My Particular Offerings for help_japan

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Cute Amigurumi octopus or fish or whatever I may actually make three of these for the three highest bidders if I don't get any offers on my other two items.

fanfiction for Japan


Meh... I can't even FIND my fanfiction offering. I've been looking for an hour now and even searching with the tool they provided I just can't find anything at all with my name on it. there are like 4100+comments in the first thread and overflow.  If I pick all three fandoms that I can remember saying I'd write in, I find nothing.  If I pick just one of the ones with fewer entries it's not there either. If anyone sees my entry in that mess please let me know.

ETA: I did eventually after searching page by page for my name, find my fanfic entry on page 44 near the bottom of the first words listing.Meanwhile, my Pixel Mood Theme offer doesn't have any bids, so if you know anyone who would be interested, point them to it.

I do have bidding on the amigurumi up to $31 now. I really do think that the bidding on some items is just getting lost in the complete clusterfuck. Not that I can think of a better way to do it... given the number of offerings, I"m just saying it's a clusterfuck and if you're lucky a few people might actually SEE your comment in a given category, mabye three or four bids might get made, before it's crushed under the weight of the other comments.  I wish there was a way to keep the actual offerings open to view, but everything just collapses into links after only 50, and they're in the hundred on all categories, and even thousands in some.

Keyhole Glimpses - Decade by Decade

Stolen from marynachaotica
who was
Inspired by snaky_poet
who was in turn
Inspired by mount_oregano

Interesting exercise. It does leave out whole chunks of life, and important events that didn't happen in the years selected — but so be it. It's like a series of keyhole glimpses.

1961 - Aether - I was not conceived of yet and thus did not at that moment have a flesh container.  I imagine I was probably finalizing my options at that point regarding what I intended to learn and how best to learn it.

1971- West Carrollton, Ohio, USA - I am 6 years old. I finished kindergarten this year at Valley Hills, and started first grade. My kindergarten teacher was Miss Woods, and now I have Mrs. Stambaugh. We have year around school so that we can fit more students and teachers into the building without over crowding.  There is a black girl in my class, and she is the first black person I have ever met. She is usually nice, and she doesn't seem that different from anyone else except she wears her hair in funny puffy pony tails. I wonder what they feel like. I am a soprano Angelbird in the children's choir, and I can sing harmony too.  I already make musical instruments out of rubber bands that I wrap around things and tune them by making them tighter. I get the rubber bands off my daddy's desk.  I think I have a toy organ too, but I probably can't find it because my room is such a mess.

1981 - West Carrollton Ohio, USA. - I'm a Freshman now, but Freshmen are still housed in the Junior High School. I am first chair second violin.  composer2005 and snowyowlstar are my closest friends.  I also play piano, and guitar and can pick up almost any instrument and figure out how to play something pretty easily. I sing constantly and am working on getting a band together in the near future. I was pretty much a straight A student until, but I'm struggling with Algebra II. I should have asked early on for that class to be switched to a different time, or maybe asked for Mr. Houk again. Mrs. Fox has such a quiet soothing voice, and my class is right after lunch. I'm struggling to stay awake, and it's getting harder to keep up because I can't focus on what she's teaching. My friend Robin and I tried to start a drama club this year. We were told we had to find a teacher to sponsor it, and we started asking around. All the teachers we asked refused, and then a few months later Mrs. Marks (who we asked first) started a drama club as if it had been her idea, and then when we tried to get in, we were cut out of it. I didn't have time in my curriculum to take Choir this year. That bummed me out, but I decided that since I could and did sing any time I wanted that I would rather continue to take orchestra. I'm actively pagan now, but don't know a whole lot of other people who are.  I just have to learn what I can on my own or with a few friends who are also interested.

1991 - Dayton, Ohio, USA - My daughter cheapcarnival will be 2 years old this year. I am working at Cassano's as a Relief Manager.  I lost track of composer2005 after high school, but snowyowlstar and I are still good friends. Our girls are crib and playpen mates and actually cousins because snowyowlstar's sister married my cousin, and had a child who is both my daughter's and her daughter's cousin.  I am in college now, finally, studying computer science and business administration, but I'm worried. The college said they were accredited when I started, but now I'm hearing that credits will only transfer to Urbana College and Urbana credits won't transfer anywhere. Also, I noticed that the nursing and medical assisting students have loads and loads of postings, but that the school posts almost NO listings in my field even though they're supposed to assist with job placement. Most of the people in my classes who are working in my field already were in some way before they started here.  I'm an active member of a working circle, and part of the inner council.  Because of the nature of my learning, we're very non ritualistic and practice a lot of what we call the 'Nike School of Magic". In other words, just do it.

2001 - Fairborn, Ohio, USA. I'm back in the Dayton Area now. Living in a nice apartment on Rice. But the schools here are terrible. If I'd known they were this bad, I would have just moved to Dayton where I'd have preferred to live anyway.  It's a nice little town, very multicultural.  It's also a dying town. The more cuts they make to the  base the worse it is.  This town would be in better shape if there wasn't so much subsidized housing stuck into it. It completely kills the neighborhoods.  Stores move away from them so that you have to drive farther and farther to get anything.  I'm strictly a solitary practitioner now.  Having founded and disbanded a working coven I just have no interest in working with people with whom the phrase 'perfect trust' has no meaning.  It's nearly destroyed my ability to trust anyone fully any more. I'm working at Donatos delivering pizza again.  It's easy and the money is good.  I'm becoming an avid cyclist.  I started riding a little in Missouri and brought a bike that marynachaotica gave me back to Ohio when I moved.  Later I bought a little bit better bike and now I'm riding a lot more. September 11, 2001!!! Holy Crap! The Twin Towers are GONE.  Muslim Terrorist Assholes flew planes FULL OF INNOCENT PEOPLE into the towers to knock them down.  I knew something was up when I left for work and they were talking about the Congress being evacuated, but I didn't know what was really happening until I walked in and my boss was watching television in the kitchen (not normal) and he ran over and told me that a plane had hit one of the towers.  I have nothing against Muslims, don't get me wrong here by specifying that they were Muslim Terrorists. However, I do think it's important to understand that they are Muslim Terrorists in a fundamentalist Muslim cult who attacked us under the direction of their disturbed fundamentalist leader who praises his God for the destruction he wreaked on thousands of INNOCENTS. I am very angry today.

2011 - Dayton, Ohio, USA. I started my year unemployed, but with some money.  I was pretty ill in December and my job fired me for missing work after refusing to tell me how to turn in medical documentation for my FMLA.  So I decided I wanted to try something else. Now I'm a Full Time Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant.  I'm still working on growing my business, and I have a little more time to get things rolling, but I need to work hard and I need to start having some sales for all my work. It's a little frustrating to work and work and work and to have so many people not actually purchase anything ever.  I mean, I get practice every time I do a facial, but I've now scheduled three parties and had two cancel and one have no guests show up.  Practice is good, but most of my sales have come from people I didn't do facials on. That is not normal.  I need a local clientèle. I need to work harder.  Other than that worry, I really do like what I'm doing. I like the flexibility of my job, and being able to almost write my own schedule.  I don't have to justify anything with anyone if I want to take a day off for whatever reason. I just don't schedule appointments for that day.  I love my new house, and am SO glad to be back in Dayton and away from Fairborn.  My house is 100 years old next year and this is actually the other side of the same house I lived in in 1991. Isn't that funny as hell?  The house and garden are set up as sacred space. I love it dearly.  I plan to stay here until I can afford to just BUY a house here in South Park outright and restore it like so many other beautiful homes in our neighborhood have been restored.  I have reconnected with composer2005. We play music at the Dublin Pub on Tuesday and were in an Irish Folk band together until recently and are working on getting another one together. I'm a very avid cyclist now, much healthier than I was in my 20's and 30's. I own a Candy Red Trek FX 7.2 and a Champaign one too. I rode my bike two days in February this year. I may ride tomorrow.

Userheads YAY!

You can buy a butthead userhead now. (among other things.) Lookit!



I was able to ascertain that the first two listed are the stylized japanese userheads that you can buy, and those will result in a charitable contribution to Doctors without Borders in Japan.  I bought one, but I also bought a leprechaun one. hee.