Friday, April 22, 2011

I don't know what to blog about anymore. My anxiety about the internet is returning. I just got this awesome scrapbook that I'm going to use as some sort of no pressure creativity outlet.

I'm having a birthday party. It's going to look like this:

2010-2011. Interesting

Your Birthday Year Forecast: A trine between the Sun and the Moon in your Solar Return chart this year is a fortunate aspect. It suggests that your domestic and career needs are not in competition with one another in the year ahead. Your inner needs tend to be mirrored by external events, and vice versa. This aspect is very powerful and rewarding. It suggests that you will be on top of your game this year, for the most part, and positive connections with others can be made fairly easily. A comfortable level of personal popularity helps to keep conflict to a minimum. With the ability to handle your emotions successfully, there is less stress on both your mind and body. Your self-confidence and positive attitude will reward you!

You might find that you continue to be more goal-oriented this year, as superficial goals no longer satisfy you. You want your life path and your objectives to reflect what you're really about. You benefit from being more decisive than usual, and your ability to concentrate and focus help you to achieve what you set out to do. A new project or goal begun this year has a good chance of being successful and long-lasting. (Oh, yay)

With Mercury trine the Moon's North Node, making contact through learning, communicating, and mental pursuits figures strongly in your year. Mercury square Mars in your Solar Return chart suggests good energy for debate or energetic mental work. It's possible that you may be argumentative and irritable under this influence, and particularly impatient with vagueness. However, if this energy is applied well, you may simply enjoy a more active and clear mind.

Venus is very busy with aspects in your Solar Return chart, suggesting much activity with social and romantic relationships, and finances. Venus sextiles Uranus, trines Saturn, quintiles Mars, and squares Neptune/Chiron. Your creative energy this year is especially potent. You are likely to find yourself more accepting and understanding of your friends and lovers. Contentedness in love is likely to figure and to attract positive circumstances (and people) into your life. However, problems can arise when you are too accepting or when you are not realistically assessing relationships. Favorable outcomes when it comes to legal affairs, education, and travel may figure this year. You are likely to enjoy increased social opportunities as well as a boost in your personal popularity and magnetism. You are open to new concepts and ways of relating, as well as intrigued with people who bring new ideas into your life. As long as you stay grounded and realistic in your expectations from others, you can enjoy a very strong year for love and social relationships.

Saturn in opposition to Uranus around the time of your birthday suggests some restlessness. Attempts to assert your individuality, freedom, and originality undermine your feelings of groundedness and security. Yet, you are not satisfied when you conform. There may be sudden and unexpected twists that force you to do something different or that help free yourself from old habits. Adjusting your plans is in order, and striking a balance between convention and innovation is the challenge. Setbacks tend to be temporary and often lead to new, more creative paths or solutions. Ambivalence is likely and could color many of your interactions.

You are likely to have an especially stimulating year socially and intellectually, in which the exchange of ideas with others figures prominently. You are goal-oriented and decisive. Loving and mind-expanding relationships are more easily attracted in the year ahead.


2010 is a Number Three year for you. Ruled by Jupiter. This is a year of sociability. It is a friendly time, when it is easy to enjoy life and other people. Focus is on personal freedom, reaching out to others, making new friends, and exploration. You are more enthusiastic and ready for adventure. It is likely to be a rather lighthearted year, when opportunities for "play" time are greater than usual. It's also a good year for expressing your creativity. Advice - reach out, but avoid scattering your energies.

2011 will be a Number Four year for you. Ruled by Uranus. This is a year of work and development. It's "nose to the grindstone" time. It's a time to deal with practical matters, and it's not a time to be lazy or especially gregarious. Sometimes, it can be a year that feels hard, monotonous and routine, and/or lonely. Positive new relationships are generally not formed in a Four personal year. Advice - get yourself organized, work to build your resources, keep busy.



Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Maltese


The series of events that brought me from two days ago to where I am now has been a trip.

Yesterday: home in Seattle
Today: Portland airport
2pm Hawaii time: HOPEFULLY IN HAWAII!

Seems easy, right? I sat at the Seattle airport all day Tuesday trying to hop on a flight. Unfortunately, it was completely impossible. So I came home, snuggled with Riley, and felt so comfortable in my own bed that I didn't really want to leave. I haven't had that feeling yet, and it was nice. I woke up at 5am and went back to the airport, and failed to get on a flight two more times. After the second time, I gave up all hope, and plan B was set into action.

Plan B: Take a train to Portland and try to leave from there, where flights were generally more open.
Problem #1: The train for Portland left in 45 minutes, it took 10 minutes to walk to the light rail, and 30 minutes to get from the airport to the train station via light rail.

Needless to say, I totally didn't make it.

Plan C: hop on the next train, get a hotel in Portland for the night, fly out of Portland in the morning.

So, I got on the next train. We made it about 2/3 of the way. We were stopped next to a few beautiful farms in Southern Washington. We were informed that a van had been hit down the tracks from we were, and were pulled up to the next station in Kelso, WA.

http://www.katu.com/news/118545764.html

Since no one knew the details of the accident and they couldn't give us any kind of time frame about how long we would be stopped, a few of us decided to go to The Maltese, a bar right next to the tracks.

4pm at The Maltese: $1.75 for a Mack and Jacks, $1.00 for mixed drinks, me and four strangers. The crowd was eerie--like something from a movie. Big place, no music, happy hour. Most people were missing teeth and reminded me of the inbred creature from Harold and Kumar. Everyone was commenting on how pretty we all were and how we "must be related".

Four hours and three beers and two shots later, I was drunk and we were still in Kelso. One of the guys I met, Justin, had a mom who was the victim of a surgical mistake and sued the hospital for a half a million dollars. She threw a bunch of money his way and told him to enjoy the next few years, take a break from college. He paid for drinks, and the girls I was with made me feel guilty for letting him.

Amtrak finally sent buses to pick us up. I made it to Portland.

When we got to Portland I didn't know where I was going and was still pretty drunk. A man offered to help us find the train we were looking for. He told us he had been mugged, showed us his wounds, and just happened to be from the same small town in Wisconsin as my new friend/traveling buddy. He brought us to where we needed to go, and we gave him $15 to get back to Seattle.

We made it to the hotel, and I let Justin crash in the extra bed. He is kind of a nomad, and I could have totally taken him if he tried to kill me. Also, he is super rich so I didn't think he'd jack my stuff. He didn't.

Kona, here I come!