Token Female Gamer

This is brilliant! These folks figured out how to make a wedding album worth sharing.

http://mlkshk.com/p/69H1

The 9.0 Earthquake in Japan is an incredible tragedy and the true fall out from this destruction will be felt for generations to come.

As Japan is one of my favorite places on earth, I have a particular need to help them!

Here are some resources to find out ways to help/donate:

Charity Navigator – only reputable charities
Red Cross – Japan charity
http://www.japansociety.org/earthquake

Here are some links other than the media to help keep track of what is going on:

Green Action – for  a nuclear free japan – tracking the nuclear events
Tokyo lives – blog report out of Tokyo (goodish news)
Save the Japanese Dolphins Report on the event

My thoughts are with all the people struggling in Japan.

How do people manage to post stuff about stuff every day, sometimes upwards of ten times a day! I’ve got nothing!! Down on inspiration.

/sigh

Reading ten a month has been a bit of a challenge, nine seems to be more my number. Ah well. Will just plod along and continue my attempt at ten each month.
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Inspired by the changing hues of the Fall season, October’s is nicknamed Literary Colors Challenge.
The goal is to read 10 books whose covers match predominantly the colors listed.
One of each: Orange, Red, Brown, Green, Black, Yellow, Purple, Pink, Blue, Silver/Gray

In generally I try to avoid personal stuff on the website, but every now and then a few life bits just have to be shared. Like today; mostly because I feel bad about not having posted in a while.

I’ve been feeling pretty bunk lately, which means I have almost no motivation to write (<– not something that comes naturally to me, it requires many swift kicks in the ass to complete!) So when I’m not feeling great its even harder for me to get my act together. Thus the lack of posting. Anyway I’m dealing with that whole thing and am finally feeling better.

Plus at the beginning of the month we fell into fostering a lovely high school senior for the year. By fell I mean it was not premeditated, but this lovely young lady needed a place to call home and for some crazy reason decided that we were worthy. Its been a whirl wind and I have found myself enchanted, terrified, confused, mortified, and quite amused. She fits into our life well, like she was supposed to be here anyway. =)

The whole experience also reminds me of how happy I am not to be a teenager anymore.

<3 TFG

June was a total bust, only read seven books!!

July wasn’t shaping up to be much better with all the traveling and such, but I contracted a mild stomach flu and spent the past few days listless yet not so incapacitated I couldn’t read. Thus I am chugging right along on my July stack. (See how I am trying for a silver lining on my being sick during vacation?) Then again most months that I am ahead I space out half way through and have to scrounge at the end. =)

Ten books a month is a lot to read and I find that I’m struggling with getting enough sleep and finishing all my books. Sadly the best reading time for me is also the best sleeping time. Ah well, I’m still well on track to read 100 books this year.

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Its that time of the month again where I whip out my paranormal smut and call it a reading list.
The theme for this months literary jello shot is:

The goal is to read 10 books chosen from the “Read” shelf of 10 GR friends of the participant.

So I actually looked at my too read pile and found books that my GoodReads friends had already read. Might have cheated a bit, but its good for the pile. Besides I only managed nine books last month. Must get a crackin!

Token Female Gamer’s favorite books »

Our Sunday was spent amongst the mass of people, sixty thousand strong, at Maker Fair. I will venture to say that it was crowded, and it took me about an hour to find parking, but every second of discomfort was worth it to see the incredible inventions of these amazing people.

It was our first time going and we were not really prepared. Turns out almost the entire event was held outside. Yeah I read convention hall and figured no need for sunscreen and hats.

And one day? What were we thinking??? It was not nearly enough time to experiance the entire event.

We finally left the event sunburned and exhausted, but it was so incredibly worth it. People have made some crazy, ingenious, awesome, and beautiful stuff. And really I can’t not love an event where I can say: “Lets go see the burning thing over there!”

<3 TFG <– will be going next year, all weekend!!

I just slept twenty two hours out of the last thirty six. It is incredible how much I can not get done while I’m sleeping. To make matters worse I was exhausted for the twelve hours I was awake. Hell I’m exhausted now, which means I should probably be sleeping. UGH.

It almost feels like my inner seventeen year old has reared its ugly head. I sleep all the time and am incredibly moody when I’m awake. To say I was happy to leave that whole thing behind is a rather large understatement.

Hopefully I can sleep my way back to my current age. =P

<3 TFG

One of the perks of running TFG.com myself, is that I get to see all sorts of fascinating information about who visits the site. Oh nothing incriminating like credit card numbers, street addresses, or porn viewing history. Its mostly just statistics about where people are from, how many views each post garners, and so forth.

The section, “Last Search Terms”, logs when people reach the site via a search engine. It also logs what their search criteria was. How people find there way here is incredibly intriguing, often also hilarious, strangely off topic, or confusing.
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