Posts tagged ‘shelly’

Some years ago when I was a vendor on the small Renaissance Faire circuit here in our tri-state area of California, Nevada and Arizona, we were doing an event in Corona, California called the Koronenburg Festival, held at the Crossroads Riverview Park. We had been doing events with Crossroads for awhile, but this particular event was only in its second year at the new permanent site in Corona. A couple of good friends of mine, Cyndi and Darren, vendors of wonderful magickal and mystical items as well as some East Indian resale goods, had a booth next to my stained and leaded glass set-up, where I sold and demonstrated the creation of a wide range of stained glass items.
At set-up, the day before the festival opened we were given our vendor packages which included a hand drawn map of the festival grounds. It was a simple, if nicely done black and white drawing and as the promoter handed them to Cyn and I he said sheepishly, “I’m so sorry. I couldn’t remember the name of your shop when I was drawing this up and had to rush it to the printers” as he pointed at a corner of the drawing. I looked and saw “A Hartjoy Design”, the name of my shop, clearly printed in the space that designated my spot, but beyond my place, where Cyn’s should have been, there was only an empty square with the words “more fun” and an arrow pointing in the direction of her booth.
Cyndi, a good natured gal just smiled and told Tom not to worry about it. We laughed a lot about it throughout the event. It was pretty funny, because Cyn actually was more fun. That girl could have fun doing anything and we all had fun with her.
Well, until it came time to pack up and go home for the weekend. I tend to lose some of my good humor after a weekend on my feet, working hard in 90 degree and up heat, without a shower. When the gates closed I was ready to get the hell outta there and home to a nice hot bath and my extra firm king size bed. But before that can happen all of the glass that didn’t sell had to be carefully packed and loaded onto the truck along with the myriad ice chests and dirty clothes and bedding and myriad stuffs that I just couldn’t live without for the weekend.
So come time to pack up, yer Thornie got pretty serious… focused, I like to think.
Cyn, on the other hand, managed to keep being silly and playful and I had to face it, more fun.
I’ve been a bit less than exciting, silly, fun or anything else for some time now. Winter doldrums, life crap, whatever. But I have this neighbor… you have simply got to check out what Shelly has been doing over at This Eclectic Life. Her Bare Nekkid Ladies are definitely “more fun“!

Okay, I can’t help it. Shelly, over at This Eclectic Life posted this for her Only The Good Friday meme. I have a bit of personal good to post, and I’ll get to it in a minute, but this video made my night, so I simply have to post it here. The Righteous Mothers. Yeah. These women RAWK!
And unlike our modest Shelly, I WILL join them in solidarity! (Yeah, yeah… any excuse to get naked. LOL)

So, it may anticlimactic after that, but I have a couple things for OtGF. First though, let’s talk about this wonderful woman Shelly, and the concept for Only The Good Friday. Shelly says:

We are living in some pretty negative times, aren’t we? You can’t pick up a newspaper or turn on the television without hearing more bad news about the economy, the war, the stock market, the political candidates. I think that many of us are living in a state of fear (though I’m in the state of Texas).

Fear feeds upon itself. It’s like a contagious virus. I’m tired of adding to it. I want to start another kind of “virus.”

You see, I think that optimism can be contagious, too. If we consciously try to look at the good in the world around us, it will become easier to see.

I really like this idea. Any of you regulars who have peeked in on Thorne’s World once in awhile over the last year know that between my political activism and blogging, and some pretty heavy personal life stuff, I kinda crashed. Well; no “kinda” about it. The world and life pretty much kicked my ass into a sever depression that I have been trying to pull out of for the last several months. It’s rough for me once I hit the blog, because I seem to have gotten caught up in everything that’s wrong, and when I check in online I still see so much that outrages or upsets me that I have a bit of a hard time keeping to my resolve to try to stay a little calm and happy and out of the outrage and anger and sadness. Shelly’s meme is so GOOD for me!! No matter what’s going on, on Fridays at least I can say to myself “Turn it around, woman! What can you say-think-write-feel-do today that is good?! Positive! Hopeful!!”
Won’t you join us?? Help spread the good love for Only The Good Friday!

So, here’s a bit of my good.

Thornie got a car!!! Woo Hoo!!! It’s a cute little thing, too! A lil gold Dodge Daytona hatchback with only 54K original miles! It’s in pretty good shape; only one lil doing on the front left quarter panel, runs great, clean interior and it’s mine! yay! I’m mobile again finally!! This is soooo GOOD!!!

More personal good is that I finally hit 20K words tonight for NaNoWriMo! Yay, me! I’ve been running a bit behind and I still am a couple thou down on my word count, but I’m feeling fine and plan to knock out another 2K or so tonight. Have coffee will write!

Another bit of good was left by Aaron, who took the time to comment on my post entitled Labor On, and thanks to a nifty (good) little gadget called Comment Luv, I was led back to his last post entitled Perception is Reality. It’s a really GOOD post. Go check him out.

The last bit of good I have time to post is the absolute best. (I have to get back to writing my novel). Shelly. She is my big GOOD today. She is an incredible writer and storyteller, an humorous and fun blogger, and a beautiful red haired woman, but all these are secondary at best to the simple fact that she is a precious person. She has a huge heart and a bright spirit, and I adore her beyond measure.
Shelly, I love you. Thank you for all you do, for your love and concern and support this past year. Thank you for being you!

And I love it. This time all you non crocheting folks can get in on it and give!! These medicine bags are for Camp Sanguinity kids, just like the granny square afghans last year. I love this idea. Don’t you have a bit of magick layin’ around somewhere?? A drilled penny, a shiny stone, a smooth piece of colored glass? Maybe a feather or a milagro or a pretty button or bead?
Head on over to This Eclectic Life and see what you can do to help. These tiny treasures could make a world of difference to a kid with cancer, or even one of their siblings!