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Thursday, February 26, 2004

40$ FOR AN IRON?!

Does it make toasts too?

.:.Uniquely maladjusted... But fun.:. 5:31 PM

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

23 Feb' 04 -

Clean Monday (Orthodox)
The Orthodox beginning of Lent, the long period of fasting, (eating only one meal a day), before Palm Sunday, remembering Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness.
Collop Monday; Rose Monday; Shrove Monday
A traditional collop was a piece of bread, (the term now meaning thick bacon), fried, with an egg on top.
Peasen Monday in Cornwall, where pea soup is served instead of collops.

• Gallows Reprieve
The 23rd February in 1885 was the execution day of murderer, John ‘Babbacombe’ Lee from Devon. Following the failure of the gallows trapdoor on three successive occasions at Exeter gaol, the condemned man was reprieved.

24 Feb' 04

Shrove Tuesday (also Pancake Day, Carnival, Mardi Gras and Violet Tuesday)
The last chance for feasting, drinking, sport and dance before the long Lent fast.
The ‘pancake bells’ are rung at 11 am, signalling the start of the day’s pancake feast, using up the last of the provisions of eggs, milk and flour.
Apprentices ran wild and ‘Shrovetide football’, a huge-scale, chaotic cross between Gaelic hurling, football and rugby, was played all over Britain, now surviving in only six locations. Cock-squailing (throwing), and cock-fighting’s biggest day of the year. Whipping Toms thrashed revelers, (now ‘tops’), in commemoration of driving-out the Vikings in 1002.

Feast of the Choes (Greek)
The central day of the Anthesteria festival including a procession with Dionysus himself riding on a ‘ship’.

Lent
The Christian’s long period of fasting, (eating only one meal a day), before Palm Sunday, remembering Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness. From Anglo-Saxon’s ‘lenten-tide’ (spring), meaning the month of lengthening days. Marriages are forbidden during Lent.

25 Feb' 04

Ash Wednesday
The first day of Lent beginning the forty-day Lenten fast before the Easter season. You should abstain from all meats and milk. Nothing white must be worn. Christians could receive a sprinkling of ashes on the forehead as a mark of penitence and mortality, while curses were read-out in church, deriding unrepentant sinners; also known as ‘Cussing Day’.
The straw-stuffed human effigies, (called Aunt Sally or Jack-a-Lent), representing either a pagan winter-god or Judas Iscariot, are beaten, dragged and ceremonially hung.

Feast of St. Ethelbert of Kent
Anglo-Saxon pagan king, converted to be the first Christian King of England. Received St. Augustine at Thanet in 597 AD and installed him as Archbishop of England, in Canterbury.

St Walpurgis’ Day
English saint who died this day in Germany 799, who was confused with the pagan goddess Walburga.

Anthesteria (Greek)
Final day of the festival honouring Dionysus as Plouton, God of the Dead. This was a sombre day with offerings on behalf of the dead to placate hostile spirits.

Day of Mut (Egyptian)
Ancient goddess wearing a vultures crest, equated with the sky and with snakes

From Alchemy Gothic

Heh! Have fun ^^V

.:.Uniquely maladjusted... But fun.:. 10:14 PM

Monday, February 23, 2004

No reason - just diggiing in some stuff amd found this - still not sure what it is, but seems good. Enjoy!

PS - yes, it's mine.

You can't always be sane. It doesn't work like that.

Just like being to hungry or tired. You _can_ be too sane.

See, if you hold yourself together all of the time - tightly, too tightly, never slipping or making a mistake...

You become prone to more mistakes. Cracks start anyway. When they do, they go from small to big in a record time. That's why it always seems things crumble at once. Because you've never let something small tumble from your grip.

It's all together, then it all shatters.

But if you just let go sometimes, go just a little mad...then things aren't quite so bad. I'm not saying that you should give it all up - not that you should go completely 'round the bend. Just little madnesses. Do something for yourself - everyone expects something from you, maybe you should start expecting something from yourself.

Little madnesses.

There's nothing to say that you can't go a little mad. After that you can go right back to being your saner self, pick your responsibilities back up and all that. Find new ones even.

It's like taking a minivacation from 'What Is Expected Of You'. Everyone takes vacations, right?

Try it sometime.

Matter of fact, try it now.

I'll just take this crown here and hold onto it for you until you're sane again. You take a vacation from all you're responsible for and I'll take a vacation from being your knave.

In a few days we'll switch again and I'll go somewhere else - if my lessons stick.

.:.Uniquely maladjusted... But fun.:. 8:34 PM

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