Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Shoe fetish - HNT #13 - Mystery Guest!

I was sent to the municipal building to apply for building permits yesterday afternoon at work, and I just happened to have to walk past Winners on my way home . . . and I just happened to find the most darling shoes . . . I couldn't help it, I had to buy them. I love them! Unlike most of the really cute shoes that I end up buying, these ones have the added bonus of being very comfortable as well...there will be no breaking these puppies in, they're good to go right away!
Happy Half-Nekkid Thursday everyone!!!
HNT_1
EDIT: Lucky #13
Yep! That's right I was this week's Mystery Guest . . . the blurb was supposed to give hints as to my true identity, but nobody ventured a guess.
New red corset - very difficult to get into on my own, and there's nobody here to help me. It isn't very comfortable for sitting around in the sun, but certainly worth a look for any Peeping Tom that might be lurking outside my window.
Thanks for all of the great comments on Os' blog everyone! I had such a great HNT!

Naughty Haikus

I have been to several blogs this evening that are featuring D/S, kinky or sexy haikus...my bestfriend and I hosted a stagette for a girlfriend last summer (well, she really did all the work, it just happened to be in my apartment) and as one of the evenings entertainment activities, we asked the guests to write naughty haikus . . . here is just a sample of what came out that night . . . these are not all mine, but I don't think the ladies will mind me sharing them

Your sweet sense I taste
take me back to your place,

my boyfriend is at home


Oh, I want you here!
Bodies growing hot and hard
Electricity


Hands tied with a scarf,
legs splayed open, on display,
all secrets revealed



Passion, lust, fervor
Words that make me think of you
Do you think of me?



The evenig also involved much too much Sake and the folding of naughty origami (it was a Japanese themed evening) so some of the Haikus were a little silly . . .

Last time that I checked,
folding small paper people
results in chain sex

My hips are sure stiff
I need to get off the floor
Where's my paper dick?





Monday, March 27, 2006

wise words for everyone

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others
-Delores Huerta, Labor Leader

*Originally posted at: Twisted ramblings from the mouse that runs the brain

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Weekend brain in action! As you can see, I've had a VERY productive morning.

It must be the fact that it's a lazy Sunday, and I am suffering a serious case of weekend brain...but I have found a website that has put me into fits of giggles this morning.
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Why is this funny you might ask? I don't know, it just is...very funny. It aslo reminded me of a book that Jenn got me for my birthday last year...

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There is also a funny website to go along with this book too...

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...this is the kind of cat I'd get if I were going to get one! Isn't he cute?

I've also seen the dog version in Chapters.

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and...



What's your inner power? (Girls only sorry. Beautiful anime pictures, lengthy results)


Uniqueness- Your inner power is Uniqueness! You are very different from everyone around you, and you like it that way. In fact, youd be furious if you were anything else. To the world outside you are a buoyant, fun loving person, and are probably pretty popular. Yet deep down you feel the urge to be accepted as who you are, and desperately want someone who is truly there for you. You are very indecisive and change your mind regularly over just about anything. Youre very opinionated, and bulldoze over anyone who doesnt share your views. At times you can be very depressed, though few people realise it with your animated personality. You are great fun to be around, and enjoy shocking people with your out there views and beliefs. At times however, your urge to be different can work against you, as people dont often enjoy their ideas of right and wrong having any shades of grey. But dont let them get to you; youre an awesome person who many love. You have no doubt heaps of friends, but dont always have that close friend/s that you want and need. You strive to be accepted for who you are, and are protective and loyal to those who earn your trust. Although at times you think there may be no one there, look around. There is someone in the shadows who desperately wants to be your friend, who maybe you just havent noticed. Dont let anyone get you down, youre the one who gives this boring world excitement and culture. Keep it up! Boy/Girl who will sweep you off your feet: Someone different and independent. Someone who isnt your typical male/female, who can accept that not everything has to be black and white, and yes, there are many, many shades of grey. Your stone/jewel: Amethyst Your power: Difference/Change. This is the ability to make a difference in the world, to create new ideas and opinions, and to open up the minds of others to show that there is more than one shade of grey. Your element: Electricity/Lightening A quote that applies to you: "Id much rather to be hated for who I am than loved for who Im not."
Take this quiz!

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*Originally posted at: Twisted ramblings from the mouse that runs the brain

Adbusters

Are you tired of the way the world is represented in the media...the beautiful people, the elite...where are the real people that we encounter everyday? I used to read ADBUSTERS magazine on a regular basis, but haven't for some time now. I was recently reminded of it. You should check it out!

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ABOUT ADBUSTERS (from www.adbusters.org)
...a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Aiming to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.


*Originally posted at: Twisted ramblings from the mouse that runs the brain

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Zoo Skooled!

Giraffe spit is green, and thick! Pretty gross huh? Not nearly as gross as you'd expect really. Yes we got spit on, but it was totally worth it! We started out in a class room with a short lesson about a giraffe's life (and death) on the Savannah. From there we headed over to the Giraffe enclosure in Destination Africa, where we all got to feed carrot sticks to Marty, and Tenga. Marty is the large female giraffe, and she is currently pregnant! Tenga is the father to be. The third giraffe - Kerrie (sp?) - Is being help in a seperate enclosure because she is a good candidate for artificial insemination and they don't want her and Tenga to uh...interfere with these plans... She did poke her head out and managed to get a few carrots too.

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This picture show how close we could get to the giraffes. We weren't allowed to go right in with them (apparently the keepers rarely do that even), but there was only a fance seperating us from them. You can see the end of the group just leaving here.

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Here is the second female giraffe coming to check things out from her secluded enclosure.

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Display set up in the class room...

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Marjorie feeding Marty a carrot stick, and getting a good deal of green slobber on her in the process I'm sure.

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Some random close up pictures...look how fabulous her eye lashes are. I have no hope of mine ever looking that great no matter what mascara I use!


*Originally posted at: Twisted ramblings from the mouse that runs the brain
Comments:

Looks like you had a blast. The zookeepers at our zoo are awesome. Once when
my niece was about 4 she made a picture for the giraffe and when she showed to
the zoo keeper the lady brought her and my sister to the back where they got to
feed the giraffe carrots. So, I bet it was an awesome day.
March 26 10:41
AM
Published by: Ev

Zoo Skool today!!!

Marjorie and I are going Behind the Scenes with the Giraffes today at the Calgary Zoo! I am pretty excited!!!

I'll be sure to post more on this later...


*Originally posted at: Twisted ramblings from the mouse that runs the brain
Comments:

I did that as a camp councillor for a week in high school with gr 1 kids it
was totally awesome.
March 25 4:59 PM
Published by: Ev

Thursday, March 23, 2006

A troubled bridge over water...

Something has recently happened which could cause a slight annoyance in my daily life...

I stop at the North look-out point of the 14th Street bridge evey morning and snap a picture of the Bow River and Downtown. I have been doing this since September last year. I'm not really sure what I am going to do with the pictures (if anything), but I thought it would be an interesting log of my daily travels. The idea first came to me when I missed the high water mark this summer when the river flooded (I was out of town). I came to realize that even though I walk the same route everyday, it is not stagnent, but ever evolving.

There is a two tiered railing along the bridge with a 135 degree angle at the look-out point. Each morning I put my camera on the lower of the two rails, line it up with the edge and take 2 shots (just in case one doesn't turn out) in each direction from the angle.

Ok, you might be thinking..."So, what's the problem?"

The problem is that portions of the railing on the bridge have recently (in the last 2 days) been replaced. And the new railingheights do not match the old railing heights. The portion of railing that I use has yet to be changed, but it's getting pretty close to it...This railing has been the same since before I moved to Calgary (going on 9 years ago), so I'm holding on to a glimmer of hope that the new railing is just a temporary replacement while the old gets repaired or re-painted or somthing of the like...keeping my fingers crossed.

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Old Railing...VS...New Railing



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*Originally posted at: Twisted ramblings from the mouse that runs the brain

Thursday 13




Leesa listed 13 concerts she's been to...and I wanted to do the same...

So here is goes...

13 CONCERTS
1.Pearl Jam (x2)
2. Placebo
3. REM
4. Ani Difranco(x3 - soon to be 4)
5.Mighty Mighty BossTones (x3)
6.Barenaked Ladies
7. Wide Mouth Mason (x2)
8. Moist (x3)
9. Rufus Wainwright
10. The Tea Party (x2)
11.The Watchmen
12. Great Big Sea
13. Holly McNarland
I have seen many more, this is just a sampling...I'm going to Franz Ferdinand and Death Cab For Cutie in about a month, and I am pretty excited!

Comments:

I totally forgot about REM!! I've been to theirs a couple of times too
:)
March 23 9:20 AM
Published by: Leesa

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

The EYES have it - HNT #12

Well, I had to rely on an old photograph this week...somehow I managed to let the batteries in my camera die completely without charging the backup set...oops. So I am not able to take a new picture this week...

Looking through the many many many pictures I have on my computer trying to find something suitable, I became seiously annoyed by a problem I have been plagued with all of my life - RED EYE! I've always looked like someone possessed in photographs, and since I statred wearing contact lenses it has only become more and more of a problem...


Blue eyes + contact lenses = serious red eye reflection in photos

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The centre photo is what my eyes SHOULD (but rarely) look like in photos...

How is this NEKKID you might ask...I've said it before...the eyes are the windows to the soul, apparently my soul is blood red!

Happy Half-Nekkid Thursday everyone!
Click here if you want to know more...->

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Friday, March 17, 2006

Music survey thingy...

Idea stolen borrowed from Dan.
First Concert:
Pearl Jam (August 11, 1993) - at least that's the first one I'm willing to admit to.
First Record Bought: Madonna –True Blue

Last CD Bought: Wolf Parade – Apologies to Queen Mary
Favorite Record Label: ummmmm…Arts & Crafts, or Righteous Babe maybe?
Favorite Music Magazine: Don’t really have time to read them anymore.
Favourite Bassist: Nick Harmer, Jesse F.Keeler…or to go back to my roots, Jeff Ament.

Favourite Album Cover: Nathan – Jimson Weed
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Singer Who Makes Your Skin Crawl: Alanis “nails on a chalboard” Morrisette
Singer Who Makes You Swoon: ummmm….I really can’t think of anyone right now, how sad is that? ...ooohh, Ben Harper is pretty easy on the eyes, and with a voice to match too!


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Song You'll Never Get Sick of Hearing: Title and Registration – Death Cab For Cutie
Album You Own That No One Else Does: Blue Dog Pict – Anxiety of Influenc: A nodding into…?
Album You Own But Hate: I don’t HATE any of the ones I own…there are several that I may never listen to again, but I don’t hate them.
Song You Can't Stand by an Artist You Like: Fitter Happier – Radiohead (freakin’ track 7 off OK Computer!!!), and Kazoointoit – Ani Difranco (I never make it past press 3…press 3…press 3…)
Band That Should Break Up: Ummm…don’t care, if I don’t like it I won’t listen to it.
Band That Should Re-form: Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins.
Guilty Pleasure: Kelly Clarkson’s Since You Been Gone.
Last Song You Listened To: Memorize the City – The Organ (just before I changed the song here…)

Hmmm...a bit of a trip back in time on some of these...

Well that was a good way to waste a few minutes, now what???

S


*Originally posted at: Twisted ramblings from the mouse that runs the brain

Another beautiful day...

Who was St. Patrick anyway...

May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks, may your heart be as light as a song, may each day bring you bright, happy hours that stay with you all the year long.

ABOUT SAINT PATRICK (taken from http://www.st-patricks-day.com/)


  • Saint Patrick is believed to have been born in the late fourth century.

  • Saint Patrick was the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland who is credited with bringing christianity to Ireland.

  • Saint Patrick is most known for driving the snakes from Ireland. It is true there are no snakes in Ireland, but there probably never have been… As in many old pagan religions, serpent symbols were common and often worshipped. Driving the snakes from Ireland was probably symbolic of putting an end to that pagan practice.

  • There are several accounts of Saint Patrick's death. One says that Patrick died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, on March 17, 460 A.D. His jawbone was preserved in a silver shrine and was often requested in times of childbirth, epileptic fits, and as a preservative against the "evil eye."

  • Another account says that St. Patrick ended his days at Glastonbury, England and was buried there. The Chapel of St. Patrick still exists as part of Glastonbury Abbey.

  • Today, many Catholic places of worship all around the world are named after St. Patrick, including cathedrals in New York and Dublin city.

  • Being a religious holiday as well, many Irish attend mass, where March 17th is the traditional day for offering prayers for missionaries worldwide before the serious celebrating begins.

  • Some communities even go so far as to dye rivers or streams green!

For each petal on the shamrock this brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck, and happiness for today and every day.

*Originally posted at: Twisted ramblings from the mouse that runs the brain

Thursday, March 16, 2006

I love days like today...

Frost...nature's jewelery!

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*Originally posted at: Twisted ramblings from the mouse that runs the brain

Darkside Taurus

I found this on Summer's blog, (which she no longer updates)... I found it a bit alarming...Could this really be the evil twin lurking inside of me??? Well, at any rate, it's good for a laugh...I am a Taurus with an Aries rising sign. The Aries profile sounds a little bit more like me, but still isn't all that flattering - but I guess that really isn't the point is it?

_ Darkside Taurus _
Disclaimer: not my creation, taken from the book Darkside Zodiac by Stella Hyde.

_Taurus:
A stubborn, sybaritic, rut-bound bully, fueled by dull resentment and an insatiable love of money. A taurus is a hidebound, reactionary Ubermaterialist, superglued into a rut several feet deep. You are obstinate and an opinionated authoritarian. What you really like is stuff: in your mouth, on your plate, in your bank, in your bed, in the bag. You stubbornly refuse to accept the folk wisdom that tells us we can't always get what we want. And when you've got stuff, you hold on to it with a grip that it would be laughable to describe as viselike. Possessive seems too weak a word. And the evil spawn of possessiveness is murderous jealousy and resentment. You are possessive, jealous and resentful of the people in your life too. You timetable their every hour and always want to know where they are.

Your pig-headed obstinancy, obdurate opinions, and refusal to change are a result of a lack of imagination. Your little bully brain can't compute more than two variables at once, so when faced with something complex or unusual, you go rigid and do what you have always done. Often that is nothing, so you tend to get buried alive by avalanches you refuse to notice. What softens your tough hide is your self-indulgent hedonism. Your favorite deadly sin is greed.

Taureans don't get much hassle; standing still, looking solid, usually does it for you. You can only be prodded into action if your food or money supply is threatened.

In bed, once you've learned how to make the earth move, you just keep on singing the same old song. It gives a whole new meaning to the word "rutting." Lovers have suffocated from boredom in your bed. You resent any attempt to bring a little novelty or spontaneity into the routine. Show you a Kama Sutra and you'd try to eat it. When you've got someone, you hang on to them. Even if your lover tries all 50 ways to leave, you still follow them around bellowing piteously. This is called stalking.

You usually stand alone. You have friends, but they are the those whom you meet in the same place, the same time, on the same day of every month. Everybody always does what you want to do; you think this is because they agree with your choice. In fact they are being pragmatic; they just know your olympic obduracy. In marriage, you make it very clear that it's going to be your way or nothing.

In work, you have always steered clear of anything marked vocation or social conscience, because the only thing you care about is the paycheck. This means you will do more or less anything, as long as you don't have to respond to emergencies or get too sweaty. Colleagues soon learn not to walk on your patch of carpet, never to rearrange the ornaments on your desk, and never ever to use your special mug. They also learn not to ask you for a decision unless they have a month hidden in the job schedule.

On vacations, you tend to go to the same places you've always went. You are addicted to guided tours.

^ Darkside Aries ^
Disclaimer: not my creation, taken from the book Darkside Zodiac
by Stella Hyde.

^ Aries:

Aries is a loud, overconfident, aggressive thug with way too many Y chromosomes and a will of titanium and granite. You are all about "me-time" and don't really care how anyone goes about giving it to you. You're greedy, aggressive, argumentative, restless, willful, confrontational, headstrong and self-obsessed. You are the zodiac's permanently enraged adolescent. You have a "problem with authority." You are not subtle. No one will ever find you sitting quietly brooding or pondering. You blunder through the world, looking for new frontiers to smash. Nobody tells an Aries what to do. You have never willingly finished anything in your life. You're just one big booster rocket, all fired up for blastoff, and falling away as soon as your boredom threshold is reached. Some of you can't even get to the end of a sentence before moving on.

Pathologically, addictively competitive, you have to come first in everything and you will do anything to win, as your concept of fair play means that you triumph. If you want to say something nasty about someone, you don't sneak around. You just open your mouth and blast away. Aries is typically a bloodlusty, violent braggart. You don't tolerate opposition or even a mild difference of opinion.

Sex is just another extreme sport as far as you are concerned. You don't like to waste time. Foreplay is for wimps. You are strictly a notches-on-the-bedpost kind of person. You always need to be told that you are the first and best lover you're partner's ever had. Your affairs burn with a gemlike flame for several days, during which time you are extravagantly possessive and jealous every time your prey steps out for a comfort break. Lust does not quench your competitive spirt. You have to do it harder, faster, longer and quicker than anybody else.

In love and relationships, once you get the prize, you wander off to find a new challenge. You have very few friends because people refuse to do everything you say, admire your every action and not criticize anything you do. You have to be in control at any social event, even when you're a guest. You insist on running your friends' and family's lives for them. Plus, you get ragingly jealous if any of your friends demonstrates the slightest ability to do anything better than you. If that occurs, you are forced to cut them loose and acquire new friends. You fall in love hard and often, but out of love just as frequently.

In work, you have to run the show. You think you know better than anyone else how to do the job. You are hired for your energy, direction and drive; however, you come in, shout with confidence, act aggressively, meanwhile alienating the workforce and tearing down old systems. You don't put in anything new in place, though. Brash, crass, and insensitive, you are a nightmare to work with because you never listen, are morbidly competitive, throw hissy fits and you can't stand being told what to do. If for some reason you do get fired, you go on a rampage of revenge.

At home, you are obsessed with gadgets and see no reason to tidy up. You are a junkyard transitional. You never knowingly finish a renovation job. The color that suits you best is red.



I enjoyed the gemini one although it relates to me a little too closely.
March 18 1:01 PM

Published by: Ev

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Irish pride - HNT #11

There's Irish blood flowing through these viens, so I could hardly turn down Os' request to show a little Irish pride this week. Here's my pride! Happy Half-Nekkid St Patricks Day everyone.

And something for fun...

Want to know why everyone's half-nekkid?

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EDIT: Thu Mar 16, 07:37:10 AM - ok, confession time...the tattoo isn't real...just some clever photoshop...tricksy like a leprechaun I am.Happy HNT everyone...and thanks for all the great comments!