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colormefuschia @ 2006-10-14T10:40:00

2006-10-14T17:40:29Z

Your LiveJournal Pirate Crew
LiveJournal Username
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest!
Cutlass or pistol?
What is the name of your pirate ship?
Where is your secret pirate base?
What kind of loot do you prefer?
What do you and your crew prefer to be called?
Parrot or monkey?
Argh!

Your capable first mate	thirdeyevision
Your bumbling cabin boy with a heart of gold	seraphito
The aloof, yet honorable, pirate with a mysterious past	sharonskinner
Is always the first one into the fray	thirdeyevision
Is the naval officer who ruthlessly pursues your ship	tabor36
Is the comical pirate who is always drunk on grog	cymodocles
Is currently in Davy Jones's locker	spillogical
The amount of money you make as a pirate	$118,188


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change is inevitable.

2006-10-01T22:15:43Z

and hard. i finally took the NRA sticker off the tips jar, somthing i've wanted to do since they put it there. what are they going to do now? fire me?

my last day at essenza:
last drink i had: sprite w/ rasberry.
last drink i served: white chocolate mocha.
$$ in tips: $15 (better than most days).
last sandwish i made: club.

things i took:
cards to the "Worst Case Scenario- Suvival Game"
the tip jar
two of my favorite mugs
an ingenui tea
some pictures from the walls

life isn't going to be the same with out the little coffee shop in a strip mall.

TCBY

2006-09-09T03:04:19Z

The Country's Best Yogurt

Mmm. I need some TCBY right now.

colormefuschia @ 2006-09-02T20:49:00

2006-09-03T03:52:03Z

myspace.com

mypace.com

mypacemaker.com

the hottest hookup spot for the cardiac challenged?

NEW EMAIL ADRESS

2006-09-03T01:22:08Z

I have just aquired a new email adress. It is:

harmonynelsonette@yahoo.com

Blurb.

2006-09-02T02:50:25Z

"26 April 1905

In this world, it is instantly obvious that something is odd. No houses can be seen in the valleys or plains. Everyone lives in the mountains.

At some time in th past, scientists discovered that time flows more slowly the farther from the center of the earth. the effect is minuscule, but it can be measured with extremely sensitive instruments. Once the phenomenon was known, a few people, anxious to stay young, moved to the mountains. Now all the houses are built on Dom, the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa, and other high ground. It is impossible to sell living quarters elsewhere.

Many are not content simple to locate their homes on a mountain. To get the maximum effect, they have constructed their houses on stilts. The mountaintops all over the world are nested with such houses, which from a distance look like a flock of fat birds squatting on long skinny legs. People most eager to live longest have built their houses on the highest stilts. Indeed, some houses rise half a mile high on their spindly wooden legs. Height has become status. When a person from his kitchen window must look up to see a neighbor, he believes that the neighbor will not become stiff in the joints as soon as he, will not lose his hair until later, will not wrinkle until later, will not lose the urge for romance as early. Likewise, a person looking down on another house tends to dismiss it's occupants as spent, weak, and shortsighted. Some boast that they have lived their whole lives high up, that they were born in the highest house on the highest mountain peak and have never descended. They celebrate their youth in their mirrors and walk naked on their balconies.

Now and then some urgent business forces people to come down from their houses, and they do so with haste, hurrying down their tall ladders to the ground, running to another ladder or to the valley below, completing their transactions and then returning as quickly as possible to their houses, or to other high places. They know that each downward step, time passes just a little bit faster and they age a little more quickly. People at ground level never sit. They run, while carrying their briefcases or groceries.

A small number of residents in each city have stopped caring whether they age a few seconds faster than their neighbors. These adventuresome souls come down to the lower world for days at a time, lounge under the trees that grow in the valleys, swim leisurely in the lakes that lie at warmer altitudes, roll on the level ground. They hardly look at their watches and cannot tell you if it is Monday or Thursday. When the others rush by them and scoff, they just smile.

In time, people have forgotten the reason why higher is better. Nonetheless, they continue to live on the mountains, to avoid sunken regions as much as they can, to teach their children to shun other children from low elevations. They tolerate the cold of the mountains by habit and enjoy the discomfort as part of their breeding. They have even convinced themselves that thin air is good for their bodies and, following that logic, have gone on spare diets, refusing all but the most gossamer food. At length, the populace have become thin like the air, bony, old before their time."
- Einstein's Dreams

MOI IMPORTANTE!!!

2006-09-01T18:37:50Z

Mr. Healy's house burned down.

He is an amazing teacher and a great mentor for many kids in a not-so-great area of Mesa. Without him, a charter school dedicated to the arts would have no back bone and I am almost certain that the school would change for the worse. He has dedicated his life to giving the kids in the neighborhood a superb education and devoted much of his time and energy to ensuring a positive result. He is making the youth of tomorrow, and he needs our help.

PLEASE donate to help his devastated family. You can go to:

ESSENZA COFFEE HOUSE
1350 S. LONGMORE
MESA, AZ

It's across from the Fiesta Mall; inside the T.G.I.Fridays parking lot. If you need more directions, you can call (480)461-0445.

Even just a few dollars would aid in our cause, so please donate something.

Thanks.

Keep it gangster.

2006-08-30T03:15:33Z

www.gizoogle.com

i didn't get a razor phone

2006-08-10T05:57:36Z

BAAh.

all is right in the world.

i'm thinking about and getting a razor phone.

2006-08-06T00:53:37Z

which means all the jokes i gave jennifer about being a conformist sheep are completely hypocritical.

i'd like to take a moment to apologize in advance.

i'm sorry.
you can laugh at me now. BAAAAHHHHH.

and i'm really glad i don't have any bills to pay. thank you parents.

woo hoo.

2006-08-05T23:33:14Z

today my phone was submerged in a sink of bleach water for probably a good half an hour before MaryAnn saw it while doing dishes and handed it to me. ooohhh glue. it has water and air bubbles shifting around inside the screen.

happy accident? erm.. not really. i'm hoping when it dries it will work again. otherwise i will need to buy a new one.

which really wouldn't be such a catastrophe, i guess.

i saw an old friend at warehouse today. which was kind of strange. my eyes have been opened to how much things have changed in the past year. seconds turn to minutes turn to hours turn to days turn to weeks and months and years and decades... time is consistent, isn't it?

since my last post i have:

cut my hair.
rocked out to Queen 2-3 times.
made a million and 2 sandwiches at a decaying coffee shop.
cut my hours.
painted the boys and girls club front office. yellow.
gotten a desk calender at officemax FOR 75 CENTS!!
been reminded that i have my own theme song.

and i think that covers the most pressing matters.

the rest of our lives.

2006-07-15T23:57:30Z

i finished reading That Was Then, This Is Now, written by S.E. Hinton. the book had a lot of depth. overall, i found it to also be very depressing. i didn't cry (bawl is really the correct term) like i did when i finished The Outsiders, but it was still sad. i have come to the conclusion that miss Hinton must have been in a very dark place while she wrote this book. :(.

on other matters, Georgia (my computer) was replaced today by Hawaii (the name of my new machine). Hawaii is a bit quicker than Georgia, though they look nearly the same. Hawaii also has a cute little slot to put CDs in rather than a tray that comes out. Both are tangerine iMacs.

though Georgia has been good to me, i think Hawaii and i will get along just fine. YAY. (:

i found happy in the corner of my eye.

2006-07-13T02:10:59Z

it was like a glint in the frame of my glasses. a star in my peripheral vision. a beautiful thing.

blog-ditty-ditty

2006-07-01T22:24:24Z

it is Saturday. YAY. Essenza didn't schedule me today. i miss the coffee.

i saw Nacho Libre on Sunday last week. i thought it was good, but Aura and Bianco said they almost fell asleep!

"I ate some bugs, I ate some grass.
I used my hand, to wipe my tears."

maybe they are just far more mature than i am. maybe.
afterward we went to the mall. we walked around while they told me how bored they both were. why did we go to mall then? this escapes me still. but it was fun, all in all.

wedding to attend tomorrow. something nice and not black to wear...

i'll be searching.

nerf. nerf. nerf. nerf.

2006-06-21T04:44:08Z

i recently inherited a
nerf-gun-but-not-really-a-gun-because-it's-a-bow
and arrow set.

nerf. nerf. nerf. nerf.

Home

2006-06-18T04:20:12Z

Noun.
1. A place where one lives; a residence.
2. The physical structure within which one lives, such as a house or apartment.
3. A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household.
4. a) An environment offering security and happiness.
b) A valued place regarded as refuge or place of origin.
5. The place, such as a country or town, where one was born or has lived in for a long period.
6. The native habitat, as of a plant or animal.
7. The place where something is discovered, founded, developed, or promoted; a source.
8. A headquarters; a home base.
9. a) Baseball. Home plate.
b) Games. Home base.
10. An institution where people are cared for: a home for the elderly.
11. Computer Science.
a) The starting position of the cursor on a text based computer display, usually the upper left corner of the screen.
b) A starting position within a computer application, such as the beginning of a line, file, or screen or the top of a chart or list.

I love Arizona. I'm glad to be back in a comfortable 106 degrees F.

Relocation.

2006-06-17T06:05:44Z

Napa.California.

It's June. In California. The weather has been a little nippy the past week, but things warmed up today. I felt at home in the 90s. :) I've had some nice food. And I got to see where Al Capone was kept in Alcatraz. I got a sand dollar at the beach.. I loved the beach. It was so sandy and wonderful. I made some low income real estate that some child recklessly destroyed moments after I abandoned it on the water's edge. That's alright, I'm sure tons of kids have made sand castles to compensate the loss of mine.

We went to dinner with some of the family today and as I was helping with dishes, my step-aunt in-law complained that her house keeper didn't put things back where she likes them.

What a damn shame that your house keeper can't keep track of where you like your dishes.

Thursday was Oakland's China town with two old people. :) It would have been nice, but Monroe only wanted to go to the fish market and Grandma Joan does whatever Monroe wants to do. So we got a great view of the fish market.

Then we had vegan Chinese food. It was... Something else.

Relocation has been fine, but I'd like to go home now.

colormefuschia @ 2006-06-03T22:28:00

2006-06-04T05:35:16Z

a friend of mine sent me a message today saying he went to a party last weekend with a bunch of people dealing drugs and what not.

i said to him, the next time you see a drug dealer, hand them a pamphlet about christianity and tell them they are ALWAYS welcome in the church of LDS.

he wasn't laughing.

no one is listening anymore

2006-06-03T05:13:25Z

maybe we fear that if we just stopped our watches for a moment and gave her our ears,
they would violently burst.
we would rather they decayed in the deafening silence of selective listening.

i came to the realization a few weeks ago that when you are an active listener, you become every body's best friend. a friend of mine is dating a guy who is moving in with an ex of his. she was telling me the whole complicated story and all i did was nod here and there, adding a few "oh"s when i felt appropriate. after her story was finished, she said to me, "thank you for all of your advice. i'm glad we're cool, i'm going to miss you when i'm gone." (she was leaving for a month to Africa... i wish i was in Africa.)

what advice? hm. i wish the world weren't so... I, ME, MINE.

the beatles hit it every time, don't they?

who was i to listen to her problems when no one else would hear her? no one listened to her as they searched roommates.com... :[ this isn't why i'm so disappointed though. no one cared but me. she couldn't find a soul who would just listen to her when that's all she ever wanted. that's all any of us wants, isn't it?

i'm not suggesting that i am any saint.. i pay as little attention as the next person.. and am always thinking of my own 2 cents... but it makes me sad that this friend found confidence in me instead of someone else. i barely knew her. i was just a girl from work. how self-concentrated we all have become. no one was thinking of her while leasing the rent.

animals are so beautiful.

i love my cat. he demands lordship as he enters the room by letting out an extremely annoying whine. RESPECT. it means cat food. :] so simple. so wonderful.

On The Menu Tonight

2006-05-31T04:06:43Z

Gun shots.
5 to be precise.

I hope no one was injured.

today was a day.

2006-05-31T02:18:01Z

I went to work for the first time this summer. I am the secretary at the Boys and Girls Club. Apparently, the previous secretary (whom i worked with last summer) hasn't entered any receipts or club membership forms since January. And she quit last week.

We have 180-200 forms needing to be entered into the database and a 5 inch stack of receipts we need to sort and enter.

Nice of her to leave Barabara (my partner) and me with a back-stack of her work.

On a brighter note, I am going to California in a couple of weeks.

Yay ocean.
Yay family.
Yay food.
Yay ocean.
I really hope we go to the beach. That would make my summer.

***

More notes on Arcosanti:

I've realized the weekend was so big, you can't catalog it all in one post.

The haiku slam was really hilarious. though i had a hard time judging in some instances... especially when it was KP V Tabor... they both had good stuff.

In the end Aaron Johnson won from Flagstaff, though I was voting for Tabor. It's alright though, they both had quality work. And now we just have a reason to hear more of Tabor's many hilarious haiku.

today was a good day.

2006-05-30T03:00:02Z

I have come to the conclusion that potato salad from Sam's kicks every other potato salad's ass. I wish I didn't think that because Sam's Club is an icky corporate meanie who is crushing all the little guys while I write blogs about them on Live Journal... But yeah, it's that good. I had tons today. And now I feel sick. But it's worth it in the end... oh yes.

After being thoroughly soaked by the misters on my back porch, I called it a day and have been camped in my bedroom since.

Potatoes are so tasty. I think I'll move to Idaho and bask in the wonder of potato.

colormefuschia @ 2006-05-28T19:39:00

2006-05-29T02:39:08Z

I could eat Twizzlers until I exploded into a big mess all over the floor of my room.

Sometimes a Puddle of Beer Can Look Like an Ocean

2006-05-29T00:13:56Z

I keyed in S for the beginning of the title of this post and all the previous titles starting with S popped up underneath it... I bought this computer off my father, who undoubtedly used live journal on it. I wonder what this post was about??

Arcosanti (I reeelise i speeled these rong en a preveos post... sometimes my spelling is not so good, :]) was pretty cool. Camping wasn't so bad. My friend Breanna went with me and at times I felt restricited by her presence because I really couldn't leave her side to go hang out with other people-- but overall she had fun and the time was enjoyable. Mesa won the trophy this year over NorAz, Tuscon, and all other respectable teams. I suppose this means they won't do well in Austin... we'll see.

Bill busted out the first (and one of the few) 10 of the evenings with his Devil piece. I could hear the audience chanting "TEN, TEN, TEN, TEN!!" even near my tent which was quite a ways away from the auditorium.

Doyle performed beautifully on all of her pieces. Even though I'd heard them before, it seemed like the first time all over again.

Sammie's victory piece was, to say the least, awesome. It was the type of thing some people wait their whole lives to see and never do.

Congratulations team Mesa, well done.

[EDIT]: Also want to say congratulations to Paper Heart team, you guys did wonderfully. Although you weren't in the final round, I enjoyed every read by Tabor, Kuter, Klute and Tristen. I'm pretty sure you guys were in first for a while there.

Gurgle-splat.

2006-05-26T14:02:24Z

Last night was... pretty terrible. The feature, Christa Bell, was a very nice person. Her poetry wasn't monumental, but she was polite to me throughout the entire night. I'm sorry that she was humiliated on the microphone.

Arcosante starts today. That should be okay. It's camping... so we'll see. :] I hope I don't get bitten by anything venomous. Agah.

For those of you in Maryland, I hope all is well. Think of me on the subways. It's too hot here anyway. :]