Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't been around lately. I've been having some internet problems. Nothing really exciting has happened in the last week. I did finally purchase the Thoth Tarot deck. *squee* Tomorrow is Jim's birthday. My sister's fiance has the same birthday as Jim, so we usually throw a joint birthday party. When I told Jim we were doing the joint birthday party again this year he got this twinkle in his eyes and asked, "you're putting a huge doobie on top of my cake?" Of course, Jim hasn't smoked pot in eons, but I still had to call him out on his smart ass-ness LOL We're doing a Star Wars theme for them this year. Last year we did a Military theme since Jim was a Marine and Ian was in the Army. Next year I think we'll do something horrendously embarrassing, like My Little Pony.
My sister and I went out yesterday to the Home Depot. She's getting Ian a weed eater for his birthday. A storm rolled in and there was a lot of heavy wind gusts as we were coming out of the store. Victoria got in the car, looked in the mirror and cried out, "I look like Nick Nolte's mug shot!" Her hair was a mess. It didn't rain a drop at the house, though.
Kid Witch came up to me yesterday and said, "I like the Star Wars party stuff you got Jim and Ian. I promise I won't spill the beans." LOL I have been telling him lately about the importance of not blabbing secrets. So, hopefully he won't "spill the beans" between now and Saturday.
Well, I have to run. I have some last minute chores I need to wrap up. Bright blessings, all!
I am convinced there is not a decent Pagan message forum online. I have joined three and I ended up leaving every single one of them. I just can't stand message forum hierarchies. It's as if some people have nothing better to do than form little cliques online and then gang up on and belittle the "n00bs". Of course, I have found this on countless message forums, not just Pagan ones. It's just a bit surprising. Pagans tend to be more open-minded and educated, collectively speaking. So why are so many of them total twerps on message forums? I don't think I'm a moron, and yet I seem to be treated like one on every forum I try and post to. Okay, maybe I don't have thick skin. I'll probably dwell on this all night, trying to figure out why the mean Wiccans over at such-and-such forum were so rude to me.
That's why I love this website. Everyone here, from the moment I posted my first blog, has been so kind. I have yet to have cross words with anyone here. I have not logged in to find rude, uncalled for messages in my inbox or hateful comments on my blog. (((hugs to all my Covenspacers)))
On an un-related note, my brother has gotten me hooked on a video game. Now, I despise video games; however, Daniel plays this one called Battlefield 2: Modern Combat and you can hook it up to the internet and play people in real-time. I must confess, I'm addicted to it. I love trying to devise combat strategies. I also enjoy being promoted to the next rank. I guess I'm truly lame now...but if you play this game online, let me know. We'll form a firing team LOL Anyway, a playing on the opposite team kept sniping me from a building in the game and I was getting really irked because not only was he violating every rule of sniping (one shot, one kill, never shoot twice from the same spot) I kept stumbling into his "domain". So I get a friend request from him. I'm thinking he's trying to send me a message joking about killing me ten times in a row. I opened my inbox and he has sent me a sexually explicit message! I was appalled. So I denied his friend request, ignored his messages and then he started stalking me from game to game. I'm hoping by tomorrow he will have moved on to something else because he was bothering me immensely.
My weekend was so busy. I helped my parents clean out their basement. We're having a family yard sale next weekend, so we were trying to get everything cleaned out. Me and Jim still have to tackle the storage unit.Fun, fun. It rained a sufficient amount over the weekend. I got my monthly, so I've been rather sluggish, but trying to work through the cramps and back ache. Here again, fun fun. :-P I sat down last night and ate about ten Chips Deluxe cookies. I'm so disappointed in myself. This time last year, I was a size 10. Now I'm a 16. I keep trying to figure out how I gained almost forty pounds in a year. I'm more active now that I quit working in an office and I stopped eating fast food. Of course, ten Chips Deluxe cookies didn't help my cause any. Oh, but they were soooo yummy.
The two houses across the street from us are empty now. One couple moved out over a month ago and the landlord has done hardly anything to get it ready for new tenants. The young girl in the other house is moving out today. Of course, it's that time of year. They won't stay empty for long. They're both owned by the same man, so maybe he'll get them fixed up and ready for some new people to move in. I hope we get good neighbors. The lady who moved out a little over a month ago was awful. So rude and obnoxious. And her son was into something shady. He and some other guys got into a fight in the middle of the street around three in the morning one time. The young girl is a single mother and we've never had any problems with her. She's never home anyway. I think she spent all of one night a week at home. I think she has a steady boyfriend she stays with. I never could figure out the logic behind paying almost a thousand dollars a month for a house you never stay in. That was the biggest reason I moved in with Jim. I was spending five nights out of the week with him and paying for an apartment that stayed empty most of the time.
The goofy dragonfly looking insect was flying around my cousin's yard again today, only this time he had a friend. I still can't figure out what in the heck they are. Some sort of mutant bugs. It's crazy.
I was going to make tinctures over the weekend, but the flowers I was going to use lost their fragrance...and I still can't collect any rain in my rain jar. And it rained like crazy this past weekend! I'd go out there thinking there would be at least a half an inch in the jar and there would only be a couple of drops. So, in essence, it wasn't a good weekend for my Witchy workings.
I tried to get most of my major house chores done yesterday. I still need to do a load of laundry tomorrow, but yesterday I did the vacuuming and cleaned the bathroom. Today I've mostly been busying myself copying some herb lore in my Book of Shadows. I'm going to run out of paper soon. My sister asked me why I don't just type it out and save it to my computer. I'm aware that some Witches today have what they call a Floppy Disk of Shadows, where they store their information on their computers; however, there is something very personal and wonderful about having an extensive volume of correspondences, prayers, incantations, spells and rituals in my own handwriting. It's so much more special to me since I've put such an effort into hand copying information from various sources. I've lived through the writer's cramp, inky fingers and my arm falling asleep.
It's cooler today than it has been. The rain we got yesterday was a real blessing. I tried to keep a small jar outside in the garden to collect rain water for later use. Of course, I'm a dork and forgot I had left it out there. Gabe asked me earlier why there was a jar in the garden. Doh! Most of the water I collected has evaporated. Oh well. I'll try again next time it rains (and tie a little string around my finger to remind me to actually bring it back inside lol).
I saw a strange insect today. I was looking at the kitchen window that faces my cousin's yard and I can see this enormous thing flying all willy nilly about four feet off the ground. At first I thought it might be a Hummingbird. Then I thought it was one of the Cicada Wasps. So, I went out on the deck with the binoculars. It had the wings of a dragonfly, a fuzzy looking caterpillar-shaped body, a flat face and the legs of a wasp. Oh, and this white ring around its tail. It was so large it cast a shadow on the ground. It flew around like it was drunk.It never landed or got any higher off the ground. It just sort of flew back and forth and it hung around in the same vicinity for about an hour. I wish I had a net. I would have caught it to see if I could identify it. I have never seen anything like it before.
Jim works tonight and then he's off for the weekend. Hooray! I miss him when he works nights. My brother wants to go to the shooting range this weekend. Guns make me incredibly nervous. I have a little Air Soft gun that I shoot plastic cups with in the back yard, just for fun, but we're talking about little plastic BBs. I went to the shooting range the last time they went and shot my dad's Beretta 9mm and it scared the bejeezus out of me. Don't get me wrong, I'd use one if absolutely necessary. No one would come in this house and try to hurt my baby boy, but I can't stand shooting a gun just for the heck of it. I've done target practice, I know how they work. Standing at the shooting range in a booth with sweaty hands trying to hang onto the pistol grip when that recoil snaps it back I'm always thinking it's going to slip right out of my hands and pop me in the face. Of course, last time I went I was aiming for the chest and blew ten perfect holes in the crotch area of my target. Fabulous! I now know that I could blow the genitals off an assailant. When I showed the target to Jim it made him really nervous LOL
So now I'm hungry and have no idea what to eat. I really need to go to the grocery store tonight, but I hate going there by myself. Maybe my sister would go with me, since she lives on the next street over.
This coming Saturday we will have a New Moon. When the Moon is dark, it's a good time to banish negativity and reflect on your spiritual journey. You should also begin new tinctures under the New Moon, as this phase is when healing magic is at its most potent. Just remember that the Moon will be void of course on Saturday from 8:04am until 10:43pm (Eastern Time), when the Moon enters Leo. Spells worked when the Moon is void of course rarely come to fruition or have a vastly different outcome than desired. So save your Spellcraft for when the Moon enters Leo for results.
