VAMPIRES!!

Long time no posting. I wonder if anyone has ventured by in my absense. To anyone who happens to venture through during my updating process welcome and I hope you stay around for a while. I am going to be updating and changing a few things with the blog so I hope everyone will just hold up with me until I get this think going in the directions that I have planned.

I have been drawn into an old love of mine...Vampires. I have always loved the myth and lore assoicated with these creatures. I have read just about everything I can get my hands on and have found those vampire stories, novels that I love, the classifications of novels that just sit well with me and then there are those which I do not care for. From vlad the impailer (Dracula) to the new breed of vampires seen in True Blood and Twilight I have enjoyed them all. In the beginning of my vampire experience I loved the horror side of the vampire. The creature of legend and myth that can transform into the mist, shape shift into any creature that it has at his call and that could seduce the most pure person into their realm of darkness.

I tired of that after a while and ventured away from the vampire scene. I went on to other types of novels then got drew back into the genre by Laurel K. Hamilton and her Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series which has venture many realms of the vampire and their lore and legend. I have also branched into the romance of the vampire with authors such as Michelle Rowan and her wonderful series including Stakes & Stilletos and Tall, Dark and Fangsome. I have also became involved in the Twilight series with millions of others around the world and just recently ventured into the world of Sookie and Bill in Trueblood.

I tried the Sookie series many years ago when the books were first released however I gave up the series after book 1 or 2. At that time they were just not my cup of literature tea. I am looking into getting into them now that I have seen the True blood series; however, I am considering just letting the series bring the characters to life.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Happy New Year to everyone out there reading this blog! I Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed themselves. Hopefully I will be able to update my blog more regularly now and not lapse in it for oh about six months now. LOL

There has been so much going on lately that it's been kind of hard to focus on one thing but I think that I am going to have to say to heck with a lot of stuff that has been weighing on my mind recently and just the chips fall as they may anyway. I mean how much mental energy does one have to burn every day on the negative things that are effecting their lives? I know it's hard and going to be hard to focus on anything but anger at times and I know that there will be days when I fail horribly but at least trying is step in the right direction right....? LOL

Hopefully the new year will be as good for everyone as we hope. Have a great one guys.

Inuyasha Manga Ending.

As someone who just recently got into this manga and anime relatively a year ago or so I was surprized to find out that this manga has been going on for over 11 years now. The story of Inuyasha, a half demon who lives in fudel Japan and Kagome, a human middle school girl aged 15 years who gets pulled into an old well on her families shrine.

The 28th issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine has confirmed that the next issue of the magazne will feature the final chapter of Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha time-traveling fantasy manga.

The Inuyasha manga consists of more than 54 volumes, and 558 magazine installments. Inuyasha will be Takahashi's longest regularly serialized work and next Wendsday will be the final installment of the manga ending after 11 years.

A Real Unicorn!

According to a story on Yahoo.com a deer with a single horn in the center of its head has been seen in a nature preserve in Italy.

Gilberto Tozzi, the director of the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato said "This is fantasy becoming reality. The unicorn has always been a mythological animal." The 1-year-old Roe Deer has been named Unicorn and was born in captivity in the research center's park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence.

Tozzi said such anomalies among deer may have inspired the myth of the unicorn. The unicorn, is described as a horse-like creature with magical healing powers, and has appeared in legends and stories throughout history, from ancient and medieval texts to the adventures of Harry Potter.

For more on this story visit http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_fe_st/italy_unicorn.

Long Time No Blogg.

It seems like forever since I've posted anything on here and believe me I've heard about it. It seems like it gets harder and harder to find the time to do those things we enjoy in life anymore. You work all day to make sure that the bills are paid, you have gas for the car (so that you can get back to work the rest of the week) and that all things are taken care of. At the end of the day you're so exhausted that you don't even feel like doing the things that you once enjoyed in life.

I always loved to write short stories, poetry and other things. I loved art. I drew and painted all the time. There were times that I would work for weeks on one canvas just trying to make it the best thing that I could. Now days it's like I don't have time for an artistic thought to enter my head at the end of the day little long try to sketch it out, ink it and then paint it. So I don't do much art. I fall asleep more than anything when trying to write.

Blogging was once a great thing that I try to do every day but now it's like everything else that I have loved. It's got to the point of having to make time in an endless aray of things to do to do those things which can give us the simple piece of sanity that we all used to have. Sometimes you just have to disconnect yourself from the crazy world of insanity that we live in and try to put in perspective the things around you those things which make you the happiest.

So here I am with a seemingly meaningless blog that probably makes no sense to anyone but me at this time but I hope you all understand at lest a little where I am coming from. I have not abandoned those things which always brought me pleasure, happiness and a sense of calm but they have however got placed on the back burner until times when I lose my mind and need a way to relax.

Reasons Why I Relay!

Despite my four years of participating in the Relay for Lfe there is always the question of why I partcipate in the Relay every year. Well over the next week or so (you know how it gets sometimes) I'm going to be posting pictures and the purpose as to why I relay every year. This is the first reason why I relay. One of the best friends I could have ever asked God to have brought into my life. Christopher Newsome was one of my best friends and I always looked up to him.

It didn't mater if the group was hanging out on Saturdays playing Dungeons & Dragons or if our strange group of friends were stuck on the side of the road on the night of Junior Prom waiting for a car that functions since the one they had tore up, Chris always made all his friends feel welcome in his home, and never made any of us feel as though we didn't belong.
Chris had bone cancer and was misdiagnosed I don't know how many times before the cancer broke through the bone in his arm. It was a shock to all of us who loved him and hard to understand.

Chris was supposed to be the best man in my wedding but was unable to even attend the ceremony because of the cancer treatment. We lost a gret friend in April of 2005 andMay 2005 was my very first Relay for Life and I have had a team every year since. I guess it's my way of keeping the memories of those I love alive and a way of trying to help out.

Feng Shui MacDonald's

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice of positioning objects in harmony with five elements wood, fire, earth, water, metal in order to increase the flow of chi, or energy. Commonly used as a relaxation technique for many people. You may be wondering what this has to do with Happy Meals and Ronald McDonald...well, I'm not entirely sure but it has happened.

A McDonald's restaurant in California has become the first in the nation to undergo a Feng Shui makeover. The only familiar McDonald's object reportedly is the golden arches that every child recognizes. According to www.rawstory.com the resteraunt in California has "wood ceiling, silver-coated chairs, plus red accents throughout the dining area to symbolize fire and "good luck, laughter and prosperity...textured walls patterned after ocean waves symbolize "life and relaxation."

According to www.rawstroy.com , Mark Brownstein, one of three owners of the restaurant: "chose the feng shui makeover because the restaurant is located near a renowned Buddhist temple, which is considered good luck. The designs were meant to appeal to the area's growing Asian population, but were also done in a way that would help all customers tap their inner Zen."

For more on this check out this link: http://www.rawstory.com

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from my world to yours. I hope everyone has a great new year and hope we can all stick to our New Years Resoluations. Here's to a wonderful time and have a great time!