ladyoren

Mass slaughters and Destructive Americans

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:10:07 GMT

Being that I am a vegan a holiday involving the mass slaughter of turkeys is not among my favorite days of the year. And one incident this morning didn't happen to improve my mood. I was walking our 13 year old family dog who is often constipated. I walk slowly with her instead of dragging her along and didn't notice she happened to squat in front of one house.

Some girl with halloween decorations still up pops her head out the door in an oh-my-gawd voice asks me if my dog just popped on her lawn. I reply that I doubt it since my dog is 13 and constipated. I look around and tell her I don't see it. But she says she'll get me a bag. She hands it to me and I apologize because for some reason I want to be nice to people. Then I pick up some speck of brown the size of an m&m and put it in the bag and walk off.

As I walk I get more and more irratated with her. Who is this girl with a lawn full of crab grass and a layer of snow on it to be picky about her lawn. And does she know what compost is? It is shit. Without birds and squirrels shitting on her lawn it would be nothing. I hate lawns. They are showcases of our superficiality and selfishness.

To put it in a plastic bag to be sent to a dump is the most moronic invention. It's incredibly wasteful and it's people like her that are ruining the planet. Lawns waste water. The pollution created from mowing them is causing global warming. And the landfills filled with diapers and plastic baggies full of poop are releasing chemicals in the air that are destroying our health and our planet.

When I get my own house I will absolutely not have a house. I will not have a lawn mower. I will not use one-time use baby diapers and I will not create waste. That moronic girl has inspired me to go militant on the environmental beliefs I have. I'm going to make it my goal to produce no waste. And within the next two years, produce no pollution by transportation, mowing my lawn, or using electricity.

I'm a vegan, a compassionate and loving person. But when I encounter the destructiveness, the ignorance, and the selfishness of other people I sometimes wish that global warming would increase and burn out populations of over-consuming, careless Americans. Americans like to blame China but it is each individual in our capitalist nation that is killing the planet.

It's the result of each person who drives alone in a car, each person that does unnecessary things like mow thier lawns, or people who buy and buy things they don't need searching for happiness and ruining the planet from the pollution from the industry that created them and the waste that results when they throw it out the next month unused.

I'm so irrated with her I can't even start to think about how disgusting the mass slaughter of turkeys is or a holiday that involves women working in the kitchen and men on the couch watching football. I need to get my mind off of this. But before I do, I'm going to leave that girl a bag of compost, explaining what it is and why that makes her a moron.

today

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:13:53 GMT

I am talking an 8 mile walk today, on the bike trail in the park near my house. I need to clear my head and hopefully no one will be out there because it is cold and the trails are not taken care of. I planning on blogging more. My dreams have been more vivid lately and with no one to talk to about anything that matters, I feel that I should get it out some way. I'm reading an amazing book called "the memory artist" by jeffrey moore. It is brilliant, with some of the most amazing decriptive imagery, anecdotal facts, and very witty and clever characters and plotlines. I think I'll take that and a book on nutrition and sylvia plath poetry book with me. Probably my sketch journal too. I should have many disturbing and sad thoughts. And if it is a good walk maybe I will find some enlightenment as to why my life is the way it is. O and I will take a camera to share pictures of the beautiful woods. It should be quite the walk...

Parade

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:27:05 GMT

"Oh let’s bomb the factory
That makes all the wannabes
Let’s burst all the bubbles
That brainwash the masses

As far as I can tell
It doesn't matter who you are
If you can believe there's something worth fighting for
The color of an eye
The glory of a sudden view
The baby in your arms
The smile he always shoots at you

Believing in nothing
Makes life so boring
So let’s pray for something
To feel good in the morning"

-Shirley Manson

Quizzes

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:02:10 GMT

Your Birth Month is September

Tolerant and inspirational, you are wise beyond your years.
You are universally sympathetic and a great humanitarian.

Your soul reflects: Devotion, light, and love

Your gemstone: Sapphire

Your flower: Morning Glory

Your colors: Brown and deep blue

What Does Your Birth Month Mean?

The Movie Of Your Life Is A Cult Classic

Quirky, offbeat, and even a little campy - your life appeals to a select few.
But if someone's obsessed with you, look out! Your fans are downright freaky.

Your best movie matches: Office Space, Showgirls, The Big Lebowski

If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?

Your Heart Is Pink

In relationships, you like to play innocent - even though you aren't.
Each time you fall in love, it's like falling for the first time.

Your flirting style: Coy

Your lucky first date: Picnic in the park

Your dream lover: Is both caring and dominant

What you bring to relationships: Romance

What Color Heart Do You Have?

back

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:27:16 GMT

I'm back at LJ! They've improved so much! I love the scrapbook and the MYLJ page. The other blogging site had those features. I should stop following my friends too other sites! Everyone keeps changing blogs! I wonder why we just keep picking up and moving on? Maybe it's like a hair cut or cleaning out your junk, some sort of psychological cleansing so you can start a new, be a different person. So I guess I'm going back to me roots!lol, now I can be a wierdo again. I was seriously wierd on this site. Don't think anyone missed me. I will be the wierd blogger next door that you've never meet but always wonder about...

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:33:08 GMT

I'm sort of back for now...

I stay active in the communities but I gave up posting here after I got paranoid that people from work or that I knew from school would be reading it. My sister had her online journal printed out by her "friend's" mother and turned into school.

People think that becuase you post something online, everyone has the right to read it. But just because you leave your journal on a table, opened or closed, it doesn't mean everyone has the right to read it. At least people should ask for permission.

I don't know it I gave this explanation before, but well that's why. I just think that there are few places and even fewer people that you can actually express yourself too. So it was completely offensive for someone we knew to invade my sisters privacy and betray her trust. My friends all understand that I may rant and rave on her as an outlet but I'm such a calm and passive and resonable person I'll act responsibly. And I might make mistakes or go to far(rarely) but they forgive me for it. So I can trust them too read this.

Other people are too judgmental. They see you make a mistake and it's a character flaw too them when in fact for you it's out of character. I'm sick of the shoulds and should nots. I'm tired of politics and policies that take away a right to make choices for ourselves.

I'm use to people thinking wierd by now. They see me as ackward becuase I don't understand the conventions of their speech. I'd rather just speak my mind even if no one understood what I was saying. I use to do that on this journal and on other's but some people seem to follow you. You'll never meet their standards and they'll take you down for it. But they don't get that everyone else has standards. But decent people apply them only to thier own conduct and they are flexible to change when they are wrong.

If you went to a Catholic school too, you might understand some of this. Of you grew up in a all white suburban township you knew some of these people. Overall it's a good place to live. There's not a lot of crime, just dishonesty. For example, my brother's car got totaled in our driveway, we had our st. francis statue stolen, and our cars and house egged and no one knows a thing, not even the 5 cops living on our street. I see alot of people in our community ever day, and there is a lot of good people in this area. Most are hardworking, honest, people who go home to thier families every night.

But still growing up I felt as if I never fit the mold and I was never encouraged to do the things I liked. I should have played sports and and got average grades. You couldn't be too smart. F's were ok but if you got A's you were the smart kid. Like the only one and you were suppose to slow down for everyone else. I guess it's like that most places. But our school was more oriented to the jock curve and jock attendance. No homework and easy grading for athletics. And the teachers were easily distracted from class, and set expectations low. Ok I shoudl stop whinning.

Anyway I think I'm going to have to express myself through art more. It's more vague and I'll get less criticism becuase no one will know what it means. Thanks to my friends who I could trust, that's why I stay on here.

Sat, 28 May 2005 03:38:56 GMT

I heart Day! I'm going to marry her. She made me happy the past two days. We had a punch baloon fight for about an hour, then we chased a baloon for even longer. It's like playing catch in slow motion. Then we sat on our boobs and popped them. And then we threw shoes at things. After that we talk into baloons. Then we throws balls that said 'do not throw at people's heads' at people's heads. And we ate pizza. And we watched star wars movies about death-ticles.
And today tried to get Oli-Magellan to do something interesting but he wouldn't. So we got ice cream and Dana fibbed and then squirted a little. And she updated us regularly on her bodily functions and waved her arms at things flying at her. And then we watched a clip on a 5 legged goat, Yagla!Then she beat wordwhomp while half asleep. Then Tim drove me home and we discussed me stealing Day for vacation and he sounded like he might let me. Ha! I while have her for my own yet!

Mon, 16 May 2005 20:56:54 GMT

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Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:43:48 GMT

This is an entry to non-friends. I am no longer going to post on livejournal becuase I've lost privacy. I will also not be reading your ljs. I will still be existing in the REAL world so if you have anything else to whine about please do it there.

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:28:21 GMT

For those of you who may be confused. Currently I am not employing Dana to deliver messages to me. So please do not post comments in her journal to give to me. First I have a friends only journal so I don't want your drama in my journal. Second post it in yours since I commented in the other day to confront you about something and if I care to hear about you I will go there. Third thanks for ruining a perfectly funny Dana entry!

Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:39:32 GMT

Moving to modjournal. It offers too much freedom not to.

A dictation--( )s=mel

Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:09:09 GMT

I'm so mad that my sister had to have the crummiest first boyfriend ever. At the time I thought he was a mature kid and one of my friends thought well of him so I was okay with it, I was happy for my sister, and I thought they might have some things in common. But of course hindsight is always 20/20. I kept saying that I didn't really like him, even from the beginning because he creeped me out. The first time I really hung out with him was when we went to a haunted house and...he kinda creeped me out. He kept saying that Melissa was the "best thing that ever happened to him" even though they started dating days earlier. It really struck me as really obsessive. They had only been dating for a few days. He sorta wouldn't back off from me and I felt unconfortable. Then my sister started feeling different and I felt like a lot of it was his fault (HELL YEAH IT WAS).

I understand the kid has issues with his mother (HELL YEAH HE DOES) but he's not respectful of girls. He's manipulative and makes you think he's mature and affectionate but he's really just needy, insecure, and a horny bastard (AMEN!) I hated that he would yell at one of her friends and say that he was going to beat him up and act all macho. I hate him because of all that he did to my sister, because I love her that much. But I can't help it because she's my number one person. And now I just really want to drag him behind my chariot.

I don't know, I really just want to run him over because he's spreading lies, he's manipulating the girl who was my sister's best friend, threatening to beat up one of her friends, leading my sister to believe that he was a good guy who cared about her. I wish he would just drop the machismo, lose the ego, wisen up to the fact that other people have feelings, and that lies, rumors, and manipulating people really hurts them. If he wonders why people don't like him it's not because he works hard to get good grades, that they're jealous or that they want his girlfriend, then he is VERY WRONG. I could say more but it doesn't help me to be so angry at a person. I just want to learn what I can from this and move on. I feel happy that my sister is finally through with the creep. I can stop saying, everytime that someone mentions him, that I hate him and instead say "I could care less about the kid".

End Dictation to Melli my aweome typist (she's like crazy fast typer) so I can lay on the floor groaning and say "WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MY BODDYYY".

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:30:15 GMT

To be a reporter on fox news you must be three things:
1. Were in the same sorority or fraternity as you boss.
2. Equate all news stories with party politics. i.e. "The real tragedy of the landslide is not the lives lost but that the "death poll" shows that many of those dead will not be voting republican in this election."
3. Loud and obnoxious and talk more about getting wasted than talking about the news and apologizing profusely for it then bring up how much more wasted kids got at those "ivy league" schools than at your state university.

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:10:15 GMT

Three things qualify you to be a reporter on cnn
1. You're own unique accent irrelative to any geographical region in the world that allows you to pronounce words in distinct ways i.e
2. Not being an expert in anything but having an opinion on everything so you can offend your guest with your very American, very naive ways.
3. And you must be either young, attractive, naive, and of questionable ethnicity or old white, a chauvinistic, and male.

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:00:07 GMT

Mitzi died. She jumped! I feel bad. I wish she would have told me she didn't like her new bowl. Her favorite color was red and she hated men. Mr. Rochester died in pursuit of her love but she always ran from him. But she loved no fish and me to herself and her own bowl with her red stones and a opal egg. My sister bought her a boot which was suitable for sleeping but she found it tacky so I removed. She was very paticular. Some would say a diva. But to me she just knew what she liked and what she didn't. She was confident and independent and lived a good life. I don't know what made her job. I think it may have been the bowl. But why didn't she just say so! Why didn't she just tell me! She knows how much I love her I would have done anything to make her happy. Did she miss Mr. Rochester? Did her bowl feel empty without him? It's such a tragic loss and no one will ever know what we shared during our four months together. But she lived a good life. And we learned a lot from each other. And now I will never be able to finish my portrait of her. I don't even have a picture!

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:07:06 GMT

It's been a very dumb blond day. I hate that saying tho. Dumb blond. What about cool blonds, or geek blonds or femme fatale blonds they're more common than dumb blonds thank god.

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:43:56 GMT

I decided to post some pics of my room... I just got my new loft bed and I've been trying to fix it up. It was baaaaaad before with way too much furniture and a broken bed supported only by all the junk under it. So here's my new one. Course it's not finished. I need to get some prints for the walls. I have a few in mind. I'll post a few later.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/ladyoren/66099307307_0_ALB.jpg
Yup that's my messy bed and compie underneath. It's on the U2 website. Hearts! My loft has a silver frame and light wood desktop. The colors are right in this pic. However I need a new lampshade because I kicked in the old one. Don't ask how! Also in the pic is the little hot pepper in a jar I keep on my desk. He HAS A FACE! You would keep him too.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/ladyoren/18731407307_0_ALB.jpg
This is my shelf with 3 lil fish bowls. Mitzi is in the one on the far right. She's the beautiful purple blob. I think in the other two I'm going to put a snail and a frog. Or black fish donno. But I have a few names already... Bono, Bruce, Shirley, and the Edge... after my fav musical artists... or Erte, Sui, Prada, or Frida... after my fav visual artists... Anyway I need a poster above the shelf as well as under my desk. Also in the pic are my beloved books stakced two deep
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/ladyoren/52290407307_0_ALB.jpg My sweeeet art desk! I love it so much! The picture is of poor quality but I have a better one posted below. There's my sweet fluffy coat but that's not important now becuase the dresser is a real problem. I hate the wood and the handles are old and antique which doesn't look good in my new room. Any ideas. I'll post another pic if anyone has an idea for me. I might paint or use contact paper to make stripes in black and white.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/ladyoren/26540407307_0_ALB.jpgI love it so much! Okay so that is it for the pictures. I'm I know I have a wierd color combination... gray and red... and I want to bring in another color to bring it all together. I like gray a lot, it's not depressing for me but it's soothing. I'm not sure about the red but I like the color right now. I also want to make it more feminine and less modernist, more art deco.

Also I love Art deco style so I want to bring that in with the modernist look it has with my loft bed. Also if you have any fungshui tips I'd love it. Right now I love elephants have little statues of them on my desk and pictures on my laptop. I also love bunnies and fish. And I have little buddha and geisha statues. It's a wierd mix but yea... I also looooove fashion, expecially Prada and Anna Sui. Although I like Frida Kahlo and Dali, I think they're paintings are too lively to work in my room except for a few and I've started to favor artists like Lee Bontecou and Dennis Hopper and other artists with spatial and ethereal works. I like so many things its hard.

Before I had dark red wood with blue walls but it took on too much of a jungle theme with little tiki statues and dark bamboos chests for storage and vases with striped brown feathers in them. Then before that I had lime green walls with that same old too big red wood furniture with black statues (including the tikis), and a tan bedspread. It didn't fit my personality that well but it reflected my interests at the time and I had fun decorating. Then before that I think I had a navy bedspread with shades of green and yellow and little wheat stalks... it was prettier than it sounded. It hink my walls were yellow and it really complimented my red wood furniture. And of course through out this my room has been rearranged every possible way. And then of course before that was my gray shiny bedspread I have now and light blue walls and silver accents. And before that was my light almost white long furniture with my pink flower bedspread which I still think is absolutley gorgous and I still have. That room was sort of shabby chic before the show shabby chic with my mothers antique rounded jewelry chest, stuffed animals... typical little girls room. And before that I had a blue room with cloud wall paper and a stain glass window bedspread in the same shade of blue with lime green and my old art desk which got warped from water... And that was when I was 8 and of course it goes back further and I can remember it all.

Hmmm maybe I should get into interior design. Anyway I'll post more pics of my old rooms... in cuts of course. And I'm sure I'm probably the only one interested anyway.

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:41:15 GMT

I don't know that many people will be interested in this but I got some responses from it in the communities that I'm in...

I have some tips for ANYONE decorator. Depending on your style hit the store around your favorite holiday or shortly after to get the clearance prices.

If you like Goth styles or strong blacks, oranges, and purple obciously you'll want to check around halloween. But it's also a good time to check for items in a modern, techie, or party room. You'll find a lot of glow in the dark items, stobe lights, black lights, optical illusion items, etc for a trendy look. Actually no matter your style it's a great time to check. Say if you have a jungle or carribean feel to your room there's a lot of masks and voodoo type accessories around. Or maybe you have a astronomy themed child's room, look for wizard capes to use as fabric for shades or whatever you can think of.

Around Thanksgiving you'll find more "home" colors like browns, muted oranges and yellows, and the occassional sage and olive greens. This is for people with more traditional tastes. You'll find lots of wicker items, candles, and other warm home items. Skip the turkey and corn ears tho, you don't want to look like it's tahnksgiving year round but you do want that comfy home with the family feel of thanksgiving. Preps may find many useful items around thanksgiving that have an outdoorsy feel to them.

Christmas is difficult to use year round since items are so specific to the season. But items in single colors like red, green, gold, and silver can be used year round if they fit into your decor. Also you can use crystal oranments to hang on curtains, doorknos, your rear-view mirrows. My aunt has a victorian style house with dark woods and ornate fabrics and crystal oranaments, saved ribbons from presents, bells, and dried natural items work well. Also goths may be surprised to find many interesting items around christmas that work with their style. I have a modern feel to my room and have picked up many basicred accents this time of year to brighten things up.

Easter is a great time to find bright lively accents to their rooms. It's a great season to find accents for young or Preppy rooms. Baskets that don't look completely childish and Eastery can be used year round. Chick or bunny items can be picked up for children's nurseries. I love to collect the small white bunny statues that can be collected this time of year that can be blended in with other white statues. (If only there were a holiday wear we celebrated elephants!) Plasits eggs can be used to store things in for children. Colored cellophane can be used for stain glass windows which people of all tastes goth to college partier seem to enjoy.

National holidays are good for traditional homes also. Frame items decorated with flags and other items. I've seen people use flag lights for decks all summer. You can keep these items out practically year round although they're usually best suited for outdoors, kitchens, living rooms... well you know what I guess you can put them anywhere. A antique patriotic painting over your bed or flag soap dishes in your bathroom. These items often go great with country style homes. But a neon flag sign would be a great addition to a dorm room too wouldn't it. The trouble is merchandise around these holidays are often sparse and have short shelf lives so you have to hunt them down quickly.

Jewish holidays are often not as commercial as Christian once. Good or bad I don't know but for decorating purposes you'll have to look a little harder especially if you want something without a Jewish symbol. If you are Jewish tho take pride and keep these items in your room year round! I often see things in light blue and silver for others who will buy anything on clearance like me!

Kawanza is such a beautiful holiday with bright lively colors and prints brought out as the winter blahs set in. It's a really beautiful holiday and those who celebrate it take a lot of pride in it.

Birthdays aisles are great to go down every now and then. Framing cards are great for everyone. Wrapping paper is great for decopage projects also. A lot of party favors and other items can be used for childrens rooms. Also themed party items are great. I've seen beach, western, disco, ethnic, and many more themes.

College students often enjoy the different fun things that can be found down these Birthday aisles Same goes for New Year's Eve and Mardi Gras. Gags and Gifts and other related stores have disco balls and unique lighting ideas. Streamers can be used to make interesting doorways like hanging beads that have been popular for decades.

If I come up with anything else I'll let you know.

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:00:10 GMT

BLUE: Symbolises knowledge. Defined as Winter,
represents the element of Water. Signifies
creativity, intuition, and learning. It's close
to the ultraviolet end of the spectrum and
therefore is Yin shui (energy on the decline).

Your Lucky Colour (based on Asian colour symbolism)
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The West:You are about children and creativity.
Your element is metal, your colors are white
and metallic, your animal is the tiger, your
season is winter, and your number is 7.

What's Your Feng-Shui Compass Direction? (w/ pictures)
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Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:09:18 GMT

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Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:19:27 GMT

LiveJournal Roll Call - Find out who reads you!

If you read me on a regular or semi-regular basis, leave a comment and let me know.

Then, post this in your journal to see who reads YOU.

You'll be surprised how many people read you, and you never know who you might become friends with.

Any lurkers reading me?

Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:21:53 GMT

My Mom is upset right now because he friend knew something she didn't, something really horrible and didn't come to my mom to tell her but embarrassed her by telling it in public. It's not an easy thing to deal with. But I can kind of relate because I had a friend who knew but didn't tell me either. She didn't tell it in public at least but I hope she didn't make the problem worse.

Tue, 08 Feb 2005 02:45:13 GMT

http://www.youhavebadtasteinmusic.com/

O live this site. Halarious and true. Rock has become cliche, homogenized, and generic.

Sat, 22 Jan 2005 02:28:58 GMT

I've finally got smart and realized I had to make this a friends-only journal. First off some people are very nosy and don't care about me except to pry into my business for the fun of it. Second I told Melissa not to read my journal and I don't think she listened. And now that she knows that password, thank you I will have to change it.