Credit Cube in tyr

I saw ubber_geek's post this morning,

Credit Cube... That's all I'm saying! :D

when I was catching up on forum reading . So after I took the kids to school, and during the maint down time, I just asked "is it in tyr?" with a confirmation it was, off I went, pack in pocket. I searched for over an hour, sure glad There opened early today. :D hehe I should have known, there ubber was, just like a beacon, welcoming weary travelers like myself.



credit cube in tyr

This picture does not do there justice. Even if you click on the picture and make it bigger.. It still hard to make out what it looks like. And what happened to my name tag I wonder. :) I'm a ghost now LOL I took the picture..

Seriously tho, if you happened to stumble on this. It's truly remarkable. It rotates completely 3 dimensional. It's not on the ground at all, it's floating. It's putting off different color lighting as the names displayed change color themselves. And the names of the credit for There.com are scrolling along all 6 sides. Well five, I think actually, one side is bugged. LOL That side has words of wisdom on it, pointing out the code error.

Talk about an Easter egg, I wonder when it arrived? The push yesterday or Tuesday perhaps... No matter, it is truly remarkable.

Traditions, rituals and schedules

When my friend, Rose told me our topic was traditions, I really didn't think about stuff like her good luck rituals, or things that we do, that you could set a clock too. But I guess truly she right, after years and years they do become traditions, maybe not ones you pass along to other family members , but still, just as important.

In our little family we are pretty scheduled, hopefully not to rigid. It has a little to with me being a Taurus, I like things to stay the same. And because after having children, I realized it was better for them to be on a schedule, especially a flexible one. Then as my youngest son was growing up, and it was apparent he was different, it was imperative that we try to keep a schedule. You know kids with ADD are so easily distracted, it is easy to point to the clock and say "it's that time".. Not to mention he really doesn't transition well, not just class to class in school, but from summer to winter, vacation to school, etc. So day to day we as family have many rituals.

For myself there are only a couple I hold dear. First, every morning, my husband wakes me up. *smiles* It just the best way to start the day, to get a touch on the shoulder if he's running late, or a snuggle in bed, before you part and start the day, and always a kiss and a "I love you". Secondly, I love ending my day the same way it starts, of course, in my husbands arms, reminding him I love him. No matter how brief those moments are, my day or night is just not same without them.

For a weekly tradition, I could say, I'm playing There and doing a ccr race every Friday night, and he's watching tv. lol which is true, but hardly a tradition, least ways, I hope not. We do try to have a Saturday breakfast together, you know a nice one with hot food. We try to make sure Jeff does something with the boys.. either separate or together or us as a family. We play cards, games, football or a movie, stuff like that.

Yearly, there are lots of things we do. Probably the most important is our trips back home. Again me being Taurus, my home and family is the important thing to me. When I single, I had moved the farthest away, in fact I moved several times for work, and I always was the one that flew home to see everyone. I was single and had the most flexible schedule, so if my brother and his family were going to be home, I was too. He was 4 hours away. Everything changed after I got married and started a family.

I remember going home for our first Christmas, already about 5 or 6 months pregnant. I remember distinctly telling my mom I would always come for Christmas, that I could never, not be home. She assured me it would come. That I was a wife and a mom now, and I was making my own little family and it was time to start new traditions. Being the spoiled, stubborn brat that I am, I had to argue that my tradition was to include coming home for Christmas, every year. However, little did I realize she was right, as always. The next year came and indeed we could not make it home for Christmas. I don't remember the reason at all, whether it was work, or if the baby was sick, or if there was too much snow, but we just couldn't make the 9 hour car trip. That was when my mom suggested, I start my tradition of spending Thanksgiving with my family and Christmas with Jeff's. Sparing any bad weather in November, that's one tradition we carried on for about 15 years now. Whether we go to my mom and dad's house, or my sister's, we always go back to NY for thanksgiving. If we're lucky it snows. :)

Fires in there

Just so we are clear....

• I found and posted pictures earlier of 5 stone camp fires. All 5 have at least 1 low stone bench next to it, in fact I think most have 2.
• and then we have the camp fires with fallen trees as benches..
• and campfires with the large 12 group seating. ( I wish we could buy those from there, BTW)...
• and lastly the fires in there with no seats near it at all. I can think of 4 of these...

I think the ones with no seats are the most interesting.. I mean think about what might the artist or the designer ment for their purpose? for instance , 2 of the fires are in tabu, in the lava, I think they ment to give the illusion of hot lava steam and fire .. Another fire is at the astrologer wheel (or elements wheel) in ootay, that could be just to pay respect to the gods :) or perhaps a beacon to help us find it or just to draw attention to the great art of there. The last one I can think of is the third fire in the mushroom forest of caldera.

everyone has the teleport There gave us for leveling.. The mushroom with a bite out . And the two main fires are there, but how many actually have gone to the other side and seen the third fire.. There was a quest there, of course.. So many would have seen it that way. But with no bench, only trees around it, why would you even notice it. :) Those who know me in game, know I'm easily entertained and just as easily distracted. As a newbie I could go for hours just trying to jump on the mushrooms. I walked a lot in there too.

I walk in a lot of selected areas.. I did one day as newbie, tried every teleport dot on the there map, and tried every there reward bookmark, just to see where it took me. And then I went thru every special site on thalasso's maps, and found them all by buggy, board or foot. I like finding the stuff to me its like a challenge. I wonder who is thalasso, and how did he know it was there to begin with? or was he like me wandering around till he happens on stuff.

I wonder if I missed a fire? :O maybe I should count them all rofl I think I have them all bookmarked.

Traditions

Topic: Traditions. Do you have any old ones? Have you started any new ones?
what are your favorite ones?


When I think of traditions, I mostly think of Christmas time. I mean that's when most ppls traditions come out. It's so far from Christmas, I'll try to table that part.

I don't think I carry on many of the day to day type of traditions that my family had. After all my mom and dad both worked constantly, and I'm a stay-at-home mom now, and I insisted that my husband not work 12-14 hours a day and our kids never see him or play with him. And I didn't agree with spanking and some of the child rearing ideas. Nor do I tell my kids what's wrong with them, well I try not to, hopefully just what is right.

So we incorporated the good things, I think of my family life and Jeff''s. One thing we had in common, before we married, was a strong close family life. I had a big extended family and he a small one, but the loyalty among us can not be denied. Being so far away from my family now, no aunts, uncles and thousands of cousins nearby, to visit every weekend. I know my kids aren't getting those values the way they I did, but hopefully when they see me run next door to help the neighbors, it tells them something similar.

As kid growing up we went to church every Sunday morning with dad, then off to Uncle Minny's for a comic book and a soda, if it was a holiday we went to the house saw everyone up there for cocktails. Stopped along the way to visit my Aunt Angie and Uncle Custy. Then home for Sunday dinner. We had dinner every night at 6, but never together. My dad was at the store when mom ate, then she went up and he came home. So Sunday was it for a family time. The rest of traditions all revolve around holidays, eating, drinking and generally enjoying life.

I have to admit I don't follow any of those traditions, except dinner at 6, still. I do still follow our many Christmas traditions, mine and jeff's as well as some new ones. But really those should be discussed later.

I think think I passed along the sense of loyalty, integrity, family values and love to my kids and that's the main message of traditions anyways.

yes, its that time of the month

'dohhhh
i can't believe, i couldn't tell! tuesday i was soo sad, rememinising about about forgiveness and all after reading Barb's article about her own life, the jewish holiday and all that. wednesday, i twisted my knee again, i was limping all day.. thursday, i had trouble sleeping and i so much wanted pickles all day. and today i have another headache for the 7th ? day in row.

i put all my moodiness and pain aside and just called it, "i'm old before 50, and i need to walk" lol i completely forgot to look at the calender, not to mention i rarely know what the date actually is??

i keep myself in the fog i guess, cus quite simply, i have no need to know the date. just monday - friday, get kids to school pick up kids and try to pick up the house in between, if i feel well enough.

and then today i saw a post in the forum for diabetes. and how one women said her moms toes were amputated. i sware thats one of my biggest fears for old age. i mean i know i'm at high risk for diabetes, thats why i worked so hard to get healthy. but boy that rash stuff, just killed me. umm, beat me down perhaps, is a better word, since i'm still alive, and all. it took me how many years to gain strength? after finding out i had fibromyolgia. i decided, "no, i don't" LOL a year later and many trips to the y and all those lovely simptoms dissapeared. then i wrecked my knee falling down the stairs, finaly after a year of pain, i have the stupid surgery, and i fall down again on the way back in the house. i'm sure that why the surgery was worthless. i don't handle pain very well at all. but some physical therepy, and more trips to the y, that at least is under control. then of course the rash.. it doesn't sound like much, but oh my.. i've never been in so much pain. it was just differant.. i mean i had that the rash over my entire body, and it lasted like that for about 9 monthes. i had to give up swimming, :O that was my excerise at the y. now its 2 years since i first broke out, and i still have hives.. all in my hair of all places, and scars on my chest from the skin damage. as this is fading, i notice, lately i'm loosing the feeling in my feet and hands sometimes. great, just what i needed. huh ?

i mean really, in my life time, i already had.... PID, carpial tunnel, a bleeding ulser (that almost killed me), a car accident that ruined one knee, falling down the stairs ruined the other, gestation diabetes, back injuries, fibromyolgia, of course the surgery to correct one knee (that was as bad as having the problem) and cronic hives.

and somehow i forgot PMS, can aggrivate everything i ever had ..

well i didn't post this to make you sad or even really to tell u anything at all. just a movator to myself, to leave this chair a while, and do something. i just hate walking alone anymore.. but i know i have to put to away the excuses or diabeates will next thing on my list.. or worse, heart problems. my luck i wouldn't die either, i just be in more pain LOL

well, i am going to stop and just walk to the corner.. sounds so lame but maybe its a start..

the best view stone fire... Anyone know where?  

'''yay one clear stone fire 

The stone camp fire in Ootay alter to the monkey Gods. 

the Mushroom Forest Fire in Caldera. Isn't it grand? i took this picture from the paz that was on top  

Fires in There

The Lyceum or some call it the dark forest. Is it art ? or trashed?  


Seriously though, out of the 3 or 4 stone fires, 3 have paz on them.. and they think they are addding to the beauty, there is already 6 benchs strategicaly placed by there in The Lyceum, to give some amount of priviacy. with the gates facing north, south, east and west.. it is a landmark in There, no doubt.

So adding a card table, signs, more seats?, and duck?? wth? is improvement? i just don't get it. i'm going to take pictures of the other 3 i know of. who knows maybe there's, more out there and i just never noticed the stone with all the shit on it. at least 1 stone fire is paz free this week. i guess this along with finding the little men is my next quest, between quests and races.

Books

todays question, is 2 parts..
1. What book most influenced your life?
2. What book first got you interested in reading?

I'm sure a lot of people would say "the bible" for the first book, after all it is the most read book in history. It has influenced kings and queens right down to the lowest people in society, the people that have lost all hope in life itself. For the more well read person, I'm sure there is a multitude of a self help books, they could name, my self included. " what color is my parachute ?" or "feel the fear!" comes to mind there . Or it could be any number of books, including children's books.

For me however, the first question, is very clear.. It was a book called "the prophet" by Kahlil Gibran. For those who have not read it, it is about a prophet that is traveling threw a small village, and the people there ask for his wisdom on certain subjects. Each question, is a separate chapter. My favorite part is on joy and sorrow. His therory was simple , you can not feel joy unless you have have felt sorrow. I read this when I was 16 or 17? I'm not sure who turned me onto it, or why, but my mom bought me the book for Christmas that year, and yes, I still have it and continue to read it. it is the most read book in my library.

As for reading, I hated to read growing up. Probably cause I was such a lousy speller. But around 6th grade, our tiny school got a new wing just for the elementary part, it included a gym and a libaray just for us. It was then I learned how helpful a librarian is. After she guided me to the young adult/childrens section, it was there I began to browse the titles.

I found a book called "my side of the mountain" omg, that boy ran away from home and lived in the side of a tree. he knew how to fish, smoke food, live off the land completely. heck, he even trained a eagle. I found that adventure just amazing. I had to read more about a life like that. it was then I stumbled on my way so many storys. My parents (just like me) would always let us buy books at school. Between that and the library, well I had lots to choose from. I went on to read and read so many different kinds of things, its impossible to say, everything from trashy romance novel, to an intense murder, to books about different religions. Anyways I credited this book, cus this was about the time I started going to the library on a regular basis, and love'n it.

read "the prophet"

Statue of Liberty in There

Well, was it my last post in there4all, I said, you should always be open in you plans and your heart in there, and see where it leads? I think it was... Our group at CCR are just the best people, I never know what I'll be doing after it.. Last night was no exception.. I got asked if I wanted to see something cool in there I got to summoned to see this.. Isn't it wonderful? Well I think so.



There's statue of Liberty!


I liked it so much, prolly cus the real statue was such a sore point for me.. You know that was one issue between me and my old college roommate that never got resolved. Besides the one about her deciding she liked my boy friend. Hard to believe I could still have such strong feelings, but hardly remember her name. After that weekend, I put lots of distance for a while.

To be honest, now that I am older, and hopefully wiser. I think I understand where she was coming from too. She was very competive, and extremely jealous, and he was her friend from her old school. I'm coming to realize just how territorial we women can be. The part I don't get was, if she was a lesbian, why on earth did she care if I dated him? Tom was prolly the best thing that could have happened to me after Ed. He was a truly a gentleman and i do believe he loved me as much as i loved him.

Anyway, I digress, a lot.. My one trip to NYC, was with Fran to meet Tom. She was going to share her city with me. At the time I lived in CT. I prolly should have gone myself, but 10 years after college, it seemed like a great plan. There was only 2 things I wanted to see, central park and the statue. I wanted to look up my grandparents name in the registry. I had the number and everything back then. We spent too much at central park I guess, and she was pushing me along, so we wouldn't be late. hehe Tom knew i was always late.. On the subway, I saw the statue of liberty in passing. It was beautiful.

I have always loved buildings, statues and structures. In There is no exception. We have the most talented people. They are just great and sometimes they just really shine, you know. just as great as meret was for making it, was the person who's plan it was to say, hey lets see if we can get someone to make this. The event tonight will be great. I'm sure.. just crowded.

Bombs and Schools

OMGosh yes, bombs and schools, you heard right..

I was sitting here after getting kids to school, reveling in the fact I was all alone, (I had one kid home sick yesterday with a headache). Sitting back, reading on the net, drinking my coffee, when someone bursts in through my garage door, the dog starts barking, so I knew I had to look. I see my son running in the house out of breath, carrying his huge book bag, with his best friend in tow behind him.

I was like wth are you doing home, get to school !

Then he told me "the school got a bomb threat. ". he added "I guess high school gets a lot of them."

I was kind of frantic, I don't remember any last year? I was watching the news, nothing, surfing the net, even at the school sites, nothing, called the sound board, nothing , I even called the school and just got the closed message.. So at least I knew it was closed..

Now to worry about the one in middle school... After doing all the same things for him, I did finally get a hold of them, and found out indeed they do have a plan for evacuation. They send everyone to Lutheran trinity church, close to downtown.

They hung up now, and I forgot to ask how would I know...

My Favorite poem

For the next week or so I'm going to add some of favorite things...
give you an insight to my very soul.

As a teenager, I was always artistic.. I enjoyed reading and writing poetry, painting, sketching, sewing barbie doll clothes, listening to music and trying to write my own, and taking photos of structures of all things..

Below was my absolute favorite Poem as a teenager. And not because of the obvious message to marry early while you can, but more for the message enjoy and live life to the fullest while you are still young.



To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
- by Robert Herrick

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse and worst
Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.

Picture of the week: the treehouse in madenfield 

Gnomes

remember these little guys from TSO .. we mech ppl made hundreds of thousands of them, for days at a time. and the gnome building contests LOL wOOt what fun ! .. i was pleased when i found my first one in there.. it made sense, the one of developer was from maxis .. prob made plenty of gnomes himself. that was one thing that bugged me in tso, with the all the ones you made, u couldn't buy one or save it or sit a gnome in your garden. it just stayed on that darn workbench.

anyway i'm told there is 3 in world .. i never really thought about it but indeed i do think thats it... the first one i found was so long ago, i forgot all about it.
im going to try to post picture with this LOL we shall see, if i ever figure out how to get a picture inside a post and not separate.

but here we go LOL the first one i found was the gnome at the mushroom forest. heck i don't know, was it a quest, that went there ? or a was it carpenter? or did i happen upon it ? who knows..



second one i do remember, mystie showed me.. her and majikman had been in world way longer than me.. i mean that day btw.. i think when motu-motu came out, they stayed in like 16 hours or more, running around LOL
not sure why i wasn't there, but back then i was having lots of technical issues with the game, and my computer. later after they had found everything lol, they gave me a tour ... took me to oro lounge, the 3 tall peaks, compass island and the chicken temple.. and she pointed out the gnome in the spotlight..
i found the pit later that day lol but thats another story..



and after nalora told rose where the third one was, i went searching , and 'dohhh after i saw it in the tree, i remembered seeing it already.. i think ubber pointed it out. or maybe i just saw it.. who knows .. rofl me and my fabulous memory.




there u have it, just like the little men, i've seen everywhere i never realised it was so special there was only 3 ? or that ppl other than me would like gnomes.. i really never thought there was interest in finding unusal things .. Or should i say remembering where they are? so , inbetween all the other stuff im going back to lookingfor the little men.. well thats what i call 'em, i heard there are only 9 , i have to say i could have sworn there's more.. they are in the oddest places tho.. so i taking pictures and bming them ha anything else odd, i should have noticed and remembered? i do believe ive seen alot .. altho im sure there more to come. ha and don't forget i may not call them the same thing as u :P

Here's my question for today....
Imagine there’s a TV screen on your forehead broadcasting your inner thougths at this moment. What would viewers see?

Omgosh, well my first thought at this .. if u really knew ud know for sure i was nuts... but what the heck, i might as well be honest, you'll know that sooner or later anyways..

i tend to be a worrier, u see.. so at any given time there's many, many things going threw my mind at once.. when i was posed this questions.. ooh gosh

well.. today my kids decided that they wanted me to pick up the older one, then the younger.. so i envisioning my 11 year old sitting pouting on the curb waiting for me, mad cus i was late... and my teenager, lost in a sea of kids getting mad i was too early... and i was thinking about how i hate to ask ppl for donations, but i have no sponsor for the race, so a race without sponsors or prizes. :O and then everyone in there is mad at me... and i was still wondering where carpenter disappeared too, and is he ok?... and i would love to try to run the amazing race, but i am afraid to ask anyone to be my partner for it... plus is it fair to my hubby to be out of commission another time of the week?... and speaking of hubby, LOL i think he is in a strange mood, like he's waiting for me to be more helpful? ie clean the house.. rofl can u imagine..

ok so if my mind was a tv, it would be showing a tornado, and swirling around in it, would be.. my house, my hubby, my angry children looking lost and confused, my dog needing to go out, carpenter LOL, the whole there people confused, or jeff is mad, and at the same time, there i am (my avitar is) running away from it all in there on my pink butterfly bike.

you know with all that said.. my real self feels alot better.. almost like the pictures are fading.

i know i worry too much, i know i try to please too many ppl. and i know i forget about me alot. and i also know everything will be ok, in the end thats all that matters..

haha but i'll still worry in the meantime, and my mind will be filled with doubt, confusion and concerns. i can't imagine it any otherway.

things i'm greatful for

lets see, i'm going to write 10 things here that i'm greatful for!
in no matter of importance tho.. ok ...

1. my husband, for always supporting me, in whatever i decided to do.
2. my family, my small little family and my huge extended family, the cousins, aunts, uncles, third cousins, nephews and everyone inbetween.
3. my on-line friends.. all of them, even the ones that break your heart and dissappear. i am thankful for what little or lots of time i had with each.
4. my health, after all, it could always be worse.
5. trees, clean air and sunshine .. there something about nature that always gives me a sense of renewal. a strength comes from with in that cannot be mistaken.
6. my computer and this internet, without it, none of this is possible.
7. my favorite body shop and its employees, haha because of their great work, i have a beautiful orange car back, even tho everyone seems to hate orange .. i sure do love it.
8. i'm thankfull my mind still works, even it doesn't remember stuff very well at all.
9. the memories i do have.. i still have wonderful sweet memories of my mom, that i can pass to my kids that never had the chance to meet her. ha, along with all her best painting and sketches.
10. most of all i'm thankful for love, all that i can give and all that i have recieved.. for love is really the reason we are here on earth.

if i thought about it, i'm sure i could write more, but i'll stop.

and ooouuu

• i'm thankful for you, reading this :P

coffee anyone? well, i had fun building it anyway.  

me in the rainbow room listening to the music :)  

deep space from above 

Ubber's Paz in Deep Space 

this week

we so far this week in There, i've been mostly driving around trying to get rocks logs and trees to load up. besides working on the race LOL which if anyone knew it took me 90 min to run they kill me :P ok so i re-routed it around the buggy flashing trees. now it takes like 30 min without turbo, so i went from a very long race to a really quick one. ooh well.

i thought i go check on some on old places as well, see how they changed. all that todo about music in saja.. and the nene's hand old stuff LOL .. but i heard music in tyr today! not just the crystally sound either.. kind of sit on the edge your seat, your on trial, kind of music. u'd think i'd hear in the templar in front of the judge.. but no i heard it in what i like to call the rainbow room. pictures to be shown after ? or before ?

oh i finally got to sit with myth again, first time in awhile. i miss doing stuff with him.. heck i miss hanging out with ppl in general, everyone i know has left.. well anyways we went up to the deep space paz that mr. rush had built. gosh it was fun flying around up there. i found ubber's paz right away. it was beautiful. all those great trees he designed.. lol i sure wish you could build and design a paz that like and sell it as a package, like we used to be able to do. that would sell like hot cakes.. myth said it was a nice manly place, ROFL.

well that said i thought i would go ahead and book some time at carpenters fz. i missed having events and gosh esp building the layouts. so i made a morning coffee hour, i doubt anyone shows up even for free coffee, there is just not that busy in the mornings. but i love the building. lol lets try that wall here.

all done .. its a pretty gathering spot,even if i do say so myself.