Happy Thanksgiving

This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America’s national day of Thanksgiving. On November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

Chemistry – Seth/Summer Mix

This is a soundtrack for Seth and Summer from The O.C. It’s 14 tracks with front and back art. It’s the “happy” mix. I’m saving the angst for later . This mix was also posted at my S/S fan website, ocbreakfastclub.com.

download Chemistry (songs, art, and playlist included)

Redefining Laziness

Apparently, some people are doing that very thing, in which the dictionary will someday read like this.

Lazy – Working 100 hours a week and on holidays, including Easter, the most important holiday of the year, the celebration of the most important historical event in human history.

Sweeney Todd icons

9 icons for Sweeney Todd, the great Sondheim musical. Caps are from Sweeney Todd in concert. these are snaggable.
teasers

Friday’s Feast

Appetizer
Name 3 cosmetics/toiletries that you use on a daily basis. lipgloss, lotion, mascara

Soup
Approximately how much exercise do you get per week, and what type of exercise is it (walking, running, swimming, etc.)? I don’t exercise, I stretch.

Salad
Write a sentence including your favorite color and your favorite food. Strawberry ice cream is a lovely pink color. (food: strawberries, color: pink)

Main Course
What famous person/celebrity do you think you look like? myself, of course

Dessert
Name 2 simple things that never fail to make you happy. reading the Chronicles of Narnia, holding a baby

Gilmore Girls icons

5 Gilmore Girls icons. these are snaggable and customizable
teasers:

Dishrag – anti-Lana/anti-Marissa mix

my least favorite characters from my favorite shows. Lana from Smallville and Marissa from The O.C. “Dishrag” is a term which has been used to describe both girls. This mix is 8 songs with cover and back art.

download Dishrag (includes songs with playlist and art)

Romeo and Juliet bases

bases for the 1996 movie of Romeo and Juliet. these are snaggable and customizable.

Want – Chloe/Clark soundtrack

Hi, I just found this community for these fan soundtracks yesterday, and I thought it was such a fun idea, that I immediately started thinking of the soundtracks I would make. This is my first one. It is for Chloe and Clark from Smallville, It’s 9 songs with front and back art.

download Want (includes all songs and art)

Naming Things

Monday Madness

1. …you cannot live without. God
2. …you CAN live without, but cannot seem to part with. chick lit and teen novels
3. …you wish to accomplish this COMING week. exfoliate
4. …you have accomplished this PAST week. tried a new shampoo
5. …on your holiday (or non-holiday) ‘wish list.’ a good season of The O.C.
6. …you would like to change about yourself. I don’t know
7. …you like about yourself. my eyes
8. …you should be doing right now instead of what you ARE doing. working on something
9. …in your life that could use a little more organization. my bedroom

Coming to a Point

“Have you ever noticed,” said Dimble, “that the universe, and every bit of the universe is always hardening and narrowing and coming to a point?”
His wife waited as those wait who know by long experience the mental processes of the person who is talking to them.
“I mean this,” said Dimble in answer to the question she had not asked. “If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family – anything you like – at a given point in its history, you always find that there was a time before that point when there was more elbow room and contrasts weren’t quite so sharp; and that there’s going to be a time after that point when there is even less room for indecision and choices are even more momentous. Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing. The whole thing is sorting itself out all the time, coming to a point, getting sharper and harder.”

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

Congratulations

Congratulations to President Bush, on his re-election.

And thank you to John Kerry for accepting defeat with grace and not filing any lawsuits or anything like that.

The Way to His Own Country

“Oh, Aslan,” said Lucy. “Will you tell us how to get into your country from our world?”
“I shall be telling you all the time,” said Aslan. “But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.”

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

Do You..

Monday Madness
Do you…..

1. Code your own website or use a template? code my own
2. Use a digital camera or a film camera? If digital, do you print your own pictures, order them online, or send them out? digital… why print?

3. Make your own cards or buy them at a card shop? both
4. Draw your own graphics or get them from the internet? make my own
5. Take showers or baths? showers
6. Make your own candles or buy them? And are they soy or paraffin? buy them… I don’t know what they are though. aren’t candles wax?
7. Celebrate Halloween or not? well, I pass out candy

8. Sleep in on weekends or get up early even if you don’t have to go to work? sleep in
9. Correct other people’s grammar, or just let it go? correct when I can’t help it

Real Lame

Is it just me, or is Real Media, like, the lamest format ever. When you play a vidoe in real format, it acts like it’s streaming and buffers and stuff, even if it’s playing off your hard drive. At one time, maybe it was fine, but it just seems silly now. Why is it even still used, and why is it not at least improved?