Lives in a Dream

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:23:28 GMT

A friend of mine has this silly habit of driving to places...work, the grocery, the doctor. Unfortunately all her means of transportation, her scooter, her car, have died.

She needs your help to buy a new car. She is an AMAZING artist and makes beautiful wings, crowns, beads, and necklaces.

Please take a look at her page scooterfae for a link to her Etsy page as well as some necklaces you can just make an offer on. Be sure to check the Etsy page for the wings and beads and crowns!!

Thanks for looking and helping out.

OHIO RESIDENTS: EXTREMELY IMPORTANT

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:26:39 GMT

Legislators Need to Hear From Library Users and Supporters

June 19, 2009

Gov. Strickland announced plans today to remove $213.4 million in funding to Ohio's public libraries in order to fund other budget priorities. The funding for Ohio's libraries would drop to half of 2008 levels under his proposal. The cost to the Dayton Metro Library would be $2.3 million in 2009 and $4.7 million in 2010. The cut for this year would be in addition to the $4.1 million reduction the library is already facing.

"Cuts of this size would be absolutely devastating," said Tim Kambitsch, Executive Director of the Dayton Metro Library. "We are struggling to stay open with the cuts we have already absorbed. If passed, there will be deep cuts in hours, elimination of services to residents of every age, and frankly I have a hard time imagining how we can avoid closing branches. I urge everyone to immediately contact their representatives in the Ohio House and Senate." Kambitsch said he was surprised, "The library community had no idea these additional cuts were coming."

The governor's proposal must be approved by the Conference Committee of the Ohio Legislature, which is currently working out differences between the Senate and House budget bills.

What do you think? Is it a good idea to slash library budgets to cover other legislative priorities? Let you State Senator and State Representative know what you think immediately.

House Members:

Name	Phone Number	Fax Number	Email
Seth Morgan	614-644-8051	614-719-3590	District36@ohr.state.oh.us
Peggy Lehner	614-644-6008	614-719-3591	District37@ohr.state.oh.us
Terry Blair	614-466-6504	614-719-6966	District38@ohr.state.oh.us
Clayton Luckie	614-466-1607	614-719-6967	District39@ohr.state.oh.us
Roland Winburn	614-466-2960	614-719-6940	District40@ohr.state.oh.us

Senate Members:

Name	Phone Number	Fax Number	Email
Fred Strahorn	614-466-6247	N/A	senatorstrahorn@maild.sen.state.oh.us
John Husted	614-466-4538	614-466-7662	SD06@senate.state.oh.us

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:11:54 GMT

Some of my friends just had a successful LJ yard sale with their books, so I thought I'd give it a try. I REALLY have to scale back on my book collection before moving all this stuff out of my apartment, so if anyone wants anything please let me know!

Shipping for first book is $3, second and above is $4.

Religion:

When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Story of the Universe and Our Place in It - Edited by Clifford N. Matthews, Mary Evelyn Tucker and Philip Hefner - $2 (some pages falling out, but everything is there)

Science and Religion: Are the Compatible? - Edited by Paul Kurtz - $3

Illustrated Tarot Spreads: 78 New Layouts for Personal Discovery - Heidemarie Pielmeier and Marcus Schirner - $3

Advanced Readers:

A Lion Among Men - Gregory Maguire - $3

~~Raw Food: 100 Recipes to get the glow - Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis - $3~~

The Big Book of Small Business - Tom Gegax - $2

Olympos - Dan Simmons - $3

General fiction:

Little Altars Everywhere - Rebecca Wells - $2

~~Confessions of a Pagan Nun - Kate Horsley - $2~~

Puff - Bob Flaherty (autographed to me) - $3

Lesbian fiction:

Paperback Romance - Karin Kallmaker -$3

Frosting on the Cake - Karin Kallmaker - $3

Side by Side - Isabel Miller - $3

Women on Women: An anthology of American lesbian short fiction - Edited by Joan Nestle - $4

A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories - Edited by Joan Larkin (HARDBACK) - $4

CDs

Pink - I'm Not Dead - $4

Green Day - International Superhits! (case has crack) - $2

Jill Sobule - The Folk Years - $3

Indigo Girls - Come on Now Social - $3

VHS

The Last Unicorn

Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water volume 1 (subbed)

Fushigi Yugi volume 1 (subbed)

Holidailies Day 12

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:20:02 GMT

As I've mentioned, we've been baking all day...

AND WE'RE STILL BAKING.

Unfortunate bottle location or secret ingredient??

"Meatless" cookies

Strawberry white chocolate bars

Pralines

Lemon butter cookies

Puppy chow

White chocolate mint

Holidailies Day Eleven

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:11:55 GMT

I missed Holidailies yesterday. I was busy cleaning all day before Shadowbox, and afterwards I was feeling sad and just wanted to go to bed.

Tonight I am at my parent's house in Cincinnati because it is holiday cookie baking time! My mom has been baking holiday cookies since my sister and I were in elementary school. Now that we're not in school during the holidays, she pretty just makes them for her office, but I also get some for my friends and coworkers.

Tonight we made fudge, pralines, bourbon balls, and white chocolate mint candy.

Tomorrow we're making puppy chow, double chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter bars, fudge nut layer bars, strawberry white chocolate bars, nutmeg logs, shortbread, and lemon cookies.

IT WILL BE DELICIOUS.

Holidailies Day Nine

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:49:12 GMT

Hooray I got my hairs redyed! I love new hair day, it is one of my favorite days. I come out of the salon feeling really good about myself and loving the way I look.

I worked 2.5 hours this morning at the branch that first hired me as a substitute. It was relatively easy and that last 2.5 hours got me up to a full 40 hours this week. However, I am now exhausted because I don't usually work 40 hours a week. I was practically falling asleep in the salon chair.

I'm going to a graduation party in four hours, and I'm thinking a petite nap might be just the thing. If only it wouldn't mess up my hair!

Holidailies Day Eight

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:25:35 GMT

Today was mostly filler. Tonight is supposedly the largest full moon of the year? I haven't seen it. It's so cold outside it hurts.

My family went to the Madrigal Dinner tonight at Wright State, and it was very pleasant. There was nog. LOTS of nog. I'll recap it tomorrow, because now I'm just kind of writing enough so that I can say I made an entry for Holidailies and then go to bed so I can work tomorrow and then get my hairs dyed and then go to my friend's graduation party and then sleep maybe somewhere, sometime.

Goodnight.

Holidailies Day Seven

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:44:03 GMT

Hey, my work is on the news!

The Dayton Metro Library is in the news because we surpassed 7 million items checked out in one year this year. Apparently the crew was filming at Main this morning, and I didn't come in to work until noon. I'm sad, because I WANT TO BE ON TV!! I would have been bouncing around in front of the camera saying "Film me! Film me!"

The man in the suit being interviewed is the director of the library.

You can totally see my department and my coworkers! Yay my department! Hello coworkers! Hmmph. Filmed them instead of me.

You can see our patrons illegally burning CDs onto their computers! Hello patrons! Hope the RIAA isn't watching!

Still, it's good publicity for the library, and I'm proud of my work. Good job, Dayton Metro Library!

Holidailies Day Six

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:22:12 GMT

Do you still live in the place where you grew up? How far away are you now, and why?

I grew up in Cincinnati. I lived in the same house for nearly 23 years. I moved 45 minutes north to Dayton, OH almost five years ago so I could finish school. I'm hoping to move to France in 2009. I WOULD LIKE TO GET OUT OF OHIO PLZ KTHX.

Holidailies Day Five

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:17:25 GMT

Dear Santa,

What up, yo? Sorry it's been so long since I last wrote to you. In regards to my last letter, please be assured I'm not bitter that you never brought me that My Little Pony flutter pony I asked for. I get it. You gotta take care of your own people, and times were tough back in the '80s.

I have a problem, Santa, and that's why I'm writing you now. I'm hoping you can help me. Remember back 20 years ago or so when Christmas was confined to just Decemeber? Then it started leaking into "after Thanksgiving," and that was all right, I guess, though I do get really tired of people asking me "so are you ready for Christmas?" ("Yup." I reply. Ready to watch a movie and eat sushi? Sure am.)

But now, Santa, Christmas is starting in September! September!! This has to be hard on you and the elves. It's added to your production time, and it gives kids more time to add to their lists. Frankly, it makes everyone cranky by the time December finally gets here because they're so sick of hearing "Christmas is coming! Are you ready! Christmas is coming!" for months on end. They're fed up. There's only so much Christmas the world can take, Santa. It's too much.

So I'm writing you today to ask, could we cut it back, please? Could you make everyone agree not to mention Christmas until mid-November maybe? That would be swell. Thanks Santa. Give the reindeer a hug for me.

Love,
--Penny

Holidailies Day Four

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:58:10 GMT

Describe your holiday decorating techniques.

Um...minimalist? Actually, Hannukah is the only holiday I do decorate for -- besides my birthday of course. My birthday is a major holiday.

I tape all the holiday cards I receive to the window seat. When Hannukah begins I bring the menorah down and it stays in the kitchen for 8 days; of course I light the appropriate number of candles each night.

Aaaaaaaaaand that's the extent of my holiday decorating.

Holidailies Day One

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:47:26 GMT

I heard about Holidailies from sistercoyote and I thought, "Hey! I like things!" so I decided to join up. These posts will be temporarily public until January 7 to comply with the rules of the program.

My name is Penny, and I live in Ohio. I don't enjoy it, but I'll get upset if you insult it. It's still my home state, after all. And we were responsible for electing Obama. So there's that. Other than that, Ohio is cold, and mostly dying. Especially Dayton, where I presently live. I'm originally from Cincinnati, but I moved to the Dayton area nearly five years ago for school. It's a long story. I'll graduate in June from Wright State University with a bachelor's in French and a minor in Spanish. I like languages.

I live with my three cats, but my best friend and her boyfriend live two doors down from me. We're constantly at each other's houses. I have a younger sister and the standard two parents: my father is a retired library-science professor and my mother works at the library in Dayton while living in Cincinnati. I also work for the Dayton library. It's a job. The patrons drive me nuts, mostly because the majority of them are drunk or crazy and they steal things.

I like Hello Kitty a lot. I'm single and I've given up looking. I'm applying to teach English in France in the fall of 2009. Moving to another country for a year is exciting, but also scary. I like sushi.

I'm not Christian. I've never been Christian. This time of year kind of gets on my nerves, mostly because of the over-commercialization and the assumption that everyone must be Christian. I'm Jewish-Pagan. I was raised Jewish and had a Bat Mitzvah at the age of 12. At 18 I realized I needed more femininity in my spirituality and began searching alternative religions. There was no need for me to leave Judaism, however, because there's really plenty of femininity there already if you know where to look. You just have to get a little crafty ^_~

If you came here from the Holidailies site, welcome! Everyone else, I hope you found the reintroduction entertaining ^_^

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:01:19 GMT

Wright State is closed until noon -- I'll take it!

*does the "I-didn't-have-to-go-to-French-class" dance*

Now the real question is, do I get dressed, get bundled up, drive all the way out there for ONE class on a Friday afternoon and then come all the way home.... or do I stay here warm and cozy in my pajamas, snuggled by kitties?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ^_^

Oh couch...you are so very comfy.

ETA: chez_amanda alerted me that they just closed school for the rest of the day. WE WIN!!!

iTunes meme

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:17:38 GMT

Stolen from everyone (and their mothers!)

How many songs total: 2956
How many hours or days of music: 7.7 days
Most recently played: "Vandal" by Yunyu
Most played: "The Last Unicorn (Dance Mixx) by InMood
Most recently added: "Friday Morning Lullabies" by Emaline Delapaix

Sort by Song Title
First Song: "A: by DJ Amuro (DDR)
Last Song: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" by Tori Amos

Sort by Time
Shortest Song: "Radio TMBG #1" by They Might Be Giants - 0:10
Longest Song: "The Beekeeper" by Tori Amos - 12:59 (from B of A Pavilion, Boston)

Sort by Album
First album: Acoustic Valentine by Catie Curtis
Last album: 50 First Dates soundtrack
First song that comes up on Shuffle: "Heavy in Love" by Bitch and Animal

Search the following and state how many songs come up:

Death - 5
Life - 45
Love - 107
Hate – 19
You - 258
Sex – 16

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:18:06 GMT

I am absolutely giddy over the new cast pictures for the Twilight movie on Stephanie Meyer's website.

SQUEE! Have you seen them? I joined the fandom after the whole Robert Pattinson casting wank, but I have to say, if I wasn't convinced before, these pictures have totally convinced me. He is Edward Cullen. I love the first picture on Stephanie's page. That's just such an Edward pose. I can't wait to see him protecting Bella. *sigh* That's my favorite part!

I need Twilight icons.... Edited to add: there we go ^_^

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:14:01 GMT

We did not have a snow day today, despite me wanting one very badly. There was nothing I particularly wanted to avoid, I just really could have used a day away from classes.

But I went, and the day actually moved very smoothly and was pretty nice, so I can't complain. I handed out my Hello Kitty Valentine cards to my friends and teachers, since I won't be at school tomorrow. For my journal entry in French Conversation the assigned task was to write instructions for something; pretty open-ended. So I wrote instructions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's rather funny, and I'll try to remember to post it here later.

I received a 98% on the big French presentation I did on Monday! I am kicking ass in my French literature class. Who knew?

My Spanish teacher postponed our test from Friday until next Monday which is a HUGE relief, because I was nowhere close to being ready by Friday. I've been getting really good grades on the oral portion of the class, but I completely bombed the first written test, so I really need to do well on this next test to bring up that portion of my grade.

Tomorrow I have to get a fasting blood draw, just routine, a part of my physical. I just really, really hate having blood drawn :-( I'm ok with needles and shots, but I hate having things in my veins. My veins like to hide and be difficult, which leads to more pain and suffering and woe. ;_;

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:53:54 GMT

Ok, this is pretty cute: David's New Snail

Stolen from adoraluna

We were supposed to have a MAJOR SNOW STORM OF DEATH, but I see barely two inches outside, if that. And yet, school is still closed all day. Well, I don't have school today, people, so that's not helpful! Hmmph. I wanted school to be canceled tomorrow! Now I still have to go to work tonight and school tomorrow. Durnit.

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:26:49 GMT

Stargaze tonight is canceled due to the weather not cooperating.

In other news, I got my hair cut and redyed, and I look ADORABLE. Everyone in the shop was saying how good the color looks on me. I love it! I don't want to sleep on it tonight ^^;;

ETA: Apparently I've been ordered to take pictures ;-p

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:53:09 GMT

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:55:34 GMT

This morning I had a phone interview with my Spanish teacher at 7am, which meant I had to be awake and coherent enough to hold not just a conversation, but a conversation in Spanish at 7am, which meant waking up even earlier.

I am now exhausted, and will probably head to bed shortly.

Sabrina is staring at me like she thinks I might give her some of my rice krispie treat, but OH HOW WRONG SHE IS!

It is my rice krispie treat.

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:17:47 GMT

I was tagged by soleta_nf, and it certainly is more entertaining than my French homework ^_~

Two names you go by:
1. Penny
2. Malanai
Two things you are wearing right now
1. A cranberry-colored sweater
2. Brown courdoroy pants
Two of your favorite things to do
1. DDR
2. Read my friends list
Two things you want very badly at the moment
1. Sleep
2. Spring!
Two favorite pets you have/had
1. Sabrina/Bat/Alex - my now kitties
2. Cuddles - my cat when I was a child
Two people who will fill this out
1. Consider this a tag - chez_amanda!
2. And nemesina!
Two things you ate today.
1. Fruity Cheerios
2. Trader Joe's kalamata olive hummus
Two people you last talked to
1. Patrons
2. My coworkers
Two things you're doing tomorrow
1. Going to school (*sends cancellation vibes*)
2. Going to a study-abroad meeting
Two longest car rides
1. Cincinnati, OH to Miami, FL
2. Cincinnati, OH to Toronto, ON by way of Jackson, MI
Two favorite holidays
1. My birthday
2. Halloween
Two favorite beverages
1. Starbucks Mocha
2. Caffeine-free Diet Dr. Pepper
Two favorite TV shows (right now)
1. Psych
2. How I Met Your Mother

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:21:11 GMT

"I am so in love with that incredibly charming guy who can't leave the voicemail and keeps deleting it because he has so very many minutes on his cell phone. I don't watch commercials, but I always watch those ones, because he's the greatest thing on TV right now. I like it more than my previous favorite commercial, where the boy wanders the streets waiting for the girl to call, and then finally all the buildings in the city line up in order of height and then romance happens, which used to make me cry. I think of this voicemail man commercial less as a request for me to buy a product, since we have the same carrier -- me in real life, he inside the TV -- as a very short romantic drama, like the Twitter of love shows. Where have I seen that guy before? Man, I wish he had his own channel. Mark my words: you've seen him before and you'll see him again, because he is something special. And, I hear, a pretty good salsa dancer."

--From TWOP

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:20:01 GMT

I check LJs....business as usual.

I check cincinnati.com for news.

Heath Ledger has died. ;_;

I check LJs again...several posts like this one.

It's a damned shame. He was a good actor; he was too damned young.

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:56:16 GMT

Carlette and I went out to Barnes and Nobles today because I had a $25 gift certificate burning a hole in my purse and Carlette needed a calendar. Everyone else in Dayton decided to go to B&N as well; the place was mad-crowded!! What the heck.

I got the next Fushigi Yugi that I needed, a set of the first-three-books-in-one-book of Magic Knight Rayearth on sale for $10, and You Can Do It! The Merit Badge Handbook for Grown-Up Girls, which is awesome. I'm totally going to earn all these merit badges! Including saving and investing badge, learning a new language badge, sewing badge, dating badge, camping badge....it will be AWESOME and Carlette and I think we should form our own troop of Grown-Up Girl Scouts or something and earn all the badges.

I also bought the cats a new scratching post so they'd stop tearing up the carpet. Sabrina gives it two paws up:

Then I came home and made delicious homemade turkey meatballs (where's my badge!) for my dinner tomorrow.

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:13:48 GMT

Ok, this video is hilarious. Snagged from jetwolf

If the internet had a party...

"You're such a buzzkill, Snopes."