| june
9th , 2005 |
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6:59pm
it's 78 degrees with 41% humidity,
but to me it felt like 109 degrees, i swear.
i couldn't walk all the way we usually walk. i felt like i was a turkey being
cooked in an oven.
and i turned a bright shade of pink and couldn't breathe.
i think i just had my 1st (and hopefully last) experience with heatstroke!
in fact, i am STILL pink, and i am NOT a person who turns pink rarely ever.
i don't blush, and i don't burn easily, i tan.
but i turned absolutely bright pinkish red all over and felt ill.
i got home and laid down at jason's because he has ice and cold water.
and i put ice on my head for awhile and drank some water.
i'm finally starting to feel a little bit better, but my skin colour is not
back to normal yet.
jason already left to go have dinner with his friend, and i am just going
to meet them there later after i am sure i am ok.
it's only 2 blocks away so i can meet them later.
wow, that was really bizarre. i don't know what made me have heatstroke today
and not on any other day of my life when it has been that temperature. that
really sucked and was kind of scary.
but right befroe that i was in a splendid mood because i went to the p.o. and sent off a package to jacqui and to my dad and then i had mail there and really good mail!
someone from south africa sent me some fortune telling bones and rocks that you throw and how they fall tells your fortune. it looks complex. and then this little african musical instrument, i forgot what it is called, but i love it, i will take a picture :) and a magazine and some postcards from there :)
and then another person sent me a
collectable silver dollar all sealed :)
it's so pretty :)
and some cash to buy some posters! yay!
and also someone from brazil bought
some of my cds today :)
so my stuff is going all over the world!
and today was definitely an abundant day!
i guess saying abundance! abundance!
abundance! with marcus
under the bed did the trick :)
because i today has been a really abundant day and i even felt all energized
to make things to sell and things seem to be going well for me today (besides
the heatstroke and the pms)
but the thing that really made me
the happiest today was i got a handwritten card from prudence
mapstone herself!
those of you who don't know who i am talking about , she is the QUEEN of freeform
crochet on this planet right now (besides me, ha :)
not like she invented freeform, but she is the most well known and inventive
person who does it right now
and then there is james walters
and sylvia cosh. but sylvia died in 2000 :(
prudence has written books on it and stuff. she travels around and does lots
of workshops, too.
and a month ago or so ago someone told me that she had attended one of her
workshops and she mentioned me and had a link to me in the info she gives
out. and i went to her website again and she linked to me!
well, i was over the moon that this woman even knew who i was!
maybe james walters told her about me? i gave james a pass to ana2 a few years
ago and he said it lifted him out of his depression and made him want to get
back into photography!
so THAT was pretty darn cool, because his books on crochet are the best there
i've come across, but so many are out of print now.
ya, i'll bet that is how prudence found out about me. i'm guessing.
anyway, so today, i got a card from
her and my 1st thought was that it was just that i am on a mailing list of
hers because i bought her books. but i opened it and it was handwritten by
her to me!
i am THRILLED! she is like the rockstar of freeform to me :)
and she wished me happy birthday, told me she reads my journal, and that she
saw me on australian tv (she is from australia) when that documentary "webcam
girls" was on there. she only caught the tail end of it. she was flicking
channels and she saw one of my hats and stoped to take a closer look. ha :)
how cool is that?
and then the coolest part is she asked me if i have any more thoughts about writing a book on freeform crochet because if i decide to she will be among the 1st to buy it!
and then signed it:
fondly,
prudence
:)
can you believe that??
how fucking completely awesome is that?
now i REALLY feel i should write that book.
things seem to be pushing me in that direction :)
i feel just so proud and happy that
prudence would buy MY book.
i'm am seriously floored!
and that she wrote me a handwritten letter!
i am beaming :)
she has beautiful handwrting, btw :)
i guess i should gt ready to get to that restaurant now even tho i am a few shades pinker than i usually am.
but i need to get some food in me.
and cake and eat it cds are now all eaten up.
4:11pm
jason is running 20 minutes late.
i feel a little bit more optimistic today.
i am continuing to make tubes with my mattel knitmagic :) i am just going
to keep making them until i can't stand it anymore. and then i am going to
assemble them into things to sell. maybe they will all be scarves. i don't
know.
lord knows i have string coming out of my ears here so i better stop acting
like it's so precious and just make something out of it pronto to make some
$. i have made my peace with going in this direction for now.
and then when i can't stand to make tubes anymore or my arm get too tired,
i'll go back to creating the hat which is my 2nd "masterpiece" hat.
the thoughtform roots hat.
if i can just sort of balance myself off between working on things that i
love for arts sake, and then making things to sell (and still letting that
part be fun, too) then i'll be alright.
now i'm making a quick bath. then
out for a walk and then jason wants me to come with for drinks with his friend.
and i said yes to that but now i don't know if i want to do that, i kind of
feel like motivated to work on these tubes.
i have a lot of work ahead of me.
and i dragged out all the other unfinished tubes from eons ago that i made that were turning into arm warmers or scarves and all this can be mixed in together.
2:28pm
i'm trying to just keep plugging
forward even tho i feel a little lost.
getting ready to go outside and get to the p.o. and send off some stuff. i've
jacqui her hat forever and i better get that off to her! sending my dad a
birthday present, since it's his birthday on the 11th. i don't have any $
to buy him anything, so i am sending him the soy silk paper i made and lots
of goofy little toys and confetti. i hope he will like it or at least make
him smile a bit. i love my dad so much. i miss him. i haven't see him in forever.
i feel so distant and removed from him.
sending off 2 copies of cake and eat. i only have 3 left so if you want you you better speak up now or forever hold your peace! i'm low on everything but still have some left of everything, but i'm serious, when this stuff is gone it is gone forever! this is your last chance to get this! i can't believe no one has yet bought the VERY rare demo cd of mother anorexia! and it says it's by "anna" when i was going to go only by that but then i couldn't legally. but man, that thing is RARE! no one want that amazing collectible?
details here:
http://ana.livejournal.com/1572493.html
sure maybe you'll find another cd by me on ebay, but you're not going to find one autographed by me unless some the the very few i've autographed get sold!
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tshirts, mugs mousepads, cards, prints:
http://www.cafepress.com/anacam
http://www.cafepress.com/voog
http://www.cafepress.com/anavoog
http://www.cafepress.com/pooka
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oh jason and i are going walking at 4:30pm and so i will go to the p.o. box then.
1:16pm
Horoscope for Aries (June 9 2005)
You will be tempted to spend money you don't have. It's time to get organized. Begin to budget. You can get ahead financially, but it will require discipline and doing without.
and
The larger view
Psychologically, this influence broadens your comprehension of any issue that
you are interested in and your understanding of life in general as you encounter
it today. You are concerned with the largest, most comprehensive possible
view, and you are eager to incorporate new information into your way of looking
at the world. At the same time you are intellectually more tolerant of other
viewpoints, seeing them not as a threat to your views, but as a way of enlarging
them. Your ability to see the larger view today enables you to plan with foresight.
Where others see only confusion, you can see a pattern and come up with insights
that will amaze others. In business or social activities you are able to organize
very effectively, grouping people together so they can work most efficiently.
and
You can finally slow down now --a relatively unusual thing for an Aries -- yet you may be uncertain as to why you should voluntarily ease up on the gas. Your energy has been running high and you are in danger of depleting your batteries. Take the time to recharge while you have the opportunity. This is not a punishment; it is a luxury