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The Tooth Fairy was a big deal at our house. I still have all the notes (with baby teeth folded into some of them) the kids wrote to the Tooth Fairy. The older child held onto his baby teeth forever, while the younger child was shedding them like a winter coat. So I told the elder to leave a note for the Tooth Fairy and see what response he got. The Tooth Fairy always left a note in reply, and it was folded in a special way (You know how you passed notes in fifth grade? With the paper folded on a diagonal and then in half and then in quarters with the point tucked in, so nobody could figure out where the opening was? Like that.). And when they were very small the Tooth Fairy printed, and when they learned cursive the Tooth Fairy wrote in very careful cursive (that looked like the writing of elementary school teachers). And when the Tooth Fairy was sick, the Tooth Wizard made her rounds. Sometimes they would leave a note for the Tooth Fairy when there was no tooth, and they weren't asking for money--just a note. And they never went to bed a second night without mentioning, just to the air, in general, that they had left a note for the Tooth Fairy.

I cleaned out my dresser recently, and found the box of notes, folded small, some with a lumpy corner. I didn't open any of them and read them. But I couldn't throw them away. Not yet.

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The Tooth Fairy was a big deal at our house. I still have all the notes (with baby teeth folded into some of them) the kids wrote to the Tooth Fairy. The older child held onto his baby teeth forever, while the younger child was shedding them like a winter coat. So I told the elder to leave a note for the Tooth Fairy and see what response he got. The Tooth Fairy always left a note in reply, and it was folded in a special way (You know how you passed notes in fifth grade? With the paper folded on a diagonal and then in half and then in quarters with the point tucked in, so nobody could figure out where the opening was? Like that.). And when they were very small the Tooth Fairy printed, and when they learned cursive the Tooth Fairy wrote in very careful cursive (that looked like the writing of elementary school teachers). And when the Tooth Fairy was sick, the Tooth Wizard made her rounds. Sometimes they would leave a note for the Tooth Fairy when there was no tooth, and they weren't asking for money--just a note. And they never went to bed a second night without mentioning, just to the air, in general, that they had left a note for the Tooth Fairy.

I cleaned out my dresser recently, and found the box of notes, folded small, some with a lumpy corner. I didn't open any of them and read them. But I couldn't throw them away. Not yet.

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I dreamed my husband and I lived in some northern small town, snow five months a year, summer two. There was some pageant celebrated locally which depicted the settling of the town, and the heroic sacrifices made by the man and the wife who helped him...sort of thing. My tall, Norwegian-featured husband in a fur-edged hooded parka (who was still somehow magically H) made a present to me of a one-person sledge for hauling heavy goods, made in the likeness of the founding wife, from wood and woven wood splints. The head, like a figurehead, was made in her likeness, and the hauling rope ran through her mouth. I planned to hang it on an outside wall of our house, but the discernible forms of black-footed, long-white-haired mice moving sluggishly over the snow-dusted ground reminded me that they would eat rope and wood and wood splint with the tang salt from human hands about it, so I brought it inside, knowing we would use it, if nothing else, for hauling wood that winter.

It seemed to be some commentary on women's work. I'm just not sure of my symbolism, and whether it was damning or illuminating--or both.

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I dreamed my husband and I lived in some northern small town, snow five months a year, summer two. There was some pageant celebrated locally which depicted the settling of the town, and the heroic sacrifices made by the man and the wife who helped him...sort of thing. My tall, Norwegian-featured husband in a fur-edged hooded parka (who was still somehow magically H) made a present to me of a one-person sledge for hauling heavy goods, made in the likeness of the founding wife, from wood and woven wood splints. The head, like a figurehead, was made in her likeness, and the hauling rope ran through her mouth. I planned to hang it on an outside wall of our house, but the discernible forms of black-footed, long-white-haired mice moving sluggishly over the snow-dusted ground reminded me that they would eat rope and wood and wood splint with the tang salt from human hands about it, so I brought it inside, knowing we would use it, if nothing else, for hauling wood that winter.

It seemed to be some commentary on women's work. I'm just not sure of my symbolism, and whether it was damning or illuminating--or both.

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#16--Doors (doorways, door frames), red

She paid no attention to the lights that flashed their sequences, the ones that hadn't burned or shorted out. The helmet curtailed her peripheral vision, and as she passed, they ceased to exist anyway. The sound of her breath was all she could hear. The lights flashed silently. But the hatch hissed as its pneumatics worked, sluggishly, to lever it up. Instruments in her suit sampled, formulated, calculated. If she mixed suit air with the local, she might acclimate easier than gulping a full lungful when her oxygen ran out. Outside, her new horizon, under a red sky.

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#16--Doors (doorways, door frames), red

She paid no attention to the lights that flashed their sequences, the ones that hadn't burned or shorted out. The helmet curtailed her peripheral vision, and as she passed, they ceased to exist anyway. The sound of her breath was all she could hear. The lights flashed silently. But the hatch hissed as its pneumatics worked, sluggishly, to lever it up. Instruments in her suit sampled, formulated, calculated. If she mixed suit air with the local, she might acclimate easier than gulping a full lungful when her oxygen ran out. Outside, her new horizon, under a red sky.

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The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64
Authoritarian
Left


I'm to the left of Ghandi. Who knew?

And also?

Freudian Inventory Results

Genital (43%) you appear to be stuck between a progressive and regressive outlook on life. Latency (63%) you may be using learning as an escape from living. Phallic (43%) you appear to have a good balance of sexual awareness and sexual composure. Anal (53%) you appear to have a good balance of self control and spontaneity. Oral (60%) you appear to have a good balance of independence and interdependence.

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The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64
Authoritarian
Left


I'm to the left of Ghandi. Who knew?

And also?

Freudian Inventory Results

Genital (43%) you appear to be stuck between a progressive and regressive outlook on life. Latency (63%) you may be using learning as an escape from living. Phallic (43%) you appear to have a good balance of sexual awareness and sexual composure. Anal (53%) you appear to have a good balance of self control and spontaneity. Oral (60%) you appear to have a good balance of independence and interdependence.

Take Free Freudian Inventory Test
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What's in da bag?

It's a save-your-back bag. Heh.

I. Exterior

A) Front zipper pocket:

1) Small cinnamon altoids tin containing broken gold and sterling necklace chains, each in their own tiny ziplock, for when I find myself near the mending jeweler AND I have money, to drop them off for mending.

2) Small wintergreen altoids tin containing a matchbook. As matches seem to go smooshy and soft left unprotected in my purse.

3) Emery boards (2) one used, for fine work, one new, for rough work.

4) Change purse for Mom's grocery money.

5) Listerine pocket pack.


B) Front open pocket:

1) Purse book for waiting in lines, doctors' offices, etc., Faking It, by Cruisie.

2) Faux alligator hard case for my computer glasses and magnet-on shades


C) Back flap pocket:

1) 5"x7" spiral notebook with 20 lb. paper, wide-ruled.

2) Mom's bank book

3) List of importers of Aussie wines

4) "Frequent Buyer Club" punch cards for Sara Lee/Champion knits

5) Similar card for a teddy bear store in Roanoke, VA

6) List of book titles to search for

7) List of totem animal attributes

8) Some favorite poems on separate sheets of paper

9) Fabric band-aid (I can't wear plastic ones)


D) Spine pocket:

1) Cell phone

2) Keys


II. Interior

A) Spine pocket:

1) Cell phone earpiece with cord


B) High left pocket:

1) Comb

2) Black leather 2-compartment zip coin purse containing small Swiss Army knife, pair of cuticle nippers, pair of tweezers, small magnet for antiquing. Solid brass (candlesticks, lamps, etc.) won't attract a magnet. Tiny Oral B capped flossing brush.


C) Low left pocket:

1. Zip tapestry bag containing 10cm Steiff bear, plus a smaller teddy bear, both wearing sweaters.

2) A blue velvet drawstring bag containing a moss agate pendulum

3) Lavender and pearl comfort-grip mechanical pencil

4) Metallic blue and silver comfort grip brass barrelled click ballpoint (med. black ink)


D) Pen pockets:

1) Pearl blue Dr. Grip gel pen, black ink

2) Metallic red and silver triangular grip brass barrelled click ballpoint (med. black ink)

3) Burgundy and silver plastic barrelled ballpoint with patterned inset, external click spring, med. black ink.

4) Translucent cobalt plastic barrelled ballpoint with yellow comfort grip and external click spring, med. black ink.


E) High right pocket:

1) Brown leather 2-compartment coin purse with folded bills in one zip pocket and coins in the other.


F) Low right pocket:

1) Tapestry tissue cover for pocket pack

2) Levenger tan leather pen roll containing: My dad's 1938 Feathertouch Sheaffer, Aspen Balance Sheaffer, Levenger Carribean (translucent cobalt) Sheaffer, White pearl Parker Duofold, Parker Sonnet "Firedance", 1960s vintage black and strie green Pelikan fountain pens, each filled with color-coordinating ink, plus a shatterproof plastic tube for refilling.

3) Leather cigarette case containing cell phone recharger


G) Right zip pocket: Black Honey "almost lipstick". Honey-flavored lip balm, trial size tubes of sportscreme and aspercreme, barrette, trial size tube creamy petroleum jelly, tube Aveeno daily moisturizing lotion.


H) Center of bag:

1) Burgundy leather credit card wallet tooled with a stylized rose and leaves

2) Matching leather checkbook cover, with a slim burgundy and gold ballpoint

3) Three-compartment tapestry zip bag containing in main pocket - 6-ft. retracting steel tape measure, sewing kit, pocket mirror in a soft plastic sleeve printed with, "See Yourself in the Army Reserve, 108th Division (TNG)", Glide dental floss, magnifying glass that folds into a leather holder, tube of aspirin, small plastic box containing 2 hazelnuts. In zip pocket: blister packs of low-dose suphedrine and benadryl. Tuck pocket is empty.

This concludes the tour.

What's in da bag?

It's a save-your-back bag. Heh.

I. Exterior

A) Front zipper pocket:

1) Small cinnamon altoids tin containing broken gold and sterling necklace chains, each in their own tiny ziplock, for when I find myself near the mending jeweler AND I have money, to drop them off for mending.

2) Small wintergreen altoids tin containing a matchbook. As matches seem to go smooshy and soft left unprotected in my purse.

3) Emery boards (2) one used, for fine work, one new, for rough work.

4) Change purse for Mom's grocery money.

5) Listerine pocket pack.


B) Front open pocket:

1) Purse book for waiting in lines, doctors' offices, etc., Faking It, by Cruisie.

2) Faux alligator hard case for my computer glasses and magnet-on shades


C) Back flap pocket:

1) 5"x7" spiral notebook with 20 lb. paper, wide-ruled.

2) Mom's bank book

3) List of importers of Aussie wines

4) "Frequent Buyer Club" punch cards for Sara Lee/Champion knits

5) Similar card for a teddy bear store in Roanoke, VA

6) List of book titles to search for

7) List of totem animal attributes

8) Some favorite poems on separate sheets of paper

9) Fabric band-aid (I can't wear plastic ones)


D) Spine pocket:

1) Cell phone

2) Keys


II. Interior

A) Spine pocket:

1) Cell phone earpiece with cord


B) High left pocket:

1) Comb

2) Black leather 2-compartment zip coin purse containing small Swiss Army knife, pair of cuticle nippers, pair of tweezers, small magnet for antiquing. Solid brass (candlesticks, lamps, etc.) won't attract a magnet. Tiny Oral B capped flossing brush.


C) Low left pocket:

1. Zip tapestry bag containing 10cm Steiff bear, plus a smaller teddy bear, both wearing sweaters.

2) A blue velvet drawstring bag containing a moss agate pendulum

3) Lavender and pearl comfort-grip mechanical pencil

4) Metallic blue and silver comfort grip brass barrelled click ballpoint (med. black ink)


D) Pen pockets:

1) Pearl blue Dr. Grip gel pen, black ink

2) Metallic red and silver triangular grip brass barrelled click ballpoint (med. black ink)

3) Burgundy and silver plastic barrelled ballpoint with patterned inset, external click spring, med. black ink.

4) Translucent cobalt plastic barrelled ballpoint with yellow comfort grip and external click spring, med. black ink.


E) High right pocket:

1) Brown leather 2-compartment coin purse with folded bills in one zip pocket and coins in the other.


F) Low right pocket:

1) Tapestry tissue cover for pocket pack

2) Levenger tan leather pen roll containing: My dad's 1938 Feathertouch Sheaffer, Aspen Balance Sheaffer, Levenger Carribean (translucent cobalt) Sheaffer, White pearl Parker Duofold, Parker Sonnet "Firedance", 1960s vintage black and strie green Pelikan fountain pens, each filled with color-coordinating ink, plus a shatterproof plastic tube for refilling.

3) Leather cigarette case containing cell phone recharger


G) Right zip pocket: Black Honey "almost lipstick". Honey-flavored lip balm, trial size tubes of sportscreme and aspercreme, barrette, trial size tube creamy petroleum jelly, tube Aveeno daily moisturizing lotion.


H) Center of bag:

1) Burgundy leather credit card wallet tooled with a stylized rose and leaves

2) Matching leather checkbook cover, with a slim burgundy and gold ballpoint

3) Three-compartment tapestry zip bag containing in main pocket - 6-ft. retracting steel tape measure, sewing kit, pocket mirror in a soft plastic sleeve printed with, "See Yourself in the Army Reserve, 108th Division (TNG)", Glide dental floss, magnifying glass that folds into a leather holder, tube of aspirin, small plastic box containing 2 hazelnuts. In zip pocket: blister packs of low-dose suphedrine and benadryl. Tuck pocket is empty.

This concludes the tour.