Justify My Love

The bidding has begun!

Last week, gooooogle email (gmail.com) opened its doors to active bloggers! Thus informed, we (the velveteen dd, leigh cheri and i) ran, pell-mell, post-haste into the arms of google (taking off high heels, sneakers in hand and trying to put on the comfy pair while running for greater speed)! We can certainly do with that one gig of email!!!

Nevertheless, we still somehow remained ignorant of our extremely good fortune. Leigh Cheri's most-loved felt peeved that for the moment, as a non-blogger, the doors still kept him out in the cold non-gmail world :-D. After all, wasn't he the one who had told Leigh weeks ago about the impending new google email???? (And Leigh felt equally peeved at herself, having missed one "r" in her login registration, hehehe but that's another story.)

The velveteen's friend, long-time google fan Dahon's heart was broken. She so admired google and wanted to be in too. A pleading email from velveteen to google on her behalf proved futile, as even the blogger founder [thanks leaf, for pointing out the faux pas :D i want to be in google's good graces, and yours ;-)] had this to say in his blog -- Sorry, I can't invite everyone to Gmail just because you write to me. Especially if I don't know you. And that's true even if you created a Blogger account and/or are a long-time Google user. For one thing, I don't have that many invites. And for another, I'd never get anything else done.

But today, this invitation winked at me from within my gmail -- Invite a friend! Thanks for using Gmail and helping us improve the service. We're ready to expand our test to a few more users, and because you've been a trusted early tester of Gmail, we're looking for your help. Please invite a few more people who you think would like Gmail and could help us make it even better.

And I still have one more invite left for anyonewho badly wants in into intelligent email -- for one, you get to see your emails as entire conversations!

It's like the last brownie game in Notting Hill, says Leigh. Tell the mundane and the divine, why you deserve gmail? :D Just write to themundaneandthedivine@gmail.com. The best entry wins!

Winners will be announced on Monday, May 3.

Bless you all for we will email :D

Soul Sister Conversations

The phrase "the mundane and the divine" is actually from soul sister on fire, Ms. Morgaine.

We had been talking about, love :-D. What a more complete "romantic" love connection should include. We thought how many relationships start from attraction and sex. Some ignite from intellectual conversations. Others are borne of emotional attachments. Then when the two people change, grow, the one other person is left behind or the two extend into different directions.

Perhaps if two are united and excited on many different levels at the same time, from the start, there would be a more complete and more fulfilling interaction. Things mundane like never forgetting to buy coffee (or else!!) or even saving up water in the summer when taps run dry.

Or, beyond the tastiest bedroom adventures and the most exciting discussions on how things should be run around here, things divine like a body massage (hehe!), and a shared silent prayer.

Hence, the mundane and the divine. After all, us little devils and occasional angels will have our rants and our moments of great wisdom.

Last Saturday, soulful living kept cropping up in yet another long conversation of the sisters of Avalon (:-P).

Maya Marches

Libra gf forwarded me a list of feminist jobs with this short note - ewan ko ba bakit forward ako ng mga ganito sa yo eh ayaw naman kitang umalis ng UP Village. he he he.

GF, am so glad you're in washington this weekend, marching for my condoms, among other things :-). Wanna be there too ;-) but since i'm not (and after all, we are also walking the walk and talking the talk here where condoms+++ are just as important and a million times more scarce), walk an extra step there just for me, gf! Am with you, and everyone who knows and does that "women are people." (Including the men :D.)

...And that anytime and everytime is not always the right time to have babies... And and that everyone wants a chance at having the babies they want in the best possible conditions... And and and that the best possible conditions include, when there is love, time, and money, for everyone including the kids already living.

O ye all who profess to know better than women what should be good for women, you have this to think about. It's this thing bandied about for the last century or so. Step into hershoes you priests and keepers of morality and the faith, and live her life. then perhaps, you too would know.

But really, gf, can't wait for you to get back so I can tell you about My Intuitive Reading at Runes Cafe :D. And listen to your stories!!!

Upside Down

One click of whateva and then my entire screen made a 180-degree turn! Hilarious! Was actually pretty good at reading upside down. Managed to save onto diskettes my most cherished files (:p) and most urgent work documents. Even did a virus scan, and searched thru control panel settings looking for an antidote. With increasing panic, uninstalled Kazaa even! It seemed like something only a virus could do, and one by a virus writer with a sense of humor (my mom still looked cute upside down on my screen with her short fluffy hair).

After lunch and a few panicked calls to the IT guy, I bumped into the Intel icon and did the rotation. Whew! Safe again for now! Still a week to go in Mercury Retrograde, when all things to do with communication can go wrong.

Could this be a metaphor for something that's about to happen? :D

Pagudpod, November 2000

Sister Sandra,

Thank you *mwah mwah mwah* for the instructions on posting pics (and thank you too DD). But I want to show you the BIGGER WAVES pictures from three years ago. The two above are after-the-storm pics. So, I need a scanner. Now na!!! Hehehe.

Sister Wendy Darling,

Where's the bikini album :-P. You sent again the moral true and right album. Hihihihi.

I must stop blogging,
Eula

Movie Recommendations

Note to me, the Capricorn girl with short-term memory loss:
1. Secret Lives of Dentists, says Libra honeybun
2. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, says Cancer dude
3. Whale Rider (I think. Hahaha.), says the FWI

Just so I remember who to blame :-P

The Honeybun Emails: Ilocos Tales

Libra so kindly agreed to post emails from the road during Our Holy Trip to Pagudpod. Decided to repost them as emails to her from last week. Next time, honeybun, we go on vacation together. Do you realize we've NEVER done that yet? -eulala

1. Dawn
Two hot pink Jansport backpacks, side by side. In a
line to get tickets at a bus station. A looong line.
Imagine, no peeing and no bath for the next ten hours
at least! Things checked: Joanna wala pungos (hehe!),
Aida maraming drugs (mefenamic acid, paracetamol,
loperamide), Eula walang kalaro walang tigabuhat ng
mabigat na bag :). Other stuff- J has 72 shots, A 72
shots, and E 40 shots and 100 poses. Hihihi. The line
refuses to move coz there are no buses. Its 510 in the
am. Lab you honeybun, am mega sleepy! Mwah!

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Every time I hold your hand it's not the same :P
Posted by Leigh for Me (Violie, honeybun)

2. G R E E T I N G S Capricorn
4/7/04 -You're pleased with the company you keep. Even if you just met these people or were thrown together by circumstances, you get along wonderfully. You're also ideally positioned and well stocked. Maybe you planned ahead and fulfilled your shopping list. Maybe you're just lucky. However you filled your shelves or cued up your resources, everything you need is exactly where it should be when you reach for it. Are you just tooling along, taking life as it comes? Are you lining up the factors for an important decision that you have to make? It's your move. You're pleased with the company you keep. Even if you just met these people or were thrown together by circumstances, you get along wonderfully.

posted by leigh for me (honeybun)

3. want some eggnog?
Mmmmmm. Having Vigan longganisa for the second time.
With sukang Iloko. Freezing cold Coke. Coffee after.
Heaven well deserved. It took 20 hours to get here! OH
MY GODDESS! hahaha. Six hours to get tickets, and
fourteen hours drive. Imagine the bus pulled out at
830 and we stumbled into Currimao at 1030 in the
evening! LOL. ... But the moon was beautiful (esp thru
a bridge darkly), the air so sweet, and the sea so
soothing. We fell into a deep and dreamless sleep ***
Daytime, four bikini-clad girls set themselves up on
the beach with the nicest little boy in the world! ***
I bet Aemon would adore the shore :D

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Every time I hold your hand it's not the same :)

You Ya?

I love this! It’s in Ilonggo English. It’s Aquarius’ answer to my question as to whether or not she’s happy up there in her tower.

I’m bored to death (pretending to be a teen). There’s nothing I want to read, nothing I want to watch on tv, nothing I want to eat! Don’t feel compelled to buy anything and am not in love with nor interested in anyone (well I am but not urgently, it can wait till I feel better). Not looking forward to anything exciting and am potentially depressed by work and school at the moment.

Nothing to do, nowhere to go, left to me, have to just be.
Am doing “be.”

But the real reason I’m out of sorts is that Destiny Cable has taken control of my day’s destiny and thrown it into the trash.

Do you think if I turned on the volume to Harry Connick Jr., super loud the people in the meeting downstairs will notice, and get into the grumpy mood too that I am promoting? The more the merrier. Oooops, the grumpier.

:-P

silly saturday

It's far too hot to be happy. I'm proofreading something that needs editing, not proofreading. I'd rather be at the beach. I'd rather be making kulit TNF to death till he wants nothing else but shove me into an icebox and sit on the lid but he's safely asleep or married or kissing someone not me or obsessing over his split ends (haha can't imagine this). Even honeybun kulit is also safely asleep and married and thankfully not kissing me but I can imagine her obsessing over her split ends (at least while the little scorpio cutie is asleep and the Philippines is at lunch on her laptop). I can't even pull my roommie's hair or pinch at her love handles coz she is safely a plane ride away. I can't inteview another emote-girl about her sex life as she has taken herself to another continent where it is cooler. I envy her right this minute. I would rather be in England obsessing over sweaters than in the Philippines being preoccupied with slippers. Right this minute alone.

Am just tripping and have already succeeded in cheering myself up. Am blogging without benefit of an internet connection. In the middle of everything, it died again. I don't really mean to cheer myself up. Why? Why did I cheer myself up?

Sometimes I think when some friends have to describe me, it comes out as if I'm dead already. Hey! I'm as petty as petty can be, just a hot and bothered molecule in the middle of matiaga. If you pinch me, I'll bite you. Please don't put me a step higher coz that means you won't bother with me and anyway am too lazy to stand still. I'd rather be sitting on the step eating crunchy green mangga. And I don't like being a step lower either although that's often where I place myself. Because belly to belly is best :D. I often think affectionately of my body but my clothes like to shrink themselves spontaneously :D.

I want the space and the freedom to be nothing, sometimes a lot, sometimes a pest, sometimes the cutest thing you can think of. For you to know that I make sense but am nonsense. I don't want to be an oracle, no one wants to go to bed with the oracle, who could sleep???? Am so sorry, I often live in my head and although I love to poke fun at my Saturn, it does exist. And anyway, with the right breeze, its head of hair turns wavy. Endearing.

:D

At a fastfood joint over ziti and chicken romano, one SM shopping bag each (shirts on sale)
Capricorn: Guess what gf!?!
Aquarius: What?!
Capricorn: You actually finally have the teeshirts (normal tees with sleeves) you've always dreamed of.
C and A: Hahahaha!

The silliest pettiest detail actually being one of the profoundest things of all.

It means that I know and understand how Aquarius is tired of being seen as a sexy woman, as just a sexy woman. That sometimes she wants to cover up her sexy self in neutral tee shirts to stop being noticed or treated as merely an object. That she often wants this something fierce but this desire co-exists at any given moment with her natural joy and enjoyment in looking good, in looking great. And many's the time, we've attempted to shop for neutral clothes but end up getting something else that makes her look yummy. Still.

But last night, tee shirts. In all the colors of summer :-D

Huhuhuhuhuhu

Spent the morning crying my eyes out in front of my Spam lite, rice and coffee, and with McGyver in the background (yup yup Jan Michael Vincent ladies and gentlemen LOL). Crying over A Day Late and A Dollar Short, I think Terry McMillan's latest book. The main character is called Viola. And she died WAAAAAAAAAAAH. But that is not why I cried. :-D

I forgot to bring the book with me but I want to quote a passage from Viola's letter to Paris, her oldest child who could be Gemini, Capricorn or Virgo.

Oh, read it. Do. Will lend it.

A touch of objectification...

never hurt anyone. Mweheeeheee, took the physical attraction test at match.com and here are some of my results. It was fun picking out men, click, click, click! Collect and select heaven :D

What Is Your Approach to Judging Which Men Are Handsome or Very Attractive?
Unique Tastes In Men: You are open to seeing a variety of men as handsome. Sure, men with "movie star" good looks catch your eye, but you are often equally wowed by more normal "cute" guys. You're not one to judge people based on their looks. In fact, you're genuinely drawn to men that others might dismiss. Maybe it's because you don't buy into society's checklist for "mainstream" attractiveness. Instead, you notice unique features like a strong nose, beautiful eyes, or a cute butt, that make some men special in your eyes. For you, attraction is about the total package.


Smiles
You love men with big, happy smiles. You were much less interested in photos where the men had small grins or serious expressions. Although you probably didn't notice this tendency, the preference for big smiles fits your overall interest in men who look fun, friendly, and approachable.

Your Favorite Body Types
One body type that seems to appeal to you is scientifically called "Endomorph," which roughly translates into solid, stocky guys. He's not overweight, but his big bones, muscles, and overall mass make him hard to miss

Other Body Types You Like
Another body type you like is probably the body in the drawing and photo below. Scientifically, this type is known as an "Ecto-Mesomorph," which is a fancy way of describing lean, muscular men. These guys ran track in high school and still may run marathons every year. Their narrow body frames and long legs support tight, sinewy muscles. He has a prominent chest and the V-shaped torso that some think is the "ideal" male frame. He even had a flat stomach and nice abs at some point, but like most of us has put on some extra pounds. The good news is that you seem to appreciate and even prefer guys with more realistic, natural bodies. He has long arms to wrap around you, and love handles to hold on to! These men make up around 20% of the single population. Keep your eyes out for signs like narrow necks, Adam's apples, angular or chiseled facial features, flat butts, and relatively long arms and legs. At about 5'10", they tend to run about 152 pounds.


You should see the pic of my "best-looking" man. LOL.

upbeat Make Out song?

Ahh but anything's possible ;-) even a full moon party with some clouds. Here's Rock Steady.

I looked at you, You stole my heart
You were all that I anticipated
I wanted you -- Every part but I knew that love would be complicated
I began to touch -- But you wouldnt let it
It never seemed to be the right time
I started to give up -- down to the limit
And then you changed your mind
And we begin to rock steady

on an Incomplete triathlon

end of sem. submission of grades. goddess bless me for i have sinned and will sin again :D be back

no wonder

No wonder I have no sex life :P I can't even come up with a makeout playlist!!!!! Am I a wham-bam ma'am? Is that what it means? No music necessary?? But I love music :-( Am I stuck on the heartbroken pathetic lovesongs? :-(

Hehehe, isn't it cute whining for no particularly important reason? I wonder who has influenced me on this? :-P :-D

But no?!?! Day Two of my Search for A Proper Makeout Playlist I meet some success ;-). SIGH OF RELIEF. Yesterday I put together some title possibilities and listened to them one by one... But I kept having to delete each one! They were either too strange or such lust-dampers for being too tragic! Hehe. I can understand tears during skes ;-) but not the whole entire time! :D Earthquakes, why not?

Anyway, my possibilities are all by UB40 -

The Way You Do The Things You Do
You got a smile so bright, You know you could have been a candle
I`m holding you so tight, You know you could have been a handle

Red Red Wine

Oooh, Baby I Love Your Way
Ooo, baby I love your way, everyday
I wanna tell you I love your way, everyday
I wanna be with you night and day

I Wanna Make You Sweat
Standin across the room, I saw you smile ...
Girl, I want to make you sweat
Sweat till you can't sweat no more
and if you cry out
I'm gonna push it some more

:-P Ooooh-la-la!

Admittedly, they all seem more appropriate for slow and sensual dancing at the beach at sunset with some red wine, but who's to say that all doesn't go with skes anyway? :-P

Hehehehe.

Thursday's planetary energies

Be more aware of your personal appearance and how you are being perceived. Make sure your dress and hair are appropriate for the people you are with and the situations you are in. Beauty and fashion are often important considerations, so don't be left looking like a slob. You may be egged on into a fancy store today where you are talked into buying some new outfits for your wardrobe.

COMMENT: HIHIHIHI what are the planets going on about? I cannot be possibly be more vain than I already am :D If so I would never make it to work before sunset!!!!