3Furies

Monday, May 21, 2007

I love 3 Furies!!!

The concept!

I find that it was a delicious blast of inspiration on the part of the goddess with flaming red hair and a fiery nature! I still have digital pictures of the "3 Furies" fairies that I entended to post to this blog after Christmas but I fear that they will never get here.

But maybe, the fact that we are all so enragingly busy will inspire some good posts to this- more exotically feminine and more personal- blog.

I also have prom pictures that I've been meaning to share via e-mail....hopefully soon!

Later Beyotches! Yow!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Feeling Kinda Neglectful...

Ok, so I am not going to win the award for the most prolific poster in ‘Bloggerdom’. I can live with that. (Actually, I think Pollywogs! could give the prolific contest a run for the money) But I do feel a bit of guilt every time I visit the 3Furies and I don’t have the mental energy or the time to post. I love the 3Furies. I love the concept behind it, I love the authors, I really like the vibe.
But, I am busy…
And I am tired…
And I am neglectful…

Somehow I have to devise a plan to do better. But how? What to talk about? When to post?

Thursday, January 25, 2007

I'm in LOVE!!

....with a new drink. Now don't get me wrong, a good, dark, strong, brewed tea will always be my favoritest favorite, my lifelong love...but my new love is a wonderfully different affair. It is IZZE. IZZE (pronounced iz-ee) is an all natural Sparkling Fruit Juice that is made with 100% real fruit juice and natural sparkling spring water. The makers never add sugar. IZZE is a simple and healthy drink.

There are nine flavors: Apple, Blackberry, Blueberry, Clementine, Cranberry, Grapefruit, Lemon, Pear, and Pomegranate. I have had Clementine, Cranberry and Pink Grapefruit, all three are great, but I think Clementine is my favorite so far. I can't wait to get my hands on blackberry, pear and pomegranate.

Right now, it is a little hard to find...locally only at Starbucks and Target. But it is soooo yummy, you should try some.

Monday, January 22, 2007

Watching for the FREAKS!

When you visit this site you can enter your address and a map will pop up with your house as the small icon of a house. Red, blue, green, dots will surround your entire neighborhood. When you click on these dots, a picture of a person will appear with an address and the description of the crime he or she had committed.

This site was developed by John Walsh from Americas Most Wanted. It is another tool to help us keep our kids safe. It is www.familywatchdog.us

Friday, December 08, 2006

Doing for Others...

I am passing along this message....

Hello, Everyone....

1st Choice Realty is assisting the Pennsylvania Mortgage Brokers along with the Children's Miracle Network and the Janet Weis Children's Hospital as they collect NEW toys for the local children's hospital this holiday season.

New toys will also be distributed to children who are hospitalized during their birthday and again once a year for those children who are cancer patients. Give a child something special to remember this holiday season and brighten their day. We are accepting gifts appropriate for all ages.

Our office will be a drop off location for the Jersey Shore Area. If you are interested in donating a NEW toy for a very deserving child please drop it off at our office on or before December 16th.

Merry Christmas to all!

Sincerely,

Larilyn Arndt
1st Choice Realty
(570) 398-0690

I Love Christmas Carols!

Now if this doesn't get you in the Christmas spirit...nothing will!!

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Countdown.....23 days...

23 days and counting. I am getting so excited for the annual Christmas-Eve Eve get-together! Looking for recipes, buying special gifts, and collecting Christmas music for Gwennie. I love that this is a tradition that we are passing on to our children.

Just a reminder: The event is scheduled for Saturday, December 23rd 23rd (Christmas-Eve Eve), 2006 at 7pm at my house.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

I will not be pressured!

I have noticed the (not so subtle) references to my non-blogging as of late.
I will not give in to "the Man" by posting stuff when I have nothing to say.

The pressure on me to do so is unbelieveable! So I will just leave you with happy thoughts from one of my favorite SNL alums, Tina Fey. (from www.thesuperficial.com)

Tina Fey was on the Howard Stern show yesterday and said that Paris Hilton was a piece of shit and looked like a transvestite up close. She also revealed that Paris asked the SNL writers to make a skit where she could play Jessica Simpson "because I hate her ... she's fat." I recommend you read the entire thing because it's pure gold:

Howard Stern: What is Paris Hilton like?
Tina Fey: She's a piece of shit. The people at SNL were like maybe she'll be fun, maybe she won't take herself so seriously. She takes herself so seriously! She's unbelievably dumb and so proud of how dumb she is. She looks like a tranny up close.
Howard Stern: Was she bad on SNL, was she hard to deal with?
Tina Fey: She was awful. People never come in and say "I'm not doing that." So, this guy Jim Downey wrote a really really funny sketch, it was supposed to be Lorne Michaels just finding out that she had a sex tape and telling her she couldn't host the show because SNL has standards... So she was like "I'm not doing it!" and refused to come out of her dressing room. Also, you would walk down the hall and find what just looked like nasty wads of Barbie hair on the stairs... Her hair is like a Fraggle.
Howard Stern: Did she give you ideas for sketches?
Tina Fey: Yeah, she wanted to make fun of all the girls she hates. She was like "I want to play Jessica Simpson, I hate her." She would come in the room and say "you should do a show about Jessica Simpson because she's fat."
Howard Stern: What was the bet you guys had going about her?
Tina Fey: The cast had a bet if she would ask anyone on the cast anything about themselves, you know like how are you? where are you from? anything. I think Seth Meyers won because at one point, she asked him if Maya Rudolf was Italian.
I don't know what it means to be a hero. If it's saving children's lives and pulling dogs out of burning buildings then yeah, I guess I am a hero. But if it means calling Paris Hilton a tranvestite on national radio then by golly Tina Fey is a hero. Some might even say the greatest hero ever to have lived.

That is great! I've have it up to here with people idolizing no talent dumbshit whores. And what self respecting DJ plays her cock-knocking lip synch album on the radio? Geesh!

Her only talent is making herself throw up. See below for proof.


According to Joshua Radin, Paris Hilton was "performing" in Las Vegas when she puked on stage. Radin was in Vegas with the cast of "Scrubs" and went to a club to see Jay-Z perform. He writes on his MySpace:
"Paris Hilton ...was sitting next to me the whole night. Seriously, next to me, like our legs were touching for a good 5 hours," Radin wrote on his MySpace site. "Now don't get the wrong idea. She never once said hello, nor even looked in my direction. Five hours. And it was unreal to watch. She must have pulled a compact out of her bag every 6 minutes to stare at herself and pose while Jay-Z was performing 18 inches from us." When Jay-Z left the stage, according to Radin, it was Hilton's moment. "Paris, who had been swilling straight vodka from [a] Grey Goose bottle for hours, gets up on stage, has the people in charge throw her 'record' on the house stereo for her to lip sync two of her songs," writes Radin. "She gets up on the stage, pukes, leaves. . . I find the music business charming."
The sad thing is that's probably the best performance Paris Hilton has ever given. The audience was probably like, "Who is this? I came here to see Paris Hilton but my ears aren't leaking blood. And I'm actually entertained." And then they'd fall to their knees, raising their fists in anger shouting at the heavens, "Who is this?!" Then they'd go home and kill themselves because they just admitted they actually wanted to see Paris Hilton perform.

Enough venom spewed out towards Paris, though, when there are more important people to dislike like Pres. "Dubya" Bush, Mike Tyson, O.J., and Lindsay Lohan. In that order.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

One word...continued

I saved mine too:

Sisterfriendfamily

Wino

Boobs (Amy's word of course)

Sensitive

Charismatic

FUNNY

Liberated

Kind

intelligent


I can't remember who said "charismatic" but I found that interesting because I don't think of myself that way.

One Word...About Me.

Earlier this year a group of us played the "One Word" e-mail game. Sending one word back to the person that best described them. I saved all of the e-mails that were sent back to me and I have finally compiled them into a list.

Vibrant
A lot
Direct
Hotashell
Outspoken
Spirited
FUN
Adventurous
Social-butterfly!!!!!
Animated
Sweettart

Great stuff to read when I am having a "low-self-esteem" day.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Before I was a Mom...

Before I was a Mom I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous. I never thought about immunizations.

Before I was a Mom - I had never been pooped on. Spit on. Chewed on. Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts. I slept all night

Before I was a Mom - I never held down a screaming child so that doctors could do tests. Or give shots. I never looked into teary eyes and cried. I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin. I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.

Before I was a Mom - I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put it down. I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt. I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much. I never knew that I could love someone so much. I never knew I would love being a Mom.

Before I was a Mom - I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body. I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby. I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child. I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.

Before I was a Mom - I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay. I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom.

I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much before I was a Mom.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

I'm Famous!!

You know you are famous when you make it on a complete stranger's blog....

http://checkraise.com/rants2/archive3/2006/10/worst_mail_ever.html

I am so proud of myself!

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Countdown.....51 days...

It is that time of year. Time for the countdown to the annual Christmas-Eve Eve get-together at my house this year. A night for family, wine, friends, wine, fun, wine, presents, wine, food and wine!

The event is scheduled for Saturday, December 23rd (Christmas-Eve Eve), 2006 at 7pm. More details to come as the countdown progresses.

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Freakier Than Me...

In searching for a pic of Mike Tomczak to show y'all, I came across this site.

And I thought I was a freak!! http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Bungalow/4793/tomczak.html

Only My Husband...


So the other weekend my husband and I were at a Penn State game. During the game I was reading through the game program, and I read that Mike Tomczak was the ESPN announcer calling the game. That meant that he was in the pressbox at that very moment. I happend to be sitting right below the pressbox at the time. For those of you who don't know, Mike Tomczak was one of the quarterbacks for the Chicago Bears during my teenage years. I had a bit of a crush on him and before I met Todd. Actually, he was the man I was sure that I was going to marry (I am pretty sure that Mike didn't know that he was the object of my affections though...).

I held my cool through the whole game, but when it ended and the bleachers began clearing out I started walking toward the pressbox, craning my neck to see if I could spot him. Well, it happened. I spotted him and was jumping up and down like a 14 year old girl....mock whispering "Todd, Todd, look!! It's him! It's him! Mike Tomczak!! Oh my God! Oh my God!! Oh my God!!!" Of course my husband knew Mike and my history (or it might be better said, my history pretending that I was going to marry Mike Tomczak). Todd kept telling me to yell his name, but I refused. I may be a weirdo stalker but even I have my standards. Because I refused to yell....Todd did! He yelled "Mike!" and Mike looked and waved and we waved back! Woo Hoo! It was awesome! I was in retro-teenage-stalker heaven!!

I just have to say that only my husband would yell to get the attention of a guy I had a crush on when I was a teenager, so he would wave at me!! My husband is so awesome!

Grey's Anatomy

Hope everyone watched the season premiere. http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/
Did I hear Shelley say that she didn't cry at all during it? How is that possible? I spent almost the entire hour in tears. I still want Meredith to end up with McDreamy. I found some polls on the subject:
This one has McDreamy at 57%: http://greysanatomynews.com/2006/05/23/poll-mcdreamy-vs-mcvet/
This one has McDreamy at 81%: http://www.greysanatomyonline.com/forums/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1578&sid=820d9534ad155ce660d386a65a4a7b77

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

My results

Jung Test Results
Introverted (I) 56.25% Extroverted (E) 43.75%
Sensing (S) 50% Intuitive (N) 50%
Feeling (F) 62.16% Thinking (T) 37.84%
Judging (J) 62.5% Perceiving (P) 37.5%

Your type is: INFJ
Accuracy: - 5 high 4 3 2 1 low
INFJ - "Author". Strong drive and enjoyment to help others.
Complex personality. 1.5% of total population.

Here are my results is this still what we decided I am? I think that it is but it's interesting that I am equal in Sensing/Intuitive so I could just as well be ISFJ- "Conservator". Desires to be of service and to minister to individual needs - very loyal. 13.8% of total population.

I think I like the first one better.

Monday, September 04, 2006

Speaking of the Myers-Briggs...

I LOVE the Myers-Briggs!! I think everyone should take the test and then walk around with their "type" pinned on their chest. Ok, not really...but it would make for lots of interesting conversation.

On the official test, I am a ENFJ.
E = 90%
N = 55%
F = 50%
J = 50%
I tend to end up with the same results when I take the copy-cat tests on the web.

Until today I had never taken the Enneagram test. http://www.duniho.com/fergus/enneagram/test/ My results are a bit confusing...I ended up tied between three types, scoring exactly even.
#1 The Reformer
#8 The Leader/The Asserter
#9 The Peacemaker
I am not sure what to think of that...I do agree that I have all three of these tendencies, tho.

P.S. When looking at the Star Trek Enneagram site...I am Jean-Luc Picard. Hate to say I told you so Gwennie!

Enneagram

This enneagram test is the only one I've found that agreed with what type I thought I was:
http://www.duniho.com/fergus/enneagram/test/
(it said I was Type 5: The Observer, The Thinker, or The Investigator)

Most other tests said I was a Type 8: The Asserter. Type 8 was a strong 2nd for me on the duniho test as well.

Here's a site with good descriptions of the 9 types: http://www.9types.com/

Here's a good description of Type 5: http://squalor.blogspot.com/2006/01/free-enneagram-test-type-five.html It says Fox Mulder was a Type 5.

And for you Trekkies, here's a list of Star Trek characters' enneagram types: http://enneatrek.homestead.com/
Apparently, I am Data.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

You have to pay for the "official" MBTI, but I've found that most of the copycats on the web give me the same outcome: INFP. I've taken the "official" test and got this result also. I liked this one: http://similarminds.com/jung.html
Introverted (I) 60% Extroverted (E) 40%
Intuitive (N) 61.29% Sensing (S) 38.71%
Feeling (F) 58.06% Thinking (T) 41.94%
Perceiving (P) 67.65% Judging (J) 32.35%

The enneagram is a cool test too. However, my results on different versions are not consistent (except something about a sexual variant that keeps coming up:))
http://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/test.php
http://similarminds.com/advtest.html

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Can Life Get Any Better??

So...I have this favorite song. Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
and just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes,
they're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I also have this favorite show. Grey's Anatomy http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/

What could be better than the favorite song using clips from the favorite show in the video? Not much I say!

Check it our for yourself. http://greysanatomynews.com/2006/08/08/snow-patrol-chasing-cars-greys-anatomy-video/

Hip Hip Hooray!!

Yea!!! Her presence has been long awaited!! Welcome to the blogger-queendom!

Furious!

Actually I am not furious at the moment. I have a new job and other than being very busy and hectic (same old, same old) things have been going fairly well. Maybe the meds have kicked in...ha ha.

I'm very psyched about joining the fabulous furies and I am thrilled to be Magaera- the brown haired one of the trio because she rocks. (Well... really just because that's the name of one of my favorite Disney characters from Hercules, but that's too lame to admit. Did I say that out loud??)

Friday, February 10, 2006

The Three Furies, The Beginning...

How it all began.
The Erinnyes were "the Angry Ones", known as the Furies in Roman. They were the feared avenging goddesses in Greek and Roman mythology who were born from the falling drops of blood of Uranus (Sky) when he was mutilated by his son, the Titan Cronus. The drops fell on Mother Earth (Gaea) and impregnated her.

"...and Cronus cut off his father's genitals and threw them into the sea; and from the drops of the flowing blood were born Furies, to wit, Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera." Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer)