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Posted: 19th May 2005
Kia ora from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Hows life in Canada..things here are very crooooozie, oozing with the natural throb of life...
Peace,
Huia.
Mauao twirlers fire group
Aotearoa.

Loving your life...loving your planet...loving yourself.

Posted: 19th May 2005
Hellos!

lovely to meet you and welcome to Hop

Getting to the other side

Posted: 19th May 2005
Woah!!! Now THAT's an intro, I'm impressed!

Welcome to HoP!!

My state of mind is not yours to define!

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

Posted: 19th May 2005

Thanks for the welcome you guys!
Good to meet you...

**Bird, would you happen to be crazy by any chance? :-)
Glad you enjoyed my intro!

smiles,
Andrea

wherever you go, there you are

Posted: 19th May 2005
hello and welcome!

x

Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering...

Posted: 20th May 2005
Crazy?? Me??

Of course I am!! Isn't everyone??

My state of mind is not yours to define!

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

Posted: 20th May 2005
hey wow, ive never met another Rowan before dyu get the same grief as me, the 'isn't that usually a boys name?' and the old original 'row row row your boat' .....?!

Posted: 20th May 2005
Hello

Nice intro!!

So you like the colour purple (well you said purpleness)? Do you like pink aswell?

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...

Posted: 20th May 2005
That's one wicked intro!



My mates Mom is called Rowan too

Let's relight this forum

Posted: 20th May 2005
y0! Congratulations, because I anti-hate you!!

I think that might be the longest into post I've ever seen.

-James

"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"

Posted: 20th May 2005
That's a wonderful intro post Andrea! Love your efforts in Thailand and appreciate you sharing the happenings (from the other post, Oud etc.) Warmest welcome to ya

Posted: 20th May 2005
Hi ya!
Pink- uhhmn. How to put this delicately... Uhmn. Sorry, no. Kinda hate it a bit.
But it is close to purple, and if ya squint, maybe... well, as long as no one makes me wear it! In fact, I have a few items of PINK things I would be happy to give you...


Lilune- Yeah, got the boy name thing a bit. But most who know me by that name think of the tree first...


Sparkey-Sorry for being the longest intro on record! Yikes! I Have to much time to think right now. And type. Must break free of computer


Bird- You are right! everyone is crazy! Now why didn't I realize that
* wanders off, smiling, liberated from her futile search for the sane...*


hugs to you all

wherever you go, there you are

Posted: 20th May 2005
hello

i just noticed your (excellent! ) intro, though id pop in and say hello

i wish you well in your search for the sane, in the meantime, i hope you enjoy the un-sane

Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no

Posted: 21st May 2005
Yes indeed hello and welcome. Your post on Thailand was a great way to introduce yourself!

Lots of time on the computer eh?!?! Too much!!! Oh dear, then abandon HoP immediately!!!!!!!! SO addictive, making new friends and following chats and controversies. I sometimes dip into the technical threads but like you I find any talk of antispin floral arrangements with hyperwrap double head jobs quite unintelligible. I am proably a crap spinner in any case, and a terribly slow learner, but I like it !!! I hope to do some travelling again int he next year or so.. maybe see you on your beautiful island!!

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Posted: 21st May 2005
Hiya Andrea, yes we have met, I've been to your house, for one of Nicks retreats, back in the summer of 2003. I was the guy with that skanky blue van, the guy that painted hats for a living. ( the van is gone now, after 11 years of service, replaced by a shiny new red one, but it's still owned by firespinners )



whips, purpleness, feather boas?? do tell



We host a meet in Beacon Hill park every Sunday night ,,,feel free to drop by, it's everyone welcome. or send me a pm if you want to get together for a spin. I don't have alot of time this time of year, being tourist season and all but you can usually find me spinning in Bastion Square Wednesdays through Sundays,,,,most of the day.



edited to say " check us out on the web
EDITED_BY: stout (1116682471)

Posted: 21st May 2005
And me, I'm 52 (and rising!)

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Posted: 21st May 2005
David!
I remember you! Fabulous to meet again...So glad the spinning goes well... I barely recall a skanky Van? Hmmn. How could I have missed that? I will definately find my way to a Beacon hill fire jam in the near future, as I think I am dating someone from there( Vic) . Well, not just think, I am !! but not sure if I will continue... ( as I am supposed to be marrying someone else in the near future;-))
That means most of the whip stuff will be kept private for just now, suffice to say I like the leather...

Boas however, I will enjoy with anyone! If fact, I shall wear one when next we meet ( I will keep a spare in the car just in case the occasion arises...) N will likely do a workshop here this summer, wanna join us? I'd love to see how you have improved . I am starting fire and drum jams here next month too! Wicked.

Newgabe, thanks again. Sounds like Thailand is also close to your heart? Do you go often? I am doing a presentation and discussion around the work going on there, and fundraising and development issues, tonight. Quite nervous actually,, wondering if anyone will come, or if too many and it will be a zoo! I am also feeling mixed up about even talking about some of the expereinces, since they are pretty intense, and my heart still hurts.

Here, it is easy to sort of take a break by being detached, but if I get into it I will have to feel it, and not sure I want to do that right now. I think I underestimated the effect that trip would have on me personally! It was full of golden moments, but on an energetic level very complicated some days.


Yeah, I might just have to leave Hop and break the deal before addiction sets in... Right now circumstances have me with time on my hand and feeling a little crazy with physical limitations, but normally I am never still long enough to be with my computer!

Talk more later, happiness to you!

here's to the happenning old folks!

wherever you go, there you are

Posted: 21st May 2005
Oh yeah, Stout, yes, I do speak Thai...

wherever you go, there you are

Posted: 21st May 2005
Hey Andrea.. I have only been to Thailand briefly and some time ago. But my son (Dave..*Knoxious*) and his mate (DImitri...*Fluid Druid*) go there a lot and know Oud well. Di went contact juggling on a Thai TV talent quest a few years ago.. as did some of Oud's Bangkok street kids... and they won! Bulk baht!!! Proving the value of training the kids to have another way to earn their living rather than the nasties that would usually be their only option. Di has been back to Kho Phi Phi this year to help clean up. ANd another freind of mine is involved setting up kindergarten and mosque and loos and other essentials in her husbands village in Aceh, so I have been following a few close to home stories about reconstruction...

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Posted: 21st May 2005
Wow! I am so in love with your sons mate!(Dimitri sp?)


I met him( for around five seconds,well, okay a day or so) he was begging to be kidnapped so he could miss his flight, and I almost, almost, did! It really is a small world. I met him through Oud too, and another pal there, Jo. Great guys. I think I heard about the contact juggling thing from one of them too! Cool.

Strange to get on a site this huge and find so many connections. Some kind of semi-conscious synchronicity I guess.


I was so warmed by all the work people were doing to help. It was very beautiful! Lots of hard work going on, with the best of motivations. Compassion in action!


Do you spin with you son? Does he perform with Flame Oz too? That must be so much fun!

hope you are having a brilliant day! I am all set for my presentation tonight, so feeling more ready. A very cool belly dancer I want to work with says she will be coming tonight too, so maybe after we can shake things up with some serious tribal dance!

You mentionned Hop addiction... Does the abnormal fascination for the little moving emoticons Graemlins pass? I am hoping its just a stage...
smiles,
Andrea

wherever you go, there you are

Posted: 21st May 2005
hey, welcome to hop! how did your presentation go? i have to agree with the whole, 'best intro' statement, it was really nice to read a post like that
have a good night!

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Creater of Jenisms(TM)
Virginity like bubble,one prick all gone.

Posted: 21st May 2005
Sorry, Andrea, once the gremlins have got you, there's no way back!!!

Not surprised you're in lurve with Di!!! WHo isn't!!! Move over baby!!!!! Di is my adopta son... stays here in the summer and we hope he can make Australia his home in the next few years. Yeah, my boy Dave is a great spinner, also in FlameOz.
www.flameoz.com has some piccies.. nice ones of Di too!

He's the tall one, often with red spikey hair.... they are somewhere crazy at the moment (Slovakia? Slovenia?) We just decided last night that my 14 year old daughter will go meet them in Ibiza in a few weeks so we're all a bit at the moment!!!

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....

Posted: 22nd May 2005
Hi LiquidBg! Nice to meet you, and thanks for the compliment about the intro...The presentation went well, small group but interesting people. It was emotional, but felt good to talk about it all with people who cared. Not as much progress on future development plans as I had hoped to start, but maybe that is just gestating right now... I am glad it is done.

I am off to the ferries to pick up a friend, Yipee! He is here for a few days, and tomorrow one of my favorite bands is playing, so much excitement and dancing ...

Oh, New Gabe, I am so jealous of the time you have with D! Can I come stay too? I will go to the site( drool) and get a visual on your son too... Trip to Ibiza sounds fantastic!
Good night, and pleasant dreams to all
( note : none of the little gremlins snuck in this time! Quick, I must escape...)

wherever you go, there you are

Posted: 15th Aug 2006
So tricky when your intro isn't attached to your nick!

Soo mm.. Wednesday afternoon- today's a public holiday in Brisbane thanks to the Ekka, which is this big funfair event- rides, showbags, farm animals, lots of people dressed like ranchhands, and a cold bug which everyone who goes seems to catch..

Still. I bet they haven't got painted deer!

Trust this afternoon finds you well!

Posted: 16th Aug 2006
RY! You found my thread! I forgot I even had it. Cool. I just posted in yours though, so not a lot to say right now.

This is Tuesday evening here, and I am a bit worn around the edges. Fraying...

Fun fair would be good.Hope you have a blast!!!

Fall fair coming up here, hokey but fun. I may enter a pumpkin in the contest, one of mine is quite huge and lovely. Apparently deer dont like the taste of pumpkin. Or maybe its size and violent orange colour is simply too intimidating?

Did I give you the word inchoate for your new list yet? And nefarious, I actually heard that word used by three different people, three different times today! Odd.

I wish my brain came with an off button.

hugs to you, thanks for finding me...
xoxo
a

"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."

Posted: 16th Aug 2006
mm..! I did notice the long lovely sex-in-the-salt-spring-city update post in mine.. thought I'd try to return the favour.. Gets a bit tricky when you're got an alter ego duplex personality

Didn't plan to go to the Ekka.. it was a bit too hectic for my own liking. And there weren't any crazy look-that-person-is-spinning-a-sock-with-a-ball-in-it types to go with.

So yes.. Wednesday afternoon here. Ended up doing a 20 minute before store shuts grocery dash, and managed to do a good $85 bill. About half a leisurely session.. not bad given the time constraints..

Pumpkin eh? *pictures you*:

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Inchoate.. yup... think you gave it to me. Still haven't ever used it spontaneously though.. it's one of those words I'm afraid to accidentally use wrongly and come off sounding like a snotty twat.. *checks to confirm definition*

Hey how do you like 'incipient'?

Posted: 16th Aug 2006
incipient scares me.Like the sound, but it is so ominous in its implications...

go on, sound like a snotty twat. I dare ya.

"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."

Posted: 17th Aug 2006
Ry darlin', I am putting together a bunch of words for the reconstitution of the lost list... Tune in to this here page tomorrow !





SOSS update...



Was supposed to go see a friend play guitar at the local cafe, and meet guy there. No, not a new man, an old one Got into town, stepped out of the car, and bam! ran into *current* country Boyfriend, (who I am confused about as per last missive, and is definately not a committed anything er, yet) He and I: smiles, chemistry, connection,-- me, panick,-- he is also going to meet the same friends ( this island is soooo small!!)He and I did not expect to see each other. Happy to see him, but confused. I suddennly get attacked by rampant insecurity and overwhelmed by his extreme gorgeousness, and do the sensible thing-- which is run away!



Eep!



Saying I will be back in 15 mins, after I have collected another pal from his place down the street. Get to the other friends place, who is getting riotously plastered all by his lonesome on his beach. Can't have that! So I start drinking a little with him, and one things lead to another, and the next thing you know it is the middle of the night, and my friend and I are having a hilarious wasted slightly x rated crazy ride in a random shopping cart around the back alleys...



Totally forgot to go back to the cafe until it was well closed and everyone gone. Oops.



OMG I am so hung over, laughing my head off, wondering how I can possibily explain to everyone that I was supposed to meet!



Hmmn, that reads as a confusing communication. Maybe I am still drunk. Use your imagination to fill in the gaps, hey?

"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."

Posted: 23rd Aug 2006
Trouble with me Ry, is , instead of being single, I am sort of multiple.



No, not multiple personality, multiple relationships! After, years of marriage and monogomy, I seem to have gone stark raving man mad.





You'd think that would be fun, but I dont really enjoy it.It is confusing. Nothing stagnant in my life, opposite problem in fact- dizzy with all the motion, constant change. I think that is why I am tired.



I need to ground myself. In so many ways.Working on it, but not easy to decide how and where and what and who to include in the process!



Relationships, well, sit down with some hot chocolate, heres the "Sex on Salt Spring "Update:



As you know, I have one gorgeous guy, who lives here, the country music one, who is my sometimes lover and ??? something undefined, but not a committed relationship whatever it is. We are different, like alien species. A complicated interaction , unpredicatable, sort of day by day. But we seem to bring each other a lot of joy together, regardless. I smile just thinking of him.He is lovely.



Still, nothing likely long term of it, if I am smart.Hard to resist though! Yet,he is not the right life partner for me. So, I am still dating others --as that opportunity manifests, which it seems to be doing a lot lately. Summer heat I guess. Multiples...



And a part of my heart is still in the UK and never came back to me after this last trip. But that is a different story.



Chapter Two:



There was this DJ that everyone was raving about, telling me I have to meet, etc etc.I have heard about him from friends in the electronic music world for ages.He is always described as shaman, with music as the healing force... People use words about him and what he does , like: clear, powerful, solid, integral, flow... very intriguing. So I heard he was here for an event, and I just said fine, go ahead, tell him to call me( thinking no one would actually just do that out of the blue, call some woman they have never seen or spoken too!)



And well, yup, of course, he did. I almost dropped the phone in shock. Regained composure( sorta) Saw him that night. Strong connection for me, left me feeling shaky and thoughtful all day. Magical: him, the swim ,the night, everything. It kind of paniked me really. I dove into the ocean naked , in the darkness,and it was like the water exploded into universes around me, stars and sparkles streaming on my skin. Astounding. Not like the tiny glows I have seen from phosporensce in the past- fireworks! Spectacular sensation. He said I looked like a mythical cross between an angel and a mermaid.



It was exhilarating, laughter and joy echoing all around the bay.



He is a man I could see myself with , long term, like forever, lifetimes... I would so love to even just find out. Curious. Only just met, but that is not at all how it feels. Dumb hey. I must be crazy. It is probably nothing.Imagination.



Tomorrow, we are going horse back riding- horse is one of his totem animals- then for morrocan dinner at mutual friends, then kayaking at night to see the phosphoresence again... Sigh.



The End:



Then, he leaves !!!! early Thursday morning. Knowing my life ,I will never see or hear from him again. He said last night how ironic it was, to finally, after so long, meet someone he feels strongly for, just as he leaves...

It could have been my observation- minus the irony- cause for me, that is sort of the state of my life the last few years. Everything in transition.

Dizzy.

Can this be real?Ridiculous. I am an idiot.



Apologies for the sappiness people, I am in strange head space. Why should this experience make me sad?Cause it is hopeless? Should I even go out with him tomorrow? What am I doing?!



Please share the story of your hellish stagnancy to make me feel better! Maybe make you feel better?



Can I shake it up some for you, rock the boat? Turn things upside down and see who falls out? I am good at that sort of mischeif ya know!





Pass some chocolate, people!

"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."

Posted: 23rd Aug 2006
*hands over the Green and Blacks* There you go hun.

Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!