JabberWocky!

As everyone is quite aware of that knows me personally and professionally, you know that I am more than a little remiss in the last few months about my favorite Jabberwocky!…but sometimes I get Extremely Lucky and happen upon something or someone that I think is extremely note worthy and it takes me No Time At All to bring it to everyone’s attention!

Such is the case today! “Wreck” is a friend of mine. “Wreckfish”, is what she is more commonly known by, and I have to say that I have had the privilege to know her for right around 4 months…give or take a day or two!

Through the last four months we have gotten to know each other quite well and oddly enough we are quite the same…although we could not be more different!

We seem to understand each other in some strange, weird way! To her…I am a somewhat odd character and recently she told me that as far as me being crazy…the jury is still out on that one and to me, she is much the same…an odd character that somehow I can relate to!!!

Be that as it May!!! Wreck and I both have our own things that make us tick and for Wreck it is Photography! I have seen Many of her photographs in the past few months and I have to say I think she is more than excellent at what she does!!

Wreck hails from South Africa, so most of her photographs hail from there also. She is not a “still life” photographer but rather a “life artist”.

She has photos of everything from a South African Gentleman carrying an umbrella to being in a helicopter looking down at the dolphins in the ocean.

About the best thing I can say about “Wreck” is…she is real…not only in her life and how she lives but in her photographs.

This is why I have added her to my blogroll, so you can not only get to know the woman but the photographs as well!

For those of you that know me…take my word for it…HDW, Matt, Mark, Plank, Krista, Jan and S.D. from the U.K. grab this link as it is going to be Well Worth Your While!!!

For everyone else…don’t miss this link either, but if you do…Wreckfish is going to be around on this blogroll so you can always pick it up here!

This one’s for you Wreck…You definitely deserve it!!

Wreckfish…The Ninja Worrier

That’s all for me today guys!! Hope to see you back again soon for more…

This lady just woke up from the drunken stupor she went on Halloween night and just realizes she’s hosting Thanksgiving Dinner for 32 of her closest friends tomorrow!!

Personally I think she’s going to need a little help and in case you do too you might want to check out this Last Minute Thanksgiving Survival List!

Good luck & I hope you have a great day today…Don’t Sweat It…everything is going to turn out perfect…You’ll See!

That’s all for me today, hope to see you back again soon for some more…

My Handsome and Oh So Evil friend Abbadon over at KOHD, a private blog, read my post on Spam yesterday and left me a comment in the form of a video with the word, Bwahahahahahaha!, that I thought I simply must share with you!

Mind you he does have a very unusual sense of humor to say the least! But that’s my Abbadon!

Spam spam spam spam

Thanks Abbadon…from your Witch of Eastwick!!!

That’s all for me today, hope to see you back again soon for some more…

Erin Go Braug!

What shall I say about the Irish?

The utterly impractical, never predictable, sometime irascible,
Quite inexplicable, Irish.

Strange blend of shyness, pride and conceit,
And stubborn refusal to bow in defeat.

He’s spoiling and ready to argue and fight,
Yet the smile of a child fills his soul with delight.

His eyes are the quickest to well up with tears,
Yet his strength is the strongest to banish your fears.

His hate is as fierce as his devotion is grand,
And there is no middle ground on which he will stand.

He’s wild, he’s gentle, he’s good and he’s bad.

He’s proud and he’s humble, he’s happy and sad.

He’s in love with the ocean, the earth and the skies,
He’s enamored with beauty where it lies.

But mostly he’s Irish-In love with his God.

Author Unknown

St. Patrick’s Day

A “Wee Bit” More of St. Patrick!

That’s all for me today, I’m off to have a “Wee Bit” of fun now but will see you back tomorrow for more…

As we start February today many around the world are gearing up for the final Carnival Celebrations.

Carnival is a festive celebration that occurs immediately before Lent. The main events are in February and it typically involves celebrating and parading in the street and has the element of a circus with the public street parties and people dressing up and masquerading during these celebrations.

In some countries Carnival has been going on for a couple of months already but as February comes around every year they are gearing up for the “Grand Finale” so to speak.

I have found some great photos for you to view today of:

Carnival Around The World

That’s all for me today and this week, hope you have a great week-end and see you back on Monday for some more…

Halloween is finally here and each year on this night millions of children dress up in costume and take to the streets for a spooky dose of trick or treat fun.

The Children’s Safety Zone is a great site with Many Halloween Safety Tips for Trick-or-Treaters, Parents and Homeowners. Make sure you check it out Before taking/letting your children go/out Trick-or-Treating tonight!

Halloween Safety Tips

Halloween is an annual celebration, the word Halloween has its origins in the Catholic Church. It comes from All Hallows Eve which is the day/night before All Hollows Day or All Saints Day. It is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints.

But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the Celtic New year.

One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with the living.

The people that were still alive did not want to be possessed so on the night of October 31 the villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in all manner of ghoulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess.

The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840’s by Irish immigrants fleeing their country’s potato famine. At that time, the favorite pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence gates.

The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to village begging for “soul cakes,” made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul’s passage to heaven.

And the history of the Jack-o-Lantern? Well it probably comes from Irish folklore. As the tale is told, there was a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster and to make a long story short! He had tricked the devil so instead of allowing old Jack into Hell the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer!

The Irish originally used turnips as their “Jack’s lanterns”. But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with an ember!

Some cults have adopted Halloween as their favorite holiday, but the day did not grow out of evil practices but the rituals of Celts celebrating a new year, and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans.

History and Customs of Halloween

Want to know more about Halloween and everything that goes with it? History.com also has a great site about the History of Halloween, Holiday Origins, Halloween Videos, Famous Haunts, Ghost Stories, Around the World and so much more.

And last but not least! What’s Halloween without a few Halloween Costume Pictures? In my opinion these are about the best that I have ever seen and I personally think they all should win a prize for “Best Costume”, goodness knows I’d give them a blue ribbon!

Great Halloween Costumes!

Well, that’s it for me this Very Scary and Spooky Halloween, I need to go and get dressed up in my costume, noisily parade around the ‘hood’ and be as destructive as possible so I can frighten away the spirits that are looking for bodies to possess!

I hope that all of you have a safe and great Halloween and don’t let the ghouls and goblins get ya…BOOOOOOOO!!!!! And assuming that they don’t, then I hope to see you all back again tomorrow for some more…

Hi Again!

I was reading an article today about asking someone out on a date, and while I have not ask that many men out on a date myself, (I tend to be a little old fashioned, the men usually ask me out), I have done it, (ask a man out)!! And I never thought about it before but the article mentioned how people get all clammy and fidgety and mumble and fumble and I was amazed! I finally figured out that it must be because they are afraid of being rejected! Actually I didn’t figure it out, I just read the article a little farther!

I have to say, on those few times that I did ask a man out, I was not clammy, fidgety, mumbly or fumbly, I never had any doubts about what the answer was going to be, and thinking about it now, if I had any doubts what so ever, I never would have done it either!

And I started thinking, isn’t it amazing how each and every one of us are so totally different but yet in many way exactly the same??

We all have come into the world the same way, I am not speaking of the actual individual birth, but we all got there the same way, (that is a whole ‘nother post, and probably doesn’t belong on Uni’s site, he tends to get upset at mention of certain things, you know how Uni’s like purity)!!, but we were created the same way, we all bleed the same way, and contrary to what people may think, it all comes out red, even if you are blue blooded!, we all breath the same air and the same way, some air being more clearer & cleaner than others, but if you were where clean air was you would be breathing the same air!, we all experience the exact same feelings, rejection, love, hate, dislike, trust, safety, pleasure, pain each and every one of us feel, maybe not the same way, but feel it just the same!, we all have to eat, sleep, drink, communicate with each other and the list goes on!

And yet our inner “feelings” seem to be the one that causes us the most pain and pleasure! It makes me wonder about cruelty and the cruelty that we inflict on others! Why do we find that it is necessary to inflict unnecessary pain on others?

Especially when that is probably the “feeling” that we fear so much, pain! Why do we find it necessary to physically hurt another, or why is it necessary to say hurtful things to each other?

Think about the last time that you said something hurtful to someone, I don’t mean accidentally hurt someone, but said something to someone knowing that it would cause them pain. Now think about what you said, and think about how you would feel if that person, or someone else for that matter, said the same thing to you. Would what you said hurt your feelings? If it wouldn’t hurt your feelings then you are done, nothing more to the experiment, but if it would hurt your feelings, then Why? and more importantly Why did you say it? Why in the World would you say something to anyone, and especially a loved one, that would be hurtful and make them feel bad and maybe not just feel bad for the moment, maybe make them feel bad for the rest of their lives???

Is it the power it gives you? Is it because you were angry and lashed out at someone, maybe not even the person you were angry with! If you said it out of anger, then after you cooled off did it make you feel good that you said it or are you sorry you said it? If you are sorry you said it, Now you have made 2 people feel bad, not just the one!! How smart is that? Now you have made yourself feel bad also!!! Was it worth it? Was it really worth acting like a spoiled brat just because you were angry?

Do you realize that stupid things said in the heat of anger, or maybe you are just an evil person, can ruin relationships for the rest of your life? Think about it! Is it really worth loosing your life partner or best friend, parents, children, your job or any thing else that you value just for some stupid thing that you said in an instant and didn’t get that much gratification out of anyway, especially if you are sorry now?

So why not from now on for your sake and the sake of others, try stopping and think about what you are going to say before you say something that in the long run you are going to regret and be hurt over as well as others? And for goodness sake, if someone that you don’t want to go out with asks you out, decline in a pleasant and positive fashion that behooves you, after all, it should really be a very high compliment that someone wants the honor of sharing your company!

That’s it for me today, hope to see you here tomorrow! Oh! and if you ask someone out and they turn you down, try not to feel so hurt and rejected. After all, if they didn’t want to go out with you then how much fun could it have been? There are always many more just waiting for a chance to spend a little time with you!

By the way, the new ways to ask someone out are: Ask your intended out on paper…or a paper napkin, (personally I think that this is as old as the hills…but)?, pull your own “To be continued…” episode, Hire a stand-in to do the asking, Invite someone for a one-on-one, Sneak it onto their to-do list, Start your own rumor, Make a wager & Be specific and straight-up! If you want more information on these new ways of asking someone out then you can go to:

New Ways of Asking Someone Out

Hi Everyone!

I Hope everyone had a great week-end! Before I get started this week I would like to thank “Somtimers” & “Song Crossfire by Darryl & Jerry” for their excellent blogs/sites! I found them while I was out and about over the week-end and I can only tell you that they could not be more different, but they are both excellent in their own right. They are about…well, why don’t you check them out for yourselves, I have added them right over there to my Blogroll, I think you will really enjoy both of them! Thanks again guys!

I must admit that I was in a pretty bad place this past week-end, what with being much too over-extended, I guess it finally started catching up with me since Thursday and just seemed to get worse. I relied on 3 Very Special Friends Very Heavily since Friday, and they each, in their own way, pulled me through this past few days, though I can’t imagine how or why!

So, I began yesterday thinking what I should write about today and the only thing that came to mind was “Friendship” and what true friendship means…to me at least!

To H. S. & I. you know who you are…and thank you!

True friends help you to “keep it real”, when you around them. It’s easier to get an honest opinion and much easier to “run” your ideas past them, you never have to worry about being embarrassed about how totally ridiculous you or your ideas may sound. A friend will encourage you when they think your idea has merit and have the good sense to tell you just how wrong you are when it doesn’t.

A true friend will instinctively know when it is time to take charge. They know when to step up and take control of a situation even if you haven’t ask them to, and a true friend is not afraid of doing so or hurting your feelings because a true friend knows & cares what is in your best interest at the time even if you don’t. A true friend knows you well enough to know that you will see the light when the darkness and blurriness clears.

A true friend “completes” you. Yes, I know that the word “completes” you is much to over used these days, but it is true in this instance. A true friend “understands” you, that is not to say that they know what you are feeling and what is going on in your mind, because that would be impossible in most situations, but they “understand” that there is something wrong and they are there to do whatever they can to alleviate any extra burdens that may cross your path while you are on your road to healing and coming out at the other end.

A true friend is someone that you can Work Hard with and Play even Harder with! I especially relate to this. I personally work to the extremes, and I have been told many times before, that I Play Harder, and trust me, play for keeps, more than most people have ever seen! I am relentless in work and play and while my true friends all know just how hard it can get with me, they always understand. And when it comes to me, trust me, I am not easy at the best of times! But true friends realize this about us and take it in stride!

A true friend accepts you the way that you are and Never tries to change you because they have the good sense that God gave them to know that if they changed you, then you would not be the same person that they were attracted to in the first place!

True friends give and give when need be and never really expecting anything in return, although, if you are a true friend, then you know very well that the same is true for you and your convictions to the other person.

I could go on and on with this list but personally I think I have hit on the most important points, I am sure all of you have your own ideas as to what true friendship means and I truly hope that you are as blessed as I am!

H. Thank you for the incredible gift that you gave to me Friday, I have never had such a thoughtful and lovely gift, I shall never forget you for thinking of Me and Only Me!

I. Thank you for all of your delightful correspondences all through the week-end!

S. Thank you for your incredible perception and seeming to know just what I needed and when I needed it!

Until tomorrow then!