CountryMouse's Refuge

from July 18th (because LoudTwitter is still having trouble):

ctrymaus @indigonightbird About getting your tweets into your LJ: I just do it manually at the moment until LoudTwitter gets itself back in shape. about 10 hours ago from web in reply to indigonightbird

ctrymaus @indigonightbird I mean cut and paste into a post in your LJ/IJ. about 10 hours ago from web in reply to indigonightbird

ctrymaus @indigonightbird Nice photos! :-) about 8 hours ago from web in reply to indigonightbird

This is something I jotted down while on the phone long-distance with Mama on August 23, 2003. I pasted it into my paper journal; but as far as I can tell, I didn't post it in my LiveJournal (now in the archives here at InsaneJournal) or in CM's Diary. Here it is:

When Mama was little (early 1920's), her parents bought her a fountain pen. She said it was a Parker, and it was black, and she wore it around her neck [chain? ribbon? she didn't say]. Her parents forbade her to take it to school because they were afraid she would lose it. However, one day she took it anyway! When she got home, the TOP/cap was still around her neck; but the bottom had somehow come undone and fallen out! Mama and/or her parents did manage to find it in a dirty yard/lot several blocks away...and she was NEVER allowed to take it out of the house again!

The End.

I wrote Mama a snail-mail letter, asking her for more details; but if she provided them, I don't know where the letter is. :-/

I've only watched snippets so far, but you can see this free through midnight tomorrow night. After that you can download for a small fee (I already bought from iTunes). But who could resist Nathan Fillion--singing?!


Click the pic to go there.

from MoveOn.org:

Okay, LoudTwitter is really on the fritz. I'll have to go get them and paste them in myself:

ctrymaus @indigonightbird Okay, here we get into regional differences: soda = pop = soft drink? Soda means "ice cream soda" to me. :-) about 14 hours ago from web in reply to indigonightbird

ctrymaus @deirdresm I don't know what a season pass is. I just bought all three eps of Dr. Horrible now. I want to see Nathan Fillion sing! about 14 hours ago from web in reply to deirdresm

ctrymaus Wow, everyone must be out and about today--not much twittering going on! :-) about 11 hours ago from web

ctrymaus @JaneBunny I am the kind of person who keeps the packaging things come in...and that's where I store cords. Try it, you'll like it! :-D about 8 hours ago from web in reply to JaneBunny

ctrymaus @MarilynM How did you like Dr. Horrible? Great singing! Pure Joss Whedon! about 8 hours ago from web in reply to MarilynM

ctrymaus @Karoli What is a Zivio? A Bluetooth headset? or more than that? about 7 hours ago from web in reply to Karoli

ctrymaus @Karoli ok, the simultaneous thing in Zivio sounds pretty cool! about 5 hours ago from web in reply to Karoli

ctrymaus @rdominick OMG, I'm gonna faint! Right NOW! ::thunki!:: about 5 hours ago from web in reply to rdominick