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How You Life Your Life

Debb is honest and direct. Debb tells it like it is. Debb is laid back and chill, but sometimes she cares too much about what others think. Debb's friends tend to be a as quirky as she is - which is saying a lot! Debb tends to always dream of things within reach - and she usually gets them.

How Do You Live Your Life?

guts (round 2)

tomorrow for round 2 of testing

&

it'll be a couple of weeks before an answer is collected from the doctor

here's hoping for an answer with a functional response

an answer that we can do something about

an answer that has a history of success

an answer, just that would be good

guts

we all got 'em
guts that is...
and mine are going to be searched,
poked, probed and biopsied
let's hope for an answer
with an option of cure.

our place on this earth is so small
and yet...
if we choose to...

our impact can be huge

choose to be positive and keep our place joyous

kids

are we the only people on the planet that
couldn't
didn't
have kids

no we aren't

but it really feels like

a solo venture sometimes

we didn't then because we couldn't

and now we can't

and we are a minority of 2

top fourty

My Top 40 music choices
in no particular order.........

just 40 assorted bits of music that help to define my world

I may have many albums or just the artist listed in my top fourty,
because sometimes it's the way the songs move together that makes the sound memorable

1: Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack

2: The Big Chill Soundtrack

3: Spiderweb by Joan Osborne

4: REM

5: School House Rocks

6: It's a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong

7: Sunny Came Home by Shawn Colvin
8: Bat out of Hell & Back into Hell by Meatloaf

9: Song Remains the Same by Led Zepplin

10: Thunder Drums by Scott Fitzgerald

11: Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

12: The Wall by Pink Floyd

13: Voices of the First Women

14: Outback

15: R Carlos Nakai

16: Talking Heads

17: David Bowie

18: Rolling Stones

19: the Beatles

20: the Doors

21: Mikey Hart

22: Depeche Mode

23: the Grateful Dead

24: Bonnie Raitt

25: Tina Turner

26: Liz Phair

27: Billie Holiday

28: Paul Simon

29: Dire Straits

30: Marcia Ball

31: the Bon-Ton Blues Soul Accordian Band

32: Eric Clapton

33: Elvis Costello

34: B B King

35: Santana

36: Madonna

37: Melissa Etheridge

38: Elton John

39: the B-52's

40: Sting

hooked...

...on these tests

(thanks for the link to the site jerri!)

ok so right brained am I

& you?

Brain Lateralization Test Results

Right Brain (64%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain. Left Brain (24%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain

Are You Right or Left Brained?
personality tests by similarminds.com

who me?

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM

What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

I figured that it'd be Einstein
(my sis tells me I'm way to detached & analytical)

weeding the weekend away

Cleaning the backyard.

Plants that were once, this fall, in bloom & wonderful
are now just weeds.

Definition:
weed
A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome,
especially one growing where it is not wanted.


weed·ing,
To clear of weeds.
To remove weeds.

forest for the trees

why is it so hard sometimes to see:

where we are,

where we are going,

or

where we have been?

could it be that our view is obstructed?

clouded by what we want

& not clear to see what we have.

work

lookie, little blood cells!

I don't get to look at these that often anymore,

being in the clinic and out of the main clinical laboratory,

but I still work with them....well their cousins anyway.

I'm writing SOP and reviewing current SOP for the clinic and in doing so I get to research current issues that relate & often time get to see pics like these that remind me of my professional roots.

pause

lott'a latte (ya' gotta' scroll for it)

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

todays thought

I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I, being born a woman, and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your body's weight upon my breast:
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave me once again undone, possessed.
Think not for this, however, this poor treason
Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,
I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn with pity - let me make it plain:
I find this frenzy insufficient reason
For conversation when we meet again.

Friday, September 30, 2005

Waiting to Inhale

rain

the top of moutains

garlic

my husband

wet dog

(yes wet dog....means my furkids have had a bath)

these are a five of my favorite scents

what are yours?

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

blog-o-type

You Are a Double Espresso Hey Energizer Bunny Girl! Do you ever slow down? You're a mix of high energy and ambition, perfectly matched with strong espresso When you want something you get it - by any means possible You're driven, determined, and no nonsense. Which is just how you like your java. What Kind Of Coffee Are You? Take This Quiz :-) these quizzies are quite fun..... for a saturday morning thanks to Jerri http://jerrilance.blogspot.com/

Your Blogging Type is Confident and Insightful

You've got a ton of brain power, and you leverage it into brilliant blog. Both creative and logical, you come up with amazing ideas and insights. A total perfectionist, you find yourself revising and rewriting posts a lot of the time. You blog for yourself - and you don't care how popular (or unpopular) your blog is!

What's Your Blogging Personality?

well interesting.....

monday thought

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.Phillips Brooks

and what a glorious thing that would be

creativity

http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/sethna/FrustrationCurvature/

working with a color like orange can be quite a challange

mind you I like oranges, oragne juice, squash, pumpkins, pumkin pie & other things orange

but

to create something with orange is turning out to be a bit harder than I expected

the beads begin to make the shape I want & like the orange carpet,

turn, twist & begin to be their own thing

not a bad thing, bit very much their own

so I put it down for a pause

we need to work together,

the beads & I,

for this to come out the way we both want

often creativity is like that

a process of give & take between the artist & the art

a wee break

sunshine

sunflowers

blue sky

big views

pause

relax

enjoy

change in the air

Change is in the air and I am flying with it.

I am transitioning to a new job within the place I work. The ripples of that transition are just beginning to expand. It has altered the way that my co-workers have to deal with processes at the office.

It isn't easy for some to accept change. For some it takes a long time to get used to even a small change & the major events can really trun life into a tail-spin for them.

"It's not Fair."

"You can't do that to me."

"This time we'll do X-Y-Z."

All said with the gnashing of teeth, the stomping of feet and the requisite glares of anger at being forced to do something; something different, something new, something.

I am sorry for folks that see all change as a punishment to themselves, an upset to their lives, an event of clamity.

Change is a part of this life, a part of living each day on this wonderous plane, a gift from spirit to allow growth.

It is not an event that can be controlled.

It can be an adventure, a chance to shine in the glory of new learning, new doing & new ways of doing things.

But for some it is a death knell to the way they want things done, they way they know to do things and to the way they know.

I prefer to look at things the way Allan Cohen has stated it:

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen