Cynthia, hotmaewest  is known by many as the talent behind the awesome food at the AnthroCon Super Sponsors' Lounge for many years up until 2007's con. (Along with a biting wit, great sense of humor and ability to keep up with a ton of hungry furs.) In the DC area, she's always willing to open her home to local furs for meets, and offers whatever help she can whether it be an ear to listen or a home cooked meal (can we say AMAZING bbq chicken?). She's also a very dear friend of mine (and many others).

What many don't know is that unfortunately, Cynthia, The Mistress of All Things Yummy, is having some bad health problems and is need of surgery (sooner rather than later.) The procedure will fix two not-so-nice bowel obstructions through a quite lengthy procedure. Without it, well, bad things will happen. :/ However, while she must have the surgery, her insurance won't cover $11,000. (Which, she doesn't have. The insurance company seems to not realize very few of us do!) Cynthia is attempting to get a loan, but 11k is a lot of dough.

So, to help her get the surgery...we bring you The Mae West (Cynthia) Surgery Fund (also known as the Help Mae's Bowels Fund). Any donations, no matter how small, whatever you can spare, would be GREATLY appreciated in order to help her get the surgery. Donations can be sent to MaeWestSurgeryFund@yahoo.com via PayPal. Get well wishes to cheer her up can also be sent there. Feel free to post this message on boards and your own LJ to get the word out.

Updates on the fund will be made to mae_west_fund 

Many thanks!!!!!!

4th Annual Oktoberfurs is Coming!


Are you ready to escape to the woods for 2 days of amazing fun? You are invited to escape the brick and mortar jungle and get down and dirty with a group of furs whom enjoy all of what nature has to offer.

Oktoberfurs is an annual furry camp out that is held the first weekend of October every year in beautiful Burke Lake Park, VA. Last year we had 30+ attendees and it was a blast. Check-in starts at 6 pm Fri. Oct. 3 and the camp out ends at 11 am Sun. Oct. 5.


Pre-registration is required for this event. The is $20 for the weekend. Fee includes site fee, dinner Friday, breakfast, lunch and dinner Saturday, and breakfast Sunday.
 
You are responsible for bringing a tent, sleeping equipment, chair, and other basic camping gear. (A list is available on the Oktoberfurs board.)

During the day there is fishing (VA fishing license needed), boating ( rentals are available at a charge and if you own a  boat there are no gas engines allowed in the lake), mini-golf (at a nominal cost) and disc Golf (this year I will be taking a group through the course, c'mon out and try it) as well as just general sit around and chat, walks, hikes, etc. We will have games to play, including various card/board games. There will be an artists' table available for those who would like to draw as well as scanning capabilities for those whom would like to archive their work (A dvd/cd burner is also on this machine for bulk saves, bring your own media to burn to though. Other than this, there is no electricity; please leave laptops, etc. at home.)

This is a furry event so bring your collar, tail and ears. Fursuits ( full or half) are not allowed at the park.

Contact staff via IM/Email, and/or the Oktobefurs Campout Board, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oktoberfur_Camping/, (which also has more info and will keep you up to date on what's happening), to register and find out more!

Midnight
YIM
Moonlit_Snow_White_Wolf
AIM
BlkW0lfMidnight
Email
Moonlit_Snow_White_Wolf@yahoo.com
 
Lilly
YIM
TheLillyKat
AIM
TheLillyKat
Email:
TheLKG@gmail.com

FOR MORE INFO AND TO REGISTER, VISIT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oktoberfur_Camping/

There is a limit on number of attendees, so if you want to attend, please contact staff ASAP to register!

Stolen from da

grlsctgnbad

 

"Someone" reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. It's not the Big Read though -- they don't publish books, and they've only featured these books so far. In any event...
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 or less and force books upon them.

1. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
5. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
6. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
8. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
12. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman
14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16.The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
18. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
21. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
22. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
23. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
24. Animal Farm - George Orwell
25. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
29. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
30. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
32. Complete Works of Shakespeare
33. Ulysses - James Joyce
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
36. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
37. The Bible
38. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
41. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
46. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
47. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
48. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
49. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
50. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
51. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
52. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
53. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
54. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
55. Middlemarch - George Eliot
56. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
57. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
58. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
59. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
60. Emma - Jane Austen
61. Persuasion - Jane Austen
62. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
63. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
64. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
65. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
66. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
67. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
68. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
69. Atonement - Ian McEwan
70. Dune - Frank Herbert
71. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
72. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
73. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
74. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
75. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
77. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
78. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
79. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
80. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
81. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
82. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
83. Dracula - Bram Stoker
84. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
85. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
86. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
87. Germinal - Emile Zola
88. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
89. Possession - A.S. Byatt
90. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
92. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
93. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
94. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
95. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
96. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
97. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
98. Watership Down – Richard Adams
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
100. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

This song, is so me. And it's even a vid about Faith, who I'm nicknamed after. ;)

NO MORE DRAMA.

If you have drama and silly baby games, keep it away from me. I've gotten myself out of all of it, don't try to bring me back in. Yes, me, drama free.

I've got enough issues in my life, I don't need your immature crap; he said she said; she's doing this, he's doing that; or other various dramay crap.

If you're my friend and you have a problem, that's different, I'm here for ya, babe. I'll listen, I'll help, I'll do what I can...my friends mean the world to me. I will do just about anything for them. Especially those select very close few, ya know who ya are. But I won't do your "going to bat for me isn't really doing anything but causing drama, but please do it anyway" crap. I, am staying out of it. Go ahead and deal with your own drama causing.

Oh, and stop trying to get me to go against friends, and kindly don't go about trying to cause problems and drama for mine. I will hiss.

Things that people need to know will be kept just between those that need to know. You're going to go and blab to some random person and cause shit, I ain't gonna deal with it. Private matters will be handled privately, need to know basis, and all that happy horse shit.

Also, if someone has a problem with me, I expect them to tell me. If you say you don't, I'm taking it as ya don't. NO MORE CRAP.

No more trying to instigate something. No more baby games, high school bullshit, causing problems for the sake of having something to do with your time, etc. etc. etc.

Ya bring it to me, I'm gonna tell ya I ain't touching it with a ten foot gd poll.

Yes, the kitty is pissed. Yes, the kitty just ranted. Apologies to those who didn't need to hear all this. Cheers for those who agree.

I'm going to go do the kitty stomp now, and count down the damn hours till I can get the fuck outta this state.

Lilly FuckingPissedOff-Kat



Seriously, just leave me outta the drama, games, and crap. I'm not going to play. I'm gonna take my ball and go home.

This blog/journal, whatever, is going offline for awhile. So, don't expect to see updates or whatever for some time.

Maybe eventually, I'll post again.

What's on here, is being taken off, at least for now. I haven't defriended anyone...just taken all posts off.

If you really care and want an explanation as to what's going on...contact me. Otherwise yeah, that's it.