FLOREADOS NACIONAIS VOL.01

2009-07-02T06:00:00.001-07:00

GALERA,
VENHO TRAZER MAIS UMA SUPER COMPILAÃÃO DE FLOREADOS NACIONAIS NOS AGRACIADA PELO MEU AMIGO E COLECIONADOR GILSON BROTHERS, PRA QUEM GOSTA DE ROMANTISMO E FLOREADOS NÃO PODE DEIXAR DE BAIXAR E CONFERIR ESTE EXCELENTE DISCO, E COMO SEMPRE NOSSO BLOG SAI COM MAIS ESTA MARAVILHOSA NOVIDADE AOS NOSSO VISITANTES.

SeleÃ§Ã£o de RepertÃ³rio : Gilson Brothers

Arte Final e Capa : Dj Lu
PAZ
DJ LU.

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

2009-07-02T05:00:00.001-07:00

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

This poem was in Stephanie Meyer's 'Eclipse' and it got me thinking. She used his ideas very well in her characterisation. Bella loves both Edward (Vampire and cold, often described as ice) and Jake (a werewolf and hot, often described as on fire). In the end both of these sides (vampires vs werewolves) come together and save their world. So, I am thinking Fire is desire and Ice is hate. Is the poem supposed to be interpreted as literally the world ending? Because fire suggests that the passions, the fever and fevour of war perhaps will destroy the world, whilst hate which stimulates apathy means we will destroy each other without thought. So are they supposed to work together or separately? If separately, which one will cause man's downfall?

Lovely poem...

Five Updates

2009-07-02T04:00:00.001-07:00

1) I have decided not to apply for Newcastle Uni funding thing for studying a MA in the History of Medicine. It is too far away, I have neevr even been there and I think I was doing it for the free scholarship rather than actually wanting to go there/study that, so I think some other deserving fellow can have the spot.

2) I STILL have not accepted Royal holloways unconditional offer :( in a dilemma you see- they have postponed, for some reason, the fundign deadline till 29th june which puts back when we find otu about whether we are funded till it is essentially too late to accept a place there, so essentially we have to accept it with or without knowing our funding application was a success or not. *anger* So in summary, I am still dithering. Should I put it off another year? Do it part time? I havethe money now to pay for one year of a part time Masters course, but the funding will still be an issue next year when I still can't afford to pay for the second half....

3) I PASSED MY THEORY TEST TODAY. Enough said.

4) I have been feeling really rather ill lately but I am getting better- just a little sniffle and a cough now, so I have been proactive today. So apart from passing my Driving theory test, I have hoovered, bought my nan a birthday card, intend to sort out a huge pile of filing (bank statements, pensions information (yes, I have a pension at 21), and toher bits and pieces that have been building up on my desk for quite a while... so yay! Proactivity!!

5) I have learnt how to sell tickets at work, though I am awful and tend to lose in the region of Â£5-Â£10, I do make a profit (I think) with gift aid and books so yay! However, cashing up = nightmare :(

Right, thats a summary for you...

BTW, can't believe I missed my Blog's first birthday.... twas at the beginning of March, so Happy Belated Birthday, Blog!

Raridades X P20 e Amigos III

2009-07-02T03:00:00.001-07:00

Raridades X
Quando decidi encerrar o projeto, fiquei triste, porÃ©m o barco continua velejando apÃ³s as tormentas, conversei com alguns amigos a respeito e tomado a decisÃ£o, convidei alguns amigos que sempre me apoiaram e pedi a eles que viessem comigo nessa Ãºltima jornada e fizessem que ele fosse o melhor de todos e ele saiu em 3 lindas compilaÃ§Ãµes do mais refinado gosto pela R&B music.
Raridades!!!!!
Ã um verdadeiro amigo,
Um bom lar,
Uma bela familia,
Uma ajuda de um estranho,
Uma ajuda ao prÃ³ximo,
Obrigado, mas obrigado mesmo.
Pois cada projeto que fazemos Ã© como um filho que nasce.
Nem preciso dizer quando ele acaba.

"Sei que nÃ£o sÃ£o raras porÃ©m um pouco mais dÃficil de acharem"(Arnaldo)
Obrigado!!!!!!!!!!!Arnaldo, Beto Rodrigues, Carlos, Dj LÃº(fiel escudeiro nas batalhas),Gil, Gilson, Ivan, Jaci, Luiz Beluxe, Martha, Marcos(espero que jÃ¡ esteja nos braÃ§os da familia amada), Marcio Quiet Storm(amante do Raridades), Mario Dj, Roberto, Sanzo e Tadeu Mk por atenderem meu help. Ele ficou lindo, da capa as melodias, agradeÃ§o, e sempre serei gratos a vocÃªs.

Raridades X P20 e Amigos

Cute Sayings

2009-07-02T02:00:00.001-07:00

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Words Of Love

2009-07-02T01:00:00.001-07:00

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

ALL I HAVE TO GIVE (Backstreet Boys)

2009-07-02T00:00:00.001-07:00

I don't know what he does to make you cry,
but I'll be there to make you smile.
I don't have a fancy car,
to get to you I'd walk a thousand miles.
I don't care if he buys you nice things
Does his gifts come from the heart-I don't know
But if you were my girl...
I'd make it so we'd never be apart.

Chorus:
But my love is all I have to give
Without you I don't think I can live
I wish I could give the world to you...but
Love is all I have to give

When you talk-does it seem like he's not
even listening to a word you say?
That's okay babe, just tell me your problens
I'll try my best to kiss them all away...
Does he leave when you need him the most?
Does his friends get all your time?
Baby please...I'm on my knees
praying for the day that you'll be mine!!

Chorus

Bridge
To you...Hey girl, I don't want you to cry no more-inside
All the money in the world could never add up to all the love
I have inside...I Love You

Bass Break
And I will give it to you
All I can give, All I can give
Everything I have is for you
But love is all I have to give

Drum break & Chorus 3x and out

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Loving Say
I Love You

ALL I ASK OF YOU (Sarah Brightman & Cliff Richards)

2009-07-01T23:00:00.001-07:00

No more talk of darkness
Forget these wide-eyed fears
I'm here
Nothing can harm you
My words will warm and calm you
Let me be your freedom
Let daylight dry your tears
I'm here
With you, beside you
To guard you and to guide you

Say you love me every weakening moment
Turn my head with talk to summertime
Say you need me with you now and always
Promise me that all you say is true
That's all I ask of you

Let me be your shelter
Let me be your light
You're safe
No one will find you
Your fears are far behind you

All I want is freedom
A world with no more night
And you
Always beside me
To hold me and to hide me

Then say you'll share with me one love,
One lifetime
Let me lead you from your solitude
Say you want me
And you need me
Beside you
Anywhere you go, let me go too
That's all I ask of you

Say you'll share with me one love
One lifetime
Say the word and I will follow you
Share each day with me,
Each night, each morning
Say you love me
You know I do
Love me, that's all I ask you
Love me, that's all I ask of you

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Loving Say
I Love You

The Purpose??

2009-07-01T22:01:00.001-07:00

On days like today I wonder... Is barreling backwards and forwards boxes of audio guides where I want to go in life?

No is the answer, but it does pay the bills (what little of them I have to pay at the moment!) and the people I work with generally always a good laugh. Still, days like today I wish there was just something with a little more substance than just ME in my life.

I am a Leo (starsign) for sure, which means I am supposed to like being the centre of attention. Now this works for me in a perverse way- I like to earn my way to be the centre of attention. I do not want to be the centre of attention just because it is my birthday for example- I have not chosen my birthday. I have not earned it therefore I do not want to be centre stage. I had this issue when dancing in competitions- If I didn't feel I earnt it or just didn't car you can bet you bottom dollar I wouldn't have danced my best! I am a buggar like that... :) However, my first degree- now I worked MY ARSE off for that so I am quite proud of that and will do my showpiece best to be in the limelight.

Otherwise I live for other people. Apart from that slight egotistical twist in my character I do prefer to live my life around others. I like to have people celebrate things and do things that I tag along to..

My basic point of this blog is that one of my friend, with two kids, is getting married next month. She is the same age as me. She has everything worked out (or at least I think she does.) I am no closer to being married (not that I want to be married necessarily) or have kids (optional) but she knows what she wants and what she is doing. She is charge of people (kids) that rule her day to day life. While I shouldn't envy her that, I do. I PREFER not to think about me. I am no closer to being a responisble adult that when I left for uni. I am still doing a studenty type job and I have no solid concrete plans.

However, one day in the near future I am sure I will regret this blog and my carefree manner when I have a life of too much responisbility and full of kids and partners needs. Still, today, I feel like a teenager.

Rant over :)

Happy Mothers Day

2009-07-01T21:00:00.001-07:00

The Images of Mother

4 YEARS OF AGE - My Mommy can do anything!
8 Y EARS O F AGE - My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!
12 YEARS OF AGE - My Mother doesn't really know quite everything.
14 YEARS OF AGE - Naturally, Mother doesn't know that, either.
16 YEARS OF AGE - Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned.
18 YEARS OF AGE - That old woman? She's way out of date!
25 YEARS OF AGE - Well, she might know a little bit about it!
35 YEARS OF AGE - Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion..
45 YEARS OF AGE - Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?
65 YEARS OF AGE - Wish I could talk it over with Mom.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. Thebeauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows, and the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows!

Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful women mothers (mom, stepmom, MIL and grandmother) in my life!

SCHOOL "CHUMS"

2009-07-01T20:00:00.001-07:00

Argh.... I had that moment yesterday that we all dread- when we meet someone unexpectedly who we went to school with. We so desperately want to be impressive and cool and important.

Yeah, guess what?

It didn't happen!

I was wearing a daft hat at work, standing outside in the muggy heat welcoming pervy old men into *enter tourist industry* with midges and greenflies from an infected nearby tree roaming around my head and having a particular affinity with my face!! Then she rocks up, thin, pretty (as she always was) and with a cute American boyfriend.

Damn.

At least she talked to me right? And seemed well pleased to talk to me- I hope it was not out of smugness for my situation! She is a dancer (professionally.) She left school and never looked back. She works hard. She now dances all over the world. In America for example. She was on holiday in the UK and bringing her boyfriend home and showing him the area. Damn. I can't really beat that. "What have you been up to?" "I work here, graduated last summer...." I tail off and ask more questions about her.

I just lack the cool-factor.

At least she was really nice. I am really grateful for that. And the memory of me beating her in a tap dancing competition once when I was little is particularly comforting... It is a consolation prize of "I could have done that if I had wanted to!" I did used to want to be a dancer... I just lack the natural aggression and bitchiness inherent in the industry to do it and be successful. I am far to easily manipulated by other people's thoughts of me.

It harks back to a convo I had with my dancing girls- when we had a bit of a get together at Easter. Jo and Polly had really tried to get into the industry. They are pretty self-assured characters. They know who they are and what they want in life. I am not. Neither was my other friend Charis. She was suffering from the same issues I had at uni. Polly and Jo gave up on the dancing game. Too competitive. Dancing wasn't fun anymore. If they couldn't do it, I would have been breakfast for the competition. I would have been eaten alive.

At the end of the day I am just pround of my historyness, my lumpy mid-section (instead of hardcore steely abs) and idiosyncracies!

Just at moments like that one yesterday... I just wished I had a shred of coolness.

So, a little update...

2009-07-01T19:00:00.001-07:00

Nothing too exciting happening at the moment, kiddies. The same old same old Masters dilemma has an added new bonus of an unhelpful lecturer, who unsurprisingly won't give me a reference for my application. It is not that she won't actually do it, because I am evil, the devil, or other, but merely because it is who she is. She didn't reply to my dissertation queries as my dissertation supervisor, so why would she for something so important as actually obtaining a place for a Masters?

In addition, life at work is reasonably fun. A little boring at times, but I am feeling the bonding powers with my colleagues, that as ever drag us through the long day, surely to get longer as summer opening hours come into play. I feel content apart from the above matter. I am sure I will solve it, even if I do have to call upon my newly formed bonds with colleagues to provide the much needed shovels and moral support whilst I dispose of the body :) > joke by the way... just in case... well you never know...

So... in summary... TODAY I...

* was embarrassed about being caught singing and sashaying down the corridor to "Breathe Slow" by Alesha Dixon by a rather high up official (ish) at work. What can I say? Cheese works for me!

* did enjoy the sunshine. Spring is nearly here and I have bought a random collection of seeds to plant ranging from lettuce to chillis, and pretty striking red flowery things (I am no horticulturist) to sunflowers.

*enjoy the wonders of technology i.e. texting> I feel like a school girl again with my old huge brick Philips phone... those were the days. Who needs the old fashioned holding hands scenario? Happiness reigns! And also I shall include under the heading of technology and similar.... my laptop has been fixed... one new hard drive = Â£70 and some free advice of how to keep it ticking over... Plus I didn't lose my pictures, documents or music, so I am SOOOOO pleased! Bless working connections and God love my mother and her infinite amount of favours owed to her and thus cheapness of laptop fixing!

* am still enjoying the Stephanie Meyer vampire series, the next two of the series which arrived Wednesday to my glee though obviously I cannot read them at work :( but yay!

*I am now enjoying a cold glass of Lambrini, because yes, "girls do wanna have fun" and I am leaving my Masters application for tomorrow night, when I will sort out what I am doing. Tonight is for me and Stephanie Meyer and vampires and werewolves! Oh what an exciting life out I lead...

ClÃ¡ssicos do Samba Rock Vol.06

2009-07-01T18:00:00.001-07:00

Salve a todos nossos visitantes,
Queria agradecer pela grande aceitaÃ§Ã£o desta sÃ©rie. AtÃ© montei este para comerar os quase 8.500 Downloads dos outros 5 volumes, como sempre trago por aqui os clÃ¡ssicos do samba rock, aqueles que muito de vocÃªs danÃ§aram nas festas, em versÃµes originais e remasterizadas garantindo a qualidade e o respeito por vocÃªs que tanto nos elogiam pelos trabalhos que disponibilizamos , este trabalho divido com todos meus parceiros de blog, que tanto quanto eu se esforÃ§am para trazer o que a de melhor em matÃ©ria de mÃºsica sem excessÃ£o. aproveito para deixar o convite para todos que gostam de samba rock, todas as quintas feiras a partir de 22:00hs eu Dj Lu apresento na WEB RÃ¡dio Cobranegra www.cobranegra.com.br o programa O Som da Nostalgia uma hora com o melhor do samba rock atuais, raridades modernos, espero a visita de vocÃªs por lÃ¡, e quem sabe batemos um papo pelo chat da RÃ¡dio.

Mais uma vez este trabalho Ã© em agradecimento a todos vocÃªs que prestigiam nosso trabalho, meu muito obrigado de coraÃ§Ã£o.
Dj Lu.

Love Quotes

2009-07-01T17:00:00.001-07:00

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
~ by Josiah G. Holland ~

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
~ by Leo Buscaglia ~

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life.
~ by Charles Stanley ( A Man's Touch) ~

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.
~ by Unknown ~

It is the things in common
that make relationships enjoyable,
but it is the little differences
that make them interesting.
~ by Todd Ruthman ~

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
~ by Leo Buscaglia ~

My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~ by Frederick Saunders ~

The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
~ by Leo Buscaglia (Born For Love) ~

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
~ by George Sand ~

Love is an act of endless forgiveness
A tender look which becomes a habit.
~ by Peter Ustinov ~

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Pride and Prejudice: My Ideal Cast

2009-07-01T16:00:00.001-07:00

Here Old Fogey discusses his Top Ten Screen Adaptations of Jane Austen and since then I have been costructing my ideal cast for Pride and Prejudice.

Elizabeth Bennett- Jennifer Ehle (forever and always!!) Sorry Keira :(

Mr Darcy- Colin Firth (naturally! Though Matthew Macfayden is growing on me.)

Jane Bennett- Rosamund Pike 2005(I really like her, she is young enough, pretty enough and has the right style and bearing to be my Jane.)

Mr Bingley- Simon Woods 2005 (I like his awkward attitude and fumbling nature, which makes him just perfect for Jane, and Mr Bennett's comment that they will be so nice that they will be overrun by bad servants is believable!)

Lydia Bennett-Julia Sawahla 1995 (Great character and in the 1980s and the 2005 versions Kitty and Lydia were very much indistinguishable for me.)

Mr Wickham-Rupert Friend (2005 version- he is particularly dashing and I am quiet taken with this naught cad!)

Miss Bingley- Anna Chancellor 1995 (excellent, though Kelly Reilly does an admirable job!)

Mr Bennett-Donald Sutherland (2005) is excellent but I do love Benjamin Whitrow (1995) but he is overshadowed by the extraordinary performance of Alison Steadman.

Mrs Bennett- Brenda Blethyn (2005) is ace, just the right amount of hysterics and silliness.

Mr Collins- Although I love Pirates of the Caribbean and Tom Hollander (Mr Collins in 2005 version), I think David Bamber has the right amount of sleeze and made me really squirm. He pulled it off excellently!

Charlotte Lucas- Claudie Blakley (I love this lady. She is also in Lark Rise to Candleford. Great actress and I love the scene in 2005 P&P where the altercation between Lizzy, who is on the swing in her back yard and Charlotte.)

Catherine Du Bourg- Judi Dench was amazing in this role, but the way it was done in the 1995 production I think was slightly better (in the garden). All in all, I am almost certainly sure that Judi Dench is my choice... almost...

Although character-wise the 2005 version comes out top, there is no denying my love for the 1995 version. The way it is filmed won it for me, plus the wet shirt addition was greatly appreciated (like all women!! See Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding when she is interviewing Colin Firth and she really can't get off the topic of his wet shirt in that film!!) I think 2005 is an admirable adaptation but 1995 all the way for me!!

ALL FOR LOVE (Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting)

2009-07-01T15:00:00.001-07:00

When it's love you give
(I'll be a man of good faith.)
then in love you live.
(I'll make a stand. I won't break.)
I'll be the rock you can build on,
be there when you're old,
to have and to hold.

When there's love inside
(I swear I'll always be strong.)
then there's a reason why.
(I'll prove to you we belong.)
I'll be the one that protects you
from the wind and the rain,
from the hurt and pain.
Let's make it all for one and all for love.
Let the one you hold be the one you want,
the one you need,
'cause when it's all for one it's one for all.
When there's someone that should know
then just let your feelings show
and make it all for one and all for love.

When it's love you make
(I'll be the fire in your night.)
then it's love you take.
(I will defend, I will fight.)
I'll be there when you need me.
When honor's at stake,
this vow I will make:
that it's all for one and all for love.
Let the one you hold be the one you want,
the one you need,
'cause when it's all for one it's one for all.
When there's someone that should know
then just let your feelings show
and make it all for one and all for love.

Don't lay our love to rest
'cause we could stand up to you test.
We got everything and more than we had planned,
more than the rivers that run the land.
We've got it all in our hands.
Now it's all for one and all for love.
(It's all for love.)
Let the one you hold be the one you want,
the one you need,
'cause when it's all for one it's one for all.
(It's one for all.)
When there's someone that should know
then just let your feelings show.
When there's someone that you want,
when there's someone that you need
let's make it all, all for one and all for love.

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Loving Say
I Love You

St. Martin Dividing His Cloak, by Sir Anthony Van Dyck

2009-07-01T14:00:00.001-07:00

I hate this painting. Teriible I know. It is like a masterpiece apparently. But I loathe it. Plus it doesn't help that I have been working in a room with it for the past fews days with it looming over me.

Some of Van Dyck's stuff is amazing. But not this.

THE STORY OF ST. MARTIN:

Saint Martin was born in Hungary during the reign of Emperor Constantine, and spent his early childhood in northern Italy. He was drafted into the Roman Army at 15 and later became a member of the royal cavalry guard. While campaigning in Gaul, this famous legend of Saint Martin and the beggar took place.
One very cold day a beggar approached where Martin was stationed. Martin, wore a large cloak over his armour. None of his comrades took any notice of the beggar, so Martin cut his cloak in two with his sword and gave half of it to the beggar. That night Christ appeared to him in a vision, dressed in the divided cloak, and praised the young soldier for his charity.
Saint Martin was the most popular saint in France during antiquity and the early Middle Ages. It is said that French kings carried his cloak into battle as a spur to victory.

WHY DON'T I LIKE VAN DYCK'S REPRESENTATION?????

In terms of technique I ahve a few issues.... The foot of the beggar in white is mishapen, the toes unusually bulbous and indistinct. It looks overworked, as if it could not be quite captured properly. As it is at eye level it is very noticeable. Also the proportion of the horse to the people, particualrly if you compare it to the woman on the other side. It seems the whole scene is too big for the painting. I think in some ways this can work for the painting. It seems busy and a very active scene.

Now the characterisation of the figues in the painting are unsuitable I think. The agressive nature of the beggar in the forefront trying to grab his half of St. Martin's cloak is violent and I think unnecessary. The way they are dressed shows their desperation and poverty. I do not think that the violent possessive nature of the beggar creates sympathy. The beggar in white has what is supposed to be a supplicating plea of desperation on his face but he appears angry. Martin is no better characterised. His face is a mixture of piety and apathy, veering more towards apathy. He seems aloof and looks like he is doing his duty rather than wanting to commit a charitable act.

The sword precariously looks like it could be used to help divide the cloak or spear the beggar who is far too close to Martin for comfort. The sword looks like it is helping keep the distance between the two main characters. Not very charitable, is it now, Martin? It go either way if we didn't already know the story. Perhaps Van Dyck was counting on everyone to know the story.

Overall... not one of my favourites....

Eventures - Collective Event Professionals

2009-07-01T13:00:00.001-07:00

I posted about the My Day Style Show at the Tremont Grand last week.

What I didn't post is that I have the distinct pleasure of co-planning, along with the fabulous Cate Buscher for Plan It Perfect, a room (the Corinthian) for an amazing group for the show!

Eventures - Collective Event Professionals is a group of weeding and event professional who have joined forces to reducing the time and energy required to locate and secure event professionals who are best suited to meet your needs. From unique invitations to yummy chocolate favors to rocking music, this group can cover you.

The room will include lots of food, entertainment by DJ and band, a wondering magician and a demo area for you to see/hear the latest trends in style, ceremony planning and more!

And just to wet the palate, here is a list of the amazing professional you'll be meeting:

Absolute Entertainment
Absolutely Perfect Catering *
American Limousines
Arboone International *
Bellisimo Flowers, LLC.
Bra-la-la
The Bridal Boutique
Carla David Design
Dionysus's Kitchen *
ForrÃ¡ch Event Planning *
Grabielismo Productions
Hamilton Photography
Haute Cocoa, Inc.
Interactive Magic
Patrick's Hair Design
The Pearl Spa
Plan It Perfect *
Reflexion Videography
Sweet, a bakery and cafe
Tech Image, Inc.
Techlab Photo
Unique Creations
Weddings by Sandy
The Wine Jester

* Affiliates of Eventures

FINALLY SOME GREAT NEWS

2009-07-01T12:00:00.001-07:00

Finally, on my blog I get to report some GREAT and I repeat GREAT news. I feel I have been whining a lot recently and for that I am sorry.

But here are my top ten of the week:

(I find it is my easier way of saying the best bits I have done this week!!)

1. I GOT MY MASTERS FUNDING!! That is right- I GOT MY MASTERS FUNDING! HELL YEAH! BABY DOLL (as my flatmate used to say in the 1st year) BABY DOLL- FUCKING YEAH! As you can see- I am well chuffed about this! It is such a weight off my shoulders!! I can buy a car to get there and I can afford (just about to save myself!!)

2. RJ (my bro) has an interview where I work tomorrow!! I am really pleased- I am having my fingers crossed. Although apprehensive that he is working where I will be if he is successful in the job interview- I will just be sooooo pleased he has got a job. His confidence has been shattered by being made redundant.

3. I met up with my "history gals" yesterday! It was immense! We went and saw the new exhibition at the British Museum- "Henry VIII: Man and Monarch". ok, ok, ok, it was guest curated by David Starky (not my favourite historian (I still reckon there should be some more female historians on the tellybox!!) We had a great day- we went and visit Buckingham Palace (the outside), saw a mini guard change and chillaxed in St. James' park. We also just wondered round London- It was just a great day. We do genuinely talk about history and it is not pretentious. One of my favourite mates suggested that I look to apply for a job after my Masters at Wellcome Library because it is where I did my dissertation research and it is what I am really interested in!

4. I met up with my mate Bradders in London for drinks and dinner and catchups. I loved it. It was a good old catchuo- It is just such a smae we cant meet up more regularly though we have promised to do it more often since we worked out it isn't that far away!!

5. I love summer. The sunshine= hearts!! I am only a little red, but I do soooooo love just frolic-ing in the sun! I like eating ice-cream and playing frisbee and walking and looking. Everythi8ng looks so much better in the sun. London looks glorious. Big Ben chiming in the back ground, the nearby clip-clop of horses hooves opf the Royal Household Cavalry, the hum-and-buzz-of bees, ruffling of grass, the shrill laughter, kids gurgling pleasure and the general atmosphere of contentedness.

6. BBQs. My dad has officially nailed the BBQ cuisine. He is a legend! He has produced some good shiz from Thai chicken with hot cucumber salad, his own bbq sauced ribs, home-made burgers, toulouse sausages, and finally his salmon with sweetcorn and chilli chutney. Ace stuff!

7. I have decided to grab something by the balls and go with it. i.e. just ask someone out! whoop whoop!

8. I have finished writing all my letters- one to SJ, one to Masayo my Japanese penpal through Windsor, and also my reply letters about my masters- I am ticking "ACCEPT" to them all!! YAY!

9. MUSIC- this is just a great appreciative note to Lily Allen's new album, Muse (as always), Paramore, Amy Winehouse and Razorlight for their music of late. It has just elevated my soul as it were :)

10. Feeling content. Ok, so it is not something to particularly blog on but I do feel really content and settloed at the moment. I just wish I could spread the feeling to everyone. One friend in particular recently had suffered a loss that I couldn't deal with. For him, my thought are with him and for all my positive moments this week, I am fully aware of the fragility of life. In a sick way it just makes me all the more aware of how grateful the position I am in.

Love, Good feeling and positivity to one and all!

Enjoy the sunshine and good feeling!

XX

My Garden I: My Swing Incident

2009-07-01T11:00:00.001-07:00

I love my garden. It reminds me of my Grandma. I loved my Grandma hugely. This is like a huge statement for me. Most people say they love their family and I do... but when it comes to wider relations I have four I can say I truly love to bits. My Gran was one.

She got me into gardens. We mainly made mud pies from an early age with what she called "clean dirt"! My mam went mad because we went home caked in mud (me and my brother once he was old enough).

I can just feel peaceful and rested in the garden. The only thoughts I have entering my mind are nice, more positive ones than any other time. (I have started to listen to music again to get me to sleep- never a good sign. I need it to block out thought that harrass me at night. I feel like Bella at one point during the Twilight saga where she turns this CD on and listens to it to drum out the worst of her thoughts. La voila. That's me. I think I ahve too much of a conscience.)

Anyway, MY GARDEN.

THE SWING INCIDENT.

Or perhaps I should say incidentS. The first time I went to go and sit on my tree swing and have a bit of a rock whilst admiring my garden. I am very proud of it at the moment. We have put a lot of hard work into it this year instead of going on holidays. Go us and our eco footprint decreasing with less airmiles to Spain! Anyhoo.... I was on my swing, swinging (as it goes) but I got a bit enthusiastic with the swinging forgetting I had a cup of tea in my hand!! DOH!! OUCH!! All over me!! lol I was drenched in scolding hot tea! I hot footed it down to the kitchen hokding my skirt away from my thighs!! OWWWWWWW!

Second incident... more serious lol! The swing broke. I was swinging again. This time minus the scolding hot cuppa but again with the enthusiastic swinging came a swift crunching snap of the sun-dried rope and hasty fall from grace. It is quite a high swing but thanks to arm muscles I didn't know I had, I managed to hold myself from falling as fast with one arm whilst twirling prettily around the falling rope to sink gracefully to the ground, my skirt fluttering delicately behind me, then settling to a circular hoop around me. My dad looked up and said something along the lines of that was almost graceful and gave a huff of a chuckle! Teehee It is quite graceful for me but I tell you what, my swing is well and truly knackered- I need a new everything- something to do when the weather is nice...

The only problem is now (apart from the broken swing)... I have rope burn around my upper arm and in my armpit from my Cirque De Soleil (sp?) -esque fall from grace!! Additionally I have seemed to have pulled a shoulder muscle... I look like a crow with a broken wing if I need to use my arms for anything- which is surprisingly a lot at work- handing out audio guides and the such like...

However, upside- my lettuces, sunflowers, lavender (which I want to make relaxing bath oils from), chillis and chives are benefitting from the rain at the moment! They surely enjoyed their mummy prancing around the tree swing in her frolics!

Please let the sun come out again for me to enjoy my garden :) I need some quiet head space...

Irish Guards Get Their New Colours At Windsor!

2009-07-01T10:21:00.001-07:00

'Tis the first time I have ever seen the Queen, and I was dead chuffed today for having been working where I was! Gave me a great outlook!! Shame I didn't get any great quality photos though :( *sad times* however.... here (above, because I can't get them anywhere else) are some of the photos of the queen personally giving the Irish guards their new colours today in the Quadrangle in Windsor Castle.

The Colours display the regiment's "Iraq 2003" battle honours for the first time. They were the first regiment to go into Basra during the war and have lost four soldiers since 2003. They last returned from operations in Iraq in December 2007. The Queen also recognised their service in Kosovo in 1999.

After their practice rehearsals this week, I have to say they looked marvellous in all their regalia. They were smart, all together in their movements, the mascot, an Irish wolfhound, was immacualately well behaved, and the music was apt. They played Auld Lang Syne which was supposed to represent the retirement of the old colours from service. It was a really nice ceremony.

The weather was sunny albeit a bit breezy- but I am sure the soldiers were appreciative of the breeze to keep them cool under the bearskins. The tourists were ecstatic to have seen the queen- they never expected to see her and they were soooo pleased. They are in some ways more patirotic than us Brits are.

All in all today I feel pleased for two reasons. One to British. I felt a surge of patriotism and pride in our armed forces (not that I agree that they are always applied to the correct use by the government, but I am sure that is more political than their fault!!!). Secondly, I am just so pleased that we have ended our reign in Iraq this past week or so. It was never right. Sadam Hussain mya have been what he was, but the legitimate reason this government put forwards for entering this conflict have been founded to be false. How is it we get away with this? Regardless, well done lads! The British population are proud of ya! As for the government..... you have your comeuppance (I hope) in the election for you have let us down!!

Well done lads again....

Real Wedding - Jes and Greg

2009-07-01T10:00:00.001-07:00

While the weather last weekend was hit or miss, the wedding of Jess and Greg was anything but!

From a Grateful Dead processional played by a violin/guitar duo to the exchanging of Hawaiian wedding leis instead of ring, these two are very unique and laid back.

Here are just a few the pictures I took. I can't wait to see the professional ones. There is an Abby Road homage that I got a preview of that was fabulous!

Wedding - Baker Park, Frederick, MD
Reception - Danielle's, Frederick, MD
Photography - AJ Photography
Music - Frederick DJ
Stationary - Grooms mother (as soon as I find her website I'll post it because her stuff wonderful as it's what she does for a living!)

The bells in the tower were played before and after the ceremony.

All the attendants said a words and it's meaning in Hawaiian (they got engaged in Hawaii so it has special meaning to them)

Mr. and Mrs. and Pete (who was also in the wedding!)

First dance

This cake topper has been in his family since 1938. They are the 4th generation to use it!

Place cards and wish tree.

De-Fuzzing My Hair Brush and Auschwitz...

2009-07-01T09:50:00.001-07:00

What on earth....

Ok, so I was de-fuzzing my hair brush this morning, washing all the crud that hair products leave in between the bristles- it is a time consuming job, plus the enthralling nature of plucking wilting, greying hair that has merged to become blobs of grey matted stuff is a pleasure I could well forgo. In addition it has a very ominous connotation for me.

So... as I was de-fuzzing the hair brush this morning... it reminded me of the stacks, piles and hills of hair in the Auschwitz museum that I visited when I was 18. Now I went round this museum looking at the bits and pieces and of course it was horrible, but the amount of stuff that was around you, you did kind of become sensitised to it. In the end, at about ten o'clock at night when I was on the plane home, a sense of disappointment welled up in me. It didn't move me like I thought it would. Millions of people had died there. That was their stuff. That was their hair that was cut forcibly from their heads. Nope. Not a tear. And I am quite an emotional person, though I have realised over the years it will come into play at the most bizarre and inconvenient time for me. Other times when I could really do with a bit of a cry I stow it up and appear uncaring.

I went home, went to school, began writing the speech to present to the school about "our experience" of Auschwitz. Huff. Well, I was merely jumping through the hoops of what the teachers wanted to hear, what the first years wouldn't think too traumatising and what the older years would think boring.

I was still fine. So come Monday morning I brushed my own hair and went to go and do this stupid little oratory number. There I was standing in front of the school and WHAM! Bloody wonderful timing. Photos were being shown I think, or I remember looking at some photos before I went on to do my bit and I think I was saying my part when my mind went blank. I hated speaking in public then. It was all a blur, all I know was it didn't go very well... I think a traumatised rabbit caught in the headlights with a very annoyed fellow student who had gone on the trip with me, saying "What IS wrong with you!"

I think it had something to do with my brushing my hair in the morning and then seeing the photo being paraded in front- then, just like in the movies, the fast forwarding effect with flashes of memories taken like photographs. A pile of shoes. Knitted baby clothes. Suitcases. Hair brushes. Glasses. Etc.

So on defuzzing my hair brush, like today, it always reminds me of the greying hair that had been lopped off those poor individuals- once brown, blond, red, black- now sits in a museum slowly rotting whilst unfeeling people parade past it with some ignorant dutiful sense of importance.

Another thing that often sparks me to remember a) the horrors of Auschwitz and b) the humiliating spectacle in front of the school is my friend Jenny's porch. They used to have shoes piled either side of the doorway as you walked through their front door. Really creeped me out. There were old shoes from when they were kids stacked just like those in the cabinets in the museum.

I suppose it makes me feel bad when looking at those shoes or de-fuzzing my hair brush that I associate mass slaughter with half an hour of intense humiliation at school. No comparison really is there?

Anyhooo that is all folks. I think I have probably depressed you all enough for the time being :)

It has been nearly a month...

2009-07-01T09:49:00.003-07:00

I have yet again been remiss in my blogging duties. I shall use this time (arguably) wisely in a little bit of a rant.

RANT 1:

Now I love my family hugely. Like really a lot. From talks with pals and things I really don't think I know all that many people who get on as well with their parents as I do. I think we are more friends really now that I am grown up (ish) than parents/daughter, brother/sister. It does remind me in some ways of living back at uni. We only put out the trash when it really gets ridiculous, there will be those who avoid doing the washing up/stacking the dishwasher, the same ones do the cooking, there are those who do their laundry more often, and finally there are those who will not clean at all be it lounge, bathroom, kitchen, or other....

Of course, it raises the same contentious issues as it always has. There are little wrangles about people doing more from time to time, and arguments about the state of a room *not naming names -RJ's bedroom-gross!* I think some of us have to come to an equilibrium. Dad cooks, Mam washes clothes (except mine- my clothes always come back far too small- even so my mam can't get into them!), I will stack dishwasher, do my ironing and washing, occasionally clean the bathroom and lounge as and when the scummy-ness dictates! It is not as gross as it seems... I promise... I am just a bit of a neat freak- although I have far too much clutter to be really tidy all the time, I do have to have everything CLEAN and in the right place. It annoys me when I can't find something.

Anyway there is a point to highlighting the strange housework arrangements... I am feeling a little bit aggravated at the moment with my brother, who is still unemployed but doesn't seem to do any housework unless he is getting paid for it. Now, I pay housekeeping and I do my own washing (which he doesn't) and I still have to participate in household chores without payment. I am just a little bit bitter about it, so I have been on strike for the last few months and have refused to do anything but my own washing.

This week I crumbled. I cleaned the bathroom. I could stand it no longer, especially since I like baths. I am annoyed at myself. Now I know why my Mam and Dad give up trying to make things happen by striking. Like strikes in general.... they rarely pull off the desired results. :(

OK rant 1 over. Love ya Bruv, but sort it out....

RANT 2

Another rant on the reason I haven't blogged in a while. As weird as it sounds, I find blogging a rather personal thing despite broadcasting it on the Internet to a mix of some random strangers and those I know. I used to use my laptop in my room and blog there for privacy and space to think. Since my Mam has changed jobs, her company laptop had to be returned and my laptop has been put in its place in the office. I am not used to sharing my laptop and I do not like it. I usually share well but not my baby, Ethel. Having had two crashes since it has been downstairs in the office, once because someone had "accidentally" downloaded cartoon porn *unimpressed face*, I have been unable to get on it...

my Mam works on it for her private Health and Safety jobs she doe

my Bruv is addicted to Facebook, Bebo, Friendz (?), and other Internet activities

my Dad is always playing either poker or snooker on it

No time for me to get on it

Pants.

Sucks.

I need to learn how to share.

I think that is the only two problems I am having difficulty adapting to. Considering I have been home for ten months these are the only two things I have a problem with, one of which was constantly a problem whilst I was in digs whilst at uni. I guess it is just a case of flexibility and adaptability. I feel better for just getting it out of my system!

Love ya Family really XXXX

Integrity in Recession

2009-07-01T09:49:00.001-07:00

Howdy there guys!

I have been a bit off-colour of late in blogging. I just feel as if I have nothing 'personal' to say. Now I have several things, SOOOO

So I am going to try and get them all out in the near future i.e. the next hour if my memory lasts that long!

So...

INTEGRITY IN RECESSION.

Something we often don't associate together.

At work we often have days where it is quiet and we stand around (or indeed sit sometimes) and have a bit of a gossip. I was talking to one lady and we were discussing news headlines which at this time made 95% of newspaper's front pages. (It was a little while ago.) We discussed that while all these figures are scary and daunting.... 2 million unemployed etc etc. My brother is unemployed. I can relate to this. Her son was unemployed. We can relate. We found that increasingly we can relate to these headlines and it was therefore more shocking to us BECAUSE we KNEW someone who was going through the exact same problems.

Recently we had a bit of a scare. Well, in the end it didn't involve us directly. My dad was approached by boss this week and told that one guy of my dad's outfit was being made redundant. We were worried. Of course we were. Who would be next?

By the end of this week my dad was again approached by his boss and told that another person would have to go. Only 3 salesmen would be allowed to operate under this section of the company. Now my dad had been brought on under this section of his company to pick up falling figures. My dad is a bit of a terrier with a bone- once he has it he won't let go. He likes a challenge, even if the other dog who wants the bone is bigger. His boss told him that he had a choice.

He came and picked me up from work and on the way back home he said to me that he had been given an "option". EEK. Worry time. He gave a dour look. He had been told his job was safe regardless. He is the only person making the targets. HOWEVER there was a vacancy for a job in another section that was weak and wasn't hitting financial targets. They wanted him to come over, where his job would most definitely be secure and he would save his other three colleagues from having to (as far as I understand it) apply for their current jobs, but of which there was only two. If my dad transferred, his mates (as he viewed them) would keep their jobs. Otherwise, he would choose to stay and they would have to come under review.

Now *shamefaced* I admit I wondered what my dad would do. He was NOT happy. He only fairly recently just switched to this section, had turned around his bit and hitting targets. He was just making his mark and reaping the rewards. I thought he may stick to his guns. He is very competitive like that. It is the Leo in him. I have it at times, but since I am half Virgo (I am born on the cusp) I do not display it half as doggedly as he does sometimes. I really thought he may just stay where he was and let Ian (which I am pretty sure it would have been taking a look at areas and figures and all) would go. He has a nine month old kid. I really though Dad would be a stubborn b*st*rd!!

Today he had a meeting and gave his answer keeping us waiting. He has decided to switch over. He is not amused but he said it was an ultimatum at the end of the day. His colleagues would never have trusted/liked him again in the office he worked with. So...

I am sorry to my Daddy who I doubted for a moment. I forget that money and what a person wants to do can be ignored and someone can do the right thing. So I dedicate this blog to my dad. Well done. Sorry for doubting you, but you have a higher integrity than many going through this "recession". Many would have eliminated the competition. Thanks for restoring my faith in my daddy. Fluffly guy :,D

(BTW he doesn't read this- I don't think he knows how it works/thinks it is a little bit of a 'Me' thing to do!)

Integrity in Recession...

My Love Story Part 3

2009-07-01T09:48:00.001-07:00

This was going to be another memorable chapter.

We arrange a meeting with her family to hand her back and arrange an engagement the following week.At this meeting I had my mum's brother representing me and her uncles came there to take her back and discuss things.I noticed the moment I walked into the room my so called uncle was not there to represent me but save face for the family.I sat there in what supposed to be a discussion only to get blasted at how I kidnapped there niece and being brought down to feel like the worst person a live, by this time I could not even look at Zia as I felt my darling I have failed you yet again being young being naive I had no resources but to remain silent and watch the love of my life being taken away yet again.

I suspected then that I have made the mistake of not getting married while I could as now it's going to be even more difficult, still I would not give up hope and said well next week they promised to have us engaged.

Zia gone back to her family all I had was hope so I went back home, when I got home things got even worse her family had no intentions of ever getting us married ,Zia as soon as she got home was banned from leaving the house or even answering the phone she was given the hiding of her life leaving her bruised black and blue hearing all this drove me insane ,I have failed my love yet again ,I would sit up at night talk to Zia in my mind apologising to her cause I have failed her yet again ,I am supposed to have protected my love and I cant even do that .

Her family was not done with me on a Friday they get hold of me they assault me and bundle me into the booth of the car.I only got left alone when more people came around the vehicle.I had 2 of her uncle's assault me and one watch guard and they made it clear that I was never going to have her.The Monday I had a Policeman come to my house with a charge of kidnapping. I went to the police station and also opened a charge for Assault.Her uncles asked me to drop the assault charger and they would drop the kidnapping charge.Well that took care of the legal matters but it sure did not help in me
getting my sweetheart back.

The Accountant was full of threats he told me that if I don't leave Zia alone I need to remember she has 3 more sisters and they will all suffer the harder I push and they would make Zia's life a living hell.

This was a turning point for me I have failed my love in everything so far, will I now ask her and her sisters and mom to pay for something I am totally responsible for.I could not, Jane & I and I got closer as I would tell her my most inner tthoughts and how confused I am in the direction I should take.I would tell her how much I love Zia and cant stand the pain I am putting her threw.

Jokingly I say to Jane ,hey Jane if we hook up maybe Zia would forget me and move on to a better life ,maybe I am not good enough for her ,she deserves the best all I have given her is a is pain sorrow ,heart aches and failure.Jane laughs and says yeah why not hey, feeling totally heartbroken and dying for a hug I put my arms around Jane for some comfort, well that just lead to Jane and me kissing and ended up spending the night together.

I work up in the morning hating myself, I was going insane, by now I had felt terrible.Jane and I had a talk the following day where I apologised for my outburst, I told Jane I love Zia very much and what happened with us shouldn't have
happened. She also Apologised being the kind person that she is, at least we are still friends was her words.I started having thoughts of hoping if maybe Zia haltered me she would get on with her families wishes I hated my self as well because I have betrayed her.

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

"I Am Not Yours" by Sara Teasdale

2009-07-01T09:42:00.001-07:00

I am not yours, not lost in you,

Not lost, although I long to be

Lost as a candle lit at noon,

Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you still

A spirit beautiful and bright,

Yet I am I, who long to be

Lost as a light is lost in light.

Oh plunge me deep in love -- put out

My senses, leave me deaf and blind,

Swept by the tempest of your love,

A taper in a rushing wind.

The conflict between personal strength and the need/want to be completely enveloped by love is something that I think many late Victorian/Edwardian women felt. It had something to do with how they were brought up in the Victorian period (and yes, although Sara was american, the same moral standard applied in the U.S.). With the beginning of the women's movement and the liberating experience it produced for many middle class women there was a vacancy for how to act and a way to channel one's feelings. It had been a problem for a long time, but with changes like this occurring it is hard to know how to adapt. I like this poem because of the way she is battling with herself, her emotions versus her self-control.

Sarah Trevor Teasdale (08/08/1884- 29/01/1933)
Born in St. Louis, Missouri. Teasdale was always very frail, and caught diseases easily. For most of her life, she had a nurse companion that took care of her. Teasdale grew up in a sheltered atmosphere. She was the youngest child. Because of that, she was spoiled and waited on like a princess. She never had to do normal chores, like make her bed, or do the dishes. She was known to have described herself as âa flower in a toiling worldâ. Because she was so sickly, she was homeschooled until she was nine. She never had communication with her peers. Teasdale grew up around adults. She was forced to amuse heself with stories and things that she made up in her own lonesome world. When Teasdale was ten, she had the first communication with her peers. Her parents sent her to Miss Ellen Dean Lockwood's school for boys and girls. When she was fourteen, she went to Mary Institute. She didn't graduate there, but switched to Hosmer Hall when she was fifteen. There, she began to put the thoughts and dreams that amused her as a girl onto paper. Thus, she wrote her first poem. Teasdale's first published poem was "Reedy's Mirror", and it was published in a local newspaper. Her first collection, "Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems", was published in 1907. In 1911, her second collection, "Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems" was published. She published many other collections including "Rivers to the Sea", "Love Songs", "Flame and Shadow", "Dark of the Moon", "Stars To-night", and finally, "Strange Victory".
In 1913 Teasdale fell in love with poet Vachel Lindsay. He wrote her daily love letters, but she ended up marrying Ernst Filsinger in 1914 when she was 30; he was a rich business man. Teasdale and Lindsay remained friends throughout their lives. In 1918 her poetry collection Love Songs won three awards. Teasdale was a product of her upbringing and was never able to experience the passion that she expressed in her poetry. She was not happy in her marriage, becoming divorced in 1929 and lived the rest of her life only for her poetry. In 1933, Teasdale caught chronic pneumonia and it weakened her not only in body but also in mind and spirit. No longer able to see the beauty in simple things, Teasdale committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills at age 48 in New York. Her final book of poetry was published that year. Her friend Lindsay had committed suicide two years earlier.

My Day Style Show at the Tremont Grand -4/5/09

2009-07-01T09:41:00.003-07:00

(Last years My Day show)

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My Love Story Part 1

2009-07-01T09:41:00.001-07:00

1986 was a year that will change my life forever, sitting outside on one summer's day a flash of beauty just passed me by her name was Zia, now this was love at 1st sight, gasping for breath I tried to get control of my self.

This moment was going to change my life forever.

From the moment I looked into her eyes, I knew she is the one, the one I would spend the rest of my life with, until my time was done.

I was lucky enough that soon someone suggested a night out.I at the time was ecstatic as my only wish that she would hopefully be there.I was even more thrown over board when I heard she would beThe few hours I had to wait felt like a few days, wow the time has arrived to fetch her.She gets into the vehicle and we are on a night out to remember

I can't stop keeping my eyes off herI try to hold her and she is abit defensive at first.

The evening is the most romantic as you could get a full moon with the backdrop of lovely mountains I start to talk her and hold her hands.She gives in and we hold hands.This was the softest hands I have ever held in my life.I just could not let go from that moment forward.

We walked around holding hands very discreetly my heart pounding away as I have never felt like this for anyone in my life; I was shocked at the way my heart was pounding.

This was the first time I had all these emotions, where just new to me.

This was the night where the grass was green; this was the night where the moon lit so bright.This was the night of discovery. The night of recovery... This was the night of a new love the night where we became one.

We walked and let out some very inner feelings the evening felt too short ,she turns around and we are alone ,I put my arms around her I feel her soft gentle lips on mines and this is my first kiss.I kiss her passionately as I have never kissed anyone like this before.I felt abit embarrassed, did I kiss her correctly or did I look so stupid.For me this was the kiss of a lifetime.From that moment forward all I could do is only think about my love.I count not eat sleep or do anything without thoughts of her on my mind.This was the start of a relationship that would last for eternity.

I get home all flushed ,excited ,with butterflies in my tummy not knowing what was actually happening to me ,I asked is this love what is this I cant breath ,Oh god help me make sense of what is going on in my heart.My parents where taken back with me asking me if I was sick or was something wrong as I was too occupied with her on my mind and not saying much.

We spent days and nights on the phone even sleeping on the phone this love far beyond anything I could have ever imagined.Within 5 months by parents moved near her family which took me miles away from my sweetheart.

We got to live near some of her family which I got to know very well and spent allot of time around them Zia would come down on holidays which was brilliant.Everything between her family and I seemed perfect as could be.We would meet discreetly from the family until we both felt we where ready for marriage.We by now have been going out for 3 years the love just got stronger with every day.

First we both come from Indian families' culture religion plays a major part in our families.Culturally & religiously what we have been doing would have been deemed in correct.Having a romance like we have was taboo at the time.Our long distance relationship went on for years with me travelling to her on every opportunity I received.The feeling of being loved giving her every attention I could give from my body heart and soul.We lied hid and did anything possible to get every moment together we could manage.

By now we could not keep our hands off each other and being a part for anytime was something neither she nor I could handle anymore.Well she and I both decided that it was time we spoke to the family as they know me so well over the years and there really should be no problems if my parents asked for her hand in marriage.I was lucky as my parents where very liberal so it was much easier for me to talk to them.

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Twilight

2009-07-01T09:40:00.003-07:00

I think I have a bit of an obsessive compulsive disorder when it comes to books and films, I always watch and read the same books over and over again. I recently just got into this Twilight fad. ARGH!!! Bane of my existence. I am re-reading the entire series of books again for like the fifth time? I only got them two months ago!! Plus the film ahs been released on DVD so it is constantly playing in the background in my room!!

Mind you on reflection, 70% of book obsessions are in fact to do with topics that are out of this world. Twilight is about vampires and my other continuing obsession is Harry Potter. Wizards and vampires do not exost yet the appeal to me is absolute. I do not get it. I do not get me. Regardless I am going to blog my little heart about my current obsession....

The book/film critque of Twilight....

As with all problems with books being turned into films, there is never enough time to fit in all the little details that made the book great like developing the slow moving relationship between characters. You donât get to meet the character and to learn to know them. You are constantly aware that time is short and is forced into a breakneck speed. This is the same case for Twilight.
The book has some wicked and witty human traits picked out by the author and used subtly throughout the book. The human observations are marvellous. You believe they are real characters. In the film, of course, we cannot get this. The awkward relationship between Bella and her dad, Charlie, the more-a-friend-than-a-mother/daughter relationship between Bella and her mom, the shaky start to Edward and Bellaâs love followed by the growing sizzling romance... this is integral to the plot. It is why Bella goes off knowing she is likely to die to meet the tracker vampire James- to protect her mom, why she feels so bad about saying things to hurt Charlie in order to save him and why she loves Edward so much she does not want Edward to be distroyed by James from anger at her death. From what we can tell in the movie- it seems out of the blue. There is no real explanation. I think it is a film made for the fans who can fill in the spaces with their knowledge in the book.

(However having said that, a mate at work went and saw this film never having read the books and loved every minute of the film, saying it was one of the most romantic films she ever saw rating it up there with Brokeback Mountain- which incidentally I hate.)

BUT having said this I did get a kick out of the use of pepper can spray/fiddling with his rifle before meeting Edward as Bellaâs âdateâ as a vehicle to show how protective Charlie really is over his daughter. It was humorous.

I was a little disappointed about the visual display of the vampireâs special abilities like Edwardâs mind reading and Aliceâs seeing the future. It was always hinted at but it was not used to the best of its ability. It would have inflated the plot and bolstered the relationships between the characters especially when Edward is spying on Bella through her friendsâ minds.Now I did love the set.

The forest, the green beauty versus the damp descending dizzle. I liked it a lot. The meadow scene was gorgeous. The conflict within Bella for her love of Phoenix (hot and sunny) to Fork which is basically the American version of the north of Britain is not demonstrated very well. But I can overlook that because of the beauty of the scenery. It appeals to the treehugger in me!!

The stylisation of the movie was great. These perfect creatures are aloof and beautiful. The lighting was tremendous. From watching the behind the scenes section on the DVD I saw how they filmed it and how it was changed. The way it has been changed makes the film. The contrast of light and dark, green and grey. It is a far cry from other vampire movies. I also loved how they included a shot in the film that looked like the book cover (to hands holding out an apple). It was a lovely touch.

I love Jacob- I am looking forward to the natural grace and depth he introduced in this film. It was understated, not over thought.

Edward- I am in love with Rob Pattinson like every other female teenager in the Western world! Not only can he act and is gorgeously beautiful, but he is a musical genius. He added to the sound track- which was immense anyway because it had Muse on it... but Jeez... he is the best thing since- well I was going to say sliced bread- but for me it is the introduction of tea in Britain by Catherine De Braganza in the reign of Charles II. The Soundtrack is truly terrific!! Damn... I definitely need more realistic love expectations...

Overall, an obsession worth having... fab film viewing for two hours and a great gripping read.

My Love Story Part 2

2009-07-01T09:40:00.001-07:00

We have a family meeting with my parents and my sister I make my intentions known and confess my love for the woman I love and I asked them to please ask her parents for her hand in marriage.Her dad passed away so her uncles and mother needed to be consulted, this is the cultural way of how things should be done.

My parents set up a meeting with her family and I have been asked to be present at the discussion.The day comes when we go and we ask for her hand in marriage,

I feel a very uncomfortable when we enter but play that down to me just being nervous. We take a seat and great everyone, as we are all familiar with each other. One of her uncle's is an Accountant and he asks me a few questions. General questions which I answered to the best of my ability.

I start to sense or get the feeling that somehow things have changed overnight, they are asking me questions as if they never new me. It was a scary feeling.

One of the questions was how I would look after his niece as I have no qualifications because I have left school early to help my dad when he got ill.My dad and I both suggested that he has a business and I would run that business which eventually I would inheritHe did not seem very impressed with that answer.He said to me he has high hopes for his niece he would prefer someone more professional and would some qualifications someone like a Doctor or Lawyer even an Accountant.

Businessman or self-employed was not very professional in his eyes so I got the feeling.He also asked how much money I have.At this point being young and naive I was getting very upset as I got the impression that I was in the bank applying for a mortgage.I kept my cool and listen carefully to everything they had to say.By this time I realised that her family did not approve of me, shocking as it was to realise it sure was the truth.He went on to say to me that without a profession or a degree life would be very difficult for me, I even offered to study thinking this would please him.

Harsh and it hurt to bits what I was hearing worst was that I am not going to have the woman I love more than life.The normal situation when you ask someone's hand in marriage they have a few days to come back to you.So we where told they will let us know.

A few days later they came out with an excuse so it does not look bad that his nice was too young.My parents apologised to me saying they have done the best they could do and can't really do anything more.I could not handle this we both decide we will not allow the families to break up the love we share.

Zia lived 700km away from her family at the time with her mum and 3 sisters.We carried on our secret relationship yet again knowing the family won't approve of us, we both could just not let go.Being that far away I had met a friend where I live by the Name Jane, Jane and I got very close as she was there for me to talk too.I had many moments where I used to feel so useless and speak to Jane about my inner feelings.The love that my beloved and I have would conquer all was my thoughts.

Zia has a friend who is getting married and she was invited to the wedding, her friends and I have met on many occasions, they supported our relationship and hoped we could get married as well.I was down for this wedding and Zia and I talk we share our thoughts of how do we deal with the families, I love her so much yet her family cant see
that, well shocking to me I hear from her that the following day her family had arranged and allowed someone to come ask for her hand in marriage.

Hearing this just drove me insane, these same people said she was too young to get married now all of a sudden she not.This just confirmed to me these people where money hungry bigots who where looking for there own benefit than cared anything about how Zia and I felt.

Zia cried and said to me if I go home tomorrow they are going to marry me off to someone else.I told my sweetheart I will not stand for that.She and I discussed the best thing to do was to elope and get married that way no-one will ever keep us apart.Well we got into the vehicle and went off to do just that, we go to a family member of mine and tell them our predicament ,they suggest Zia calls home and let her mum know she is with me and not coming back home.We also make our intentions known that we intend to get married.

The night draws till the morning with phone calls and threats all roads are manned searching for us.My parents get very upset with me as they tell me this is not the right way to do things.My uncles and most of my family by now get involved in this love triangle.Most of them felt I am bringing a very bad name to the family and should not get married like this, they all promise me they will get us married but I need to do it in the correct manner.I asked what the correct manner is as I have been down that way and they want to marry her off to someone else.They promise yet again give her back and we will start all over again and guarantee we will be together.

After some pressure from my parents we agree.

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

The Light That Failed

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Thank You
For Downloading this free book.

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

GOOD NEWS FINALLY!!

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I have been asked if I would like to (as I had pestered them before) work in the chapel archives at work!! YAY!! I will be working with old books!! yay yay yay yay yay yay!!

Finally!!

yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay

Details to follow when I know what I am doing. I think I shall try and angle it for one day a week!! :D

Erotic Massage

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Good for one Erotic Massage!

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Lady Rosamond's Secret

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Love
Loving Say
I Love You

The House of the Rising Sun

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Love Song's 46 By Arnaldo King

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You're In My Heart, No Matter the Miles

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Time may take us apart, that's true, but I will always be there for you. You're in my heart, you'll be in my dreams, no matter the miles between.

Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Ã Festa Vol VI By Paulinho JF

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Until There Was You

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Bottom Wakes

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My Love For You

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Stranger In Paradise

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Love Song's Vol 47 by Chubb

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Tie one on...

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Love Song's 45 by Markitto

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Decor - La Case de cousin Paul

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If you are looking for insanely cute lighting for any event check out La Case de Cousin Paul (based in Paris!) This site has one of the coolest interfaces ever!

Love Messages

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Green Wedding - Where to start

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There are many ways that couples can go to have a carbon neutral wedding. Hear are just a few simple ways to get started..

1. Choose a location that reduces travel for the most guests.
2. Buy carbon credits for those who fly.
3. Request as wedding gifts, donations to environmental organizations.
4. Hire a caterer who only uses organic food.
5. Choose not to serve red meat.
6. Get married at a "green" venue; a place that supports sustainability
7. If you use plastic utensils, buy the soy based biodegradable products.
8. Get serious & calculate your CO2 emissions, so people take you seriously.
9. Educate your guests about the wedding being carbon neutral.
10. Email invitations instead of paper.
11. Use 100% recycled paper products.
12. Divert 100% of all trash from landfills through recycling.
13. If you buy diamonds, make sure they are Conflict-Free.
14. Hire businesses that practice sustainable principles internally.
15. Register for "green" products.
16. Transport your guests from their hotels with a shuttle.

Wonderful Wedding Graffiti

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There are so many designs to choose from or you can design your own.

I love the site and am looking at their home graffiti section for something to put up in my redesinged bed room!

Raridades VIII By P20

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FLOREADOS NACIONAIS VOL.01

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SeleÃ§Ã£o de RepertÃ³rio : Gilson Brothers

Arte Final e Capa : Dj Lu
PAZ
DJ LU.

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

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Five Updates

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Raridades X P20 e Amigos III

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Cute Sayings

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Love
Loving Say
I Love You

Words Of Love

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Love
Loving Say
I Love You

ALL I HAVE TO GIVE (Backstreet Boys)

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ALL I ASK OF YOU (Sarah Brightman & Cliff Richards)

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The Purpose??

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Happy Mothers Day

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SCHOOL "CHUMS"

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So, a little update...

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True love is ......

The Science of Love

I've done a bad thing

Osprey Circles

tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock...

Ã Festa Vol VII By Marcelo Studio Mix

One-of-a-kind bras for Breast Cancer Awareness

Thoughts of A Dying Atheist, Muse

Apologies to one and all... well actually just one...

In the Groove

Dinner In Bed

Princess Zara

Fantasy Sex Night

Amongst Loved Ones

Blank Card - Baby Bear

Geeky Wedding Cakes pt. 2 - Stargate Cake

The Light That Failed

GOOD NEWS FINALLY!!

Erotic Massage

Undertaker (illo)

Lady Rosamond's Secret

The House of the Rising Sun

Love Song's 46 By Arnaldo King

You're In My Heart, No Matter the Miles

Wolf's Tooth

Ã Festa Vol VI By Paulinho JF

Until There Was You

My Love For You

Stranger In Paradise

Love Song's Vol 47 by Chubb

Tie one on...

Love Song's 45 by Markitto

Decor - La Case de cousin Paul

Love Messages

Bottom Wakes

Green Wedding - Where to start

Wonderful Wedding Graffiti

Raridades VIII By P20

FLOREADOS NACIONAIS VOL.01

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

Five Updates

Raridades X P20 e Amigos III

Cute Sayings

Words Of Love

ALL I HAVE TO GIVE (Backstreet Boys)

ALL I ASK OF YOU (Sarah Brightman & Cliff Richards)

The Purpose??

Happy Mothers Day

SCHOOL "CHUMS"

So, a little update...

ClÃ¡ssicos do Samba Rock Vol.06

Love Quotes

Pride and Prejudice: My Ideal Cast

ALL FOR LOVE (Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting)

St. Martin Dividing His Cloak, by Sir Anthony Van Dyck

Eventures - Collective Event Professionals

FINALLY SOME GREAT NEWS

My Garden I: My Swing Incident

Irish Guards Get Their New Colours At Windsor!

Real Wedding - Jes and Greg

De-Fuzzing My Hair Brush and Auschwitz...

It has been nearly a month...

Integrity in Recession

My Love Story Part 3

"I Am Not Yours" by Sara Teasdale

My Day Style Show at the Tremont Grand -4/5/09

My Love Story Part 1

Twilight

My Love Story Part 2

The Light That Failed

GOOD NEWS FINALLY!!

Erotic Massage

Lady Rosamond's Secret

The House of the Rising Sun

Love Song's 46 By Arnaldo King

You're In My Heart, No Matter the Miles

Ã Festa Vol VI By Paulinho JF

Until There Was You

Bottom Wakes

My Love For You

Ã Festa Vol VII By Marcelo Studio Mix

Ã Festa Vol VI By Paulinho JF

Ã Festa Vol VI By Paulinho JF