tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330100372024-02-19T19:31:26.284-06:00Commonplace BlogFrom the Latin <i>Locus Communis</i>: "a theme or argument of general application"; a statement of proverbial wisdom.J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-68569341233434561042011-12-20T17:33:00.004-06:002011-12-20T17:56:01.849-06:00Dream of time travelLast night's dream is getting a little fuzzy but here's the crazy I remember from it. I had traveled to the past for some reason that is now unclear. I had a guide, a man, who traveld back with me. I don't remember any detials about him except that before we began our "mission", he wanted to stop at a diner. Somehow he had traveled with a set of car keys, and was able to get to the car of the J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-82085679909779122852010-01-02T16:09:00.001-06:002010-01-02T16:12:04.782-06:00Original Post Date: 27 July 05 WednesdayOriginal Post Title: Dream #6 and InsomniaLast night I tossed and turned all night. I dreampt that the bike I wanted finally arrived at my door step. It was light as a feather, and I slung it over my shoulder to carry it effortlessly up the stairs. It was a nice dream until i tried taking the bike out for a ride. In real life, I have to get through the J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-86297451387123672532010-01-02T16:02:00.002-06:002010-01-02T16:08:59.181-06:00Archival Retrieval 6 - 14 June 05 Tuesday Original Post Date: 14 Jun 05 TuesdayOriginal Post Title: Dream #5I slept over my friend Joe's house. I guess in my sleep I was sobbing, and he came over and hugged me and stroked my head. I didn't wake from this dream until later. I was at my grandmother's house. A house I haven't been to in almost 12 years. It was during the time she died. Somewhere in between the wake J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-25095029982484433462010-01-02T16:00:00.000-06:002010-01-02T16:02:42.352-06:00Archive Retreival 5 - 11 May 05 WednesdayOriginal Post Date: 11 May 05 Wednesday Original Post Title: Dream #4<!--- blog body ---> I was in this house, and one of my roommates had commited suicide right in the kitchen, shot himself in the head and there was blood everywhere. but he had written this song explaining why he had to do it, so every one was ok with it and just left him there, sitting up against a cabinet. J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-49657410456816304902010-01-02T15:59:00.000-06:002010-01-02T16:00:41.862-06:00Archive retreival 4 - 11 May 05 WednesdayOriginal Post Date: 11 May 05 Wednesday Original Post Title: Dream #3Anxiety dreams. I dreampt that all the cool stickers on my computer were flaking off and I was mad. then I dreampt that my iPod was made of wax, and I accidentally slammed it in the car door and then dropped it and then it melted with all my music and files on it. I dream that I am waking up when I am asleep, because I know I J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-47057329129283625982009-08-14T17:38:00.001-05:002009-08-14T17:42:22.489-05:00Archive Retreival 3 - 11 May 05 WednesdayOriginal Post Date: 11 May 05 Wednesday Original Post Title: Dream #2I dreampt that I was bitten by this little bat, like the common bat, not a vampire bat. And it was really tiny. About three inches long.I pulled if off my neck where it bit me like 4 times, and was holding it between two fingers ant the back of its head, like you'd grab a cat. Its little skull was so tiny, and for a bat, it J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-12932886506858226702009-08-14T17:32:00.002-05:002009-08-14T17:37:01.273-05:00Archive Retreival 2 - 11 May 05 Wednesday Original Post Date: 11 May 05 WednesdayOriginal Post Title: Dream #1<!--- blog body ---> I was dreaming that my mom was comatose with a feeding tube and hooked up to a respirator... But she kept moving around and scratching herself badly. A few times, we found her out of the bed, sitting in a chair, with all her tubes ripped out and she was bleeding. It was so agonizing. J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-51948263879742739422009-06-22T21:47:00.001-05:002009-06-22T21:49:17.017-05:00Archive Retreival I - 07 Apr 05 ThursdayOriginal Post Date: 07 Apr 05 ThursdayOriginal Title: <!--- blog subject --->To shine on, eat must even the Sun... Over 400,000 metric tons of meteoric matter is attracted, exploded by the Sun every second. Thats 34,560,000,000 metric tons a day. My bike seat must weigh less than 5 kilos. Combined with the body weight of the J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-77613536881663571422009-06-22T21:27:00.003-05:002009-06-22T21:31:06.951-05:00Someone's watching! Look busy!A thread on the LSG group in Ravelry asked to link to my weblog. I update Lock and Key Press more regularly than this one so I figured I'd better put SOMETHING here, in case someone actually comes looking.You know, I have some great posts over on MySpace. Maybe I'll start archiving them here. Its neat to re read stuff I wrote years ago, especially the entries about crazy dreams I have.So here's J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-32149668904023936572009-03-31T10:16:00.004-05:002009-03-31T10:21:38.442-05:00So sleepy...Ugh, its 10:16 am and I'm so tired! Already? Still? I'm not sure.I don't sleep well, ever, and I was up til about midnight last night. I had even walked a few miles so I thought my body would be decently tired enough to sleep well but no, of course not.Plus the damn cats make so much noise EVERY morning around 4 am. Which means I have to get up, chase them around the house and lock them in the J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-84687388067285943112009-03-24T08:41:00.002-05:002009-03-24T08:47:04.702-05:00Blogging is time consuming...Ok, so I'm trying to really keep up on this blogging thing and maybe I haven't gotten into the flow of things yet but sheesh! I must've spent 6 hours yesterday updating Lock and Key Press, and then already another 2 hours this morning.Dag. THe thing that seems to take the most time is posting pictures from flickr. Getting the right links, then making sure the page layout is good and there's J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-44822152312760634542009-03-17T08:02:00.006-05:002009-03-17T08:27:03.708-05:00Bad Economy = Bake Your Own BreadThe economy took a dump on our family big time. We moved a few months before all the exploding of the financial sector, and unfortunately, (as I've bitched about before) I couldn't find a job to save my life.But being unemployed for 11 months has its upsides. For one, I've got all this time on my hands... Work sucks, man. You work all day, you get some cash sure, but then you never do anything J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-65569556954257336912009-03-10T08:13:00.009-05:002009-03-11T13:50:08.568-05:00I saw a Kestrel in my yard!My apartment has a second floor sun room off the back of the house. While I'm printing, I can watch birds in the honey locust tree and the bushes at the side of the yard. I've been seeing a few birds that I hadn't seen before on such a regular basis.There's a bunch of little red birds, with brown wings, that hangs out in the bushes with the sparrows and chickadees. I thought at first they were a J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-15600689169816450862009-03-08T19:24:00.003-05:002009-03-10T08:36:38.244-05:00Oy vey... Its been a long week.I worked 6 days this week. Yowza. That's a lot to me. Lately,There's this craft sow I'm in, Green with Indie, and I need to print my butt off for that. I had my week all planned out, and then Sandy at Knitorious offered me almost a week's worth of hours building the website. I couldn't really so no. I need the money, and I really like working there.Then, one of the gals asked if I could work J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-17177964777293943522009-03-02T19:54:00.003-06:002009-03-10T08:38:07.765-05:00North American Handmade Bike SHowSpent the weekend in Indianapolis with chi-town crew, bike polo kids from all over and LOTS of amazing, breathtaking, awe-inspiring bicycles at the 5th Annual North American handmade Bike Show.I coveted many a chrome lugged frame, flirted shamelessly with cute bike builder boys (my other half doesn't mind, cuz I always go home with him...), and even documented an illegal indoor polo game. The J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-50499801711913663852009-02-26T09:52:00.003-06:002009-03-10T08:39:19.298-05:00Cramming...I find myself thinking a lot "How the hell am I ever going to find time for a full-time job? I've got so much stuff to do!" I'm so busy all the damn time, but I've got no income? how can I fix this disconnect? I'm not so sure.I have managed to chip awa at my list of things to do lately. I finished a set of Birth Announcements for Ann, and finished my proprietor's card for the APA Membership J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-90807783140077421142009-02-19T07:45:00.005-06:002009-03-10T08:42:15.918-05:00That "25 Things" thing. (0r, Damn You Facebook!)Why is Facebook all of a sudden so damn popular? I hear about it on the radio, talking about it as if MySpace never existed, discussing the same social and cultural issues that were hashed out when MySpace first took the Social Networking scene by storm... Just yesterday, the radio was talking about how Facebooks Terms of Service claimed the rights to any content posted by users within the site. J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-27515319380467509652009-02-13T10:12:00.004-06:002009-03-10T08:47:34.238-05:00Things I would Buy if I had 12K Dollars...Student Loans, schmudent loans... I want this.Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, with Fireproof Binding. Only $11,444.17. Think I can get it for 5,737 payments of only $19.95?First edition. Limited issue, number 193 of 200 copies specially bound in "Johns-Manville Quinterra, an asbestos material with exceptional resistance to pyrolysis" (limitation pages). Signed by the author. A very good copy indeedJ. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-87759616583914351142009-02-07T17:39:00.003-06:002009-02-07T17:41:12.188-06:00Pizza and Beer night.I'm so tired, I really want to order pizza delivery tonight but we don't have the funds. Dag. We don't even have any beer.We've got just enough ingredients to make a silly pizza, but man, I really want the delivery man to ring my bell and there it is all cooked and ready to eat. ugh.so tired...J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-33423428503709177662009-02-04T12:45:00.003-06:002009-02-04T12:49:43.882-06:00Twitter and FacebookFacebook has surged in popularity. I don't know why. I don't really like it. But now all my previously MySpace contacts are finding me on Facebook, an account I forgot I even had til the last few months... What's that other one? Oh Friendster. Why is no one on Friendster?Anyway, since I've been on Facebook a lot more than I like lately, i thought perhaps I'd ad yet another social networking site J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-82870502766085780562009-01-30T20:26:00.002-06:002009-01-30T20:38:38.036-06:00Do I repeat myself a lot?I must... I don't know if I do it in everyday conversation, but I just glanced over some posts from Xmas, and saw that I have 2 posts that are very similar. Hmmm.Speaking of Christmas, I don't know if I shared this little gem. My Father is a smart man. Give him an broken engine and he'll fix it, get it running and painted in the same day. He also has a certian kind of wisdom that I'll never J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-34560962694498130502009-01-27T15:15:00.004-06:002009-01-27T15:28:33.321-06:00I would like to have...1.) A few more jobs with flexible schedules, but high hourly rates.2.) Another room on my apartment. I REALLY need some designated work space! Its a bitch setting up a project on the kitchen table and then having to clean it up every night, or conversely, scrub up the kitchen table and sweep the crumbs up every time I want to spread out some work. gah! Next apartment 2 BEDROOM.3.) An J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-86985554229011002562009-01-15T09:30:00.006-06:002009-01-23T08:51:29.183-06:00Action/Abstraction at the St. louis Museum of ArtSunday, I attended the Action/Abstraction show and the Art Museum with Audra. She had free passes and strangely, couldn't find anybody to go with her! I jumped at that since I love abstract expressionism and free things. Plus, I hadn't been to the art museum yet. The show was pretty good, many pieces I've seen before. The audio tour was awful. It was mainly about the two critics responsible for J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-77154263980025933402009-01-07T11:07:00.004-06:002009-01-07T11:32:48.824-06:00A Day Off from LifeGeh. I'm in one of those blue moods again. Slowly fading to a black mood. I'm having such a hard time, and I don't know why because things have been worse in my life. So on top of having a hard time, I start beating myself up because I'm letting the hard times get to me which makes the times even harder!!!! AARRGH.I didn't want to get out of bed today, but I had to because Firebrat was pissing meJ. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010037.post-66092499340192106572009-01-06T10:58:00.004-06:002009-01-06T14:35:40.373-06:00Jobs Hunting SUCKS.Ugh. Jobs. Why can't I find a job in this town? I'm getting super nervous now... We had to bring our foster Parrot Peanut back to STAR Avian Rescue because we're not sure if we'll even be able to keep our apartment at this rate. That's very nerve wracking!Yesterday I went to the Humane Society on Macklind and dropped off my 3rd application there. I got the tip from the gal at the reception desk J. Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561520523654427949noreply@blogger.com0