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May. 4th, 2005
3182this week's real astrology
May. 4th, 2005 02:36 pmMay 4, 2005
the gemini one made me cry...
Taurus Horoscope for week of May 5, 2005
On a family member's 60th birthday, the Japanese celebrate a holiday
known as kanreki. It's a time of rebirth, when the celebrant ritually
becomes a baby again and enters a second childhood. Among the many
gifts given on the occasion is a red kimono, which signifies that in
a sense the person is now freed from the responsibilities of
adulthood. I recommend that you treat yourself to a similar rite of
passage, Taurus. Even though you may not be turning 60, you are at
the beginning of an extraordinarily fresh new cycle. You deserve a
red kimono and at least a temporary respite from adult burdens.
Gemini Horoscope for week of May 5, 2005
It's time to declare amnesty for the part of you that you don't love
very well. Forgive that poor sucker. Hold its hand and take it out to
dinner and a movie. Tactfully offer it a chance to make amends for
the dumb things it has done. And then do a dramatic reading of this
proclamation by the playwright Theodore Rubin: "I must learn to love
the fool in me--the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too
many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control,
loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises,
laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-
controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me
of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool."
3184icq w/A
May. 4th, 2005 02:45 pmMay 4, 2005
evile: happy hump day. Wish it was friday, but I'll settle for one
day closer, anyway.
SkyeDS: yep
evile: I had to stay home yesterday; I was out of clothes.
SkyeDS: lol good reason to stay home
evile: yup. I just told my boss I was sick; I didn't want to really
explain that I was lazy/busy this weekend so I didn't do laundry and
was out of clean underpants.
SkyeDS: hehehe
evile: I'm sure my boss woul dnot have appreciated the TMI. And I
remembered my goodies for today's coworker breakfast bday thing, so
we're all good.
SkyeDS: :)
evile: I'm finding all kinds of other possibilities for Saturday...I
may end up blowing off Scarby. I can see Rengeek & Loa in San Antonio.
evile: Did the Tenessee horses ever get a home, btw?
evile: If worse came to worse, they could always surrender them to
LSER, at least then they wouldn't get killed.
SkyeDS: I'm going to go look at the old man Fri
SkyeDS: the young one is already sold
evile: it's not ride-able, if it's 'retired' right?
SkyeDS: they are being very selective about this
SkyeDS: ridable some but not much at all
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: unless I find a good treatment for arthritis, always a
possibility, it's been done
SkyeDS: I want him as a pasture buddy for the girls
evile: *nod* Assuming he's done that before, that's a nice idea :)
SkyeDS: as picky as they're being I don't think they'll give him to
LSER
SkyeDS: they'd lose all control that way
evile: seems like LSER is a better option than slaughter. But I'm
silly like that, I guess.
SkyeDS: I doubt the woman will let the owner do that
evile: Oh, I was under the impression that those were the options
presented; adoption or slaughter.
SkyeDS: that was what the owner wanted to do
SkyeDS: the woman doing the negotiations stopped her
evile: I'm glad
SkyeDS: the owner apparently had no business buying the new horse in
the first place
evile: *nod* Lots of people buying/owning horses do'nt seem to be
equipped properly to care for them.
SkyeDS: the calls they've been getting are "so my 300 pound husband
can ride him right?" or "he'd be a good horse for kids to ride,
right?"
evile: hm.
SkyeDS: he has arthritis, people, what part of that word don't you
understand
evile: that's too bad.
SkyeDS: the other thing they're afraid of is someone taking him
because he's free and then selling him
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: they want him to have a final retirement place where they can
come visit
SkyeDS: which is fine
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: of course, the owner can't be in with him because of the
nature of the injury so I'm given to understand
evile: ouch.
SkyeDS: and I've already told them, I event on many weekends and he'd
be home by himself because I can't and wouldn't if I could, haul
him around with us
evile: yup.
SkyeDS: what a damn fool idiot thing to have done.
evile: ?
SkyeDS: rather than spend money on a professional, or time on
acquiring your own know how
SkyeDS: getting on the back of a horse that isn't ready, getting
yourself so hurt you can't even be on teh ground with them anymore
evile: that sucks.
SkyeDS: and t hen there was Christopher Reeve....
evile: shit happens...he was apparently a decent rider.
SkyeDS: he was competing at a level he shouldn't have been, on a
green horse that shouldn't have been at that level either.
SkyeDS: even never having jumped, I could tell from watching video
that he was way too far past vertical, and he was going over the jump
a nd the horse wasn't going with him.
evile: Makes sense to me to prepare and train and educate yourself as
best as you can, but in the end sometimes there's just plain old
shitty luck. And of course there's the whole 'god protecting children
and fools ' thing that also seems to work about equally on horseback.
SkyeDS: that's true. but there are still things that you ought to
know are recipes for disaster. your level of training, your horse's
level of training, and what's appropriate level of training, for what
you're trying to do, for example.
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: green on green = black and blue.
evile: yup
SkyeDS: at trail rides I get these belligerent bellicose cowboys get
in my face to loudly pronounce they've got a horse that only they can
ride (and by implication I can't)
SkyeDS: that's nice.
evile: yuck.
SkyeDS: there ain't no such thing as a horse that can't be rode, and
no such thing as a rider that can't be throwed
evile: heehee. true!
SkyeDS: that aside, I'm not the damn fool idiot I was ten or twenty
years ago either
SkyeDS: and no, I'm not going to get on a horse that I'm not sure has
proper ground training
SkyeDS: if the steering and the brakes aren't flawless, forget it.
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: some people are so proud of being stupid
evile: heehee. that's true too.
evile: there's just too much that can go wrong, even with a good
horse and rider...why take chances?
SkyeDS: exactly.
evile: I put up the link for Otter chaos in the HFS CR board; it says
LARPers are welcome...
SkyeDS: :)
evile: HFSers don't tend to respond, but I figured I'd put the info
out there, anyway.
evile: all ages, no cover...the only possible objection would be the
drive to San Antonio. So very long and far away.
SkyeDS: lol
evile: I like it, but it's definitely wierd having other people
wanting to make plans with me...
evile: I've got all these 'if ___ ,then ___' things going through my
head, and having to remember who to get back with and all of
this...crazy.
SkyeDS: nodnod
evile: so it sounds like y'all are going to Houston this weekend
SkyeDS: depends on his mom
evile: *nod* I know Nana would be happy to see him, too.
evile: Well, Rengeek just offered to show me the inside of his
RV...that may be an offer I can't refuse :P
SkyeDS: 8-)
evile: And then if April calls off her party on the 14th, I can go to
Scarby then. Or maybe the 30th...the last day might be fun. And I
could still do a big trip the other 5 days of the long weekend I made
for myself.
evile: time for me to scram. Have a good evening :)
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