/blog/Ari_fairy/?pid=p9814 [center][bg width=775 height=100 border=8 bgcolor=##AFEEE" bordercolor=#gray" cellpadding=8][center][bg width=100% height=100% border=0 bgcolor=#gray" cellpadding=8][center][bg width=100% height=100% border=0 bgcolor=#pink cellpadding=7][center][bg width=100% height=100% border=0 bgcolor=##AFEEE" cellpadding=7][center][bg width=100% height=100% border=0 bgcolor=#ccccc cellpadding=6][center][bg width=100% height=100% border=0 bgcolor=#dddddd cellpadding=6][center][bg width=100% height=100% border=0 bgcolor=##EE799F cellpadding=5][center][bg width=100% height=100% border=3 bgcolor="#gray" bordercolor=black cellpadding=5][SIZE 2][B][center][bg bgcolor="#pink"][center][size 3][color white][u][b][font face=georgia] Welcome to Ari-Wood. Step right up and see the sights. To your left, you will see the delicate fragility of fairy land. On the right, watch out for the fiery dragons. For your safety, we recommend you stay on the path and don't stray into the netherworlds of risk and chance. Alternatively, perhaps you like the benefits that go along with taking that chance..........All rights to the poetry and stories in Ari-Woodbelong exclusively to the author.That which is not mine,That which is not good,That which is not altruistic....Is requested to leave.[/size][/color][/b][/u][/center][/center]******[center][image][image][image][image][image][size 5][b][color white]The stories and poems encased in this crystal blog are written from my own imagination and in no way are intended to be viewed as written to any specific person unless I specifically state that it is.[/font][/bg][/b][/color][/size][color white][b][i]My heart is a book which you leaf through as simply as the pages of this blog..[/i] [color white][size 1]Antiqued an wornThe words bleedFrom a hidden placeDeep within my chaptersWhere only one can seeAnd whispering spirits tarryFrayed are my edgesYet my glidingRemains beautifulNot a mere ornamentBut a testament to the toolingWhich has geared my lifeSown tightly is my bindingI have weathered the yearsI shine with wisdom an characterLike no other bookYet my cover bares the marksOf ordinary useTurn my pages lightlyAnd you shall readMy hued memoriesOf dreams and dreaminessOf times and timelessnessOf lives and livelinessUpon my inner pagesAre scribbledAchromatic dreamsMy loveMy hopesMy life[/color] [size 1]You are such a treasured bookAll my love, Sister of my heart(Written by a special sister of my heart...MsAlchemy2...a special gift...I wanted to share.)[/size][/i][/size][/color][/color][/color][center][/B][/SIZE][/bg][/center][/bg][/bg][/center][/bg][/center][/bg][/center][/bg][/bg][/center][/bg] /blog/3930/post_139318.html?pid=p9814&m= Done!!! Yeah! I am now officially an Accountant...with a degree!! I waited a very long time for this....27 years from beginning to end, but it was so totally worth it.Now to find out what life has Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:10:24 -0800 /blog/3930/post_139318.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_139298.html?pid=p9814&m= I have so many thoughts running through my head, but none stand still long enough to put them down on paper. Exhausted doesn't begin to describe how I feel. Days and nights of endless writing un Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:22:47 -0800 /blog/3930/post_139298.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_139206.html?pid=p9814&m= Do you remember...a different day, a different time...when life was simpler? Or is that only a place in my mind? I used to walk fields picking wildflowers, ride crazily over hills...hair flowing beh Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:31:30 -0800 /blog/3930/post_139206.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_139123.html?pid=p9814&m= 1 down...one last paper to write on Marketing and I am done. This paper changed in parameter in the past week so it's going to be a bit interesting. It's been a lot of work but I've lear Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:55:06 -0800 /blog/3930/post_139123.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_139089.html?pid=p9814&m= If you kiss the corner of my lips...can you taste the essence of my soul? Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:31:16 -0800 /blog/3930/post_139089.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_139078.html?pid=p9814&m= Let me slumber Through the nightWrapped in armsThat hold me tightAs I whisperDeep in sleep"Bring the heartThat I may keep."Let me neverFeel you leaveOnly let my Heart believeThat togetherWe Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:53:58 -0800 /blog/3930/post_139078.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_139051.html?pid=p9814&m= Merry Christmas everyone!! ^:- May you all have hearts filled with love wrapped around you. ^:- And may the spirit be with you...for all the meanings of the day.^:-Be blessed...be loved...be at peace. Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:02:08 -0800 /blog/3930/post_139051.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_139050.html?pid=p9814&m= Tonight I am cold and empty and I don't know myself. I rarely feel loneliness rage within me and yet...I am so lonely and lost. I wonder how so many others spend this night...alone, without feel Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:00:03 -0800 /blog/3930/post_139050.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_139005.html?pid=p9814&m= One down, two to go. Finished my Capstone project yesterday...it's supposed to be the culmination of all I've learned, a business plan. It actually wasn't too bad although I worked throu Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:56:23 -0800 /blog/3930/post_139005.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_138981.html?pid=p9814&m= It's been a long day...and night. I work a while on my business plan and then get up and work a bit on the house, or watch a movie to give my mind a break. Nearly done...I hope to be able to sub Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:08:34 -0800 /blog/3930/post_138981.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_138973.html?pid=p9814&m= Okay, thirteen hours of flipping shopping and, except for the metal coat rack with a moose pattern I ordered for my sis and the gift card to Lowe's that my daughter wants, I am totally done. It t Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:45:06 -0800 /blog/3930/post_138973.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_138918.html?pid=p9814&m= You know what? Writing a business plan is actually really fun.I'm so warped.I have to write a plan for an accounting or bookkeeping business...which is BORING! I'd really rather be a busines Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:47:29 -0800 /blog/3930/post_138918.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_138900.html?pid=p9814&m= Have you ever just watched animals...watched their human-ness? I was giving the dogs each a treat tonight and Schatzi got hers first. Unusual because Piggy...I mean Schavonne, usually gets in front Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:40:16 -0800 /blog/3930/post_138900.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_138871.html?pid=p9814&m= Three and a half papers left to write...and the first one should be done tomorrow. Then I get cracking on a marketing plan and a business plan, cause they are the easiest ones to finish. The marketin Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:18:30 -0800 /blog/3930/post_138871.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_138831.html?pid=p9814&m= Sometimes life is magical. Waking up to a freezing morning when everything glistens with frost and fresh fallen snow. When trees are coated in a crystal blanket of white, just the underbranches of g Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:30:45 -0800 /blog/3930/post_138831.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_138808.html?pid=p9814&m= I wonder, when the stars fall from the sky, if the conflagration will be equivalent to the flames in your eyes, the fire in your soul, the dream you hold close that you will find that man in the mirro Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:13:22 -0800 /blog/3930/post_138808.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_138792.html?pid=p9814&m= I'm afraid my blog posts have been very boring lately. I know that I'm consumed with school and getting through it...and with what that means in terms of my career. It's been such a long Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:44:37 -0800 /blog/3930/post_138792.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_138734.html?pid=p9814&m= It's interesting how things turn out. My interview for the job in Texas was reviewed very positively and the end decision was that I am the most capable person for the job and they'd love to Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:42:08 -0800 /blog/3930/post_138734.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_138723.html?pid=p9814&m= When time brushes too closely, we often pause to consider if we have been...all we can be, if we have loved...all we could love, if we have given...all that is possible. Some days I find myself...ina Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:32:46 -0800 /blog/3930/post_138723.html?pid=p9814&m= /blog/3930/post_138680.html?pid=p9814&m= I spent a fair lot of time yesterday thinking about everything I am thankful for and realized that I was most thankful for the simple things in my life....my family and friends, my animals, that I can Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:30:09 -0800 /blog/3930/post_138680.html?pid=p9814&m=