baubles

So, first of all, I made something today. I mean, I made a jewelry type thing. Specifically, I made a pendant that's maybe 1.25" in diameter, of gold-filled wire, fresh-water pearls, and a centerpiece of dyed mother-of-peal, and it looks like this , except that in real life it's not grainy and out of focus. I may feel a need to remake it in part, because I worry that the centerpiece is too ...

Tags: shiny things

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Thinking things through.

I just lit another candle for my little altar for Niece2, and that means thinking about what, really, I'm lighting the candle for. I've been putting off posting about this because I knew I had a lot to sort through, or it felt like it. It's also slightly tricky territory, and when I'm still sorting something through it's very easy for me to say something half-thought out that turns out to be ...

Tags: brother can you spare a dime out of the everywhere into the here

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Sometimes the only way is all the way.

I've been making a couple changes to how my life has been going lately. The first may be seen by the fact that I'm posting this at ten in the morning, since, during zombie detox I got into a rut of staying up until dawn and sleeping until 2. And I didn't like it, I just kept doing it. But I need work, and I called the staffing agency I've worked for in the past a few times last week, ...

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callunav

[the hills of Iowa] nothing will separate us from the love of God

... in a motel in Iowa. She hadn't thought to bring her cell phone charger (or much of anything else) since it was just going to be a day trip. Phone cards ftw. (Yes, we rather more appreciate CallunaV's mentality now.) She called me this morning to check in. Somehow I got talking about how L. had asked me to hold onto letters to some of her loved ones in case her plane crashed, and how this ...

Tags: partners in crime

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Happy 5th birthday, legal same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.

I remember being at Smith when the MA SJC decision came out (Nov. 18, 2003 -- six months later the first legal same-sex marriages were performed). My dad said it was too much too fast and there would be a backlash (and indeed there was -- wiki lists , "November 3 [2004]: United States Results of November 2 vote confirms that state constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage are ...

Tags: sex: sexual ethics issues: same-sex marriage coffee with clergy issues: bible and homosexuality got gender?

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Birthdays

Today is Julian's birthday. Tomorrow is probably going to be another birthday in my family: the plan is for my sister-in-law to have labor induced tomorrow, hopefully not a cesarean, but that will depend on the pre-eclampsia concerns. My brother sent out a new batch of pictures titled "[Niecelet's] Last Solo Appearance." There were a lot of good ones, but I'll just show you one of my ...

Tags: out of the everywhere into the here

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callunav

Sample sheet, still in progress

So, for what it's worth, here's a sample of what I have right now. It's the right size to be half of a landscape-oriented page. I filled it out using Gimp, rather than scanning an actual one, which is why 'my handwriting' looks suspiciously fontlike.

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Almost there. Allllllmmmost. And when it's time to stop, I'll know, and I'll stop. Really.

I'm almost ready to stop buying seed beads. Really. I'm just about there. Honest. There's only a couple more things I need. The trouble with avarice is that when you lock onto something you can get 4000 of for about $3, it's really hard to convince yourself that the greed you feel is a problem. It's like this: I like rainbow things. I think it's one of those loose ends from childhood -...

Tags: shiny things

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callunav

New niecelet pics

There were several good ones, but here are two of my favorites. This is the niecelet at about 20.5 months.

Tags: out of the everywhere into the here

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A brief return to first aid geeking

Oh, who am I kidding. Like I ever leave. First of all, as a follow-up to this post about burns , I should say that the second degree burn I had just received at the time of posting took...eight to ten hours of icing, I think. I had ice in a damp paper towel held against the spot (at the base of my thumb on my right hand) for most of the day. Every fifteen minutes or so, I'd get irritated ...

Tags: geekery

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