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I.D wrote:..** lets see if that worked **... it worked on Lommy

You really think so do you?

I hope so.. otherwise Ive been fooling myself for the last 6 months!!

Please dont tell me it was all in my head.. I couldnt take that kind of imaginary rejection!!

you can keep dreaming, my dear if it makes you feel better

Its ok.. Im so over you Lommy.. I hate to break it to you but I was using you babe..

I bet your devestated huh?

Goodness,

What a strange turn this whole conversation is taking. I don't even know where to jump in or even if I dare.

As for the "bat cave," golly, it's just my magic workshop and training barn. I mean, well, it meets my needs and all and I guess you are right, in a way it is sort of like a mix between Batman's Cave, The X--Men's Danger Room, the workshop from The Illusionist, and Zorro's cave. I feel so blessed to be able to have it. It is a work in progress, just like my acts and shows, and every day it grows a little bit more like me.

Sure, there are lots of climbing ropes and balance beams and heavy bags and a bagua circle, and training equipment of all kinds, and there's tools and finished and unfinished Illusions and notebooks and tables and double wide swinging loft doors on both ends on the 2nd floor overlooking the creek and all but it's just a workshop.

That being said, oh my gosh, I would so love to have all of you over for a party, would that not just be the grandest thing? We'd camp in my yard, some sleeping in my English styled witche's cottage (and yes, I do have an 8 gallon cast iron cauldron next to my hearth), some in tents, some in my gypsy vardo. We'd dance around outdoor fires by the creek while drumming on my 55 gallon wine barrel voodoo drum, and hope the bears and mountain lions don't get too many of our group (yes, they really do come into my yard at night). We'd stay up all night sipping wine (well, not the youngsters, of course), and inventing Illusions and playing with my magic tricks and showing each other our own magic skills and stunts and illusions and acts. Oh the fun of it all. I really hope one day to have a huge party of everyone.

As for photos, well, it is my workshop and a girl has to have her secrets. After all, we are talking magic here and not knowing a secret is what makes it fun.

Now I realize that I'm not exactly fitting into this whole conversation and that most of what you all have said is way beyond me but I did want to at least send hugs to everybody.

So, before going, I wanted to point out here that even in this description of a work space, there is a magical lesson here. We are how we work. And if we dream of magic and make our space magic, then, we can find magic within ourselves for it will be all around us and within us. I like my magic workshop but I built it for me, for my style of our art, so I really have no idea if anybody else would like it. Yet, all that really matters is that it meets my needs. It is where I go to dream. I sit up in the loft with the doors swung wide open, my bare feet hanging over 15 feet of air as I let the magic of the running creek feed my imagination and I listen to the wind in the trees tell me if the waves at the sea are big enough to surf.

Hugs to everybody and welcome to Amanda's Magical Barn.

Love,

Amanda Angeli

Amanda Angeli wrote:As for the "bat cave," golly, it's just my magic workshop and training barn

I think that it was meant in a rhetorical way and not an actual place Amanda. As in Bruce Wayne has a dark side and his bat cave is where his secret identidy is hidden. Perhaps I have misunderstood, if I have I apologise.

Oh and Amanda your posts make me laugh, I love reading them. Also if there's any mention of drinking wine all night long, I'll be there with bells on. Although I don't know about dancing around the fire when drinking, last time I did that I nearly ended up with 3rd degree burns

Hello Wills,

I hadn't even thought of the dark side in a cave. I took the conversation literally and shared about my workshop, now I feel really embarassed. You must think I'm like a totally blonde drummer like Melody from Josey and the Pussycats. Hmm, I am blonde, and, I am the drummer of the Cuddle Bunnies. But that is okay, I laugh at myself easily enough. Maybe I trust too much? Perhaps being here will help me with that?

Thank you for your kind words about my posts though I had not realized they were funny. As for the wine, but of course. And the fire, well, how would we do fire magic without the fire? Besides, we need someone to sit on the stump far away from the fire so the mountain lions don't get the rest of us. You'll be safe. Probably. You like kitties, right?

Love,

Amanda Angeli

I prefer dogs actually and I don't like the sound of them mountain lions. Although knowing me I'd probably get a few drinks into me and try to play with them.

But anyways don't worry about embarrassing yourself and just laugh it of.

Hello Wills,

My reference to "kitties," was directed toward the mountain lions for that is what I call them. I have had them in my yard several times. It was my attempt at a joke. As for playing with them, they are very cute. As long as they are over there. By the stump. I have been in my tent though and had them on the other side. Somehow, there is not much comfort in knowing that an animal that eats deer is a percentage of a millimeter away on the other side of some nylon. But, the nylon is a pretty shade, so that should help, right?

And as for laughing at myself, that's sort of a hobby of mine, it almost has to be because I mess up so much.

By the way, I like your posts too.

Love,

Amanda Angeli

Wills wrote:

Amanda Angeli wrote:As for the "bat cave," golly, it's just my magic workshop and training barn

I think that it was meant in a rhetorical way and not an actual place Amanda. As in Bruce Wayne has a dark side and his bat cave is where his secret identidy is hidden. Perhaps I have misunderstood, if I have I apologise.

Aha! Somebody picked up on my sly 'bat-cave' reference - Wills...you just won yourself a HUUUGE cigar

Amanda - much as I love to read your delightfully-scripted prowse (most of which makes me smile, and go all warm and funny) - you ARE Bruce Wayne (in a very metaphorical sense), and I claim my $100 prize money

Love,

Rob x

BTW - I'd LOVE to beat out a spooky, lonely rythm on your Voodoo drum, if ever I get the opportunity to travel to your neck of the woods/moors

robstanley1 wrote:incorrigable

That has to be the worst spelling I've ever seen.

robstanley1 wrote:

Wills wrote:

Amanda Angeli wrote:

Amanda - much as I love to read your delightfully-scripted prowse (most of which makes me smile, and go all warm and funny) - you ARE Bruce Wayne (in a very metaphorical sense), and I claim my $100 prize money

BTW - I'd LOVE to beat out a spooky, lonely rythm on your Voodoo drum, if ever I get the opportunity to travel to your neck of the woods/moors

Good Morning Rob,

Your $100 claim is sound in more ways than you might yet think. You should be a Mentalist if you are not one. Oh, and, if you do come out here to the West Coast, I'd love to have you over. And, it would be so wonderful to hear you play. I just love my Voodoo drum.

Love,

Amanda Angeli

Marvell wrote:

robstanley1 wrote:incorrigable

That has to be the worst spelling I've ever seen.

So I got an 'i' and an 'a' mixed up?... and tahts teh worse speliing u've eva scene?

Dun't u just ahte pendatik foolz lyke thiz?!!11!

Marvel's obviously not read enough of my posts