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Okay, so a few nights ago, someone in my mothers household left the door to the house unlocked. And because of this, the wind knocked the door open. In the process both of our cats got outside. Fortunately my sister and her friend were able to get one of the two cats back indoors safely. Unfortunately, the other cat is now missing entirely. So we have to deal with this somehow.

My mother has been to the animal shelter to report our missing cat and to look to see if Tiger Lily is at the Animal Shelter. Unfortunately no luck as of the moment. She also is leaving food out for Tiger Lily in hopes that it might lure her back to the house at some point. Additionally we are hoping for Rain, because Tiger Lily does not like to be wet. However so far no such luck.

So life goes on, unfortunately it is without one of the families favorite cats. I was afraid something like this was going to happen ; ;

Okay, well I thought I would update those who are viewing this as to my various blogs.... so far I have 4 primary blogs:

myspace blog

Live Journal Blog

Blogspot Blog

Facebook Blog

The last of which is linked to my livejournal blog... I will be reposting this in each of the three unlinked blogs so people can find me :D

Geez, did the Gods have it out for me or something. I am not sure but they may want me to lose all connections to Christianity, or they may also want me to bridge the gap between my CR and Christianity... who knows? Either way the dream I had was really weird:

I dreamt I was me, except I was at home calling into a televangelist to give him a piece of my mind during one of his sermons. Except everything I tried to say to this Televangelist, the guy turned around. He basically said "So the reason you have no hope is because you are without God" to which I replied "I have hope, just not with your God!" It was at that point that I woke up. But I did get the blueprint of the Televangelists church, there was a John 3:16 Courtyard, as well as a huge stage from which he did his services. It was possibly the biggest Church I had seen.

Suffice to say, I have a feeling this is a message from the Gods that I need to bridge the gap between CR and Christianity, or something along those lines. But I am not sure, any input would be appreciated.

This Paper is published by Mathew John Borckardt, it is a rough draft of a paper for his English 1302 class

In Ancient Times as well as modern times, a majority of the cultures around the world have always hoped for an afterlife. A belief in the afterlife (or lack there of) is one of the crucial founding principles of a particular culture. It helps define who people are, and it helps define how those people will behave in critical situations.

 

I went to the North Texas Irish Festival. I got to see Celtic Spirit perform, they were a magnificent group ^.^

I also obtained a lovely Porcelin Necklace with Brigid (Brigantia is what they said her name was), on it. Suffice to say I plan on wearing it at all times that I am awake. I also obtained a beginner's Tin Whistle and practice book. The Whistle is made out of Brass, and is in the "key of C" I do believe. However I fully intend to make an effort at learning how to play it.

Additionally I registered to recieve an email from a group of people in my area who are working on teaching each other the Gaelic Language. So I should be able to attend these classes fairly soon and learn Gaelic fairly soon ^.^

Okay, so my Father has done some research. He has tracked our family almost all the way back to the 13th Generation from present! In all that he has found the following people:

Matilda Mottram, born in County Cork, Ireland in around 1832.... she is my 4xGreat-Grandmother. The family history does not specify if her father was also born in Ireland or not. This is something I will have to inquire about to learn more about.

Jane Forster (or Forester), born in Ireland on April 13th, 1746.... she is my 6xGreat-Grandmother. Like Matilda, the Family History does not specify where her father was born.

Mary (unknown Surname) (married to William Forster), born in Ireland in 1731... she is my 7xGreat-Grandmother. Because I don't know this womans last name, it is impossible to track whether her family came from Ireland originally or not.

Hugh McCrary (married to Susannah Whitaker), most likely Born in Ireland (unknown date)... he is my 7xGreat-Grandfather. I would assume since McCrary is a clan name, that Hugh and his family originally hale from one of the British Islands, and it would seem Ireland or Scottland would be the most likely candidates.

William Whitaker, Born in Dublin, Ireland (unknown Date)... he is my 8xGreat-Grandfather... This is about where the family history begins to die off. I do not know anything about William Whitaker's parents. So it would be impossible to say whether his family is from the Islands or not.

So it would appear that I do have some history in the land of Ireland. More research is definitely needed before I can say for a certainty that my family traces back a long ways in Ireland. And there is no way I am willing to make any ascurtians (and yes I know I mispelled that) about the family history at this point. I am just glad to know there is some history in Ireland!

I am going to list the cards I need according to the decks that I need them for:

Legacy Burn Deck
4 Chain Lightning

Legacy Dragon Stompy Deck
To be announced....

Extended Affinity Deck
4 Pyrite Spellbomb
4 Pyrostatic Pillar
4 Trickbind (see also Rogue Deck)

Standard Rogue deck
2 Earwig Squad
2 Stinkdrinker Bandit
1 Oona's Blackguard
3 Pestermite
4 Spellstutter Sprite
3 Bad Moon
3 Nameless Inversion
1 Bitterblossom
4 Sudden Death
4 Trickbind (See also Affinity Deck)
4 Thorn of Amethyst

The Following is my List of Haves.....

Promo Cards
1 Firebolt - FNM
1 Earwig Squad - Morningtide Release

Foil Cards
1 Marit Lage Token
1 Nettlevine Blight
1 Merrow Reejery
1 Blades of Velis Vel
1 Needle Drop

Token Cards
1 Wasp Token
2 Goblin Rogue Tokens
1 Zombie Token
1 Merfolk Token
1 Elemental Token
1 Elf Warrior Token
2 Elemental Shaman Tokens
3 Kithkin Soldier Tokens

RARES:
Artifacts
1 Rings of Brighthearth
1 Whetwheel

Gold
1 Genju of the Realm
1 Horde of Notions
3 Vorosh, the Hunter

Lands
......

Black
1 Aether Snap
1 Boggart Mob
1 Head Games
1 Nettlevine Blight
1 Sengir Vampire
1 Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Blue
1 Clone
1 Deep-Sea Kraken
1 Magus of the Jar

Green
1 Abundance
4 Cytoplast Root-Kin
1 Immaculate Magistrate
1 Primal Command
1 Pulse of the Tangle
1 Spitting Slug

Red
1 Dragon Roost
1 Goblin King
1 Hamletback Goliath
1 Orcish Librarian
1 Pardic Dragon
1 Sensation Gorger
1 Sunrise Sovereign
1 Volcanic Dragon
2 Wild Ricochet

White
Evangelize
Feudkiller's Verdict

Uncommons:
Artifacts
1 Auriok Siege Sled
1 Clockwork Hydra
1 Demon Horn
1 Genesis Chamber
1 Icy Manipulator
1 Jeweled Amulet
1 Locket of Yesterdays
1 Phyrexian Vault
1 Soultether Golem
1 Surestrike Trident
1 Voltaic Construct
1 Whispersilk Cloak
1 Wirefly Hive

Gold
1 Opaline Sliver
1 Schismotivate

Land
2 Dakmor Salvage
1 Dreadship Reef
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Forbidding Watchtower
2 Fungal Reaches
2 Ghitu Encampment
1 Mirrodin's Core
1 Quicksand
1 Spawning Pool

Black
1 Faceless Devourer
1 Genju of the Fens
3 Hoarder's Greed
1 Haunting Hymn
1 Lys Alana Scarblade
1 Nectar Faerie
1 Nightshade Screamers
1 Noggin Whack
1 Squeaking Pie Sneak
1 Vampiric Sliver
2 Thorntooth Witch

Blue
1 Benthicore
1 Captivating Glance
1 Carry Away
1 Cryptic Annelid
1 Drowner of Secrets
1 Faerie Harbinger
3 Fallowsage
1 Genju of the Falls
1 Glen Elandra Pranksters
1 Fog Elemental
3 Merrow Commerce
2 Merrow Harbinger
1 Minamo Sightbender
1 Mystic Speculation
3 Paradox Haze
2 Scattering Stroke
1 Spellburst
1 Spiketail Hatchling
1 Stormcloud Djinn
2 Telling Time
1 Truth or Tale

Green
2 Blanchwood Armor
1 Cyclical Evolution
1 Elvish Promenade
1 Enormous Baloth
2 Hunted Wumpus
3 Jagged-Scar Archers
1 Imperiosaur
1 Incremental Growth
4 Kavu Predator
1 Kithkin Mourncaller
1 Lamastride Weave
1 Lure
1 Regeneration
1 Sporesower Thallid
4 Sylvan Scrying
1 Tangle Spider
1 Tromp the Domains
1 Verdant Embrace
1 Walker of the Grove
1 Woodland Guidance
1 Yavimaya Dryad

Red
1 Ceaseless Searblades
1 Changeling Berserker
1 Conflagrate
2 Crush Underfoot
1 Dismantle
1 Earth Elemental
1 Flamewave Invoker
1 Flamekin Bladewhirl
2 Flamekin Spitfire
1 Furnace Whelp
3 Giant Harbinger
1 Glareweilder
1 Goatnapper
1 Hearthcage Giant
1 Inner-Flame Ignitter
1 Ogre Recluse
1 Orcish Artillery
1 Rebellion of the Flamekin
1 Release the Ants
1 Shatterstorm
2 Sowing Salt
1 Sudden Impact
2 Tarpitcher
1 Tectonic Fiend
1 Thick-Skinned Goblin
2 Threaten
1 Undying Rage

White
1 Angel of Mercy
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Celestial Crusader
1 Daily Regimen
2 Faithful Squire
1 Goldmeadow Lookout
1 Graceful Reprieve
1 Hail of Arrows
1 Harpoon Sniper
1 Icatian Priest
1 Leonin Battlemage
1 Lost Auramancer
1 Mistmeadow Skulk
1 Summon the School
1 Tallowisp
2 Tempest of Light
1 Wizened Cenn

Yoshitaka Nakano 2007 Worlds Top 8 Main Deck 60 cards 5  Forest 4  Gilt-Leaf Palace 4  Llanowar Wastes 1  Pendelhaven 4  Swamp 4  Treetop Village 1  Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 23 lands 1  Boreal Druid 2  Civic Wayfinder 3  Imperious Perfect 4  Llanowar Elves 3  Masked Admirers 4  Tarmogoyf 3  Troll Ascetic 4  Wren's Run Vanquisher 24 creatures 3  Eyeblight's Ending 2  Garruk Wildspeaker 1  Nameless Inversion 4  Profane Command 3  Thoughtseize 13 other spells Sideboard 2  Cloudthresher 1  Krosan Grip 3  Liliana Vess 2  Loxodon Warhammer 2  Nekrataal 2  Slaughter Pact 1  Thoughtseize 2  Viridian Shaman 15 sideboard cards

	Katsuhiro Mori 2007 Worlds Top 8 Main Deck 60 cards 5  Forest 4  Gilt-Leaf Palace 4  Llanowar Wastes 1  Pendelhaven 4  Swamp 4  Treetop Village 1  Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 23 lands 1  Boreal Druid 1  Civic Wayfinder 4  Imperious Perfect 4  Llanowar Elves 2  Masked Admirers 1  Mirri the Cursed 3  Tarmogoyf 3  Troll Ascetic 4  Wren's Run Vanquisher 23 creatures 2  Eyeblight's Ending 2  Garruk Wildspeaker 1  Loxodon Warhammer 1  Nameless Inversion 4  Profane Command 4  Thoughtseize 14 other spells Sideboard 2  Cloudthresher 1  Krosan Grip 3  Liliana Vess 1  Loxodon Warhammer 2  Phyrexian Totem 2  Razormane Masticore 2  Slaughter Pact 2  Viridian Shaman

This past week was an interesting one. I spent most of it over at my Mothers house. The first few days were rife with me playing Final Fantasy 7 for my younger sister. Then I spent a great deal of time on the Computer and Myspace. Later on, when my other sister got home we went to Blockbuster and purchased the Transformers movie and watched that after having watched the new Ben 10 Movie. Both movies were incredible.

For Thanksgiving Dinner we had a great many things. On the menu was Turkey, Stuffing, Squash, Corn, Mashed Potatoes, Cranberry Sauce, and I made Bannocks as well to add a touch of Ireland to the meal ^.^ For desert we had Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie, and Apple Pie. During Thanksgiving Dinner my Grandmother visited.

Unfortunately during the course of the evening of thanksgiving evening my youngest sister and I had a bit of an argument. So I ended up having that be the last evening I spent at the house. I went back to my Apartment the following day as the better part of Valor.

Then on Saturday we got new phones for my second youngest sister and myself. I love my new phone, once I get the USB Cable for it, and a memory card, it can double as a MP3 player ^.^ I just need to get a USB adaptor for my computer as 2 of my 4 USB ports on my Computer are a bit broken, and one of the 2 remaining USB ports is being used by my printer.

On Sunday we drove my Sisters back to College. During the drive my youngest sister was still mad at me for the incident on Thanksgiving Dinner, and for a few other things (such as me spending most of the week on the computer). So when I made requests for music she made really mean faces and some comments under her breath. But I let it pass more or less unnoticed, until dinner where I asked her if she was mad at me... and she said she was. I then made as heartfelt an apology as I can possibly give (I am not good at emotional things). I don't think she appreciated my apology. However I have promised to let her use the Computer as much as she wants to the next time she is up visiting the family for Christmas.

On my Mothers side of the family we have some Irish Ancestors. However as my mother was adopted out of that family, we don't know very much. So far we have only a family name to go on. That family name is "Hoback." We also have some Scottish Ancestors on that same side of the family, and their family name is "McCann"

If anyone knows anything about these family names that they could share with me, I would love to hear what they have to share. As it stands now, my father is working on Geneological records for all sides of the family, and he is going to share what he finds out about these ancestors with me as soon as he finds anything out. So I look forward to what he learns.

Hopefully one day I can get in touch with my living Celtic Relatives! That would be so cool ^.^

I lie down to-night
With fair Boann and with her Son,
With gentile Aengus,
And with comfort beneath her mantle;

I lie down with Dagda,
And Dagda will lie down with me,
I will not lie down with Bres,
Nor shall Bres lie down with me.

O Good Father of the poor,
Help me this night,
Omit me not entirely
From Thy feasting hall.

For the great feast
That you enjoy,
I cannot this night
Enumerate it’s size.

Thou Father of the Tuatha De Danann,
Do not forget me in Thy dwelling-place,
Do not omit me in Thine ingathering.

In Thine ingathering.

Okay, it is my long standing opinion that the History Channel and the History International Channels are my 2 favorite channels. However tonight that all changed. History International Channel has tarnished itself beyond all repair.

It has aired a Documentary under the Series of Histories Mysteries named "Witches and Witchcraft". This Documentary had as its primary thesis on the History of Witches, that they date back to the Neolithic period of History, and have origins in every culture under the banner of one Great Goddess. It also presented that the Witch figure was never seen as a Malevolent figure in any Culture except the Patriarchal one of Judaism and later periods.

Suffice to say, I wonder when the History Channel is going to resend its claim that Witches are as ancient and benevolent as they claimed and return the Witch to her position as the Evil one who in some stories seduces men to their dooms. Such as is the case with Kallisto in the Odessy(sp?).

The following is a link to a book with Irish Folk Magic:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/index.htm

Basically everything between the entries:

The Properties of Herbs and Their Use in Medicine

and

Relics

is a spell, charm, or talisman of some sort.

As far as Tomas and I know, the Folk Magic in this book is not frowned upon at all in Ireland. But this may not be the case. Further Research is required.

Well its been several weeks since I lost put something up on my Live Journal. So I thought I would post something explaining where I have been and what I have been up to.

For the past several Weeks I have been spending most of my time playing the video game Final Fantasy XI, This game is one of my favorites. It takes up most of my time. However I am thinking I am going to relegate more time to my off-game life and come back to Live Journal and myspace at least for 1 or 2 hours every day.

I also am working on getting a Job. The reason is that at the current time I don't have an occupation and I need some income. So hopefully this will help me when it comes to my financial issues.

I also need to spend more time doing Religious things so I am hoping to get back into the practice of that over the course of the next month or two. Sooo wish me luck on that front.

And finally I am waiting for the next full semester of College to start so I can apply and get that under way. I plan at the current time to take the Composition and Rhetoric 102 class.

from my first real experience with Christian Fundamentalist wack jobs. It was fun, they prayed over my head that I be converted back to Christianity by the power of God. Some of them even spoke in tongues. It was really kind of scary now that I think about it. But I was a good sport, I did not scream or yell or try to convert a single one of them to my way of thinking. Maybe I should have, but my sister had asked me not to, and if I am anything it is respectful of my families wishes.

And somehow I do not feel in anyway moved to convert to Christianity. In fact I feel that if I were moved to convert to Christianity, I would be betraying An Cailleach and that would not be a wise move to make on my part.