Well, Vale said to Gina: "It's such a pity that there's an ocean dividing us: I really wish you, and Urumelili, and the other members of this forum, were my neighbours!" So let's share time and simple things like what we are doing now.
Mmmm, and, don't send ... "I'm listening to Loreena" ! (or not only ).
NB: it's a topic, you can come to write when you want and as much as you want.
EDIT >I was thinking about this topic in the metro today and I think we should change «the rules» and «open» it a little more… I was used to this kind of topic in a forum where we know each others «in real life», as it says on the web, so it was just a way to stay connected beetween our weekly party and still live together during a looooooong day of work, to breath a little.
But, here, we don’t know each others, and most of all, we live all around the world, so, let’s say that we can also come in this topic to talk about what we did or saw today or some days before and we’d like to share (like an expo in a museum for exemple or a special event like anniversary of the construction of the town or, I don’t know what else).
It can also be a place for … your «cloudy days»… when nothing goes right (and you need to scream against this *@% § $ -censured - Murphy Law) or everything is ok but, you know, you don’t feel well without knowing why. Just come and find some comprehension and support . (well on the other side, it is not a topic to complain all day like a teenager in his/her bad times. I prefer write it because we had the problem on the other forum, even if I think, moderators are here ).
So, the thing is «to share» .
(share food –most of all if there’s chocolate- is also very welcome )
EDIT 2 > So, this topic is, as I said "in green", to share a moment with the friends you have here (a morning walk, a funny or strange thing you have right now under your eyes, the "cloudy days", talk about your town or your contry,... everything you want ), have a special thought for someone, or tell to the other a special thing which makes you very happy (you've found the house of your life, you're going to have a baby, you saw a friend you haven't seen for a long time, you win bingo ...). Of course, we are not talking about Loreena's concerts because, we're already used to see the new "every day-topic" we like so much (isn't it my friends ) in the Tour section.
But, this is not "restricted". It's an invitation. So if you have other ideas or whishes, welcome !
Best regards.
So, I start: I'm sitting on my sofa -which is also my bed again because my mother came back (for those who red the topic "Where are you living).
I finished to change all the clocks of the house (this seems to be not important but it's just to help some people to remember that it's SUMMER HOUR THIS WEEK END - so +1 hour-) .
I also had a great St Patrick show on direct live on TV : it's a huge concert in Paris every year, in a biiiig place, with irish, scotish, bretons and galicians -and corsicans sometimes- bands and dancers. There was Capercaillie (here I'd like to have a special smiley to show how much I fond of their singer Karen Matheson ), Dan Ar Brahz, I think there was also Carlos Nunez and others bands from west part of France but, I had a thought for Loreena: sweetheart, the sound was HOWFULL! A REAL NIGHTMARE! Karen Matheson didn't have return sound anymore, we didn't here well all the orthers singers and instruments, there was a lot of time a kind of bad sound like the sound was not coming from the good microphone and, worst, sometimes, we heard... something else from the backstage (people who was counting down before the entrency of another band for exemple). It was also like this the other years and I wonder if they don't do it on purpous just to show that it's in direct...
By the way, right now, I've just been "insulted" by my mother and my cat (they both made strange not happy noise), because it's 3o'clock and they want to sleep . So, I must whish you a good night and sweet dreams and absolutly need to find the TV remote which is always hidding .
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Posts: 201 | Location: Paris or in the forest, but always close to a tree | Registered: March 01, 2007
Today is a special day; my son turned 20 years old. The time went so quickly... When he was just a baby I would wonder what he would look like when he was grown up and I know he is just as cute as he was when he was a chubby baby. No, he isn't chubby any more. It is a happy day. Good health and spirits to all, Gina
Posts: 424 | Location: Gold Bar, Washington USA | Registered: November 11, 2006
There has been a bald eagle around my house. It's flown right over my head when I'm out walking several times... and it plays with the ravens too. I get to watch them flying overhead above me on my walks.
Posts: 48 | Location: Alaska, US | Registered: February 16, 2008
Today is a great day to be happy!!! As I was wishing Loreena a very happy birthday, my husband and I went on a drive around Mt. Rainier (previously known as Mt. Tahoma) with the sun shining and snow covering the ground. It was just like Loreena, absolutely beautitul! Thanks Loreena for making my life so wonderful!!! Brightest Blessings )o(
Posts: 424 | Location: Gold Bar, Washington USA | Registered: November 11, 2006
I realised yesterday (the 8) that, exactly one year ago, Loreena was in Paris to sing 2 or 3 songs and do a "meet and great" in the Virgin Megastore of the Champs Elysees and I saw her on stage for the 1st time . I remember that I was in the queue to wait for an autograph for friend of mine but it was a too long line and I was embarrassed because I had to choose between living the queue to go to work at a new client and having my autograph and arriving late. So I called my new client and she allowed me to come later.
Than I met Loreena, I subscribed here where I wrote almost 190 message ( ) and I still do the housework for this client who is one of the most kind of all those I work for ...
An elf with one year more...
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Posts: 201 | Location: Paris or in the forest, but always close to a tree | Registered: March 01, 2007
Today I was coming out of a cinema to go back to work -I had the luck to find by chance the program and be able to see the last projection of the movie I wanted to see - when I had the great joy to see an amazing rainbow.
But not this kind of rainbow almost imperceptible : one so intense that it seemed painted in real paint in the sky by a huge hand. It put on my face one of these uncontrollable smile close to laugh. And so, I was riding full of this happiness, thinking that I was really lucky today for the 2d time, when.. I saw a 2d little rainbow ...
So, at a traffic circle, I began to turn to the left and I thought "but what are you doing!?! Follow this beautiful rainbow!" and I did the full turn around the traffic circle under the surprised eyes of the other drivers and tried to go until the foot of the rainbow...
And I did a wonderful drive in small streets where gardens were overflowing of multicolored trees.
...I even saw a magical red-apple tree ...
Have a good day or a good night. Warm regards.
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Posts: 201 | Location: Paris or in the forest, but always close to a tree | Registered: March 01, 2007
About this: if someone could give me the e-mail of Shakespeare , I think I'll send him a little list of what I've created to include some in the English Dictionary lol .
But, I think it's an unconscious revenge: we have sooo many english word which pollute our beautiful language and more and more French who use english words thinking they are talking in french and making mistake in what they are saying (for example we have the verb "supporter" in french, which doesn't means "to support" at all but something like "to tolerate with difficulties". If you say in french that you don't "support" something, it means that you can't stand it, you hate it. But some people use it in the english way. I remember a man saying: "J'ai supporté ma femme dans ce moment difficile" = "I could stand my wife in this hard time" during an interview and someone else in the same show who said laughing: "J'espère! J'espère qu'il supporte sa femme, parce que sinon, il faut qu'il la quitte" = "I hope! I hope he doesn't hate his wife! Because if he does, he should leave her").
So, because of what we call in french linguistic "anglicisme" (=english-ism) we are loosing the real meaning of our language...
But, in another way, it's very interesting to fallow the "travel" of a word from one country to another because, I complain but, many french words "invaded" english language after Guillaume le Conquerant (William the Conqueror)conquered England in the XI° c. , changing perhaps meaning during centuries, and now, some of those words are coming back after their transformation. I also know that, if we have many english word in french because of the media and the technology (yes yes McKennitt! : next time I'll say "Did you receive my mail?" don't look at me as if the post had made a mistake and you received nothing, as you did in spring > a "mail" in french is "an e-mail" coming with the development of internet, and in french the word for "mail" is "letter" ! Baaad girl ! * ), there's many french words or expressions in english language (but it seems that it's more in art or cooking, no? Aren't they also used by some people to "show off"?)
So, sorry if I created this word or if I made a mistake in its meaning ...
Have a good day.
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*Ah ah! I wanted to tell it since april! But you didn't take it bad, right? You know I'm kidding, don't you?... Good! ... Why you look at me like that? What are you ...? No!... No-no!!!... Lo...Loreena ! Leave this axe! Noooo! Aaaaaaaah !
Ohlala! Ouch! Ça fait pas du bien....
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Posts: 201 | Location: Paris or in the forest, but always close to a tree | Registered: March 01, 2007
lol ! I forgot: another one of my "victory" was to read the book about dyslexia which changed my life (The Gift of Dyslexia of Ron D. Davis). Since this book I don't see me like "abnormal" or "sick", but I just know that my brain is different and in some situations, it can be very advantageous.
So. It was not a huge book but I manage to read it in 48h. 48h almost without going out and doing something else. I wanted to read it, I forced me, I did so enormous effort that I thought I was about to die on my sofa. lol So, it was very funny to read, just when I noted that I had a big headache, that dyslexic can have headache if you force them to read ...
What perspicacity !
Posts: 201 | Location: Paris or in the forest, but always close to a tree | Registered: March 01, 2007
Originally posted by barb: Very Old Elf -- Congratulations on your accomplishment! And you couldn't ask for a better way to have accomplished your reading than by reading the Potter books. They are incredible, aren't they? I thought it would be a long time before somebody matched (for me, at least) Tolkien. But I adore Rowling. To celebrate the whole series, I made a bumper sticker for my car that reads, "My other car is a flying Ford Anglia." Congrats!
-- barb
Thank you very much Barb for your support . I'm just coming back from the Virgin and we were saying the same thing: the world J.K. Rowling created is amazing and so coherent that we could believe that it exists somewhere...
I understand that you prefer Tolkien but he is more difficult to read (of course, I didn't choose the easiest : as I'm an elf, I had to read the Silmarillion -I wanted to know about my familly - and I calculated that it took me 8 months to read it "spread out" (?) on 1 year and half). That was a great victory too now that I remember it .
(great idea the sticker I have customised my scooter and my helmet with Gryffindor color )
Good night to you all.
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Posts: 201 | Location: Paris or in the forest, but always close to a tree | Registered: March 01, 2007
[QUOTE]Origi I thought it would be a long time before somebody matched (for me, at least) Tolkien.
Well hello Barb !
I guess we match : Tolkien. I just love this universe and the 1rst 2nd 3rd levels of reading ... It's difficult to describe how I feel like with words ( specially in English !!! ) ; when I read or now, watch Tolkien stories, romans, novels ... I just feel I'm in my World !...
Hope to read you soon Deirdre
Posts: 88 | Location: Noisiel, Marne la Vallée, Ile de France, FRANCE | Registered: March 16, 2007
Very Old Elf -- Congratulations on your accomplishment! And you couldn't ask for a better way to have accomplished your reading than by reading the Potter books. They are incredible, aren't they? I thought it would be a long time before somebody matched (for me, at least) Tolkien. But I adore Rowling. To celebrate the whole series, I made a bumper sticker for my car that reads, "My other car is a flying Ford Anglia." Congrats!
-- barb
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Originally posted by Very Old Elf: I'm very happy! Well... exited should be more exact Tomorrow night at OO:O1, we'll be able to buy the french version of the last Harry Potter. There will be a great party at the Virgin Mega Store where I bought my first Harry Potter and I'm glad to go there because, as I had a problem of health for a long time, I couldn't go there for the previous books.
I remember this day of december, between Christmas and New Year's Eve. I manage to see the first movie (everybody was talking about this Harry Potter and I tried one week before to have a seat but everything was full). I has crutches (?) at this time so, to be sure to not go to the cinema for nothing, I went there 2 hours before. I had one of the last seat but I had it .
The cinema was full of children and the ambiance was electric. They were whispering, some were bouncing, some others were stuck to their seat, fixing the white screen as if they could make the film to come faster...
When the movie started I was totally amazed. The story, the characters, the school... And the opening of the Diagon Alley! My God!!! And the Quidditch match!!!... My eyes wide open -as my mouth sometimes I think - it took me one second to fall into this magical world. What a gift! You know what I mean: you go somewhere because you don't have something else to do, pushed by some "curiosity", and you receive an anvil on the head.
I think it was the mix of everything: the children (making "aaah" or "ooooh" or "nooo!!!" more easily than adults) , Christmas, the good seat, the little orange bark with chocolate (which became a tradition for a Harry Potter movie), it seemed that the hole world was plotting to give me an incredible moment...
When I went out, I crossed the street and I bought the book.
And you have no idea of what that meant for me and what it brought in my life...
Reading. A so common thing, isn't it? It seems so obvious for the major part of people... But as a dyslexic, I never managed to read big books. 300 pages was perhaps my maximum. 350 but no more I think. And for someone who can read, it's not possible to imagine how you can feel when you'd like to read something for pleasure or to inform you knowing that you will probably not be able to exceed the 30 first pages or knowing that you won't finish to read the newspaper before tomorrow... Or worst: when someone tells you "you must read this! it's wonderful!" It's like saying to a deaf person "hey! you should listen that!" without understand how much it's painful to not be allowed to have the pleasure to hear music. ...
But J.K. Rolling came and Harry Potter pushed me to beat my own record (specially with the tome 5: more than 900 pages ). Of course, for every one this means nothing. But it took me one month and half, morning, noon and evening and much more, to read it. So, even if it doesn't mean that I can read easily and if it's not possible to do it with another book, I know at least that I was able to do it one time in my life...
Then I'll go tomorrow (this evening now) to buy the last book of this wonderful writer and to have a great evening with many people, but not without emotion and a part of sadness because it will be the last time that this kind of thing will happen ...
Posts: 28 | Location: Greater Cleveland, Ohio, USA | Registered: October 14, 2007
I'm very happy! Well... exited should be more exact Tomorrow night at OO:O1, we'll be able to buy the french version of the last Harry Potter. There will be a great party at the Virgin Mega Store where I bought my first Harry Potter and I'm glad to go there because, as I had a problem of health for a long time, I couldn't go there for the previous books.
I remember this day of december, between Christmas and New Year's Eve. I manage to see the first movie (everybody was talking about this Harry Potter and I tried one week before to have a seat but everything was full). I has crutches (?) at this time so, to be sure to not go to the cinema for nothing, I went there 2 hours before. I had one of the last seat but I had it .
The cinema was full of children and the ambiance was electric. They were whispering, some were bouncing, some others were stuck to their seat, fixing the white screen as if they could make the film to come faster...
When the movie started I was totally amazed. The story, the characters, the school... And the opening of the Diagon Alley! My God!!! And the Quidditch match!!!... My eyes wide open -as my mouth sometimes I think - it took me one second to fall into this magical world. What a gift! You know what I mean: you go somewhere because you don't have something else to do, pushed by some "curiosity", and you receive an anvil on the head.
I think it was the mix of everything: the children (making "aaah" or "ooooh" or "nooo!!!" more easily than adults) , Christmas, the good seat, the little orange bark with chocolate (which became a tradition for a Harry Potter movie), it seemed that the hole world was plotting to give me an incredible moment...
When I went out, I crossed the street and I bought the book.
And you have no idea of what that meant for me and what it brought in my life...
Reading. A so common thing, isn't it? It seems so obvious for the major part of people... But as a dyslexic, I never managed to read big books. 300 pages was perhaps my maximum. 350 but no more I think. And for someone who can read, it's not possible to imagine how you can feel when you'd like to read something for pleasure or to inform you knowing that you will probably not be able to exceed the 30 first pages or knowing that you won't finish to read the newspaper before tomorrow... Or worst: when someone tells you "you must read this! it's wonderful!" It's like saying to a deaf person "hey! you should listen that!" without understand how much it's painful to not be allowed to have the pleasure to hear music. ...
But J.K. Rolling came and Harry Potter pushed me to beat my own record (specially with the tome 5: more than 900 pages ). Of course, for every one this means nothing. But it took me one month and half, morning, noon and evening and much more, to read it. So, even if it doesn't mean that I can read easily and if it's not possible to do it with another book, I know at least that I was able to do it one time in my life...
Then I'll go tomorrow (this evening now) to buy the last book of this wonderful writer and to have a great evening with many people, but not without emotion and a part of sadness because it will be the last time that this kind of thing will happen ...
Posts: 201 | Location: Paris or in the forest, but always close to a tree | Registered: March 01, 2007
Just listenning to Dante's prayer and that's famous final note ... what a magical sound !...
Well, well, I wasn't on board theese last few monthes but time to time I was cheking posts. Yesterday evening I was listenning to Loreena's music ... needed some healing : heavy heart ... and I thought I should go back to write on the board !!!
It's done now !!
So how are you all doing ? As best as it can I hope !
Greetings Deirdre
Posts: 88 | Location: Noisiel, Marne la Vallée, Ile de France, FRANCE | Registered: March 16, 2007
(or not only 
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(like an expo in a museum for exemple or a special event like anniversary of the construction of the town or, I don’t know what else).
- Murphy Law) or everything is ok but, you know, you don’t feel well without knowing why. 
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) and I still do the housework for this client who is one of the most kind of all those I work for ...
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