What to do if you must deliver the baby unexpectedly:
warm up slowly
do not over do it
avoid long, tiring sessions
stop if breathless, tired or dizzy
do not hold breath
you will require a lot of leverage
so avoid extreme motionBecause, ultimately you cannot control all the events surrounding your birth.
So, Avoid:
alcohol
cigarettes
and choosing responsible health care
You see, you were born kicking and fighting to live; who knows survival better than the U.S. Army?Just act like the natives (stubbornness, a refusal to give in to problems and obstacles that face you, will give you the mental & physical strength to endure).
Make sure, in the foothills, you avoid flash flood areas.
In mountainous terrain, avoid avalanche areas. Near bodies of water, avoid a site that is below the high water mark.
Also Avoid:
cholera
malaria
plague
sleeping sickness
rocky mountain spotted fever
and typhoid
And what ever you do, don't forget your trousers. Knot each leg at the bottom and button the fly. This excellent manual describes and clearly illustrates the techniques of survival.The experience and knowledge you gained through this and through your army training have bearing on your will to live.
~libby
Friday, April 18, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Censorship & Treasure
Welp these are our new topics! Not sure how you feel about them... but i dig!we had no takers for the next host so i'll pull a dually, i don't mind at all.
Date: May 2
Time: 6:30ish - whenev
Place: 1162 E. King St. york, pa
www.mapquest.com
Food: Bring if you would like (thank you everyone for bringing treats last time)
Drink: Bring if you would like
Parking: on the street
Well get cracking! I hope everyone is happy n' healthy....spring has sprung at last!
andi
projects
Hey crew! here are some of our projects we came up with this month for art nite. Topics were as follows…One and Spring.
And please keep checking back in; I still need to post some pieces and I’m really hoping to get a certain someones project up on youtube. Plus on top of it all I stumbled upon a couple things that some of you may be interested in…. perhaps? I personally had a splendid evening. Not sure I need to keep saying how much fun it is to all get together and catch up. But I’ll say it anyway…had a really fun time. Thanks everyone!
And please keep checking back in; I still need to post some pieces and I’m really hoping to get a certain someones project up on youtube. Plus on top of it all I stumbled upon a couple things that some of you may be interested in…. perhaps? I personally had a splendid evening. Not sure I need to keep saying how much fun it is to all get together and catch up. But I’ll say it anyway…had a really fun time. Thanks everyone!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
One & Spring...our new topics
Hey folks! Late as usual... here are our new topics for the next art nite, which is quickly approaching. "One and Spring" are our topics to pick from for April.
Date: Friday, April 4th
Place: 1162 East King St. York, PA 17406 http://www.mapquest.com/
(ps. this is my house)
Time: 6:30 (7ish) till whenever
Parking: on the street
Food & Refreshments: bring if you would like
Art: come up with something cool, its spring for goodness sake!
hope to see you all there! if you have questions you know where to find me.
andi
Date: Friday, April 4thPlace: 1162 East King St. York, PA 17406 http://www.mapquest.com/
(ps. this is my house)
Time: 6:30 (7ish) till whenever
Parking: on the street
Food & Refreshments: bring if you would like
Art: come up with something cool, its spring for goodness sake!
hope to see you all there! if you have questions you know where to find me.
andi
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Emotional Security & Judgement
Emotional Security and Judgement were our topics, a little heavy...yes! But this is what some of us came up with. What a great ART NITE; good fun, good food, good wine, good conversation, great company and awesome art! (sounds tempting to all you non-goers doesn't it?) Well its going to be a hard one to top (if we were into that type of thing), thanks so much to Bim and her family for making it happen. And once again thank you to all that participate, i know sometimes its a tall feat to adjust our busy schedules to come out on a friday night... so much thanks go out to you!!!
andi.
(click on above image to read! and if the link doesn't work read it at the end of this blog)
andi.
(click on above image to read! and if the link doesn't work read it at the end of this blog)
I ran into Mrs. Etcher the other day at the grocery market. Well, I wouldn’t say “ran into,” it was more like I saw her before she saw me and hid behind a rack of corn chips until she went on to the freezer section. I told myself it was because the baby was cranky and it would’ve been too much of a hassle to stand shivering next to the yogurt and talk while the baby needed a nap. And after all I wouldn’t want to cut the conversation short. That would be rude. But really, she would have asked me what I’m up to these days, where am I living, do I work, who did I marry…” She would have touched the baby even though she had already been through the meat section and probably stroked all the chicken breasts before selecting the perfect four pack.
The grocery store is the only place where this happens. Mostly because it’s the only public place I frequent around here. For everything else I go all the way to the city. I try to minimize it happening by only going in the middle of a weekday or late at night. My worst fear is running into someone from high school. I can’t explain what it is about encountering these old school mates that make me sweat and the roots of my hair prickle. But now all their parents are starting to retire. Their home all day or else are out at the grocery store stalking the isles looking for some unsuspecting young woman to harass. I have to tell them what I’m doing and do it with just the right about of modesty. Pepper the conversation with polite twitter. And they brag about their kid, the same kid that hit all the home runs on my soft ball team or took the boy I had a crush on to homecoming. They tell me that their kid is now a successful CPA, a lawyer, teaching at Johns Hopkins, they even have all their student loans paid off.
And me? I’m an Administrative Assistant. A secretary. I even got flowers on Secretary’s day. Sometimes I try to step it up a little “I’m the Assistant to the Director of the Baltimore County Crisis Response System.” But then I have to go into a winded explanation of what the crisis system is. And then spend the next 20 minutes talking in a whisper about the tragedy of suicide and how what I do is a priceless service in the community. But I make spread sheets, I order paper and extra staples and I don’t know why we’re even whispering in the first place, we’re not even really whispering we’re just huskily talking like we’ve had tracheotomies or the lining of our throats removed.
It takes me up to 45 minutes before I can smile wanly and tell them to tell their kid hi from me and try, but not too hard, to sound interested in “all getting together sometime.”
It’s not that I’m ashamed of being a secretary, or marrying a local boy, or living with my parents… It’s just that none of it sounds good taken at face value. I wish I could be more like, “Oh, Mrs. Etcher hi, how are you? Oh I’m good. My gorgeous and talented husband and I just moved back here a couple years ago after living in the southwest, traveling all over the continental US rock climbing, kayaking, and backpacking including the Yukon and all of Alaska doing environmental impact research and trying to be an advocate for social change and experiential education. We now live in a beautiful house that my afore mentioned talented husband made in less than six months and we have an adorable baby who is practically a genius.” But you can’t say that. Not to people with the proper amount of modesty. And to be honest she’s not a genius. In fact, she’s recently developed a penchant for head-butting the window, but that’s relatively normal…
I have fantasies of moving away from here. Not too far, but far enough so that I won’t run into anyone in the grocery store. A place that is both exotic and down-home. Some place where they call it a Super Market. So that way when we’re visiting for the holidays and I’m picking up a cheese cake in the bakery and I see Mrs. Etcher I can tell her that we’re just here for Easter and that we live up north where it’s just a little too exotic for her.
The grocery store is the only place where this happens. Mostly because it’s the only public place I frequent around here. For everything else I go all the way to the city. I try to minimize it happening by only going in the middle of a weekday or late at night. My worst fear is running into someone from high school. I can’t explain what it is about encountering these old school mates that make me sweat and the roots of my hair prickle. But now all their parents are starting to retire. Their home all day or else are out at the grocery store stalking the isles looking for some unsuspecting young woman to harass. I have to tell them what I’m doing and do it with just the right about of modesty. Pepper the conversation with polite twitter. And they brag about their kid, the same kid that hit all the home runs on my soft ball team or took the boy I had a crush on to homecoming. They tell me that their kid is now a successful CPA, a lawyer, teaching at Johns Hopkins, they even have all their student loans paid off.
And me? I’m an Administrative Assistant. A secretary. I even got flowers on Secretary’s day. Sometimes I try to step it up a little “I’m the Assistant to the Director of the Baltimore County Crisis Response System.” But then I have to go into a winded explanation of what the crisis system is. And then spend the next 20 minutes talking in a whisper about the tragedy of suicide and how what I do is a priceless service in the community. But I make spread sheets, I order paper and extra staples and I don’t know why we’re even whispering in the first place, we’re not even really whispering we’re just huskily talking like we’ve had tracheotomies or the lining of our throats removed.
It takes me up to 45 minutes before I can smile wanly and tell them to tell their kid hi from me and try, but not too hard, to sound interested in “all getting together sometime.”
It’s not that I’m ashamed of being a secretary, or marrying a local boy, or living with my parents… It’s just that none of it sounds good taken at face value. I wish I could be more like, “Oh, Mrs. Etcher hi, how are you? Oh I’m good. My gorgeous and talented husband and I just moved back here a couple years ago after living in the southwest, traveling all over the continental US rock climbing, kayaking, and backpacking including the Yukon and all of Alaska doing environmental impact research and trying to be an advocate for social change and experiential education. We now live in a beautiful house that my afore mentioned talented husband made in less than six months and we have an adorable baby who is practically a genius.” But you can’t say that. Not to people with the proper amount of modesty. And to be honest she’s not a genius. In fact, she’s recently developed a penchant for head-butting the window, but that’s relatively normal…
I have fantasies of moving away from here. Not too far, but far enough so that I won’t run into anyone in the grocery store. A place that is both exotic and down-home. Some place where they call it a Super Market. So that way when we’re visiting for the holidays and I’m picking up a cheese cake in the bakery and I see Mrs. Etcher I can tell her that we’re just here for Easter and that we live up north where it’s just a little too exotic for her.
Monday, February 18, 2008
The Topic
Judgement & Emotional Security
These are our show stopper topics for the ever approaching art nite. Go ahead and interpret these as you see fit. I am continually amazed at how well these topics coincide with life in general... they are great topics! The evening will take place on March 7th (6:30pm) at Bim's house/studio, and if you have never been I highly recommend coming to see Bim's all inspiring setup. This is the address: 19217 Spooks Hill Road Parkton, MD 21120. Thanks Bim. I sure hope to see you all there! If you have any questions or would like to carpool...just email me.
andi
These are our show stopper topics for the ever approaching art nite. Go ahead and interpret these as you see fit. I am continually amazed at how well these topics coincide with life in general... they are great topics! The evening will take place on March 7th (6:30pm) at Bim's house/studio, and if you have never been I highly recommend coming to see Bim's all inspiring setup. This is the address: 19217 Spooks Hill Road Parkton, MD 21120. Thanks Bim. I sure hope to see you all there! If you have any questions or would like to carpool...just email me.
andi
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Infatuation/I want it!
On February 1st we had a whopping turnout for art nite. It was awesome, thank you everyone for participating!!! (it means a lot to me) So here are some of the pieces that people came up with. Everyone had such great projects. Next art nite we might try some different approaches to make it a bit less of a "show n tell" event... I was even a tad nervous. So enjoy, and thanks to Melissa and Jason for being such great hosts.
