A moment in time
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01:33 am
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heheh
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1892014
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01:18 am
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heheheh
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf508ff8/prop-8-the-musical-starring-jack-black-john-c-reilly-and-many-more-from-fod-team-jack-black-craig-robinson-john-c-reilly-and-rashida-jones
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09:54 pm
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Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz...
You Are an Ingrid!
You are an Ingrid -- "I am unique"
Ingrids have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive. How to Get Along with Me
- * Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
- * Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
- * Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
- * Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
- * Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!
What I Like About Being an Ingrid
- * my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
- * my ability to establish warm connections with people
- * admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
- * my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
- * being unique and being seen as unique by others
- * having aesthetic sensibilities
- * being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me
What's Hard About Being an Ingrid
- * experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
- * feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
- * feeling guilty when I disappoint people
- * feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
- * expecting too much from myself and life
- * fearing being abandoned
- * obsessing over resentments
- * longing for what I don't have
Ingrids as Children Often
- * have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
- * are very sensitive
- * feel that they don't fit in
- * believe they are missing something that other people have
- * attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
- * become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
- * feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)
Ingrids as Parents
- * help their children become who they really are
- * support their children's creativity and originality
- * are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
- * are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
- * are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed
Take Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz at HelloQuizzy
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02:54 am
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- Available: to chat? sure if I know ya
- Age: 30
- Annoyance: more like irritability right now
- Animal: KOALAS
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- Beer: Root
- Birthday: 60th birthday of one grandfather and anniversary of the death of the other
- Best Friends: they know who they are
- Body Part on opposite sex: eyes
- Best feeling in the world: being loved
- Best weather: warm august nights
- Been in Love: Yes
- Been on stage?: Yes
- Believe in Magic: nope
- Believe in God: God no, spirit yeah
- Believe in Santa: spirit of yes
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- Candy: yes please
- Color: purple
- Chocolate/Vanilla: (assuming ice cream) vanilla
- Chinese/Mexican: depends
- Cake or pie: depends
- Continent/Country to visit: not Antarctica
- Cheese: many kinds
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- Day or Night: night
- Dance in the rain?: can be fun
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- Eggs: scrambled or hard boiled
- Eyes: brown
- Everyone's got a(n): reason to be
- Ever failed a class?: yeah
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- Full name: Decha Lynn Bailey
- First thoughts waking up: Usually some variation of not wanting to be up
- Food: yes please
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- Greatest Fear: being alone (in terms of not having a partner or friends)
- Goals: not sure anymore
- Gum: used to but not so much anymore
- Get along with your parents?: mostly yeah
- Good luck charm: no
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- Hair Color: brown more so now cause the blond is growing out
- Height: 5' 4"
- Happy: most of the time
- Holiday: christmas
- How do you want to die: in my sleep
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- Ice Cream: depends
- Instrument: love em all
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- Jewelry: ooh shiny
- Job: rewarding but very demanding
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- Kids: work with them but not in my home
- Kickboxing or karate: neither
- Keep a journal?: just hear but that's not much
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- Longest Car Ride: Orono to Syracuse possibly but probably Winterport to Bushkill is longer
- Love: is a many splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love
- Letter: there are 26 of them
- Laughed so hard you cried: many many times
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- Milk flavor: whole or strawberry
- Movies: fun
- Motion sickness?: unfortunately yes
- McD’s or BK: McD's
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- Number of Siblings: 1
- Number of Piercings: ears
- Number: 7
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- One wish: one more day...
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- Perfect Pizza: Pat's
- Pepsi/Coke: Pepsi
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- Quail: it's a bird
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- Reason to cry: hurt
- Reality T.V.: eh, depends on what we're talking about I love DWTS
- Radio Station: XM
- Roll your tongue in a circle?: no
- Ring size: Don't remember
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- Song: Almost Amy stuff
- Shoe size: 8
- Salad Dressing: yes
- Sushi: Absolutely!!!
- Skipped school: sure
- Slept outside: Yes
- Skinny dipped?:...yep
- Shower daily?: no
- Sing well?: pretty good
- In the shower?: no
- Swear?: Yeah
- Strawberries/Blueberries: strawberries
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- Time for bed: whenever
- Thunderstorms: scary
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- Unpredictable: my anxiety
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- Vacation spot: somewhere I wish I could go now
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- Weakness: my big heart
- Which one of your friends acts the most like you: that would depend on which characteristic
- Who makes you laugh the most: my husband probably but Aaron and Kyle do a good job as well
- Worst feeling: unprovoked anxiety
- Wanted to be a model?: nooooooo
- Where do we go when we die?: to connect back with the source
- Worst Weather?: thunderstorms
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- X-Rays: yep
- Ex's: /sigh must we talk about them or the ones that aren't technically ex's but maybe hurt more
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- Year it is now: 2008
- Yellow: #5
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- Zoo animal: koala
LAST PERSON WHO…
1. Slept in a bed beside you?: husband
2. You went to the mall with?: I went by myself
3. You went to dinner with?: Gomer, Yvette, Kyle and Stone
4. You talked to on the phone?: Kyle (to let him in)
5. Made you laugh?: see #3
6. Hugged you?: I think Stone
7. Said they loved you? Probably Gomer
8. Held your hand?: probably Gomer
9. Spoke with? Stone
10. You cried over?: ???
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06:04 pm
[Link] | Your result for What's your key signature?... A-Flat MajorWhat do you get when you drop a piano on an army base? 
Congratulations, you’re A-flat Major, a nice quiet break from all the rocking going around. A-flat is a key more suited for symphonies and chamber music halls than for rock concerts, and a look at the number of rock songs in A-flat confirms that. In my exhaustive search for rockers in Ab, in fact (I spent about 12 seconds on Google) I only found one. It makes sense why this key is so associated with peace and serenity, most of the music played on it is by woodwinds. Guitar, Piano, Bass and other non winds tend to have some trouble with 4 flats, leading to naught but woodwindy love for this key. :3 You’re the type of person who is a vegetarian only because you don’t like the thought of killing animals, and you prefer protests to parties. Keep up the lovely environment of happy you create around yourself, and you’re going to snap eventually. SONG EXAMPLE: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55 (Shut up, I tried.) INTERESTING TIDBIT: * Some nuts consider A-Flat one of the best keys for flute music, despite flutes being tuned in C. * One of the most popular uses for the key overall is as a transition key for the second movements of symphonies in C Minor. Take What's your key signature? at HelloQuizzy
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06:00 pm
[Link] | Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage/relationship (or if you think you might be someday), and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
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12:00 am
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What are some GREAT songs?
So Gomer and I started this conversation at dinner.
What are some GREAT songs? You know, the ones that stand apart from the crowd in terms of their supremacy.
Yeah, I know that there is some subjectivity in this so use others' lists to inspire you to add to this.
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11:37 am
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Homecoming
So, homecoming is October 25th this year...
Who's coming up (or down) for it?
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10:45 pm
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I saved this.....comment if you want about this....
911: The Day America Grew Up
by Michael J. Hurd, PhD.
Posted on Sep 12, 2001
Let's hope this is what future historians write about yesterday's events. If not, we won't be here -- and won't deserve to be:
September 11, 2001, was the day America grew up. Its adolescent rebellion against all its roots -- individualism, science, capitalism, individual rights, reason -- ended with the force of a single day's events.
In many respects, America was at its peak. Despite its acknowledged problems, it was a spectacular civilization. In a mere two hundred years -- a brief period in the life of a nation -- it had established the most successful republic respectful of individual rights in history; it had generated both the Industrial revolution of the nineteenth century and the technological revolution of the late twentieth; it had successfully outlawed slavery and largely eliminated racism; it had raised the standard of living, for itself and much of the world, to levels royalty could not have conceived of one or two centuries earlier.
Despite this unprecedented success, more and more Americans began to ignore -- or even mock -- the very things which had made these awesome accomplishments possible. They began to teach their children that business, capitalism, and science were evil. They turned the other cheek and tolerated enemies at every possible opportunity. They shrugged their shoulders when it was learned that China -- a country with missiles pointed towards their cities -- had stolen secrets from the highest levels of government. Through their indifference and nonchalance, they communicated to their enemies that they did not value their freedom. Their communication was heard.
Aside from the bombing of Pearl Harbor -- which ignited the United States’ role in World War II sixty years earlier -- the United States had never sustained any real damage from warfare. Until September 11, they did not know what it was like to have their cities bombed, or to have their most cherished cultural symbols destroyed before their very eyes. They were complacent, adrift, and naïve. They lost sight of the fact that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, as the American founders had wisely warned.
In such an era of complacency and drift, one would have expected America’s intellectual leaders -- its presidents, university professors, media commentators, clergy -- to warn them: "Americans, you've got to grow up! Wake up! What you have is great. You must know why it's good, so you don't lose it. There are those who seek to destroy you. You are better than they are, and you are stronger than they are because your system respects individual rights. Your system is fueled by reason, science, and human mastery over nature, the engines of civilization. The problem is, you don't know it. You’re afraid to admit you’re better, because you have also been taught to be humble, selfless, and peaceful at any price -- even towards bullies. You have been taught to feel guilty for your accomplishments, and to undercut them. This is your fatal weakness."
Instead, the intellectuals, political and spiritual leaders of the time did exactly the opposite. They pushed Americans in precisely the opposite direction. They encouraged Americans to hate capitalism, to hate reason, to hate scientific progress. Their professors told them they were imperialistic, heartless and cruel. Their religious leaders condemned them for their selfishness, their capitalism, their materialism. Their psychotherapists told them to understand, not judge, their enemies. Their politicians told them they must give more to the collective treasury and keep less for themselves. Increasingly, Americans bought into it.
In the years leading up to the terrorist attacks, the federal government -- instead of only pursuing fraud and violent criminals -- spent a huge amount of resources on prosecuting the country’s most successful wealth creators, under anti-trust laws. The same federal government rushed to apologize to China after China opened fire on an American plane. Most incredibly, instead of using its power to protect a young boy who had managed to flee a dictatorship in Cuba, the government used all its power to send him back to totalitarian Cuba.
It was almost as if America’s enemies had taken over the minds and bodies of their leaders. Of course no such thing was possible. America was still a democracy, and its citizens sanctioned all these actions. It was a peculiar, perhaps unprecedented event in human history -- an event unique to the United States, precisely because it had been so spectacularly successful and therefore had so much to lose.
It was a slow suicide.
On September 11, 2001, the slow suicide and the era of outrageous complacency reached its climax. On that day, the country -- and the world -- witnessed simultaneous catastrophes it had never before witnessed, nor imagined possible outside of science fiction or action thrillers.
The United States was no longer a young country. This much changed in a single day. America was no longer a spoiled, rebellious adolescent. It took some years -- and several generations -- to sort out all the particulars, but this was the beginning. For a rare moment in time, its intellectuals, professors, and media figures -- its fawning, ever-apologetic politicians and presidents -- were either silent or irrelevant. This was the silver lining in the catastrophe.
The best of the American spirit was reborn on this day. Something good which still existed inside the people -- something lacking in most of its leaders, but still alive (though dormant) in most of the people -- woke up. It took losing something great to realize that it was great.
There were many catastrophes that day -- tens of thousands of lives lost, irreparable physical and psychological damage done. Like the aftermath of most disasters, it got worse before it got better. But freedom and individual rights did ultimately triumph -- this time, though, under a more vigilant watch.
Of all the specific disasters that day, note the one that seemed most horrifying to those who still loved freedom and capitalism -- and most uplifting to those who despised them. The worldwide symbol of capitalism -- the two gigantic World Trade Center towers -- collapsed before the world’s very eyes, like quicksand.
The emotional reaction one felt towards this particular scene, played over and over again on television and the Internet, revealed the essence of who one is: a lover of freedom, or a hater of freedom. On this day, with this issue, there could be no in-between. You were either profoundly horrified or joyous beyond belief. There was no escaping it. Your emotional reaction revealed who you were.
After September 11, 2001, there could be no more gray areas. The era of fearful, cautious, play-it-safe "middle-of-the-roadism" was over. It took many more decades for the intellectuals to understand why. On this particular day, though, every true American could -- at long last -- feel it.
If you agree, please forward or fax this article to the White House and your representatives in Congress.
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09:41 pm
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The friends, they are a changing......
Someone made a comment that got me reflecting on my social circle and I realized that my guest list would have looked a lot different if my wedding was now instead of last year. There are some people in my life that I don't get to talk to that much but when I do, I could talk to them for hours about anything and that part really hasn't changed. There are some people though that I used to be super close to that I can barely hold more then a five minute conversation with. When I was leaving college and drifting apart from some friends, I went kicking and screaming knowing the path that I was going down. Now, I think that I realize that a good chunk of my friends are close to me because they are close by and I like it that way. Granted there are some of you that are still close to me even though you are far but I am well aware that you probably wouldn't think that you weren't.
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01:00 am
[Link] | First of all, if you haven't seen it...watch Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
Second of all, I wonder if other adults have Nerf fights at their house?
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08:50 pm
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Songs of the century (up for debate)
Okay, so this list....
"The "Songs of the Century" list is part of an education project by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. that aims to "promote a better understanding of America’s musical and cultural heritage" in American schools. Hundreds of voters, which includes elected officials, people from the music industry and the media, teachers, and students, were asked in 2001 to choose the top 365 songs of the 20th century with historical significance in mind. The voters were selected by RIAA, although only about 15% (200) of the 1,300 selected voters responding.[1]."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Century
My debate is this. Number 365 (bottom of this list) was Jimi Hendrix doing "All Along the Watchtower." Not arguing that it shouldn't be on there. My question is, how many songs that are higher ("better") on this list shouldn't be?
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12:00 pm
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Let's talk music, shall we?
I saw this link on the 25 most rockin' guitar riffs.
http://new.ca.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/49237/the-25-most-rockin-guitar-riffs
Now normally, what this guy does ends up being a bunch of crap but I saw this and went hmmm....he didn't screw up TOO bad.
But then I found this link...
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_guitarriff.html
Now I realized more on what he's missing.
What do you think about the first link? I KNOW that there are probably some that shouldn't be on there but I want to see what my friends think before I give my opinion.
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09:51 pm
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two people asked me too so I'm updating mine from the past
List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
1. I have a preference for toilet paper in terms of over or under. I HAVE gotten to the point where I don't turn it around if it's "wrong." This was something that I would do in public. No, I will not share my preference cause I have friends that would come to my house and change it. ;)
2. It's hard to do or talk about things without songs getting stuck in my head.
3. I love comforts in life like climbing under lots of covers and footed pajamas.
4. I love musicals!
5. My original major in school was music education
6. I fulfilled my lifelong dream at 23.
7. It's hard for me to come up with seven facts that I think people would care about.
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11:31 pm
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(see name of my journal)
So, it's always so nice to have one of those moments that are just so perfect that really, life can't get much better. Hence, the "a moment in time" name for my journal, life is about moments.
The perfect moment that I am referring to involves riding back from Pat's Pizza staring out at the stars singing along to No More Kings.
I love those moments.
Current Mood:  content
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11:20 pm
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this place was so much fun!
http://www.valcartier.com/default.aspx?LA=EN
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11:19 am
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Valentine's for Me?
Get your own valentinr
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11:30 pm
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Sesame street plus audio editing = amusing for me
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1800511
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10:38 pm
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09:24 pm
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