#turks and caicos 2023

[m3tth4ws]

[covrettcreative]

His Best Life

Seen on North Caicos, Turks and Caicos.

[two-white-butterflies]

★ — loss of my life | charles leclerc

Description: You're the biggest superstar in the world. You break up with your longterm boyfriend. It's lonely at the top.

Pairing: singer!reader/charles leclerc

yourname: the love of my life. ❤️ @charles_leclerc

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charles_leclerc: ❤️

yournameuniverse: ok drop the album its been 3 yrs

BirdsofAFeather: OMG OMG SHE'S A SINGER, HE'S A RACECAR DRIVER IT'S A WATTPAD BOOK.

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yourname: short n' sweet is out now 🍭

this feels really surreal, i kind of had to unlearn myself and learn myself again in order to make this album. it's the one i'm most proud of thus far in my life. it's the one i hope you listen to and feel like we were hanging and confiding in each other for an hour. me and the mic were like this the whoole time 🤞🏻 i never thought i would finish it because it was really scary to close the chapter. but i closed it so you can open it! and i hope you do. i hope you love it.

rant over now please stream this shit a lot if you don't mind, it took me years to make lol.

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charles_leclerc: ❤️

jaylahespy: crying real tears

ynlnnation: WE'RE LOVING IT

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charles_leclerc: Happy 7th! @yourname

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yourname: Happy 7th lovey! ❤️🥺

charlesuniverse: THE PERFECT COUPLE

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(MONACO, 2023)

You felt like Elvis Presley. Singing in sold-out arenas and having millions of fans that would constantly stream your songs. It was exhilarating. It was a different type of high. Being famous was 100x better than narcotics, because it gave you money.

Money that afforded lazy days like this.

Both sides of your pillow remained cold. The air-conditioning was in optimal condition. Charles' warm arms were wrapped around you, caging you in his warm embrace. "What time are we gonna get up?" you asked with a chuckle, seeing that his eyes remained closed.

"Brunch," he mumbled weakly - fighting against the sleepiness. "- now let's please get back to sleep." he pleaded, his arms wrapping tighter around your waist. A small giggle escapes your mouth.

"Okay, Mr. Leclerc."

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yourname: liverpool you're the apple of my eye ❤️🥺 thank you for being such a wonderful crowd!!

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YourNameWorld: I LOVE YOU PLEASE NOTICE ME

allatflipflops: LIVERPOOL!

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yournamenation: Y/N L/N sings Miss American Pie.

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prongsmoony: Oh it's confirmed

Headoverheels: She also liked that twitter post that's speculating over their breakup...💀

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Y/N L/N and CHARLES LECLERC: ALL WE KNOW ABOUT THE BREAKUP SO FAR. by Poppy Corinthia

When Y/N L/N first began dating Formula One racer Charles Leclerc more than seven years ago, the internet was not shocked. The pair first introduced each other as childhood best-friends, both growing up in Monaco, until L/N's eventual leave to NYC.

A love story like theirs did not stay behind closed doors.

Their relationship was first confirmed by an instagram post made by Y/N L/N (which has since been deleted following her karma album) that is captioned "the love of my life" with a picture of her and Charles Leclerc kissing passionately in Turks and Caicos.

This was followed by back-to-back appearances in the racing paddock, as well as Leclerc's attendance in all of L/N's concerts. July 10, 2024 the streak of attendance has been ruined. Leclerc has also not liked any of L/N's post about her Liverpool concert. Y/N L/N also liked a twitter post speculating their breakup.

But what do you think, reader? Is the IT Couple broken up? or are they simply taking a step back on their public appearances?

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valenciaschitt: Yep I think they're over

HollaParker: I refuse to believe it :(

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yourname: Edinburg, you're the one for me! 🥺 thank you for listening to 'loml' for the first time. the song will be released...an hour after this post. loml is really personal to me, but please always choose to be kind and gentle.

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CharlesandY/N: "Please always choose to be kind and gentle" THIS IS DEFINITELY ABOUT CHARLES 😭

charlesuniverse: YOU'RE THE LOSS OF MY LIFE

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Y/NUniverse: When I remember that Y/N got the breakup text 30mins before her show in Liverpool...

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[foxes-that-run]

Clean

I'm so sad we didn't get videos for 1989TV, but we did get some great visuals in the lyric videos. Especially Cleans, which references a lot of other songs. I see similarities to the music video for Style, Out of the Woods, Late Night Talking, Falling and Cardigan. I think this fits how often this song has been referenced in other songs by Harry and Taylor.

Timeline

Clean was written on 9 February with Imogen Heap. Taylor said in the Grammy Pro event:

“When you get your heart broken, or you loose someone from your life, or when you’re trying to recover from a breakup, it’s almost the same kind of struggle that someone goes through when trying to beat addiction. It’s not one habit your breaking, it’s every single minute of the day you’re breaking a habit. And it’s exhausting. I had this metaphor in my head about being in this house. There’s been a drought but you feel like there’s a storm coming, and so instead of blocking out the storm you punch a hole in the roof and just let all the rain come in. And when you wake up in the morning, it’s washed away everything that used to hurt you. And then you’re clean.”

Taylor also said it and Shake it Off were the last song's written, but Style was actually the last song written on 19 February 2014.

Live performances

Clean was on the 1989 mainset list proceeded by the Clean Speech which changed slightly every night. There is a wonderful Masterpost of Clean Speechs most of these. The Speech generally stated with a scene setter that they are all there together, going through things and would end with variations on " And then I think that if you continue to move through your life, and replace old habits with new ones, I think you can erase that feeling that everyone sees your mistakes when they’re looking at you. And that’s the moment you know that you’re finally clean." The middle section of the speeches varied depending on what Taylor wanted to say. I think these are a nice call back to Speak Now Arm Lyrics, which started after she may have first met Harry.

Since the 1989 World Tour it has been played Clean on:

21 July 2018 - end of (Cruel) summer end of Live on Tour, Camille BUA, Harry went to Italy, she went to Turks and Caicos with Joe.

1 April 2023 - show after Joe BUA

28 May 2023 - Between Maroon and Hits Different. TR and TK first seen soon after.

Lyrics

The drought was the very worst (Oh-oh, oh-oh) When the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst It was months and months of back and forth (Oh-oh, oh-oh) You're still all over me Like a wine-stained dress I can't wear anymore

Is it over now? "With the wilt of the rose (Uh-huh)", Harry responded to this in Sunflower Vol 6 with "Plant new seeds in the melody"

Wine on clothes is many songs: Olivia: "This isn't the stain of a red wine, I'm bleeding love", Little Freak: "Red wine and a ginger ale / But you would make fun of me for sure", Maroon: "The burgundy on my T-shirt when you splashed your wine into me" and "Your roommate's cheap-ass screw-top , that's how", The 1: "Rosé flowing with your chosen family" and Grapejuice "There's just no gettin' through / Without you / A bottle of rouge"

Hung my head as I lost the war And the sky turned black like a perfect storm

Taylor has used war as a metaphor for a fight in several songs. And described dark skies for relationship trouble.

This Love: "Skies grew darker, currents swept you out again"

Coney Island: "Did I paint your bluest skies the darkest gray?"

Rain came pouring down When I was drowning, that's when I could finally breathe And by morning Gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean (Oh, oh, oh, oh)

The imagery of rain pouring down, washing away but also as a metaphor for depression has been a theme in Harry and Taylors songs. Most remarkably in the music videos for Falling/Cardigan, which references these lyrics in Clean.

Clean is referencing Everything has changed, a song about the start of Harry and Taylor's relationship, Clean being an (ending at that time.)

Everything Has Changed: "All I know is pouring rain and everything has changed"

How You Get The Girl: "Stand there like a ghost, shaking from the rain"

Peace: "But the rain is always gonna come if you’re standing with me"

There was nothing left to do (Oh-oh, oh-oh) When the butterflies turned to dust that covered my whole room So I punched a hole in the roof (Oh-oh, oh-oh) Let the flood carry away all my pictures of you

Everything has changed is also the only other song Taylor has referred to Butterfly's "And all I feel in my stomach is butterflies, the beautiful kind" which Harry referenced in Olivia "The summertime and butterflies / All belong to your creation / I love you, it's all I do"

Dust is also only in:

Holy Ground: And the story’s got dust on every page

Everything Has Changed: So dust off your highest hopes, and

Right Where You Left Me: Dust collected on my pinned-up hair

Finally, as the closing track, 1989 was a very photo driven marketing campaign, the line of 'washing my pictures of you' and references to photos in the album bring that story to a close.

The water filled my lungs, I screamed so loud But no one heard a thing

Harry referenced this line in the Falling Music Video, which Taylor then referenced in the Clean TV Lyric Video:

Ten months sober, I must admit Just because you're clean, don't mean you don't miss it Ten months older, I won't give in Now that I'm clean, I'm never gonna risk it

Clean likens their relationship to an addiction, which they do in several songs (Grapejuice "There's just no gettin' through / Without you A bottle of rouge", MMIH “gotta get better / give me some morphine.”)

Is it over now? "Let's fast forward to three hundred takeout coffees later" 300 take out coffees, one a day is 10 months.

The song was written 9 February 2014, 10 months prior was April 2013. One Direction was playing UK shows and Taylor on the US leg of the Red Tour. They were MIA on tour breaks 23 - 25 April 2013 after Harry arrived alone in LA, Harry wearing the Peace Ring when he left LA. Finding that timing makes me feel:

[grandmaster-anne]

22 February 2023 Their Royal Highness, The Earl and Countess of Wessex are now in the Turks and Caicos Islands.🇹🇨 — Turks and Caicos Islands, Governor's Office

[sunskate]

i watched CBC's commentary from Worlds 2024 and Brenda Irving mentioned that CPom didn't take a single week off in the summer of 2023? i don't know if she was exaggerating but it's interesting to me (and it paid off because we saw their improvements)

maybe it’s not better to work with no breaks, and it’s not some kind of valor to work more if your mind, body and spirit need a rest? a quick look at their IG says Christina went on a family vacation to Turks & Caicos end of May, and Anthony was on vacation from June 5 for a week when he went to Montreal and then Cabo, and his end of summer wrapup includes the Bellagio fountains in Vegas

[brookstonalmanac]

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Hey Jude, by The Beatles (Song; 1968) [1st Apple Records release]

Highway 61 Revisited, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1965)

Kravn the Hunter (Film; 2023)

The Late Show with David Letterman (Talk Show; 1993)

Little Cesario (MGM Cartoon; 1941)

Medúlla, by Björk (Album; 2004)

A Mouse in the House (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)

Music of the Sun, by Rihanna (Album; 2005)

Never Kick a Woman (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1936)

Otello (Opera Film by Franco Zeffirelli; 1986)

Putting on the Act (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

Santana, by Carlos Santana (Album; 1969)

The School for Scandal, by Samuel Barber (Overture; 1933)

Short in the Saddle (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1963)

Side to Side, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2016)

Slow Days, Fast Company, by Eve Babitz (Short Stories; 1977)

State Fair (Film; 1945)

Surf’s Up, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1971)

Terror on the Midway (Fleischer Cartoon; 1942) [#9]

The Three Bears (Ub Iwerks ComiColor Cartoon; 1935)

Top Hat (Film; 1935)

What Happened to Monday (Film; 2017)

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Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 243 of 2024; 123 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 35 of 2024

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Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 27 (Bing-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 26 Av 5784

Islamic: 24 Safar 1446

J Cal: 3 Gold; Threesday [3 of 30]

Julian: 17 August 2024

Moon: 11%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 19 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Fulton]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 72 of 94)

Week: 4th Full Week of August

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 9 of 32)

[thewomenofwindsor]

Their Royal Highnesses, The Earl and Countess of Wessex will be making a Royal Visit to the Turks and Caicos Islands on February 22-23, 2023.

[covrettcreative]

A Little Lullaby

Seen on Providenciales, Turks and Caicos.

[atlantichurricanes]

Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook issued by the National Hurricane Center in Miami, FL, USA

2023-11-15, 13:00 EST

Southwestern Caribbean Sea: Disorganized showers and thunderstorms persist in association with a trough of low pressure located in the southwestern Caribbean Sea. Environmental conditions appear marginally conducive for development of this system over the next couple of days, and a tropical depression could form by this weekend as the system starts moving northeastward across the western and central part of the Caribbean Sea. An Air Force Reserve reconnaissance mission is scheduled to investigate the system tomorrow.

Regardless of development, this system is expected to produce heavy rains that could result in flash flooding and mudslides over portions of the Caribbean coast of Central America and the Greater Antilles through this weekend. Interests in Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the southeastern Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands should continue to monitor the progress of this system.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent.

* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...50 percent.

Offshore Southeast Coast of United States: A non-tropical area of low pressure is expected to form near southern Florida along a frontal boundary by tomorrow. This system is then forecast to move quickly northeastward across the Bahamas and offshore of the east coast of the U.S. through the weekend. Although development into a tropical cyclone appears unlikely, this system is expected to produce gusty winds and heavy rains across portions of southern Florida, the Florida Keys, and the Bahamas during the next couple of days. For more information on this system, including gale warnings, see High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.

* Formation chance through 7 days...low...10 percent.

&& High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service can be found under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and online at ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.php

$$ Forecaster Papin

[sadhu88]

The Personal Agenda I (Part 1)

Hello, all! I thought I'd share this with you. I have had a plan for my life since about the year 2006, which I developed after I graduated from Harvard University in 2005 (class of 2002). I used to call it The Plan then I called it The Agenda/The Agenda I, and now it is called The Personal Agenda I. So far, I have developed two Personal Agendas - The Personal Agenda I and The Personal Agenda II. I am actually immortal (I have the genes for it), even though I am trying to achieve immortality. In fact, all that talk of anti-aging and immortality you see out there? That's because of me. So, the personal agendas are what to do with my life. I'm not sure if I'll ever stop creating them. So far, the stuff to do in each agenda lasts a long time. The documents are not perfect. They are still a work in progress. But, I have refined them over and over again throughout the years, culimating in these masterpieces. Here is part one of The Personal Agenda I, for your viewing pleasure:

The Agenda 1

1)  Keep my benefits; Have my apartment at Midtown Apartments; live there until I make a move to Burlington, VT; do the following while living at Midtown Apartments:  give Bowdoin College $3 trillion; spend three weeks @: 

2750 Little Annie 2750 Little Annie Aspen, Colorado, 81611 United States

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(buy and spend this time there); donate to all the world’s museums enough to keep them going during re-coded time (how much? $800 trillion each); give $500 million to PCS Music Friends; give $500 billion to World Medical Relief, donate $500 billion to The Africa-America Institute; donate $500 billion to Anera; go to https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/52288428?adults=1&category_tag=Tag%3A8661&children=0&infants=0&search_mode=flex_destinations_search&check_in=2023-01-15&check_out=2023-01-20&federated_search_id=2861a038-d552-4fd2-8183-205f336825d2&source_impression_id=p3_1683415977_V8O9VD1Y0nouODQ1 for two weeks and do the activities that accompany this AirBnB, kept by a Superhost; buy this property:  https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-2112-yrmqhc/ibiza-bi-07839 and set up staff houses for and get up and running and set up a centralized executive staff office to run this, as planned (see notes); buy this:  https://www.luxuryrealestate.com/residential/1804934#1 and set up staff houses for and get up and running (run through central, executive staff office); donateto the world’s businesses as much as I thihnk they need to survivethrive according to which businesses I think should survive re-coded time for the planet; it’s not like if I want to replace them with my own businesses or other people’s businesses, that I can’t trump them simply with the amount of money; move to Burlington, VT; do The Natural Hygiene Routine:  Terressentials shampoo for body wash

Terressentials shampoo and conditioner for shampoo/conditioner; buy 101 houses all over the world and staff with staff employed at local office spaces, with separate office space for a professional kitchen -- Seattle, Portland, Olympia, WA, Lake Tahoe, Berkeley, Marin County, Haight-Ashbury, L.A., La Jolla, Albuquerque, Aspen, Santa Fe, Miami, Asheville, NC; Dulles Square, Washington, D.C.; Georgetown, D.C., Middleburg, VA; Ithaca, NY; Russell, NY; Ogdensburg,

NY; Potsdam, NY; Canton, NY; NYC Greenwich Village; NYC Manhattan; Bisbee, Montana; Vancouver, Canada; Burlington, VT; Cambridge, MA Brattle Street; Boston, MA; Provincetown, MA;

Paris, France; Monaco; Southern France; Tuscan countryside, Italy; Ibiza, Spain; Barcelona, Spain; South

Africa; Chartres, France; Nogent-le-Rotrou, France; Berlin, Germany; Geneva, Switzerland; Black Forest,

Germany; Swiss Alps, Switzerland; Budapest; Dublin; Edinburgh; London; Wales; Buenos Aires; Costa

Rica; Brazil; Montreal, Canada; Ottawa, Canada; Acapulco, Mexico; Maui, Hawaii; Honolulu, Hawaii;

Mauritius; the Bahamas; Turks & Caicos; private island in The Carribean; private island in the Greek

Isles; Athens, Greece; Tokyo, Japan; Sydney, Australia; Melbourne, Australia; Auckland, NZ;

Queenstown, NZ; Hong Kong; Phuket, Thailand; Taipei, Taiwan; Vienna, Austria; Andorra; Prague;

Poland; Amsterdam, Sweden, Portugal, Moscow, Finland, the British Virgin Islands; the English

countryside; Chile; Panama, Uruguay, Peru, Croatia; Israel; the United Arab Emirates; the Hamptons; the

Phillipines; Malibu; Vail, CO; Kyoto, Japan; Brussels, Belgium, Provence, France; Bordeaux, France;

Loire Valley, France; castle in France; penthouse in Manhatttan; and a castle in the Irish countryside; get a passport from and citizenship with every country in the world through Tools for Freedom; get translators for each house, as needed... a staff of them for me when I’m there... have staff, otherwise, be bilingual (as needed; e.g. don’t need bilingual staff in Ireland); private jet – Boeing the best on the market for international travel – interior customized according to my specifications with all the amenities possible that want; hire aviation expert to take care of my private plane;do ayahuasca in Italy; do San Pedro in Peru; do iboga root in Costa Rica x 1; do magic mushrooms where legal x 1; smoke marijuana where legal x 1; smoke hash where legal x 1; eat pot and hash edibles where legal x 1; try natural DMT where legal x 1; smoke salvia divinorum -- check; drink kava kava in the South Pacific x 25;

take peyote where legal x 3; get a megayacht, biggest available and customized to my specifications; Design The big Houses in their entirety before building; after this, build all The Big Houses I plan to build, depending on how many amenities I can put on each property (I.e. -- not all of it? --> build it elsewhere); Buy all the yoga books on the market; Have a high-end wardrobe; Smoke two bowls of tobacco to recover from hunger (2/2 -- check) -- check; Smoke 500 bowls of tobacco to catch up on sleeping (400/500 -- check); Keep family heirlooms; keep a receipt file of all the info/receipt(s)/warranty info that a purchase comes with; eat 6 meals/day; try eating 6 feasts/day in Burlington x 2 days (just have the spread; have the feast; the point is the feast; I don’t have to eat or drink it all); actually, change all my 6 meals/day to feasts and leave most of it (fill up the table); drink all day long in Burlington 5x - alcohol optional; eat and drink all day long in Burlington 3x; feast (both food and drinks) all day long once in Burlington 3x; 100 tsp. Of Azomite mineral powder to catch up on sleep (21/100 -- check); provide 6 feasts a day, catered, for all my staff members’ meals while working (switch up the catering as staff gets sick of/have another staff prepare it/give restaurant food and drinks; this is for all my staff); feast all day long and all night for 3 days once can afford it at Midtown; smoke 300 bowls of marijuana to catch up on sleep (0/300 --check), 500 bowls of marijuana to catch up on exercise, 10,000 bowls of marijuana to catch up on meditation, 10,000 bowls of marijuana to catch up on food, 4 million bowls of marijuana to catch up on oxygen, 4 million bowls of marijuana to catch up on swimming, 5 million bowls of marijuana to catch up on de-stressing, and 4 million bowls of marijuana to catch up on mountain climbing; also, using a watch, canoeing, and paddling; basically everything -- total:  500 billion and 300 to catch up on psychedelics; use personalized Bics -- Che picture, Timothy Leary picture, Bob Marley picture, etc.; Pay for anti-virus software for my computers and run; make all my houses have communal spaces or, at least, houses with guest bedrooms and/or room for other people; have bungalows in locations where can have bungalows + to this plan -- explore amenities/ideas for; do some famous things online -- advertise my books and my playlists on social media, publish The Budget, The Plan, other documents?

Full-body lotion

Do the Dishes

Do Laundry

Make money online

Do The Schedule once totally through

Watch 5 movies

Watch 5 documentaries

Watch live TV for 5 hours

Surf Infowars

Listen to the radio for 5 hours

Read 100 books and mark as read in my notes

Make a list for keeping track of the books I’ve read and the movies I’ve seen and the documentaries I’ve seen

Watch 100 documentaries/movies on Gaia.com

Watch 5 full TV series on Gaia.com

Watch 5 full TV series

Watch 5 episodes of TV shows on Hulu

Watch 5 full sporting events -- boxing, U.F.C., other interesting sports

Do every leisure activity item 5x over

Catch up on my online video games

Shop for 25 hours

Do Habit Tracker completely for 1 day

Familiarize myself completely with my apps

Make 2 music playlists and share

Catch up on social media

Look at the latest trends

Look at what’s new in 2021, including new movies and documentaries and music

Check out the award show winners for the past 5 years

Look at the trends for 2021

Celebrate the pagan holidays for 2021 - check

Look up the remaining day celebrations and holidays for every country for 2021 - check

Look up the remaining day celebrations and holidays for every country for 2023

Surf White House, NY state, and North Country news

Surf international news

Research Che Guevara and look up his shopping stuff, and Crazy Horse, and Camilo Cienfuegos, and Timothy Leary

Go on Amazon for 5 hours

Go through my bookmarks for 5 hours

Look for a sleep diary app

Look for an eating diary app Keep a receipt file of all the info/receipt(s)/warranty info that a purchase comes with; eat 24 meals/day; feast for 20 days; eat 6 feasts/day for 6 days in Burlington; eat 10 feasts/day for 2 days in Burlington, 2 separate days apart from each other; eat all day long in Burlington 5x; use financial planning and financial advice and financial advisers and stock investing advisers and mutual fund advisers and have an accountant; drink all day long in Burlington 5x; eat and drink all day long in Burlington 3x; feast (both food and drinks) all day long once in Burlington 3x; eat and drink all day long like a party in Burlington 3x; throw a solo party and eat and drink all day long 3x in Burlington; feast all day long and all night for 3 days once can afford it at Midtown; smoke 3000 bowls of marijuana to catch up on sleep, 500 bowls of marijuana to catch up on exercise, 10,000 bowls of marijuana to catch up on meditation, 10,000 bowls of marijuana to catch up on food, and 5 million bowls of marijuana to catch up on de-stressing, and 4 million bowls of marijuana to catch up on oxygen, and 4 million bowls of marijuana to catch up on oxygen, and 4 million bowls of marijuana to catch up on swimming, and 4 million bowls of marijuana to catch up on mountain climbing; total:  300 million; also, using a watch, canoeing, and paddling; basically everything -- 500 billion -- and 300 to catch up on psychedelics (goes before in the list); get 2 private planes -- best; station a private plane in every “1st-world” country in the world; brush my teeth, use mouthwash, take a shower, floss my teeth, use feminine soap, and use a tongue scraper as desire; look up Orbi Analytics; look up places online to study and get degrees and take courses -- e.g. A.S.U. online; eat all day long; make Real Estate Options -- the product; use natural pens with eco-ink; use unbleached, biodynamic paper made from the best wood for paper-making; have an indoor and outdoor, oxygenated pool and indoor and outdoor hot tubs at each of my houses, as possible; do the rotational diet thing I designed:  The Carnivore Diet, The Wise Traditions Diet, etc.; move to the Burlington area and buy multiple houses in the area and an apartment and a loft and a log cabin in the woods and some land for forest bathing (?) w/ a fire pit/pagan circles and land with a private beach and room for rituals and pagan ceremonies and a fire pit; get all the premium, computer upgrades stuff

I hope you enjoyed this. This agenda is very long, so there will be many posts to follow!

[brookston]

Holidays 8.30

Holidays

Archivist Day (Kyrgyzstan)

AVID Day

Barberry Day (French Republic)

Commemoration Day for the Fatalities in Pre-Deportation Detention (Germany)

Frankenstein Day

Fred Hampton Day (Illinois)

Freeman-Moss Day

Huey P. Long Day (Louisiana)

International Day of the Disappeared

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (UN)

International Missy Barratt Day (Aenopia)

International Puma Day

International Whale Shark Day

Jimmy Buffet Day

Manu Ginobili Day (Texas)

Marcelo H. Del Pilar Day (Bulacan, Philippines)

Motel Day (Colombia)

National Ass Clapping Day

National Beach Day

National Bite People Who Annoy You Day

National Black Beauty Founders Day

National Grief Awareness Day

National Harper Day

National Holistic Pet Day

National Homecare Day of Action

National Press Freedom Day (Philippines)

National Screen Time Awareness Day

National Small Industry Day (India)

Pinaglabanan Day (Philippines)

Retrospection Day

Rowboat Day

Saint Rose of Lima’s Day (Peru)

Slinky Day

Talk Intelligently Day

Victory Day (Turkey)

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Cabernet Sauvignon Day

National Mai Tai Day (a.k.a. Real Mai Tai)

National Toasted Marshmallow Day

New England Apple Day

Independence & Related Days

Ashoka (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Constitution Day (Kazakhstan)

Constitution Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)

Kohlandia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Leylandiistan & Gurvata (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Liberation Day (Hong Kong; from Japanese Occupation; 1945)

National Liberation Day (Gabon; 2023)

Tatarstan (from Russia, 1990) [unrecognized]

5th & Last Friday in August

Burning of Zozobra (Old Man Gloom effigy) [Friday before 9.1]

College Colors Day [Friday nearest 9.1]

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Daffodil Day (New Zealand) [Last Friday]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Forgive Your Foe Friday [Friday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Peruvian Coffee Day (Peru) [Last Friday]

Positive Twitter Day [Last Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Tracky Dack Day (Australia) [Last Friday]

Wear It Purple Day (Australia) [Last Friday]

Sheep Market Fair begins (Denmark) [Last Friday through Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 31 (4th Full Week of August)

Labor Day Weekend (U.S. & Canada) [Begins Friday before 1st Monday in September]

Benton Neighbor Day (Benton, Missouri)

Britt Draft Horse Show (Britt, Iowa)

Bumbershoot (Seattle, Washington)

Central City Rock 'n' Roll Cruise-in & Concert (Central City, Kentucky)

Cleveland National Air Show (Cleveland, Ohio)

Clothesline Fair (Prairie Grove, Arkansas)

Colombia River Cross Channel Swim (Hood River, Oregon)

Colorado Balloon Classic (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

Commonwheel Labor Day Weekend Arts and Crafts Festival (Manitou Springs, Colorado)

Daniel Boone Pioneer Days (Winchester, Kentucky)

Fort Bridger Rendezvous (Fort Bridger, Wyoming)

Great Bathtub Race (Nome, Alaska)

Great Grove Bed Race (Coconut Grove, Florida)

Harvest Wine Celebration (Livermore, California)

Hog Capital of the World Festival (Kewanee, Illinois)

Hopkinton State Fair (Contoocook, New Hampshire)

Iroquois Arts Festival (Howes Cave, New York)

Johnson City Field Days (Johnson City, New York)

Jubilee Days Festival (Zion, Illinois)

Lifelight Outdoor Music Festival (Worthing, South Dakota)

Mackinac Bridge Walk (St. Ignace, Michigan)

National Championship Chuckwagon Races (Clinton, Arkansas)

National Hard Crab Derby and Fair (Crisfield, Maryland)

National Sweetcorn Festival (Hoopeston, Illinois)

Oatmeal Festival (Bertram/Oatmeal, Texas)

Odyssey Greek Festival (Orange, Connecticut)

On the Waterfront (Rockford, Illinois)

Old Threshers Reunion (Mount Pleasant, Iowa)

Oregon Trail Rodeo (Hastings, Nebraska)

Payson Golden Onion Days (Payson, Utah)

Pennsylvania Arts & Crafts Colonial Festival (Greensburg, Pennsylvania)

Popeye Picnic (Chester, Illinois)

Santa-Cali-Gon Days Festival (Independence, Missouri)

Scandinavian Fest (Budd Lake, New Jersey)

Sta-Bil Nationals Championship Lawn Mower Race (Delaware, Ohio)

Snake River Duck Race (Nome, Alaska)

Taste of Colorado (Denver, Colorado)

Taste of Madison (Madison, Wisconsin)

Totah Festival (Farmington, New Mexico)

Waikiki Roughwater Swim (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Westfest Czech Heritage Festival (West, Texas)

West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival (Clarksburg, West Virginia)

Wisconsin State Cow-Chip Throw (Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin)

Woodstock Fair (Woodstock, Connecticut)

World Championship Barbecue Goat Cook-Off (Brady, Texas)

Festivals Beginning August 30, 2024

Battle of Flowers (Laredo, Spain) [thru 8.30]

Brisbane Festival (Brisbane, Australia) [thru 9.21]

California Garlic Festival (Los Banos, California) [thru 9.1]

Calumet County Fair (Chilton, Wisconsin) [thru 9.2]

Casey Popcorn Festival (Casey, Illinois) [thru 9.2]

Coconino County Fair (Fort Tuthill County Park, Arizona) [thru 9.2]

Dice Con (Lviv, Ukraine) [thru 9.1]

Eastern Idaho State Fair (Blackfoot, Idaho) [thru 9.7]

European Medieval Festival (Horsens, Denmark) [thru 8.31]

Fall Fest 2024 (Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Idaho) [thru 9.2]

Galveston Island Wine Festival (Galveston, Texas) [thru 9.1]

Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off (Palmer, Alaska)

Great Pershing Balloon Derby (Brookfield, Missouri) [thru 9.2]

Harmony Fair (Harmony, Maine) [thru 9.2]

Marshall County Blueberry Festival (Plymouth, Indiana) [thru 9.2]

Michigan Bean Festival (Fairgrove, Michigan) [thru 8.31]

Midway Swiss Days (Midway, Utah)

National Hard Crab Derby (Crisfield, Maryland) [thru 9.1]

Nauvoo Grape Festival (Nauvoo, Illinois) [thru 9.1]

North Carolina Apple Festival (Hendersonville, North Carolina) [thru 9.2]

Obetz Zucchinifest (Obetz, Ohio) [thru 9.2]

Oktoberfest (Beaver Creek, Colorado) [thru 9.1]

PAX West, a.k.a. PAX Prime (Seattle, Washington) [thru 9.2]

Payson City Golden Onion Days (Payson, Utah) [thru 9.2]

Red Rooster Days (Dassel, Minnesota) [thru 9.2]

St. William Seafood Festival (Guntersville, Alabama) [thru 8.31]

Washington State Fair (Puyallup, Washington) [thru 9.22]

Wilhelm Tell Festival (New Glarus, Wisconsin) [thru 9.1]

Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw & Festival (Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin) [thru 8.31]

Woodstock Fair (Woodstock, Connecticut) [thru 9.2]

Feast Days

Agilus (a.k.a. Aile; Christian; Saint)

Alexander of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox)

Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster (Christian; Blessed)

Anne Line, Margaret Ward & Margaret Clitherow (Christian; Saints)

Black (Positivist; Saint)

Camilla Läckberg (Writerism)

Candle in a Wine Bottle Day (Pastafarian)

Charisteria (Charis, Goddess of Mercy; Old Roman Thanksgiving)

Chatter Champion Announcement Day (Shamanism)

Day of Satisfying the Hearts of the Ennead (Nine Major Gods; Ancient Egypt)

Eustáquio van Lieshout (Christian; Blessed)

Evelyn De Morgan (Artology)

Charles Chapman Grafton (Episcopal Church)

Fantinus (Christian; Saint)

Felix and Adauctus (Christian; Martyrs)

Festival of Charisteria (Day to Give Thanks; Ancient Rome)

Fiacre (Christian; Saint)

Guy de Lussigny (Artology)

Habetrot’s Eve Day (Northern Britain; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Isaac Levitan (Artology)

Jacques Louis David (Artology)

J. Alden Weir (Artology)

Jeanne Jugan (Christian; Saint)

Leonor Fini (Artology)

Mary Shelley (Writerism)

Narcisa de Jesús (Christian; Saint)

Pammachius (Christian; Saint)

The Pullover Sweater (Muppetism)

Robert Crumb (Artology)

Rose of Lima (Christian; Saint)

Rumon (a.k.a. Ruan; Christian; Saint)

Sacrifice to Tari Pennu Day (Indian Earth-Goddess; Everyday Wicca)

Santa Rosa de Lima Day (Peru)

Stephen Nehmé (Maronite Church, Catholic Church; Blessed)

Theo van Doesburg (Artology)

Third Onam (Rice Harvest Festival, Day 3; Kerala, India)

Thor Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

The Three Arts Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Virginia Lee Burton (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 16 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [16 of 24]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [39 of 60]

Premieres

Alice Chops the Suey (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Anna Karenina (Film; 1935)

Bad Girl, by The Miracles (Song; 1959)

Beer (Film; 1985)

The Big Snooze (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1957)

A Bird in a Guilty Cage (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)

Carnival Row (TV Series; 2019)

Dance, Girl, Dance (Film; 1940)

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TV Series; 2019)

Emma (Film; 1996)

Flesh + Blood (Film; 1985)

The Funny World of Fred and Barney (Live Action/Animated TV Variety Show; 1978)

The Good Girl (Film; 2002)

Heart-Shaped Box, by Nirvana (Song; 1993)

Hey Jude, by The Beatles (Song; 1968) [1st Apple Records release]

Highway 61 Revisited, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1965)

Kravn the Hunter (Film; 2023)

The Late Show with David Letterman (Talk Show; 1993)

Little Cesario (MGM Cartoon; 1941)

Medúlla, by Björk (Album; 2004)

A Mouse in the House (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)

Music of the Sun, by Rihanna (Album; 2005)

Never Kick a Woman (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1936)

Otello (Opera Film by Franco Zeffirelli; 1986)

Putting on the Act (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

Santana, by Carlos Santana (Album; 1969)

The School for Scandal, by Samuel Barber (Overture; 1933)

Short in the Saddle (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1963)

Side to Side, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2016)

Slow Days, Fast Company, by Eve Babitz (Short Stories; 1977)

State Fair (Film; 1945)

Surf’s Up, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1971)

Terror on the Midway (Fleischer Cartoon; 1942) [#9]

The Three Bears (Ub Iwerks ComiColor Cartoon; 1935)

Top Hat (Film; 1935)

What Happened to Monday (Film; 2017)

Today’s Name Days

Felix, Herbert, Rebekka (Austria)

Aleksandar, Aleksandra (Bulgaria)

Didak, Margarita, Petar (Croatia)

Vladěna (Czech Republic)

Albert, Benjamin (Denmark)

Emil, Meljo, Mello, Miljo (Estonia)

Eemeli, Eemi, Eemil (Finland)

Fiacre (France)

Alma, Felix, Heribert, Rebekka (Germany)

Alexandra, Alexandros, Evlalios, Filakas (Greece)

Rózsa (Hungary)

Donato, Fantino (Italy)

Alija, Alvis, Jolanta (Latvia)

Adauktas, Augūna, Gaudencija, Kintenis (Lithuania)

Ben, Benjamin (Norway)

Adaukt, Częstowoj, Gaudencja, Miron, Rebeka, Róża, Szczęsna, Szczęsny, Tekla (Poland)

Ružena (Slovakia)

Íngrid, Pedro (Spain)

Albert, Albertina (Sweden)

Raisa, Rhoda, Rosa, Rosabelle, Rosalie, Rosalind, Rosalinda, Roseanne, Rose, Rosemary, Rosetta, Rosie (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 243 of 2024; 123 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 35 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 27 (Bing-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 26 Av 5784

Islamic: 24 Safar 1446

J Cal: 3 Gold; Threesday [3 of 30]

Julian: 17 August 2024

Moon: 11%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 19 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Fulton]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 72 of 94)

Week: 4th Full Week of August

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 9 of 32)

[allthenewzworld]

A woman who lost a leg in a shark attack over a year ago is ready to compete in the 2024 Paralympics in Paris.

Former Yale swimmer Ali Truwit was snorkeling off Turks and Caicos in May 2023 when she was attacked by a shark. She was airlifted to Miami, where she underwent two lifesaving surgeries. She ended up losing part of her left leg.

Just over a year later, Truwit competed in the Paralympic trials and made the U.S. team in the Women's 400-meter freestyle race.

Truwit says she was able to pull through with the help of family and friends - and a shift in her own mindset.

#allthenews

[grandmaster-anne]

22 February 2023 Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex visited the 54th Annual Cayman Islands Agricultural Show this morning with the Honourable Premier, Wayne Panton, ringing the cowbell three times to officially declare the opening of the event. Great it has returned after a three year hiatus due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The Countess greeted visiting dignitaries from the British Virgin Islands, Turks & Caicos, Jamaica, and St Kitts and Nevis, who had travelled to Cayman for the Agricultural Show. A delegation compromising the Premier, Members of Cabinet, as well as other official dignitaries and representatives from the Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Society accompanied the Countess during her tour of the livestock, displays, and district stalls under the Main Pavilion where Her Royal Highness also took the opportunity to speak to local farmers and vendors to learn more about Cayman’s efforts to reduce our reliance on imported goods. The Agriculture Show is a wonderful and much-loved event in our community. Great to be able to showcase how much Cayman has to offer to Her Royal Highness. — HE The Governor - Cayman Islands

[steepedwonders]

So I went to PointFest in STL and was sitting next to this older couple (50’s-60’s) who had Shiprocked shirts on. Since I’m going on Shiprocked for the first time next year I started talking to them in between sets on kind of what to expect etc and she gave me some details on her 2023 Shiprocked with Bad Omens. She said they have designated times for people on the boat to meet the bands and she said when her and her husband went to meet bad omens Noah had his ski mask on the whole time. She also said when they were docked in Turks and Caico they walked by Noah having some kind of anxiety attack on the beach because there was sand on his feet and she said “I think it was the tour manager” (which I’m assuming was Matt) was trying to calm him down . This isnt really tea or anything but thought it was some interesting information. Wonder if they will ever do shiprocked again?

That's interesting. Never heard that before.

But I do know when they were asked if they'd ever do shiprocked again, they all immediately said no. So unfortunately, it is not in the cards.

[waterfunblog]

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