Dreamflower's Mathom-house

Does anyone know what happened to the "100 Things" community? None of my links work, and LJ says it is deleted?

I did that "LJ personality test" everyone has been posting. (And how does THAT figure into "herdlike"? I'd think number of memes would certainly say something about that!)

So, dreamflower02, your LiveJournal reveals…

You are… 3% unique (blame, for example, your interest in wee hobbits), 17% peculiar, 33% interesting, 32% normal and 14% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 24

(The average level of weirdness is: 28.
You are weirder than 55% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

I recently posted a Yule exchange fic that I did as a late pinch-hit for Linaewen. She had requested a story about one of Boromir's adventures on the way to Imladris...

A Horse is a Horse Of Course

Creativity and Trying Something New

It's true that there are any number of people who find their creative urge satisfied with only one form of creativity. There are those musicians, artists, sculptors, writers, chefs, gardeners, designers, inventors and any number of other sorts of people who are satisfied to fulfill themselves by perfecting their skills in their one area of expertise.

And then there are those of us who want to try everything, at least a little bit...( Read more... )

The May Challenge stories are up at lotr_community!

This month's stories vary wildly, as they are all from plot bunnies submitted by various community members and watchers!

My own story, "On the Road From Isengard" was written to fill a plot bunny submitted by shirebound!

I hope you will check them out! And tomorrow, we'll be posting the Art for this month's Art Challenge, with the them of "Sky"!

Sunday our pastor quoted one of John Wesley's own favorite quotations (which I believe may have originated with Augustine): "In essentials unity, in non-essentials tolerance, but in all things love."

And then this morning I opened my daily email from The Upper Room, and found this wonderful and much needed reflection: ( Read more... )

I usually feel that when the Lord calls my attention twice to the same idea in a short amount of time, it's something I need to pay attention to. I frequently have found my own thoughts less than charitable lately towards those who disagree with my POV, especially when they are in the political arena; yelling "idiot" at the TV screen is not good for my blood pressure OR my spiritual development, and even worse is "thinking" it at someone I know in person who is talking about his/her own opinions that are different than mine. While I hope I have good manners enough to be civil in person, I have to realize that uncharitable thoughts don't do much good either, and it's hypocrisy on my part to be smiling at someone while inside I am seething at them.

For some reason, I don't have the same problem with my online friends, whether they agree or disagree-- I suppose it's being filtered through the written word that helps me organize my thoughts, so that we can have a civil discussion without my getting emotional?

I do LIKE debate and civil argument. I just don't like feeling that some people will never listen to ANYTHING I say, or worse, twist my own opinions into something they can ridicule. And I don't like being told I can't be a good Christian if my opinions on certain political things fall closer to the liberal side than the conservative.

The most important part of the first quote above is "in all things love". I wish that our leaders and lawmakers on BOTH sides of the political divide would remember that part.

Fixing to head off to church, but before I go, here's a question: I KNOW that somewhere in FotR, Boromir explains what happened to his horse on the way to Rivendell, but for some reason I simply can NOT find the passage this morning. Can someone point me to it?

Well, I have seen the DH off to work, and read my flist and checked my email. I think I will go back to bed until time to get ready for church. Or until I get hungry or the dog does, whichever comes first...

OK, it was probably dumb of me to assume I was all right with my Microsoft Home and Student Office program. I did not know it was a trial program-- I've been using it since 2007, after all. BUT NOW THEY TELL ME IT IS EXPIRED. ALL MY FILES ARE BASICALLY USELESS. I can open them and read them, but they will not allow me to save anything, or copy, or paste. Every fic I am working on, my finish-a-thon crossover, "Ancestress", my most recent challenge story, all of them. And my 100 things that I was working on. Dozens and dozens of files, now unusable. And if I want to convert over to buying it, I can't even find out the price for the program I have-- they want me to go straight to 2010 version, which I don't know will work to open the files I did with the old program. Not to mention we can't afford it.

I have some things backed-up in Google.docs and some things in Dropbox, but not the most recent versions. I quit using Google.docs so much because they were giving me trouble too.

Does anyone know any kind of way to work around this? Or have any suggestions?

I'm about ready to tear my hair out.

I know after this I will put my back-ups in a better place than I have them currently.

ETA Even the files I stored in Dropbox that were written on that program are inaccessible for all practical purposes...

ETA In case there is any doubt about it, Shirebound is one of the sweetest and most awesome people on the planet! Plus, she is also a genius, coming up with a brilliant way to solve my problem. I am so glad that she's my friend! (((massive hugs!)))

Today was potluck Sunday, and I am in charge of setting up the potluck, so of course I was there. ( Read more... )