I, Miaow, will be visiting your home town next month for a couple of days. Can I come stay with you?

I've got no room! I already have people staying with me

No problemo!

No, but we'll meet you for coffee or dinner.

Sure, why not? I hope you don't have a problem with cats.

I don't know you...sorry.

I doubt my mother would approve.

Sure. If you can brave take-out Chinese as the only food you'll eat for a couple of days. Oh, wait! Can you cook?

Sure, it'll help you decide the whole motherhood thing.

My live-in boyfriend would never go for that. We've had too many bad experiences with my inconsiderate houseguests. My mom is the only one allowed to visit now.

Sorry

are you bringing beer?

come on! with a name like miaow?

Of course.

Sure!! Bring The Stink too.

I'll bring the Bert-Monster too if you like!

You could if we had a guest room, but our place is pretty crowded already. But I'd love to meet you!

Yeah, I thought about that later! lol

No, sorry, I don't think Casey and Gidget (our cats) would go for that.

Take out is my staple anyway!! It would be just like home....

Excellent! Looks like SueBee is in agreement too. You like Indian food?

Thanks ASBT! But do you have plenty of air freshener???

I love it...but there's no Indian food restaurant in our little town

Bah!
How about sushi?

Having no Indian is a bummer. I live in downtown (and I mean, right in the middle of the commercial centre) Toronto, and there still isn't a great choice of Indian. My hometown (Bristol, England) has TONS of really good ones. Birmingham and Manchester have even more - I guess they were big immigrant centres. Toronto has more of other Asian cuisines, I find.

Anyway, the original topic - I love any and all food!!!

I remember all the wonderful Indian restaurants when I was a little girl growing up in England!
I love curry!

Sure! We have plenty of space.

But,of course!Please come & stay a while I'd love to meet you & show you the Los Angeles/San Diego sites & maybe even travel down the coast to Mexico.Oh,I need to go shopping for some food,what do you like to eat & drink??
Let me know your ETA as I will have to clean up my Pack Rat ways.

"clean up my Pack Rat ways"? Sure, now you're just adding SC members to the collection.

We have some but we can always buy more. Or we could just smoke a bunch of weed and not worry about it.

Cool!

Oh! You grew up in England! Cool! Where????

Ok but don't try anything funny.....I have a gun

We have 2 foot long insense will that work?

That last comment came up in my replies, completely out of context!
But 2 foot incense could work for a LOT of things....

*giggle* We could make him sleep in the storage shed out back. lol

Oooooh, I'd love to - never been any of those places. We were planning Mexico for our 1st anniversary in September!!!

I lived there until I was 8, in a small seaside town called Clacton-On-Sea.

lol lol lol Well the thought did cross my mind.
Okay I was in the moment.I really did think that I would have time to reorganize my stuff.I had no intentions of throwing away anything.

Well what are you waiting for woman??? Hey,who knows you might even be able to meet up with Kristal Rose & actress. We all live in southern California. That would be way cool.

Micah lives down here too.

Really,why not invite him along.Do it now before the weekend draws even closer.Where does Micah live??
Okay that would be you,Actress,Micah & me???? Well,I haven't quite heard from Actress yet but,I'm being optimistic.I've only let her know tonight.Hey,right on!!! We would probably be the only four SC users to meeting in the same place all at one time. Please Kristal let's make it a reality..Invite Micah!!!!! Hurry!!!! Before it's too late.

All the New England (founder) crowd hangs out together I believe.

If you all meet up in early August, I might join in. I have a 2 week break and not sure where I wanna go yet!!

Clacton!!
How come you went to America?

Okay!!!
So do you know Kristal and actress in person? Do you get together?

Who might the New England crowd be???

Let me take a look at the up coming event in southern California.There's always some kind of festival thing going on down here.Where might you be coming from,when you do take your break??

Bill, Jen, Romkey, Enheduanna, I'm not sure, but you might get some idea reading the ~'would you attend an SC convention' survey.
Do you sleep, girl?

No,never met anyone here at SC in person yet.Have you??? The only reason why Kristal & I are getting together this weekend,is because there's a Hawaiian Festival going on,down around where she lives
(Los Angeles).I live about 100 miles from her(closer to San Diego).We tried to meet last month at a balloon & wine festival 5-8 miles from my home.However,that never came to pass,as it was too far for Kristal to travel by Greyhound bus,& my teens ended up working that weekend.(I guess we'll try that one again next year.)We're giving this event a try,but closer to her stomping grounds.My family & I attend this particular festival yearly,so it's no big deal for us,we were going to be in her area anyway.I just thought it would be even cooler this year if I could finally Kristal(remembering that she too lives in the same country/state.)
I've mentioned it to Actress only because,she mention living in the same general area as both Kristal & I.Haven't heard back from her as of yet.I'm keeping my fingers crossed....

Why Kristal I'm surprised at you.Of course I sleep.....I just now woke up!(I've stayed on SC 24 hours plus only twice.)I left you around 3:00 am this morning.I thought you'd notice that. Question is do You sleep woman?? You must get your rest,or you'll be dead come this Saturday & you might miss your bus! Don't miss your bus Kristal. BTW did you invite Micah yet?? That was the last thing I remember talking to you about at 3am.
(& there's not a whole lot I tend to remember,especially at my age)

Got a surprise for you!!!!!!!! No not that..I found my polaroid yesterday.Ohhhh which reminds me I need to buy film for that camera.Now what else do I need????Hummm I better start making a list of to do things...

Ya mentioned the polaroid. I've been so busy around the clock with many others that I can't recall who I've got rapports going with, hmm let's try. You, Brian, Romkey, Kaleb, Jkiehart, Joalis, ?
Yeah, I better get in a few hours sleep. Maybe tonight I'll call micah. I haven't seem him commenting lately.

Fun!! Meeting Kristal will be wicked. I will come down one day when I get some time off!

Yep,they can keep you busy alright.But,ain't it cool???
Yeah,now that you mentioned that......I know......I've noticed that also..I wonder where he's been??Hummmm.That's food for thought!

From Aug 4th to 17th ish!!

Were will you be staying dear? Will it be in southern California? More info...Kristal & I live in southern California...

I don't know you, but my door is always open to relatively sane people in need.

I had a more than a dozen this am, and more than a dozen this pm. and I have so much urgent stuff to do.

So just where's that line drawn?

Well, I don't know if I am going to the US yet? It is just an idea!!

Well at least it's food for thought.

Well if you do come in September,my nephew & his girlfriend will be here also.Their moving from Kauai & will be attending a college out here in Costa Mesa.I'm so excited about that.I really should start cleaning out the extra room already.Oh well I'll just wait till after the festival this weekend with Kristal.First things first.

People who pose a threat are not welcome.

Ahh. I was wondering if i was relatively sane. A few months ago I opened the door and invited in a guy a who said he was admiring watch me undress through the curtains. It was an interesting evening. I imagine that was over your line. He talked me into posing for him in a negligée. He got me bicycling and doing ballet at a time when I was practically resorting to using a walker. In fact that made it more of a risk, barely being able to walk.

excellent! let me know how it goes

I will.Tomorrow is the Hawaiian Festival,I would like to send you some kind of trinket or some thing.Why not e-mail me & let me know what you think Miaow.
dabprovin@msn.co

So I'm meeting you at the rocket at 10:10?
My meeting today got postponed, what a relief. Now I have a wonderfully rearranged house. I've increased the walkable space nearly five fold by more compacting and verticality at the fringes. I had thought I had maxed that out capacity out already. It's such an airy uncluttered relief. It took overnight till 9am to do it, so I'll be scraping to day adjust again. I sent an email.
My phone's 310-202-7852 in case you want to call tonight.

It was really cool meeting you for the 1st time outside of SC.I hope you had a great time today.I'll be there tomorrow at 5am.Try to make it.I hope you liked your name & rose.Alooooooooha! Cleo.

You and Kristal met! How cool!!!

I just slept 14 hours catching up. I'm wondering how much will be around if I take off again today now. I wouldn't arrive to 2:30 at the earliest. I jut logged in looking for advice, and this was the only comment. So I think I'll try to make it out there. I loved the gifts; you spoiled me. It was quite an Aloha.

Yeah ain't it cool!!Kristal & I had such a great time yesterday.& today was just as wonderful as the day before.I look forward to meeting you & SueBee someday also! Alooooooooha!

I like what you had on today.You looked great! I'm sorry that you arrived a little late today,but don't feel bad,cause the earlier entertainment wasn't as good as yesterday's.So actually you came at the perfect time.I got really sun burned today & I was feeling a little tired from yesterday & todays drive. It took me a little over 2 1/2 hrs to get home today,the traffic was really heavy.I was up at 3:30 this morning & only got 4 1/2 hrs sleep both days.I had a fabulous time & look forward to doing this again next year.Alooooha!! Cleo

I sent you an email. I don't carry a watch to know when we left, but I got home at 8:20. When did you get home? The bus didn't arrive till I was ready to hitchhike. It was fantastic. Sunburned? and I thought you were calling me the hali, or whatever the word was. Ok, I can feel a touch in my shoulders and you were there all day. I'm sure I'll report on the weekend in a survey when I can post the photos and take care of other things. On the way home, I saw a giant white and yellow boa one eve, and a car passing in front of the bus stop tilted at a 45 angle when I decided there was nothing left to do but absorb the local culture.

I haven't picked up any of my e-mail yet,as I was to tired to even go there last night.I arrived home a little bit before 8:00pm.Didn't make good timing at all.The traffic was so heavy & everyone was driving at a snails pace of 65-69 mph. So frustrating! I'm used to driving at least 80-85 mph. Anyways,I'm going to my e-mail right now.Aloha

I'm so burnt out (not burnt though). I was thinking of the relationship to Mana-spirit (same in english/hebrew) when you spelled Manu-bird for me. I didn't get to sleep last night because I had the sensation of being bitten all over by bugs, then I missed my doctors appt. today.
I just spent hours emptying half my kitchen, now I want to sleep again. I'm not looking forward to cleaning each piece and putting it back. I have to get rid of my roaches. There last possible food source (besides my paper stuff) was my coffee, which I took to putting in a moat as I've been doing with the cat food. they didn't like that; they took to biting me. It made me think the other bug biting too was physical, but it didn't go away soaking and scrubbing for a couple hours in the tub with anti-insect herbal oils. I remembered some floating words Saturday that seemed to be addressed to me though I instanly dismissed it because it made no sense. "You just haven't learned, now the jellyfish are going to sting you." Is there any hawaiian lore about behavior that merits jellyfish attacks? Check out the graphics on this site: http://www.cyberpsychos.netonecom.net/cnidaria/ (our blasted lady of the jellyfish). My channelling suggested many times it was related to pork. All the golden bough had to offer about island curses was that it was improper to look upon the crocodile deities and such. btw, the fish was 'HU-MU-HU-MU-NU-KU-NU-KU-A-PU-A’A' call me a haole' will you. I can imagine the way you felt. I was nearly tear happy when I heard:
I WANNNA TO GO BACK TO MY LITTLE GRASS SHACK IN KE-A-LA-KE-KUA, HAWAII. 
I WANNA BE WITH ALL THE KA-NES AND WA-HI-NES THAT I KNEW LONG AGO. 
I CAN HEAR OLD GUITARS A-PLAYING ON THE BEACH AT HO-O-NAU-NAU 
I CAN HEAR HAWAIIANS SAYING, "KO-MO-MAI NO-KA-U-A I-KA HA-LE WE-LA-KA-HAO." 
IT WON’T BE LONG ‘TIL MY SHIP WILL BE SAILING BACK TO KONA 
A GRAND OLD PLACE THAT’S ALWAYS FAIR TO SEE. 
I’M JUST A LITTLE HAWAIIAN AND A HOMESICK ISLAND BOY, 
I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY FISH AND POI, 
I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY LITTLE GRASS SHACK IN KE-A-LA-KE-KUA, HAWAII. 
WHERE THE HU-MU-HU-MU-NU-KU-NU-KU-A-PU-A’A GOES SWIMMING BY. 
WHERE THE HU-MU-HU-MU-NU-KU-NU-KU-A-PU-A’A GOES SWIMMING BY.

I WANNNA TO GO BACK TO MY LITTLE GRASS SHACK IN KE-A-LA-KE-KUA, HAWAII. 
I WANNA BE WITH ALL THE KA-NES AND WA-HI-NES THAT I KNEW LONG AGO. 
I CAN HEAR OLD GUITARS A-PLAYING ON THE BEACH AT HO-O-NAU-NAU 
I CAN HEAR THE HAWAIIANS SAYING, "KO-MO-MAI NO-KA-U-A I-KA HA-LE WE-LA-KA-HAO." 

IT WON’T BE LONG ‘TIL MY SHIP WILL BE SAILING BACK TO KONA 
A GRAND OLD PLACE THAT’S ALWAYS FAIR TO SEE. 
I’M JUST A LITTLE HAWAIIAN AND A HOMESICK ISLAND BOY, 
I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY FISH AND POI, 
I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY LITTLE GRASS SHACK IN KE-A-LA-KE-KUA, HAWAII. 
WHERE THE HU-MU-HU-MU-NU-KU-NU-KU-A-PU-A’A GOES SWIMMING BY. 
WHERE THE HU-MU-HU-MU-NU-KU-NU-KU-A-PU-A’A GOES SWIMMING BY.
I used to sing it back at Yukon Elementary chorus. In fact we did many hawaiian songs, and learned ukeleles a couple years later. We had a top notch teacher that had us do arpeggio warm ups and sing lots of cool stuff like Beatles. There was a lot of island influence on Yukon. Some of the apt.s had tikis in front, as did my porch when I was about three. Go to my site, specifically http://www.ereiam.com/perfume.htm (visit the egyptian perfume sketches while your at it) and tell what you and your daughter want ingredient wise (and any you reject), and whethar you want oil or cream. just heard vanilla on the radio. My site access is still down so no photo posting yet. Your words were so cool. It was like you were translating my thoughts into hawaiian.

HeY I like that song.& you knew all the words too! Not bad for a haole.

I didn't remember it all. I had to find it on the net. At the festival I was singing "I want to be with all the kanes and tahines (whatever those are) that I know long ago." That I was so looking forward to hearing it again made it a suitable semi-finale.
For you curious folk, here's happy me and happy cleo at Ho'olaule'a - Alondra Park, Ca - July 21, 2001:

MY NEW DESKTOP Pattern!!!!! Two beautiful Ladies...inside....and out.....

Thank you. I'm flattered. (and in complete agreement)

Sure, but bring a sleeping bag. I haven't any extra beds.

Which one in the picture is you, the redhead or the brunette?

I'm the redhead; Cleo is the brunette.

You're a man???!!?

What made you think that? I have breasts, my license and all my official files say female, and have had my name change since 1996, which i was using since 1993. One critical part remains male until I can afford about $30,000 in surgery. I'll leave that decision up to the woman I end up marrying (if that's legal with the same sex marriage laws).

Are you serious?

Despite your answer, I'm sorry I asked because It was rude of me...I was just in a facetious mood.

I LIKE redheads!

She doesn't look like a man to me.

Really? Well, just look at the facial features...and the arms...well, I guess its not my place to judge. But did you see the reply I got? Was that for real?

Absolutely serious. Did you doubt the whole thing, or just parts?
I take it you're a touch familiar with me here?

The nose is the giveaway. Genetic women have a nose slope about 5 degrees less vertical. Also less brow ridge. and then there's the adams apple. Many of the TG women I know are some of the sharpest lookers around. Most though are really unfortunate looking.

Moi aussi.

Ewww. Just Ewwww.

Que?

Your nose & mine look basically the same & I've know women with adams apples as well. I really don't see anything masculine about you. BTW-you & Cleo are a lovely couple. I hope you two have a long, happy relationship together.

I look in your eyes........your spirit is feminine
your smile is coy like a little girl.........you glow womanly.......
anonymous #4 is a putz
I love you

Well I hope so too, but I've only met her that weekend, and she's happily married. You realize she's Dabprovin don't you?
moi aussi = me too. I like redheads.

Ya, I know.
That sort of vision or possibility is out of some peoples reach.
I just off the phone with my alaska bro, who is always trying to convince me that I have no opportunities because of my gender change. tonight was a change of sorts though. I told him about my desire to buy or build in the ghost town ecclectic art community of Jerome, Arizona, and he tryed to convince me to move to Alaska. For years he's been trying to talk me out of it. Once I finally gave in, so did he apparently.
I think that feminine spirit vs a desire to have one is what separates TG that carry themselves vs ones that suffer.

I'm no putz. > I can have my own opinions, and I wasn't being mean.

No, I didn't realize that. I didn't know that Dabprovin's name was Cleo-I kind of pieced it together now that I read all the replies. I thought the other person in the picture was your SO. You two are still a lovely couple even if you aren't together.

She had her presence together a lot more than I had expected from SC.

Is she making a sculpture for you as well? She seems to be a very charming lady from our conversations.

She already made me one. It's quite lovely.

Now I can hardly wait for mine!