La Bloggatrice Squillante Returns

Happy Thanksgiving!!

2009-11-26T14:44:04Z

Wishing you all a wonderful day!

Dentist!

2009-11-21T19:41:50Z

Writer's Block: Time in a bottle (thanks, dadi!)

2009-11-21T14:20:32Z

Imagine that you have a time machine. Which deceased musician would you most want to travel back in time to watch perform live?

Submitted By crazyprotein

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My first impulse was that I would like to see Maria Callas perform live, but at least I have heard many of her recordings and seen some video. So instead, I choose Adelina Patti. She was the Maria Callas of her day, and no recording exists of her singing, except when recording was in its infancy and she was long, long past her prime. So I choose Adelina! Specfically I would want to hear her sing Amina in La Sonnambula.

Now this is just bordering on rude

2009-11-09T23:34:42Z

I left a message for my agency today saying Hello? Any news on that job I just had a final interview for last week?

No response.

I guess I should just write this one off, but really until I hear a definite No, I will think there's a shot. Agh.

Steelers play tonight! Go Get' Em Steelies!!!!

I'm ready for some football!

One more book and I get to watch tv

2009-09-19T12:58:54Z

So I have been very good with this self challenge of reading 2 books before I can watch any tv. I just finished Lady MacBeth on the way home from work and now I am more than halfway through this really cool book that I had bought a while ago but never got around to reading: Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets

In addition to the wonderful ancient Japanese poetry, it has gorgeous illustrations like this one:

This sort of illustration always reminds me of being in The Tale of Genji in Saint Louis and Japan. Very nice memories, indeed!

So reading this book as my second book is a little bit of a cheat, because a lot of the pages just have an illustration, but I want to finish this book and get other things accomplished before Tony gets here at 4.

The Japanese poems are really short and yet full of imagery and emotion. Here's one that stood out for me:

mishi hito no
keburi to narishi
yübe yori
na zo mutsumashiki
shiogama no ura

Since that evening
When the man that I had known
Became no more than smoke,
How its name brings memories --
The Bay of Salt-cauldrons

-- Murasaki Shikibu 973(?) - 1014(?)

The Best 12 Pounds I Ever Gained

2009-07-22T11:32:16Z

My cat, Petunia.

Saturday!

2009-04-25T12:50:47Z

Happy Birthday profrobert !!!

I'm pretty sure I got the date right this year.... Hope you have a wonderful birthday!!

I am meeting up with my cousin Diane and her friend in town today. The plans aren't set but I hear her friend wants to see the Statue of Liberty. I might try to steer them toward Mimi's tonight - it's a piano bar on the East Side that I haven't been to yet, but the Taci crowd raves about it.

That's about it. No Tony this weekend! Whaaaah! He has to do some work-related stuff and also will be glued to the football draft. I care about what happens regarding the Steelers in the draft but am not going to sit through the whole thing. It was a shame last year when the Evil Ray Lewis (Who is Getting Very Old) broke our first round draft pick's collarbone early on last year, taking him out for the season. Bastard. Ray Lewis sucks. Grrr.

Anyway, have a great day, all! Enjoy the sun.
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HAPPY DANCE!!!

2009-04-03T23:25:13Z

www.nhlcyberfamily.org/special/happydance.htm

Happy Valentine's Day!

2009-02-14T19:27:02Z

Le Jour de Gloire est Arrivé!!!!

2009-02-01T15:08:27Z

Hoping for a big Steelers win today!!! This is so exciting!!!

Here we go, Steelers! Here we go!

I love Antonio D. Soares, Jr.

2009-01-27T02:09:30Z

I seem to have written that a long time ago - August 16th, 2008 - but it bears repeating!

That is all.

Over and out.

STEELERS ARE SUPERBOWL BOUND!!!!!!!!

2009-01-19T03:20:39Z

OMG This is so weird and so great at the same time

2009-01-15T03:58:37Z

Give it a chance. Once you get over the WTF initial reaction, listen to her musicianship. It's actually very, very nice and very, very musical.

Verified

2008-12-31T17:26:51Z

I just spent 2 hours on the phone with my aunt Ronda, who has been working on our family history since the mid-90s. Get this - she already knew we were related to George Washington and had only told her daughter and her family. Ronda makes no genealogy claims until they can be verified through records and family bibles, so unless this is a fraud that goes way back, I am the direct descendent of the half brother of Mary Ball, George Washington's mother.

Some genealogists, amateur and otherwise believe there is a blood relation between George Washington and some British royalty, including Lady Catherine Grey and Jane Seymour, both of whom were married to Henry VIII.

The funny thing is that my main two historical interests have always been Tudor England and the American Revolution. This was the very reason I especially wanted to go slow with the George Washington connection - I wanted it to be true but it had to really BE true and not a puzzle where I forced the pieces to fit.

I think this all makes George a very distant cousin, because his mother would have been my Great x ? Aunt.

Very Freaking Cool!

Unexpected

2008-12-18T01:57:05Z

What more needs to be said?

2008-12-17T01:19:35Z

Pal Yat Chee

2008-12-14T19:53:56Z

Smells Like Obama Victory

2008-11-05T05:11:43Z

Seems too good to be true.

Saw this on DailyKos

2008-11-05T02:56:40Z

* V O T E *

2008-11-04T11:54:07Z

GO Obama! And Whoo Hoo STEELERS for beating the Redskins on Monday Night Football!!!!!

If you like my Obama cartoon, I link it here:

My champagne is officially on ice.

I would say this is pretty accurate....

2008-10-15T23:22:16Z

Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz...

You Are an Ingrid!

You are an Ingrid -- "I am unique"

Ingrids have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me

* Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.

* Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.

* Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.

* Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.

* Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!

What I Like About Being an Ingrid

* my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level

* my ability to establish warm connections with people

* admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life

* my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor

* being unique and being seen as unique by others

* having aesthetic sensibilities

* being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

What's Hard About Being an Ingrid

* experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair

* feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved

* feeling guilty when I disappoint people

* feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me

* expecting too much from myself and life

* fearing being abandoned

* obsessing over resentments

* longing for what I don't have

Ingrids as Children Often

* have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games

* are very sensitive

* feel that they don't fit in

* believe they are missing something that other people have

* attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.

* become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood

* feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)

Ingrids as Parents

* help their children become who they really are

* support their children's creativity and originality

* are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings

* are sometimes overly critical or overly protective

* are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

Take Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz at HelloQuizzy

Gakked from Mezzolibra!

2008-09-28T14:37:36Z

Your result for The Classic Dames Test...

Katharine Hepburn

You scored 29% grit, 24% wit, 57% flair, and 12% class!

You are the fabulously quirky and independent woman of character. You go your own way, follow your own drummer, take your own lead. You stand head and shoulders next to your partner, but you are perfectly willing and able to stand alone. Others might be more classically beautiful or conventionally woman-like, but you possess a more fundamental common sense and off-kilter charm, making interesting men fall at your feet. You can pick them up or leave them there as you see fit. You share the screen with the likes of Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant, thinking men who like strong women.

Find out what kind of classic leading man you'd make by taking the
Classic Leading Man Test.

Take The Classic Dames Test at HelloQuizzy

Ode to Joie

2008-09-16T01:25:11Z

Midsummer Music Magic

2008-08-06T01:03:25Z

I have always loved this song and scene from Much Ado About Nothing. There's something about it that's so peaceful, and full of the love of summer and music. Without seeking it out consciously I always have hoped to get at least one night each summer that makes me feel the same feeling that this scene evokes.

Enjoy!

Happy Fourth!

2008-07-04T11:57:19Z