http://www.pleonast.com/user/psemmusa recent pleonast.com entries by user psemmusa en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/psemmusa?l=5&entryID=593988 "For all the saints, who from their labours rest, who thee by faith before the world confessed, thy Name, O Jesus, be forever blessed. Alleluia, Alleluia!" I love this hymn. How are all you saints in potentia this weekend? The first weekend of November, the last weekend of the interminably long campaign, Deo volens! Thank you for your comments :) Mum & I had a great trip to the USA to see family and friends: New Jersey (side trip to Manhattan), North Carolina, South Carolina, back to North Carolina changed planes in Atlanta, California, Nevada and back to California. I give thanks for this modern world of high speed travel and communications. While I thank God regularly for the internet (particularly Kennon and pleonast), if some time has elapsed, I treasure restocking one's heart and memories by visiting people "IRL". The just over two weeks' absence was not enough time for the neighbours' kitty, Lara the Nom Monster, to forget me, or rather, my ass... 2008-11-01 http://www.pleonast.com/user/psemmusa?l=5&entryID=583459 No, your eyes have not deceived you, this is indeed a new (although fairly paltry) post from Elainie. Thank you, everyone, for your comments (especially the lolcat piccies :). One of these days I do hope to address each of them in turn, or perhaps that's my OCD tendencies talking. The UK didn't really have a summer this year, but the floods weren't as bad as last year, so for that relief many thanks. I do have asteroid hyalosis in my right eye, but the diagnosis sounds worse than the actual tiny speckles (motes) in my vision field. Given the health problems many endure, little soapy fat globules / crystals in the viterous humours is hardly anything about which to blog, so moving on.... Some stuff was disposed of from my parents' house. The garage is more accessible now. However, most of my stuff from Birmingham is still up in the roof space. A project for next year, I think. Why wait for another 3 months? I'm using 10 days' holiday as of Monday visiting friends & family ... 2008-10-04 http://www.pleonast.com/user/psemmusa?l=5&entryID=531873 Happy Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend for people in England; and a very Happy Wedding for Kennon and Chris in Germany, and all their family and friends, both those who are there with them, and those who are elsewhere. I'm going to be away from my computer until Wednesday 28 May, hence the post. Nothing exciting. Will be catching both Indy and the Sex and the City films. I have a follow up appointment with the Eye Clinic of Ipswich Hospital on Wednesday, so that they confirm or refute their original diagnosis of suspected asteroid hyalosis in my right eye. Major activity between now and then is working on my parents' garage and disposing of the mounds of accumulated detritus we have moved from house to house over the last decade or so. A mini skip (dumpster) has been hired. I'm not looking forward to it, as I'm a hoarder and far too attached to material things. My possessions own me. So this process will be good for me, even though it will feel like death during. Yes, that is a ... 2008-05-24 http://www.pleonast.com/user/psemmusa?l=5&entryID=528288 Thank you everyone for your comments on my previous entry, especially the birthday wishes :) Portmeirion was brilliant, and I highly recommend it to anyone including Wales in a trip to the UK. The weekend before (26/27 April), we went to see Jersey Boys in London. The performances were great, the staging was stunning and the story was well told. It was my first jukebox musical, and I thought it showcased the music of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons very well. So far 35 is not too bad. I enjoyed being 34, but 10 days in, and 35 is ok at the moment, even if it means I can no longer get away with describing myself as "early 30s". No, 35 means mid 30s, fer shure, fer real *sigh*. England is enjoying a lovely May, so much so I almost feel guilty about the conditions elsewhere: tornadoes in the USA, the cyclone in Burma and now the earthquake in China. I'm in the middle of drafting a letter to my spiritual director as was, back in Birmingham. Although through the gra... 2008-05-14 http://www.pleonast.com/user/psemmusa?l=5&entryID=511508 Google (EDITED - or rather, "Virgle" ;) thinks I'm "distressingly normal" :( "Well, you're distressingly normal and could conceivably adjust to life as a deep space pioneer, though we recommend instead that you leave the Mars missions to the serious whack jobs who scored over 130 and instead finish year 3 of law school, tuck your toddler into bed, design Web 2.0 applications, run for Congress or do whatever other normal, healthy, middle-of-the-road thing you're currently doing with your normal, healthy, middle-of-the-road life." Google just doesn't know me at all. I'm not sure if that's my fault, given the answers I selected, or their fault. I thought they knew everything by now. The realisation that there are gaps in Google's omniscience (which we kinda already knew from our Google testing of Pleo's privacy, Kennon rules :) disturbs me a little, but only a little. I love the Google announcements at this time of year :D 2008-04-01 http://www.pleonast.com/user/psemmusa?l=5&entryID=509937 "The peace of all things is the tranquility of order.". I encountered this quote earlier today in BBC Radio 4's Prayer for the Day, which this week is given by Tina Beattie. She used it in the context of living simply, so that others might simply live. I must admit I haven't yet read St. Augustine's "City of God". I'm still working through his Confessions. I liked this quote when I heard it this morning, and also when i read the transcript. I then decided to go check the context in which St. Augustine had used it. It is the 10th in a series of descriptions of different types of peace. St. Augustine then follows it with "Order is the distribution which allots things equal and unequal, each to its own place.". Again, I can agree with that. I think that statement could be applied to many areas of life; for me, it has most resonance with things domestic (I really need to investigate Flylady more closely, and finish Kim & Aggie's book, How Clean i... 2008-03-28 http://www.pleonast.com/user/psemmusa?l=5&entryID=498797 Apologies again for not acknowledging all your wonderful comments yet. Thank you everybody. My new post is really because I love Peni-Jean's multiple icanhascheezburger NOM NOM NOM images so much. This post is therefore a place for new comments. Also, Happy Leap Year's Day :) No, I haven't asked anyone to marry me. I have filed my divorce petition two weeks ago though. Bury St Edmunds County Court has already assigned a case number and forwarded the petition to my hubby. Hubby has returned his acknowledgement of service, so I'm waiting now for the Court to send a copy to me. Lots more paperwork still to do.... Doing overtime tonight & tomorrow, 50 people are moving at work, so we're dismantling their IT kit tonight & then reassembling it tomorrow. Mum & Dad are then swooping in to collect me so that we can all go up to Hull for Mothering Sunday. Half of the ashes of Mum's parents are in my maternal grandmother's family plot in Hull, the other half are in New Jer... 2008-02-29 http://www.pleonast.com/user/psemmusa?l=5&entryID=470711 Sort of, anyway. Six words thereof. Blame Kennon; this is his game. Or Hemingway, at least. Deep breath. Actual real post will follow later. For a given value of later.... Favour must ask, please to all. Harnessing power of Pleo group mind. As Kennon has done on occasions. _______________________________________________ Favour is, now that I've shaken the six word thing briefly, I'm trying to trace the source of a poem on behalf of my father, for sermon purposes. The poem has been used by several other people in their sermons, and all the links we've found attribute it to someone called "Louise Teisberg". Part of its first line (which may also be its title) is "When Jesus called that Christmas week". An alternative title may be "What is your Christmas Gift for Jesus?". I've tried Google, Ask.com, Altavista, Yahoo, Lycos, About.com, Wikipedia, Snopes, without success so far. I've now also posted a question on Yahoo! Answers (dandelion_peglee... 2007-12-18 http://www.pleonast.com/user/psemmusa?l=5&entryID=378639 * wipes sweat from brow * Various things have been mulling around waiting for transfiguration into a post. Working half a day today, catching Spidey 3 this afternoon, and my home laptop is deciding to go on strike. In other words, a real post is still a-coming, many apologies. Until then, please take care of yourselves :) 2007-05-04