My favourite book by Sonia Choquette is The Psychic Pathway. I picked it up 11 years ago this month. I was perusing the best occult shop/metaphysical book store in Montreal with my friend Maria when the manager at the time, Kris, approached me and asked if he could help me find something. I looked up and said: "I need help. I've been psychic my whole life and I've 'lost touch' it's 6 years now". Out of what appeared to be thin air he produced The Psychic Pathway. I read it in a day, and began the twelve-week program the next. Within six months I was out of a loveless marriage and met my soul mate -not to mention I was back to feeling like myself. The Psychic Pathway remains my favourite book on the subject and I have recommended it to dozens of people over the years.
...burning incense to mask reality's stench since 1986.
It's a lazy rainy day here today. The temperature has dropped 30 degrees Fahrenheit and I'm loving it. I love the heat especially when it is interrupted by colder, rainy days.
This is the perfect day to sleep and Ruby has gotten a head-start. As for me, no. I'm going to have to get a move-on in about ten minutes. I have no idea where the morning went which means I'll really have to hustle this afternoon if I want to get everything I want done, done today. I'm hopeful, but I doubt I will. I'll just do my best.
Today is my littlest's 4th birthday!
More nice work by vinceismyname.
Of course the conversation devolves and goes on a tangent or two which is very characteristic of Italian storytelling.
I'm loving this family, I wished I had videotaped my family before they passed away.
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I love Freddie Mercury.
I love this song.
I love this movie.
Gonna see Hot Fuzz tomorrow -can't wait!
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
I'm only half-way through this book and I already know I will read it many more times once I'm done.
My favourite book by Sonia Choquette is The Psychic Pathway. I picked it up 11 years ago this month. I was perusing the best occult shop/metaphysical book store in Montreal with my friend Maria when the manager at the time, Kris, approached me and asked if he could help me find something. I looked up and said: "I need help. I've been psychic my whole life and I've 'lost touch' it's 6 years now". Out of what appeared to be thin air he produced The Psychic Pathway. I read it in a day, and began the twelve-week program the next. Within six months I was out of a loveless marriage and met my soul mate -not to mention I was back to feeling like myself. The Psychic Pathway remains my favourite book on the subject and I have recommended it to dozens of people over the years.
My favourite book by Sonia Choquette is The Psychic Pathway. I picked it up 11 years ago this month. I was perusing the best occult shop/metaphysical book store in Montreal with my friend Maria when the manager at the time, Kris, approached me and asked if he could help me find something. I looked up and said: "I need help. I've been psychic my whole life and I've 'lost touch' it's 6 years now". Out of what appeared to be thin air he produced The Psychic Pathway. I read it in a day, and began the twelve-week program the next. Within six months I was out of a loveless marriage and met my soul mate -not to mention I was back to feeling like myself. The Psychic Pathway remains my favourite book on the subject and I have recommended it to dozens of people over the years.
Okay, I may be biased because Nadia G. is our very own Luna's cousin but the truth is she's snappy, savvy and sexy and most of all... she's into food!
Watch Bitchin' Kitchen's 'Single-Life Salmon.'
Nadia G riffs on the joys of being single & whips up a sumptuous recipe of Pacific Salmon. Meet Panos the Fishguy, another awesome character from the BK Universe.
Watch Bitchin' Kitchen's 'Single-Life Salmon.'
Nadia G riffs on the joys of being single & whips up a sumptuous recipe of Pacific Salmon. Meet Panos the Fishguy, another awesome character from the BK Universe.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
It's a lazy rainy day here today. The temperature has dropped 30 degrees Fahrenheit and I'm loving it. I love the heat especially when it is interrupted by colder, rainy days.This is the perfect day to sleep and Ruby has gotten a head-start. As for me, no. I'm going to have to get a move-on in about ten minutes. I have no idea where the morning went which means I'll really have to hustle this afternoon if I want to get everything I want done, done today. I'm hopeful, but I doubt I will. I'll just do my best.
Today is my littlest's 4th birthday!
Monday, June 04, 2007
enjoying the break in the heat and the kick-ass wireless connection!

It's hazy and breezy and hopefully we'll have a thunderstorm.
I'm in a strange place today. I'm really missing my auntie. I wish I could phone her and talk about things. The little things that I'm so afraid I'm going to forget because she isn't around to talk about them with me.
Our littlest is turning 4 tomorrow. Oh how I wish my dad, auntie and my uncle were still around so they can see what a wonderful family I have!
I'm feeling cautiously optimistic today regarding an important meeting tomorrow, as well regarding a job I really want. I am totally qualified for it but I need to wait until the next hiring round. I'm hoping it will be this month.
I have been keeping very busy decluttering our home of all the things our girls have outgrown, as well as all the things we need no longer need. It is a monstrous job but I'm doing it in little bites so I don't burn out, or worse, get so skeeved I toss everything in the trash. It's funny how for the longest time I thought I was going to keep all the baby clothes and that I thought I would want to keep the strollers and other baby paraphernalia in case... in case of what? I don't have any siblings so it's not like I can hand them down to my nieces or nephews. Besides, it appears that people aren't as open to such gifts like they used to be or like I was raised.
It appears to be all about whose kids have the most stuff. Stuff. My kids have lots of toys although perhaps nowhere near what their peers have, and they still only play with certain favourites. They play with the same toys all the time cleverly reinventing how they play with them. Stuff.
Feed the hole.

It's hazy and breezy and hopefully we'll have a thunderstorm.
I'm in a strange place today. I'm really missing my auntie. I wish I could phone her and talk about things. The little things that I'm so afraid I'm going to forget because she isn't around to talk about them with me.
Our littlest is turning 4 tomorrow. Oh how I wish my dad, auntie and my uncle were still around so they can see what a wonderful family I have!
I'm feeling cautiously optimistic today regarding an important meeting tomorrow, as well regarding a job I really want. I am totally qualified for it but I need to wait until the next hiring round. I'm hoping it will be this month.
I have been keeping very busy decluttering our home of all the things our girls have outgrown, as well as all the things we need no longer need. It is a monstrous job but I'm doing it in little bites so I don't burn out, or worse, get so skeeved I toss everything in the trash. It's funny how for the longest time I thought I was going to keep all the baby clothes and that I thought I would want to keep the strollers and other baby paraphernalia in case... in case of what? I don't have any siblings so it's not like I can hand them down to my nieces or nephews. Besides, it appears that people aren't as open to such gifts like they used to be or like I was raised.
It appears to be all about whose kids have the most stuff. Stuff. My kids have lots of toys although perhaps nowhere near what their peers have, and they still only play with certain favourites. They play with the same toys all the time cleverly reinventing how they play with them. Stuff.
Feed the hole.
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007
More nice work by vinceismyname.
Best Sopranos tribute you'll ever see. This video is on the crimes commited by Tony's organization in New Jersey and by himself. Also serves as a good retrospective for the 6 seasons before the grand series finale. Contains scenes of violence. Footage is DVD quality and not from a TV Rip.
The name of the song is written in the credits.
The name of the song is written in the credits.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
my papa, a man of few words, discusses his meeting with the light and how they sent him back. keeplifewild
Of course the conversation devolves and goes on a tangent or two which is very characteristic of Italian storytelling.
I'm loving this family, I wished I had videotaped my family before they passed away.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
The Sopranos Malapropisms
The mobsters in the series are depicted as tough, savvy, and street-smart but lacking education and common sense. The characters are frequently oblivious to the humorous usage of their language and ignorance. The show's many malapropisms are often a source of humor for the viewers.[1]
Paulie pronounces "Mayhem" as "Mayham" in the third episode of season six,[5] giving the episode its title.
When New York mob boss Carmine Lupertazzi makes his first appearance in the third episode of Season 3 (Episode 29), "Fortunate Son," he reassures Tony that seeing a therapist is nothing to be ashamed of: "There's no stigmata."
His son, Little Carmine, is also given to malapropisms, saying of his movie-producing in "Cold Stones" that "I have nine pictures under my sub-species" and explaining the final scene in Cleaver as a mix of "the sacred and the propane" ("Stage 5").
In the second episode of season one, Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri laments to "Big Pussy" that Americans are stealing Italian culture and making money as a result (pizza, calzones, etc. are cited as examples). Paulie also cites "Expresso" (emphasis on "X") coffee as something stolen by Americans from Italian culture and sold in the mainstream for profit; the coffee is actually spelled and pronounced "Espresso".
In the first episode of Season 4, Episode 40, "For All Debts Public and Private," Bobby Baccalieri drew the ire of Tony while discussing world events and biblical prophecy by erroneously stating that "Quasimodo predicted all of this." Tony then corrected him by saying that he meant Nostradamus and that Quasimodo was the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Tony has had several instances of misused language. He mentions his uncle's "cathode" when referring to a catheter in the eleventh episode of Season 2, Episode 24, "House Arrest." In season four, he attributes a quote of Rodney King, "Why can't we all just get along?", to "the Reverend Rodney King Jr." Tony apparently inherited this trait from his father, Johnny Soprano, who in Season 1 episode 7, "Down Neck", told his wife, Livia, she was an "albacore around his neck." In Season 6, Episode 16, "Chasing It" he talks about "Vito's passing and all that entrails."
Key plot lines of the show highlight the characters ineptitude and frequent misunderstandings of history and common knowledge. When Paulie mentions what he thinks caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and a lady diner queries, "Wasn't that a meteor?", Paulie dismissively replies "they're all meat-eaters".
When Tony Blundetto becomes involved in a business dealing with a Korean, Paulie reminds him to "remember Pearl Harbor".
Much of the episode "Pine Barrens" was devoted to the failings of Paulie and Christopher as they attempted to survive a single day and night in a snowy wilderness after a botched execution. In this episode, Tony tells them to be careful with the subject of their execution as he once allegedly killed 16 Chechen rebels and was part of the Russian Interior Ministry. When Paulie later repeats this claim, he says that the subject killed 16 Czechoslovakians and was an interior decorator.
Earlier in the same episode Christopher shows his bad knowledge of history when he talks about Russians with Paulie. In the pilot, Christopher explains his understanding that Polish people are from Czechoslovakia.
He believes his girlfriend has two uteri in the seventh episode of Season 4, Episode 46, "Watching Too Much Television" and, in Episode 82, "Walk Like a Man," moments before he shoots J. T. Dolan, Christopher mis-repeats Tony's comment that he's ostracizing himself from the other mobsters by not drinking and asks Dolan, "Why are you ostrafrying me?"
In Season 6, episode 6, Tony talks to Melfi about homosexuality, misquoting (and mangling the name of) then-Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum saying "I agree with that Senator Sanitorium. He says if we let this stuff go too far, pretty soon we'll be fucking dogs." [6]
Tony often repeats things that Dr. Melfi says to him elsewhere, only to get the phrase entirely wrong or completely miss the point. When Melfi told him that his relationship with Gloria can be described as "Amour Fou" ("crazy love"), Tony later repeats the phrase to Gloria, describing their affair as "Our Mofo".
In the tenth episode of the fifth season, "Cold Cuts," Tony says "revenge is like serving cold cuts" only to be corrected by Dr. Melfi saying, "Revenge is a dish best served cold".
In "Commendatori" Paulie travels to Italy and attempts to blend in with the locals, but does not realize that he is repeatedly being mocked.
On another occasion Tony remarks to Dr. Melfi that he has read a book she recommended, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, but that many of his compatriots have read Prince Matchabelli, a malapropism that simultaneously alludes to a perfume and the book The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli.[episode needed]
Little Carmine, too, often muddles metaphors, as in "The Second Coming," when he tells Tony, "You're at the precipice of an enormous crossroad." Some characters, however, are portrayed as well spoken in contrast. For instance, Johnny Sack almost never used malapropisms.[7]
The mobsters in the series are depicted as tough, savvy, and street-smart but lacking education and common sense. The characters are frequently oblivious to the humorous usage of their language and ignorance. The show's many malapropisms are often a source of humor for the viewers.[1]
Paulie pronounces "Mayhem" as "Mayham" in the third episode of season six,[5] giving the episode its title.
When New York mob boss Carmine Lupertazzi makes his first appearance in the third episode of Season 3 (Episode 29), "Fortunate Son," he reassures Tony that seeing a therapist is nothing to be ashamed of: "There's no stigmata."
His son, Little Carmine, is also given to malapropisms, saying of his movie-producing in "Cold Stones" that "I have nine pictures under my sub-species" and explaining the final scene in Cleaver as a mix of "the sacred and the propane" ("Stage 5").
In the second episode of season one, Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri laments to "Big Pussy" that Americans are stealing Italian culture and making money as a result (pizza, calzones, etc. are cited as examples). Paulie also cites "Expresso" (emphasis on "X") coffee as something stolen by Americans from Italian culture and sold in the mainstream for profit; the coffee is actually spelled and pronounced "Espresso".
In the first episode of Season 4, Episode 40, "For All Debts Public and Private," Bobby Baccalieri drew the ire of Tony while discussing world events and biblical prophecy by erroneously stating that "Quasimodo predicted all of this." Tony then corrected him by saying that he meant Nostradamus and that Quasimodo was the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Tony has had several instances of misused language. He mentions his uncle's "cathode" when referring to a catheter in the eleventh episode of Season 2, Episode 24, "House Arrest." In season four, he attributes a quote of Rodney King, "Why can't we all just get along?", to "the Reverend Rodney King Jr." Tony apparently inherited this trait from his father, Johnny Soprano, who in Season 1 episode 7, "Down Neck", told his wife, Livia, she was an "albacore around his neck." In Season 6, Episode 16, "Chasing It" he talks about "Vito's passing and all that entrails."
Key plot lines of the show highlight the characters ineptitude and frequent misunderstandings of history and common knowledge. When Paulie mentions what he thinks caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and a lady diner queries, "Wasn't that a meteor?", Paulie dismissively replies "they're all meat-eaters".
When Tony Blundetto becomes involved in a business dealing with a Korean, Paulie reminds him to "remember Pearl Harbor".
Much of the episode "Pine Barrens" was devoted to the failings of Paulie and Christopher as they attempted to survive a single day and night in a snowy wilderness after a botched execution. In this episode, Tony tells them to be careful with the subject of their execution as he once allegedly killed 16 Chechen rebels and was part of the Russian Interior Ministry. When Paulie later repeats this claim, he says that the subject killed 16 Czechoslovakians and was an interior decorator.
Earlier in the same episode Christopher shows his bad knowledge of history when he talks about Russians with Paulie. In the pilot, Christopher explains his understanding that Polish people are from Czechoslovakia.
He believes his girlfriend has two uteri in the seventh episode of Season 4, Episode 46, "Watching Too Much Television" and, in Episode 82, "Walk Like a Man," moments before he shoots J. T. Dolan, Christopher mis-repeats Tony's comment that he's ostracizing himself from the other mobsters by not drinking and asks Dolan, "Why are you ostrafrying me?"
In Season 6, episode 6, Tony talks to Melfi about homosexuality, misquoting (and mangling the name of) then-Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum saying "I agree with that Senator Sanitorium. He says if we let this stuff go too far, pretty soon we'll be fucking dogs." [6]
Tony often repeats things that Dr. Melfi says to him elsewhere, only to get the phrase entirely wrong or completely miss the point. When Melfi told him that his relationship with Gloria can be described as "Amour Fou" ("crazy love"), Tony later repeats the phrase to Gloria, describing their affair as "Our Mofo".
In the tenth episode of the fifth season, "Cold Cuts," Tony says "revenge is like serving cold cuts" only to be corrected by Dr. Melfi saying, "Revenge is a dish best served cold".
In "Commendatori" Paulie travels to Italy and attempts to blend in with the locals, but does not realize that he is repeatedly being mocked.
On another occasion Tony remarks to Dr. Melfi that he has read a book she recommended, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, but that many of his compatriots have read Prince Matchabelli, a malapropism that simultaneously alludes to a perfume and the book The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli.[episode needed]
Little Carmine, too, often muddles metaphors, as in "The Second Coming," when he tells Tony, "You're at the precipice of an enormous crossroad." Some characters, however, are portrayed as well spoken in contrast. For instance, Johnny Sack almost never used malapropisms.[7]
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