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Divanni

Location: Ottawa, Canada
Birthday: 6/12/1980
Gender: Female

Interests: Photography, Music and movies (I work in an HMV music store), writing, reading, sketching very poorly, going for lazy walks in the evening, shopping in the downtown markets, spending time with TforThomas, enjoying the company of friends, and weekend Bar-B-Q's with family in the summer.
Expertise: I wouldn't say I'm an expert in any one thing. I think I'm fairly skilled as a photographer, I have a decent knowledge of a wide variety of musical genres, I'm really good at run-on sentences, and I'm hoping that all my research and intuition will make me a darn good Mom!
Occupation: Sales
Industry: Retail

Message: message me

Member Since: 4/22/2005

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Thursday, January 04, 2007

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Raffi in Concert with the Rise and Shine Band
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

For those of you who I didn't get a chance to say hi to over the holidays, "Hi, how was your holiday? Did you do anything wonderful? Did Santa treat you well?"

I was on holiday, inside my wonderful four walls by myself the week before Christmas. Thom took the munchkin up North to see her Grandma and Grandpa Hutch in Timmins. I, however, stayed in Ottawa to work my stupid late shifts at HMV. (over the holidays they have late shifts to restock the shelves, and make the store look pretty) I didn't have to deal with all of the CRAZY Christmas shoppers though, and wasn't forced to listen to those crappy Christmas songs that every pop singer thinks they have to subject us to.

So got a lot of sleep that I needed to catch up on, and before I knew it, Thom and Aelan came home and we had Christmas at my folks house. We all got spoiled considering we weren't going to go overboard this year, and ate a lot of good food. Oh, and I made my first gingerbread house. I was lucky it didn't turn out to be a gingerbread shack, and that I wasn't tempted to eat all the candy.

Ta-dah!

Aelan in her new Christmas dress and Thom shortly after the 12 hour bus ride back from Timmins.

Da Tree! and my Baba.

My sweeties!

So New Year's was really low key. We had one of Thom's coworkers over with his girlfriend and watched Creepshow (a hell of a lot of fun, especially when you aren't exactly sober, hehe.) We were so into it that we didn't even realize the time until we heard the neighbours screaming down the hall. After that we watched a little Alfred Hitchcock Presents. At 3:00 we went to bed and didn't wake up until late in the morning.

So I hope all of you are well, and as for my New Year's resolution...ah, nobody ever sticks to them anyway!

Divanni

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

The Return of the Missing Divanni

I know it's been a long time...so long I can't remember, but I've been held prisoner in the most horrid of places.

Shortly after my last post, I started receiving some disturbing mail. At first it started out as what I thought was someone playing a joke. They read like those notes you see in movies like "I can see you" and "I know where you live."

I didn't think much of it until they started changing into "Why aren't you paying attention to me?" and "Do you not hear me screaming?"

I told Thom about it but he thought I was a little too paranoid, then the worst happened. I was taken from my sleep and thrown into the trunk of a car. I was driven to an unknown location about 5 hours outside of Ottawa, and when I entered the building my blindfold was removed and I saw this.

Right away I became afraid for my life. A man wearing a black mask lead me down the hall into a small chamber and I was sat down opposite a very unique wall of family photos.

You could understand the alarm that was ringing in my head and screaming at me to find a way out of this place.

A man then came into the room, sat down in front of me and said...

"So what do you think of my home?"

I sat there dumbstruck, trying to figure out what the right thing to say would be.

"I've been working on the decor..." he said thoughtfully "but it needs a little work."

I asked him what this had to do with me, and he explained that he had heard how much I loved Halloween, and thought that I might be able to come up with a few ideas of what to do to spice up the place.

"If I help you, will you release me?" I asked.

"Why, of that you can be sure!"

Assuming I had no other choice I agreed to help this creepy man "fix up" the place a bit. I only came up with a few things though.

A few spooky touches and a portrait seemed to please him.

I asked him, as he was about to release me

"Why didn't you just ask for my help? Why did you write those threatening letters to me?"

"But I never wrote you any letters my dear!"

"Well someone had to!"

Then I was let in on the whole thing.

"Maybe someone within your own household wrote you those letters" he said. "And maybe that someone also recommended you to me as well"

I was in shock when I came to the realization that it was, in fact, my very own....

DAUGHTER!

Okay, in all honesty, I've just been lazy about Xanga. I'm back at work part time on the weekends at HMV, and spending the rest of my week with Aelan and my housekeeping. The past month has been fun because Thom and I have been Decorating our home in preparation for Halloween. (and by the way, all of the photos are from our efforts except for the skeleton catacomb)

Hope everyone has been well over the last few months.
I'll try to be around more often!
Divanni

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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Your Dominant Intelligence is Musical Intelligence

Every part of your life has a beat, and you're often tapping your fingers or toes.
You enjoy sounds of all types, but you also find sound can distract you at the wrong time.
You are probably a gifted musician of some sort - even if you haven't realized it.
Also a music lover, you tend to appreciate artists of all kinds.

You would make a great musician, disc jockey, singer, or composer.

I'm also this...

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well.
An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly.
You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view.
A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary.

You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

I'm promising an entire post tomorrow! Lame, I know, but I'm sleepy.

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Sunday, May 14, 2006

	Happy Mother's Day to all the lovely mothers out there in the Xanga world. I wish all of you breakfast in bed, hugs and kisses, and a lovely day with your family.
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Saturday, May 13, 2006

ANNUAL NEOLOGISM CONTEST (I love it every year! Enjoy)

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.) the person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.) appalled over how much weight you have gained.

3. Abdicate (v.) to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade (v.) to attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly (adj.) impotent.

6. Negligent (adj.) describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.

7. Lymph (v.) to walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash (n.) a rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle (n.) a humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude (n.) the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon (n) a Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster (n.) a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism (n.) (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent (n.) an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

The Washington Post's Style Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:

1. Bozone (n.) The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

2. Cashtration (n.) The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

3. Giraffiti (n) Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

4. Sarchasm (n) The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

5. Inoculatte (v) To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

6. Hipatitis (n) Terminal coolness.

7. Osteopornosis (n) A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

8. Karmageddon (n) It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

9. Decafalon (n.) The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

10. Glibido (v) All talk and no action.

11. Dopeler effect (n) The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

12. Arachnoleptic fit (n.) The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

13. Beelzebug (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

14. Caterpallor (n.) The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature:

Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an a__hole.

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