Play Month

I don't want to jinx myself, but I've been posting every week for the 52 Weeks of Creative on Flickr.  That's 10 weeks in a row!  I gave up goal-setting awhile ago and am working on a Happiness Project.  I started in July with Energy, August was Spirituality, September was School and October's was Writing. Well, I tried to do all the activities for each month and it finally piled up on me in October.  So the Writing month was pretty much a bust.  November's subject is Play and so far is much easier, as you can probably guess!  I'm already in a much better mood so maybe this project is finally working.  I'm just going to do one subject a month and not try to do all of them. 

On a more somber note, I will probably be moving with my family or getting an apartment soon.  I'm not really sure what's going to happen.  I already went through this once when my mobile home was up for sale, but nothing happened. We'll see!

September News

I've been seeing quite a bit of Reggie lately.  That's all I'm gonna say about that for now.  Star and her boyfriend, Yeti are really cute together. I can call him that because his nickname is Sasquatch, but that's someone else's nickname too.  Not here, in real life. I think I want an excuse to get a new computer.  Miss Thing is great, but I'd love a faster, more powerful one.  She's running great so I have nothing to complain about. :)

My Happiness Project is going great!  This doing homework every day is really helping me keep up with stuff.  I finished the Uffington Horse craft/writing project and got some positive feedback on that.  Tonight I turned in the proposal for the last project, based on Stonehenge.  Cool!  That one will take some planning.  We are finishing up the first year of Ancient Rites.  I have one more paper due on Thursday so will work on that tomorrow.  Dean Dharma is going to mail each of us certificates for the first year.  My Mom will be happy about that, proof that all this work is good for something. 

I'm starting I Ching 1 next week and Foundations in Counseling in early October.  I've been so bored, stressed out and confused this summer.  It will be nice having that structure back in my life with deadlines too. No one understands that, I swear.  I'm a Virgo.  Indy is sleeping on the fuzzy blanket Star made me for my birthday.  I'm listening to George Michael videos.  I watched them for awhile while I was working on an afghan to match my furniture, crochet.  For someone who's sick I got a lot done today.  I'm getting over, hopefully for the last time, this dang cold.  My cough has mostly gone away, thanks to large doses of Vitamin C. 

I'm actually going to set foot in church tomorrow.  I'm definitely going to Bible Study. I finally feel good enough to go.  I watched The Book of Eli the other night, very good.  I'm getting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo tomorrow, the Swedish one with subtitles, and will probably watch it on Thursday night.  Netflix, of course.

Getting Older

I had a birthday and a birthday party since I last wrote.  It went well.  I'm having another party tomorrow night minus the guests of honor who can't make it.  *sigh*  I feel at loose ends lately.  You ever have the feeling that nothing is going your way.  When it actually is?  Like I got invited to go to a rock concert and I keep thinking, "what a hassle!"  I must be getting old.  Like I said I had a birthday. 

Doing homework is part of my Happiness Project for the month of September.  School doesn't officially start for awhile, but I wanted to get in the groove.  My productivity has gone up, since I started that. For the month of September the subject is School.  Last month it was Spirituality, before that it was Energy. Not real sure if I'm happier.  Well, I was sick with a cold for a couple weeks in August.  That would take the wind out of anyone's sails. I guess I'm not real happy today.  I'm waiting for a phone call.  I'm wondering if the party tomorrow will even happen.  Maybe it will be just me and the spaghetti, salad, and cheesy bread.  Hee hee!  I'm not doing goal-setting anymore, just the Happiness Project. 

Jean Jeanie gave me a crystal rock candleholder thingy and Star gave me a bunch of stuff, one of which is a homemade blanket.  So pretty and soft and snuggly!  The candle is on the kitchen table, lit. My kitties are inside, it's raining today.  I'm hungry!  I might have dinner early.  All for now.

Oh Deer!

This month's Happiness Project is much easier.  For August I'm doing Spirituality.  Literally taking action if you want to call it that.  The four things I'm trying to do every day are:  have some quiet time, do a reading, pray and read a self-help book.  I have a few self-help books so I don't think I'll run out for awhile.  I'm currently reading Earth Magic by Steven D. Farmer.  It's pretty good if a little bit out there. I know, I know, I'm the one taking Shamanism!  A friend of mine once said "If you keep an open mind, people will throw junk in it."  I don't subscribe to that attitude. I took some pictures of the deer in my front yard yesterday.  Here is one:

Class registration is starting.  I'm going to take the I-Ching year-long course if its offered and Runes 5.  I haven't yet registered.  I'm going to wait a little bit.  I know, I should be taking proper classes, not just Divination, but with my independent study Interfaith and the Shamanism stuff, there's no way. Of course the degrees offered at Nature U. are a little different than when they were first offered!  Dean Dharma has added credits needed and a Master's Thesis to all the programs.  Still not sure how all that will effect my degree progress. Low tide is at 3:56pm tomorrow.  Now, why is that relevant?  You'll see!

The Parable of the Busy Student

I just spent a week going to Vacation Bible School for adults at my church.  We did some creative stuff and learned about the Parables.  I even wrote one of my own! I went with my mom and sat next to Reggie.  Some of the stuff we did was really stupid.  We sang songs.

I saw Snow Dogs on Friday, that was a silly and funny movie. I made brownies yesterday with walnuts and chocolate chips. 

As far as school goes I turned in my 3rd craft/writing proposal for Prehistory. Ancient Rites will have me busy this month and the next as we are finishing up our first year.  Papers to write, journeys to take! :)

I just finished my first month of my personal Happiness Project.  July's focus was Energy.  I don't know if I have more energy, but I'm a little more happy.  The four things I did and will continue with were: Getting to bed before midnight, taking a nap, exercising, and tackling a nagging task.  Not that I did all four every day! For August I'm doing Spirituality.  We'll see how that goes...

The Day After the Party

I had an Independence Day party yesterday.  My brother and Donnie were both sick so it was just me, Jean Jeanie, my mom and Reggie. (it's kind of fun making up names for people!) Star didn't call or show up.  She just called and had to cat-sit, as her cat, Speed, was going nuts because of the fireworks going off.  The party was a success!  We all talked for hours.  There was grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, macaroni and potato salad, baked beans, watermelon, 4th of July Cake and pop, lemonade, and ice tea.  Mom and I did a little decorating too, plus she helped me clean up beforehand.  I have to play catch-up today.  I started a Happiness project and I haven't been doing much with that.  I have four things to do every day for the month of July, which is the Energy month.  1. Go to sleep earlier. 2. Walk, swim or bike today. 3. Tackle a nagging task. 4. Take a nap.  Needless to say, I haven't done #2 yet. One day at a time. :)  I picked a life category for every month for a year.  Seems kind of a crazy thing to do, huh?  Oh, Star and me started a self-help book club.  Last month it was The Happiness Project.  This month it's Life Makeovers.

Happiness

I finally turned in my paper for Ancient Rites.  That unit hasn't been graded yet.  I'm just hanging out tonight.  I've been reading a book all day, "The Happiness Project".  It's really good and really interesting.  Don't know if I'll start one of those myself or not.  Seems pretty ambitious.  I talked to Jean Jeanie for an hour on the phone today.  Tomorrow we are going to one of the beach festivals.  Star might be coming out tonight, she was going to go to her parent's first.  Did a little writing today.  More reading than writing.  Got all my poems up on Google Docs for the April PAD 2010.  I'm so happy I got that done!  I try to type up all my poems, no matter how crappy they are.  I think there were 2 or 3 good ones in the bunch.  All for now.  Bye!