and the beat goes on..

..la dee da dee dahh ..la dee da dee dahh

In Minecraft... the server I play on..
moved a few boxes around today. put some saddles downstairs....
got a few more litchens.... forgot where i put them...
put iron blocks into a box downstairs...

checked out the news.. still boring...still going on....

went to genshin impact... after having to reload again. finally remembered my hotkeys..
moved over my dailies into a new area. then relized it was better where i had it.. forgot how i moved it. *slap forehead*

went to mabi... thankfully remembered to permi my new wings before the event ended.
going back into hiatis with them... at least until they get an interesting prize for an interesting event.

might try to catch up (hahahaha!) in duolingo... ohh that was funny *wipes tears of laughter*

considering a few semi fav games, like timberborn or a return to rimworld.
dunno

still poofta over sims 4. have to be online to play it.. and have to be the only one up in the house to keep from lagging everyone. its not that fun.

my time on seems limited.. and dragged out. still not entirely sure if thats a good thing or not. feeling restless and .. sad really, over the whole thing.

Once again now, .. one and a two..

I'm trying to see change,  by changing my attitude.. Thoughts.  Still difficult to see,  at times,  but i am seeing it.. Little bit by little bit. Very subtle.. But yes.. Things are changing.. Maybe just my perception.. But that's OK... It's still change to me.

Trying to define the English lang still flusters me at times.. Today I'm caught on... In 2 weeks vs the week after next. (Or even the week after the next one) to me they are pretty much all the same thing. Just saying the week after the next one is a fancy long-winded way to say in 2 weeks. To me, a week is simply a block of time ... 7 days. It doesn't indicate a certain day or the start of the week,  .. It's just a 7 day block of time.  2 weeks is simply that. 2 of those 7 day blocks of time.  So when i hear someone say that something is happening the week after next.. I think,  ah,  it's in 2 weeks.
And i follow that thought with,  it's not rocket science after all. So,  it kind of boggles my mind when someone says they are not the same thing. How can that be true? Unless they think it means in 3 weeks.. Not this week, not next week,  but the week following that next week... -.- but that's just annoyingly splitting hairs.

Writing gots and not gots

Once upon a time...  What a way to start... There was a writer called peaches.. She was great with intros and short story starts.. But her attention wavered into the boredom zone fairly quickly and she never quite completed anything significant.. She came close though..once. With a simple illustrated book.

Her proudest moment came with the invention of notebook wars between her and good friends.. During which many a page was filled during a most satisfying year or so.

Then disaster struck her life and she found herself living too far away from the friends she valued.. (More than she realized at the time, i assure you.) And feeling alieniated due to an intrusion of several judging eyes into her -in the moment- most private thoughts.. That really none could hope to truely understand (not even her... 10 mins after she thought it)... And she was horribly scarred by the incident for years. Still.. And perhaps none-the-less... She loved to write. At first, she thought to be a whole lot more careful.. Mindful even, of her deep smarting scars and how others can so easilly misunderstand.

She first tried starting a writing group but it was laid low by a lack of interrest. Still.. With it in mind.. She started a "semi-guided" writing group online.. Thinking if she just.. Started off with background and a set-in-wool idea.. It could be fun.. There was some interrest and a senario was started.. Establishing the parameters a bit more firmly, she thought.
It was to be a survival theme.. With the cats musical as a base background ... The characters would be people portaled in by an unknown force.. And transformed into humaniod cats. The setting was a forest.. Much like a real life enviroment. Only.. No tech.. And no people in the area. The cats first story start was a hungry encounter with a huge boar... then they successfully had food.. .. And then something went wonky with the sudden arival of high fantasy and the whole group quickly disintegrated. Thinking it was likely due to her own poor explainations..perhaps not being clear enough.. She wandered the net for a time.. Looking for another group she could perhaps fit into.  Around in that same time frame.. She found first.. A group of writers basing thier world off a game. It was great fun for quite some time.. Before the writers headed off for fairer skies.. She tried nearly in vain to keep in touch with several of them... And she found another group in unlikely waters.. Basing thier world off of an anime ninja theme.. With a scattering of cannon characters. That too was great fun but seemed a dying breed really. When it desolved, peaches was once again on her own. And speaking of dying breeds, She was also at one distant past moment.. in a text world.. Lending her talents of description to its configuration... Perhapes the most fun shed ever had.. Making room descriptions so beautifully detailed.. It took a slloow walk through to really get the story woven into it..room by room... Although you didnt have to read everything.. You could just rush on through. As many would. There were, however, many hidden objects you were sure to miss if you didnt. And then.. The fun was spoiled by internal politics and an ex- friend who went on a power glut.
Just as well though.. As the text worlds were a truely dying thing and now.. Its more nostalja then it is a living fantasy world anymore.

A closed chapter later and presto! Here i am with my own blog.. For the same "no reason," reasons to exist as it was when it was started so many years ago. Just lil ol me chanting dustbunny rhythms into the general void of the net as usual.

And looking out the window from my little niche in this void.. I can see what seems to be the world around the anchor in chaos. Peoples seems to have gone a little more insane this year then ever was before.

There is a rather colourful character that has somehow managed to not only ticc everyone off at least once but also has managed to squeeze into a top dawg status. Guess if so many sought changes from what was before.. They did get thier wish.. For good or ill. I wonder whatll happen next.... Hmm..

Reciently, theres a dark side and a light side.. Who came to blows on the street.. The top dawg said both sides were at fault.. And i agree.. It takes at least two sides with opposing views to make for an argument. one side then stretched into the realm of intolerance and suddenly the whole area is scrambling in efforts to not be associated.

One can hear the cracking of glass from where I stand... Sounding like thunder as the words scrawl themselves across the wall and formed peices of beautiful art in stone is being toppled and trampled upon.

Be aware.. And Beware of complaining about the splinter you see in others eyes.. When theres a log in your own. I should know. Ive kept warm through many a winter from the descovery of those flippin logs! Aint no wonder i have bad sight!

Anyway.. For all the past mistakes of another lifetime.. If i complained and railed against the losses i saw coming, I apologize. All i can really do. .. So I go from here.. Learning as i go along. Even as yet into another chapter.. To go through yet another portal.. And hopfully.. Descover more fun times to be had in the future.

Memory of Old Words

I remember... yeah, I lived in a retro hodunk lil town in the north snow. When the world was swooning over the Beatles, we were enamored with Elvis. When the world was wowing over computers and the internet, we were ohhhing over the very thought of microwaved meals. So naturally, I recall words and phrases (still)in common use that were already well passe in the rest of the world.... so here's several of them, and what I thought they ment. .. in no special order.


Flapdoodle - babbling nonsense. She was speaking fluent flapdoodle last evening.

Limelight - put in a spotlight.. on the hotseat, everyone is paying attention to you. "that guy got the short shrift and now he's in the limelight.. he'd better not mess up!

Mudslinging and muckraking - literally what it says is what i know it as. a muckrake is a hard rake made of wood or metal used for mucking out horse/pig/cow stalls. muck being the dirt, stool, hay, dirty mud and whatever else is in the stall. you throw this muck at someone, you -really- don't like them. "Here's mud in yer eye!"

Mud in you're eye! (said in laughter) = a cheer, toasting or praising ..or said/shouted in anger. = (see muckraking)


a buck or to buck - a young daring, brash, or overconfident guy, to object or push away, a male deer, or simply a $1 bill. that guy is just a young buck but he bucked the law, stole a bag of bucks, so they dropped him in the hoosgow.

apothecary - someone who makes and sells herbs, spices and natural medicines. A natural goods store.

asunder - torn apart.

banshee - a screaming ghost foretelling of someone in a family's death.

bedlam - chaos. "it was total bedlam out there."

behoove - It makes sense. to feel obligated. "It behooves me to tell you, as your friend, she's messing around behind you're back."

besmirch - to soil, or dirty up someone's reputation.

betroth - to plan to marry.

bodkin - a small knife, or a leather vest.

breeches/ britches/ or leggings - by the seat of your pants or just pants in general.

brine - well soured or salted water/stock.

bushel - to me, a bushel was a big basket filled with apples or cherries.

caboose - one's backside or the end of a train.

conjure - usually to think up or do something really quick. "as if she conjured it out of thin air."

coxcomb - either an arrogant brash person or the red parts of a rooster's face.

crookback or crookneck - crookback is someone doubled over from a life of hard labor or a mountain pathway that doubles back on itself on a steep grade (aka a switchback), crookneck is someone very disagreeable and argumentative, or someone paying too much attention to neighbors woes.. also known as gawking, craning one's neck, or snooping.

derailed - stopped dead in its tracks, halted, dispersed, scattered, shattered or off on a tangent. "her idle thoughts were completely derailed when she heard the siren."

deserts - this one still mixes me up as i thought it pretty much meant the same thing as the sweets you ate after a meal.. a treat! after all, it was our just deserts! we deserved it! we had it coming to us.. in a good way!

ditty - a quick fun song. like a happy jig.

drab - old, unlovely, faded, being of greys and dull browns, like road dust.

egad! - oh my gosh!, ohno! oh dear! usually said with a bit of exaggerated cheek.

eggpan - a smallish skillet or shallow pan.

eh? or ay? - not really an actual question, more like.. asking if you agree but with no requirement to reply. found at the end of a sentence. "Goodness, the weather is nice, eh?"

eke - (sounds like ekk) as in to eke out a living. to scratch by. to live off the land. getting by.

erstwhile - to be earstwhile.. to be well-to-do, to mean well, on time, attentive. very old word not often used.

figure or reckon - To make a 'best' guess.

fixing - as in fixing to get to it. I intend to do it. a Texas-ism

Flapjack or pancake - interchangeable words. make a batter, pour it onto a skillet, cook until brown, add syrup or jam, and eat. yum!

fro - as in to and fro. (no, not a wonderfully full head of curly hair.), as in to come and go, this way and that.

gay = gleeful, happy, having a great time, joyful. "those at the hootenanny were just having a gay ol time."

hither(or thither) and yon - over here or way over there. here and gone again.

hoosgow - jail or prison.

hootenanny or hoedown - a party with dancing (often with folk or country music), sometimes including picnic lunch or potluck.

housecoat - a bathrobe, or something youd wear only around the house.

houseovercoat - the long coat you would slip on over your housecoat to quickly run to the store in.

hue - as in hue and cry, not as in shade of color. To raise hue and cry is like, yelling for attention.. to raise awareness of something. To make a lot of noise. "With a mighty hue and cry, the crowd ran after the wolf with vengence.

kith - as in kith and kin. meaning family, clan, shirt-tails, cousins, aunts, and uncles... that's about everyone.

lurch - as in leaving someone in a lurch.. not to lurch around like a hunchback. leaving someone in a lurch as like leaving them when they are in the middle of trouble and really could use the help.

nag and dray - a nag was a plodding old horse used to pulling light carts or wagons, raely faster then a slow walk. a dray was the horse or horses (often including the cart) used for heavy labor... pulling heavy things like logs or big supply flats. (a large flat cart or wagon). not a word that was often used.

mullberrying/beating the bush/ or hopscotching - verbally trying to get around having to give a straight or truthful answer. "The guy hopscotched like a total pro around the girl's question of his marrying her."

oft - often. poetry word.

roughshod - to run roughshod over someone, to me, ment the same as beating up or abusing someone... physically or verbally. being too much.. sometimes with no real reason. "don't just run roughshod over the kid when you don't have all the facts."

shrift - was a bit like drawing the short straw with something no-one wanted to do. Being drafted, being harshly critiqued, singled out, or chosen for the worst task possible. being given the 'short shrift' was never a good thing.

sleight - as in sleight of hand. "not slight... even if it meant only by a slight bit."

"snake in the grass" - sly, sneaky, "ol so-n-so", sly old fox.

sooth - and in forsooth or a soothsayer. to speak the, however unbelievable, truth(?).

stalwart - a hero, strong, and good person. unflappable, straight bearing, standing his ground, brave.

"stick in the mud" - stubborn, vexing, stuck in your ways. "he's being an old stick in the mud, forget him."

swain - like a swain. a sailor, servant, or dandy.

thin air - practically nothing.. like a waste of air. "it was all thin air to her."

thwart - stopped, pushed away, or derailed. "The thief was thwarted from carrying out his nefarious plans."

tithe - (sounds like teeth or tie-vth)+ giving money to the church.. a percent of what you have.

to give cheek or being cheeky - to talk back or talk back in a sort of funny way. "pippi is such a cheeky girl."

umbrage - someone talking down to a lesser, being insulting and intentionally crass. "a graduate has just taken umbrage over that freshman student. insulting!" Not a word used often where I come from.. but not unknown.

whence and wherefor - where did you just come from? where are you going and why?

wight - bad undead? beastie of folklore. tall, pale, sharp teeth, dark long sharp claws, impervious to most forms of attack, although not fond of fire. lives in deep caves or mines but able to walk out in the full moon night after or during a rainstorm. always hungry, particularly for children. often leaves bones and other debris outside cave entries. related to the wendigo, barrow wight, and sandwalker.

yepyep - yes. goes with nosiree - no. This was a fairly good give away as to where in the USA i spent my first years. localisms of the mitten state. yoopers or yuppers were those living north of the bridge, and trolls lived to the south of it, in the palm of the mitt.

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+ note to those trying the learn English nuances ... good luck! :D
reference : tithe - (sounds like teeth or tie-vth) The sound th can have 2 ways of pronouncing it. one way is to simply tuck your'e tongue behind your'e teeth and blow air.. resulting in a breathy sounding thh sound. and the other way which makes the th sound harder. as if you were trying to add a z or v's buzzing noise to the th. Tithe can sound either way, like the typical tee'th sound or the harder tie'vth sound.

examples of 'th'
thimble
thatch
thing
thistle

example of 'vth'
them
that
together
this
those

tags.. and some English pronunciation.. phonicly-speaking?

Ok so.. this isn't a vlog... its a blog, and therefor harder to convey things such as accent or the look of a place... And Although I wasn't tagged by name, I was amused enough to give it a whirl here anyway. so.. hang onto yer hats yaall!

Its a blog adaption of a video tag!

Accent tag.

My accent.. if it could be said that I have one.. is um.. American English.. with a 'deep southern drawl' influence and a whole lot of what I call old-fashioned 'pet' words and phrases from.. all over the place.

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A bit of an english pronunciation before I go on, to help with my 'phonic' sound description..

A. there is 'ahh' (short vowel) as in.. about, Asparagus, and daughter.
'aeh' (a bit like 'ehh'.. only with the 'nahh' sound) as in.. apple, absolutely, ant, trash, can, and dam.
'ay' (strong/long vowel) is in.. hay, tray, okay, April, ape, and ain't.

E. 'eh' (short vowel)as in.. bleh, friend, send, pending, trend, cherry, and ten.
'ee' (long vowel) as in.. tween, spleen, scream and eek.

I. 'ih' (short vowel) as in.. sniff, rift, quick, and drip
'iy' (long vowel) as in.. eye, sigh, bye, tie, and cry

O. 'ah' or 'uh'(short vowel) as in on, off, love, dove, done, and some
'oh' (long vowel) as in.. so, dough, toy, over, flow
OO (long or sometimes short U sound) as in.. soon, toon, root, and foot(fuht)

U. 'uh' (short vowel) as in.. gum, under, us, sun, duck, drum, and fun
'oo' (long vowel) as in.. tube, true, blue, and due


G and J. Guh (hard sound) or Juh (short sound) as in.. glue, grape, just, and jingle. and when pairing g and h together.. they go completely silent. as in.. night, fright, blight, and sight

C. sometimes sounds like 'kay' and sometimes sounds like 'Ss',
as in.. case = kay's, copper = kah'per cinch = sinch, circumstance = ser-cuhm-stahns


then a whole bunch of double vowel sounds..
ae/ia = 'aye' or rarely 'ee' as in.. aeon, aerie, daemonic, pediatrics
ai = 'eh' 'err' or 'aye' as in.. said, fair, acclaim
au = 'awo' 'ahh' 'ehh' or 'ow' as in.. abound, about, account
ea = 'eh' or 'ee' or occasionally 'ehr' as in.. dead, earth, tease
ei = 'ay' as in sleigh, freight, and reign
oa = 'oh' as in.. oak, moat, boat
ou = 'ow','oh' 'oo' as in.. sound, trout, mound, gourd, four, colour, you
io = 'eeoh' or 'shun' (-tion) as in.. onion, brio, radio, nation, creation
ie = 'ee' or 'iyeh' as in.. achieve, piece, diet
ia = "eeyah" or 'iyah' as in.. lamia, alias, diaper
ua = 'ahh' or 'ay' as in.. squash, aqua, aquarium


on the odd occurrence there are three vowels in a row, mesh the first two, then sound the last one. beautiful = b'ee'-u-tih-ful, continuous = con-tihn-yoo-uhs

double of the same consonant are just made into one sound.. sometimes separated by a quick 'breath' mark. butter = buh'ter, llama = lahmah, summer = sumerr


always exceptions to the rules..

gh = (ignored), often making the vowel before it long) as in.. night, fight, bright, freight
-ing = -een'guh or 'ihn' as in do'ing

'e' at the end of a word. called a silent 'e' - it makes most vowels before itself long ones.
make = mayk, fright = fr-'iy'-t ...except in certain cases, as in.. fishes/fish and other such words that change depending on the counter.. mongoose/mongeese/mongooses, goose/geese, mouse/meece/mouses etc
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Aunt = I weeble with this word. sometimes its 'ahh'nt and sometimes its aeh'nt.

roof = r oo f (long oo sound, like uu)

route = like root. (long oo sound, like uu)

wash = wahh'sh. Sometimes it comes out sounding a bit eastern with an 'r in it. wahh'rsh

oil = oy'yull ... (oy/oie, as in.. soy or toy)

theater/theatre = thee'uh'tur ('th' as in.. thought, think, thistle. not the hard 'th' as in this, that, those)

iron = iy'ern

salmon = sae'mon (ae sound..as in apple, ant)

caramel = care-eh-mel or cahr-ah-mel (care (long A sound) as in .. april, bear, swear, ape, air.. car (short a sound) as in.. tar, far)

fire = fiy'yr (the silent 'e' at the end makes the 'i' vowel long)

water = wah'tdur ... yes folks, here it is.. the American English alveolar tap. and you didn't think we had one. lol! it's like.. the tip of the tongue goes up to the edge of the ridge in the upper part of your mouth and 'taps' or briefly slides against it to make the 'tduh' sound that isn't quite a 'd', a 't', nor is it quite an 'L' sound either. I have been told, its a bit like butter is for the British English.. and is much like the Japanese 'r'. (which sounds nothing like an 'r' to me.)

sure = sh-err (some people make it sound more like shohr)

data = day'tah (some people make it sound a bit more like dahtah)

ruin = r'oo'ihn

crayon = cray'on

New Orleans = New-Or'lins (some call it New-Or'lee'ons)

pecan = pihk'kahn (some say pee'kaehn)

both = bohth

again = ah'gehn

probably = prohb-ah-blee

spitting image = spihting ihmaj

Alabama = Aeleh'baem'ah

lawyer = loy'er

coupon = koo'pahn

mayonnaise = may'oh'nayz (most just say may'oh. some call it mah'nayz)

syrup = sih'rup

pajamas = pah'jah'mahz (some just say pee-jays)

caught = koh't

naturally = nat'rehlee

aluminum = ah'loom-en'uhm

envelope = ehn-vehl-ohp


What is it called, when you use toilet paper on a house? TPing

what is the bug, that when you touch it, it curls into a ball? taterbug or pillbug

what is the bubbly carbonated drink called? coke/soda or softdrink

what do you call gym shoes? sneakers or tennis shoes

what do you say to address a group of people? hello or hiya!

what do you call a spider, or spider-like creature that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs? daddy-long-legs or harvester spider

what do you call you're grandparents? grandma and grandpa.. or grandpapa

what do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket? grocery buggy/cart or basket

what do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? rainshine or foxrain

what is the thing you change the tv channel with? (not that I have one but..) the remote or godbox

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Toilet tag ?!!

1. Spray things that you like.. hmm ok..

shhht .. I like hot chocolate n marshmallows on chilly days.
shht .. I like Chai tea, english style! (with milk and sugar)
shhht .. I also like manga and graphic novels
shhht *cof* I Love peach cobbler!
shhhht .. I like jpop, tpop, and kpop music... like kat-tun, 183 club, and mblaq
shht .. I like comedic film.
shht .. I like cats.
shhht *cofcof* and I love asian Dramas!


2. how does it smell?

A bit overwhelmingly of cuddles and giggles... with a hint of vanilla citrus.


3. draw a youtuber with your eyes closed.


I don't actually have to say who I believe this to be, right?


4. what is the last thing you bought. why did you buy it?

last thing I bought... groceries.. because I was getting hungry.
But the last non-food, non-household, thing I bought was a kanji book.


5. show us your toilet area.
How about i describe it instead? a room large enough to have 2 oval sinks, a toilet, and a tub/shower with glass doors. beside the toilet on the floor, is a brush, and the occasional household cleaner. in the window sill, right next to it, (left side) is shampoo-ish items and the toiletpaper. on the sills of both mirrors over the sinks, toothbrush holder, hairbrush, and liquid soap container. in tub sills, shampoo, soap, and back brush. Next to the tub, behind the door, is a built in cupboard, where I mostly keep beauty and hair stuff. general theme of the room is.. uhh... white walls, grey linoleum floor and the stray towel or two at any given time.


6. flush one thing you want to delete from the world.

only one thing? *mumble* stingy *mumblemumble* ok
The whole 'rat race' concept..and by it, having to fight against a constant catch22, which keeps you struggling just to stay in one spot. *flushhhh* ....


7.show us your best faces.

>.> <-- innocent askance eyes
:P <-- raspberry
:D <-- I thought it was funny
XD <-- laughing hysterically
^ ^ <-- cute smiling eyes
o.o <-- surprised face
-.- <-- not amused face


8. who do you tag?

good question... I would tag Mesh and her sis, but dunno that I'd ever see a reply to it. Ditto for Darkelfie and her sister. so.. ok.. I'll tag Aztaro! .. and you as well, dear reader! send me a link to yer blog when you have completed it ok? I'd luv to read it!

all 'tag' rules apply.. in a guideline sort of way. don't over-gross it, don't off-topic spam it, do be creative with your answers. do have fun with it. thankyouverymuch (Elvis has now left the blog!)