Kage Alan Blog

Original MySpace Publication Date: July 7, 2009

Right, so some of you posted or e-mailed some curiosity aimed at the reading I had yesterday with uber-psychic Sylvia Brown.  I figured rather than respond to random questions, I’d simply type up a bit of the information that was shared with me.  Now, for those of you who think it’s all a bunch of BS, that’s cool.  I used to think the same thing.  For those of you who still wonder, let me preface this by saying that I’ve had 4 psychic readings so far and, after yesterday, they’ve all been in line with each other as far as what was said.  Strange?  Maybe…

So let’s get to the good stuff, shall we?
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Original MySpace Publication Date: July 2, 2009

This blogging thing is seriously feast or famine with me. Either nothing comes to mind (in which case people start calling me McLeod) or it all comes flooding out. I do want to preface this one by saying that I’m feeling bluntly honest about quite a bit today, so consider yourself warned. The bad words are going to fly.
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Original MySpace Publication Date: July 1, 2009

Blog, they said, and people will read you.

Blog frequently, they said, or people will not read you…and instead read someone who actually does blog frequently because those are the rules we just made up since they sound wise and sage-like.

Kinda makes you want to wear an old pair of shoes and put your foot up a sage’s ass, doesn’t it?
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I wrote a post a couple of days ago about why I blog and saving a bit of myself for the years to come. Memories are important. They’re important to us and there are times we share them and they ‘click’ with someone else. We become connected by sharing. Memories are extremely important at the moment. At this time, it’s Friday (yesterday) afternoon and my husband and I found out about an hour ago that his father (my father-in-law) has only a couple of days left to live. The cancer in his body has robbed him of any nutrients they’ve put in and is shutting his organs down a little a time. We continue to hope for a miracle. But memories will soon be all we have. This post today from 2009 is a happy memory for me. Someone reached out and said something kind because of something I’d written. I’m sharing this with you and hoping you share some good memories of your own.

Many hugs,

Kage
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Original MySpace Publication Date: Apr 1, 2009

That’s right, folks! It’s the author with the really, really, big, huge, giant blog! No…no. Blog. I said blog. Leave it to your mind to go right to the gutter. I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t tell you about my massive clock. Remind me not to leave you alone for so long next time. Are you ready for another exciting, action packed update from yours truly? Let’s get on with it then!
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Original MySpace Publication Date: Mar 3, 2009

Why is it that the simplest things so often turn into the most complicated ordeals? Seriously. It’s like somebody in some little office somewhere referred to in hushed conversations as “the Controller” has a hard-on for some of us. What makes it worse is I pretty much hate leaving home and dealing with certain areas of the public, mainly the retail sector. It’s why I prefer to shop online. If and when there’s a mistake made, it’s more often than not my own and on those rare occasions it’s them, it’s still all handled online with no hassle. But other times? Oh, no. I just have to attempt to put my faith in humanity, throw caution to the wind, and hope I can accomplish what I’m setting out for with little discomfort. It rarely happens.
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Original MySpace Publication Date: Feb 22, 2009

My father is not necessarily one who has ever jumped on the bandwagon when it comes to socially linguistic trends.  He never came up to me while in my early teens and said:

“Oh, my God.  You’re like totally wearing that shirt with those parachute pants?  That’s like so gross!  Totally gag me with a spoon.  That is so gnarly.”

No, that wasn’t him.  He was more subtle.

“Change.”

And I would.
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Original MySpace Publication Date: Feb 16, 2009

Kage’s Hong Kong Vacation Log (Afterthoughts)

Experiencing another culture is something I believe everybody should do, especially Americans. We can be arrogant about the rest of the world and it’s the worst kind of arrogance; we don’t realize we’re arrogant. We’re fed stories of how things should be and how we should hope that they one day are, but there is more than one way in the world to do something or have something be. There’s more than one viewpoint.

(Experiencing First Class while traveling is also an extremely important and should be repeated whenever possible.)
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Original Myspace Publication Date: 1/02/09
There’s been quite a bit of holiday banter going on and I thought I’d share a few things that happened to me during Christmas and New Years for no other reason than because I can!

Where to start… My Pookie has a friend who has really, for the most part, only ever looked down his nose at me. I’ve never been good enough. Now, this guy makes a lot of money, travels the world and thinks very highly of himself. You know the type, right? Prim, proper, generally annoying. And he has hair plugs. Darling! So, he sends out his Christmas letter to the masses (and once again spells my name incorrectly as he has for a decade now) and relates how he traveled this past year to a church that once housed the “Shout” of Turin. This guy expressed genuine surprise that I ever got published, yet he heard…saw…whatever the “Shout” of Turin. Yeah, he can bite it.
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Original Publication Date: 12/24/08

Season’s Greetings!

Yes, nothing like waiting until the last minute to send out a Christmas blog/letter. So what can be said about 2008 that hasn’t been already? It would be easy to concentrate on the negative things because so many people have been in the muck of it all, especially with the economy. Heck, my own dayjob is in the automotive industry and no matter who you work for or supply (Larry, Curly or Moe), it’s been downhill. Well, I’m not going to concentrate on that. We’ve all had enough negativity. Instead, I’m going to share some of the highlights from the year.
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