HAHAHA This is a HAPPY dog!!!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Medusa for Halloween
So I have decided that Im going to try to pull together a Medusa costume for Halloween. That required an educaion in all things Medusa. I learned that there is a "Medusa" piercing, it when you pierce you lip right under your nose like this.....
Not exactly the snake haired lady I was after but interesting none the less.
Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," priestess in Athena's temple, but when she was raped, or seduced, by the "Lord of the Sea" Poseidon in Athena's temple, the enraged virgin goddess transformed her beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn a man to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Athena as just and well-deserved.
Medusa and her two sisters were known as Gorgons. Of the three, Medusa was the only Mortal sister. In the majority of the versions of the story, while Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon, she was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus as a gift. With help from Athena and Hermes, who supplied him with winged sandals, Hades' cap of invisibility, a sword, and a mirrored shield, he accomplished his quest. The hero slew Medusa by looking at her harmless reflection in the mirror instead of directly at her to prevent being turned into stone. When the hero severed Medusa's head from her neck, two offspring sprang forth: the winged horse Pegasus and the giant Chrysaor who later became the hero wielding the golden sword.
So Medusa was punished for desicrating a temple which may or may not have agreed to, and eventually killed with the help of that Goddess....Jeeze....and people think being beautiful today is tough!
Medusa has also been adopted as a symbol of female rage; one of the first publications to express this idea was a 1978 issue of Women: A Journal of Liberation. The cover featured the image of a gorgon, which the editors explained "can be a map to guide us through our terrors, through the depths of our anger into the sources of our power as women."
So next time your boyfriend or Husband gets under your skin, warn him to back off or you'll go Medusa on him.
The costume search continues........and Im a little smarter for it!
Not exactly the snake haired lady I was after but interesting none the less.
Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," priestess in Athena's temple, but when she was raped, or seduced, by the "Lord of the Sea" Poseidon in Athena's temple, the enraged virgin goddess transformed her beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn a man to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Athena as just and well-deserved.
Medusa and her two sisters were known as Gorgons. Of the three, Medusa was the only Mortal sister. In the majority of the versions of the story, while Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon, she was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus as a gift. With help from Athena and Hermes, who supplied him with winged sandals, Hades' cap of invisibility, a sword, and a mirrored shield, he accomplished his quest. The hero slew Medusa by looking at her harmless reflection in the mirror instead of directly at her to prevent being turned into stone. When the hero severed Medusa's head from her neck, two offspring sprang forth: the winged horse Pegasus and the giant Chrysaor who later became the hero wielding the golden sword.
So Medusa was punished for desicrating a temple which may or may not have agreed to, and eventually killed with the help of that Goddess....Jeeze....and people think being beautiful today is tough!
Medusa has also been adopted as a symbol of female rage; one of the first publications to express this idea was a 1978 issue of Women: A Journal of Liberation. The cover featured the image of a gorgon, which the editors explained "can be a map to guide us through our terrors, through the depths of our anger into the sources of our power as women."
So next time your boyfriend or Husband gets under your skin, warn him to back off or you'll go Medusa on him.
The costume search continues........and Im a little smarter for it!
Le Sigh
I FREAKING LOVE THIS MAN!!!!
I know he's out of his mind crazy but that's because he is a musical genius! I love Purple Rain The movie the soundtrack it was all fab! Graffiti Bridge! Oh jeeze....I need a minute.....
Sunday, October 4, 2009
So I can't skate. I bought boys skates the other night, and tried them out tonight. The last time I was on skates I was wearing figure skates, I kept trying to push with the pick on the girls skates, but they were missing. Im glad to say I didn't fall once, but I came close to running over a couple of small children who in turn almost ran me over.
Look out! Next Sunday night between 7 & 8:30 PM Public Skate @ Cole Harbour Place, it's round two!
Friday, October 2, 2009
Going to See this movie tonight!
Now I'm not a horror movie fan. But this looks pretty funny and we could all use a good laugh!!
"What do you yhink? Zombie kill of the week?" LMAO
xxoo
Mel B
I tried to do this!
I gave this a try one time, and it was an EPIC FAIL! I didn't have the right lighting to start with, and the container I was using was WAY to big. I think Im gonna give this shot a try again soon and see if I do any better. You should give it a shot too, you need water, and food colouring. The rest you have to guess and play and try again to figure out. I'm still working on it.....
Thursday, October 1, 2009
This Sunday!
I'm going skating @ Cole Harbour Place this Sunday. Should be fun, I don't really know how to skate....gotta buy some skates too....I think I'll look into some previously enjoyed skates. Yeah that's be the way to go I think.
I'd LOVE to see you there!! 7pm - 8:30! You can laugh at me for falling and then we can have Hot Chocolate Yummy! Sounds fun, plus its a great excuse to get out on a Sunday evening!
Proud Canadian / Happy October 1st
So the leaves are changing and starting to fall. Goodbye summer....hello scraping the windshield, being envious of peeps with remote car starters......Ah the great white north!
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