Blog Blast for Peace

We are WITCHES.

"We are WITCHES.

We believe in the Power of the Universe.

We follow a religious tradition that is older than any other in this world.

We pay homage to the 5 elements of nature on a daily basis.

We greet the Sun and the Moon as Father and Mother,we are in tune with the cycles of nature.

WE ARE WITCHES...

CHILDREN OF THE EARTH ...

FOLLOWERS OF THE CRAFT OF THE WISE....

BEWARE IF YOU HARM US" - Lucas Meyer

All Hallow's Eve, Halloween, Samhain,,,,

seems....

that something is amiss
with this blog

this is just a test

Lucretia McEvil - Blood Sweat & Tears

Canadian Rockers Blood Sweat and Tears featuring David Clayton Thomas



Lucretia MacEvil
Little girl what's your game?
Hard luck and trouble
Bound to be your claim to fame
Tail-shakin' home-breakin' truckin' through town
Each and every country-mother's son, hangin' 'round
Drive a young man insane
Evil that's your name
Lucretia MacEvil
That's the thing you're doin' fine
Back seat Delilah
Got your six-foot jug o'wine, woman
I hear your mother was the talk of the sticks
Nothin' that your daddy wouldn't do for kicks
Never done a thing worth-while
Evil woman-child.
(spoken) ooh, Lucy, you just so damn bad
(Instrumental Interlude)
(Bridge) Devil got you lucy
Under lock and key
Ain't about to set you free
Sign sealed and witnessed
Since the day you were born
No use tryin' to fake him out
No use tryin' to make him out
Soon, he'll be takin' out his due
What-cha goin' to do?
Ooh, Lucy MacEvil
Honey, where ya been all night?
Your hair's all messed up babe
And the clothes you're wearin'
Just don't fit ya right
Big Daddy Joe's, payin' your monthly rent
Tells his wife he can't imagine where the money went
Dressin' you up in style, evil woman-child
(spoken) Ooh, Lucy, you just so damn bad
(Instrumental Interlude)

(spoken) Awe, here she comes, trouble
Well Lucy, walkin' down main street, lookin'
Well, tell me 'bout it
Where ya' been girl?!
Stop lyin', stop lyin', stop lyin', Lucy!
Ooooh, tell the truth girl!
(Instrumental Interlude)

I need a camera

sometimes you just really need to get a picture….

Last night I posted on my Facebook
that I felt that I was in need of
some adult supervision

cos I'd just burnt supper twice
I was attempting to fry some eggs
and both times burnt them...
it's a damn good thing they come
in packages of 12 no?

so here's the rest of the story....

when I got home from worklast night
I discovered that Mz Pix,
who is locked in the kitchen
all day while I'm away,
had somehow,
once again
pushed the garbage can
off of the little
rubber maid step stool
that it sits on
onto the floor
…and spread garbage everywhere.


I climbed over the gate
and pulled on the rubber gloves
and started scraping things back
into the can…
which lay on its side on the floor,
all the while
having this full blown
discourse with the dog
about how she knows better
and she’s smarter than that,
and was she playing
or trying to get my attention

…ending with “if the Fadder
could hear me now
he’d figure
I was off my rocker
because he says all women
talk to their dogs
like they do kids
and that makes us all nuts
in his books….”

so....the phone rang in the living room
I jumped the gate
and answered it…
when I was done I went back into the kitchen,
opening the gate this time…
grabbed the can
snapped the lid back on
and put it back on the stool.

5 min later
I burnt the first set of eggs
I spoke about last night.

I decided to sit at my desk
and check my email…
and in doing so I hear
a little squeak…
but I can’t find the dog

I check the bedroom,
the bathroom,
the closet,
under the comforter on the couch…
even the yard…
no dog

I went back into the kitchen
to put on another set of eggs…
because I figured she was in her crate
and cowering
from the lecture she’d received
and I hear the squeak again.

You got it....
Pixie’s locked in the garbage can!

I flip open the top
and she’s very happy to see me
(what a picture that would have made)
however,
once I got her out of the garbage
she spent the rest of the evening
sitting between me and the tv
giving me the stink eye over her shoulder.

…and I burnt the eggs again

This dog
has a skull the size of a peach pit
and apparently
it holds more smarts than mine.

*sigh*

Briefly....

some time ago
I found myself
in the untenable
and very sad position
of being "un-friended"
on FB by 2 people
that I considered to be
very dear and close friends

I wrote about it here
go ahead...
read it...
I'll wait...

so last night one of my friends
who is also one
of that trouble maker's friends
that I referred to in the post
knee jerk reactions
and I had a conversation
on FB about a TV show

this morning
that very trouble maker
whom,
I might add
was the 2nd person
I'd legitimately
"un-friended, deleted, removed or blocked"
in 20 yrs
of being on line
stepped in
and posted a flame
designed to cause controversy
on my FB wall
he may think he's being funny
I don't know
I think what he really needs
is a little bleach in the gene pool

it occurs to me this evening
that while I told
the 2 friends
that originally assumed
the post about flamers
was about them
who the trouble maker was
I'd not told anyone else

so the very fact that a person
that I'd deleted
would come to my wall
and flame me
would suggest to me
that those 2 original friends
had been talking about me
instead of to me

I've spent most of my life
working at finding
and believing in
the best of people

for years and years
close friends have
suggested that I was too
easy &
accepting
of people online

I always thought
I was looking for the good
so I wouldn't cut them off

and so when those people told me
that someone was attempting
to build a fiefdom
at my expense
I denied it
refuted it
argued against it

now I pause briefly
to wonder

the operating word
being
briefly

didja ever...

just sit and watch
as yer life slowly
careens
outta control?

so
because one of my colleagues at work
announcing that she was pregnant
and leaving on Mat leave in June
and my eye surgery in June
we hired a new lady for the interim
and then because of the way the chips fell
over the summer
we didn't really get much down time
before our big ramp up
this fall

and then part of the ramp up
became a 10 mth contract
that caused us to hire a contract person
and while the growth is amazing
and exciting
there's now 2 new people in the office
that don't know where things are
or how we do stuff...

one hugely smart and detail oriented
one that can stuff envelopes like a machine

today one of them called me
"the keeper of the knowledge"
and told me "without you
we'd be screwed"

so I'm trying to get
all the summer work done
that didn't get done in the summer
still....

I have to run labels
for a 6000 calendar mail out
address and return
and of course
before you can run labels
you have to compile lists
to make the labels out of

I have to run content labels
for all our 270+ courses
I have to book the marquee for every course
a mth at a time
and of course
before you can run labels
you have to compile lists
to make the labels out of

I have to enter every course at least once
in the staff news letter
if not more than once

each one of these jobs require
inputting each item separately
in more than one place

and in the case of the labels
in requires some serious
finger action in addition
to the files or envelopes eh?

and the new calendar is so popular
that the phone is ringing off the hook
so there's never one job
that you get to do
from start to finish
without interruption

there's simply more paperwork to do
than hours in the day

and just to add insult to injury
I've just been picked
for jury duty
on a 10 day criminal trial
starting on the 27th

so I have to set up the rooms
for all courses
happening between now
and the middle of Nov
in advance
and because of some changes
being made to the rooms
I have to rearrange
all of the scheduled rooms
between now and the middle of Nov
before I go

yup....
all of this must be done
prior to my leaving for court
the morning of the 27th

I was in court for the jury picking
yesterday...so this is a 4 day week

this coming weekend is Thanksgiving
here in Canada
so next week
will also be a 4 day week

and today the boss announced
that I had to move my Dr's appt
on the 26th
cos she's hiring a temp
for me to train that day
to answer the phone while I'm gone!

at this rate
I'll be in the office nightly till midnight

and then comes our busy season

Gak!

I don't know whether to laugh
or cry....

Moving is hell...

even if you are only moving a blog

I've had my blog a long time
and the reason
I’m trying to move
is cos the changes that Blogger made
that cause the first couple of years
of my blog to disappear

so I decided to go to word press
and to have my own url
and like the other blogs to this one
using it as my home page

lord tundering
this has been a lesson in patience for me

first I have to find a theme
that’s “what it looks like”
I have a vision
sadly
none of the theme builders
have the same one
so
you get it as close as you can
and then you start
futzin with code

in the case of Word Press
it’s ccs code
which while close to html
ain’t
if ya get my drift

then you have to move over
or import your posts from blogger
very easy
they both have import and export tools

however
the new one doesn’t have some things
that the old one did
and vice versa

so I’m improvising

somehow in the import
I ended up with 2
sometimes 3 of each post
so I got the brilliant idea
of deleting them all
and re-importing
and I did
but it wouldn’t
re-import
so I had to go rescue the posts
by the page
from the trash
and in doing so
ended up with 3
sometimes 4
of the same posts

then there’s the whole font thing
I want to be able to change my font
from post to post
with the default being tempus sans itc

I want to change the size of the font
and the color

you can in blogger
you can’t in WP
and as a result when I imported the posts
the came in several different sizes and colors

and I've just discovered that there's no way
to manage the spacing in posts
in WP
and in order to get this post in here
I had to paste it into notepad...
sheesh

I wonder if it's my theme?
part of my theme problem
is the way I write
most WP themes cause
my syntax to change to paragraphs
and that's a pain in the ass...
cos it makes all my posts
one long freakin sentence

and then there’s the links
I have to move them manually
I’m of the slow n steady persuasion
but I’ll get it done…
I’m feeling better about the move all the time
but it’s slow work
and in the meantime
I’m running 2 copies of 3 of my blogs
and the fourth is only in WP

yup...moving is hell
no matter if it's physically
or virtually.