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Lady Iren
- Gender: Female
- Location: Palmdale CA US
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GREEN WOMAN
Little ways I'm helping the environment:
- Feeding the backyard rose bush the dirty water from the fish bowl
- Saving old batteries and light bulbs for safe disposal
- Recycling soda and water bottles (it helps pay for holiday gifts!)
- Fabulous stand-up reusable grocery bags (see favorite sites)
- Using the envelopes from incoming mail (both used and the return mail enclosures) for writing grocery lists (I put my budgeted grocery money and coupons inside for easy checkout)
- Using ProQuo.com to stop getting junk mail
MUSIC
Check me out on this Gothic Records title!
The Beatles
The Trogs
Fleetwood Mac
Simon and Garfunkel
Roy Orbison
America
Bach
Vaughan Williams
Classical Instrumental
Cambridge Singers
Chanticleer
Anonymous 4
WORTH WATCHING
Battlestar Galactica (SciFi)
How Clean is Your House? (BBC America)
The Graham Norton Show (BBC America)
Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC)
The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
The Colbert Report (Comedy Central)
Ghost Hunters (SciFi)
Top Chef (Bravo)
Gardening by the Yard (HGTV)
The History Channel
Anything on Archaeology
NOW SHOWING
A Room with a View
9-1/2 Weeks
Gosford Park
Pride & Prejudice (A&E/BBC version)
Cold Comfort Farm
From Hell
Restoration
Fargo
Love Actually
Pirates of the Caribbean: Black Pearl
The Count of Monte Cristo (PBS miniseries)
Babette's Feast
Like Water for Chocolate
Just a thought...
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. (Sinclair Lewis)
ABOUT ME
A native Californian, I live in the high desert north of Los Angeles with a dog, a cat, a betta fish and four finches. I work as an office manager in real life, and as a professional singer on the side, currently as alto soloist/section leader for an Episcopal church choir in the foothill area.
After a lifetime in Christianity, I have become an atheist and am now exploring an eclectic version of the Wiccan religion. I'm convinced that witchcraft, like prayer or any religious observance, works as a direct result of the belief of the practitioner. Whether psychological or energy-based, humans can utilize the forces of the universe to bring about change in our own lives and the lives of those we come in contact with.
My interests lie in home arts (cooking, gardening, entertaining -- none of which I have enough time for), reading, watching liberal political television and historical/educational t.v., and writing. I am learning to meditate (which comes in handy on the commuter bus!) and planning to build a spiral labyrinth in my back garden over the next few months.
I have a passion for British murder mysteries (Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers and P.D. James!) and cozy books, James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell novels, and the Dean Koontz Odd Thomas series (although I was quite disappointed in the latest one). Harry Potter ranks high on my list of favorite reads, as do a number of books I loved as a child that I return to every now and again.
I also love playing Text Twist and Mahjongg Solitaire!
Looking forward to my "crone" years... but not there yet!
BLOG, BLOG, BLOG
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It's All One
12/30/08 09:07:49 | 0 Comments
I grew up in a Christian denomination that is, in its finer forms, very liberal and open. Although I was very devout for most of my life, when I stopped believing it was not difficult -- I had been drawing away for quite a while. But because I know that world so thoroughly, I still have a job as a paid singer in a church choir. The minister there knows that I am not a believer, and we e-mail back and forth a lot on political issues, or I send him stuff I come across, like an archeological... -
SEAGULLS AND RAVENS
12/08/08 12:37:39 | 0 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, as I was driving home from the Valley on a Sunday afternoon, I wondered when the seagulls would come. You see, every winter, flocks of seagulls invade the high desert of Southern California, much the same way folks from Canada, Minnesota and Michigan hitch up their RVs and head for Arizona. They winter where the weather is milder, although Palmdale is definitely colder than the greater Los Angeles area from November to April.
I left the freeway and travelled... -
TURNING THE PAGE
11/05/08 15:27:49 | 0 Comments
Today is 5 November 2008, and I am happy.
More than happy. I'm ecstatic. Last night, along with so much of America, I was watching history as it was being made. I watched as hundreds of thousands of people--black, white, brown--tried to take in the enormity of what we, as a nation, had just done. Together, we had elected not only the right person for the job of President of the United States, but we had elected the first African American to hold the position.
I... -
"SATANIC" HALLOWEEN
10/29/08 10:00:25 | 0 Comments
I love Halloween.
Long before I started looking at earth-based religion, I enjoyed the whole Trick or Treat experience -- getting dressed up, walking around in the dark, never...
HMMMM....
So much for that "founded as a Christian Nation" theory...
EVENTS
WITCH'S KITCHEN
Mom's "Norwegian" Apple Pie
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Beat in a large bowl
1 Egg
In a separate bowl, sift together
¾ Cup Sugar
1/2 Cup Flour
1-1/4 tsps Baking Powder
¼ tsp Salt
Add flour mixture to beaten egg; blend and mix in
1 tsp Vanilla
In a separate bowl, combine
1/2 Cup chopped Nuts
1 Cup pared, diced Apples (MacIntosh apples work well)
Add apples and nuts to egg mixture and mix well. Spread in a greased pie pan (glass works better than metal as metal pans can burn pie on the bottom). Bake 20 minutes at 350 degrees, then turn up temperature to 375 degrees and bake another 10 minutes until golden brown. Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream; best when hot!
Note: this recipe makes a small pie; double for large pie plates (such as 9½ inch). Can be baked in individual custard cups or other small glass containers - just watch the baking time.
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