Tuesday Oct 03, 2006

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1_dying_wish:
i will buy a copy!
ekelly:
you should send this all to a news person on here so it shows up on the main page.. I'm more than positive they would because this is freaking awesome!!

Wednesday Sep 20, 2006

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Today I did two things I've never done before....

1. I brazed some fender seams on the DeSoto...
VIDEO EVIDENCE


2. I drag raced!!!

Have you ever seen a mini van drag race? Me neither...but that's because I WAS DRIVING!

Dial in run....
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My final run...


P.s. My camera man was so excited by my last run that he cut himself off...Here are...
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poolboy6:
The team of enablers is pretty much no more. I'm it. Chris is around once and a while, but he's off to India and Bosnia and all over with his new job. Mark is back in PA and Eric does his thing now...
kay:
And I love ya like crazy for it. wink

*kisses fer the end of yer nose*

~cheers

Saturday Sep 16, 2006

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Normally when I wake up and find a message written to me on my bathroom mirror, it's got some kind of spiritual tone...inspiration...meditation...something of that sort...

Today I woke up and my mirror said, "Learn to drag race on Sept. 20th."

skull blackeyed skull
gypsyphoenix:
its exactly what i was thinking. naming them gives them power, to a certain degree, but it also gives me the ability to know my enemy, and be better equipped to battle against them.

Monday Sep 11, 2006

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I want to tell you what a great weekend I had.

I want to tell you about getting my first 'shout out' for the work that I'm doing by fellow hotroders...

I want to tell you about the thrill of watching cars racing on the dry lake bed of El Mirage...

But today my mind is elswhere...

My memories of 9/11 run deep, and they...
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kay:
Amen sister.

The 10th I was trying to find my boyfriend. He had disappeared yet again, and I was pissed, because I was knocked up, and I still did not know.

The 11th, there were too many things that happened. I got the call first thing in the morning, reporting to me that 93 was off course, and that I might be needed down at the state capital. Lots transpired after that. I still could not find my boyfriend, and I knew he would get called in. He did. I found him, and he could not figure out why I was so angry. Still trying to get my parents out of any major city area.

The 12th, I started trying to bleed to death. I was dazed and very confused. Still very busy with what happened in NY.

The 13th, I continued to miscarry, and finally drove myself to the hospital, blacking out all the way. I lost both of the pregnancies.

It was not a good week for anyone. I'm with you. I cry at certain things regarding that day. I will not view movies or listen or read stories about it. It just hurts too much.

~cheers
irina:
That was really beautiful. It was so hard for me to not be in New York this year on the 11th (for the the first time since it happened.) I felt like a traitor.

I'm going to the College of Santa Fe, in New Mexico. Craaaazy.

Saturday Sep 09, 2006

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Just about every day I read a daily meditation from a book called, "The Celtic Spirit," by Caitlin Matthews...

Today's meditation is about the power of telling a story, and hearing a story...
The Celts believed that stories held blessings within them, and if you truly listened you would receive this blessing. They also believed that if you memorized the story and re-told the story,...
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gypsyphoenix:
that is a beautiful story! i've got two butterflies, that actually have meaning to me (i can explain later if you like) and it just makes them that much more special to me.

((hugs))

Tuesday Sep 05, 2006

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The stars are cruising around in the universe...shifting and changing things...strange, very strange...

It's been a good long weekend though.

The DeSoto didn't get finished to bring to the Primer Nationals on Saturday, but these things happen. Especially with the old cars, I'm beginning to realize. We're close though...

So...Saturday we took the '50 Studebaker ramp truck instead and caravaned down the hill with a...
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luckybastard2:
I wonder if we all pooled our dreamer destinies what would happen?

It would be scary. But, my life story would just be starting then. How is Cali anyway? I've only been there once but I was in the desert the whole time.

and with a big kiss back to ya skull
bluevalentine:
well, people tend to have a lot of "firsts" stories.

First love

First Concert

First Car

First experience with death

maybe that will help to get the brain workin smile

Wednesday Aug 30, 2006

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Ah, the quiet life of a redneck...

I sleep late into the morning...

Have my coffee and cigarette under a tree in the yard...contemplating life and watching the hummingbirds with a gimpy dog at my feet...

Eventually I get into my coveralls and head out to work...sanding and banging away on this car parked under a shade tree...country music in the background...

When it gets...
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dominica:
Hi, I saw your post in the Long Beach group and figured I 'd say hi. I'm a newbie to Long Beach also, and do you have a pic of the desoto you worked on. I'm looking to buy somethin within the next few months!!
mrginger:
I have no luck parking under shade trees. its the birds.

Saturday Aug 26, 2006

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Not ALL spider-webby memories are bad...

The other day Moldy had gone out to a meeting and left me working on the DeSoto on my own...

There I was, perched precariously across the rear windshield, trying not to dent anything while I was working out the dents in the roof (gotta love steel bodied cars that you can actually do that on)...when AC/DC's "thunderstruck" came...
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anton:
Ahh, I love Thunderstruck. Especially a good 'ahhh-ahhhh-yaaaaah-ahhh!!' sing-a-long with mates.
gangstaswan:
We'll be looking for awhile. We have a lot of shifts to get covered and we're in desperate need of a bartender. Kick your captors in the shins then come to work!

Friday Aug 25, 2006

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Fear not fellow dreamers...

Not five minutes after hitting the 'post' button on that last journal did I actually pick up a guitar...

I'd been left alone in the house...a house filled with guitars and all kinds of instruments...

I'd MEANT to eat some dinner...take a bath...y'know...the regular...and yet, for some reason, as I was passing by the rows of guitars I found myself thinking...hmmm,...
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gangstaswan:
Awesome, I'm glad to hear things are looking up!
low_ball:
fuckin a!!! glad to see that you are getting back in the swing of things!! so does this mean..when i finally see you next we can do a duet on guitar.. while singing johnny and june?? maybe... jackson?? start practicin!!

Monday Aug 21, 2006

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Fear not, fellow travelers...there isn't anything 'wrong.'

I've just been tripping around in the spiderwebs of historical thinking...

It's funny (and annoying, quite frankly) the way one memory strings me along to another...

My health gives me shit and I'm reminded of an abusive boyfriend...and a promise to myself I didn't uphold.

The promise reminds me of the moment in my life I made it...which...
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gypsyphoenix:
oh love.

((hugs))
gangstaswan:
I know the feelings of not being given the chance to strive at that which you want. I'm glad I found journalism. It's allowed me to take all the things I've felt stifled in and been able to express them.

You will find your muse. I promise.

Sunday Aug 20, 2006

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How is it I can be a muse to so many...and still have my own creative juices so stifled?

low_ball:
what's wrong now baby doll??? i thought things were kickin like chicken?? frown
gypsyphoenix:
*sending inspiration juice your way!*

kiss

Thursday Aug 17, 2006

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Dear R,

You'll never know how much it meant to me for you and your family to take me in for Christmas because I have no family of my own.

You'll never know how it touched this cold heart to see that you had a stocking just for me on the mantle.

How you'd refuse to let me leave to try and beat the storm....because...
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tigerangel:
Aww sweetie that was so beautiful.

I am so incredibly sorry for this woman that you lost. frown

*hugs*
othello:
I hope she reads this. It's always awesome to hear when you've affected a life.
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