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Dream of time travel

2011-12-20T17:33:00.004-06:00

Last 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

2010-01-02T16:09:00.001-06:00

Original 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

Archival Retrieval 6 - 14 June 05 Tuesday

2010-01-02T16:02:00.002-06:00

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

Archive Retreival 5 - 11 May 05 Wednesday

2010-01-02T16:00:00.000-06:00

Original Post Date: 11 May 05 Wednesday Original Post Title: Dream #4 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.

Archive retreival 4 - 11 May 05 Wednesday

2010-01-02T15:59:00.000-06:00

Original 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

Archive Retreival 3 - 11 May 05 Wednesday

2009-08-14T17:38:00.001-05:00

Original 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

Archive Retreival 2 - 11 May 05 Wednesday

2009-08-14T17:32:00.002-05:00

Original Post Date: 11 May 05 WednesdayOriginal Post Title: Dream #1 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.

Archive Retreival I - 07 Apr 05 Thursday

2009-06-22T21:47:00.001-05:00

Original Post Date: 07 Apr 05 ThursdayOriginal Title: 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

Someone's watching! Look busy!

2009-06-22T21:27:00.003-05:00

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

So sleepy...

2009-03-31T10:16:00.004-05:00

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

Blogging is time consuming...

2009-03-24T08:41:00.002-05:00

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

Bad Economy = Bake Your Own Bread

2009-03-17T08:02:00.006-05:00

The 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

I saw a Kestrel in my yard!

2009-03-10T08:13:00.009-05:00

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

Oy vey... Its been a long week.

2009-03-08T19:24:00.003-05:00

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

North American Handmade Bike SHow

2009-03-02T19:54:00.003-06:00

Spent 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

Cramming...

2009-02-26T09:52:00.003-06:00

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

That "25 Things" thing. (0r, Damn You Facebook!)

2009-02-19T07:45:00.005-06:00

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.

Things I would Buy if I had 12K Dollars...

2009-02-13T10:12:00.004-06:00

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 indeed

Pizza and Beer night.

2009-02-07T17:39:00.003-06:00

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...

Twitter and Facebook

2009-02-04T12:45:00.003-06:00

Facebook 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

Do I repeat myself a lot?

2009-01-30T20:26:00.002-06:00

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

I would like to have...

2009-01-27T15:15:00.004-06:00

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

Action/Abstraction at the St. louis Museum of Art

2009-01-15T09:30:00.006-06:00

Sunday, 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

A Day Off from Life

2009-01-07T11:07:00.004-06:00

Geh. 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 me

Jobs Hunting SUCKS.

2009-01-06T10:58:00.004-06:00

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

Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T12:18:00.003-06:00

Another year gone. Sheesh. Its 2009 today. That means I will turn 29 in five months. When i was a kid, I started counting down to my birthday right about now. May is a good time for a birthday, it spaces out the receiving of gifts quite nicely. :)Someone said to me the other day "Whatever you do on New Year's Day you do for the rest of the year!" If that's the case, I should be excercising,

Christmas Goodies

2008-12-30T11:02:00.003-06:00

ok, no more bellyaching and pity-poor-me-ing. I got some great Christmas gifts this year. Check them out!After years and years of drilling into my parents head thata.) I've been out of the house for a long time and don't need much,b.) I don't want a gift under the tree just to have a gift under the tree. Its quality not quantity, so I'd rather have nothing than something I will never use, andc.)

So Frustrated!

2008-12-29T19:20:00.002-06:00

I love Letterpress. I love printing equipment, and looking and other people's prints. Taking in the creations and designs of others helps to stir the pot of ideas in my own brain too. Its fantastic! Well, it used to be.Lately, I'm so discouraged! I'm starting to feel at my wits end here. Everything that used to inspire me instead serves as a reminder that I've been working so hard and I am still

Family (Dys)Functions

2008-12-25T16:43:00.003-06:00

Merry Christmas, and Happy Hanukkah!Last night, Christmas Eve my folks had their annual Christmas Eve party. Everyone from our family is invited and then some. We had some cousins show up this year we haven't seen in quite some time!My mother told me to tell any of my friends that i invited that it was a pot luck affair,a nd to please bring a dish. The budget was tight this year, they said, so

Holiday Survival

2008-12-24T08:31:00.002-06:00

Alright, I'm home in Connecticut and its been ok so far... No big fights yet.I flew in at 11 am and was pretty punchy for a few hours, which annoyed my sister Amy to now end. Which was funny. We wnt out to lunch and she told me I'm not allowed to stay at her house becausee she "can't handle" my "negativity". She said that everything I say is negative. Which isn't true. Amy just has her head up

Hanukkah and the Winter Solstice

2008-12-21T20:49:00.004-06:00

Hanukkah Tov! I got chewed out at 5:30 because I did not present my Jewish boyfriend with chocolate coins when I wished him Happy Hanukkah. I wanted to get some when we were at Trader Joe's the other night, but he said no, so I reminded him that he TOLD me NOT to get the coins, and THEN he says "You're SUPPOSED to say you forgot something and run back in and get them anyway! Because its supposed

2008: A Space Heater

2008-12-20T19:49:00.005-06:00

Today I met a gal named Sparkli who gave me a Space Heater. It will be used to heat my studio to hopefully a temperature I can tolerate. That silly sunroom is FREAKING COLD.Anyway, the way i found it was i posted in the Ravelry STL Knitters group. She messaged me right away, AND she was way excited to trade it for letterpressed cards!!! She also drove it all the way to me house. Isn't she a sweet

Changing it AGAIN

2008-12-19T09:26:00.003-06:00

Alright, so i changed the title of this weblog AGAIN. I had to. Its not working as a Lock and Key Press weblog, but I have the account so I'm going to try to keep this one as a general and more personal log. A daily thing, i hope.i want to wake up and write an entry each morning. This is my resolution i think, for the new year. Another resolution i should make is to be sure to hit the Shift key

Its been a year... So what?

2008-12-12T09:50:00.003-06:00

Ok I have this page here and its kinda ridiculous that i don't take 15 minutes a day to write SOMETHING. I mean anything really.SO here. I'm writing and I'm really going to try to make a solid effort to update this page regularly. Note: definition of regularly may differ depending on the weather, my mood, or the alignment of the planets.And, I met some people who are like, "Whatevs, blogging is

Titles and labels?

2008-01-16T07:26:00.002-06:00

You know not that anyone actually reads any of this weblog, but i think my title may be too... wishy washy? Too aging hippy? I don't know. I like the idea of a handful of earth, but it doesn't encompass what this log is supposed to be about. I guess I'll change it.Maybe I need one or two more blogs. This one should just be for letterpress. Yeah. Then I'll start another for knitting. And hen

New Year

2008-01-13T10:49:00.000-06:00

2008 is going to be amazing. Difficult. Challenging. Probably disappointing. But hopefully rewarding. If I can just stay on track.We're moving to St. Louis in April. Actually I am thinking of staying until May, when the lease is up. Lucky won't want to, but I am having some difficulty leaving Mr. Meers. He doesn't want me to go, i don't really want to leave him high and dry. He's really the only

Thanksgiving

2007-11-23T11:28:00.000-06:00

This year was the first year that I didn't participate in any festivities. Lucky worked, I stayed home and cleaned the house, and made a nice dinner. No parties, no family, no crazy over-eating. It was pretty great. Here's the menu I made for Lucky and myself:Appetizer: Savory sausage-stuffed mushrooms (vegan) with balsamic reductionMain Dish: Sweet stuffed Acorn squash with black currants and

Busy Little bee

2007-11-18T16:29:00.000-06:00

What I've done so far this weekend:Saturday1. Went to Mr. Meers house and actually cleared off a surface. I mean threw away two trash bags of old papers, magazines and junk mail and got to the surface of a table.2. Met with Cathie at mr. Meers, showed her around and got her excited about buying some of the significant peices of Mr. Meers collection.3. Deep cleaned the cat box. Kittes are much

Mr. Meers

2007-10-26T15:52:00.001-05:00

Mr. Meers is 88. He is a former commercial printer. Several months ago, he put an ad out for an open house of all his printing equipment. I offered to help him out with the dirty work of packing and sorting and things in exchange for some supplies. We got together and talked about printing, politics, government, gentrification and everything else. He's got a lot to say.As we talked he commented

Cleaning Out the basement

2007-10-11T15:22:00.000-05:00

And the garage. And the other garage. And the front room. and the room behind the other garage.And the stuff in the corner of basement of the room of the other garage.Yes. I am helping a fantastic old fellow, name of Meers, to clean out his, ahem, collection of letterpress and industrial printing equipment. That he's been saving for 60 years.Seriously.Right now, we are working on liquidating

Ready Steady Go

2007-08-23T20:43:00.000-05:00

Its a new stage of life for me. I am starting a small business. I am moving. I am changing how I live.This will (I hope) become a record of what I did right, what I did wrong and how I did it all. For my own reference as well as the scrutiny of my peers.Eep.