InkdPixie's blog: "Random Thoughts"

Hello, my little FUBAR freaks! I'm thinking about doing a Fantasy Friday where, every week I'll write and post some of my naughtiness for your viewing...and...personal...pleasure. :P I'd also like to invite all of you to submit to me some of your wickedness and I'll post it as well and, of course, add your name to it for full credit. I would advise to you that you copywrite EVERYTHING as I have so someone doesn't "liberate" your work from you. The easiest way to do this is: 1. Write down or print out your work. 2. I sign and date everything 3. Put it in an envelope, address it to yourself, stamp it and mail it to yourself but DO NOT OPEN IT WHEN IT COMES BACK! 4. Put the envelope somewhere safe...like...a safe. LOL This is legally binding and I have done it with everything I write and even with patent ideas. Ok...SO WHO'S IN??? You can read some of my recent works right here in my Blog, just look for the one's marked "XXX". Tee hee

Ok, so many of you have asked for the link to my Yuwie page that I can't get it to all of you individually so...this blog's for you! LOL This is me: http://ww2.yuwie.com/yuwie.asp?r=354756&vid= Just paste this into your address bar and you will be able to hear about how the site works and sign up all at once. It'll take about 5 min. and the ball starts rolling from there! Just double-check when you're signing up that at the top of the page it says that you were referred by me. When I get credit, you get credit! See you there! ~Ms. A

Do I primp? Yes. Do I spend more than $6 on eyeliner? Yes. Do I use a credit card to get my hair "just right"? Yes. Have I had Plastic surgery? Ask my Plastic surgeon. *wink* Am I a bitch? Sometimes. (Hey, at least I admit it!) Do I care what you think? Sadly, yes I do....for a day or so. Do I ever feel less than adequate? F--- YEAH! Am I insecure? Most of the time. Do I give a s---? No. Why? Umm....have you ever MET ME? Love me or hate me...just feel SOMETHING and own it. "Living's worth nothing without passion." ~W. Strong

Ever cried so hard.... your stomach muscles hurt a few hours later? you feel like you're literally going turn inside out? you feel like you're never gonna stop? the first thing that made you cry isn't the last thing you're crying about? you could never explain "why" if someone asked you? you stop crying for yourself and start crying for others in pain? you sit and stare? you literally CANNOT formulate a cognitive thought? you run out of tears? you're amazed at how quickly you make more tears? Just thought I'd try to find some safety in numbers...

The 2nd Annual New England Poker Rally kicks off this weekend on Friday at noon and yours truly will be in it!!! We'll have a live video stream on constantly from our dash-cam that you can access from the rally website at NewEnglandRally.com. This way, you'll see what we see ahead of us and you can track our progress. We'll be in my 2007 Saturn VUE. I'll also have a wireless card for my laptop! I'll be mobile the entire time too and will be accessable via IM on my personal webcam so that you can see hubby & I and all of our antics along the way!!! Not to mention that we'll need some late night friends as we'll be driving through Friday night until appx. 5pm Sat. *Stick & Chell, I'm counting on ya my lovelies!* We'll be hanging out & running passes at the New England Dragway for a bit on Fri. afternoon before we set out on our trek to Ontario, Canada to spend Sat. night at the Renaissance Fallsview Hotel & Casino located directly on Niagra Falls!!! Still pics and video will be abundant upon our return home on Sunday evening. Wish us good weather, hot sun and the winning Poker hand!!!!! What happens at Niagra stays at Niagra!!! *wink*

I stare, I can't help it. I love the human form. So much so that I can't not stare. Reveling in the beauty...it's like slipping slowly, sleepily into warm water. I'm constantly feeling like I've been "caught" but I can't make any more apologies for it. It's who I am. Watching someone beautiful do something as mundane as turn the page in a book captivates me the same way leaves do when they're dancing at twilight in the summer breeze. Or fireflies...a little speck of brightness in a sometimes very dark world. I make no apologies. A beautiful friend, who heart I'm connected to by an invisible string of lifetimes, or a sensuous stranger who serves no other purpose but as a masterbatory point of reference. I make no apologies. In the movie "Unfaithful" there is a brilliant quote that banned me from guilt: "There are no mistakes in life. There are things you do, and things you don't do." I make no apologies.

AP Updated: 1:58 p.m. ET April 23, 2007 MADISON, Wis. - The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on government-issued headstones of fallen soldiers, according to a settlement announced Monday. A settlement between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Wiccans adds the five-pointed star to the list of "emblems of belief" allowed on VA grave markers. Eleven families nationwide are waiting for grave markers with the pentacle, said Selena Fox, a Wiccan high priestess with Circle Sanctuary in Barneveld, Wis., a plaintiff in the lawsuit. The settlement calls for the pentacle, whose five points represent earth, air, fire, water and spirit, to be placed on grave markers within 14 days for those who have pending requests with the VA. "I am glad this has ended in success in time to get markers for Memorial Day," Fox said. The VA sought the settlement in the interest of the families involved and to save taxpayers the expense of further litigation, VA spokesman Matt Burns said. The agency also agreed to pay $225,000 in attorneys' fees and costs. The pentacle has been added to 38 symbols the VA already permits on gravestones. They include commonly recognized symbols for Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism, as well as those for smaller religions such as Sufism Reoriented, Eckiankar and the Japanese faith Seicho-No-Ie. "This settlement has forced the Bush Administration into acknowledging that there are no second class religions in America, including among our nation's veterans," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which represented the Wiccans in the lawsuit. The American Civil Liberties Union said the agreement also settles a similar lawsuit it filed last year against the VA. In that case, the ACLU represented two other Wiccan churches and three individuals. VA-issued headstones, markers and plaques can be used in any cemetery, whether it is a national one such as Arlington or a private burial ground like that on Circle Sanctuary's property. Wicca is a nature-based religion based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons. Variations of the pentacle not accepted by Wiccans have been used in horror movies as a sign of the devil. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, "Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?" I laughed and enthusiastically responded, "Of course you may!" and she gave me a giant squeeze. "Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked. She jokingly replied, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids..." "No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me. After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop I was always mesmerized listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, "I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know." As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, "We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets." She concluded her speech by courageously singing "The Rose." She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be. When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they'll really enjoy it! These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE. REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. We make a Living by what we get, we make a Life by what we give. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. "Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you know they are always there."