Astrologically speaking, this is the "Age of Pisces". However, if I didn't know better, I would swear it must be the Age of Cancer. Between Caitlyn and a seemingly countless number of people I call while at my day job, it seems like every third person has cancer, or has VERY recently gotten through a fight with the stuff. Of course it could just be a simple matter of perception.--Kinda like when you buy a new car, for months or even years, nobody was driving that make, but as soon as you buy one, suddenly it seems like almost everyone you see is driving the same dang car...
Again, I wonder what's going on. Is there Really an influx of Cancer patients, or is it merely now that it has affected a part of my life, that I am more aware of its presence?
That's all for now,
TTFN,
~Me
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
CONGRATULATIONS!!! To the love of my life. I knew she would do amazingly well. "What's all the hub-ub, bub?" You ask...
She just got the results of her first Written Test in her massage therapy class: 100%!!!!
As I said, I knew she would do amazingly well, but she still deserves the Congratulations!
~Keeper
She just got the results of her first Written Test in her massage therapy class: 100%!!!!
As I said, I knew she would do amazingly well, but she still deserves the Congratulations!
~Keeper
Enter the Haggis OR Falling Down the Rabbit Hole
Wow... It's been a while since I have had any kind of Blog spot. My BEAUTIFUL wife (don't argue with me, honey) has started a blog about the thoughts and feelings she has that arise during massage therapy school. Her instructor said they should keep some form of journal. Blogging seems to be an AMAZING outlet for her to get her thoughts out before they escape.
Me? I have no REAL excuse for blogging. I spend most of my day at work, calling people, reminding them of their eligibility to donate blood. When I'm not here, I am at Dead Girlz Tattoo and Piercing. Getting people in to get tattooed is not as easy as it sounds.
I enjoy tattooing. It is the first thing I have come across that I want to get better at. The first thing that I want to get to the point of being able to Compete with. Many of the Tattoo conventions have various competitions, and I want to be at that level one day. I have had many hobbies through the years: Drumming, Photography, Stage Make-up, Soccer, Theatre, Teaching, and so on and so forth (or fifth...). None of those hobbies have been anything that I have gotten TRULY fired up about. I did for stage make-up, but I didn't have any way of really practicing it or getting the experience or the contacts to make it viable.But Tattooing... I have the equipment (I need a new power supply and more black ink, but I have what I need), I have the outlet, I have the instructor, and I am actually in a shop that I get to use and hone my skills...
My mind is a veritable maze of seemingly unrelated thoughts and considerations. Down one path you will find Tattooing, another Survivalism, and still yet another Burns (Alchemy, Euphoria, PDF, and the Mecca of Burns: Burning Man). And those are just the fun corridors that are right at the front at the moment. Also rattling around in the brain pan are more serious thoughts including finances, living locations, and how to make it all work, and get us to a better spot in life... We'll get there, I know that much. It may take a while. It certainly won't happen overnight. But I would love it to happen sooner rather than later...
I won't lie: I'd love to win the lottery. I'm not even asking for much. Enough to get bills straightened out, and get us on an even keel, maybe even put us ahead of the curve so that we could actually start saving money, rather than living check to check....
I read (or watch) people's blogs about the things they do at Burning Man (or even in the "Default" world) and think "I could do that"... and then I think, "But they're doing that"... Some say that immitation is the greatest form of flattery, and while that may be true, I would love to come up with something original. Maybe that shares elements of these people I look up to, but that is my own creation... Halcyon Styn is an AMAZING individual. He does not preach any specific religion, though he mentions often that he strives to live like Christ. Not that he's Christian, but that he tries to live by the examples of Christ, and his teachings. Every week Halcyon hostsd Hug Nation which while it is not a church, not even designed to be one, it is what I would look for in a church if I were to go to one. There is no preaching of religion, no fire or brimstone, not even the scoldings of the "preacher" for straying from the path. Rather Halcyon talks about things that he has observed, and how HE strives to get himself back on track, and his suggestions to others about how to align themselves with love. Many of his messages speak to me on deep levels that I would love to share with everyone else, with my interpretations and spin put on it, but then my brain says "That's Halcyon's bag. Not mine. and he does an AMAZING job at it..."
Then there's the folks from "Why the Nose?" Which is a really cool idea. Boiled down to its most simplest of concepts it's basically "How can you be grumpy, angry, or otherwise upset while wearing a clown nose?" Honestly, think about it... There is something about that little piece of red foam or rubber (or even make-up) that just forces out the negativity. No one can take you completely seriously, not even yourself, and so you are reminded that you do not have to always take life seriously, in fact that sometimes it's better if you don't. Now maybe that's not exactly what these folks were trying for, but it's the message I got from their "silent" videos. Again, I think, "Hey, We don't have anything like that at our Burns at Cherokee Farms..." but again "That's their idea, not mine..."
I dunno. "Why the nose?" encourages people to take their idea and run with it. And Maybe I will... Maybe for Euphoria 2013... Eh, we'll see...
This morning I had a thinking in regards to Survivalism.When preparing a bug out bag, or planning for a disaster that might leave you "helpless" for a number of days (I mean 7-14 max), the preparations that one makes for a Burn, are really all the tools and supplies you would need to "Bug Out" the only difference possibly being food supplies... The other thought that I had in thinking about disaster prep actually came from a couple of Memes I have seen: "That awkward moment when you realize you know exactly what you'll do, where you'll go, and how you'll live in the event of a Zombie Apocalypse, but have NO idea where you're going in the event that it never happens..." (VERY Loosely paraphrased.) Honestly, the scare that the world as we know it will come crashing to a halt this December is a little far fetched. Sure, something is probably going to change. Will it throw us into a "New Dark Ages"? Not likely. Though it never hurts to be prepared.
Most likely we will all wake up on December the 22nd of 2012 and continue on with our lives. Just another day. Just another dawn. By the same token, I don't feel like getting caught with my pants down. I dunno... just rambling... Who knows? Something's coming. Too many people who haven't ahd many (if any) discussions with eachother have the same ideas about what's coming in our not too distant future. And not just because they've read somebody's blog or, fallen victim to the Conspiracy/Doomsday-ers theories, but people who hadn't heard of these things, talking about a gut feeling that they have had from a very young age--before all the "Reports" were floating out there...
Again, Rambling. Thank you for reading this far...
I am going to stop for now...
More to come.
TTFN, TaTaForNow!
~Keeper
Me? I have no REAL excuse for blogging. I spend most of my day at work, calling people, reminding them of their eligibility to donate blood. When I'm not here, I am at Dead Girlz Tattoo and Piercing. Getting people in to get tattooed is not as easy as it sounds.
I enjoy tattooing. It is the first thing I have come across that I want to get better at. The first thing that I want to get to the point of being able to Compete with. Many of the Tattoo conventions have various competitions, and I want to be at that level one day. I have had many hobbies through the years: Drumming, Photography, Stage Make-up, Soccer, Theatre, Teaching, and so on and so forth (or fifth...). None of those hobbies have been anything that I have gotten TRULY fired up about. I did for stage make-up, but I didn't have any way of really practicing it or getting the experience or the contacts to make it viable.But Tattooing... I have the equipment (I need a new power supply and more black ink, but I have what I need), I have the outlet, I have the instructor, and I am actually in a shop that I get to use and hone my skills...
My mind is a veritable maze of seemingly unrelated thoughts and considerations. Down one path you will find Tattooing, another Survivalism, and still yet another Burns (Alchemy, Euphoria, PDF, and the Mecca of Burns: Burning Man). And those are just the fun corridors that are right at the front at the moment. Also rattling around in the brain pan are more serious thoughts including finances, living locations, and how to make it all work, and get us to a better spot in life... We'll get there, I know that much. It may take a while. It certainly won't happen overnight. But I would love it to happen sooner rather than later...
I won't lie: I'd love to win the lottery. I'm not even asking for much. Enough to get bills straightened out, and get us on an even keel, maybe even put us ahead of the curve so that we could actually start saving money, rather than living check to check....
I read (or watch) people's blogs about the things they do at Burning Man (or even in the "Default" world) and think "I could do that"... and then I think, "But they're doing that"... Some say that immitation is the greatest form of flattery, and while that may be true, I would love to come up with something original. Maybe that shares elements of these people I look up to, but that is my own creation... Halcyon Styn is an AMAZING individual. He does not preach any specific religion, though he mentions often that he strives to live like Christ. Not that he's Christian, but that he tries to live by the examples of Christ, and his teachings. Every week Halcyon hostsd Hug Nation which while it is not a church, not even designed to be one, it is what I would look for in a church if I were to go to one. There is no preaching of religion, no fire or brimstone, not even the scoldings of the "preacher" for straying from the path. Rather Halcyon talks about things that he has observed, and how HE strives to get himself back on track, and his suggestions to others about how to align themselves with love. Many of his messages speak to me on deep levels that I would love to share with everyone else, with my interpretations and spin put on it, but then my brain says "That's Halcyon's bag. Not mine. and he does an AMAZING job at it..."
Then there's the folks from "Why the Nose?" Which is a really cool idea. Boiled down to its most simplest of concepts it's basically "How can you be grumpy, angry, or otherwise upset while wearing a clown nose?" Honestly, think about it... There is something about that little piece of red foam or rubber (or even make-up) that just forces out the negativity. No one can take you completely seriously, not even yourself, and so you are reminded that you do not have to always take life seriously, in fact that sometimes it's better if you don't. Now maybe that's not exactly what these folks were trying for, but it's the message I got from their "silent" videos. Again, I think, "Hey, We don't have anything like that at our Burns at Cherokee Farms..." but again "That's their idea, not mine..."
I dunno. "Why the nose?" encourages people to take their idea and run with it. And Maybe I will... Maybe for Euphoria 2013... Eh, we'll see...
This morning I had a thinking in regards to Survivalism.When preparing a bug out bag, or planning for a disaster that might leave you "helpless" for a number of days (I mean 7-14 max), the preparations that one makes for a Burn, are really all the tools and supplies you would need to "Bug Out" the only difference possibly being food supplies... The other thought that I had in thinking about disaster prep actually came from a couple of Memes I have seen: "That awkward moment when you realize you know exactly what you'll do, where you'll go, and how you'll live in the event of a Zombie Apocalypse, but have NO idea where you're going in the event that it never happens..." (VERY Loosely paraphrased.) Honestly, the scare that the world as we know it will come crashing to a halt this December is a little far fetched. Sure, something is probably going to change. Will it throw us into a "New Dark Ages"? Not likely. Though it never hurts to be prepared.
Most likely we will all wake up on December the 22nd of 2012 and continue on with our lives. Just another day. Just another dawn. By the same token, I don't feel like getting caught with my pants down. I dunno... just rambling... Who knows? Something's coming. Too many people who haven't ahd many (if any) discussions with eachother have the same ideas about what's coming in our not too distant future. And not just because they've read somebody's blog or, fallen victim to the Conspiracy/Doomsday-ers theories, but people who hadn't heard of these things, talking about a gut feeling that they have had from a very young age--before all the "Reports" were floating out there...
Again, Rambling. Thank you for reading this far...
I am going to stop for now...
More to come.
TTFN, TaTaForNow!
~Keeper
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