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Health in Mind & Body

The shoveling of Snow and housekeeping of home

On Sunday, Saint John received it’s first snowfall. And with that comes the task of clearing of said snow from walkways, stairs, driveways and decks. I was pooped after shoveling, only to have to clean up the house afterwords.
Each Sunday, I strip the tenants beds, wash linens and towels, vacuum, clean the bathrooms and basically [...]

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I’m leaving on a jet plane for vacation on Saturday

And as such no postal deliveries will be made from April 24th to May 4th. All orders placed between those dates will be shipped promptly on May 5th, upon my return.
This postal service interruption will effect:

All three shops will remain open. Please do feel free to buy stuff while I’m gone
This is the [...]

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Smelting Self Confidence

I walked into the kitchen to wash my hands and met a ghastly hilarious sink filled with smelt. It took me by surprise. I stepped back, laughed and walked to the bathroom to wash there instead.
My uncle had been ice fishing for smelt and Mom was thawing out the frozen fish for cleaning, then cooking.
Later [...]

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3 Ways to Positively Change You

1. Don’t visit the Etsy forums. EVER. period.
These days the Etsy forums resemble a mad hatters tea party on acid except everyone is serving nastiness and it’s become non-positive in every way shape and form. I can’t weed out the negative anymore. They can and will suck your creative spirit dry. As of today I [...]

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Etching Memories Without Fear

In a moment our lives switch and adapt to our surroundings, yearning for alternative ways of thinking in approaching life.
When you meet new people that in itself creates new pathways in your brain causing reflection, affirmation and acceptance of what once was. Memories are created and we can either forget about them moving onwards to [...]

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Artist Tip #18 – Are you feeling it?

Seems these last few weeks that feeling has been there as quickly as it goes. I left my journal at a friend of friends house and have yet to retrieve it. She said the night earlier she would run it up and punched my phone number into her phone as I exited the cab. Never [...]

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Now for the Positive and the Smiling Woman Portrait

It wasn’t all gloom and doom where I worked. There were times and days when things were good and not so bad. Here is a list of positively great things associated with where I was employed.

1. I paid one of my student debts totaling $3700 off in full in the six months I worked there.
2. [...]

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An update on the metallic taste in my mouth

It has since returned ever so slowly until peaking this evening at work.
The day it disappeared I had gargled with listerine and then switched to using another toothpaste the following day. I’m beginning to suspect it isn’t the toothpaste at all but something else.
Most of December I suffered from very bad headaches between my eyes. [...]

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Go in with a Positive Attitude

On my way to work yesterday I was complaining about having to go to work to my father, dreading the uneasiness (not the work itself) that seems to have rested over my place of employment. When we arrived at the store I opened the passenger door to get out and my Dad says to me [...]

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The Paxil Taper Caper

Since the beginning of July 2007 I have been diligently tapering off Paxil… ever so s-l-o-w-l-y. These past few weeks have been the roughest. The first few months of tapering were doable, tolerable and generally well received by my mind, body and soul.
Let me elaborate on the following from this post please:
2 – Tapering off [...]

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In the midst of the cacophony ghosts danced

I awoke this morning horny. I had been dreaming of ghosts. A large party that covered whole city blocks. It resembled the downtown Eastside of Vancouver. All the buildings appeared as they do today except the streets, the windows, sidewalks and air were filled with cars, horses, wagons and people of yesteryear, some centuries old. [...]

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Female Hysteria – Aids that Every Woman Appreciates

Engrossed with hysteria I walked into my councilling session today. I traveled emotionally; climbing mountains reaching the peak only to leap off descending to the valley below. How is it possible for a person to cry, leave their body, and smile within a five minute time frame, all the while not knowing how she traveled [...]

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Feeling is not Knowing

What if you are doing all you can? What if there is this loop, a circle that had a small opening to step into. You somehow wound up stepping into to it essentially closing the small opening. You are rolling along now. The circle travels all around. Then something odd happens – the circle after [...]

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Passionate Addiction

Congratulations to all the sites accepted into the 9rules Blog Network. I just finished going through the list of acceptees – 111 new sites have been added to the infamous network pending acceptance of their respective member agreements.
Jessicadoyle.ca is not on the list. My emotional plethora of passionate addiction will continue travelling forward nonetheless. Ah [...]

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Going out the door… the Results

I went out the door on my walk and have since come back. Here is a .mov of all the pics I took while walking through the East Side of Vancouver. It’s unedited and 4.5mb’s in size. Be patient it’s awful pretty and tells a story all it’s own. This is the reason I went [...]

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Going out the door…

If I go out the door will it make me feel better, make me feel something else? Anything? There is this patch in my brain called limbo. In limbo everything is churning. Ideas are dreamt there, memories and thoughts come to light there, in limbo. This is not where I want to be. I think [...]

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Mangling Causality

Sometimes people place fault, pass blame or simply fabricate something wrong with a person(s) when they want to leave a certain situation. Rather than trusting their own judgement, their [tag]cognitive[/tag] behavior tricks them into thinking they lack the ability to leave on their own merit. This simple idea had never entered my mind until yesterday [...]

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Kingdom of emotional temper tantrums

Over the past couple of days http://jessicadoyle.ca has been enduring some changes, perhaps not visable to you the serf but boy they were visable to me.
Between communicating with my host Web Strike Solutions and King Dee, Princess Jessica got her head into a tiffy and threw such a hissy, it only befits recording it poetically.

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In the days before BLOG

In the days before blog I wrote pen in hand
onto paper scribbles
to later understand. They came furiously, many at a time;
unadultered, unedited I present you this rymeâ€¦
Written two years ago in 2004 near the end of march
and yes, there exists a Pandora’s Park.
An orange cast highlights from the west
Engines sound in the distance
as eagle’s make [...]

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Artists Riddle

Having recently begun uploading images to Terminus1525 after a one year hiatus from the site, I realized over the past few days that I crave interaction of the virtual kind. Any artist I believe wants attention to their work… deep down inside I you know you do; even just to see your number of views [...]

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