Prosperine

Hello!

I´m looking for a place to stay in Whitby for WGW. I would like to share, since I am both fairly gregarious and budget minded. (More money to spend on shiny, I mean dark, VERY DARK, things.) I am coming from the US, so I would like to know that I have a place to stay. I see some places to stay on the net but I don´t think the B&B´s provide find a roomie. I have some friends who are regulars. Their reports excite and intrigue me. And yes, I look forward to seeing the town where Dracula landed.

I´m not sure how we would arrange payment, etc? I do have some UK friends who may be able to assist with this. How, I don´t know exactly...

So yes. Roommates sought. Traditional four dayish stay. Actual bed space preferred. Thank you in advance.

Oh bless, she's like Dyke Spice but smaller.


Did the accent just slip a little into RP? "sand-which-es" and she's in a drawer! I want one as a pet!

Does anyone have a rola bola that I can borrow for about a month? I need one but only for a short time and as pennies are tight I'd rather not buy one if someone has one they're not using.

Strange request I know but u never know...

Morrigan = yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :D

Today we lay to rest Anthony Rossi, Luisa's father. To say these are sad hard days, just doesn't cut it. Good journey Tony.

A beautiful service and a proper send off (all things considered). I'm truly proud to have known you Tony.. -doffs cap-

I do not get body hate. Seriously, I just don't get it, in exactly the same way I don't get fashion or sports. I mean, ok, occasionally I would like my ass to be a little smaller. And I would like to be a couple inches taller. And there is an absolute delusion in our society that I can/should do something about the former - that it is in someway completely unlike the latter, which it is not.

And you know, you could say I don't get it because I am ridiculously hot, 'cause I am, but dammit, so are you. I think all of my friends, and yes that includes you, are gorgeous and sexy and you know, that doesn't necessarily mean you carbonate my hormones or anything, but I love you - brain, personality, the way you move in a crowded room, and what you look like when I see you. Just the way you are. Whatever way that is.

But the thing that is going to cause me to snap, the thing that is going to get an epic rant here of the kind that I am resisting right now, to write you a confession instead, is this idea that weight = health, when it manifestly does not. I mean, there's some correlation, but we all know that's not causation, right? RIGHT? I mean, I lost five pounds a couple months ago. Because I had SWINE FLU and DIDN'T EAT FOR A WEEK. That's not 'healthy'. And you can be a skinny motherfucker and still have heart problems (*waves at dmh*) or you can be plump and live past 90 (my grandmother being a case in point) and one of the best indications of your health and longevity is not your weight, but the strength of your community. It is being loved. It is loving. It is happiness and lack of stress. It is being *truly* healthy, which may have to do with farm fresh veggies and dancing, but has nothing at all to do with calories or numbers on a scale - those are merely imperfect pointers that some people have mistaken for the moon.

So, you know, I'm not going to judge you, for whatever you decide to do, if you think it's right for you. Especially since my not understanding the psycho doesn't make it any less real for you, in whatever way it manifests. But consider this the disclaimer, the statement of my firm opinion - what you weigh totally just doesn't enter into any equation in my world. I just want you to be happy.

This post brought to you by my hate for the Taco Bell 'Drive Thru Diet Menu' commercial, this Softer World, and about six posts on my friends list.

Someone asked me the other day how I sew my toys and toy limbs or hats and various other projects together. I learnt from this tutorial by *** Anna from Mochimochiland.com *** Its very good and covers just about everything you need to know about seaming invisible seams using the mattress stitch.

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I'm using the free bodice block drafting from Your Wardrobe, and I wanted to rub elbows with folk as are/ have also used this measurement and drafting method in the past. Right now I'm finding that this is the second time I've made it, and the armscye seems small. Has anyone found this to be the case?

If so, is there anything that can explain the smallness of the armscye? Am I taking a poor measurement? Misunderstanding the location? Should I be measuring the back depth of the armscye rather than the front maybe? It's easier to cut away and make a hole smaller, so it's not a make or break issue, but I thought it interesting that I've repeated the same apparent error.

This could be a user problem. I'm intending manipulate darts and make it up to test if my eye is telling me true or if I just overestimate the size of an arm. ;-)

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I REALLY enjoyed it at the cinema recently, but this comparison of Avatar's script to another well known movie is a little bit good...

Landed safely at JFK, now en route to Yonkers. Sad day one.

Hey guys! My name is Liz and I found the comm through looking around another knitting-dedicated community. I'm 24, and have picked up knitting a bit more intensely in the past few months after losing my job in September. I've been knitting up a lot of scarves and am currently working on my first blanket and hat in the round after getting the Boye Needlemaster system for my birthday from my mother. Below the cut I'll post some pictures of a few of my finished pieces. I also have an account on Ravelry, where you can find me at blaqkheart!

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Anybody have sites they enjoy where I could find some more beginner-esque projects? I'm open to anything!

After doing what should be more paperwork than a circus performer (or whatever the fuck I am) should have...

I played call of duty 2 (more than an hour and I want to kill anything that isn't fiercely pro-american. It's a great game but it kind of has a 'damn commies and ragheads destroying the world kind of feel'
Then went for a walk in the snow, which has been noticibly absent from my neck of the woods whilst the whole rest of the country has fucked off sledging.
Then came back and am having a hot chocolate with coconut, cinnimon and whiskey before bed.

Happy now :-)

I'm very glad I am spending tomorrow doing nothing but training and don't have to actually go out and do stuff tomorrow, however I am less than confident DHL will get my package to me :-S

Just some photos from around Whitby when I was up there for Whitby Goth Weekend (including a number from a rather chilly time with a tripod up by the Whalebones).

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I posted these up to my journal in early December, but forgot to repost them here. Enjoy!

Grooving in Green
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Zombina and the Skeletones
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The Eden House
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Rhombus
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Adoration
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Faith and the Muse
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8439000.stm

Anyone have any tips for fair isle knitting on double pointed needles? It keeps coming out puckered or the stiches are too loose :( Is it just a tension thing that I need to practice??? BTW, the project is fingerless gloves.

Properly able to post this now... heh...

DeathBoy remix of Xykogen's rather banging new track:

Xykogen: MTHRFKR (deathboy mix)

... the audio sample is not very worksafe, so don't listen on speakers if that sort of thing would get you fired, eh?

Proper stompy, it is, too... Doof doof doof! Hopefully will get a bit of floor time in a goffick club near you!