Kimber-Leigh's blog

NaNoBloPo Day 3

Work was long today, or atleast it felt that way. We are getting into the Christmas season and that is always just so much fun, but not.

I'm feeling rather down and snippy at the moment, so I think I am going to take my tired self off to bed.

I think I might start doing updates at work, because by the time I get home I'm just not in the mood to be witty. I'll give it a try tomorrow and see how it goes.

NaBloPoMo Day 2

Weary, so very weary.

I was totally going to try and post something more tonight, but I am so tired, I can barely think in complete sentences. I am going to try and stay awake until 9, then I am going to take a couple of sleeping pills (so I don't wake up in the wee hours) and I am going to bed.

A good night sleep, and I should feel better about everything.

NaBloPoMo - Day 1

So in a effort to actually get myself to actually update this blog, I figured that I would sign up for National Blog Posting Month. So here I am at 11:30 at night updating because I totally forgot about it until this moment. Yeah, it was one of those sort of days.

Watching "First Wives Club". I love this movie :)

Anyways, I'm going to go and watch my movie. I'll attempt to post something of substance tomorrow.

What I do instead of working somedays

MOSAIC MEME: INSTRUCTIONS

1. Type your answer to each question below into Flickr Search.

2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image.

3. Copy & paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

THE QUESTIONS:
1. What is your first name? Kimberly
2. What is your favourite food right now? Mixed Green Salad
3. What school did you go to? University of Calgary
4. What is your favourite colour? Blue
5. Who is your latest celebrity crush? Simon Schama
6. What is your favourite drink? Tea
7. What is your dream vacation destination? New Zealand
8. What is your favourite dessert? Strawberry Shortcake
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? Writer
10. What do you love most in life? Dance
11. What is one word that describes you now? Apathetic
12. What is your Flickr/Blog name? Notes from the Hedge

The Mosaic:

Mosaic Meme

1. Kimberly  Crest Mansion, Redlands, California, 2. Mixed Green Salad at Custom House, 3. Metal and Sky, 4. llibreria - bookstore - Amsterdam - HDR, 5. Schama_Simon.jpg, 6. Tea Corner..., 7. Lake Tekapo, 8. strawberry shortcake cupcakes, 9. Paperback Writer, 10. Dancing by the light of the setting sun, 11. apathy, 12. fountain

Burning the Man

So the other day at work, I was bored and annoyed by my phone which would not stop ringing. To keep my sanity, I took a break and surfed on over to Flickr and started to type in random search words. One of the words I typed in was black and on the first page I found this picture:

Black Rock City

Black Rock City, Nevada. Burning Man 2006. And I have not been able to get it out of my head since.

Back in December, at the Yule ritual I went to, I made a comment to my friends, Luiz and Alissa, that in 2013 we should go to Burning Man. I picked 2013 because that is the year we all turn 40.

But I have been lurking around the Burning Man website (www.burningman.com) for the last few days, and I don't know if I can wait 5 years to go. The more I read about it, the more it becomes something that I must experience. And considering that a) I am not a huge fan of camping (we will be renting a RV, I can tell you that right now) and b) large crowds make me very uncomfortable (I'm an introvert and proud of it), I'm not sure where these feelings are coming from.

I am intrigued by how this city springs up in the Black Rock desert ever year and after the week is over, there is no trace that it was ever there. I love the fact that its not just about partying and drinking and sex (which is what I thought at first). That it is about surviving in an unforgiving enviroment and self expression and community. And I want to live it at least once in my life time. I want to experince the dust and the heat and the rain that turns everything to mud. I want to ride a bike across the playa with my eyes closed. I want to watch as the Man burns on the Saturday night. I want to let the experince change me.

The Burning Man Mission Statement:

Our mission is to produce the annual event known as "Burning Man" and to guide, nurture and protect the more permanent community created by its culture. Our intention is to generate society that connects each individual to his or her creative powers, to participation in community, to the larger realm of civic life, and to the even greater world of nature that exists beyond society. We believe that the experience of Burning Man can produce positive spiritual change in the world. To this end, it is equally important that we communicate with one another, with the citizens of Black Rock City and with the community of Burning Man wherever it may arise. Burning Man is radically inclusive, and its meaning is potentially accessible to anyone. The touchstone of value in our culture will always be immediacy: experience before theory, moral relationships before politics, survival before services, roles before jobs, embodied ritual before symbolism, work before vested interest, participant support before sponsorship. Finally, in order to accomplish these ends, Burning Man must endure as a self-supporting enterprise that is capable of sustaining the lives of those who dedicate themselves to its work. From this devotion spring those duties that we owe to one another. We will always burn the Man.

Burn Baby Burn

Fucking Mercury

I'm not really into astrology, but I really hate it when Mercury goes retrograde. I have had nothing but issues so far this morning. I've got my fingers crossed that it gets better this afternoon. Maybe its time to do another salt and pepper cleansing of the office. Of course it might be hard to explain what the hell I am doing to our security manager because today is his day to be here. Well atleast it is lunch time, so that has to count for something.

Full Moon Fever

Over the past few days I've been feeling all out of sorts and I only clued in as to why last night. Coming home from work I was treated to the site of the moon, large and full, hanging over the downtown city skyline. That explains everything.

I don't like the full moon much. Yes, it is very pretty to look at, but the energy plays havoc with me. I'm more liable to want to hibernate for a few days until it goes away. I much prefer the dark/new moon phase, I feel much more like myself.

I still can't get my mind around the fact that Heath Ledger is dead. The whole thing just makes me very sad. I don't know what else to say really.