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Ari-Wood
Welcome to Ari-Wood. Step right up and see the sights. To your left, you will see the delicate fragility of fairy land. On the right, watch out for the fiery dragons. For your safety, we recommend you stay on the path and don't stray into the netherworlds of risk and chance. Alternatively, perhaps you like the benefits that go along with taking that chance..........

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That which is not altruistic....
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The stories and poems encased in this crystal blog are written from my own imagination and in no way are intended to be viewed as written to any specific person unless I specifically state that it is.

My heart is a book which you leaf through as simply as the pages of this blog..

Antiqued an worn
The words bleed
From a hidden place
Deep within my chapters
Where only one can see
And whispering spirits tarry

Frayed are my edges
Yet my gliding
Remains beautiful
Not a mere ornament
But a testament to the tooling
Which has geared my life

Sown tightly is my binding
I have weathered the years
I shine with wisdom an character
Like no other book
Yet my cover bares the marks
Of ordinary use

Turn my pages lightly
And you shall read
My hued memories
Of dreams and dreaminess
Of times and timelessness
Of lives and liveliness

Upon my inner pages
Are scribbled
Achromatic dreams
My love
My hopes
My life

You are such a treasured book
All my love, Sister of my heart
(Written by a special sister of my heart...MsAlchemy2...a special gift...I wanted to share.)
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For You May 14, 2008 10:31 pm
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As the night closes around me, I curl up on the couch and wish I could ask you...what you think...what you feel...what you want...what you dream of. Getting to know you is an experience that could take a lifetime...without exhausting all my questions...all my curiosity....all my need. There are moments in our lives when we step back and evaluate exactly where we are....this moment...this day. As I make that evaluation...I realize that I am almost exactly where I want to be.

Life is good to me. I think sometimes...that I have been the most fortunate person. I have so much...and I have no complaints about what I have been given. And then...I found you...and you light up my days as if....a sun shone down upon my head. The drops of rain that have washed me clean are drying in the light you cast upon me....and I feel only eagerness to take that next step....to learn even more.

The time is not yet upon us....and I have much to work through before we reach that day...yet...I feel as if...no one has ever understood me as you do...and no one has ever...walked beside me so patiently...so carefully. You do not touch me...yet you do. You do not hold me....yet you do. You do not know me....yet you do.

Still...I am an awkward person....overeager, overanxious, oversensitive, overexciteable....and I know that I am difficult to touch. When you look at me....I am never quite the same as I was an instant before. Like a prism reflecting refracted light...I change as the light upon me changes...new colors, new moods, new attitudes...continually changing. It can make it most exhausting to be exposed to me.

There are days I wish that I could be....all that you ever dreamed of. Still...not truly...for I am who I am and I am comfortable with that woman. And it is that woman....who holds her hand out and invites you to take it....and hold it gently in your own....and walk with me a time. Be my friend...be my love....be all that you are....and know that...in my way...in my heart....regardless of what has been and what will be....I love you.
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They Want to Give Me Prozac May 14, 2008 10:10 pm
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This is the kind of day when I miss having someone to come home to. Not a room-mate...someone I really want to tell things to. I had...a magnificent day today. I played with my friends at work....George from Shell was there...and we always play off each other. It's so much fun when he comes to town. I finished the big, ugly audit I had going on.

It was a state royalty audit. The ugly kind...when they come in and want to look at EVERYTHING! I've been preparing for it for weeks..ensuring we had all the documentation pulled, neatly organized...that we had reviewed every document and answered every question we could find about the documents.

There are always lots of questions. How come these truck loads don't tie out to the loads we have in production? Why do we have a discrepancy in tonnages for shipping in this month? Why did I overpay royalties by $20 in that month?

I fret and worry myself sick every time I have an audit...internal or external. I loathe the idea of having made any material mistake. In this case...I knew we had gone through a difficult period...and I was desperately hoping I had made all the necessary corrections...and done it accurately. When they tell you they are going to audit you....you are pretty much stuck with whatever you've screwed up.

I really wasn't expecting the auditors until today...but they showed up yesterday morning. I spent the day running up and down the hallway providing them with every record they asked for....and explaining exactly how we track the ore from one stage to another. They told me....at noon today...that they had a number of questions for me after lunch. Of course...I worried all the way through lunch.

Each question they asked...I pulled up the reports I had given them....and showed them the answer. All except one. It was an ugly problem. How come we couldn't tie out the ore for 2006? I kept running numbers and couldn't find the error. Finally...I sat one of the auditors down and said...let's look at the problem one day at a time...an ugly choice when you are looking at an entire year.

We pulled up the first day...and ran through the first month...and found the problem. They had set the calculation on their report backwards. As soon as they had it fixed....we were done...with no errors.

As they left..they told me that the reports we use are extremely complex and difficult to follow. Well...yes....unless you use them every day...and then you adjust. They said that the end result was very clean and they were pleased; that I had demonstrated great competency at my job, and that they had only one recommendation to make....and it would relate to how the mine documents transactions. The accounting department had done an excellent job of finding all the issues in our system...and fixing them...well before they became a problem.

I told them how much I had enjoyed working with them...which I had...stress or no stress...and how much I had learned. They smiled and said...no...we did the learning from you. You fixed all the problems in OUR reports.

This was my second audit with the company...but the first one was an internal audit. At that one...I had been told that my documentation was the best they had seen. Of course...I learned it from a boss who was a stickler for overdocumenting. But today....this one...was important. It was all my work for the past six years. It was a government agency evaluating it....and they said I taught them.

I have to be honest. When they left the parking lot...I was jumping up and down in the front office and cheering. All done...done well...and I even got a compliment from the auditors. Thank the Lady only Nancy and the doctor dude were there by that time, but I think they thought I was a retard. I was so relieved...and so excited. With all the excitement...the doctor dude suggested perhaps I needed a rather large dose of Prozac. lol.....I suppose that's better than his usual wanting to super glue my lips shut. Have I mentioned that they think I am...hyperactive and far too bouncy at work?

But...driving home...I kept wishing...I had someone to tell it all to...to celebrate with. I'd have loved to go out to dinner....to sit on the couch and talk....to share a glass of wine....and a great big hug. It doesn't take a lot to get me excited....and I love to be able to share wonderful stories....and then...well...then I want to celebrate some more.

So...when you do something that makes you feel wonderful....what do you do to celebrate it?
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