I'm having a coffee problem today. This morning Todd drank all the milk and finished the last of my coffee cream. So, when I made coffee this morning there was a lovely pot of steaming coffee but no milk to put into it. I just can't drink it black. So, there is a whole lovely pot of coffee now cold on the kitchen counter. I managed to gag down some oatmeal without milk but it was like eating rubber. One good thing in the coffee situation was that new Starbucks double shot which Todd brought home from Pepsi last night. I had forgotten about it in the fridge so I had that for coffee this morning. Its ok, I still would have liked a hot coffee to sit beside me while I work and be stone cold by the time I'm way finished it. Some day I will get smarter about the coffee idea and use a smaller cup. I don't really like stone cold coffee.

Found in a blog:

We work in the dark We do what we can We give what we have Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task The rest is the madness of art.

-- Henry James

The latest news on the move is that I might be there by July. It's frustrating to rely on someone else. They keep changing plans, each time I think I will be home in Ontario everything changes. At least there is really nothing keeping me in the US now. I don't see how they could pull any more paperwork on us. The immigration stuff is past us now that we aren't staying together and I have no desire to stay in the US.

So, its a wait and see and try to procrastinate less on the whole packing thing. Isn't it amazing how much stuff you have when you need to pack it all up and move it?

I'd like to find a new template for the blog. One that underlines the links. I may just see if I can find out where in the coding that is and what I need to change. If I knew I would be here in Illinois till the end of the week or next week I would order a book through Amazon and get it sent here. But, I can do that when I'm in Ontario. I just need to be patient.

Taking a course would be great too. I still haven't looked to see what is in my area there. Or at least the area I will be in if I spend time with my parents. I just hope I don't stay there too long. It's too easy to settle in and stop really trying to do more on my own. Not that I'm a wimp, I just get tired of the fight when I never seem to end up winning.

Well, there was an earthquake in this area today. I actually felt some of it. Kind of interesting to have seen and heard it. Todd and I were joking that all I need now is the tornado to fulfill my Yankee experience. I would like to see one, real. But I don't want to be too close. The earthquake was quite far away but I still felt some of it. At the time I thought, the landlord was on the roof stomping around. It was strange though cause when it started I thought someone was in the room with me and it started on one side of the building. I could hear the building move I guess. But I also saw things shaking inside the apartment. No damage. Things weren't in danger of falling off shelves or anything that dramatic.

An Irish Blessing

May love and laughter light your days and warm your heart and home, May good and faithful friends be yours wherever you may roam, May peace and plenty bless your world with joy that long endures, May all life's passing seasons bring the best to you and yours.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. --Eden Phillpotts

There is more talk of HerBlogger at HerPlanet. Stay tuned for more. I think it's so exciting. I hope it can get the go ahead this time. I'd love to manage a really great blogging community for women. I wish we had taken advantage of the big exodus from Blogger several months ago. Now we have Movable Type to compete with too. Still, I'm not sure how they are going to arrange it all. Maybe we won't be in direct competition with Movable Type if we have more of a hosting service than a software package.

Collected for my column, Bait and Switch at BackWash. Will be fun to look for more. I'd forgotten about these.

"Many women believe that men are happier the more frequently they can have intercourse. This is not entirely accurate. What men truly enjoy is being aroused by their partner and remaining in an aroused state for a long period of time, while delaying orgasm as long as possible. This is a continuing theme of most of the best erotic literature, which in the story line, the woman is able to arouse a man, and keep him at a level just below that needed to achieve an orgasm. Women who have learned how to achieve this for their husbands generally have very happy husbands and solid long-term relationships." David Sebringsil

"We all enter this world the same way: naked, screaming, soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there" - Dana Gould

"To play needs much work. But when we experience the work as play, then it is not work anymore." - Peter Brook

"Love well, whip well." - Benjamin Franklin

"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible." - Alfred Hitchcock

"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain." - Lord Byron

"Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial." - Benjamin Franklin

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them." - Carl Jung

"A thorn pricks you: It tells us the void is empty" - Zen Koan

"There are no gains without pains" - Benjamin Franklin

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. - Former Vice President Dan Quayle

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." - M. Kathleen Casey

"Think of three Things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account." - Benjamin Franklin

"It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires." - Marquis de Sade

"The only abnormality is the inability to love." - Anais Nin

"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands." - Benjamin Franklin

"Most welcome, bondage, for thou art a way, I think, to liberty." - William Shakespeare

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." - Kahlil Gibran

"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Frank Herbert, from Dune

"The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure." - Marquis de Sade

"There's nothing either good or bad ... but thinking makes it so!" - William Shakespeare

"There is no terror in the bang ... only in the anticipation of it." - Alfred Hitchcock

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally." - Oscar Wilde

"The man of understanding finds everything laughable." - Goethe

Makes you wonder if they're laughing with you or at you, eh?