today is my grandmother's birthday as well as (supposedly) our nation's. my parents and youngest sister are visiting her and my grandfather, who is doing well but has parkinson's disease. i talked to him on the phone and he sounded all right, but far away. i'm sure that's his voice, which is quiet, and the phone connection, which was scratchy, but i couldn't help feeling it, all the same. i can tell that something is wrong because my mom has only seemed so stressed out once before, and that was when she had hurt her back. i'm hoping that my sister R can shed some light on this all when she comes to visit. it's exciting in and of itself because she will be visiting our nation's (supposed) birthplace this weekend! she's never seen our apartment or the town where we live, and hasn't been to the city for a long time. it should be great. she also hopes to see a college friend over some cereal with crazy toppings.
my grandmother claims that something exciting happens every time my parents visit. this time, the news is that we might have a date! don't get too excited, because we don't have a contract yet, but we are crossing our fingers for june 19th, 2009. this will NOT turn into a wedding blog! but i wanted to say it, because it's pretty exciting. i'm usually so nervous about making goals that i just don't, but M. and i had hoped to have something concrete by the end of this week, and as long as the postal service actually works, we should in a few days. in other news, we had a good visit to the west coast, where i got to spend a lot of time reading ("pride and prejudice" - definitely not as good as i was hoping) and spending relaxed time with M.'s family. i'm grateful that they put up with me.
well, i must be off, but i wanted to pop up and say hello. may you have good fireworks and a summery, all-american weekend. by the way, i don't mean to seem flippant about my grandfather's declining health; in fact, i take it very seriously and may try to plan a visit there soon... i was just reminding myself that this is going to be really hard on my mom. i hope you can spend time with your loved ones this weekend.
I had a request to tell about my name :) thanks for the interest Pat.
The story of the online name I use for everything comes from the will-o-the-wisps or "ignis fatuus refering to the ghostly lights sometimes seen at night or twilight often over bogs or swamps. It looks like a flickering lamp, and is sometimes said to recede if approached. Much folklore surrounds the legend, but science has offered several potential explanations such as swamp gas. In Gaelic folk tales, the will-o'-the-wisps are held to be mischievous spirits of the dead or other supernatural beings attempting to lead travellers astray " -from wikipedia.
So, as a teenager, in my "gothier than thou" all black, spiked collar phase haha, I used to hang out in cemeteries in Mississippi and Louisiana a lot. We went to this one cemetery in particular in Bay St. Louis that was right on the swamp. One night we were hanging out there (side note, I never desecrated graves, I have the utmost respect for cemeteries.) and we noticed a ball of light about 1ft around that was hovering just over the swamp. It was a bright yellow-green and it bounced slightly over the grass. We couldn't get to it, it was about 30ft away and you know there are lots of snakes and alligators in the swamp lol. We watched it for about an hour and it seemed to kind of fade out and disappear. So I became fascinated with will-o-the-wisps and my favorite movie Cemetery Man talks about ignis fatuus so I decided to use it as a screen name and of course the original was taken so willothewizp was born lol. I get a lot of questions about it when people ask for my email lol. So there are many more cemetery stories and hauntings I'll have to blog about sometime. Hope you enjoyed :)
Today is Wednesday that means Thai Truck for Lunch in Meguro! While waiting in line I saw fellow Vox member Shin.
The Flying Penis attack originated from virtual online world Second Life.
But the flying penis attack has managed to escape the Matrix into the "real world" watch the video for proof.
Today is Wednesday that means Thai Truck for Lunch in Meguro.
Due to timezone, Euro's 08 came to us at 11.00 p.m. and 1.45 a.m. (local time) for a whole month long. It's hard to both enjoy it and work well on the next day ;(
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