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helena

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About Me

(thanks chicky :D)
**i was born in england, lived there, moving several times to different parts of the country with my family for nearly 18yrs, until i left home and country.. place of birth; cornwall: "The Cornish are Celtic cousins of the Welsh and the Bretons; the Irish and Scots are second cousins. The Cornish and Welsh people can rightly be called Britons; the English originally were Saxon, Angle, and Jute peoples from what is now the Denmark area of Europe that invaded Britain about the sixth century, occupied the flat, fertile farmlands of east and south Britain, and drove the Welsh to the mountains of Wales and the Cornish to the highlands of Cornwall. Wales in Saxon means stranger and Cornwall in Saxon means something like strange from the headlands or stranger from the highlands"
Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen

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*WHEN YOU'RE CHEWING ON LIFE'S GRISTLE, DON'T GRUMBLE, GIVE A WHISTLE!
*...IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND.....
ABOUT ME..HMMM..K..WELL, I LIKE ALL SORTS OF THINGS AND LOTS OF THEM.. AM AN ECLECTIC MIXTURE OF COEXISTING CONTRADICTIONS...I AM OVERLY EMPATHETIC YET CAN ALSO BE VERY COLD AND RESERVED, ESPECIALLY IF I SENSE CRUELTY, UNTRUTHS OR LACK OF RESPECT...AM VERY FORGIVING BUT ALSO DISTRUSTING...AM VERY IRREVERANT ABOUT NEARLY EVERYTHING, BUT IF A JOKE IS MEAN (EG. MAKING FUN OF SOMEONE DISABLED, ETC.) I AM ANGERED BY IT...I AM DISORGANIZED AND PERFECTIONIST, LOYAL AND TRUTHFUL AND STUBBORN.. WOULD RATHER COMPROMISE THAN HAVE CONFLICT, BUT AM STEADFAST IN STANDING UP FOR THE VULNERABLE AND FOR MY IDEA OF JUSTICE...I AM HONEST TO THE POINT OF SELF-DETRIMENT...I LOVE TO LAUGH..LOVE TO LEARN..I AM PROUD AND SELF RELIANT, HATE ACCEPTING ANYTHING FROM OTHERS, YET VERY MUCH APPRECIATE OTHERS FOR OFFERING... I AM LAID BACK ABOUT MUCH, BUT HAVE VERY STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT A FEW THINGS - ABOUT WHICH I AM HAPPY TO DISCUSS DIFFERENCES OF THOUGHT, IF EXCHANGED MATURELY.. I AM VERY SENSUAL BUT VERY GUARDED...I AM VERY ROMANTIC AND ALSO A CYNIC...I LOVE MODERN DAY CLEAN LINES AND THE FEEL AND SMELL OF ANTIQUES.. I LOVE THE FEEL AND SMELL OF BOOKS - OLD AND NEW.....I AM QUICK TO SHOW MERCY TO OTHERS, SLOW TO FORGIVE MYSELF...I AM LAZY BUT FEEL *ITCHY* WITHOUT A LOT OF STUFF ON THE GO...I AM VERY TOUGH BUT HAVE A VERY SOFT HEART...I CARE ABOUT PEOPLE BUT OFTEN SEEK COMPLETE SOLITUDE...I PROCRASTINATE BUT HATE BEING LATE...I LOVE THE CITY LIGHTS AND NOISE AND ENERGY, BUT THEN BEGIN TO FEEL DEADENED BY THE GREYNESS OF BUILDINGS AND CLAUSTROPHOBIC BY THE THRONGS... AM HAPPIER SURROUNDED BY TREES AND BY WATER, ESPECIALLY THE OCEAN, ALTHOUGH I WOULDN'T DESCRIBE MYSELF AN ACTIVE CONSERVATIONIST AND AM JUST AS LIKELY TO BE FOUND CURLED UP INSIDE WITH A BOOK AS OUTSIDE ENJOYING NATURE...I LOVE A CLEAN COMFY HOTEL ROOM, THE PAMPERING AND LUXURY..AND THE BUMPY ROUGHNESS OF CAMPING, GRITTY AND SANDY AND SWEET FRESH AIR..I LOVE TO PLEASE SOMEONE I LOVE AND ACTIVELY SEEK OUT WHO THEY ARE TO DO SO BETTER..I LOVE FEW BUT LIKE MANY...I AM INCREDIBLY PROTECTIVE OF THOSE I CARE ABOUT...I MEAN WHAT I SAY, AND BELIEVE WORDS ARE POWERFUL AND SHOULD NOT BE USED LIGHTLY...BUT, I DON'T ALWAYS SAY WHAT I FEEL IF IT WOULD BE HARMFUL - IE. I DON'T LIE...I'D RATHER JUST PREVARICATE OR AVOID THE ISSUE... I HATE HURTING PEOPLE BUT AM NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT A LOT OF THE TIME...I AM SILLY AND NUTTY BUT FIND IT HARD TO BE FRIVALOUS WITH FLIRTATIONS...I AM INTENSE BUT THE LITTLEST THINGS CAN MAKE ME LAUGH...I AM HARDLY EVER SOLEMN BUT AM SOMETIMES TOO SERIOUS..I AM A MODERN WOMAN WITH A MEDIEVAL TWIST...I OVER-RATIONALIZE AND OVER-THINK AND LOVE PIZZA.. I CAN BE VERY QUIET AND INTROSPECTIVE, OR JUST BLURB ON AND ON..(...DIDJA NOTICED YET? LOL ;P)
i'm not overly *in* to astrology, but the following is actually a pretty close description of me, i guess:
What is your TRUE astrology sign?
You are a Scorpio, born in the midst of fall. Your
sign is the sign of transformation. You think
very deeply, and people usually don't know the
real "you". You are determined,
protective, focused, brilliant, self-sufficent,
magnetic, brave, unbreakable, open-minded,
loyal, strong, and sensitive!!
Unlike other
signs you have three, yes three, symbols; 1) an
eagle,which soars high, is proud, and very
protective. 2) a magical phoenix, with the
ability of rebirth(through the greatest challenges of life). 3) and finally a scorpion, whose fierce loyalty makes a great friend and seeks revenge when betrayed!! The scorpion also symbolizes self-defense and self-protection!
-and your best love matches are a virgo, cancer, pisces, or a taurus
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My Interests

my first love is my family (click on photos to see us.. and our twin clones, hehe ;) taken dec 2005)my first passion is theatre - the directing, makeup, design, special effects, acting.. all of it.. spent most of my life BK (Before Kids ;) ) within it.. i miss it and plan to get back to it as soon as feasibly possible...//i enjoy reading, as explained.. art - sketching, some painting - acrylics mostly... and people.. i do enjoy learning about people, although i often have the urge to hermitize* myself, i find that people are intriguing and interesting..everyone has a tale, everyone has had a different life to experience... //words, i think words are powerful and fascinating... and, as well as being one of the best aphrodisiacs around...are fun to play with* (like hermitize...hehe) ;) //life, in all its glory - challenges and joys.. i feel life should be enjoyed as much as possible right here, right now... that our contentment in life is mostly our choice, our attitude..//

I'd like to meet:

mark twain, he cracks me up...//however, as i've heard he's kinda cold and standoffish lately, i guess people with whom i can share laughter and fun discussions//not looking for romance on the web //

PLEASE DON'T FRIEND REQUEST UNLESS WE HAVE HAD SOME KIND OF CONTACT BEFOREHAND..EITHER WITHIN A GROUP OR BY MAIL..THANK YOU.

Music:

i have quite an eclectic assortment of musical likes, including certain rap, metal, reggai, country songs etc... but i do enjoy a lot of the older stuff - soft rock, classic rock, jazz.... ummm soppy stuff - like 10cc and airsupply and bread... like that classification? "soppy stuff" comes right after "rock" in the musical classification section...;P//oh yeah and i love some of the Barenaked Ladies hits... ahem, YES, the group! :P Barenaked Ladies

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Movies:

old black and whites....princess bride...dirty rotten scoundrels...monty python*, especially search for the holy grail and life of brian...don juan de marco (johnny depp, faye dunaway and marlon brando - how can you lose?)...life is beautiful... cabaret (LOVED the irony)..the pirates of penzance (the 1983 version; delightful)... the original pink panther movies...one flew over the cuckoos nest...maverick....fawlty towers*...it's a wonderful life...alfie (1&2)...mary poppins...black adder*...schindler's list.....alfred hitchock* (any of his really, i love suspense and his directing was masterful)....ah, lots.. :) (*was also from tv... onceuponatime) ..and a couple of recent movies; casino royale - mostly for the shower scene - very romantic... and "Hot Fuzz", i found Very funny, tho' the rest of the audience didn't seem to agree.. hehe ;p (as you might tell i thoroughly enjoy "british" humour/shows most of the time.. could have something to do with being "british" i guess.. some of the other heretofore unmentioned individual comedians are dame edna everage (ok, so she's australian.. close enough.. *ducking as all the aussies throw koalas at me*..hehe) and eddie izzard to mention a couple..what has this to do with films you ask? notta lot..but there's no space in sight for "funnypeeps".. so i just created one.. :)

Television:

it doesn't have a space for favourite plays... well i've gotta include "the importance of being earnest" somewhere, simply because it's SO delightfully ironic...back to tv, some of the shows i currently enjoy when i remember when they're on, lol, are: Monk, House, Heroes, Ugly Betty, BSG, Psych, Little Britain, Ali G, Deal or no Deal/1 vs 100, Extreme makeover - house edition and some documentary/forensic/crime type shows when they interest me.. some of the shows i enjoy with the kids are Jimmy Neutron, SixTeen, Planet Sketch (funny), Simpsons, Fairly Oddparents.. but i can go days without watching the boobtube too, with not too many withdrawal symptoms, lol ;p (..i much prefer books)

Books:

i'm a voracious reader, love it... mostly fiction... lots of mysteries of any type and author.. enjoy historical works too... actually most any genre where there are empathetic characters and believable (within context, thus fantasy and scifi are fun too..) story lines... i do enjoy some factual books too - esp on medieval history, world religions, philosophy etc..(all of which i'm lucky to be able to include in my studies.. :D)i also love reading certain plays, esp. by Shakespeare and Wilde and others of that ilk (and if you find a connecting *ilk-age* you really may be enroute to my particular isle of insanity.. :D)some of my favourite authors are CS Lewis, P cornwell, D francis, I asimov, E blyton, J Joyce, Kellerman (both husband and wife), N marsh, A christie, O wilde, S king, M twain, PG wodehouse....i love shakespeare bestest and martha grimes is just wonderful... ah man, i dunno.. i could go on forever, coz there's a forever amount of books.. plus a lot of single books by bazillions of authors that i've enjoyed too...i loved the Dune books, Dragonlance books, LOTR's, and a trilogy i just finished was about Cornwall in england in the 1800's which i v much enjoyed..

Heroes:

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my little loves.... my eldest now, shorter hair.. last year before outing, dressed the same for ease of identifying.. lol little b last year... youngest two.. halloween last year :)

other heroes - those who lay their lives on the line for others.. whether it's in the military, fire department, paramedics, police.... any who sacrifice of themselves for the betterment of others in any way....and those who bear their lot of suffering with grace, whose concern is for those around them....

so many heroes within each minute of every day.....

My Blog

i spoke to my mum today!

a couple of days ago she was so bad they took her to intensive care... there'd been several times it looked like she wasn't gonna make it, and ever since she got so sick and was admitted the nigh...
Posted by helena on Thu, 24 May 2007 07:58:00 PST

all the world..

a quote from "As you Like it", by William Shakespeare.. and a lil message from me at the end.. did late last night.. ..i still have remnants of this cough/cold thing which results in a run...
Posted by helena on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:41:00 PST

mum

please pray for my mum, i just found out she's been admitted to the hospital in england, the same one my dad was in ...and for strength for my sister who went back there from austr...
Posted by helena on Thu, 17 May 2007 06:52:00 PST

watcha'

thanks for the queries, i'm still kicking it, just from my bed as much as possible, whilst still looking after my bairns... i'm a little on the yucky-sick side at the moment i'm sure it'll r...
Posted by helena on Tue, 15 May 2007 12:32:00 PST

how am i doing..

thank you for all the caring queries and concern, dear luvs.. it's strange, this grieving thing.. it's not at all predictable or consistant...hard to grasp ahold of.. i don't know how i'm doing... mos...
Posted by helena on Sat, 05 May 2007 08:35:00 PST

.....

please see my update on tail-end of previous blog re. current circumstances, if interested...too wiped out to add more now...
Posted by helena on Thu, 03 May 2007 08:25:00 PST

quick stop-by on my way out...

my sister just called me from australia, she told me that dad's taken a turn for the worse and isn't expected to live.. they couldn't wake him this morning.. please pray for him, that it will be a pe...
Posted by helena on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:38:00 PST

absence... and not just mental neither.. ;p

hello chookiepigs (a pet family name, you should feel honoured.. and no, *oinking* is not required..) i know i've been more absent than usual lately, for which i either apologize or accept your thanks...
Posted by helena on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:22:00 PST

leavin' on a jet plane...

well okay, so no, i'm not...not actually doing the jetplane or leaving thing... i'm just hangin' around ye olde canuckville still.. but i won't be around much these next few weeks and couldn't th...
Posted by helena on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:43:00 PST

the spider and the fly.. me video..child friendly ;p hehe

(aka: "an ironic commentary about life, the internet and everything... part deux"..to misquote "the hitchiker's guide"...hehe)  ...
Posted by helena on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:17:00 PST