Year: <span>2012</span>

Year: 2012

bite me, Blogging Challenges, Daily blather, Social Media

C is for Charientism

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Ok, the collective term for cats is clowder. I just had to say that. Clowder of cats. not a herd but a clowder. Guess that’s like a mope of goths or a stomp of rivets.   That said Today’s word is Charientism <–click on it to hear the pronunciation. I …

Blogging Challenges, reading, Social Media

B is for Bibliophagist

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Bibliophagist: One who devours books, literally or figuratively. http://www.forvo.com/word/bibliophagist/ <–How to pronounce. I read. A lot and very fast. I started reading at about 4 and I never stopped. I read so fast I have to make myself slow down sometimes to savor a very good read. Like  The Wool …

Blogging Challenges, Cats, Fayetteville

A is for Ailurophile : The Story of Buzzy the Persian Buffalo

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Hello I’m Jyllian and I’m a cataholic–or more properly an Ailurophile. I’ve loved cats for as long as I can remember. I like dogs too, they are nice but cats have always been my favorite animal. They are independent and very much themselves–which makes it meaningful (at least to me) …

Blogging Challenges, Daily blather, Social Media

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent van Gogh

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  A to Z Blogging Challenge Well here we go again. I am going to give another blogging challenge a try. Why? I failed the last one quite miserably. And the reverb/resound whatever the heck that was didn’t work very well either. I have always made it through Nablopomo though. …

Angst, Blogging Challenges

On wrongs swift vengeance waits. Alexander Pope

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Prompt A: Talk about a time when you intervened. What prompted you? Did you regret it?   I have stepped in front of the swinging hand, the thrown punch. I have called for rescue as a child from drunkeness. I have threatened a firestorm of retribution on what was done …

Angst, Blogging Challenges, Ghosts

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go. Tennessee Williams

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Day 10: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Prompt A: Talk about breaking someone else’s heart, or having your own heart broken. I had to leave. It was time. He was never going the direction I was going, though he tried. I was never going the direction he was going, though I tried. …

Blogging Challenges

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ~Aldous Huxley

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Prompt A: Talk about the ways in which your body is awesome.   Well first of all I suck. I do and I don’t I guess. We had a lot planned in March and did all of it. I wanted to do this project, very much. But I also wanted …

Daily blather

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb

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Prompt B: What does your everyday look like? Describe the scene of your happiest moment of every day. I get up at 5. Hit the snooze button three times until Moshi says “the alarm has been stopped for today. I get dressed, sometimes I showered the night before. I wake …

Blogging Challenges, Everything old is new again, Fayetteville, San Francisco

I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child,’ for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. Fran Leibowitz

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Day 2: Thursday, March 15, 2012 Prompt A: When did you realise you were a grown up? What did this mean for you? Shock to the system? Mourning of halcyon younger days? Or the embracing of the knowledge that you can do all the cool stuff adults do: drink wine, go …

Blogging Challenges, Cats, writing

I is merely one of the world’s instantaneous spasms.― Clarice Lispector, Passion according to G.H.

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Prompt A: Who are you? Come out from behind that curtain and show yourself.   I am the Bean’s mom. I remember when that wouldn’t have been first, but I am happy it is now. She’s the best thing I’ve ever done and I feel lucky every day that out …

Blogging Challenges, Daily blather, Everything old is new again

"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening." James Dickey

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oh dear god. It’s been too long again. Do I have good excuses, of course I do.  Some of them are quite silly. My desk where I do #wineparty and such isn’t comfortable. I have this amazing table  –well it’s beautiful, from my mom’s vast antique collection but it doesn’t …

Angst, bite me, Everything old is new again, Fayetteville, shocked and appalled

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. Benjamin Disraeli

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  This was a long day. Poor kidlet is/better be was– being bullied at school–it freaks me out that this could be the same song just years and years later. I think the schools are more aware of bullying than they were in my time. Also she has me and …

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I like nuns

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I always have. I considered being one at one point in my life as did my mother. I liked the idea of living in a contemplative society, thought I’d be better suited to a monestary since I tend to have better friendships with men than I do with women. There’s …

Age, Angst, bite me, Everything old is new again, Fayetteville, Social Media, vanity

I was thinking of how you broke my heart

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We took a walk.     The things you told me were like the things I told you.   But then that gift and truth for me were not the same not for you. Did you lie because of love or expediency?   What was your small lie lived forever …