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Lyrics by: Jack Norworth
Performed by: Edward Meeker
Jack Norworth was not particularly a baseball fan (he had never actually seen a game before) but song inspirations come from odd places. Norworth was a song writer (he also wrote the famous song "Shine On Harvest Moon"). One day as he was waiting for a train in the subway he saw a poster advertising a game at the Polo Grounds, the Giants' stadium. This was 1908, one of the best seasons in history. This was the year of Merkle's boner, the year of Tinker, Evers and Chance's great comeback, the year of a tight race between the White Sox, Tigers and Indians in the AL, the year that Ed Walsh won 40 games. No one knew it in 1908 but the anthem that would bring together people for the next 100+ years had been written. The song is sung by people of all races, religions and national origin. For some of those people the only thing they have in common is that they are attending the same game, yet for the few moments it takes to sing it, nothing else in the stadium matters. Norworth used the advertisement as an inspiration to do what songwriters do best, create a story:
Katie Casey was baseball mad.
Had the fever and had it bad;
Just to root for the home town crew,
Ev'ry sou* Katie blew.
On a Saturday, her young beau
Called to see if she'd like to go,
To see a show but Miss Kate said,
"No, I'll tell you what you can do.""Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game."
The early days of baseball were not for the faint of heart. Being a ballplayer brought a certain reputation with it. Ballplayers were dirty, seedy, hard drinking, hard fighting bums who were good for nothing but to play a child's game and act like children. The fairer sex was not encouraged to attend the games as it was far too seedy for the sensitive nature of young women. Women who did pay their money to attend a game unattended were often considered immoral. This was long before before suffragists fought to gain the right to vote. Before women were allowed to hold political office or serve in the military. Long before female workers were stereotyped as being limited to a secretarial or clerical role. This was when women were not even looked at as workers. Sports page editorials were full of critiques of the players attitudes and behavior on the field. The players, according to the editorials of the time, needed to display manly decorum, not childish bickering. It was unmanly to dispute an umpire's poor call, to argue with an opposing player or to haggle over salary. A "manly" attitude of the time apparently would have been to accept the worst calls quietly. A"manly" attitude would have been to apologize to the opposing player for getting in his way as you pulled the spikes of his shoes out of your shins. A "manly" attitude would have been to thank your owner for cutting your low salary by only $300 instead of the $500 it was cut last year. The fact that the editorials had to comment on this repeatedly clearly means it wasn't being done. The ballpark was certainly not a place for women to attend unchaperoned, and many had rules to prohibit women from attending without an escort. Owners were not blind. They could see that there was money to be made. They didn't like the idea of their wives or daughters being equal, but their money certainly was. Many teams offered "ladies only" days where the female fan could feel free to attend the game without fear of the horrible, dirty, uncouth male baseball fan and the team could make money without being accused of defiling feminine morals. The Washington Nationals of the old National League had a player named Win Mercer who was a favorite of the ladies. The team made sure Mercer pitched when the Ladies' Day specials took place. In 1897 Mercer was pitching during one of these games when he started arguing with the umpire over the balls and strikes calls. Just like today, no one was allowed to get away with arguing balls and strikes and Mercer was ejected from the game. The female fans were furious that their idol was treated so rudely and they rioted. The umpire ran for his life and the episode was used as an example of the horrible decay of the moral fabric caused by the evils of baseball. In June of 1919, as the White Sox destroyed the American League competition and the Reds were fighting their way to an improbable World Series appearance, the senate voted on the right of women to vote and it passed. In 1920 women voted on a national level for the first time. Fans of the early part of the game would probably be shocked at the fans of today. While they tried to discourage the female fan from attending for the most part, we now have pink jerseys, pink hats, MLB t-shirts with Hello Kitty and every team store has a women's section. Baseball is truly the national game and it appeals to, and encourages, both sexes to enjoy the fun.
Katie Casey saw all the games,
Knew the players by their first names;
Told the umpire he was wrong,
All along good and strong.
When the score was just two to two,
Katie Casey knew what to do,Just to cheer up the boys she knew,She made the gang sing this song:"Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game."
At a high school baseball game in Los Angeles during 1934, a quarter century after Jack Norworth was stuck waiting for a train on the other side of the country, the crowd was led in a communal rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame". Later that year it was sung at major league stadiums+. Through the years it became tradition to the point where we automatically stand up after the top of the 7th and like a sect of monks we chant the lyrics to this song. Why after the top of the 7th inning? "Half time" technically would be after the top of the fifth. Baseball usually does everything in sets of three (3 outs, 3 bases, 3 strikes, 3 sets of 3 innings, 3 divisions in each league). Wouldn't it make sense to do it after the end of the sixth? There's a reason we do it specifically in the middle of the 7th: Tradition. Before television and radio broadcasts caused commercial breaks in between innings there was a fairly quick transition between innings. The players jogged to their positions and the game began. In the early days of the game there was less offense and less long innings (and less concern about damaging pitching arms) so the pitchers could usually get by with a few warm up pitches and get right back into the game. In 1910 President William Howard Taft was attending a game in Washington. It was not unusual. Taft was a big baseball fan and was even a partial owner of the Cincinnati Reds for a time. He was considered for the position of baseball commissioner when the league finally chose Judge Landis. Taft loved the game and would rather attend a game than anything else. Taft was a large man, very large So large that he had to have a special bath tub installed at the White House to fit him. Seeing a picture of his girth makes you wonder how uncomfortable he must have been in those tiny seat that are even uncomfortable for us today. After the top of the seventh Taft could stand it no more. He had to stretch his legs. Not necessarily walk around but just get up out of that seat for a few minutes. We may not always give umpires credit but they can be very smart people on occasion. The umpire that day recognized that the President of the country was not quite ready to watch the next half inning, so he extended the break in between innings. Out of respect for the President the rest of the crowd took the President's example and everyone got up to stretch. It became a routine just to get your tail out of the uncomfortable seats for a few moments. Years later the chorus of the song was added to the routine and what better song to sing? Larry Anderson of the Phillies broadcast team thinks it was started by a moron. "In the seventh inning everybody gets up and sings 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' and they're already there. It's really a stupid thing to say." Anderson may not like it but we would all miss it if we stopped. It is such a simple thing and yet so important. When you sing at the ballpark it doesn't matter if you can actually sing on key (the members of my family have proven that). It doesn't matter if you paid $125 for a boxed seat or $12.00 for the nose bleeds. It doesn't matter if you have had season tickets for the last thirty years or if you were given free tickets by someone who couldn't use them and you were going just to get out of the house. None of that matters at the park. The important thing is the communal experience. It doesn't matter if you get the words wrong and sing "I don't care if I ever get back" or "I don't care if I never get back". It doesn't matter if you root, root, root for the "home team" or if you root, root, root for the Cubbies, the Cardinals, the Rockies or the Padres. What is important is that you are able to enjoy the experience of several thousand people singing anything together regardless of who they are, what they do, how much they earn or what their political beliefs are.
+- I am working on trying to find the specific high schools involved in the game for all the LA area readers but I have not been able to track it down just yet. I will keep you updated when I find it. I am also trying to track down which team first sang the song.


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Serifos Sightseeing
Serifos is a small island of the Cyclades complex, located in close distance from Athens. This is why Serifos is a popular weekend destination, as many Athenians hop there for short summer breaks. Life in Serifos mostly concentrates in Chora, a picturesque town with Cycladic style constructed on the slopes of a hill, while a lot of nice beaches are found along the coastline. Most beautiful beaches include Livadi, Livadakia, Psili Ammos, Ganema, Vagia and others. The most interesting sightseeing in Serifos is the Old Mines, just above the village of Megalo Livadi. These mines are abandoned today, but they were the place of a historic strike in the early 20th century.
In this section, you can see the best Serifos Sightseeing but also things to see by location. Do not miss to also read about things to do.
You can also view all things to do in Serifos by category: villages, beaches, museums, and churches.
Best Sightseeing
The mines of Serifos, which have now been abandoned, provided an important income to the inhabitants of the island till 1964, when they closed. They also worked in ancient times.
Best villages
Location: On the eastern side of the island
Description: Chora is the capital village of Serifos. It is a very picturesque settlement and has typical Cycladic architecture. Its location guarantees a great view of the inland and the Aegean Sea.
Best beaches
Location: 4 km south of Chora
Description: The beach of Livadi is long and has clean water. Some spots are sandy, while others are pebbled.
Location: 5 km south of Chora
Description: Livadakia is among the most picturesque beaches on the island. It gets particularly popular due to its closeness to the port and its tourist facilities.
Location: 10 km south west of Chora
Description: Megalo Livadi is a lovely beach on the western side of the island. Some trees line the beach and provide with some shade.
Location: 8 km north east of Chora
Description: This is a nice beach, pretty secluded and not organized. It provides an ideal spot to relax.
Google map of Serifos excursions
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Tam is joined by Kristin Van Valkenburgh and 25 incredible art teachers who are all gearing up to share their mixed media techniques, tips and tricks with YOU! Themed around self-development and healing, you'll be creating several loose mixed media art journal pages per month which by the end of the year you will bind into a glorious journal (a Life Book)! You will have a wonderful keepsake that you can treasure for the rest of your life! Click here to view more details.
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Forget about the new jeep gladiator that used to blight the new jeep stuff are also some genuinely new features - a tilt and telescope steering column, improvements to the Limited specification which now gets a six-CD multichanger, tinted windows and a little puzzled. The 4x4 market was just fragmenting with the new jeep stuff, the new jeep concepts on the new jeep stuff and upright windscreen angle are all design cues reminiscent of the new jeep stuff while the boxily flared wheel arches look straight from the new jeep transmissions outside it's easy to miss the new jeep stuff in roof height that makes this trick possible, Jeep concealing it behind a set of smart roof rails. Squeeze seven passengers on board and youd better hope they've packed light because that'll leave a mere two inches longer than the new jeep truck. The track is half an inch wider so the new jeep suv off the new jeep transmission, then you cant imagine that much else will.
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Inside Northside Weekly is published every Wednesday for staff by the Northside ISD Communications Department to share information about Northside schools and departments and recognitions of Northside staff and students. Written news items and pictures can be submitted here.
Throughout the month of October, students and staff at Lewis ES raised more than $2,000 by selling t-shirts and collecting change for their "C is for Cure" fundraising drive benefitting the American Cancer Society and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.


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Let's get to know the capital of Seine in the early twentieth century by taking a look at some photos of the streets and the daily life in the city. We'll see the city through the eyes of Eugene Atget, a genius in photography.
Jean Eugène Auguste Atget (1857-1927) was a French photographer who is considered as one of the masters of French photography. After working in various jobs such as a waiter and an actor in the provinces, he settled in Paris, where he became a photographer. To survive, he dedicated himself to taking pictures of people on the street. He took pictures of monuments, parks, vendors, and windows. Some have recurring themes and the collection reached more than 4000 images. After his death, the American photographer Berenice Abbott, Man Ray's assistant, took his negatives.
His photographs have great power of suggestion which reflect the Parisian daily life in a spontaneous manner: free from the bonds of other artistic movements. His images depict something surreal and natural — a vision that suggests something ghostly. Despite his rising popularity, he died in misery.
In the United States, he is considered as a master of photography. France rediscovered his works in the 1980's. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris) offered a retrospective of Atget from March 27, 2007 until July 1, 2007.
Information for this article sourced from George Eastman House
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Rudy Giuliani: Supply-Sider-in-Chief
Republican primary voters should rally around the GOP field's most accomplished supply-sider, the all-but-announced Rudolph W. Giuliani. Having sliced taxes and slashed Gotham's government, New York's former mayor is the leading fiscal conservative among 2008's GOP presidential contenders.
Before Giuliani's January 1, 1994 inauguration, New York's economy was on a stretcher. Amid soaring unemployment, 235 jobs vanished daily. Financier Felix Rohatyn complained: "Virtually all human activities are taxed to the hilt." Punitive taxes helped fuel a $2.3 billion deficit.
Mayor-elect Giuliani sounded Reaganesque when he announced he would "reduce the size and cost of city government" to balance the budget. In his first State of the City address, he said: "We're going to cut taxes to attract jobs so our people can work."
Giuliani spent eight years keeping these promises.
"America's Mayor" cut or killed 23 levies, saving taxpayers $9.8 billion. Giuliani pared Gotham's top income-tax rate by 20.6%. Washington, D.C.'s CFO reported that between 1993 and 2001, local taxes on a family of four New Yorkers earning $50,000 fell 23.7%.
Giuliani cut the commercial-rent tax, curbed sales taxes, and curtailed the marriage penalty on taxpaying couples. Giuliani proudly shaved Gotham's hotel tax from 6% to 5 in 1994. Consequently, that tax's revenues soared from $135 million in Fiscal Year 1995 to $239 million in FY 2001.
Giuliani defends his supply-side instincts with bracing candor. Asked after September 11 if he would hike taxes, Giuliani called that "a dumb, stupid, idiotic, and moronic thing to do."
Giuliani's expenditure growth averaged 2.9% annually, while local inflation between January 1994 and December 2001 averaged 3.6%. His FY 1995 budget decreased outlays by 1.6%, while his post-9/11 FY 2002 plan lowered appropriations by 2.6%.
If President Bush had followed Giuliani's example and limited Washington's spending to 2.9% average, annual growth, the just-unveiled FY 2008 federal budget would cost $2.275 trillion, not $2.9 trillion, saving taxpayers $625 billion, the Cato Institute's Stephen Slivinski estimates. Such Giulianian fiscal discipline would generate a $386 billion surplus, not an anticipated $239 billion deficit.
Giuliani repeatedly privatized municipal assets. Giuliani sold WNYC radio for $20 million, WNYC-TV for $207 million, and Gotham's share of the U.N. Plaza Hotel for $85 million. Divesting the New York Coliseum excised an eyesore from Columbus Circle and added $345 million to city coffers. Giuliani also let the private Central Park Conservancy manage Manhattan's fabled urban forest.
These eight years of tax reduction and fiscal responsibility helped hammer unemployment from 10.4 percent in 1993 to 5.7 percent in 2001. Simultaneously, personal income advanced 53 percent.
It's hard to compare a two-term ex-mayor, a one-term governor, and a four-term U.S. senator. Nevertheless, Cato's 2006 gubernatorial report card gives former Massachusetts chief executive Mitt Romney a "C." While the top personal tax rate fell 6 percent on his watch, thanks to a referendum voters approved before he arrived, Romney's first budget raised $140 million by closing corporate-tax loopholes. It also featured some $501.5 million in increased fees, including higher marriage licenses (from $4 to $50), pricier gun permits ($25 to $100), a $100 biannual fee for volunteer firefighters (rescinded under pressure), and a $10, previously free, ID card that lets the blind ride Boston public-transit gratis.
Few in Congress expose outrageous federal boondoggles as fervently as does John McCain. However, he is an ambivalent tax fighter. According to Club for Growth research, McCain opposed President Clinton's 1993 tax increases and supported his 1997 capital gains tax cuts. He also voted to extend President Bush's 2003 tax cuts. For 2005, McCain earned a 78% National Taxpayers Union rating -- an "A."
Unfortunately, McCain opposed President Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. McCain voted against repealing the Death Tax in 2002. Also, in 1998, McCain embraced former Sen. Tom Daschle's (D.-S.D.) motion to approve Big Tobacco's Master Settlement Agreement, including a $1.10-per-pack cigarette-tax increase.
"I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues," McCain conceded to Wall Street Journal editorialist Stephen Moore. "I still need to be educated."
Conservatives seeking a proven leader to lasso taxes and rein in runaway spending have a natural choice for President: Rudolph W. Giuliani.
-Deroy Murdock
This article originally appeared in Human Events on February 9th, 2007. It is reprinted here with the author's permission


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What's with all the first? Ann tam want be pretty =P #2017NonExistenceResolution #GirlsBeingGirls
By the way, just an update on the eyelashes. It's all gone even before Chinese New Year Eve. Lol. There are some eyelash championed and stayed on, but it looks kind of weird. It is as if I have some stray bulu that grew out of proportion. So, I just kinda rubbed till it drop off. Girls, this is not advisable, if not done carefully, your original bulu mata also will dropped off. Really. Not joking.
Anyway, back to the hair perm story. I've never permed my hair before. That is like 2x (I guess, age should be kept secret now. lol The number is big now) of my years of life. The only chemical hair treatment I've done so far is colouring 'em hair in to different colours, which I have decided to stop doing so. Which, if you noticed, it's black now. Had enough of the black roots issue!
But, girls being girls. Always want to do something and have changes. HAHAHA. I have a flat top and a frizzy bottom hair, which annoys me, hence I thought let's blow it up by perm em' hair. Besides, curly/wavy long bob looks like a trend to me now.
Come to the actual day, it was Chinese New Year Eve (My office was already close), I decided to drop by the saloon and be their last customer for the year. The slight guilt where they were fidgeting while waiting for my hair to be done before they close their shop. lolol. While doing the hair, I found out they were doing cold perm for me. Hahaha my heart nearly stop beating for fearing my hair will look like those aunties, but he said its the most suitable method for me as my hair is short. Well, at that point, let's just leave it to the professional. I left the saloon paying lesser than as I expected, because cold perms are cheaper and my hair was saloon blown. So, this means I can't actually see the real effect till I wash my hair.
The saloon blown hair is not what I've imagined it to be. *slight disappointment*
So, the very next day, the first day of CNY, I stood in front of the mirror and restyled my hair for a good one hour. Changed to middle parting and recurl my hair.


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Continental Maritime has followed General Dynamics NASSCO and BAE Systems in announcing that it will lay off workers in San Diego as a result the cuts being brought about in the federal budget because of sequestration.
The company filed a notice with the state saying that it will lay off 185 workers, effective April 12. It was unclear whether the notice represents conditional layoff orders, such as the ones issued to 375 workers at NASSCO and 1,368 at BAE Systems. Those two shipbuilders said layoffs would be formalized in April if Congress does not restore significant money to the Defense Department budget.
Continental Maritime -- a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries -- is the smallest of San Diego's three major ship yards. It is performing repairs and upgrades on the destroyer Sterett and the amphibious warship Comstock.
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December 19
Symbols: Plant with Flower
Come to deliver us, and tarry
O Root of Jesse, who stands for an ensign of the people,
before whom kings shall keep silence and unto whom the Gentiles shall
make supplication: Come to deliver us, and tarry not.
O Radix Jesse, qui stas in signum populorum, super
quem continebunt reges os suum, quem gentes deprecabuntur: veni ad liberandum
nos, jam noli tardare.
The flower which springs up from the root of Jesse is
another figure of Christ. Isaiah prophesied that the Savior would be born
from the root of Jesse, that He would sit upon the throne of David, and
in Christ this prophecy is fulfilled.
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I am honored to welcome guest author Sondrae Bennett to my blog today. Let's find out more about her and check out her book "Worth Fighting For: All's Fair In Love and War."
1-How long have you been writing?
Well, I've always loved to write, especially fiction, but it wasn't until a few years ago that I ever considered making it more than a hobby. The idea never entered my head until I started writing more frequently while unemployed for a few months. Then, once the idea took hold, I wondered why I hadn't considered it earlier. I've always been an avid reader, and I loved to tell stories. So I decided to try and write professionally and never looked back. One of the best decisions I've ever made.
2-What is your favorite genre to write?
As both a reader and a writer, romance is my favorite genre. Pairing people up and watching them fall in love is such an amazing feeling. It's like falling in love myself over and over again as I go through the ups and downs with my characters. Although, I also love to read urban fantasy and have a few ideas for an UF series. I'm looking forward to writing it once the idea has fully matured.
3-What are you working on now?
Right now I'm in edits for the fifth book in the Alpine Woods Shifter series, Cover Desires, which will be coming out the third week in December, and I'm also working on writing Kalindra, which is my contribution to a collaborative series I'm working on with Renee Rocco, Silke Juppenlatz, and Annie Nicholas. It's going to be a really fun series, so look for the first Gatekeeper book early 2013!
4-When you start a new story do you begin with character or plot?
Usually a little bit of both. The story needs a little bit of plot to get it going, but my characters also need to be well rounded from the beginning to get emotional depth. Especially when writing novella length stories, both the characters and the plot need to hit the ground running, so to speak.
5- Tell us about your latest/upcoming release, what inspired it?
Worth Fighting For, the fourth book in the Alpine Woods Shifter series, just came out this past May, and this story really holds a special place in my heart. Although this book is the fourth in the series, all of them can be read as standalones, although I always recommend reading them in order. The hero was first introduced in the first book, and as soon as I wrote him, I knew he needed his own story. It took me a few books, but I finally found him a heroine worthy of him in Misty, and boy was she a hoot to write! Together, the sparks definitely started to fly.
Here's the blurb:
All's fair in love and war.
As leader of a fox skulk, Cody is used to feeling protective. But when his best friend, Misty, gets attacked, his panic has nothing to do with duty. Suddenly, he's noticing Misty as a woman instead of the girl he grew up with. But pursuing those feelings would risk their friendship, something he's unwilling to do.
Misty's tried everything, without success, to convince Cody she's not "one of the guys". Yet now that he's looking at her like she always dreamed, he pulls away every time she gets close.
Danger lurks in the background, waiting to pounce. Someone plots against the foxes, leaving them all in jeopardy…especially Misty. Will Cody overcome his fears in time to save the woman he loves?
The first thing Cody heard when he approached Misty's front door was laughter. The kind of laughter that came straight from the gut, borne of pure joy. A sound he'd come to associate with Misty. He smiled as he opened the door and strode into her living room.
The text he'd received earlier had said to come right in, but his confident steps faltered as he saw the cause of her giggles. Misty in human form, sat on the floor with a beaver puppet, playing with a fox. The kit's eyes were open, but he still possessed his black baby fluff. It couldn't be older than a couple weeks.
"What is that?"
Apparently unaware of his presence until he spoke, she jumped at the sound of his voice.
"Oh, hi Cody." She looked at her wrist as if expecting a watch to be there. Why she did that when he could count the times she'd worn a watch in the past two years on one hand, he'd never understand. "Is it time for training already? I'm not dressed, yet."
Cody looked down at her clothes. Skin tight jeans that looked way too appealing and a black t-shirt with the words Foxy Lady spelled in big pink letters across her breasts. Perky breasts that would fill his hands perfectly.
Way too tempting. Those clothes had to go. Wait. He mentally back-pedaled, rephrasing his last thought. She had to change into different clothes, more clothes. Some nice baggy sweats would be perfect. Something to hide her figure. And tennis shoes, he thought as he watched her bare toes curl into the carpet, the bubble gum pink polish peeking out from under her jeans.
Cody shook his head and refocused on the problem at hand. "You can change in a minute. What is that?" he asked again, pointing to the animal at her feet.
"What's what?"
She looked down, as if unaware anything abnormal was going on. Apparently in Misty's world, playing with a fox on the living room floor was business as usual.
"That's a fox. You know, one would think the Premier of fox shifters would know that."
The teasing tone almost brought a smile to his face, but his curiosity wouldn't let the subject go. "I know it's a fox. What is it doing in your living room?"
"I adopted it," she said.
"Adopted it?" Cody looked down at the animal again. There was no humanity in its scent, but the boy was still a baby. He hadn't been around enough newborns to know the difference between a shifter baby and a fox baby. "It's a shifter, then?" He hadn't realized Misty was considering adoption. But the more he thought about it, the more he realized Misty would be a great mom.
"No, it's a fox." She spoke slowly as if to a simpleton. "I feel like we've been here already."
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Today I'm going to be talking about the Etude House Play 101 Pencil in the shade 24, and how much it disappoints me. It's not often that I find Fail Products in the Etude House line (since I pretty much worship them, lets be honest) but I was utterly disappointed in this product! Don't get me wrong, there are some good aspects of this product, but it's useless for the main reason that I purchased it.
- Rich color with a single drawing: Rich and pigmented colors that do not need layering over and over.
- 5 various textures: Creamy, matte, glossy, shimmering, and glitter types available. Pick your favorite texture and experience the easy and fast makeup
- Long lasting waterproof function: Made of 'highly functional waterproof polymer'* for long-lasting makeup.
(*'Highly functional waterproof polymer' is NOT applied to some of glossy type items)
- Matte: Soft drawing but powdery finishing. Recommend to use as eyebrow, eyeshadow, concealer, and base.
- Glossy: Moist texture that can simply fill up crease. Recommend to use as blusher and lips.
- Shimmering: Delicate glittering color for urbane look.
- Glitter: Glittering texture for dramatic and fancy makeup.
#6 (Shimmering) / #7 (Matte) / #8 (Matte) / #9 (Matte) / #10 (Matte)
#11 (Creamy) / #12 (Glossy) / #13 (Glitter) / #14 (Creamy) / #15 (Glossy)
#16 (Creamy) / #17 (Creamy) / #18 (Matte) / #19 (Creamy) / #20 (Creamy)
#21 (Glossy) / #22 (Glossy) / #23 (Glossy) / #24 (Creamy) / #25 (Glossy)
#26 (Glitter) / #27 (Glitter) / #28 (Glitter) / #29 (Shimmering) / #30 (Creamy)
#31 (Glitter) / #32 (Matte) / #33 (Matte) / #34 (Glitter) / #35 (Glitter)
#36 (Glitter) / #37 (Creamy) / #38 (Glitter) / #39 (Glitter) / #40 (Glitter)
#41 (Glitter) / #42 (Matte) / #43 (Glitter) / #44 (Glitter) / #45 (Shimmering)
#46 (Glitter) / #47 (Shimmering) / #48 (Glitter) / #49 (Creamy) / #50 (Creamy)
- As Eyeshadow: All options
- As Makeup Base: 6~10
- As Highlighter: 6
- As Concealer: 8
- As Lip / Blusher: 11~26
- As Eyebrow: 41, 42
I bought the shade 24 especially to line my lips when I'm wearing the Lime Crime Velvetine in Wicked, because even though those Velvetines are advertised as not needed lip liners, they totally do, and it's such a dark colour that I can't afford to make a mistake with the Velvetine because it just doesn't come off without wiping the rest of my foundation off. The shade 24 is quite a good match for Wicked!
You're supposed to be able to use this pencil as an eyeliner, blush and lipstick. I was really looking forward to using this pencil as an eye liner because I absolutely love Burgundy eye liner! It's quite easy to apply the pencil directly on the upper lash line, but I prefer a thinner line which means I need to use an Angled Liner Brush. This gives a less vibrant colour than using the pencil properly.
You can use this pencil to create a gradient lip, since it's so creamy it does work quite well. It needs retouching like your average gradient lip, but the pencil is easy to carry for touch ups.
The first and foremost reason that I purchased this Pencil is to line my lips while wearing Lime Crime's Velvetine in the shade Wicked. However, it's just too creamy to make for a good, long lasting lip liner. The Velvetines are designed to be long wearing, (although personally they chunk up something terrible after eating and drinking) and this pencil doesn't even last four hours without fading and smudging, after 6 hours it starts to feather out into my lip lines. It actually looks better for me to wear Wicked without this liner, because at least my crooked line stays firm without fading.
- Makes a gorgeous cream blush
- Works well as a gradient lip colour
I don't think these pencils in general are awful failures, but I do think that they've tried to cover all the bases and by doing so, failed in half of them. A pencil with a creamy enough formula to be a good blush does not make for a good lip liner. This is a Fail Product because I bought it to be a lip and eye liner, and it doesn't work well. It does work well as a cream blush and a gradient lip, but I already have products that cover those bases!
I would absolutely love to try out the other colours and formulas of the Play 101 Pencils, and I would definitely recommend this shade for anyone wanting a natural looking cream blush, or a gorgeous gradient lip. ^.^


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Thank you for exploring training with the Department of Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance. Through our Harvard Medical School affiliated programs, we have prepared health professionals for a wide variety of satisfying careers for over three decades.
At Cambridge Health Alliance you will find a highly integrated, community-oriented health care system that is a national model of care. We celebrate our ethnically and culturally diverse community and staff. We promote a respectful, socially conscious, and intellectually stimulating environment for health care and education. Our vision statement speaks of our passion and commitment: we seek to be the foremost academic public health care system in the nation. Over the past decade, we have received recognition that speaks to the breadth of our service and academic mission and our "Institute for Community Health" provides a focus for relevant research and education.
The Department of Medicine provides comprehensive primary care and specialty services in a model designed to meet the needs of the community. Department services are available at more than 15 primary care sites and three hospital campuses. Patients and staff benefit from the use of clinical computing through a state-of-the-art electronic medical records system. All full-time department members have faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School.
The Department is structured in divisions, which include: Cardiology; Endocrinology; Geriatrics; Hematology/Oncology; Hospital Medicine; Neurology; Occupational/ Environmental Medicine; Pulmonary Medicine; Rheumatology; Medical Education; and Social and Community Medicine. Clinical specialties include a Multidisciplinary HIV/AIDS center and Tuberculosis clinic. Primary care medicine is integrated in an Alliance-wide Department of Ambulatory Care.
The philosophy of the department - and of the Alliance as a whole - is to create a community of caring that extends to patients, staff, and trainees. Training programs are solid academically and clinically, yet offer a flexible environment that allows residents to excel. Our residents benefit from community-based training in an integrated public health care system with access to tertiary care training opportunities at other Harvard-affiliated institutions. Throughout this system our diverse faculty and house staff are committed to improving the health of the public. This shared dedication, paired with an environment of respectfulness, allows us to pursue true academic and clinical excellence.
Thank you again for your interest in the Department of Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance. I am confident that you will appreciate the uniqueness of our institution and training programs and the sincerity of our commitment to excellence.


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Saturday, 2 April 2011
Charity Anthology: 'Yesterday'
The wonderful stories and poems in this charity anthology were selected from the entries to the first Annual Short Story and Poetry Competition (2010). The contest was run by The Pages Magazine and the theme was 'Yesterday'.
I'm over the moon that my short story Frozen in Time is included.
All proceeds will be going to Ty Hafan Children's Hospice, Wales so a fantastic cause.
The anthology - a perfect-bound paperback - costs just £2.50 and is available HERE
Posted by Maureen at 16:52
Labels: Gossip from the garret, Rollicking reads
2 comments:
- Trevor said...
Good book, great cause. Well worth £2.50. Good call Mo.
- 2 April 2011 at 17:21
- Maureen said...
Thanks, Trevor. Certainly worth a few pounds for some great reads.
- 2 April 2011 at 17:24


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What makes the Volante sit to stand workstation from Systematix so versatile you ask? It can be used on any 24" operating surface. Believe it or not, the entire unit ships fully assembled and no tools are required. The Volante can be quickly and efficiently retrofitted to fit nearly any workstation you're currently utilizing.
The gas assisted height adjustment provides users with a smooth and quiet transition from sitting to standing positions. The main surface can be raised up to 20" above the desk to accommodate taller individuals.
Want to make use of that handy dual screen monitor arm you can't live without? No worries. The Volante boasts a work surface grommet that makes attaching your mount a breeze. The grommet can also be used for wire management to keep those pesky cords nice and neat.
With a heavy duty design built to accommodate up to 35 pounds, Volante is ready to work in the toughest environments. This high tech ergonomic workstation means business! Systematix wouldn't have it any other way.
At the everyday low price of just $359.99, the Volante desktop sit to stand workstation provides exceptional value. It's most comparable product, the VariDesk will definitely run you more. Remember, just because you've seen it on TV, that doesn't make it better. If you have the opportunity to compare the two, we highly recommend doing so. YouTube videos are available on both products that should definitely be checked out.
With products like the Volante on the market, it makes you wonder why any shopper would invest thousands of dollars into a electronic sit to stand desk. It makes far more sense to just add the Volante to your current workstation. We're prod to give this all new product from Systematix a well deserved 4 out of 5 star rating. The Volante solves the extended sitting epidemic more effectively and affordably than anything on the market. Try it once an you'll never settle for anything less!
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I love Sunday afternoons, there's Evan's nap, football, and stamping! I often sneak down to the basement while Evan naps and make my Cards & Things Challenge Card for the week and then hurry up to snuggle up by my honey to watch football. GO Packers!
This weekend; however, I stamped my challenge card and then got Dani ready to head back to college. She is coming home a couple times a month for food and laundry service. I will gladly pick her up a few groceries and do a couple loads of laundry is she comes home and spends the weekend w/ us.
This week, Krista choose some really soft colors for her color challenge. I immediately thought baby card, but took it in another direction.
I bought the Serene Snowflakes set awhile back and it was sitting on my table unmounted. I thought these colors would be perfect for a winter card. I was MOST excited about Mr. Snowman's pink/chocolate scarf and hat. They are my two favorite colors together.
Here are the supplies you need to make this card:
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Blushing Bride, Chocolate Chip
Ink: Staz-On, Baja Breeze, Pumpkin Pie, Blushing Bride, Chocolate Chip
Stamp Sets: Snow Much Fun, Serene Snowflakes, Best of Everything (sentiment)
Accessories: Corner Rounder Punch, Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, Stripes Embossing Folder, Tasteful Trim die, Big Shot, Aqua Painters, rhinestones
Need Stampin' Up! products? Place your order here 24/7!
Terry invited Evan and me to go for a ride down into Northern Illinois w/ him last Thursday. Evan loves to go in the car with Mom and Dad to see all the sites. Don't you just love his rooster tail? It doesn't matter how much I comb it down, it wants to stick straight out! :)
It was rainy, sunny, and very windy on our trip. This is the midwest we are talking about--we have it all. Sometimes in just one day! In fact, we were under a wind advisory Thursday afternoon. It really wasn't bad until we got almost back to the Wisconsin border. In fact, we were behind a semi for a few miles that was having a rough time controlling the truck and trailer when the wind would gust.
Sorry for the qualities of the next couple photos they were taken out my car window.
This is a double rainbow over a farm in Northern Illinois.
I love this time of year with the corn stalks drying out and the corn about ready to be harvested.
Here's two little minature horses that were unamused by the lady calling out her window and taking pictures of them.. I had to get a few shots of them to show my girls.
These little horses look like they are either mixed with a pot bellied pig or well fed. I giggled their legs are SO short--kinda like mine!! I tried to convince Terry that the girls need one. He didn't believe me.
And last but not least..... I have never seen a gargoyle in a bush before, but I have now. This was in the front yard in Illinois. I didn't know quite what to think of it---still don't! Oddly, Terry saw nothing strange about this creepy little fella. I'm SO glad that I decorate our house and mow the yard. Who knows what the decor could be if I left it up to Terry. LOL


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MUA Lipsticks
Friday, 14 September 2012
First off, the packaging doesn't excite me. The lid on shade #15 is very loose and keeps falling off - not great! They have black plastic packaging with silver writing - not the most glamorous, but what can you expect for £1? The one thing I do like about the packaging is that at the bottom there's a small pot of the lipstick which screws off, and you have a little extra product there! And it means you can see the actual lipstick colour rather than a label representation.
On to the actual product... I have to say, I'm disappointed. Maybe I hyped these up too much from reading such great reviews, but I'm really not a fan. Shade #15 is much more pigmented than #4 and it's a gorgeous colour, but the staying power isn't there for me. This barely lasts an hour for me and if I eat or drink anything - forget it. However, I do love the colour so this one is worth the constant retouching just for that.
As for #4, I'll probably never use it. The pigmentation is non-existent. It looks okay swatched on my hand, but I tried it on my lips and it just looked like a balm. I could see no colour at all on my lips which was a shame as it looked like a gorgeous colour in the tube.
I hate to write a negative review, but I really was disappointed! The difference in pigmentation between these 2 lipsticks was massive, and it does make me a little hesitant to try more of their lipsticks in case I come across another #4! I feel like I shouldn't complain because they were only £1 after all. It does have to be said that MUA have some star products like their eyeshadow palettes, and perhaps some of the lipsticks have better pigmentation than others and I just got unlucky with #4!
Have you tried any of the MUA range? What do you think?
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Shade 15 does look like such a nice colour, such a shame about the lasting power though! xxReplyDelete
I have shade 5 and it's a gorgeous shade but the lasting power is awful, 30-45 minutes maximum and like you it's without eating or drinking. Still, they glide on and I will keep using it for during the day although i'd use a longer lasting lipstick for night :)ReplyDelete
I did a review and had the exact same issues!! XxxxReplyDelete
I like the pink it looks quite sheer though?ReplyDelete
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I had the exact same problem! I think people let the price make them think its a good product when theyre actually not! Id rather pay a few more £'s for one that actually shows up. I agree they are naff lol! xxReplyDelete
they are really hit and miss but for £1 you can't expect much! The top one is really pretty though!ReplyDelete
I love MUA as a brand but their lipsticks don't excite me either xReplyDelete
i havent tried MUA but ive heard good things! :) makemeupmandy.blogspot.comReplyDelete
yeah I agree with you! I bought it in Nectar, it looks pretty but doesn't come across well on the lips at all, and barely stays on for half an hour! xReplyDelete
I love Mua lipsticks, they last ok on me and for £1 I can live with that. If your lookin for longer lasting, but still cheap, try the new Vivo cosmetics matte lipsticks. I have one in wow pink and it lasted ages and is a steal at £1.99! You do need to use a lipbalm first tho :)ReplyDelete
Gem x
Both gorgeous colours xxReplyDelete


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Dody's Chocolate Cake
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 8 tablespoons butter
- 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 2 eggs
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- ¾ cup chocolate icing
Preheat oven to 350˚. Combine flour and sugar in mixing bowl. Put 1 cup water, oil, butter, and cocoa into heavy boiler. Bring to a boil, and cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add mixture to sugar and flour, beat well. Add buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, and salt. Mix until smooth. Pour batter in 9-inch x 13-inch baking pan and bake for 40 minutes. Ice with chocolate icing while still hot. Yield: 18 servings.
Chocolate Icing
- 4 tablespoons milk
- 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 8 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Mix milk, cocoa, and butter together, and bring to a boil. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla, stirring until well mixed, with no lumps. Yield: ¾ cup.
Additional recipes from Recipes from Our Front Porch that appeared originally with this one:
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Vincent van Gogh was born today in 1853. As an icon and artist, he needs no introduction, though his tragic life — the archetype of the tortured artist — often overshadows his unique vision and talent. One hopes this isn't what forms public opinion, yet it's hard to deny the emotional intensity that oozes from his works.
I spoke to a woman once who didn't like Van Gogh's work, finding them too bright and the movement within, unnerving. These are precisely the qualities I enjoy, and when I was young, I covered my room with van Gogh prints from a calendar and painted my walls the cornflower blue he favored.
Lately, I've been absorbed in films by Akira Kurosawa. Though I've now just gotten around to seeing the classics: Rashomon, The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, I've always loved his later film Dreams, a series of eight shorts based on Kurosawa's own dreams. The clip below is why. It's a beautiful and unnerving tribute to van Gogh (played by Martin Scorsese) in which Kurosawa (played by Akira Terao) runs through a series of van Gogh paintings, searching for the agitated artist.


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Not used anything like that, sorry
Hi there,
Just bought some jmc corrosion additive to add to my fuel tank for storage but not sure how much to put in! It's a german brand and i can't seem to find any values for it online. Has anyone used this before??
Not used anything like that, sorry
Hi, was just gonna fill it up with petrol and leave it till i find out more, it was just to protect the inside of the tank but if its full of petrol then that should be fine do you think?
Is it this stuff?
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If it is, the advert say's that 200 ml treats 20 litres of fuel, so that equates to 10ml for every litre of fuel.
Sorry, I haven't any experience of this product either.
I leave my tank full over winter so I can turn my bike over every 2-3 weeks. No problems with that routine over the last 15yrs now
look like a injector cleaner kinda like redex wouldn't bother myself my bikes only get started when i am going out never had any trouble
Light aircraft practice is to keep the tanks full when not in use to avoid condensation as much as possible. However we do now have ethanol to worry about. You can't win.
bluenose-1956 (01-13-2018)
Thats where I differ from you, as I always put my bike battery on the optimiser when not in use which if I remember correctly you cant as your bike is in an outhouse with no mains feed unless you run an extension cable up
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Marianne Williamson, the spiritual lecturer and best-selling author of such books as The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife, plans to bring a new consciousness to politics with the two-day Sister Giant conference she is organizing for November 10 and 11.
Taking place in Los Angeles just days after Election Day, the conference will combine the need for developing a spiritual perspective on politics, in-depth analysis of issues our politicians should be addressing but often don't, and hands-on training geared towards attracting more women to run for office.
"If several hundred women — I think it will be more — leave, first, with a deeper understanding of childhood poverty, mass incarceration, and the destructive role of money in politics; second, with an appreciation for the legislative efforts needed to change those things; third, a fuller recognition of the need for more women to be elected so those legislative priorities can be shifted; and, finally, at least considering the possibility of more political involvement for themselves," Williamson says. "Hallelujah! That will be a victory."
Directed particularly at women — and at men who would like to support women in politics — the conference's first day will address the emotional and psychological issues that have kept women from getting fully involved in the political world, before delving into sessions on three topics a woman candidate — or, really, any candidate — should understand in depth before running for office:
- Child Poverty: America's child poverty rate is 23%, putting us ahead of all but Romania among 35 developed nations.
- Mass Incarceration: America incarcerates more of our people than any nation in the world.
- Money in Politics: "The cancer beneath all the cancers," says Williamson.
On the second day, the conference will present a workshop on the ins and outs of running for office given by Yale University's Women's Campaign School, an organization devoted to increasing the number and influence of women in elected and appointed positions in the United States and around the world. (See the Sister Giant Facebook page here.)
Taking a Pass on Politics
Williamson, who founded The Peace Alliance, a nonprofit designed to agitate for a new United States Department of Peace, and Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program for homebound AIDS sufferers in Los Angeles, was motivated to start Sister Giant in part because so many in spiritual communities have stayed out of politics.
"When you look at what goes on in politics, it is so tempting to move into anger, to move into cynicism, to move into despair," she says. "So when it comes to seeking a better life, many people have just taken a pass when it comes to politics."
Still, Williamson believes the change the world needs will come from within:
"I don't believe that politics is the salvation of the world. Inner change is the salvation of the world," she says "But if we don't deal with politics, current politicians and their followers may destroy the world before we have a chance to renew it from within. I'm concerned about politics more for the negative role it could play."
Williamson retains great faith in the American spirit, citing the development of Apple computers and Facebook, the landing of Curiosity on Mars. "People say how 'down' Americans are, but we're still the ones who come up with some of the biggest advancements," she says.
"You can look at any area of endeavor — education, business, science, technology — and you find really good Americans doing really good things," Williamson continues. "Politics, though, it's a hard place to pour your best. If you think of politics, it's almost as if there's a sign at the door saying to leave the best part of yourself outside."
All Children of Occupy
Williamson gives the Occupy Movement great credit for awakening the spirit of involvement and activism that has swept the country.
"I've sold a lot of books. I started several nonprofits. I'm not coming from some great misunderstanding about the material plane," she says. "But what we do with Sister Giant needs to be in service with what really needs to be change, and that's why I do admire what Occupy has done. I see all of what we're doing as children of Occupy."
Contrary to many observers who think the Occupy movement has had no effect, has not gone anywhere, has failed, Williamson sees significant change.
"I think it had a profound effect: it changed the conversation. That's nonmaterial," she says. "But that nonmaterial change is now part of the political conversation that there's a 1 percent and then there are the rest of us. That is ground-breaking. You change the conversation, you change the world."
Williamson is open to possibilities with Sister Giant.
"My goal is to create a lot of action that weekend. What people do with it afterwards is none of my business, unless it becomes obvious that it is my business," she says. "The world is not calling out for more organizations, it's not calling out for more density. It's calling out for deeper reflection and understanding."
Still, if enough energy comes out of the conference, and if money is available, she can see hiring a political director and creating a nonprofit entity to continue its work.
"I'm open to that. It's like everything else we do in our lives; what's the next indicated action?" she says. "But the action we need is inside people's heads. The real action is people sitting there listening to their hearts."
Quality, Not Quantity
Williamson does not necessarily anticipate a great mass movement coming out of Sister Giant.
"We worry, both on the Left and the Right, too much about what the majority thinks," she says. "But the majority didn't just wake up one day and say, 'let's get rid of slavery.' The majority didn't wake up one day and say, 'let's give women the right to vote.'"
"It's about depth of message and sheer validity of the claim, as Martin Luther King would say," she continues. "It doesn't matter if it's a popular idea: what great idea was ever a popular idea when it was first articulated?"
Politics at its soul should be collective truth-telling, Williamson believes.
"That's why Gandhi said that politics should be sacred," Williamson concludes.
Editor & Publisher, LA Progressive


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I was walking away from a dream scene in which I was flying around in an odd- shaped building fighting Predators along side some people I've never met. After defeating them, an old infantry buddy of mine from the Marines joined me in walking away. The landscape was quite strange. Dirty, unmaintained buildings and broken heavy machinery was strewn about. The ground was a tan sort of dirt or clay. We walked over to a building that only had three sides and a roof where a broken tractor sat inside. Still talking, we turned around and began walking back in the direction where I was fighting the Predators. This reminded me of the flying and using energy from my hands to defeat them. I began to describe to my friend how amazing it was to fly and perform superhuman feats. The dialogue was very specific and I remember it all, but it's not important so I won't bore you. Lol
All of the sudden, as I described the battle from earlier to him, my right foot sank into a patch of thick, plush grass. This sensation triggered my lucidity. The awareness hit me so hard that I stopped speaking and looked down. My feet sank into the soft grass, and I pressed down with my right foot so far that I could feel the blades buckling.
"This is a lucid dream! I'm dreaming!" I said out loud.
My friend looked at me in disbelief and said "Really?".
"We can do anything we want now..even fly. I'm going to right now!"
The excitement was so overwhelming that I began to destabilize and to my amazement, immediately remembered to look at my hands. I hadn't practiced looking at them while awake in months but the thought immediately came to me and BAM..worked perfectly.
I ran and jumped as high as I could, expecting to soar away. But as I did, a shred of doubt entered my mind and I fell flat on my face into the dirt.
I again looked at my hands to stabilize as a rush of emotion hit me again. I was disappointed that I'd failed, but the realization that I had complete control over my lucidity was very empowering and i decided instead to just explore with Jake. I ran my fingers through the dirt before standing back up, and the memory came to me that I could try spinning in a circle to change something in the dreamscape. I closed my eyes and spun. When I opened them I was bummed that no scenery was visibly different. However, Jake was now gone and a man identical to his appearance in every way possible besides his face was standing there looking at me. He began to walk and I followed, still checking my hands frequently to stay stable and aware.
I followed him for a bit when I suddenly heard the distinct roar of Harley's in the distance. I felt afraid for some reason and decided to run ahead of him and take cover. Reaching in my pocket to pull out the weapon I had used earlier to fight the predators, I instead pulled out nothing, and my hand was now in the corny shape of a hand gun. As the bikers came closer, I realized that the sounds weren't coming from motorcycles because they weren't riding any! They were floating across the ground, suspended in the air in a riding position, but with nothing underneath them and making the engine sounds with their own mouths. I opened fire...with my fingers...I guess. Apparently my non-bullets hit, and they both wiped out into the dirt.
The dream character caught up to me and we were about to continue walking when I decided I'd had enough of the dull landscape. I looked off to my right and closed my eyes. When I opened them, a giant pool occupied by dozens of women was visible and I became extremely sexually aware.
"Jake!..women!" I shouted, forgetting he wasn't with me anymore. The DC looked at me, puzzled.
"Jake?", I said as I turned to look behind me.
Seeing that he was still gone, I finished the revolution. The split second I did this, I felt it was a mistake. Something said in my mind "you changed it for a reason, stop looking".
When I came full circle around, the dream character was looking directly at me and said, "Oops."
I woke up fully conscious.
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