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Friday, December 25th, 2009
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houstontx
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Do any stores in Houston buy bikes?
I have Montana Mongoose mountain bike that's in very good condition (see my Craigslist ad here). I just haven't had much time to use it and I'd rather sell it to someone who'll get to go out and really enjoy it. :) Craigslist has mainly yielded spam and people promising to pay me in bank draft certificates, so I'm considering other options for getting this bike off my hands.
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
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photographers
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( higher res )
We did a one-night home stay in Ta Van village. the next morning, we woke up early and met her on her way to the fields. She made a deep impression on me because she kept trying to tell us something but we could not understand. it was not about photo money, i can tell if she wanted money. out of respect, we stood listening, waiting for her to give up. and i thought of the ones back home i used to be close. how we merely share a common language now but no longer an understanding. i noticed her patient and calm smile as she continued trying. how strange how long i have not anyone wanting so much to communicate. i almost thought there is something i can recover but my heart was too clouded.
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
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Just watched a cool Xmas show, the only one I chose to watch and the thing that made me laugh so much was the fact they had Ozzy Osbourne doing the voice of a bat that is a priest.
hehehehe.
the troll
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selfportraits
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My roommate got me a fisheye lens extension for Christmas :)
( bigger )
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Набережная канала имени Москва.
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
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cambler
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"And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night."
Luke 2:8
Hint: Not in December.
Happy solstice, then. And don't get upset at all the other religions who felt that this was an excellent time for their holidays, too. Imitation is the fondest form of flattery.
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So I've been really obsessed with working out so I can look hot for when my husband comes home from Afghanistan, - because I was really overweight for a long time.
So here is a series ( Starring my ass! )
Check out that big ole Polish booty
Che
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here's the obligatory season's greetings post.
um, well, spending it with the family this year.
usually i only do either thanksgiving or xmas - not both
but it's a nice change. :-)
happy holidays to everyone else out there too
:-D
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 The holidays always make me feel so very alone. Just the way I like it.
It makes my social anxiety justifiable. I'd much prefer to be at home working
late into the night, rather than leave my apartment and have to deal with
the horde of people at the shopping mall and the death trap of the parking lot.
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In between massive amounts of baking
and candy making
- there is a certain tired little girl
who likes to pull hair.
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seems i have been deleted or something from facebook.
i haven't posted porn-y things there. no topless or anything either.
just mostly travel and friends including high school peeps.
wonder whats up with that.
sent in an email yesterday.
i guess i'll see if they respond.
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"Come back when you fuck some of this baby fat off."
Today starts the one week of greatly reduced work for us staffers. The units are doing their own staffing, so I have tons of time to kill at work. I actually enjoy being at work this one week of the year; I get paid a lot to sit around and watch movies, read, play games on my Gameboy, and maaaybe take a few phone calls.
Today's movie is:
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My grandmother is beyond thrilled that my hair is not pink or teal green this year. She keeps telling me I look SOOOO good now. I didn't have the heart to tell her I grew the pink out just for her but I'll be dying it pink again as soon as I get home. It almost breaks my heart to do it though because it makes her so happy to see me look like a normal girl.
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
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Well I am totally broke. Brokest Xmas ever. For serious. I have not sold anything ALL MONTH.
The whole world most be as broke as me. It's really sad. But I am trying not to let it get me down. Next year is going to be better. It has to be. I won't let it be this bad. Not ever again.
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I hope everyone has a great Holiday! Best Wishes! <3
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by Amelia G : December 24th, 2009
 Time Magazine says, “Call it the Decade from Hell, or the Reckoning, or the Decade of Broken Dreams, or the Lost Decade. Call it whatever you want — just give thanks that it is nearly over.” Time Magazine’s Andy Serwer article, The ’00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell seems like it should be a New Year’s piece, but sometimes it is hard to wait. Heck, I’d intended to post this on December 31 and here I am posting it early too.
The last decade was certainly one filled with digital snake oil and the rise of wikiality over reality, tonal arguments over logical debate, and the erosion of freedom and privacy in the developed world. Many hipsters love to observe on how zombies are awesome monsters because they are weaker than their prey but make up for their shambling loserdom with numbers. So the past decade also saw the rise of people jumping up and down shouting individualist buzzwords while conforming as fast as humanly possible. And I’m not too thrilled by the economic and work ethic evolution in my circle of acquaintance, where so many people I know have gone from talking about their creative endeavors to bragging about how they are leeching money out of the “system”. But those are my complaints.
Time Magazine has their own top ten reasons . . .
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by Amelia G : December 24th, 2009
 Some people like to get inspired for the day watching televangelists at 6am, while they get ready for work. Me, I’d like to have a channel of all shows like Mary Queen of Shops on BBC America.
Mary Queen of Shops comes from the same team which produces Gordon Ramsay’s F Word and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, both shows about how to improve commercial kitchen work. My problem with the Gordon Ramsay shows is that I can’t watch most food television without getting insanely hungry and desperately craving whatever is being prepared. Basically, I have way too low a threshold for food porn. Mary Queen of Shops has a similar format with none of the insatiable craving for sauteed scallops in some special parsley butter sauce following viewing.
Mary Portas is a branding and retail consultant for fashion enterprises. Each episode of this show, she takes a small floundering independent boutique and helps it improve the way it does business. She is a strong advocate of fabulous service and careful market segment focus. It doesn’t even matter if one always agrees with everything she says because part of the show’s appeal is that it puts one in a business frame of mind. It makes you think about what you would do in whatever situation is being presented. Mary Portas comes across as high energy and even playful, while simultaneously being aggressive and can-do. She seems like she would be both a lot of fun and a formidable adversary.
Fascinated by her powerhouse on-screen presence and my own wish for more shows with this sort of business theme, I started casually researching her background. The best bit I found was that she got a gig as Creative Director at Harvey Nichols, after being in charge of window dressing at both Harrods and Topshop previously. At Harvey Nichols, she not only brought in cool designers like Vivienne Westwood, but she arranged for extensive product placement and name shoutouts on the TV show Absolutely Fabulous . . .
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by Amelia G : December 23rd, 2009
 I’ve been in a bit of a morbid headspace due to recent events. So, when Twitter lit up with Brittany Murphy RIP tweets, I’m not proud of it, but I popped over to TMZ to see what happened. I made the correct assumption that TMZ would have the most up-to-the-minute info on anything really depressing and dismal involving bad things happening to a celebrity.
TMZ in fact was updating every few minutes with stuff like UPDATE 4:07 PM ET — A rep for Murphy tells TMZ, “In this time of sadness, the family thanks you for your love and support. It is their wish that you respect their privacy.” They followed this up with paparazzi photos of Brittany Murphy’s grieving husband coming back home from the hospital, after his wife had been pronounced dead. Here is where it gets kind of hilarious. If you have a very very very dark sense of humor.
The stated cause of death for Brittany Murphy was cardiac arrest. Because she was a talented actress, it was common assumption, after her star turn in the meth addict movie Spun, that she was a big ol’ druggee. See Robert Downey Jr.’s performance in Less Than Zero for the classic example of this phenomenon. I think that, if I managed actors, I would tell only untalented ones to ever . . .
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Christmas Eve is a tad early for pondering the year gone by, but when the urge to write such thoughts overcomes me I have to give in. I'm not saying the litre of mulled wine I just drank is not a contributing factor in this slightly emotional outpouring. Well, as emotional as I ever get anyway, which being a hardened emotionless cynic is not very much at all. Yarr.
I've been slowly becoming aware of it all year, in quiet moments pondering where I'm going and what I'm doing. I finally feel like this is the life I'm supposed to be living and I'm not just putting off the life I should be living. This probably doesn't make that much sense to anyone else. It probably won't make sense to me when I re-read it without the added insight provided by my good friend alcomahol.
One of my best friends told me recently that he had come to realise that life is all about enjoying now and not worrying too much about the future. For the longest time I couldn't get my head around this way of thinking. All I ever thought about was 'I have to go back to Uni and do my Masters so I can get a well paid job and buy a house and not worry about money anymore'. Of course, the dream house would be absolutely lovely. And I'm still kinda poor. But it doesn't bother me nearly as much as it used to. I haven't done any of those things this year. In fact I turned down doing my Masters and spent my meagre savings on a glorious tour of Europe. I'm ridiculously and slightly scarily in love (there, I said it publicly. Finally), I adore my job and the many places it takes me to, I'm finally starting to like my art work (I even updated the art website! ;). I'm more happy and content with what I've done and where I'm going next year than I've ever felt.
Well that's quite enough of that.. so to finish this off - a change of subject so sudden and abrupt you may suffer a spot of whiplash in the process. I finally got my contributors copies of Gothic Lifestyle Magazine yesterday. As well as the cover I have an 8 page pictoral and interview (though it's in German and I can't remember what I said at all, it was done quite a while ago!). My face is even on the cover of the music sampler CD which comes free with the mag, which was quite exciting :)
( the rest of it is under here... )
I probably already mentioned in my last blog that for New Year's Eve I'm modelling in the fashion show at Torture Garden (actually, we need hair and makeup artists if anyone knows anyone who would be interested - paid!).
And now to Christmas good cheer and such things.. Hope everyone has a great time, and may your Christmas dinner be fully lacking in brussel sprouts!
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morose but optimistic.
