You Are a Beagle Puppy

Cheerful, energetic, and happy go lucky. And you're sense of smell is absolutely amazing!

Had a really crappy morning, of which I will spare you all the miserable details. So after it was over with I decided to treat myself.

Went to the Beltane Festival this afternoon that is happening at a local new age/alternative bookstore. Had a blast dancing round the Maypole, and getting a couple of free mini card readings. Which were really good, and were pretty spot on.

Had an energy reading done too, and have been told that I have several different types of energies that shouldn't work together, but somehow do for me. And that I also have almost what is eminating as multiple personalities, but they all get along so it works (although that too shouldn't).

Why am I not surprised? *g*

Gotta go. Back to the festival for the Beltane bonfire (Fire! Yippee! sez the Pyro.), then dinner and ice cream. Or ice cream & dinner. Or ice cream for dinner.

Ooooh! Just got an email update from the festival. The've got a mendhi artist there until 7! I'm getting tattooed!

:D

From hollycole1 who got it from irish_horse:

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish, and bracket the books you own but haven't read yet.

( The List )

Taken from hmelizabeth2 by way of irish_horse by way of jaegamer and reposted in solidarity.

"Why is that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" -Ernest Gaines

We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on livejournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights." If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.

Picture taken in 1917 shows Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, and his family, in one of the latest pictures taken before the Revolution. From Left: Princesses Olga and Maria, Nicholas II Czarine Alexandra, Princess Anatasia, Czarevitch Alexei en Princess Tatiana. Forensic testing of bone fragments found in Russia's Ural Mountains region has confirmed they belonged to the last tsar's murdered children Alexei and Maria, Russian news agencies reported on April 30, 2008. (AFP PHOTO)

The Before Pic.

Tiny wetsuit helps penguin rejoin the crowd

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The After Pic!

A HUGE Happy Birfday Wish goes out to nycitykitty today!

:D

the book meme-- i've been tagged!

darklingwoods tagged me for this one:

The rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book.

2. Open to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the next three sentences.

5. Tag five people and post a comment to Sue's blog http://pixzzzart.livejournal.com/
once you've posted your three sentences.

( My Responses )

Hmmmm..... lightly tagging dustbuffalo, abitobsessed, deej_1, hollycole1, and nycitykitty.

Play if you so desire.

From a newsletter I got today:

The killing in the Greater Yellowstone region has already begun.

One of the first victims: Wolf 253M -- a celebrity wolf, affectionately known as “Limpy.”

Nicknamed 'Limpy' because his back legs were crippled in a fight when he was young, 253M was just shy of 8 years old -- a wolf Methuselah -- when he died March 28, shot in Wyoming on the first day wolves lost their protected status under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

Limpy was many things to many people -- to wolf-watchers, he was the hobbling member of Yellowstone’s famous Druid Peak Pack. To Utahans, he was the first wolf to be seen in the state for more than 70 years.

But wolf 253M’s celebrity didn’t save him in the end. Limpy and two other wolves were shot dead in an elk feeding ground, part of Wyoming’s brutal shoot-on-sight policy that covers virtually the entire state.

Limpy’s death was just the beginning. It’s been 26 days since wolves were stripped of federal protections in the Greater Yellowstone area -- and at least 17 wolves have already been killed in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. And there are surely more to come.

Officials in Idaho changed their state law on the day wolves were delisted, making it far easier for anyone to kill wolves near livestock or domestic animals.

In Wyoming, state officials stripped all protection from wolves in 88% of the state. Locals have organized weekend eradication “wolf hunts” to kill any wolf that they find. One group tracked a wolf for 35 miles on snowmobiles before shooting it dead.



Please support Wildlife Conservation today. There are many worthy groups to choose from, and PLEASE spread the word.

Thank you.

Everything happens at once, dontcha know. *g* Weekend is zipping by, and nothing really accomplished.

To everyone who has been trying to contact me this past week/weekend with no response, I am NOT avoiding you. I will ring/email/whatever as soon as I can. Most likely tomorrow night.

In the meantime, the weather is beeeee-yooooo-tiful and....

What the hell....am gonna have fun seeing MCR in a few hours.

ROCK and ROLL!!!

At least once every day!

Today is International Disturbed People's Day

Please send an encouraging message to a disturbed friend... just as I've done.

I don't care if you lick windows, take the special bus or occasionally pee on yourself...

You hang in there sunshine, you're friggin' special.

Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back.

Today's Message of the Day is:
Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile. ;)
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance!

1. Taxes finally done, and now I need to pop them in the post. WHEW!!!

2. One of my Flist posted this (thanks dustbuffalo), and I need to pass it on:

Hi, all you animal lovers. This is pretty simple... Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (How about 20 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals' for free. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising.

www.theanimalrescuesite.com
Pass it on to everyone!

3. And a hedgehog eating. Thanks to deej_1 for finding this!

4. And now for something completely different. A cat playing a theramin! Thanks to marcgunn for this one!

AAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!!

that is all.

DIY Hobbit Hole



You gotta see the interior shots!

5 YouTube clips posted here!

Gakked from dustbuffalo:

I am Sheik Lucifer Fleshbiter AKA
Executioner Genghis Knife AKA
Executioner Emilio Bringer of Damnation AKA
The Evil Malevolent Bringer of Damnation AKA
The Right Honourable Damien Bringer of Damnation AKA
The Terrible Cold Doom

But I'm Don Naughty Britches to my friends!

Get Your Villian Name Here!

Now that's what I call Room Service!

At London hotel, room service brings bedtime stories

By Kitty Bean Yancey, USA TODAY
Ever craved to have a bedtime story read to you in the comfort of your hotel room?
For two weeks starting Monday, Hyatt's new Andaz Liverpool Street in London will host the hotel world's first "Reader in Residence."

Writer Damian Barr, 31, will read to guests or talk literature with them. "Most people haven't been read to since they were children, and they don't bring a lot of books to hotels," he says. "I always pack a selection, because you get tired of being in the CNN world."

Andaz is a cheeky, cutting-edge hotel chain, but the idea came from Barr, a freelance journalist and former resident writer at London's Royal College of Art. The service is free, and no books are off-limits — even racy ones.

He won't serve as a "literary callboy," he says.

"If somebody was perhaps responding to the reading in a way that was inappropriate, I would try to stay in the safe confines of my armchair," he says. "And hotel security is always on standby."

Barr is so excited by the prospect of his new job that he plans to remain available by phone to hotel guests after his stay for "bibliotherapy." Many people are "intimidated" by choosing books, by what they think they "should" be reading, he says.

Just enjoy, he says. "I always take three to four books (to a hotel)" -- from trash to profound works, "because I don't know what mood I'll be in."

Gakked from jesmarae:

Are you tired of those sissy 'friendship' poems that always sound good, but never actually come close to reality?

Well, here is a series of promises that actually speak of true friendship.

You will see no cutesy little smiley faces - Just the stone cold truth of great friendship:

1. When you are sad -- I will jump on the person who made you sad like a spider monkey.

2. When you are blue -- I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.

3. When you smile -- I will know you are plotting something that I must be involved in.

4. When you are scared -- I will rag on you about it every chance I get.

5. When you are worried -- I will tell you horrible stories about how much Worse it could be until you quit whining.

6. When you are confused -- I will use little words.

7. When you are sick -- Stay away from me until you are well Again. I don't want whatever you have.

8. When you fall -- I will point and laugh at your clumsiness.

9. This is my oath.... I pledge it to the end.
'Why?' you may ask; 'because you are my friend'.


Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth.