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[cleolinda]

4christina.org fundraising: If I'm doing the Excel spreadsheet correctly, we now have $2217.65. I'm probably not, though, so I'm going to have the Mominatrix come up here and look at what I'm doing. If you have donated and you do have a LJ (and therefore can use the poll), please log what you gave if you haven't already, because your donation may not have been included in the total otherwise. And please use that poll rather than just the comments, because it's easier to put into the spreadsheet that way, rather than hunting and pecking through comment sections. Anything you've given because you heard about it on Livejournal--any Livejournal--or Fandom Wank counts. I know we won't catch everything, which is fine--it's all going to Christina whether we tally it or not. But it will definitely help with the fundraising efforts to know how much we've gotten. And I think y'all should know, too, so you can feel proud of what you've accomplished.

I'm thinking I'm going to set the m15m fundraising goal at $5000--that is, let's add to the current $2217.65 total.

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Today's horoscope: Get your friends together and have a baking party. Everybody loves cupcakes.

Weeeeird. I was downstairs helping Mom bake earlier--today she's making poppyseed bread, banana bread, pumpkin bread, pralines, thumbprint cookies, orange-slice cookies, and mini cheesecakes. (Dude.) If we had cupcakes, life would be perfect.

Apparently FOTR comes on TNT tonight. Maybe THIS will be the extended version. (It damn ought to be--they're running it for three hours and 45 minutes.)

Also, speaking of polls, the Christmas greeting thing is still open.


Meme I snatched from edda:

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Lauren
2. Cleo
3. kitty!

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. cleolinda
2. PrincessCleo
3. cleolindajones

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. Creative (somewhat)
2. Articulate (reasonably so)
3. Diplomatic (generally)

THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. Lazy
2. Shy
3. Can't ever finish anythi

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. English/Scottish/Irish
2. French
3. German

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. Heights
2. Needles
3. Japanese horror movies

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Mountain Dew
2. Internet
3. Music

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Glasses
2. Jeans
3. Favorite grey shirt with black and white stripes down the sleeves

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS (or artists [at the moment]):
1. Garbage
2. Heather Nova
3. Eleanor McEvoy

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. "So Cruel," U2
2. "Way You Walk," Papas Fritas
3. "Here with Me," Dido

>>This is subject to change at a moment's notice.

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. Knitting!
2. Actually finishing things!
3. Actually getting out and meeting people!

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP (love is a given):
1. Respect
2. Chemistry
3. Freedom

>>I should explain the last one. I don't mean that I want an "open" relationship in the sexual sense; I mean that I want to feel free to be who I am and have my own friends and my own interests, and for him to have the same. I don't want to become melded to this person like a twin; I want the two of us to be whole, separate entities who come together by choice, not because we're too afraid to be alone.

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order)
1. My second cousin Cindy used to be roommates with Julia Roberts.
2. An Arabian prince once proposed to my mother on their first date with a box of jewels.
3. Bryan Adams tried to buy Aunt Awesome a drink, but she turned him down.

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX (or same) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Smiles/laughter.
2. Forearms. I am serious.
3. Low-slung hips. I don't really know how to explain it any better than that.

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. Eat something I think is gross (which is a large category). I just can't do it.
2. Call strangers/businesses on the phone. Yes, this makes life hard.
3. Cartwheels.

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE PASTIMES:
1. Reading
2. Researching random subjects on the internet
3. Napping Daydreaming

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Sleep
2. Read
3. Work on fantasy project (i.e., not M15M)

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. Writer
2. Teacher/professor
3. Princess

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION/HOLIDAY:
1. France (Paris and the Loire Valley)
2. Italy (Venice, Florence, and Tuscany)
3. Tokyo, but only with someone who knows the city and speaks Japanese well

THREE KIDS' NAMES:
1. Elizabeth
2. Catherine
3. Jonathan

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Get a book on the bestseller list
2. Sing backup for someone
3. Go to the Oscars. Like, have a real seat and everything, not just sit in the bleachers

THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW OR DIE PAINFULLY NOT IF THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE IT:
1. vladimirsever
2. deoridhe
3.princessm516

Comments

[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Mountain Dew

I keep hearing about this. I wish I could find it over here in Blighty.

Italy (Venice, Florence, and Tuscany)

I looked at a calendar of Venice the other day. God, it's so pretty it nearly kills me. Want to afford a visit. Paris + Venice = places I want to visit NOW.

3. Go to the Oscars. Like, have a real seat and everything, not just sit in the bleachers.

Oh yes. Ohyesohyesohyes.

[altiloquent.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm baking. So fun!

[tanamaria.livejournal.com]

Call strangers/businesses on the phone. Yes, this makes life hard.

DITTO!

[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

No, TNT has been showing the theatrical cut of FOTR for the past few nights. The length is due to commercials, I'm afraid.

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

[takekammuri.livejournal.com]

HA! Don't get your hopes up. I watched "Mists of Avallon" on TNT and it lasted almost five hours. It was teh pA1n3, because i watch it with straight men who had absolutely no sensitivity and kept switching the channel.

Also, they were not nearly as obsessed as i was with arthurian stuff and it WAS kinda crap. (Shut up, evil voice inside my head!)

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I mean that I want to feel free to be who I am and have my own friends and my own interests, and for him to have the same. I don't want to become melded to this person like a twin; I want the two of us to be whole, separate entities who come together by choice, not because we're too afraid to be alone.

Simply put, you are nine kinds of awesome and I wish more people were like you. But that's not news.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

1. Mountain Dew

I keep hearing about this. I wish I could find it over here in Blighty.

It looks like pee.

That is all.

[http://users.livejournal.com/lorien__/]

damn that was a lot longer then the one i did a couple of months ago...

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
3. Princess

love it ;)

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Get a book on the bestseller list

with us nutcases as fans? you'll on the list in no time ;)

*hugs*
Lorien__
cheerleader and nutcase

[http://users.livejournal.com/lorien__/]

okay that turned out weird... *back to sleep*

[takekammuri.livejournal.com]

Yay, comment no. 2, 'cause i am teh stoopid. Yeah, i gotchur BACK with Tokyo. And with the Romanian and Hungarian languages for Black Ribbon. *totally holds cleo's future holidays for ransom against more Ribbon stuff*

[chowburger.livejournal.com]

2. Forearms. I am serious.

Woo- I'm not entirely alone in my insanity. Forearms are sex, dammit!

[seriouslyso.livejournal.com]

Where do you get your horoscopes from? I have mine sent from Astrology.com and they are terribly lame.

and...

...today she's making poppyseed bread, banana bread, pumpkin bread, pralines, thumbprint cookies, orange-slice cookies, and mini cheesecakes...

I wish my mom would make such things! I envy!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

my.yahoo.com--but Yahoo says they're getting them from astrology.com, so... I don't know.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yay! Seriously, the languages are worth it. : )

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

YES.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww! : )

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

GAH. Yahoo TV said, AGAIN, that it was the extended version! Yahoo = LIAH!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

But it tastes like sunshine! ; )

[missbingley.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, okay, okay, I'll take it, I don't want to die!!!

Does it count if I made my boyfriend make a donation? Like, can I put that on the list, because I told him about it?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It does! Log it--just make sure that only one of you logs it, or we'll end up counting it twice. And thanks. : )

[missbingley.livejournal.com]

Heh, he does not know about Livejournal and never will as much of my journal was spent gushing over him. La la la. I'll go log that now, though:)

[edda.livejournal.com]

I'm baking cookies now. Which sounds like more fun than it is because I've been doing it every weekend for a month. It's like the Cookie Bataan Death March.

You memed! Now I don't have to kill you! YAY! (Because, damn, I've got too much to do already.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, I wasn't on your list of people to kill anyway...

[lilerthkwake.livejournal.com]

Well, now I feel like I know you a whole lot better. I too REALLY REALLY REALLY want to visit France and Italy, spec. the places you mentioned. And I love--but am terrified by--Japanese horror movies.

Have you seen Ju-On? Eeeee!