Archive - Carpe Diem

Solstice Wishes

by lunadraconis @ 22.06.2008 – 00:45:49

Gods &Goddesses, apolgies hugely but Ihave spilled candlewax overmy keyboard and despitean urgent need to clean itoff, itbehoves me towonder how itwill allturn out ifIdon't forthetime being! Ihave managed toremove largeamounts of itbut the randomness of the typing is quite appealing for some bizzare reason! Anyway, happy solstice to all fellow pagans and hope yours was largely undrenched as minewas(not)! Todaybegan with certaingoals in mind buthavesince deteriortated into er...different goals! Ihave acquiredanother dog which I SWORE to all and sundrythat I wouldnot do. I really hate freecycle websites well, rather I hate my partner surfing freecycle websites.

He's a lovelydog...named Duke originally but all you who know me know I wouldn't havethat for a minute...so he's now called Dante. Myhellhound was called Gizmo when we first had him...cross Rhodesian ridgeback with English Mastiff - 10.5 stone...called Gizmo...oh, please! Dante (formerly known as Duke...sigh) isa cross labrador something so basically a 57 variety. He's 11 months old and despite being a complete pain in the ass, peeing on things and stuff, he hasbeen quitegood ata dapting. Glyndwr sighs a lot but he knows he has to lead by Exemplo Deuceum...by example we lead.   For a dog, he seems to have got that quitewell. The cats have yet tobe convinced that thepuppy is actually less powerful than they are at thehouse.

Yup sothatwas prettymuch my solstice...new dog! Kinda makes itdifficult forme to find someone to look after them whilstI go to the Small Nations Festival - NO DOGS ALLOWED as the farmthat holds the festival breeds prize sheepdogs.   No shagging of tarts with toffs allowed!!!!! EEEEE - howwe manipulate nature tosuit....such random keyboard bizarrness...

I really should go back over all thisand insert spaces but...those whoactually read my site I'm sure, need no reminding of my abilities tofollow in a right manner...anyway...ultimately the thought crosses mymind thatyetagain Iwill be alone on mybirthday as I havebeen for the last two years...he will be festivaling and I will be left at home with the animals...wouldn't mind atall buthebrought them and I'm left holding the nappies.....then he wingesthat I can never get away to come with him tofestival atmosphere....really?   Can't THINK why!

Ah well, happy solstice to all my wonderful pagan friends out therein the ether xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Grrrrr...chain letters!!!

by lunadraconis @ 11.06.2008 – 21:15:04

Today, I received no less than two chain letters by e-mail. One threatened me with horrible death and the loss of someone I love, whilst embodying a poem about lost time and friendships and then they die and you can't see them again!??? Good grief. Not surprising if you lose friends after sending them threatening chain mail though is it? Seemingly, however, if I don't send it to them they're all going to die anyway!

The other was admittedly quite funny and I have no problem sending it off to others as it contained no threats of any kind. However, what I will absolutely NOT do is send to my friends e-mails threatening death of any variety. WTF is all that about? How really evil and nasty is that? Furthermore, what's the point of it all? Strange way of getting published if you ask me! Needless to say I binned it but thought about others who might be intimidated by this. I mean, some people must, mustn't they, otherwise chain letters would never be perpetuated? I think it's horrible, vile and just plain childish. If I could only find out who originated the e-mail I would send them a horrible letter right back. It's ,made me really angry and frustrated that I can't 'get at them'. Ah but then, that would make me no better than them. Wonder if they could be reported/sued for threatening behaviour? Maybe chain letters should be criminalised, particularly if they contain threats of your imminent death or the death of those close to you!

Nasty, nasty, nastiness! Again I say...ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

1st Tag...at which I failed abysmally

by lunadraconis @ 08.06.2008 – 23:08:21

Right, been tagged by Wendlane...never done this before so here goes...

1. What was I doing ten years ago?
Lessee...*thinks* had just returned to Britain after a seven year stint in Germany with the Royal Military Police. Decided to go to Uni as a mature student to study Medieval European History. Got separated. Had two jobs. Took in lodgers all to pay the mortgage!!!

2. Five things to do today.
As it's 10 to 11, do this; undress; go to bed; watch Indi & Crystal from Torrent; sleep.

3. Snacks I enjoy.
Hmmm...loads...crisps...jaffa cakes...celery...eating toms like apples...gherkins...pickled onions ad infinitum

4. Things I would do if I were a billionaire.
Make inroads into eliminating world debt and poverty, stop poachers for bear gall bladders and rhino horn, elephant ivory and child slave pornography. Actually, if I were a billionaire, I would genuinely try and get rid of money and go back to bartering!

5. Places I have lived.
Swansea, Wales; Monte Carlo, France; Montpellier, France; Llanelli, Wales; Ammanford, Wales; Detmold, Germany; Berlin, Germany; Colechester, England; Chester, England; Buckley, Flintshire; Manchester, England; now back in Wales again.

6. Tag...
Can't...don't have that many friends that would respond, sorry!!!

The Lost Tribe

by lunadraconis @ 07.06.2008 – 22:14:07

Hello everyone. Well, you will all no doubt be pleased to know that we finally located the lost tribe and immediately had them re-homed in the Amazon...only to find that they had been re-discovered after all bugger! Let's hope we can leave them alone and not be Schroediger's (sp?!) cats about them. We'll only end up killing them with our vile viruses anyway...so, all you anthropologists out there...leave 'em alone!!!

As I stand at the top of the garden and look down it's 100ft length to the blue hills yonder, I physically have to put my fist in my mouth to stop myself from saying...

I want a shrubbery!!!

Which I don't...but wanting to say it was overwhelming.

I have just read timsuzi's blog and he's come up with 44 things NOT to do before you die...so I'm gonna see if I can make it to 44 as well...

1. Watch Big Brother - too dire and barrel scraping in the name of entertainment with puerile contestants of the Andy Warhole school of fame
2. Watch The Apprentice - as above
3. Watch I'm a Celebrity anything - as above
4. Watch ANY 'real' TV, especially as I don't watch TV anyway, it's crap, please see above
5. Read a Stephen King novel - too wordy even for a writer
6. Jump out of a perfectly good plane with flimsy white sheets attached
7. Climb Everest - I like to breath air not ozone
8. Go to North Pole - brrr
9. Go to South Pole - ditto
10. Do heroin - it's just silly
11. Do crack - so's that
12. Go to a rave - too old for the ecstasy... well, the chemical variety anyways
13. Watch Formula 1 - life's too short but drive one...oh yes
14. Watch golf - ditto
15. Watch snooker - as above
16. Watch cricket - ditto
17. Go horseriding. I respect too much their dislike of me
18. Abseil down a mountain - why'd you climb it in the first place?
19. Abseil down a building - why, if there's a perfectly good lift?
20. Go bungee jumping - I'd break something
21. Hanglide - again I ask, why?
22. Paraglide - ditto
23. Walk barefoot over hot coals - too macho
24. Crawl on broken glass - get cut to ribbons
25. Run up any more debts - hmmm, well, try anyway
26. Eat meat - never
27. Run a marathon in fancy dress of any kind
28. Run a marthon of any kind
29. Cross country running unless it's in a car
30. Let my garden get so bad again
31. Make New Year's resolutions - never keep 'em then guilt sets in
32. Put on more weight
33. Become mainstream religious
34. Pay a TV licence for using my computer or mobile phone - up yours BEEB
35. Get arrested
36. Get a sex-change
37. Get cosmetic surgery - unless I'm in a train wreck or similar
38. Stop buying vinyls - ha, at least while they last
39. Stop buying books - the very thought makes me come out in a cold sweat but not Stephen King books, no no.
40. Stop trying to improve myself - well, mentally anyway
41. Stop being polite - costs nothing and gets me further I find
42. Stop dressing gothic hippy
43. Stop loving those close to me, especially my hippy and my ark
44. Start growing old gracefully *snort*

So, there you have it, just for laughs!

Marvo, you're slacking...where's my something for the weekend????? Eh???