One Year of Blogging

Thank you to everyone who has stopped by my little corner of the world wide web!

It's been a great year!
I have learned a lot about myself.
I have made some new friends! I have seen some go.
Your comments have made me think and have helped me make decisions.
Your comments have made me laugh and made me happy!

Thank you again for sharing in this small part of my life's journey.



This song came up on my iPod the other night and it made me laugh.
I came up with the following; sing along if you want....

Sitting here, writing my heart out, thinking
Waiting for some inspiration to fall
Read about a thousand blogs here lately
About to hit my head on the wall.

Looking for some Jim's Stuff baby this evening?
You read some Jim's Stuff baby tonight
You want some Jim's Stuff baby this evening,
You gotta have some Jim's Stuff
You gotta read Jim's blog tonight.

I read Jim's Stuff

I want some Jim's Stuff

Jim's looking for a lover who needs another
He don't want another night on his own
He wants to share his love with a warm blooded lover
He wants to bring a wild man back home

I won't torture y'all with any more! LOL

Fun Stuff

If you liked my Labor Day Bearforce1 Dance and the Weekend Happy Dance go over to BrettCajun's site and vote for me in the Jiggy Dance Whoreoff!

While you're reading this and voting... I am at the Ren Fest again. It's the Scottish Highland weekend! And also some friends from Louisiana are coming in, they are a group called the Drunk Monks.
I'll tell y'all of the adventures when I return!


Hope you're having a great weekend!

Jim's Stuff around the house

Art edition

Painting by my father.


Painting by my grandfather.
See the face in the top iris?


I love art that makes you smile!


A friend


I love this picture!
The one on my wall is 20" x 30"


Carousel horse


My dusty bookends

Everyone dances

A dancing bird is something I have never seen before... but it's so cute!!

OMG! He has good rhythm!!

12 on the 12th

Since I was off from work yesterday I finally got to go take some pictures to participate in this 12 pictures on the 12th post that I've seen on other blogs.

On the patio

Perfectly proportioned

Shower time

If you're sitting in one of these chairs at the Belmont Hotel, the next picture is your view.

View of Dallas from the Belmont Hotel

Purple grass at the Belmont


Driving

Reunion hotel and tower

The old City Hall now a museum

Skyline at night

Waiting at a stop light... oh oh, I need petrol!

Finally can relax with some sweet elixir!

Random Question Wednesday

How do you feel and react when someone ignores you?

I am very soft spoken. Or as Jerry Seinfeld would say; "A quiet talker". The volume of my voice goes even quieter when I am nervous or intimidated. I am aware of this.

If I speak to someone and there is no response or reaction I repeat myself and will try to say it a little louder. So if someone is ignoring me they will usually have to tell me that they're ignoring me or make it really obvious! And then I finally get it! Call it naivety too I guess!

With modern technology there is another form of ignoring someone; not answering a cell phone, not returning a call or a text. When someone does this to me I usually just shrug my shoulders and move on with life.

It has taken me a long time to come to the conclusion that I won't beg someone to like me or want to spend time with me.

Maybe people should buy one of these when dealing with me! LOL


What are your thoughts? How do y'all react?

Line from a favorite movie

I was talking with Liz this weekend. She couldn't understand why I was still single. She had heard a few stories about Valdemort but she quickly pointed out that I ended the relationship two years ago, what was I waiting for?

My thoughts turned to a favorite line from a favorite movie; Latter Days.



I paraphrased the line:
"[Dallas] is a city where everyone dances with one eye on the door, like we're all waiting for that next something better to walk in. But would we even recognize it if it did? It might be nice to stop circling. It might be nice to stop equating sex with a handshake. It might be nice to have it mean something."

It seems everyone I meet is dancing with one eye on the door; waiting for someone who is younger, cuter, with bigger muscles, bigger package, makes more money, etc. etc. etc.

I'm at that point where I want something more permanent. I don't expect perfection, I just would like someone who says that they're interested in me to actually want to spend time with me. So far, I haven't met him yet.

But still... I'm happy with where I am in life.

Roman weekend at the faire

I decided at the last minute to go down to Houston area for the Roman Bacchanal weekend at the renaissance festival. The weather was in the 80's and a perfect day to wear the toga again. I felt very under-dressed compared to what I usually wear. I hung out with Lily (Liz) she draws a lot of attention in her courtesan outfit.

We wonder how many photo albums, Myspace or Facebook albums we are in of someone's "day at the renaissance festival". We just walked around and talked, catching up on things. The rest of the group couldn't make it, we still enjoyed the day and did lots of people watching.

We met another friend of ours who is trying out for a paid entertainer position next year. Again, someone who draws a lot of attention. Her platform shoes are PC (period correct). Apparently the hookers courtesans wore these type of platform shoes!

Embiggen the picture, they are very cool.


Sunday was cooler weather and less crowded. Saturday they said there was a record number of people attending, 32,000! Lots of Romans.

I entered the toga contest and came in 3rd place! They said it was because of my grapes! LOL. It could also have been the gay guy on cast who was a judge!

When in Rome....

A song y'all might like

Powerful Message

I was planning on posting something different for today, but last night I saw Ultra Dave's blog post and it really effected me! It is very profound!

The pictures are speaking much much louder than words can say!




Instead of preventing this as the Bible instructed,



you chose to prevent this.