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My new blog is up!

Pleas goto Cinderella's Blog - http://cinderella.weblogs.us/ to continue reading my blog.

Please update your favorites, change your links, to reflect my new blog!

That url again is: http://cinderella.weblogs.us/

I WILL NO LONGER BE POSTING HERE! PLEASE GOTO http://cinderella.weblogs.us/.

This is the end, of my blog-spot/blogger blog.


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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
-T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"

MOVABLE TYPE!

This is my last post, on blogger. Blogger, you served me well. Thanks for the memories.... Stay tuned fo my movable type address at my new blog location... Once setup is complete, I will post the URL, for forward you to my new MT blog.

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"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
-Willa Cather, My Antonia

No updates for a while

There is a good reason... In a day or two, you will see.

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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
-Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Aquarium Exhibits - Sharks: Myth and Mystery

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Aquarium Exhibits - Sharks: Myth and Mystery

Time, it just slips away from us.

This week went by in a blur. One moment, I was enjoying my weekend, planning on getting a domain (still trying to think of a really good name that is not taken) then next moment, I'm at work, trying to figure out a good hosting option, then all of a sudden, its my weekend again. I have no idea where this week went, I think I must have lost it. I have spent a lot of time trying to find a host for a domain, and to PICK a domain name. I need a name with Cinderella, or Cindy, or Blog, or Sharks, or something that screams "me" but I'm not having much luck. I thought everafter might be good, but its taken. I'm sure Ill figure something out eventually. Until then I will search for hosting, once I find that I am sure the rest will come around.

I'm still saving up for my Digital Rebel as well as picking up a copy of Star Wars Galaxies, in a vain attempt to keep me busy.
in the mean time I am spending a lot of time thinking about writing. Not actually writing of course, I just cant seem to get it out from my head to the paper (keyboard), but I have few good story ideas forming.

I just wish I could figure out who I am.

Time has a strange grip on me, and as I search for myself, time runs away.

I think Gene Roddenberry did say it best:
"Time is the fire in which we burn."

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"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."
-Chinese Proverb

Intellivision Gamepics

Intellivision Gamepics

I have been playing games for a lot of years... My first gaming system was the Intellivision system... It shipped with Blackjack and poker, and that was released in 1979... That is 25 years of gaming goodness.

Wow.

Looking for opinions... What should my domain name be?

What should I get as my domain name?

Cinderella is taken.


Use the comments to cast your opinions.

To Domain, or not to domain, that is the question

I am actually thinking about getting my own domain to host this thing... But I just cant decide. If I do, I know where I can host it for about $60 us a year... But do I want to make that leap? I will them most likely move to movable type from standard blogger, which is a huge leap forward (OMG installing CGI and Perl scripts, YIKES) but a good leap.

I just don't know...

Dare I?

What should I do?


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"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
-Chinese Proverb

WIL WHEATON DOT NET: shipbuilding

WIL WHEATON DOT NET: shipbuilding

This is a sample of why Wil inspires me...

Reading this post put me in that Starbucks with him... Brilliant.

WIL WHEATON dot NET

Well its no secret that I love Wil Wheaton's blog... Heck I took a page out of his book with my "Listen, play, read, watch" sections. I wish I could blog half as good as Wil... I find myself spending hours lost in Dancing Barefoot, or perusing Wil's blog, or photo blog, listening to his audio blog (it is hilarious... I especially love the Star Wars vs. Star Trek post) or posting in the soapbox. Recently I was reading the post straight, no chaser and I laughed because I know exactly how he feels. I look at some of my old web sites and laugh... Although they are not on par with "Where's my Burrito" I still know how it feels to look back at my old web works, and my new and smile.

So What is my point you ask?

Well I just don't think I give old Wil enough credit for his inspiration of this blog. His blog is why I wanted to start one... His forums are why I think I am as sane as I am through all this change in my life, and as I sit here redoing my blog layout a bit... I cant help but think that my inspiration for all of this is Wil, and how grateful I am for that inspiration because without it I would probably not have been able to grow as I have over the last 6 months.

Basically, I just wanted to say:

Thanks Wil!

I know he will never see my thanks here, or know how important his blog is to me... But If I can share it with others what his site has done for me, maybe they will go to WWDN and support him to...

You have touched me Wil, whether you know it or not, you are doing great things....

So thanks.

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"He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened."
-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

FFRF

It's amazing what one song can make you think... What memory's one movie can invoke... What emotions stir with a simple picture. Our senses are the key to our memories... And they are so powerful.

I was flipping channels on TV tonight, waiting for the superbowl to finish (so I could watch Survivor-AllStars), and I came across the movie Sister Act, and they were singing Hail Holy Queen - Deloris & The Sisters , well this rocketed me back to 1992... Back to high school... Back to the days of FFRF.

FFRF was a what us girls called our selves... Fearsome Foursome Rule Forever.

The four of us where the best of friends.

Me,
Diane,
Brandy,
Denise.

We did everything together. Dairy Queen runs (cant forget peanut buster Parfaits and banana splits), long rides downtown with fake cell phones, telling the car next to us the call was for them (we thought we were so clever), movie nights, music, skipping calls (wow we did that to much), and just in general being friends and doing what friends do.

Those were the days.

I found myself watching Sister Act on the TV singing the songs and thinking of those days... See that was OUR movie. We knew ALL the songs, we all had a part (alto, bass, soprano, and solo), and we all had the characters the embodies us... I was Deloris Van Cartier/Sister Mary Clarence (Whoopi Goldberg) the lounge singer in a bad relationship who hides out in a convent and leads the choir of nuns to fame and friendship. Brandy was Sister Mary Patrick (Kathy Najimy) sister Mary sunshine, full of energy and always happy and cheerful, ready to make you smile. Denise was Sister Mary Lazarus (Mary Wickes) hard on the outside, soft in the middle, true to her beliefs and her friends. And Diane was Mary Robert (Wendy Makkena) the spunky nun to be with a voice no one could touch. We all personified those traits, and we all sang their parts... And used to watch the movie like crazy. You could find us on any day driving downtown singing to the soundtrack laughing at how much these characters were like us.

We did everything together.

What happened?

Diane and I always kept in touch... Even though my ruff periods, she never abandoned me.

Brandy and I rediscovered ourselves when I ran into her at work... And I helped her get a job at west, so I see her all the time NOW, but for 10 years I never saw her once.

Denise...

I don't know where she is, or what became of her.

It is amazing how time can get away from you...

FFRF....

What happened to the Forever part of that?

I miss Denise.

I'm so lucky to still have Diane in my life...

I'm so lucky to have found Brandy again and brought her back into my life (Michelle too... Even though she isn't part of the original FFRF).

I wish I knew where Denise was.

I would love to have FFRF ride again....

I know it never will, but it will live forever in my memory's, and my heart.

We were crazy, buy we had fun!


FEARSOME FOURSOME RULE FOREVER!


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"The years teach much which the days never knew."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays