Okay, this one is just cracked.....



I have a chance of falling in love with Anzu?  No, no, no.... I don't think so......  I like Anzu just fine, but I really don't see me falling in love with her. Or with Mai, or Serenity, or even Rebecca for that matter. 

Note both the hair and eyes came up violet, since I listed purple for a color...

Weirdly, I am from South Dakota...  Now why would someone from America have a Swedish accent?  Shouldn't someone from Sweden have a Swedish accent?  And someone from America have an American accent?

Grocked this from lucidscreamer (though it could have been from about half a dozen other people). Told her I'd put my results up...

Out of nowhere, and for no good reason that I know of, IE8 has suddenly quit letting me go from My Yahoo, to Yahoo Mail -- it asks me to sign in (which Yahoo does periodically) , but then flashes an incredibly fast error message that says my browser settings won't let me redirect -- even though they haven't been changed and were working three days ago. I've tried resetting my password, using the fixes Google pulled up, setting all the browser settings to match those on my laptop exactly (since IE is still working there), using system restore, and clearing cookies (which made it worse -- before I came back to the sign in page, now I hang in an endless loop on the error message). The error message itself flashes so fast that I couldn't even read it with catching it with a screen capture first:



And if I click on the "click here" it does nothing but return to the error message....

Nothing seems to fix it -- I'm now using Firefox.  **sigh**

Some time back I mentioned that someone was pushing me to put in for Compass Herald, which is one of the Northshield Polaris Herald's staff.  So I finally screwed up my courage and did it.  Only to find they are now planning on eliminating the position by combining it with that of one of the other staff herald's duties.

All this worry for nothing...  Ah, well..... 

**Sigh**

My husband just got on LJ (under phizzbin) and, having a new toy to play with, posted a bunch of things he'd learned over the years. Some of them were silly, and meant to be so, such as Redheads RULE! and Beer is proof the Buddha wants us to be happy, but a couple were rather profound:

Blessed are the peacemakers. But they frequently get themselves killed. How long will the human race murder its prophets?

and:
 
It is the height of ignorance and intolerance to condemn someone's beliefs before you have actually heard them expressed.

I think I did this one before -- but I think I got a different result... -- nope, got the same one then too.

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents,
beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home
decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

So the webspace hunt continues... I found one I liked, it came with glowing reviews -- and when you go to sign up, you get a 404 error instead of the sign-up page. The next one with great reviews -- well, you sign up, they send an activation email -- except they never sent it. The third one, which is currently in the works, sent the activation email, then has you describe the site you plan on building and they approve it supposedly in as little as three hours, though on a bad day they say they may take 24. At the moment we are at 30 hours and counting. Jimdo says they will migrate your Geocities pages. Well, kinda... The background images didn't copy, the wrong page showed up as the toplinked page (not the index page, which should be the homepage, but one of the subpages), and you can't edit your page, it's frozen in time. Jimdo is basically the same thing as Pagii -- social network meets homepage, with prefab tools for glitter text, images, etc. Fine if I want to move what I have on Pagii, but no replacement for my homepage.

*le sigh*

Okay, she can't find the manga, she wants to see the set -- so here are four pictures of Kaiba being reunited with Mokuba...

( Now behind the cut, since I had a request for one.... )

For reasons unknown Photobucket won't let Mythcreationwriter look at my albums -- or maybe fanfiction.net just refused to give her the correct link. So I promised to upload the picture for her here...

So, just for you, Myth...:

The local grocery store is not where you expect to find romance alive and well and blooming -- but some days something just -- well, cool -- happens, and you're lucky enough to witness it.

So I and my son, now age 11, are shopping at Safeway for some last minute dinner items, with the usual easily tuned-out Muzak and "customer service to the booth" announcements running as an background undercurrent to our conscious discussion about what we should buy. And in the middle of our talking, I hear "...., will you marry me?" then back to the Muzak and "customer service to the booth" announcements. It takes a moment to register, then I ask my kid, "did you hear that?"

He just looks at me. No, obviously. I say, "I think someone just asks somebody to marry them over the loudspeaker..." He continues looking at me -- mom is losing it, he can tell. But we peek around the end of the aisle, and, sure enough, there is a guy standing up at customer service with a batch of long stemmed red roses and a plushie stuffed animal, waiting, and about three of the Safeway employees, including the customer service attendant, who'd just loaned him the microphone, hovering, looking like the cats that ate the cream.

It took her a while to get there. Maybe she was with a customer. Or maybe she just ignores the P.A. announcements. But by the time we were in line for the cash register, a clerk, in her apron and uniform, had come up to the desk and he's down on one knee, doing it up right, in traditional style. And she must have said yes, because by the time we had paid there was quite a bit of kissing going on, as well as a few more hovering employees.

Ah, romance....

It must be spring....

Haven't done one of these for a while -- good grief, I'm emo? I think I'm too old to be emo....

Your result for The Social Persona Test (What kind of man/woman are you?)...

The Emo Girl (QLBF)

Quirky Liberal Beta Female

Take The Social Persona Test (What kind of man/woman are you?) at Hello Quizzy

Quest for Camelot is coming this weekend -- it's our shire's big event for the year, and of course I need to sew (the kid grew, my friend needs new garb...) and of course I put it off too long... Oh well, at least I may have something for the 50-stash challenge out of this...

dragonfare had trouble getting the fanfic freeware program to download from the link I posted to Lucid's post -- so once more into the breach -- here is the link to the page for the freeware fanfic downloader: http://www.home-eisele.de/downloader_e.php

Every so often someone comes up with a spiffy little piece of free software.  lucidscreamer found a nice little program that lets you download fiction from various sites such as fanfiction.net and save it as varying types of files, including, if I understand it right, ones that you can add to portable devices.  Read your favorite fanfic on the go? -- how handy that would be!  See her journal at: lucidscreamer.livejournal.com/672216.html

In other news, we have our biggest SCA event of the year coming up in a couple of weeks and I just wrote a ****load of award recommendations.  I should have done this sooner, but  somehow things kept getting in the way -- but at least it is done.  Huzzah, or Poobah, or just plain Skoal!

And one of our senior heralds wants me to put in for Compass Herald which is a Kingdom level position, basically pushing paperwork once a month.  I .... might......  --  .....um............  ....maybe?

I think someone on my f-list is writing something to do with black holes and event horizons?

So for your viewing pleasure, the Astronomy Picture of the Day gives you (ta-DAA) -- a black hole!

(Yeah, I know it looks white, but that's what they say it is....)

Complete info at: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090419.html

Sometimes the astromomy picture of the day is just something too cool for words -- for instance this one of the crescent of Venus, by daylight:

It doesn't meet the stash challenge, nevertheless, I inherited the my mother's stash of chili tepines. We used them in my father's chili recipe. My husband now makes the chili -- and we have, at long last run out of tepines. The stash is used...

Who knew these things would be impossible to replace?

Read the rest... and my dad's chili recipe, here at the SCA A&S 50 Stash Challenge LJ Community

FYI - because I know I'm not the only Yugioh! fan out there --

lucidscreamer sent me a lovely tip. 4Kids is posting the original uncut, unsubbed, undubbed episodes on their YouTube account at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CCCADF9834901E72. Enjoy...

I'm Unitarian/Universalist, so I read chalice_circle. Someone there has a panel on Japanese religions in anime at an animecon in Ohio and is looking to collect some extra data to present. So I'm just passing on her original post -- please see: http://community.livejournal.com/chalice_circle/689101.html