Whims of the Wild Woo'si

Multiorgasmania 2010 Calendar

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:23:36 GMT

The photoshoots for the Multiorgasmania 2010 Calendar are done and I'm processing ! The Calendar features people from the poly community depicting Os from the book and new, as yet unpublished Os. The calendar will be R rated. Photographs by Raven Sidhehaven. Os and photo manipulation by Woosi Wildwood.

Preorder the calendar and the book together, get a $1 discount on the book.

Preorder before Dec 7: $15

Preorder calendar and book together: $30

Lulu price: $20

To order directly from Lulu when the project is done, look for the announcement soon.

Ping me to preorder!

Os on Amazon

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:12:30 GMT

My O book is now on Amazon! I still have copies if you want to eliminate the middleman and get a signed copy!

http://www.amazon.com/Os-Wild-Woosi-Lisa-Wildwood/dp/0557105838/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256655119&sr=8-1

And, a teaser: Raven Sidhehaven and I are working on a 2010 Calendar of Os... leave a space on your wall!

Top 10 Things to do with Squash (Besides the obvious)

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:01:13 GMT

We have squash. Lots of squash. We could eat squash once a week for a year and still have squash left over...

So, I'm brainstorming what else I could do with it!

Stack it up into orange snowmen...um. squashmen.
Line them all up on a friend's lawn, and every day, move it a little closer to the front door.
Have a squash wrestling party.
Make erotic art with it (I've actually done this... :)
Use them to hold up VOTE YES ON REF 71 signs.
Bowling in the corn patch (I think we did this too)
Archery target practice
Make it into decorative mushrooms (check out the cover of Martha Steward Living for October - gak!) (and then #7 :)
Weather report! Is the squash wet? It's raining. Can't see it? It's night :)
Squish it!

Somebody obviously pushed my silly button today...

O-mazing

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:41:12 GMT

My book has been published and is available on lulu.com for a little more than $16 plus shipping. BUT, I ordered 100 copies, so if you want to save on shipping, get a quantity discount, and/or get your books signed, you can get them directly from me.

Packaging and priority shipping in the US will be an extra $7 for one book. If you want more shipped, or shipping outside the US, please contact me directly. You can save shipping by picking up your books in person.
$16 - Adopt-an-O - One O-mazing copy.
$30 - Foreplayer - The answer to Life, the Universe, and 2 copies.
$70 - Puppy Piler - A puppy pile of 5 signed copies.
$120 - Lubrication Fairy - A fairy ring of 10 copies signed by the Wild Woosi.
$150 - Multiorgasmaniac- An orgasmic bliss of 15 copies signed by the Wild Woosi

I'd also love your help in spreading the word and suggesting stores that would carry the book!

A preview is available on lulu:

Busy busy busy

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:27:16 GMT

I made sure Labor day weekend lived up to its name...

Artsy day/slumber parties with siouxiequeue and sidhefire
Sending several people on their way with armfuls of squash and other garden goodness.
Got halfway done on my super-secret project for mlerules' birthday. I might actually finish it before her birthday!
Starting a batch of sauerkraut
Starting a batch of plum honey wine
Drying grapes and rosehips and making sun-dried tomatoes (omg the yum!)
Taking Laelaps to the vet to get 4 stitches in the gash below his eye. He now looks like a mean linebacker, except for that goofy look :)
Finish the final steps to publish my book... I'm getting proofs soon!
Had a nice long conversation with my son, Holden
Worked on details of our secret special guest for Woomancipation... not too secret- I'll be updating the invite soon!

Phew! No wonder I'm tired!

Looking for things to do this weekend

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:32:48 GMT

Anyone have any ideas, or wanna come hang out at CopperMoon?

Universal Healthcare

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:02:18 GMT

I was going to post too, but LightFoote said it very eloquently... Look here: http://lightfoote.livejournal.com/95294.html

Fremont Marine Solstice Graduations

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:03:58 GMT

Weird juxtaposition this weekend: attending my son's marine graduation: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woosi/sets/72157619947042141/ and then the Fremont Solstice Parade: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woosi/sets/72157620032862538/

Baby greens, in to steam, yum yum, happy we!

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:22:16 GMT

I thinned in the garden today daikon radish, turnips, beets both red and gold, and honest-to-goodness full-grown mustard greens. Our first pickings from the garden this year (if you ignore the 2 strawberries I ate while lightfoote and mlerules weren't watching) :).

The CopperMoon Garden of Love from our handfasting is just bursting with stuff. It probably should be thinned but I just can't bring myself to yet. I recognize beans and lettuce and peas (though I don't know if they're sweet peas or edible...). It's fun watching it grow and trying to guess what the plants are.

Piks here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woosi/

Adopt-an-O

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:08:43 GMT

Many of you have participated in the journey towards creating the O book... and you've heard I have finished interior formatting and cover design and am ready to self-publish!. I'd love your help in self-publishing through a local printer using environmentally-responsible printing practices.

This is your chance to help everyone be multiorgasmic, without violating your marriage vows or other relationship agreements! Pre-order copies of The Os of the Wild Woosi! If you've never heard ofThe Os of the Wild Woosi, I'll be posting a preview soon...

If you want to pre-order, click the number of books to preorder to go to paypal to pay for your books. If I get a minimum number of books pre-ordered, I can print with the local printers. If I get less than that, I'll print the book through Lulu.com. Either way, you get advance copies of the book before anyone else can get their hot little hands on it. There are discounts for multiple book orders and I'll Woosify-sign all of your copies if you pre-order 5 or more. Packaging and priority shipping in the US will be an extra $7 for one book. If you want more shipped, or shipping outside the US, please contact me directly.. You can save on shipping by picking up your books in person.

$22 - Adopt-an-O - One O-mazing copy.
$42 - Foreplayer - The answer to Life, the Universe, and 2 copies.
$100 - Puppy Piler - A puppy pile of 5 signed copies.
$190 - Lubrication Fairy - A fairy ring of 10 copies signed by the Wild Woosi.
$255 - Multiorgasmaniac- An orgasmic bliss of 15 copies signed by the Wild Woosi

I'd also love your help in spreading the word and suggesting stores that would carry the book!

I'm working on getting PayPal links for payment, but if you want to order now, I'm registered with Paypal under my main e-mail address (my LJ name @gmail.com).

A preview of the cover:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/woosi/3625554751/

Multi-national planting

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:34:53 GMT

Planted Korean Stone Pines with llama beans and northwest mushroom leavings (from G-spot's mushroom hunting). It was a multi-national affair :) Ace says the mushrooms like pines and will form a symbiotic relationship with the pine tree, benefiting both tree and fungi. I hope it makes up for the fact that the trees were long overdue for transplanting.

Korean stone pines are the trees that produce pine nuts...patience is....

Also finally tie-dyed my white 'O' shirt in watery colors. It's beautiful, and the writing resisted the dye, so it turned out exactly as I wanted :0)

The rest of my weekend has been full of printing out invitations for my parent's 50th Anniversary, e-mailing servas hosts to try to get free accommodations in London and Paris, and reviewing my will. Tomorrow I get to work on costumes for FaerieWorlds...

Beauvoir in Paris

Mon, 18 May 2009 19:11:44 GMT

I've been reading lots of stuff on Paris lately, and came across this (from http://www.parisnotes.com/NewFiles/sample.pdf) about Simone de Beauvoir, hailed as a feminist, but looky-looky! She was poly!:

...
Together, they [Beauvoir and her boyfriend, Sartre] set out
to create a new, existential way of living.
God, they argued, does not exist, nor does
human nature. Each person must make his
or her own destiny. In order to have love, one
must choose love. For that, one must be free.
Both rejected the concept of marriage, opting
instead for a mutual pact. Living apart, they
would carry on an open relationship of “primary”
love. Both were free to take “secondary”
loves as long as each was entirely honest with the
other. Such a relationship, Beauvoir insisted, had
“all the advantages of a shared life without any
of its inconveniences.”

In 1947, Beauvoir took up the question of
what it means to be a woman. She called her
new work “The Second Sex.” Sheila Malovany-
Chevallier, who with Constance Borde is doing
a new English translation of the book, due in
the fall of 2009, says that writing “The Second
Sex” made Beauvoir a feminist. Her painstaking
research into physiology, psychoanalysis, history
and Marxist theory convinced her that “one is
not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” Man is
the One, she argued; woman is the Other, forced
by society into a femininity that makes her the
object and prey of men. Lack of freedom is the
ultimate evil for women, but without education,
health care and financial independence, freedom
is useless.

Such feminist ideas, radical when “The Second
Sex” was published in 1949, brought cries
of outrage. The Vatican blacklisted the book.
Beauvoir was vilified in the press and taunted in
the streets. She was accused, she later wrote, of
being “unsatisfied, frigid, priapic, nymphomaniac,
lesbian, a hundred times aborted … even
an unwed mother.” At the same time, thousands
of women embraced the life-changing freedom
they found in her work, declaring the book to
be their “salvation.”

Sparrow in the Woodstove

Sat, 16 May 2009 21:01:16 GMT

Bet you expected some sort of existential rambling that makes that title make sense, but actually, I mean just that. Look here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woosi/tags/sparrow/

Gay Parents in Finland

Fri, 15 May 2009 22:00:34 GMT

My daughter said Finland, that already allows gay marriage and already allows a gay parent to adopt a child, just changed their laws so that both gay parents could legally adopt a child together (before they had no provision for a child to be adopted by two moms or two dads)...

Now, we're a little behind...

Good to find out now, at least...

Mon, 04 May 2009 19:18:23 GMT

Stolen from the lovely hollyteige , from FB. They really should teach this in school. They could name the class Reality 101...

What do you wish someone had told you in school or you had just learned earlier in life?
..............................................................
Excerpted from www.positivityblog.com
Written by Henrik Edberg

1. The 80/20 rule.

This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. The 80/20 rule – also known as The Pareto Principle – basically says that 80 percent of the value you will receive will come from 20 percent of your activities.

So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think.

You can just drop – or vastly decrease the time you spend on – a whole bunch of things.

And if you do that you will have more time and energy to spend on those things that really brings your value, happiness, fulfilment and so on.

2. Parkinson’s Law.

You can do things quicker than you think. This law says that a task will expand in time and seeming complexity depending on the time you set aside for it. For instance, if you say to yourself that you’ll come up with a solution within a week then the problem will seem to grow more difficult and you’ll spend more and more time trying to come up with a solution.

So focus your time on finding solutions. Then just give yourself an hour (instead of the whole day) or the day (instead of the whole week) to solve the problem. This will force your mind to focus on solutions and action.

The result may not be exactly as perfect as if you had spent a week on the task, but as mentioned in the previous point, 80 percent of the value will come from 20 percent of the activities anyway. Or you may wind up with a better result because you haven’t overcomplicated or overpolished things. This will help you to get things done faster, to improve your ability to focus and give you more free time where you can totally focus on what’s in front of you instead of having some looming task creating stress in the back of your mind.

3. Batching.

Boring or routine tasks can create a lot of procrastination and low-level anxiety. One good way to get these things done quickly is to batch them. This means that you do them all in row. You will be able to do them quicker because there is less “start-up time” compared to if you spread them out. And when you are batching you become fully engaged in the tasks and more focused.

A batch of things to do in an hour today may look like this: Clean your desk / answer today’s emails / do the dishes / make three calls / write a grocery shopping list for tomorrow.

4. First, give value. Then, get value. Not the other way around.

This is a bit of a counter-intuitive thing. There is often an idea that someone should give us something or do something for us before we give back. The problem is just that a lot of people think that way. And so far less than possible is given either way.

If you want to increase the value you receive (money, love, kindness, opportunities etc.) you have to increase the value you give. Because over time you pretty much get what you give. It would perhaps be nice to get something for nothing. But that seldom happens.

5. Be proactive. Not reactive.

This one ties into the last point. If everyone is reactive then very little will get done. You could sit and wait and hope for someone else to do something. And that happens pretty often, but it can take a lot of time before it happens.

A more useful and beneficial way is to be proactive, to simply be the one to take the first practical action and get the ball rolling. This not only saves you a lot of waiting, but is also more pleasurable since you feel like you have the power over your life. Instead of feeling like you are run by a bunch of random outside forces.

6. Mistakes and failures are good.

When you are young you just try things and fail until you learn. As you grow a bit older, you learn from - for example - school to not make mistakes. And you try less and less things.

This may cause you to stop being proactive and to fall into a habit of being reactive, of waiting for someone else to do something. I mean, what if you actually tried something and failed? Perhaps people would laugh at you?

Perhaps they would. But when you experience that you soon realize that it is seldom the end of the world. And a lot of the time people don’t care that much. They have their own challenges and lives to worry about.

And success in life often comes from not giving up despite mistakes and failure. It comes from being persistent.

When you first learn to ride your bike you may fall over and over. Bruise a knee and cry a bit. But you get up, brush yourself off and get on the saddle again. And eventually you learn how to ride a bike. If you can just reconnect to your 5 year old self and do things that way - instead of giving up after a try/failure or two as grown-ups often do – you would probably experience a lot more interesting things, learn valuable lessons and have quite a bit more success.

7. Don’t beat yourself up.

Why do people give up after just few mistakes or failures? Well, I think one big reason is because they beat themselves up way too much. But it’s a kinda pointless habit. It only creates additional and unnecessary pain inside you and wastes your precious time. It’s best to try to drop this habit as much as you can.

8. Assume rapport.

Meeting new people is fun. But it can also induce nervousness. We all want to make a good first impression and not get stuck in an awkward conversation.

The best way to do this that I have found so far is to assume rapport. This means that you simply pretend that you are meeting one of your best friends. Then you start the interaction in that frame of mind instead of the nervous one.

This works surprisingly well. You can read more about it in How to Have Less Awkward Conversations: Assuming Rapport.

9. Use your reticular activation system to your advantage.

I learned about the organs and the inner workings of the body in class but nobody told me about the reticular activation system. And that’s a shame, because this is one of the most powerful things you can learn about. What this focus system, this R.A.S, in your mind does is to allow you to see in your surroundings what you focus your thoughts on. It pretty much always helps you to find what you are looking for.

So you really need to focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want. And keep that focus steady.

Setting goals and reviewing them frequently is one way to keep your focus on what’s important and to help you take action that will move your closer to toward where you want to go. Another way is just to use external reminders such as pieces of paper where you can, for instance, write down a few things from this post like “Give value” or “Assume rapport”. And then you can put those pieces of paper on your fridge, bathroom mirror etc.

10. Your attitude changes your reality.

We have all heard that you should keep a positive attitude or perhaps that “you need to change your attitude!”. That is a nice piece of advice I suppose, but without any more reasons to do it is very easy to just brush such suggestions off and continue using your old attitude.

But the thing that I’ve discovered the last few years is that if you change your attitude, you actually change your reality. When you for instance use a positive attitude instead of a negative one you start to see things and viewpoints that were invisible to you before. You may think to yourself “why haven’t I thought about things this way before?”.

When you change you attitude you change what you focus on. And all things in your world can now be seen in a different light.

This is of course very similar to the previous tip but I wanted to give this one some space. Because changing your attitude can create an insane change in your world. It might not look like it if you just think about it though. Pessimism might seem like realism. But that is mostly because your R.A.S is tuned into seeing all the negative things you want to see. And that makes you “right” a lot of the time. And perhaps that is what you want. On the other hand, there are more fun things than being right all the time.

If you try changing your attitude for real – instead of analysing such a concept in your mind - you’ll be surprised.

You may want to read more about this topic in Take the Positivity Challenge!

11. Gratitude is a simple way to make yourself feel happy.

Sure, I was probably told that I should be grateful. Perhaps because it was the right thing to do or just something I should do. But if someone had said that feeling grateful about things for minute or two is a great way to turn a negative mood into a happy one I would probably have practised gratitude more. It is also a good tool for keeping your attitude up and focusing on the right things. And to make other people happy. Which tends to make you even happier, since emotions are contagious.

12. Don’t compare yourself to others.

The ego wants to compare. It wants to find reasons for you to feel good about yourself (“I’ve got a new bike!”). But by doing that it also becomes very hard to not compare yourself to others who have more than you (“Oh no, Bill has bought an even nicer bike!”). And so you don’t feel so good about yourself once again. If you compare yourself to others you let the world around control how you feel about yourself. It always becomes a rollercoaster of emotions.

A more useful way is to compare yourself to yourself. To look at how far you have come, what you have accomplished and how you have grown. It may not sound like that much fun but in the long run it brings a lot more inner stillness, personal power and positive feelings.

13. 80-90% of what you fear will happen never really come into reality.

This is a big one. Most things you fear will happen never happen. They are just monsters in your own mind. And if they happen then they will most often not be as painful or bad as you expected. Worrying is most often just a waste of time.

This is of course easy to say. But if you remind yourself of how little of what you feared throughout your life that has actually happened you can start to release more and more of that worry from your thoughts.

14. Don’t take things too seriously.

It’s very easy to get wrapped up in things. But most of the things you worry about never come into reality. And what may seem like a big problem right now you may not even remember in three years.

Taking yourself, your thoughts and your emotions too seriously often just seems to lead to more unnecessary suffering. So relax a little more and lighten up a bit. It can do wonders for your mood and as an extension of that; your life.

15. Write everything down.

If your memory is anything like mine then it’s like a leaking bucket. Many of your good or great ideas may be lost forever if you don’t make a habit of writing things down. This is also a good way to keep your focus on what you want. Read more about it in Why You Should Write Things Down.

16. There are opportunities in just about every experience.

In pretty much any experience there are always things that you can learn from it and things within the experience that can help you to grow. Negative experiences, mistakes and failure can sometimes be even better than a success because it teaches you something totally new, something that another success could never teach you.

Whenever you have a “negative experience” ask yourself: where is the opportunity in this? What is good about this situation? One negative experience can – with time – help you create many very positive experiences..

My Shadow

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:51:48 GMT

From a Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was my favorite book and favorite poems for a long time, and for some reason it came to mind today.

My Shadow

I HAVE a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—	5
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there’s none of him at all.

He hasn’t got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.	10
He stays so close beside me, he’s a coward you can see;
I’d think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,	15
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

Daffodils Out Standing in the Llama Field

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:25:22 GMT

I noticed bright yellow flowers in the middle of our center llama field today and went to investigate. They're daffodils. Growing in the middle of our llama field. I'm fairly certain they weren't there last year.

Any of our llama sitters know anything about this?

The L Herd, Episode 13, "Spring Shearing and More Fun with Llamas"

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:36:56 GMT

What is that quote? "An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body." Anyways, siouxiequeue is in the real friend club, after helping us bury Heliconninae today. Sad business but it's done and she's now part of the circle of life at CopperMoon. We also got Aurora and Wasabi sheared and dusted and vaccinated and toenails clipped, and gave their babies their first run at it too, so the moms can now go to their new home in Snohomish and the babies got their shots too so they're protected :) And it was a glorious day spent with glorious people. I love you siouxiequeue and lightfoote! Oh, and the swallows are back :)

The L Herd, Episode 13, "Spring Shearing and Hiding the Body"

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:34:39 GMT

What is that quote? "An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body."

Anyways, siouxiequeue is in the real friend club, after helping us bury Heliconninae today. Sad business but it's done and she's now part of the circle of life at CopperMoon.

We also got Aurora and Wasabi sheared and dusted and vaccinated and toenails clipped, and gave their babies their first run at it too, so the moms can now go to their new home in Snohomish and the babies got their shots too so they're protected :)

And it was a glorious day spent with glorious people. I love you siouxiequeue and lightfoote!

Unhappy llama news

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:44:01 GMT

I had to put one of my llamas down today. We're not sure how, but she'd broken her femur. Fixing it meant major surgery, which would have cost in the thousands, and at her age (16) she may not have recovered. I know it was the right decision, but it's still hard.

So all hail to Heliconninae. May she join the llama nessies swimming in Woods Lake.

Reminding Myself

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:14:07 GMT

I used to think that I was the type of person who couldn't go to sleep if there was any noise ... a distant radio or people talking outside would keep me up. That's just the way I was. Then I was challenged to change that, and realized that it wasn't part of who I was. I'd decided that I couldn't go to sleep with noise, and that was what was actually keeping me up. More than the noise, my anger at the people who were making the noise kept me up. I'd lay in bed grumbling and blaming those noisy people for keeping me awake and spent many a wakeful hour wishing they'd just shut up.

Once I realized that this was something I'd decided about myself, not just the way I was, and that my anger was keeping me awake, not the noise, I could change both things. Noise still wakes me up, but unless it's really loud or obnoxious, I just fall right back to sleep. There's a lot of power in that... in realizing that you are who you've decided to be. It comes with a price, of course, you can't blame other people anymore. If you don't like it who you are, well, get busy.

So, I've incorporated this sleeping with noise into my daily existence, but I'd kinda forgotten about looking at myself critically from time to time and challenging myself whenever I have that "it's just who I am" feelings. Making sure who I've decided to be is who I consciously want to be and how I'm actually being in the world.

So I'm challenging myself to again embrace that power in realizing you can decide who you want to be.

Muggle Saunas

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:13:56 GMT

I went to the YMCA in Monroe for the first time last night. After working out, I went into the sauna, which is in the women's locker room. I checked the instructions on the door to make sure nudity was allowed, and it mentioned sitting on a towel if you were "undressed," so that's what I did.

Then a strange thing happened. A young woman joined me. In full sweats. I thought this was odd. By her quick glance at me, I suspected she thought I was odd. But oh well, back to stewing.

Then another young woman walked in. In full sweats. WTF?

I'm wondering if this is normal for this Y or if I just ran into the only two people who go there and think that sweats are normal attire for a sauna.

Anyone up for Celtic Bayou before the Bone Poet's Prevue?

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:26:17 GMT

We'll be there at 5:30ish. E-mail me at my LJ name at gmail dot com if you want me to include you in the reservations!

25 Random Things about the Wild Woosi

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:41:40 GMT

Infected by siouxiequeue...

1. One of my hobbies is taking shots of my own bosom. I sometimes enlist friends to help :)
2. I like chili chocolate. That is dark chocolate with HOT chilis in it (and I copied this one from the person who tagged me)
3. I'm starting to learn American Sign Language.
4. There were three flickers at our bird feeder this morning. Hey, this is just like super-twitter!
5. I once wanted to go join an Amish community. I also once considered going to live in intentional community with a bunch of women, and just bring the guys in for sex.
6. I want to see Willy Dupree's underground house. COOL!
7. My relationship philosophy is no-pressure, no obligation. It's working great so far!
8. My last birthday party featured naked slip-n-slide. It's best with a boogie board...
9. I'm going to Europe in July. For the first time. Actually, it will be my first time off the North American continent.
10. My daughter met her Finnish husband and fell in love online, before they ever met. She's now living in Finland.
11. I played Dungeons and Dragons when I was a teenager.... a lot!
12. My first reaction to my (now-ex) husband's proposal of an open relationship was very negative. Obviously, I got over it :)
13. I make friends easier with men than women. Maybe for the same reason siouxiequeue said on LJ - I just don't get the shopping, catty, makeup thing.
14. <whispering> that's not my natural hair color... it's henna!
15. I love things that are absurd. I'll give you a prize if you send me something that makes me laugh.
16. If you make me snort, you get a bigger prize!
17. I was painfully shy as a teenager.
18. I've been the backup signer for karaoke at Polycamp (that was me in the turquoise wig and sequined dress :) Obviously, I got over the shyness thing too...
19. I was on the drill team in high school. And in Jazz and Tap lessons. At the same time. I used to wish I could dance for my job. For some reason I never thought of it as a real possibility.
20. Until recently, I didn't consider myself to be an artist. I still struggle with the feeling I'm not good enough.
21. My ancestry includes German, Cherokee, and Oklahoman. I've never done much research on my genealogy- with a maiden name of Smith, it gets difficult.
22. I am a veritable font of random information about llamas. Here, I'll prove it. Llamas are dung pilers... did you know that?
23. I wanted to be Pocohontas when I was young. We used to play cowboys and indians, but the indians were always the good guys.
24. I have a hard time asking guys out. The reaction I fear the most is they will say yes even though they don't want to.
25. My dad used to call me and my 2 sisters "Big bumps," "Little bumps," and "No bumps," and complain that we were going to get bumps in his T-shirts (which we stole for PJs). (I was "Little bumps")

Levity and Laxity

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:50:10 GMT

Just back from a smokin' flyin' toad rip to visit MLE's friends and family in LAX, then Disneyland!

Thanks to ebony_sphynx for an amazing dinner and invigorating round of Demon (OMG - what fun!), then off to breakfast with don't-know-his-LJ P and nightrythm too, visiting canals and then ending up at don't-know-his-LJ J and stacymckenna for yummy home-made bread and cute hugs from V.

Dland was very fun, in large part due to the energy work skarlett, miracle-worker extraordinaire gifted me with- my neck hasn't hurt since, and I got to go on several rides I wouldn't have attempted with a sore neck. I brought something special back for you, my dear :)

My absolute favorite was the Bugs Life show. I'm not saying anything more - you'll just have to go see for yourself :)

Then topped everything off by meeting up with 1annie1 for dinner and much giggling. Now happy to be home, rehydrating, and sleeping in my own bed.

Photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woosi/sets/72157613105187144/.</div>