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In other news, G nuked and paved my poor, corrupted computer last week. I am still trying to reconstruct it. Since I lack time, it will be a while in the coming. No IM for me for a while, I’m trying to figure out why my sig file won’t work on my email, I have a bunch of programs to re-install, etc. In other words, the ship is sailing smoothly, but she is running at a quarter of the optimal crew. It’s nice to be nautical sometimes. *smile*
Since I'm having trouble with my cuts, here are the headings.
The Friday Five on Sunday
1. List your five favorite beverages.
-Water, filtered and pure
-Tea, green, African, black, hot or cold… I’m a tea snob
- Smoothies, I’m partial to my own. Chock full of yummy goodness
-Juice, sweet nectar of the fruits from which I squeeze the life-blood on a regular basis for my gastronomic pleasure. I’m pure evil!
-Americano, a shot of espresso, filtered water and a bit of cream. If you’re gonna go, go with style.
2. List your five favorite websites.
-My Yahoo. It’s my only real contact with the world at large. No tv, no radio, no newspapers…
- Live Journal. Obviously.
I can’t think of any others I go to. I’m a recluse.
3. List your five favorite snack foods.
-My Mom’s unbelievably delicious cookies. She made me a batch and sent them to me. They arrived the other day and I’ve had a hard time not eating the whole batch myself. Must remember to share, must remember to share… but they are my precioussssss! She also made a batch without chocolate chips for the puppies. I really love my Mom!
-When I’m in the mood for sweet, dark chocolate is the thing! The method of delivery matters little, just bring on the chocolate!
-When I’m in the mood for salty, it depends. I’ve been known to sit with a package of sesame thins, a bit of whipped cream cheese and my homemade tapenade and make a large hole in the bowl. Other times, it’s just as easy for me to make a quick broth with herbs.
-Nuts. Preferably nuts with dark chocolate. Best of savoury and sweet! Pure bliss.
- There is this little spot at the base of G’s neck…
4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
-High-Low Jack! A card game I prefer to play with partners. More fun than should be allowed! Who wants to learn! I LOVE this game!
-Scrabble. I’m an old-fashioned girl.
-Carcasonne.
-Settlers of Catan, Cities and Knights edition
-Tied for 5th, Fluxx, Trivial Pursuit with teams, Cranium in teams, and probably a few more I’m forgetting. Can we say game slut? Yes, I think we can. *wink*
5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.
-White Wolf’s Vampire. Non-standard play. I hate the politics they have established. I make a character with lots of quirks and personality and toss it into a realistic historical setting at some point in time and have fun interacting with such historical characters and places as Jesus, Caligula and the Druidic groves of Britain.
-D & D. Reliable, omnipresent, and, preferably, 3.0. Even better when it’s more character based than munchkin hack and slash.
-GURPS is fun and I’m just learning about it. We are playing a GURPS Hogwarts game that rocks the house.
-*looks around in both directions, leans in close to the keyboard and types furtively* Tetris. I’ve been know to retreat into the bathroom for my constitutional with this game and not emerge for an hour. *hangs head in shame* Now you know.
-Vampire the Redemption, a video game from a few years ago. I played it when I was recovering from the flu. It’s the only game I’ve really ever played front to back by myself and thoroughly enjoyed. All the others I find boring or too difficult to maneuver in and quit. I’m not much of a video game player.
A piece on this holiday nicked from the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
roma_antiqua journal
roma_antiqua journal”>
As you sit back in your chair this Christmas:
(the biggest holiday of the Ancient Roman World called Saturnalia and the birth of the Persian Sun God Mithras was named the birth festival of Jesus by Pope Leo the Great in 885 A.D. December 25th was also the Feast of Sol Invictus, the Invincible Sun, a cult popular to Romans like Constantine, the first Christian emperor. Modern estimates based on the census records of Augustus calculate Jesus' actual birth in July although Christians had started to use the Saturnalia as the birthday feast as early as the 300's A.D.)
by your yule log:
(pagan German custom),
wrapping your presents in pretty paper:
(Roman Saturnalia custom)
with your house all decorated with lights:
(Roman New Year custom)
under your mistletoe:
(Druid custom),
drinking from your Wassel Bowl:
(Anglo-German hot beer with toast floating in which is why we "toast" with the words "was-heil" -- here's to ya).
You're looking at your Christmas tree:
(besides the Celtic tree worship, the 24th of December was the feast day of Saints Adam and Eve when Medieval Churches act out the Genesis story and set up a tree representing the "tree of life" with glass balls representing the fruit. This custom was later associated with Christmas and was taken from Germany to England by Prince Albert and to America by Hessian soldiers and later German immigrants)
(In an 1883 editorial about the newfangled custom the New York Times called the Christmas Tree -- "A rootless, lifeless corpse -- unworthy of the Day..."),
And you dream of a visit from Santa Claus
(a hybrid of anglo-dutch customs appearing in it's modern form in New York in the late 1850's. The English form was St. Nicholas, a big jolly Bishop in a red suit and the Dutch had Kris Kringle, the elf who dropped down your chimney and was also known as "Klaus-in-the-Cinders" or "Cinder-Klaus'". The first image of him was drawn in 1859 in the New York Sun by cartoonist Thomas Nast for the Clement Moore poem (Nast also created the Democratic Donkey and Republican elephant). The modern image was created for a 1930's ad campaign for Coca-Cola by illustrator Haddon Sundblom.)
(A Welsh friend told me the Druid priest who distributed magic mushrooms wore a red robe with white fur trim. The reindeer had a habit of eating these mushrooms which gave you a high when you drank their urine.}
So here's wishing you hopes for a "White Christmas"
(song written by Russian-Jewish composer Irving Berlin)
and a very Happy New Year:
(courtesy of the 12 month calendar reformed by the Hellenic-Egyptian Sosigenes for Julius Caesar and modified by Pope Gregory in 1582, else we'd be celebrating in March.)
Merry Christmas, Freylich Chaunnakah, Happy Solstice, Happy Birth of Mithras, Io, Saturnalia, Joyeux Noel, Bozego Narodzenia, Frohe Weinacht, Happy Birth of Sol Invictus the Sungod, Happy death and rebirth of Baldur son of Odin, Happy beginning of the rise of Porsephone back from Hades to her mother Demeter, and pass the reindeer pee!
And now, off to work I go.
Since I'm having trouble with my cuts, here are the headings.
The Friday Five on Sunday
1. List your five favorite beverages.
-Water, filtered and pure
-Tea, green, African, black, hot or cold… I’m a tea snob
- Smoothies, I’m partial to my own. Chock full of yummy goodness
-Juice, sweet nectar of the fruits from which I squeeze the life-blood on a regular basis for my gastronomic pleasure. I’m pure evil!
-Americano, a shot of espresso, filtered water and a bit of cream. If you’re gonna go, go with style.
2. List your five favorite websites.
-My Yahoo. It’s my only real contact with the world at large. No tv, no radio, no newspapers…
- Live Journal. Obviously.
I can’t think of any others I go to. I’m a recluse.
3. List your five favorite snack foods.
-My Mom’s unbelievably delicious cookies. She made me a batch and sent them to me. They arrived the other day and I’ve had a hard time not eating the whole batch myself. Must remember to share, must remember to share… but they are my precioussssss! She also made a batch without chocolate chips for the puppies. I really love my Mom!
-When I’m in the mood for sweet, dark chocolate is the thing! The method of delivery matters little, just bring on the chocolate!
-When I’m in the mood for salty, it depends. I’ve been known to sit with a package of sesame thins, a bit of whipped cream cheese and my homemade tapenade and make a large hole in the bowl. Other times, it’s just as easy for me to make a quick broth with herbs.
-Nuts. Preferably nuts with dark chocolate. Best of savoury and sweet! Pure bliss.
- There is this little spot at the base of G’s neck…
4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
-High-Low Jack! A card game I prefer to play with partners. More fun than should be allowed! Who wants to learn! I LOVE this game!
-Scrabble. I’m an old-fashioned girl.
-Carcasonne.
-Settlers of Catan, Cities and Knights edition
-Tied for 5th, Fluxx, Trivial Pursuit with teams, Cranium in teams, and probably a few more I’m forgetting. Can we say game slut? Yes, I think we can. *wink*
5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.
-White Wolf’s Vampire. Non-standard play. I hate the politics they have established. I make a character with lots of quirks and personality and toss it into a realistic historical setting at some point in time and have fun interacting with such historical characters and places as Jesus, Caligula and the Druidic groves of Britain.
-D & D. Reliable, omnipresent, and, preferably, 3.0. Even better when it’s more character based than munchkin hack and slash.
-GURPS is fun and I’m just learning about it. We are playing a GURPS Hogwarts game that rocks the house.
-*looks around in both directions, leans in close to the keyboard and types furtively* Tetris. I’ve been know to retreat into the bathroom for my constitutional with this game and not emerge for an hour. *hangs head in shame* Now you know.
-Vampire the Redemption, a video game from a few years ago. I played it when I was recovering from the flu. It’s the only game I’ve really ever played front to back by myself and thoroughly enjoyed. All the others I find boring or too difficult to maneuver in and quit. I’m not much of a video game player.
A piece on this holiday nicked from the
roma_antiqua journalroma_antiqua journal”>As you sit back in your chair this Christmas:
(the biggest holiday of the Ancient Roman World called Saturnalia and the birth of the Persian Sun God Mithras was named the birth festival of Jesus by Pope Leo the Great in 885 A.D. December 25th was also the Feast of Sol Invictus, the Invincible Sun, a cult popular to Romans like Constantine, the first Christian emperor. Modern estimates based on the census records of Augustus calculate Jesus' actual birth in July although Christians had started to use the Saturnalia as the birthday feast as early as the 300's A.D.)
by your yule log:
(pagan German custom),
wrapping your presents in pretty paper:
(Roman Saturnalia custom)
with your house all decorated with lights:
(Roman New Year custom)
under your mistletoe:
(Druid custom),
drinking from your Wassel Bowl:
(Anglo-German hot beer with toast floating in which is why we "toast" with the words "was-heil" -- here's to ya).
You're looking at your Christmas tree:
(besides the Celtic tree worship, the 24th of December was the feast day of Saints Adam and Eve when Medieval Churches act out the Genesis story and set up a tree representing the "tree of life" with glass balls representing the fruit. This custom was later associated with Christmas and was taken from Germany to England by Prince Albert and to America by Hessian soldiers and later German immigrants)
(In an 1883 editorial about the newfangled custom the New York Times called the Christmas Tree -- "A rootless, lifeless corpse -- unworthy of the Day..."),
And you dream of a visit from Santa Claus
(a hybrid of anglo-dutch customs appearing in it's modern form in New York in the late 1850's. The English form was St. Nicholas, a big jolly Bishop in a red suit and the Dutch had Kris Kringle, the elf who dropped down your chimney and was also known as "Klaus-in-the-Cinders" or "Cinder-Klaus'". The first image of him was drawn in 1859 in the New York Sun by cartoonist Thomas Nast for the Clement Moore poem (Nast also created the Democratic Donkey and Republican elephant). The modern image was created for a 1930's ad campaign for Coca-Cola by illustrator Haddon Sundblom.)
(A Welsh friend told me the Druid priest who distributed magic mushrooms wore a red robe with white fur trim. The reindeer had a habit of eating these mushrooms which gave you a high when you drank their urine.}
So here's wishing you hopes for a "White Christmas"
(song written by Russian-Jewish composer Irving Berlin)
and a very Happy New Year:
(courtesy of the 12 month calendar reformed by the Hellenic-Egyptian Sosigenes for Julius Caesar and modified by Pope Gregory in 1582, else we'd be celebrating in March.)
Merry Christmas, Freylich Chaunnakah, Happy Solstice, Happy Birth of Mithras, Io, Saturnalia, Joyeux Noel, Bozego Narodzenia, Frohe Weinacht, Happy Birth of Sol Invictus the Sungod, Happy death and rebirth of Baldur son of Odin, Happy beginning of the rise of Porsephone back from Hades to her mother Demeter, and pass the reindeer pee!
And now, off to work I go.