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i'm celebrating the fact that i am home alone in a clean house (thank you, darling) bby going through my cd collection and listening to music nearly constantly. I'm also scanning and printing and cutting and pasting - and don't believe that scotch non-permanent double stick tape is anywhere near as good as the permanent stuff! Hrmph. othewr than that, though, i'm good. :) i've gone from leah andreone, to paula cole, and now i'm onto melissa etheridge. (my cd case is mostly in alphabetical order. :) )
it's actually kind of nice to sit at home and listen to music - and it seems lovely outside, i've looked out a couple of times, and plan to run an errand before it gets dark (which should coincide with me running out of doublesticktape. :) )

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woohoo! i'm done with the technology portion of my portfolio, and I think it looks prett good, and pretty professional. at some point, I want to scan it all it, and put it online. now, i have to do the design section, which has less realized stuff, and more class stuff, which needs a lot of work done to it, and also is much less prepared to go into it.

I took some more pictures for my portfolio with my digital elph, and they turned out very well - i'm pretty happy with them, really. I wish I could give my printer a makeover, because it's acting like it really needs *something* (lots of little lines - the pictures aren't the highest quality anymore, and it's a lexmark z51, which was in the top five a couple of years ago), but i don't know what to do - and i've cleaned the print nozzles repeatedly, so it isn't that! i want t new printer, but it's on that want list that I have - and i'm trying to spend as little student loan money as possible!

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here's something that was on the pagan community, that i think a lot of people could benefit from (including me. :) )

Light grows daily stronger at this time of year, but it is hard to believe it, for the world still seems shrouded in wintery gloom. Yet daily, the sun rises earlier and sets later. Daily, the great round of the year reveals its mysteries once again.

So it is with our lives. We pass through periods where we believe that we will never find happiness again, that we will never find an end to pain, that we will forever suffer from frustration and unease and anxiety. But nothing lasts forever. The greatest pain, like the greatest joy, someday ends. True joy exists in learning to delight in the dance of life, not clinging to a certain day's beauties or even to its pains. True joy exists in moving like the sun through each day, knowing that it will finally end but also that a new day will always dawn afresh.

From Patricia Monaghan's The Goddess Companion