Joplin

For those not in the area, you may be seeing a lot about the Joplin tornado on the news that came through on Sunday. Joplin is 75 miles west of Springfield, (where I live.) If you are interested in helping or donating please check the KY3.com news site for current links and information. We are expecting more storms tonight.

Stay safe,
~N

Seriously?

Rash is on face.

Not chin or nose but face.

It looks like this  =(

~N
mood: itchy

Weekend Update

The Light the Night Walk is only 2 weeks away here in Springfield, Saturday, Oct. 4th.

I will be preforming with the other BD ladies walking under the Recherche Team sometime after 6pm but before the walk begins at sunset. You are welcome come watch or walk with us. I have raised $25 already. Please donate in any amount to help fund research for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Visit My Light the Night Donation Page to donate.
www.lightthenight.org

I am leaving tonight for Hootin an Hollarin. I promise to film some of the dancing and post it here. I will also have some funnel cake and other tasty country fair goods!

Now playing: Dungeons and Dragons the animated series (Did You Know, "The level of violence was controversial for children's television at the time, and the script of one episode, "The Dragon's Graveyard", was almost shelved because the characters contemplated killing their nemesis, Venger.^[1] In 1985, the National Coalition on Television Violence claimed it was the most violent show on network television.") HAPPY 25TH ANN!

Now eating: baked apple with cinnamon, sugar, vanilla ice cream, and coffee...yes, fine

~N

The Sultan's Elephant and the Little Girl Giant

*UPDATED 09/17/08
The Little Girl Giant is part of a performance called The Sultan's Elephant. Follow the link for the wiki.

Ok, I was actually looking for something BD related and came across this video of the Little Girl Giant. It's creepily real. If you do a search you can find more videos of the Little Girl Giant and the Sultan's Elephant.

I just had to share.

~N

My Weekend

Tastiness


Turtles


Turtles have big tongues


Animal, vegetable, or mineral?


@ Japanese Fall Festival, Springfield, MO. (my neck looks scary, yes?)

~N

I like my coffe black just like my metal

This video always makes me smile. Shut Me Up directed by Jhonen Vasquez.

I heart JV.

Does anyone remember Bree Sharp's "David Duchovny"?



I would write a song like that about JV but I can't think of anything to rhyme with Vasquez

"Jhonen Vasquez likes to eat green pez."
"Jhonen Vasquez looks bad in a fez."
"Jhonen Vasquez casts a spell so he can re-rez."
"Jhonen Vasquez doesn't care what I sez."
"Jhonen Vasquez is fo shizzle...wait"

o.O

~N

Fall

Yours truely as Faye Valentine from Cowboy Beebop

I came across some old pics taken by my friend Darkboy. They are all from past fall seasons, my favorite time of year. I am really hoping for a fun fall this year.


Spike, Faye, and Jet (Xerodyne, me, and Jman) 2004


Getting ready for the first Masque & Veil in 2004


Fun times at The Drink (no longer open) 2004


Hootin an Hollarin festival in Gainesville, MO. 2004

GX:2013 Broken Earth to Benefit The Kitchen

This Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008, Ground Xero is hosting a Post Apocalypse themed party to benefit The Kitchen of Springfield, MO.

Entry is a non-perishable food item.
You must have ID and be 21+ to enter.

If you are not 21 or can't make it for the party and still want to participate, drop your donation by 1109 E Commercial during business hours (6pm-1:30am Wed-Sat. or 4pm-Midnight on Sun.)

You can also donate directly to The Kitchen at their website or at 1630 N. Jefferson
Springfield, MO. 65803

Weird Dream #2

Now playing: Kama Sutra A Tale of Love
mood: peach and banana smoothie

So, I don't know if there is something in the stars or it's the over abundance of corn I've been eating, but I had another weird dream. This time it wasn't during the foggy haze of being half awake half asleep because Beebin was laying on my head trying to wake me up to feed him.

Anyway, here it goes.

I am somewhere I've never been before (in the real world), not even sure if it is a real place. The dream flows very chronologically and doesn't have weird dream stuff in it (like Grizzly Bears knocking on doors).

I have on blue jeans and a white t-shirt. I am by myself in a radio booth looking out over something like a campus with a big yard and tall squaty buildings around it. I am operating the radio sending out messages on where the last few shelters are before "it" happens. I'm not sure what "it" is but I know it is something along the lines of bombs or apocalypse or something very VERY not good.

So, I continue to do this as it gets closer and closer to the time that "it" is going to happen. I look out across the campus at the buildings far away where the last two shelters are. I remember one of them was called something something P-4. I broadcast up to the last ten minutes or so then take off running across the yard to something something P-4. The sky is grey, no one is around, and it is very quite like before a tornado hits. I remember seeing the grass under my feet as I ran thinking how surreal it was that this was what I was focusing on at possibly the end of all things. I felt my body start to slow and wondered if I had waited too long to make such a long run to the shelter.

I finally make it to something something P-4 and walk through a big door into a warehouse. It is dark and cavernous. I begin to panic realizing I don't know where to find the shelter space and hoping it isn't closed off. I can't see a clock. I don't know how much time I have. I hear a generator noise coming from a large hatch in the ground. I run to it and climb down a black metal ladder into a huge basement area with lots of pipes and foundation walls to hold up such a big building. There are 3 people, each in a wheelchair, at the base of the ladder. I ask them where the shelter is and they point to a distance in the corner. (Ok, I guess the 3 wheelchair people are odd, but they still aren't Grizzly Bears).

I run there and I am met in a hallway by a woman. I can hear and see people in the rooms behind her. She greets me and says that it is supposed to rain tomorrow. I say that if I make it through the night, rain would be a welcome thing and the least of my worries. So looks at me funny as if that wasn't the right kind of answer for chit chat about the weather. She leads me into a dark grungy room with low ceilings. There are white plastic tables and chairs set up like you see in a church's mess hall. There are people sitting and standing. Some of them eating. They all seem fairly calm. I think to myself there are so few people for so many empty chairs.

The woman grabs a paper plate and sets it down at the last empty seat at a table (and here's how I tie it into BD) with a bunch of my dance friends (I don't remember now who they all where). Sa'dia is there and points across the table at Gita and says, "She called (name of someone famous I can't remember) and told him he's 'Mother F*cking awesome!'" Gita looks at me and says, "He didn't even laugh at me."

As I go to sit down at the table I think I guess he would be flattered to be told that before the end. To be appreciated.

And then I woke up.

Help Me Help You

How many Goth kids does it take to hang a curtain?

Now playing: Final Fantasy the Spirits Within
Mood: Zac's salty balls, lol

I'm gonna put myself back on the wagon. I am going to start drilling every week and get my muscles back into shape.

My b-day is in two weeks and I will get to have dinner at Lambert's. YEA!

On a totally random note, is there a male equivalent to MILF? You know, for dudes over 40 that are still hot? I tried looking on www.urbandictionary.com but got lost. If not, I say it should be CBMD, (Could Be My Daddy) *wink *wink
Cheesy maybe, but I'm out of cool hip lingo ideas.

~N

Randomness

Now playing: Titan AE
mood: "Testes to make my heart tinkle"

Sa'dia sent some great Engrish pics to me. These are my favorites. A bread and coffee shop that has testes that make your heart tinkle has got to be the best bread and coffee EVER!


You know, I'd totally shop here, LOL

Unrelated to that, I found a cool pic of "Fire Dancers" on National Geographic's website.

I don't know much about Poi but found The Home of Poi website if you want to get your feet wet and learn a little.

Just don't catch yourself on fire. I claim no responsibility.

~N

New Layout

BLAM!

After much frowning at my last blog layout I decided to change it again.

No nifty BD updates. I've been busy with other things such as,


Tearing up perfectly good VHS tapes to make recycled crochet bags with them.


Here is my Showdown in Little Tokyo bag in progress. I didn't know how much crochet I would get out of 79 mins. of video so I had to make the straps with Tae Bo Basics with Billy Banks. Which I feel is quite fitting. It is done but I have no finished pics of it.


Posing with the ladies @ S.I.N. Wrath this past Saturday.
Naima, Ananya, Jen, and Vicky

I also had a really fun girl-day @ Lu's house. I hope we can continue meeting once a month or so. I definately enjoyed the destress time away from work and the club.

Now playing: Constantine
mood: goulash

Tired of Why's choking on Why's, Just need a little Because, Because

Now playing: Escape from LA
mood: some sort of big ridiculous salad.

Why is it better to say you do Belly dance instead of Middle Eastern style dance when you are in America?

Why is it better to say you are Canadian instead of American when you are any where else?

?N

This never gets old

mood: powerthirst

Springtime Rue!

My cat could eat your children

Now Playing:
mood: Rue nuggets

Rupert, our big cat finally got a hair cut yesterday. Rupert weighs around 24lbs (give or take) and grows a 4-6" coat of hair through the winter. Come springtime, he gets pretty hot not to mention, being so big with so much hair makes it very difficult for him to clean himself.

Uncle Jman swung by and gave him a shave. We call him Piggy-Rue now. You'd think being shaved almost bare would make him unhappy but he prances around purring and showing off and cleaning himself. He is more energetic and quite happy.

We were joking that you can't really tell just HOW BIG he is in pictures. Placing a quarter next to him would be kind of ridiculous. Maybe a gallon of milk.

~N

Em's Nerdy-Thirty No Talent Lip Sync Contest Extravaganza

(Click for full size)

Now playing: more Invader Zim (with the commentary on, thank you very much).
mood: chocolate ice cream w/hot fudge (it should follow this bacon and mustard sandwich nicely).

Yeah, so my name isn't really Naima... but it's not really Em either, HAHAHA!

Although, "Hey You!" works too.

Anyway, for my birthday pleasure this year, I have commanded a Lip Sync Contest in my honor with fabulous useless prizes. The contest is sure to be a riot and shenanigans will ensue. I especially like the "no talent" contest part, thank you Jman.

So if you're itchin' to show off your Milli Vanilli skills I will see you on July 5th. That should be plenty of time to get an act together.

~N
err...
Em...
err... whatever

Death and Taxes

now playing: Titanic
mood: UGH! I just took a swig of burnt coffee, yuk! =\

Sorry, I've dropped the blogging torch again. Finished filing taxes this morning. This is the first year I've ever filled with a business. I used Turbo Tax "Home and Business" software. Very easy to use and it covers SO much. I could probably write-off my big toe as a deduction if I had a receipt for it.

I have head of hurting o.O

Here is an interactive site that shows where your 2008 tax dollars go. Don't worry, you can zoom in and out.

Oh, I forgot to do an April Fool's Joke yesterday. Here we go...

I'm having Heath Ledger's love child.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....?

Yeah, not so funny when I announce the joke ahead of time.

~N

Extreme Biking

mood: chicken nuggets from McDonalds when the had those Olympic inspired sauces from different countries. yeah, like that.

We dug our bicycles out of the basement in order to get into shape and save money on gas when going back and forth from GX.

My dad sent this extreme biking video. I started to cringe somewhere over the steep staircase.

And I've been complaining that my ass hurts from the bicycle seat =\

~N

Singing in the Rain

Now playing: Samurai Champloo
mood: Fishermen's Net

It has been raining about 16hrs. In the almost 8yrs we've lived here our backyard has never flooded this much.

So much for taking a bike ride after work.

Naima Was Here

Now watching: Farscape some more...

mood: chocolate, froo froo coffees, cheesecake, bon bons...oh wait, I mean raisins. Yeah, just some raisins.

So our "Belly-Mom", Lisa, just posted some pics from my bachelorette party and wedding from 2006. All of the goofy things we did to raise money at my party was given to the Lukemia Lymphoma Society.

The Beautiful Beledi Ladies, Pictured Top L to R: Harika, Aseiah, Naima. (front sitting) Sa'dia, Zahava, and Aicha.

Bottom: Some dude with my name on his chest..."Naima was Here"