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So I want to show you Misakky's oldest photos now I have.
Misakky started to be a part-time crossdresser 8 years ago.
Since then, I love to be a cute and beautiful girl and crossdressing makes me pleasant feelings very much!!
Sitting here perusing the menu when I feel like am being watched. Uh oh, critter alert.
Hello Tuesday
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Perfect dress and necklace to show off the leg tatt, even if they are not shown.
RAPTURE-Dress Paisley-Old Indigo
KUNGLERS-Billie Necklace
MERMADE-Part-time tattoo BOM
Sipping on some MattiTatti - Ocean Water and munching on my bag of MattiTatti - Kelp Chips, while I smack this Meipon a few more times. You gotta see his shop, its too cool!!
Being Honest in Job Interview, I Got an Unexpected Gain
Recently, I had been looking for a part-time job. And I saw a want ad on the Internet and thought it is good in the working items, the salary and all the other aspects. Then I contacted the manager of the company and made an appointment to have an interview the next day at the company.
The next day, a lady in her 40’s also came to apply for this job. I thought: The lady looks more mature and steady than me, and very likely the manager will engage her and refuse me. So I couldn’t help feeling worried in my heart. Later, the manager asked us to his office and told us: “Now I have opened a web page, and the one who can print the page will be employed.” Finishing saying this, he went out of the office. Looking at the page on the computer, I felt very nervous: I can just do something easy like making charts or files but not print documents from a computer. By comparison, isn’t obvious that I will lose? It looks like that lady will be employed and I will be hopeless. As expected, she did manage to do that at last.
I had the pleasure to meet today the delightful Marijke Everts.
We met at the Art Fair Suomi '15
www.hippolyte.fi/art-fair-suomi-2015-platform-application...
After a most lovely and interesting conversation, I made a few portraits of this beautiful young woman.
Marijke was born in Ghana to a Ghanaian mother and a Dutch father. The family moved to Dakar, Senegal when she was about 3 years old. At the age of twelve they then moved to Rome, Italy and finally, at the age of ninteen Marijke moved to the Netherlands to study Art.
"My parents always spoke English to me and my two brothers, since they both came from two different countries English was the easiest language for us all to communicate in. We did also attend a few dutch classes in Senegal, but we mostly spoke in English and French which we learnt throughout the international schools we attended.
Art had always been a big part of Marijke's life, but it was in High School in Rome that it became something she seriously thought about.
"We had such an amazing art teacher who inspired us all and taught us to be so free within our works. And So I went on to do a Bachelors at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
Marijke enjoys reading a lot. "I miss spending a whole day just reading a book."
She has a Ukulele and when she finds some time to herself, she likes playing a few songs on it. "I am quite shy so I mostly play and sing to myself."
Marijke enjoys sharing time with friends and family." Even the little things done together is always nice, she says."
"Traveling and discovering places, cultures, foods, music, different ways of thinking, opening up to new ways of looking at the same thing."
Any message to the world, Marijke?
"I hope someday we will stop creating borders and boundaries, stop thinking just about our own countries and start thinking more about this planet we all share. We are in this together!"
Can you tell me a bit about your struggles?
"It is strange talking about your struggles, but I guess that only a year ago I graduated from the Art Academy in The Hague, and with that came trying to find a job to support myself, whilst still making art and having exhibitions. This meant, at some point, I had to move back in with my family for a bit, or stay with some friends, whilst working part time somewhere, as I didn't have enough to have my own place again.
"I still have a lot to figure out and sort out in my life, but I am so grateful that no matter what my situation has been, I have always managed exhibit my home installations. In fact, the struggles themselves have made the works even more meaningful than before."
Check out more about Marijke's art here:
"I grew to accept that home is not a specific place for me. nor do i really want it to be a place. it’s more of an accumulation of memories and people. where you’ve been and the people you met along the way, where you are now. basically your own history. you are your home, taking in every place and person of meaning, moving about and adding more to the already full pot, to the point where you feel it could overflow. leak it’s way out of you, and maybe infect people with questions of what home really means. to think of a specific place as home. it wouldn’t make sense to me. they were all temporary, and bringing them all together, mixing them up in my head, then i get this feeling that my idea of home, it’s a space shared where all the different places come together."
BLACKHEAD LIGHTHOUSE MARKS THE NORTHERN EXTREMITY OF BELFAST LOUGH. THIS OCTAGONAL TOWER WAS DESIGNED BY WILLIAM DOUGLASS, ENGINEER TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF IRISH LIGHTS. IT WAS COMPLETED IN 1902 AND WAS PAINTED RED. AN EXPLOSIVE FOG SIGNAL WAS ESTABLISHED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE LIGHT. ON THE 20TH AUGUST 1929 THE COLOUR OF THE TOWER WAS CHANGED TO WHITE.
FROM SEPTEMBER 1965, THE EXPLOSIVE FOG SIGNAL WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A BRILLIANT FLASH OF LIGHT WHEN SOUNDING DURING THE HOURS OF DARKNESS.
ON 23RD SEPTEMBER 1965 BLACKHEAD ANTRIM LIGHTHOUSE WAS CONVERTED TO ELECTRIC AND THE INTENSITY OF THE LIGHT WAS INCREASED GIVING A RANGE OF 27 NAUTICAL MILES. AT THE SAME TIME THE DURATION OF THE FLASH WAS DECREASED TO 0.15 SECONDS, THE CHARACTER BEING FL W 3 SECS (FL 0.15, EC 2.85). THE LANTERN EQUIPMENT IS A 920MM CATADIOPTRIC ANNULAR LENS WITH A PRB22 GEARLESS DRIVE AND MBI 400W LAMPS IN A UVLA LAMPCHANGER.
THE FOG-SIGNAL WAS DISCONTINUED IN FEBRUARY 1972.
IN JULY 1975 THE LIGHTKEEPERS WERE WITHDRAWN FROM THE STATION AND SINCE THEN IT HAS BEEN IN THE CARE OF A PART-TIME ATTENDANT.
ON THE 1ST APRIL 1992 THE RADIOBEACON CALIBRATION SERVICE AT MEW ISLAND WAS DISCONTINUED AND MOVED TO BLACKHEAD ANTRIM. IN MORE RECENT TIMES UTILISATION OF RADIO DIRECTION FINDERS BY MARINERS HAS BEEN TO A GREAT EXTENT SUPERCEDED BY MORE MODERN TECHNOLOGY. FOR THIS REASON THE COMMISSIONERS DISCONTINUED THEIR MEDIUM FREQUENCY RADIOBEACON SERVICE ON 1ST FEBRUARY 1999.
Part time Photographer.
Part Time Family Man
Part Time RN
Fulltime Chikboy.
Salamat sa biglaang pagsipot sa shoot last Sunday, sa walang katapusang kwentuhan, sa pagkakaibigan. Hanggang sa muling pagkikita, IDOL!
Nagbabato ka!... in English, YOU ROCK! :D
BON VOYAGE Pare ko!!
After a stressful day yesterday, [part time zoo worker] I spent a few moments shooting off my sun room.
Turned 74 a few days ago. And don't have the "zip" I had a few years ago.
Just a few shots to take the stress away.
Just received new Nikon 10 20 wide angle, looks like a winner, see you all later.
del maldito dia en que tu voz me dijo esas palabras que no recuerdo en mi mente por estar algo mejor por llorar solo un momento por fingir que esto nunca pasó solo un simple juego donde estas tu y yo ..
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Traditionally, a stepfamily is the family one acquires when a parent enters a new marriage, whether the parent was widowed or divorced. For example, if one's mother/father dies and one's father/mother marries another woman/man, the new woman is one's stepmother and vice versa. The counseling slogan "Stepfamilies are born out of loss" applies to such a case.
In modern stepfamilies, there is recognition that the biological parents may never have married. Unless one biological parent of a stepchild is deceased, typical nuclear stepfamilies do not live in one house, consisting of three or more parents, biological and otherwise. It is also possible, in a less strict sense, that the new mate chooses the role of full- or part-time caregiver without marital commitment. However, it is generally understood that after a child reaches adulthood, a parent's subsequent marriage does not create a stepparent relationship unless the various parties choose to regard it as such.
In a simple stepfamily, only one stepparent has a prior child or children. Usually this is thought of in terms of minors, but the children of a stepfamily can also be adults. Stepbrothers and stepsisters exist in a blended, or complex stepfamily. In any case, any subsequent children conceived through the new marriage are one's half-siblings instead of stepsiblings, being related through one blood line, that of the one biological parent. Having a new child does not change the identity of a stepfamily, nor does legal stepchild adoption
Stepparent adoption
Stepparents can become legal parents to their stepchildren through the process of stepparent adoption. Both biological parents must consent, or agree, to the adoption. When a stepparent adopts their stepchild, either the non-custodial parent of the child willingly gives up his or her parental rights to the child, or the court terminates the parental rights of a biological parent if there is evidence of abuse or neglect to the child. If a parent is not involved in the child's life, the court can terminate that biological parents rights on the grounds of abandonment. Grounds for abandonment in most states are no contact between the parent and child for at least one year.
It is important to check with local laws when looking to complete a stepparent adoption. While having the non-custodial parent consent to the adoption is the easiest way to complete a stepparent adoption, it is still possible to have one completed when they either do not consent, or cannot be located.
If the biological parent who is not involved in the child's life cannot be found, a stepparent adoption can still occur. Typically, a public notice must be published in the newspaper for 30–45 days, stating the intention to have the biological parents' rights terminated, and the intent for the stepparent to adopt the child. If the biological parent does not respond to the notice, then the stepparent adoption will continue as though the absent parent consented to the adoption
Tips for a united family.
1. Accepted one: Give thanks for what we have and what we are, without feeling that we deserve something
2. D enjoy things great and small: Learning to discover the beauty of everyday things. Be easy to live with what is necessary and acknowledges.
3. Always have a positive attitude to life: Smile, accept and learn from difficult moments.
4. Promote an environment of love, see the good of others, helping in any way we can, forgive and be comprehensive.
5. Recognize the sources of happiness: You are love, generosity, a simple life and value life.
Every family is happy together. The joy and values are learned at home and transmitted to others as a natural way of life, that is, by example.
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Multi-talented part time model; also a violinista, dancer, black belt in Taekwondo, occasional boxer, ancient Greek scholar and frequent mermaid.
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I imagine that this tree, outside of the Soin Medical Center, goes unnoticed for most of the year. When decorated for the Christmas season, it is impossible not to notice it.
Hmm, if I strike out again, maybe I can increase my odds of finding someone to play 20 questions by throwing out a part time Uber shingle? LOL...Cray Cray? Maybe...but getting paid to meet people through social media seems like fun. Hey, it's like wearing a pair of killer looking shoes that never hurt your feet ;0) My Uber uniform could be mandatory mini skirts and heels! INVENTING
The Grade II Listed Museum Of Lincolnshire Life on Burton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
The museum is housed in a Victorian barracks built for the Royal North Lincoln Militia in 1857 and is an example of Victorian military architecture.
The Militia were a force of part time volunteer soldiers whose main role was home defence. The Royal North Lincoln Militia used the barracks for training and administrative purposes and the site served as their headquarters until 1880. From this date the militia were based at the New Barracks (later Sobraon Barracks), also on Burton Road, which was headquarters to the Lincolnshire Regiment. In 1881 the Royal North Lincoln Militia officially amalgamated with the County Regiment to become the 3rd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment.
For 20 years the site fell into relative disuse until in 1901 it was once again used by a military force. The Lincolnshire Imperial Yeomanry, a voluntary cavalry unit, used the barracks as its headquarters until it was disbanded in 1920.
The barracks building remained in military use, occupied by a variety of territorial and other army units, until 1963. Just 6 years later, on 29th July 1969, the Lincolnshire Association for the Arts and Heritage opened the Museum of Lincolnshire Life. The museum was run independently by the association until 1974, when it was transferred to Lincolnshire County Council.
Since its beginnings the museum has built up a fascinating collection of over 250,000 objects, both on display and in store. Today visitors can enjoy the charming period room and shop settings displaying our wonderful social history collection, with a working Victorian kitchen and printing press during special event days. In addition the museum boasts a nationally important agricultural and industrial collection, including impressive steam engines, threshing machines and the iconic World War One tank developed and built by Foster’s of Lincoln. The museum is also home to the Royal Lincolnshire Regimental Galleries.
Go-Go for a wild ride with the action girls! Russ Meyer, the king of exploitation, directs this lurid thrill-ride starring Tura Satana, Haji, and Lori Williams as a trio of dancers who turn to murder and mayhem on a road trip from hell. Varla is well-endowed, beautiful, physically powerful, savvy and conniving. She lives for kicks, but she's also got a serious mad on for the world, and anyone who crosses her finds out the hard way. Her job as a go-go dancer, supplemented by a part time career in petty crime has afforded her a sleek and fast sports car, which she enjoys riding in the desert with her fellow dancers. One of them, Rosie, has a crush on Varla, which she happily encourages, even if Varla is really more interested in the control it gives her over Rosie than in Rosie herself. The other dancer, Billie, is a little harder for Varla to manage, but Billie isn't bright enough to outmaneuver Varla.
When the little gang run into a square drag racer, he winds up getting into a fight with Varla, losing of course. Varla makes sure he never talks back again, then kidnaps his girlfriend and makes a run for it. BIllie and Rosie tag along, and they soon become involved in intrigue with an old letch in the desert rumored to have a stash of cash hidden away somewhere. When Varla starts to lose control of the situation, things (again) become violent, leading to a revved-up climax! Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. After dispatching the boyfriend, they take the girl hostage and begin scheming on a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert, reputedly hiding a tidy sum of cash. They become houseguests of the old man and try and seduce the sons in an attempt to locate the money, not realizing that the old man has a few sinister intentions of his own.
synopsis
Exploitation maven Russ Meyer created a cult classic with this turbo-charged action film. Three curvaceous go-go dancers in a cool sports car go on a desert crime spree, led by Varla (the amazing Tura Satana), a busty, nasty woman dressed entirely in black. Varla's lesbian moll, Rosie (Haji) -- who has an extremely overwrought accent -- and reluctant bimbo Billie (Lori Williams) are along for the ride. When they meet a naïve young couple, Tommy and Linda (Ray Barlow and Sue Bernard), Varla challenges the man to a race then kills him by breaking his back. They take Linda hostage and drive to a house owned by a crippled old lecher (Stuart Lancaster) and his muscular but retarded son, Vegetable (Dennis Busch). Varla discovers that the old man has money hidden on the property, so the girls try to find it. Meanwhile, Vegetable's perverted father tries to trick him into assaulting one of the girls as he watches, but his other son (Paul Trinka) finally shows up to save the day. A great deal of bloodshed, campy catfighting, and funny dialogue fills the bulk of this fast-paced comic book of a movie.
Born 1946 Quebec,Canada
Passed on 2013
Birth Name - Barbarella Catton Nickname - Haji
Haji was a Cando-American actress renowned for starring in Russ Meyer's sexploitation classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), in which she made her theatrical film debut. Barbarella Catton was born in Quebec City, Quebec on January 24, 1946, and at the age of 14, began dancing topless. The renamed Haji caught the eye of cinema's "King Leer" while performing as an exotic dancer.
He also cast her as one of three go-go dancers who turn into avenging furies in "Pussycat", which was her theatrical film debut as it was released before Motor Psycho (1965). She also appeared in Meyer's potboiler Good Morning... and Goodbye! (1967), his big budget Hollywood sextravaganza Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), and his cartoonish amalgamation of sex and violence, Supervixens (1975).
Haji died on August 10, 2013 at the age of 67.
Was a fervent supporter of animal rights and environmentalism. Interviewed in the book "Invasion of the B-Girls" by Jewel Shepard. Began as an exotic dancer. Moved to California at the age of fourteen and was discovered by filmmaker Russ Meyer performing in a topless bar. Her only child, a daughter she had at age 15, is named Cerlette. Haji was of British and Filipino descent, and her nickname was bestowed on her by an uncle. Was a friend and co-star of former stripper and long-time Russ Meyer paramour Kitten Natividad.
Haji, an Actress Featured in Cult Films by Russ Meyer, Dies at 67
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Published: August 17, 2013
Haji, a voluptuous actress who played one of three homicidal go-go dancers in Russ Meyer’s 1965 cult film “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,” died on Aug. 9 in Southern California. She was 67.
Her death was confirmed by the dancer and actress Kitten Natividad, a friend, who said she did not know the cause. She said Haji had high blood pressure and heart problems in recent years and was taken to a hospital after falling ill at a restaurant in Newport Beach.Haji, a brunette of Filipino and British descent, met Meyer, the celebrated B-movie director, in the mid-1960s while she worked in a strip club in California. He cast her as the lead in his biker movie “Motorpsycho” (1965) even though she had no acting experience.Later that year Haji appeared in “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,” the tale of three dancers who beat a young man to death, kidnap his girlfriend and flee into the desert. She played the lesbian paramour of the lead character, Varla, played by Tura Satana. The film has acquired a devoted following and has been embraced by the filmmakers John Waters and Quentin Tarantino and even some feminists, including the film critic B. Ruby Rich, who praised it in The Village Voice as a “female fantasy.”“You just didn’t see women taking over and beating up men in those days,” Haji said in an interview posted on Russ Meyer’s Ultravixens, a Web site devoted to Meyer, who died in 2004, and his films. “Russ did something no one else had the imagination to do. And he was smart to use three bodied-up women, so whether the picture’s good or not, you still sort of stare at it.”Haji played a scantily clad bartender in Meyer’s “Supervixens” in 1975 and appeared in “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,” the story of an all-woman rock band’s descent into debauchery. It was the first of Meyer’s films produced by a mainstream studio. She also acted in John Cassavetes’s gritty drama “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie” in 1976.
Haji was born in Quebec on Jan. 24, 1946. Ms. Natividad said that Haji’s last name at birth was Catton, and that she thought her given name was Cerlette. (The name Haji, she said, was a nickname given to her by an uncle.) Haji left school before finishing the sixth grade and began stripping at 14. She had a daughter, also named Cerlette, at 15. She lived in Oxnard, Calif. Her survivors include her daughter and a granddaughter. Haji’s last screen role was in the 2003 comedy “Killer Drag Queens on Dope.”
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The Grade II Listed Museum Of Lincolnshire Life on Burton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
The museum is housed in a Victorian barracks built for the Royal North Lincoln Militia in 1857 and is an example of Victorian military architecture.
The Militia were a force of part time volunteer soldiers whose main role was home defence. The Royal North Lincoln Militia used the barracks for training and administrative purposes and the site served as their headquarters until 1880. From this date the militia were based at the New Barracks (later Sobraon Barracks), also on Burton Road, which was headquarters to the Lincolnshire Regiment. In 1881 the Royal North Lincoln Militia officially amalgamated with the County Regiment to become the 3rd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment.
For 20 years the site fell into relative disuse until in 1901 it was once again used by a military force. The Lincolnshire Imperial Yeomanry, a voluntary cavalry unit, used the barracks as its headquarters until it was disbanded in 1920.
The barracks building remained in military use, occupied by a variety of territorial and other army units, until 1963. Just 6 years later, on 29th July 1969, the Lincolnshire Association for the Arts and Heritage opened the Museum of Lincolnshire Life. The museum was run independently by the association until 1974, when it was transferred to Lincolnshire County Council.
Since its beginnings the museum has built up a fascinating collection of over 250,000 objects, both on display and in store. Today visitors can enjoy the charming period room and shop settings displaying our wonderful social history collection, with a working Victorian kitchen and printing press during special event days. In addition the museum boasts a nationally important agricultural and industrial collection, including impressive steam engines, threshing machines and the iconic World War One tank developed and built by Foster’s of Lincoln. The museum is also home to the Royal Lincolnshire Regimental Galleries.
"Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards." - Edward Abbey
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Ruin: I must say that there is a part of me that wants to be pushed towards mortality to make me wake up and describe it. But it is like trying to describe Infinity. I have to stop worrying about being bad at it. How could one not be?
Rack: I love the drag. We’re beyond bad now. That and looming death might put a fire under our arses. Though you’ve always had a Bunsen burning nearby it seems to me, which has inspired my devotion.
Ruin: Fire under me arse, and fire up me arse, all in a day’s aspiring. I like that 'me' in place of the 'my', I like that soft sound of the possessing, possessed, self. I will get on with priming the old bunsen and see how far we can get. "Happy International Glory Hole Day 2023!" . Someone, a ribald lady-friend, just sent me that greeting. I still think a gloryhole set up in every retirement home might be a plan I could fall (get) behind.
It could have been something I might have given my whole-hearted support to, even, testosterone-free charity work, as a part-time 'care in the community' voluntary worker with consideration given to energy reserves, and the time left.
If the truth be told, there will be no time for those shenanigans, and I must say that I love being inviolate, impenetrable, with those ramparts up, steaming ahead. This is, as always, the best part of life so far, though I do dread possible discomfort down the line. I love that all those cravings have fallen away, that liberation. Of course there are always other 'drivers', more subtle ones even. They would have to be more subtle than ‘sex’, wouldn't they, but then what isn’t?
It’s one of the big ones, like aspirations that define success and failure, another one, that career drive, that wanting recognition. Yes, it is more subtle, but it is there, accompanied by that chimera, ‘Posterity’. That takes us back to GBS, and his “The best lack all conviction, while the worst. Are full of passionate intensity.”, and that constantly not knowing if one is the ‘best’ or the ‘worst’, or just out and out mediocre, failing in both directions.
I somehow think we have to be indifferent to all that. The idea being to just say one’s piece, in all its whatever (best, worst, or mediocre) with absolute indifference to cause or reactions. Just try to explain something to yourself, put it down, and move forward, recognising that the very idea of directions in infinity is absurd anyway.
There is no up, there is no down, no 'best no 'worst', there just is is.
A Rrose is a Rrose.
P.S. Dolly asked me to mention that Rrose is wearing a fake-fur wrap (by Lanech, of course). Dolly is never sheepish in coming forward about that sort of thing. Though he/she/they assert/s that there is no such thing as backward or forward.
Today is my little Stella's first birthday...she is also one of my favorite models and part time photographer's assistant!
30 years ago, July 12th 1991, my wife, two sons and I flew into Nagoya, Japan from San Francisco. Our sons were about 1 1/2 years old and 9 months old. Our oldest had been born in Japan and the youngest was born in California.
We arrived late night during an incredible thunderstorm. I think that it was the first time that our sons had experienced rain as there had been a drought in California. I still remember the water rationing. One of my wife’s cousins picked us up and drove us to my mother-in-law’s house where we stayed till we found an apartment. I had told my wife that we were moving back to the U.S. in three years.
The first few years were very difficult but also rewarding as I found work in language schools and some private tutoring. Eventually I found part-time work in an elementary school where I’m in my 23rd year of teaching. I also found part-time work in a kindergarten where I’ve been teaching since 2003. I was also a part-time teacher at a Catholic all girls’ high school for five years.
My only source of news at first was a skimpy English language newspaper and an occasional CNN or ABC news program. Computers and the internet were still in the beginning stages. I remember when 9 11 happened I was on the internet trying to get information. Video would always freeze and never matched the audio output. I used to spend over $100 a month on international calls. Then thankfully Skype and FaceTime came along.
Friendships are what have sustained me during my life here. I owe such an incredible amount of gratitude to so many Japanese people who have helped me during these 30 years. People who have really gone out of their way to help me. I’ve had some private classes (groups and individuals) that lasted 20-28 years. The pandemic ended most of my private tutoring classes. During long school vacations I now only have 0-3 hours of work a day, perhaps 10 hours a week? I guess it’s preparation for retirement.
Outside of work I had little interaction with anyone. For many years I worked every day. Finally I took Sundays off. I had a few ex-pat friends but unlike most of them I had a family to take care of. I had no hobbies and I was bored when I did have free time. Then digital cameras came along and I developed an interest in photography. I’d always been interested in it, however film and processing were expensive. Digital photography made everything much more affordable and I could do the processing myself.
Photography has opened many doors for me. I was invited to exhibit my work in some galleries and to participate in art exhibitions. This increased my friendships within the ex-pat community as well as with many Japanese artists and photographers. Life became much more interesting. I went from chasing scarecrows to birds to a mix of various subjects. I love action: birds in flight and surfing in particular. I can’t swim and don’t surf, though I wish I could do both.
Ironically in 2020 I wanted to turn my photography focus to people. I have three grandchildren now whom I would love to take photos of and I thought that taking photos of people would help me gain some new skills. Street photography? Posed shots? Candid (my preference)? Now we’re still in the middle of a pandemic and everyone has been masked up for a year and a half and I’ve taken few photos of any people.
Looking forward to continue making new friends and new photo buddies to meet up with as this pandemic hopefully soon comes to an end. A special thanks to all the Japanese bird photographers whom I’ve met over the years. You’ve helped me improve my Japanese speaking ability (not close to fluent yet) as well as teach me the names of birds and where to go.
If anyone has actually read all of this … you are truly awesome!
Thanks to all!
This photo shows when I’m happiest: by the bay or the sea with birds. But, I’m even happier being with other people outside and in nature. I also have an interest in street photography and cityscapes if anyone is interested.
This is Quick's second year working on Chinook Pass. She is with us part time while she's still in training.
So, I figured I'd stack up some extra cash to spend at the Fantasy Faire and... Well my first pick-up... Gave me cause to pause.
Is this the H.Q. of the arch-nemesis of all Food Service Employees?
Oh, the big "sign"? That's a promo-coupon for the Fantasy Faire.
Visit this location at Karen's Fast Food Restaurant and Motel @ Kuula in Second Life
I was on my way home to my latex dolly home when the rubber-reaper stopped me :0 She has a new part time job stopped latex dollys and letting the latex pumkin trains pass. As she wants to keep use all safe and shiny :D
More latex land links below.
The four panelists along with prominent Quebec businesswoman Christine Lengvari (left) and moderator of the discussion, CTV news reporter and part-time instructor at the Concordia Department of Journalism Caroline Van Vlaardingen, BA 84, (one from the left.)
For best view is on black
A waterfall in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Multnomah County,Oregon
photo by Gary Meyers photography
Take nothing but photos , leave nothing but footprints !!!
Seasons of Love Photography.
Not that I have the time to do anything fulltime however I finally decided on a name for my part time stuff! I am still playing with the logo as well, I like clean & simple, nothing frou-frou so I might be running samples by all of you here soon!
Thanks for looking!
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Moments so dear
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure - Measure A Year?
In Daylights - In Sunsets
In Midnights - In Cups Of Coffee
In Inches - In Miles
In Laughter - In Strife
In - Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure
A Year In The Life?
How About Love?
How About Love?
How About Love?
Measure In Love
Seasons of Love.
Seasons of Love.
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Journeys To Plan
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure The Life
Of A Woman Or A Man
In Truths That She Learned
Or In Times That He Cried
In Bridges He Burned
Or The Way That She Died
It's Time Now - To Sing Out
Though The Story Never Ends
Let's Celebrate
Remember A Year In The Life Of Friends
Remember the Love
Remember the Love
Remember the Love
Measure In Love
Oh you got to you got to remember the love,
You know that love is a gift from up above
Share love, give love, spread love
Measure, measure your life in love.
Seasons Of Love
Measure your life, measure your life in love
Zaria was a blacksmith and part time Mask-maker in training and would learn much more as a Toa, he lived in a city of steel where many more matoran are hard at work, building, breaking down, forging and many more major & minor jobs, these harden matoran would receive crafting material from Tiribomba's village and sometimes Boreas villages, raw ore, protodermis and other samples would be processed and primed for crafting, melted down and forged into weapons, armor or even parts for buildings & vehicles. These skilled matoran too great pride in their work, striving for perfection and making improvements when necessary.
Zaria would come across a Toa Stone left unnoticed from the mine, hidden deep in the hard rock, after many attempts at breaking it open, light peaking through the cracks, its powers leaking out, with a small explosion with light, the disturbed Toa Stone transferred all its energy to its founder, Zaria suddenly evolved into a Toa.
Toa Zaria
Kanohi: Matatu.
Mask of Forging
Weapon: Protosteel Titan Swords
Element: Steel
Abilities: Metal forging & bending
creating the finest armor & weapons
Powers: able to liquefy certain metals & make them solid for easier repairs or transform into various weapons