CountryMouse's Refuge

This Blog 365 thing is going to do this to some of us, if not almost all: make us look more at who we are.

I don't have a concentrated form of who I am in any one place online. I like it that way. There are hints here and there. It's not that I'm actually hiding, I don't think. But don't we all have things that we don't care to reveal to the world at large? That we save to tell only the people who are or become our closest friends? No, I'm not an axe-murderer (one who murders axes or one who murders anyone/anything *else* with an axe). No I haven't done anything illegal nor do I plan to.

It's just that I am not your typical Donna Reed...but who is, anymore? Every time I tell anyone about my life in any detail, I can hear in my head what a fictional soap opera kind of thing it sounds like.

I started using pseudonyms in my LJ because I saw perigune doing it back in 2001 when I first started here. I had had a bad experience (online stalking) before that, so I felt that continuing to be circumspect was a good idea.

I am not a good writer. I would like to write my life story someday, but I am afraid it would be too much work for me. I wonder if I could find a biographer that would write about me after my death. Hmm. Or am I really as fascinating as I think I am? Heh.

Okay, that's enough of *that* for now. I should go play Hardwood Hearts or something. :-)

I did one of these yesterday, which is me as a serving wench. Heh.

Today I made one (apparently the most recently-made-one is the default) that is Rahel, a Djinn, in Rachel Caine's Weather Warden series of books.

Check it out. You can see both of my Meez in the album.

75% John Edwards
74% Hillary Clinton
74% Dennis Kucinich
74% Barack Obama
73% Mike Gravel
72% Bill Richardson
68% Chris Dodd
67% Joe Biden
35% Rudy Giuliani
25% Mitt Romney
23% John McCain
21% Tom Tancredo
16% Ron Paul
16% Mike Huckabee
12% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

It's 6:46pm (dark-thirty) and it's 58*F. out! Ack! This is January. This is Ohio. WTF?!?

I just found out about another LiveJournaler's passing. Gee, I don't keep up on people. At least for some time I was very negligent on following people's entries. Trying to do better now.

So now soundcraft is gone, well she passed in November 2006, but I just learned of it tonight from a friend of hers. She was a really nice, warm-hearted, good person.

And there was Sebastian (lie2me), whom a lot of folks eventually started thinking had been a fictional device. But I used to read his posts, and sometimes he would comment here. He was real.

I think I read somewhere that if a relative or someone sends a copy of the obituary of the LiveJournaler to LJ, they will keep the journal up free of charge forever. That's a good thing. We don't totally lose people that way. I just wrote to Sebastian again a few minutes ago. How else can I reach him?

Well, I should turn in.