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| Sourceress |
Posted - Apr 14 2010 : 11:47:21 PM
I am an official Sister! I am Sister #1384 in fact! I'm so psyched! Now if I could just find my denim jacket...
Hi, I'm Lis. I've been "the Sourceress" online for 25 years, though, which is why I sign my messages with both names. :-) I live in northern Maryland with my husband Tom, our sons Corwyn, age 11, and Galen age 8 (he'll be 9 at the end of May), our Really Good Dog, Lincoln (he's a blue-tick coon hound), and 3 cats: Pixel, Ishtar, and Baron Samedi.
I am especially excited about the merit badges! The one thing I was sorry about leaving behind when I graduated from high school was the ability to earn merit badges (actually interest project patches at that point, but it's the same idea) in Girl Scouts. And yes, I was a Girl Scout all the way through high school.
I am planning to have a square foot garden this summer, but I still need to get my garden boxes built. I love to knit, I love learning how to be more self-sufficient, I love to read - mostly science fiction and fantasy, I have been in the SCA since I was 15, but I've kind of been on hiatus for the last 10 years or so, I play World of Warcraft, I homeschool my kids, and I have CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome), so I can't always do all the things I want to do, which is extremely frustrating.
Anyway, I'm really delighted to be here, and I'm trying really hard to keep this intro short, since I have a tendency to be long-winded. I do have a quick question though - when you use the email function to send email to a Sister through the forums, does it send that email to her email address? Or is there a private mail system that is part of the forum? Just trying to figure out where I should be looking for mail (my inbox tends to be chronically overcrowded). Thanks!
Lis
*the Sourceress*
unschooling mama to
Corwyn (4/99)
and Galen (5/01) |
| 18 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Calicogirl |
Posted - Apr 18 2010 : 7:48:06 PM
Welcome Lis!
You will love it here, I'm sure :) This is definitely the place to come to learn how to be self-sufficient :)
~Sharon
By His Grace, For His Glory
http://merryheartjournal.blogspot.com/ |
| solilly |
Posted - Apr 17 2010 : 5:15:08 PM
Thanks for the brake down on the name. If it works for you it should work for everyone else as well. Sounds like no matter you hardships you have turned them around to work just for you. See you fit right in with the rest of us gals. I'm Lilly in Virginia. 
learning the life I always wanted. |
| bboopster |
Posted - Apr 16 2010 : 8:18:14 PM
Welcome from Wisconsin!!!! 
http://www.bboopster.blogspot.com
Nana to 4 with 1 on the way.
3 Blue Star Mother and Proud of it!
Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
Enjoying the road to the simple life :>) |
| Kerbear |
Posted - Apr 16 2010 : 6:27:58 PM
Welcome from Tennesee! Glad you have joined us!
~Kerry Anne
Farmgirl Sister #975 |
| debtea2 |
Posted - Apr 16 2010 : 5:52:19 PM
lis
congrats and welcome
blessing to all
deborah
http://jerseyfarmgirl.blogspot.com/
inch by inch we find our way
jersey farmgirl
#1330
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| Annika |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 9:30:40 PM
Lis, so so glad that you are here. A big Idaho welcome sister!
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Palouse Prairie Girls Chapter
http://palouseprairiegirls.blogspot.com/
http://prairiegirlsjournal.blogspot.com/
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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| maggie14 |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 9:29:24 PM
Welcome Lis!!!
Hugs,
Channah
Farmgirl sister #1219
Just a small town country girl trying to live her dreams. :) |
| Sourceress |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 9:26:13 PM
Thank you for the warm welcome :-)
The SCA is the Society for Creative Anachronism, which is an international non-profit educational group that studies and recreates life in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Basically, we create "personnas" - the person we are pretending to be in the "Current Middle Ages", and we dress up and play medieval :-) (At this point, I started to wax poetic about the SCA, but changed my mind. If you really want to know more about the SCA, let me know and I'll wax poetic. Otherwise you can just go read about it at http://www.sca.org).
As much as it really stinks and makes life a lot more difficult, in a way CFIDS has also been a blessing - because I'm disabled and *can't* work, I have the perfect excuse to stay home and raise my kids and putter around, which is something I would probably have wanted to do anyway. It's frustrating because I don't have the energy to get all the stuff done that I need to get done, let alone the things I want to do, so I've really had to learn how to be mindful of what I'm doing and what I'm getting into and how much I can realistically do, and I've had to learn to balance the work with the play even when that means stuff doesn't get done. I still struggle with all of that, actually, but I'm getting there. Realistically, though, if I wasn't disabled, I might very well end up going out and having a career, or at least getting a job, and then I wouldn't be able to do all those things I want to do anyway, and I wouldn't be raising my kids. So I guess it kind of depends on how you look at it.
For those who wondered about my name, I did post about it on the thread about the origins of people's names (I think it's under "Gathered Up") - it's on page 5. But if you don't want to go over there to look at it, this is what I said:
I have been the Sourceress online for about 25 years now. I started out on local dial-up BBSes when I was in high school (back before the Internet existed), then got an account on the school mainframe when I got to college, which included access to the Bitnet, the Usenet, and the Internet (back before the World Wide Web). And by the time I got out of college and moved to Maryland to marry my high school sweetheart (who turned out to be an abusive jerk who I later divorced, but it got me to MD, where I met the wonderful man I've been married to for the last 12 years, so it worked out), the World Wide Web was just starting to take off. So now whenever I have to make a username, I try to get "Sourceress" since, well, that's who I am, at least when I'm online.
Anyway, I've been the Sourceress for over half my life. In some ways, it is just as much a "real" name as my legal name. I created it, all those years ago, to be a play on words: in programming, "source code" is the code as it is written by the programmer, before it is translated into something the computer can understand, so that is partly a reference to my love of computers and technology. I am pagan, so there's also a reference to my witchy, magickal side. To me it also always had connotations of being a source of data - I've always been fascinated with the idea of collecting information - we have zillions of books and a house decorated in floor-to-ceiling bookcases.
Anyway, that's what it means. And that's why I always sign things
Lis
*the Sourceress* |
| Catherine |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 11:36:34 AM
Congrats Lis!
I'm planning to join the sisterhood soon, too.
Unschooling is something my family is moving more and more towards ... learning just happens when children have the time to pursue things on their own :) .
Blessings,
Catherine
http://lovelivingsimply.blogspot.com/
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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| countrylovin91 |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 09:58:26 AM
Welcome from another newbie..And CONGRATS on being an official sister..Payday I'm looking forward to becoming a sister..I never was in girl scouts and my girls don't seem interested..I crochet but would love to learn to knit..Just haven't had the guts to do it..Looking forward to getting to know you..Debbie |
| delicia |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 08:53:07 AM
Hi Lis. You sound very interesting. There are so many great ladies here you will learn and share a lot. enjoy.
delicia |
| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 08:09:22 AM
Welcome Lis!! Glad you are here:)
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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| AliciaNak |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 08:08:44 AM
Hi Lis,
Welcome from Nevada! You'll love it here, so many great ladies!
Alicia
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com
www.artfire.com/users/BlondeNakCreations |
| Lin |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 07:55:20 AM
Hi Lis,
Welcome from Iowa!! I absolutely agree with Therese....this place has "magic" and you will find it!!!
Lin
"Our beautiful earth is worth saving"!! |
| beadbabe |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 06:25:09 AM
Welcome from California Lis! This place has its own magic and I am pretty sure you are going to love it here!
Therese Farmgirl Sister #1217
If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. ~Emile Zola |
| Fiddlehead Farm |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 06:13:25 AM
A big Wisconsin hay dare to ya Lis! We are so glad you joined us. I am also curious about your name.
Why not go out on a limb, that's where all the fruit is! "Mark Twain"
http://studiodiphotosite.shutterfly.com/
farmgirl sister #922 |
| texdane |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 05:24:24 AM
Hi Lis,
Welcome from Connecticut!
Nicole
Farmgirl Sister #1155
KNITTER, JAM-MAKER AND MOM EXTRAORDINAIRE |
| Cindy Lou |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 01:59:46 AM
Hi Lis,
Welcome from MN. It's good to have you here. You will find women here with similar interests and concerns, sisters from across this country and others.
There is a thread about names we have chosen, I'd like to know more about "Sourceress" and why you have chosen it.
Its fun to find the things we have in common. Though my kids are grown now, we homeschooled our 3 till high school. DH and I have a big garden that is consuming our lives at the present, we use a lot of raised beds.
I'm not surprised about the "self-sufficient" label, that's a big part of why many of us are here. I haven't read much sci-fi recently, in fact don't even know names of many good recent authors. I've never tried World of Warcraft, I'm more into puzzle type games.
What is SCA?
Sorry you have to deal with CFIDS but think you are on the right track with self sufficiency and the simpler life style.
Just so you know when a message is sent it is done privately. If you choose to let someone know your personal e-mail that is A-OK but not necessary.
Anyway, glad you are here. Enjoy!
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver |
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