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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #550 on: April 18, 2009, 10:12:38 PM
Yeah, I like general landscaping, and my mom and brother are actually quite good at it, having done professional work even, and then my folks have moved a lot and needed to plant yards from scratch almost every time.  So, I have seen what my mom and brother do, which seriously looks like parks, and I just think ... heh  :-X ... about my yards.  What I would love to grow is a vegetable garden, I just *love* to do that, and then I would like to plant berry bushes, fruit trees, pumpkins and stuff around the yard as part of the landscaping.  I suppose half an hour a day of weeding sounds doable, so long as I can find my gloves !

Yeah, I have my gloves  in a metal bucket with all my other gardening hand tools.  Got it out the other day and then I get in the mood.  Yes, a vegatable garden is nice too.  I plan to do the boxed kind which is smaller and higher than ground level.  I plan to grow patio tomatoes and I do have a strawberry patch that is multiplying each year.  Pumpkins and squashes are easy to grow.  I hope you can grow your garden and enjoy!  :)
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #551 on: April 18, 2009, 10:14:01 PM
This is a great day!   ;D    :)    :D   
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #552 on: April 18, 2009, 11:11:01 PM
My banjo is on my mind next week.

It is going in for a minor operation and i am a little worried.

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #553 on: April 18, 2009, 11:32:49 PM
My banjo is on my mind next week.

It is going in for a minor operation and i am a little worried.

Thal

Hope your operation goes well, Thal, and have a speedy recovery.
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #554 on: April 18, 2009, 11:36:04 PM
Hope your operation goes well, Thal, and have a speedy recovery.

It's not him, it's his banjo, poor thing.

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Reply #555 on: April 18, 2009, 11:42:21 PM
It's not him, it's his banjo, poor thing.

go figure!   ::)   :P   lol
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #556 on: April 19, 2009, 06:07:14 AM


I wonder where musicians fit in here?
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #557 on: April 19, 2009, 07:38:12 AM


I wonder where musicians fit in here?
I wanna see what everyone else thought about it lol

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #558 on: April 19, 2009, 07:51:44 AM


I wonder where musicians fit in here?

The place of the musician would be out of the screen on the right side ;)

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #559 on: April 19, 2009, 09:03:33 PM
Well, I am thinkin' my hands are getting bigger or something ...  :-.  Okay, they just *feel* like they are bigger, but they are getting more flexible ... and can suddenly stretch further.  I can do an 11th with a little help.  I would never play that, but anyway.  Well, in all honesty, I could actually probably do that before.  But, they are seriously feeling different.

Also, I am thinking about my garden, which I have actually started now.  I raked some old brown leaves leftover from the Fall, hubby fixed the sprinklers, I yanked out a dead tree type thingy, trimmed a rose bush, and made some mild progress on weeding one of the beds.  I am thinkin' a garden is actually going to happen this year.  It really just might happen.

I bought myself some new gardening gloves, which are leather.  And, the smell reminds me of my old softball mit and Spring/Summer leagues.  I don't miss that life, but I like the smell and I like the fact that I got to play softball and the other sports that I did.  I like my piano though :).

Also, I am wondering if pincher bugs are at all related to scorpions ?  It seems like they should be.

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Reply #560 on: April 19, 2009, 09:19:08 PM
My mind is on "doctor, doctor, help me to relax please!"  my life is so stressful right now, that I can't seem to focus on anything...... :P    ???     :-[    :-\    :'(    :-X
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Reply #561 on: April 19, 2009, 09:34:41 PM
My mind is on "doctor, doctor, help me to relax please!"  my life is so stressful right now, that I can't seem to focus on anything...... :P    ???     :-[    :-\    :'(    :-X
You seem to be able to focus on writing your posts quite successfully!

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Reply #562 on: April 19, 2009, 09:40:34 PM
I think I am GOing to GO outside for a breath of fresh air and clear up my mind and perhaps again I may focus once again......*sigh*
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #563 on: April 19, 2009, 10:37:49 PM
I am wondering why humanity values so much a world and life revolving around a substance that could theoretically disappear in the twinkling of an eye.  A kind of combustion that is currently unrealized to mankind, but the whole earth and all that it contains gone in an instant.  I am thinking about how the Universe is evolved and maintained by that which we believe is nearly a complete mystery to us, and yet we muck around each day in our own little worlds, thinking we are happy to be the center of it.

I feel like I am somewhere in some other land, in some other galaxy ... peering somehow at earth.

It's not that I don't think our daily lives and that which we build it around has value, I just wonder what the value truly is ?  What does all that we see around us actually represent ?  What is behind the veil ?

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #564 on: April 19, 2009, 11:12:26 PM
Do we really want to know?

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #565 on: April 20, 2009, 03:55:54 AM
Why won't iTunes work?  Why do people think switching into music is a bad idea?  I can retire two years later to makeup for lost time anyway...  ;)  Need to wake up at 8AM tomorrow, something I haven't done in the past two weeks.  I need to learn to manage my time; I'm going to kickboxing tomorrow night even though I have an exam Tuesday morning... why am I not stressed that I have 4 exams this week?  Why was I stressed after getting accepted into music? 

I like to create what-if scenarios, and they pretty much seem almost too real that I freak out.  I imagined not getting into music, after having spent hours practicing for my audition, and failing three midterms which so HORRIBLY happened to the day before my audition.  If I didn't get accepted, I would've literally wasted my time and f'kd up my marks beyond repair.  Thank god I did... maybe that's why I'm not stressed about exams?  They don't influence how I'm going to do next year.  Fresh start I guess   :)

...hmm im going to go get some dill pickle chips right about now...
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #566 on: April 20, 2009, 04:09:42 AM
Right now, I'm just a bit disappointed in some peoples, and I know how hard it is to make a friend at times. ....but it would be nice though...*sigh*  too busy in their lives.
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #567 on: April 20, 2009, 05:12:54 AM
Waiting for my piano exam's result...
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #568 on: April 21, 2009, 12:57:15 AM
healthy, easy food
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #569 on: April 21, 2009, 02:40:00 AM
Oh no....

(Bob has a realization).   Goose is going to die again.  It's coming up.  Happens everytime I see Top Gun.  Buh bye Goose...again...  :-\


Yup... There he goes...  :'(  If only Ice had moved sooner and let Maverick take the shot...


(Bob wonders if they should have worn bicycle helmets, but that wouldn't look very cool.)
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #570 on: April 21, 2009, 02:53:18 AM
I hate it that musicians only talk about technique technique technique and teachers speak of teaching music as if it were citizen army training. Drills drills drills run up and down technique technique technique.

I don't remember the last time I've talked to someone about music.
I don't remember the last time I enjoyed playing.
I want to quit this bunch of lies they call a music course.
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #571 on: April 21, 2009, 03:16:23 AM
rage against the machine.

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Reply #572 on: April 21, 2009, 03:31:14 AM
Do we really want to know?

I think that ultimately we already do know, it's already within us.  And, actually, I think there is not that which is outside of us and then that which is within.  In some respect, I think that when we look to the stars, for example, and somehow glimpse an otherworldy view from somewhere else than earth, that we are actually seeing a reflection of what is within us.  Our perspective though organizes it in a way that sometimes seems to be spacially outside of our reach.

However, I think that who we are scares us as I believe we are individually infinite and eternal.  We look inside of ourselves and there is no bottom, there is no top, there is just space ... and what seems like darkness.  It seems like an abyss.  And so our protectors come in and create floors and cielings to give us some kind of feeling of stability, so we can walk around and function in our daily lives.  I don't think this is bad, and I don't promote that we dive into ourselves head first without one hand on the sword.  But, I do think that we are forced to break the floors and ceilings, whether we would like to or not.

Today I hear geese and frogs, and I like that.  I have now cleared two raised beds and have "tilled" the soil.  I have pulled some major dandelions that have been cluttering the path ... and it seems a garden is truly going to be happening this year.  I am excited, but I find that now I am having a difficult time deciding what to grow and exactly where.  It's a funny thing, now that I am clearing the raised beds, I want to save them from having plants in them, and think about planting veggies everywhere else around the yard... go figure !  It's similar to a time when I had a clean scrub brush to wash the floors and bathtub with, and didn't want to use it because it would get dirty, so I had a dirty one, too, which I used to actually clean things with.

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #573 on: April 21, 2009, 05:59:47 AM
I think that ultimately we already do know, it's already within us.  And, actually, I think there is not that which is outside of us and then that which is within.  In some respect, I think that when we look to the stars, for example, and somehow glimpse an otherworldy view from somewhere else than earth, that we are actually seeing a reflection of what is within us.  Our perspective though organizes it in a way that sometimes seems to be spacially outside of our reach.
I agree

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However, I think that who we are scares us as I believe we are individually infinite and eternal.  We look inside of ourselves and there is no bottom, there is no top, there is just space ... and what seems like darkness.  It seems like an abyss.

What happens to me is that space also disappears "there"

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  And so our protectors come in and create floors and cielings to give us some kind of feeling of stability, so we can walk around and function in our daily lives.  I don't think this is bad, and I don't promote that we dive into ourselves head first without one hand on the sword.

I see, I sometimes tend to forget that sword...it's one of light I guess...

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  But, I do think that we are forced to break the floors and ceilings, whether we would like to or not.

Well I don't agree about the being forced thing, but I think I get what you mean.

Yeah what is on my mind now, I sometimes seem to meet you at this "place", so there is actually no more abyss because you are there...Anyway I am not anymore scared of this abyss though, what still scares me sometimes are some of the people on earth...

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Reply #574 on: April 21, 2009, 11:13:27 AM
Most of the people on this earth  travel on their own path where ever it may lead them.  Yes, I may seem somewhat philosophical now.  People may try to reach out and help, but would their *intentions* be sincere or flawed in some way?  And also, with this being the Internet, what consistutes a *friend* anyhow.  Yes, indeed, that is what is on my mind now......hum...
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #575 on: April 21, 2009, 03:32:51 PM
whether or not I should buy this book for my cuz.

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Reply #576 on: April 21, 2009, 07:44:28 PM
Most of the people on this earth  travel on their own path where ever it may lead them.  Yes, I may seem somewhat philosophical now.  People may try to reach out and help, but would their *intentions* be sincere or flawed in some way?  And also, with this being the Internet, what consistutes a *friend* anyhow.  Yes, indeed, that is what is on my mind now......hum...

If I am on my path and it is truly my path it's the best I can do, for myself and for others. Difficulties occur only if I leave my path. There is a profound confidence in me that my path, if it's really and honestly, truly my path, will go well together with other people's paths and we will agree sometime in the same intentions.

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Reply #577 on: April 21, 2009, 10:32:24 PM
(Bob is thinking that pirate looks nothing like Johnny Depp or any of the others in the Caribean movies.)
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #578 on: April 24, 2009, 02:54:42 PM
Well I don't agree about the being forced thing, but I think I get what you mean.

Well, if nothing else, we are each forced by some means to come to grips with the concept of mortality and finiteness, and conversely then, with the concept of life, eternity, and infinity.  It is perhaps the greatest "math" problem of our time here really, and we must ultimately work it out within our own beings individually, but we are asked to more or less "show our work" as we go along ... hee hee.

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #579 on: April 25, 2009, 03:29:56 PM
My stomach hurts ugh.  :(
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #580 on: April 26, 2009, 01:15:54 AM
Second shift at work tomorrow, 5am start. Can't believe it took 5 months to get a casual job...bloody hell.

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #581 on: April 26, 2009, 08:24:17 AM
I think I need a break from piano.

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Reply #582 on: April 26, 2009, 10:58:01 AM
History repeats itself. Nothing has changed, and probably nothing will.
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Reply #583 on: April 26, 2009, 02:17:52 PM
H1n1... Pig Flu. I wonder can my country stands against it..  :'( I'm really worry if something bad happen... National exam is tomorrow.
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Reply #584 on: April 26, 2009, 03:28:33 PM
I think I need a break from piano.

I never expected to hear that from you old chap.

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Reply #585 on: April 26, 2009, 04:45:31 PM
I never expected to hear that from you old chap.

Thal

I'm mentally exhausted and have no desire to play. I rather go on some bike rides for a while until I feel better in shape and the desire to play returns.

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Reply #586 on: April 26, 2009, 05:01:51 PM
Bloody good idea.

I have always found that physical exhaustion is a good cure for mental exhaustion.

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Reply #587 on: April 26, 2009, 05:08:53 PM
Bloody good idea.

I have always found that physical exhaustion is a good cure for mental exhaustion.

Thal

Yeah you're absolutely right :)

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Reply #588 on: April 26, 2009, 05:14:36 PM
It is easy for me Wolfi. 50 miles and i am knackered.

I expect you need a fair bit more.

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Reply #589 on: April 26, 2009, 05:25:42 PM
It is easy for me Wolfi. 50 miles and i am knackered.

I expect you need a fair bit more.

Thal

Now not yet, since I have been rather "inwards" for quite a while, but perhaps next weekend I might need more, or the weekend after. And in the summer I will go to ride passes in the Alps  8)

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Reply #590 on: April 26, 2009, 07:42:10 PM
Go is contemplating on joining a lonely hearts club band, and sojourn around the country.....
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Reply #591 on: April 26, 2009, 09:44:48 PM
Swine flu.
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Reply #592 on: April 27, 2009, 04:36:46 PM
I actually really DO love the piano forum, and its inhabitants !!!  I know I am not the easiest individual, but I am *so* glad this place exists, and that it existed at the time I found it ... and, I am SO grateful to the individuals who have helped me here and beyond, and to those whom have been my friend !!!!  Everything else is super stupid, the piano forum and the individuals here are super great ... hee hee  ;D

Thank you !!!!

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Reply #593 on: April 27, 2009, 04:52:17 PM
I know I am not the easiest individual

There are a lot worse on here.

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Reply #594 on: April 27, 2009, 07:19:18 PM
I actually really DO love the piano forum, and its inhabitants !!!  I know I am not the easiest individual, but I am *so* glad this place exists, and that it existed at the time I found it ... and, I am SO grateful to the individuals who have helped me here and beyond, and to those whom have been my friend !!!!  Everything else is super stupid, the piano forum and the individuals here are super great ... hee hee  ;D

Thank you !!!!

Thank you, K :)

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Reply #595 on: April 27, 2009, 08:40:18 PM
Go plays her violin, and plays the adagio pieces that she knows as she releases all her feelings in those pieces as the sounds of her violin fills the air.......
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Reply #596 on: April 27, 2009, 08:52:39 PM
I actually really DO love the piano forum, and its inhabitants !!!  I know I am not the easiest individual, but I am *so* glad this place exists, and that it existed at the time I found it ... and, I am SO grateful to the individuals who have helped me here and beyond, and to those whom have been my friend !!!!  Everything else is super stupid, the piano forum and the individuals here are super great ... hee hee  ;D

Thank you !!!!

What she said.
Thanks everyone.  :-*
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Reply #597 on: April 28, 2009, 01:26:55 PM
Trauma center, under the knife!!! How to treat the destroy the Triti?! Rarr!!!
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Reply #599 on: April 30, 2009, 12:46:56 AM
I wonder what Holst would think if he knew Jupiter was being used to sell candy.
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