[Gossamer's Scrapbook] The Ethereal Canyon I

by **Phoenix** on January 19th, 2012, 5:15 am

I used seduction in that snow battle thread. I gave it to Chemar because she was using kisses and flirty touches on Amo for no other purpose than to... Be flirty and seductive. Did I use it wrong?

by **Gossamer** on January 19th, 2012, 5:25 am

My magic 8 ball says you have to consult Ron and his Lovemaking article expertise to find out. But that sounds like FLIRTING to me.

by **Gossamer** on January 19th, 2012, 3:34 pm

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L. A. Verses Seattle

I've assigned a lot of names to Californians over my time spent as a trucker roaming up the I-5 cooridor between Mexico and Canada. Now I get to call them hypocritical. By and large my favorite place is the Northwest in Washington State. The people are friendly, the climate is mild, and we're all ecologically friendly and environmentally aware. If I could just get them to vote a little less left wingnut, I'd be totally happy.

But this... this takes the cake. California's LA TIMES blog writer is calling names and picking on Seattle and its making me laugh hysterically. Check it out. Seattle is officially dubbed 'Snow Wimps'. Hey LA. You guys try getting two feet of snow in 9 hrs and see how well you deal with it, mkay?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2012/01/seattle-snow-storm.html

And while you guys might be feeling all superior since you live down in Sunny California and all, but let me just compare you to us one more time. All I have to do is use one word to describe you: BROKE. Us? We have a budget fiscally, stick to it, and even do a lot of building projects that are funded by state and federals jointly. When you all start paying your bills, controlling some of the immigration issues, get crime down to the levels crime exists in Seattle, then you can start slinging names.

Shame on you. I'm totally leaving comments on this blog. What a douche.

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by **Phoenix** on January 19th, 2012, 9:33 pm

I found something for you and Matt to do.

by **Oluse** on January 20th, 2012, 2:21 am

*snickers at L.A. rant*

Yay Washington! ^-^

by **Gossamer** on January 20th, 2012, 5:42 am

I cant be alone in feeling like some days logging into chat automatically drops your IQ ten-twenty five points.

by **Siiri** on January 20th, 2012, 5:52 am

Just for you Jen, I've decided to log into chat to help boost everyone's IQ by an astounding 0.097 points.

I'm helpful like that.

by **Aleka** on January 22nd, 2012, 8:26 am

Gossamer wrote:
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What's On My Bookshelf Currently
Well, at least all the good stuff...

Lords of the Underworld Series - Gena Showalter
The Darkest Fire
The Darkest Night
The Darkest Kiss
The Darkest Pleasure
The Darkest Prison
The Darkest Whisper
Heart of Darkness
The Darkest Passion
The Darkest Lie
The Darkest Secret
The Darkest Surrender
The Darkest Seduction
The Darkest Facts
Into The Dark
Dark Beginnings

So I was recently (as in today) reading or rather back reading your scrapbook and must say love the posts as they were often making me either nod my head or laughing (which I need lately) and even though I was tired I couldn't help but get sucked into it. Well along my meanderings through your scrapbook I came across the quoted item and my heart leapt to find another Gena Showalter fan that had all the books like I do... well with the exception of the Darkest Facts on. However I also have a love for the series so much that I now proudly wear the mark of the Lords upon my left bicep. Here's an image of it after the outlining was freshly done.

so here's a thumbs up to a fellow Lords of the Underworld series owner and lover.

by **Gossamer** on January 22nd, 2012, 3:20 pm

Very cool Tattoo.

by **Gossamer** on January 22nd, 2012, 3:30 pm

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Barely Hanging On

This time of year is unusually rough for me to be active here on Mizahar. I'm really trying but most of the Pacific Northwest is in turmoil and I've noticed some of my favorite Northwesterners on here have dropped off too. It's not our faults. Let me explain.

We got a monster storm last week. Now while in the context of things its probably not your definition of 'monster storm' but it is for us. We rarely have anything but mild weather and rain all winter long. So when we get snow, it shuts things down. Most of last week was filled with tossing and turning and strange dreams. I went to bed late, work up early, and then did this mad dance of 'watching the news' and surfing the weather channel, going outside, starting at the conditions, getting back inside, etc. The first part of the week was devoted to stocking up and getting supplies for cold weather, snow, power outages, etc.

Then, tues we had our first snow. 10 inches. It shuts things down. Wednesday we got 14 more inches. Thurs we had a mega ice storm and tons of freezing rain. I had two feet of powder and missed work wednesday but managed on thurs to get back. I didn't play much here though because I couldn't settle down. Thurs we were without power but things were back up and running, and friday was a stress day at work filled with 'making up runs' that didn't get delivered on Weds because of the snow.

Now we're raining solid, all the snow is melting, and we're setting up for epic floods. My horse barn is flooded and the horses are standing in water which I can't help. I can't turn them out because my pasture is flooded. They'd be wet either way but at least this way they are wet footed and dry the rest of the places. We still have ice and snow.

Through this whole thing your brain kinda freaks out and shorts out. I sat down a dozen times to write a post and couldn't. It has nothing to do with any retarded 'muse' concept. I am just worried, exhausted, not feeling creative, and a whole host of other things. In the midst of that my car started acting up in the transmission, and my boss threatened to fire me several times for calling in on wednesday.

Yesterday, Saturday, I took a 'me day' and went and got my hair cut, hit the movies, and got my hubby to take me out to dinner. It was an A+ day. We saw Underworld which was great, but way too short and part1 feeling... and today I must go subject myself to my mother since she hasn't seen me in a while and needs Gillar to fix her computer.

I always try to be back early but end up getting back after dark. I woke up at 6am this morning after going to bed at 3am. I'm exhausted but I can't sleep. I don't want to go south, but its really needed. I need to stay home and clean too but that's not happening either.

So anyhow, I've hit the HD and PMs but that's about all I can manage for the moment. I'll try to post when I get home, but I imagine I'll need some pain killers and a nap to even remotely function. I'm not whining, mind you, but just telling you where things are in my life and why I haven't been around a lot this week.

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