Mo Pleasant taught his son, Dwight, to walk – in the garage of the apartment.

He and his wife moved from the apartment to their own home

where he taught Dwight to talk!

Dwight with his mum on his birthday:

Mo’s brother, Zeezee Todd, proposed to his college girlfriend, Senna Greenwood.

She accepted and they dropped out and moved back to Pleasantview where they got married almost immediately.

Senna and her mother and sister just before the wedding:

There’s something so beautifully feminine about long hair.  Although most women can pull off a short hairstyle, long hair just seems more natural, more womanly.  “The kind of hair that a man could get lost in, and pleasantly so.  The kind of hair that, when I see a woman from a distance, and fantasies begin to take over my mind, I can almost feel that hair sweeping across my bare chest in the midst of the throes of passion.”

For work, I have to keep my hair tied back just as a matter of practicality, but at the end of the day, when I get to let my hair down, I love nothing more than tilting my head back and sweeping my hair side-to-side across my bare back.  Somehow I find great pleasure in this simple physical sensation.  Long, thick, soft hair sweeping across bare skin is oddly soothing, relaxing, pleasant, sensual.

Glasgow – Eating & Drinking – Cafes & Coffee Shops

Offshore is a café on a corner of Gibson Street located very close to where the river Kelvin meets Kelvingrove Park. I have always admired the elegance of the curve of the tenement at this corner.
Knowing that Offshore offered free WiFi I had arranged to meet someone to give them a laptop with a wireless PC card I no longer needed. The café has some pleasant sofas but since it appeared to be quite popular with students with laptops all the sofas were occupied and I had to make do with an upright seat. I had a coffee which cost 1.90 and my understanding was that I could take up to an hour to relish it. Their WiFi connection worked fine [one guess what the passphrase is!]. I was using the laptop’s battery but I noticed some customers were plugged into the mains.
The staff were pleasant and friendly and the café was quite a nice, relaxed and comfortable place to be with a coffee and laptop for an hour.

Check out my review of Offshore – I am grian1954 – on Qype

I’ve been watching the Channel 4 docudrama series, The Queen, that’s been on every night this week and ends tomorrow. Each episode has documented a different key event in Queen Elizabeth II’s reign and she is portrayed by a different actress each night. So far, personally, I think it’s been a bit up and down. I wasn’t overly keen on the first two episodes, about the Queen dealing with the late Princess Margaret’s relationship with divorce Peter Townsend and the turbulent years of the 1970s. I did enjoy last night’s however, about her rivalry (if there was one) with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The next two epsiodes apparently focus on the Queen’s troubles in 1992 and Prince Charles and Camilla’s wedding in 2005. Though the actresses portraying the queen all do a fine job, I found that the short running length (50 mins) and the talking heads do not allow for any real substance in the programme. It feels, for me, as if the subjects are glossed over and then end. Plus there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of things that weren’t previously known and consequently the series has a feeling of revisiting old ground. I am going to keep watching though, but overall I feel the series is pleasant but not brilliant. Thanks for reading.

Unpleasant Words:

• bottle
• squat
• wheeze
• tuna
• infection
• vagina
• navel
• chlamydia
• coleslaw
• yeast
• gametes
• gargle/gurgle
• secretion
• hole
• bunion
• blister
• placenta
• chafe
• ointment
• snogging
• crust
• panties
• excrete
• ponytail
• girth
• subpoena
• sauerkraut
• molasses
• tiara

Pleasant Words:

• velveteen
• novice
• druid
• lavish
• vestibule
• coconut
• purple
• jaundice
• most biological terms
• celtic
• faerie
• poop
• narwhal
• anchor
• vagabond
• arabesque
• most poetry terms
• all korean/japanese/latin/spanish/russian words
• Tylermackenziebanash

Jeg havde det virkelig dårligt, kæmpede med hosten, vejret … Frøs og havde det varmt på samme tid …  Jeg sendte en sms, forklarede at jeg havde det elendigt … Straks kom der en sms retur. ” du kan have det elendigt inde ved mig, jeg skal nok putte dig …”  Ej, kæmpede en kamp med mig selv, følte mig alt andet end attraktiv … Endnu en sms … “Du behøver ikke være perfekt, lad mig nu bare se dig N” …  Jeg havde ikke lyst til andet end at gemme mig under dynen … Svarede at jeg ville prøve og stå op og gå i bad. Han svarede dejligt, så ses vi lige om lidt. Badet hjalp lidt, men jeg havde alligevel slet ikke nogen lyst til at køre hjemmefra … Træt gik jeg op af trapperne, jeg stønnede mere end en sumobryder i kamp. Han stod i badet da jeg gik ind, jeg åbnede døren på klem og sagde hej. Smed mig i sengen, trak dynen op over hovedet, og havde mest af alt lyst til at sove, sove, sove … Sådan blev jeg ikke ved med at have det … Han lagde sig ved siden af mig, Hånden der blidt gled ned langs min siden, langs hoften var mere end grådig … Jeg var ellers ikke i humør til sex, var mere end ligeglad (syg var jeg, husk det lige…) der gik ikke 2 sekunder, så var jeg plaskvåd og liderlig …

Jeg har aldrig været sammen med en mand der får min krop til at reagere på den måde … to gange måtte jeg overgive mig … to gange vuggede ham mig til himmels og bar mig ned igen … Salig, salig, salig … Anden gangen hviskede han i mit øre, det var så frækt, tændte mig vildt meget … Jeg elsker når han fortæller mig hvad jeg er … lige der …

Så lidt leg blev det til … selvom jeg ikke var fit for fight …Jeg lagde mig maven med benene trukket op under mig, hænderne om anklerne, parat til det, han nu havde lyst til … Den pæne pige blev kneppet væk i lange seje hug …

Gav ham efterfølgende et blidt, vådt blow, der fik ham til at ryste … Smagen af ham … Mmmm

Han tændte en ild i min krop, der efterlod mig afkræftet, mat, stille … Lykkelig …

<3 N

The pleasant things in the world are pleasant thoughts and the great art of life is to have as many as possible. (Alertrix.com)

http://www.mediafire.com/?5z5wkz41nno

C fortalte at hans ikke fysiske begær lever af min overgivelse.

Jeg har derfor bedt ham om at overhøre mine pæn-pige nej´er …

Jeg sætter mig selv i spil, viser C den tillid han fortjener

- Leg uden andre grænser end dem, han finder nødvendige.

C ved, hvor jeg er.

C ved, hvordan jeg skal skubbes. Tør han virkelig skubbe mig derhen, hvor han ønsker mig?  Jeg føler mig tryg i C´s hænder, alligevel har jeg været i tvivl …

Måske fordi leg tit har blokeret for “mig”

Jeg har distancerede mig gennem legen.

Jeg søgte desperat gennem legen, Søgte at finde det, jeg troede var der, blot for at finde ud af, at legen ikke forandrede noget. Alene fandt jeg mig selv …

Her er det med modsat fortegn, Jeg begærer C,  Jeg skal ikke finde min lyst, blot give slip på den forbaskede kontrol … Give slip på mig selv … Give mig til ham …

Hvor svært kan det lige være?

So I signed my papers on Tuesday.  That kind of sucked, not going to lie.  I wasn’t supposed to sign until Thursday, but you know how that goes.  I didn’t want it to “ruin” my off day on Wednesday, since I had plans Tuesday night.

And, ready for the shocker, it did.  I cried the whole day at work on Tuesday, but luckily the boy was a total ass and it 100% reminded me that this is the RIGHT choice.  I wasn’t crying because I “love” him or anything, I guess it’s just the finality of it.  He was my best friend.  Luckily, I am lucky and have SEVERAL besties, but it still sucks.  But such is life. <—note: Every time  I type “such is life” I ALWAYS managed to type “suck is life”; some sort of Freudian slip I suppose.

Anyway, you know I like to get off track, a lot.  So it’s done, well, officially in thirty days, but once my signature was notarized, that was official for me.

I’ve met some interesting new people as of late, and that’s pretty rocking.  I’m the shyest person in the universe (if you don’t believe me, think back to the first time we met.  I likely didn’t say anything and avoided eye contact) so that’s “new” for me.  I’ve been forcing myself since I don’t really have a crutch anymore.  I guess I was too dependant on the boy, and I definitely used him as my crutch.  I won’t be doing either one of those again. 

Sorry to those of you I’ve blown off recently.  I’ve been so up and down I don’t know from one minute to the next what I want to do or what I will do.  Matt: I totally have to edit your story! I may do that tonight, although I DO have to make my awesome book list tonight (have to in an OCD sense), maybe I can do both; Jamie: sorry I keep blowing you off, I really don’t mean to.  Jazz and Matthew are experts on my making “plans” and not following through.  It’s usually best to not expect anything then it’s an awesome surprise later! But it is really something I have to work on.  I have a total fear of commitment in certain areas.  I can have a “relationship”, but I don’t like to commit to plans, because I never know if I’ll be depressed or antisocial that day.  BUT I do need t start calling folks and letting them know, that is a definite flaw that I 100% acknowledge (along with others I won’t mention) and need to correct.  I guess it’s part of my see-saw of a journey. 

Oh, and a big sorries to Jonny Jay;) haha.

I lost my train of thought.  Work + texting + emailing + yaddayadda =distracting!

Oh, got it back, score! Remember that I have a SUPER heavy heart, even though I’m tough and all of that crap.  It takes only an iota to get me in le depressed mode.  So just a gentle lil nudge will do, at least for right now.

It all works out one way or the other.  I know this one isn’t very entertaining, but I promise to deliver later. 

Oh here’s a good ending note:  My sweet lil Oedipal kitten, Shadow, left me a shiny quarter in the shower this morning. haha. I love how he totes crap around in his mouth.  Usually I wake up covered in toys and bits of trash (i.e. gum wrappers–not actual trash, ha).  This was a pleasant lil change and set my day off to a good start.

Oh WAIT, I remembered an even better ending.  How can this be so, you ask?  Because it’s me!! SO I had contacted divorce court back in October because I didn’t think I’d be able to come up with money for the divorce.  I totally, forgot about it.  So I got contacted by them, and they are recording again in January and wanted us to come on. hahah. Too bad we just signed.  They’d pay both our airfares, hotels, and give us $570 a piece. haha. That sounds like a forking vacation to me! This is the second show I’ve gotten an offer to be on.  Dr. Phil offered it awhile back=score.  I’m a big wimp, so of course, I didn’t go.  But how is that for awesome?? Even the boy thought it was hilarious and would have gone to d. court. hahaha. score.

i think i’ve finally settled on what i want this to be. at worst, i will continue to use it to relax at night.

i feel it’s SIGNIFICANTLY better than the good start version.

1  break for boar – turner cody
2  bleecker street – simon & garfunkel
3  white daisy passing – rocky votolato
4  are you a dreamer? – denison witmer
5  oviedo – blind pilot
6  magic trick (live on a radio show) – m. ward
7  re: stacks – bon iver
8  hands on the radio – chris garneau
9  reprise – sons of the never wrong
10  bird on a wire – leonard cohen
11 cordova – indigo girls

http://www.mediafire.com/?nu4y3yzvzzy

New image in the fish drawing contest

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Pleasant place drawing picture

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Christians should be grave and serious, though cheerful and pleasant. They should feel that they have great interests at stake, and that the world has too. They are redeemed—not to make sport; purchased with precious blood—for other purposes than to make men laugh. They are soon to be in heaven—and a man who has any impressive sense of that will habitually feel he has much else to do than to make men laugh. The true course of life is midway between moroseness and levity; sourness and lightness; harshness and jesting.  Be benevolent, kind, cheerful, bland, courteous—but serious. Be solemn, thoughtful, deeply impressed with the presence of God and with eternal things—but pleasant affable and benignant. Think not a smile sinful; but think not levity and jesting harmless.

- Albert Barnes 1798 – 1870

Blind Pilot is an American indie pop band based in Portland, Oregon. – from wikipedia

i felt like listening to this today. it was a nice day, mild and sunny. i’m doing all the pleasant falltime things before it gets too cold and wet. i’ll miss the golden sunlight beams.

this is one of those great albums that you feel like listening to if you feel good and relaxed or if you feel tired and weary.

http://www.mediafire.com/?dzzmi3mohdz

It takes all of about 10 seconds of listening to this record to realize you are listening to something special, and about the same amount of time to be completely sucked into Blind Pilot’s wistful, melancholic world of acoustic guitars, dulcimers, violins and the like.

Blind Pilot sounds something like a wistful mix of The Shins with a bit of Iron & Wine folksiness. But these comparisons don’t give a full representation of the unbelievable beauty of this album. – from amazon’s editorial reviews

Shayla, who looks even more slutty than she ever has, has gone off to university.  Amazingly she did her homework.

Zeezee, her young brother, has grown into a teenager.

Hayden still hasn’t reached elderhood.

Older brother Mo, quit university and moved into an apartment block with Buck Broke.  (See Buck’s story at the Broke blog.)

Mo didn’t have a girlfriend so tried for a blind date.  She moved in and I think this pic is of them getting married in the apartment.

Unfortunately I can’t remember her name!  Mo has the surname Pleasant because Banshee wasn’t married to Hayden at the time she gave birth.  Will Mo inherit the Pleasant house, or will Ramone Pleasant’s son (by Juan Lothario), Vanni Pleasant, inherit?  Hmmm…

More than a year in Amsterdam and no flat tires.  Then, first day in Amsterdam with my fiets (bike) and bam!  Flat tire.  Luckily, I live in a nice little neighborhood with at least three bike shops within… two blocks.  This morning’s task was to attempt to pump up the tire (complete failure) and then get it fixed.  I just got back from the bike shop, and in just 30 minutes it will be as good as new.

Now that I’m in the big city (moderately big), the arrangement at the bike shop is a bit more strict and professional.  Instead of dropping off my bike with no receipt and only a vague answer from the bicycle man about when it will be done, I got a little tag that matched the one he tied on my bike, and a promise of thirty minutes.  How pleasant. 

Now, I think I’ll reheat some chicken noodle soup from last night, have a douche (shower), and I’ll be off to one of the many pleins where I will spend the day working.

Vilken fin kväll jag haft.
Jag älskar mina vänner!
Det kommer bli lätt att plugga imorn, jag har så mkt bra som väntar, plus att jag ska en snabbis till Pleasant med Rojas också, wiii!!
Fast att jag missade den där jävla tian alltså… Det svider rejält, jag borde ha ditchat mina fantastiska vänner, men de är ju alltför snygga. Det går liksom inte. Alls.

I made an exciting discovery today. As I waltzed into Marshall’s to redeem my gift card (on socks no less), I was under the impression that I would have a few dollars left on the card. Factoring this into the equation, I was tentative to purchase the other two consumer goods I have been needing for a while: a winter hat and a pair of shoes (my best pair now has holes the size of pocket change)..

I found a pair of black sneakers for fairly cheap, and a gray beanie for under $10, so I proceeded to finalize the sale. I took out my Marshall’s gift card and the nice woman at the Customer Service desk rang up my purchase. The total displayed $41.98. Ouch. Not exactly the frugal venture I intended it to be. I handed over the gift card much in dismay, as by this point I had justified the purchase of all aforementioned accessories.

The woman, her name was Gale I believe, processed the card and we waited for the remaining balance to be displayed… $0.12. What? What! Woah!! Score Huge!!! Needless to say, I was excited. I handed over my debit card (I tend not to carry cash) for my second small purchase in the last few days (I spent $0.90 on SnoCaps at FYE).

All in all, the journey was a success, and you should be excited to know that through the Winter months, my feet and head will remain nice and toasty, and my bank account will have something in it.