Birthdays

I haven't written on this blog for awhile.  Reggie has a bad cold, the one that's been going around, so I won't be seeing much of him.  Star's computer is in the shop, hopefully she will get it back today.  Jed is coming over later today to play on the computer.  I'm making my brother a decoupaged photo on wood for his birthday in October.  The kitties will be 10 years old, Oct.1st.  That's Reggie's birthday too.  He is vain about his age, but I found out how old he is anyway.  Hee hee! 

I have homework today for I Ching 1.  I'm avoiding doing it by blogging.  And starting new craft projects. *sigh*  I may have to drop the Counseling class because of the workload for I Ching.  We'll see.  That class doesn't start for a couple weeks anyway.  I have a lot of energy today.  That's good because the night before last I didn't sleep at all.  And I got sick. :(   I only got about 5 hours sleep yesterday.  But I slept good last night.  These are a few of my favorite things:  printers, social networking sites, grad school, crafts, birthdays.  Just thought I'd let you know!

Looking Forward

I just read the new catalog for Nature U.  Dean Dharma has completely redone my major, so I'm not sure if I'm going to have to take all different classes or not.  She added credits to almost every major.  I'll be going to school forever at this rate. Well, I was going to go to school forever anyway, now it'll be forever and a day!  It looks really serious, with big words and the same rules.  I reread them anyway.  I have good news!  Good for me at least.  I turned in the paper for this unit of Ancient Rites.  I didn't wait until the deadline, July 31st, but got it in early.  Must be a fluke or the lingering effects of the Full Moon or something like that. 

I went to a dinner party tonight with my NAMI friends.  Jean Jeanie brought her fiance/boyfriend.  That was kind of a shock.  I didn't realize they planned on getting married.  It seems like she just met him, but they have known each other for many years, actually.  I'm friends with Star again, yay!  We've been best friends for so long, it's rough when one of us "goes off the reservation" and writes something stupid.  Email is not the best way to communicate. I've been kind of lax with my blogging this summer.  I'm supposed to go to town tomorrow with my mom.  We'll see. I'm not sleepy and it's what, 3:20am.  I will have to order yarrow sticks for I-Ching class in the Fall.  The class runs all school year.  64 Hexagrams, that's a lot to learn about.  I wonder if I get to write poetic responses to each one.  We'll see!

My Weekend

I had a vacation weekend.  I drove out to Star's apartment and we had a Smallville-a-thon.  She crocheted and I embroidered.  Then we spent Sunday with her folks, for Father's Day and her mom's birthday.  She spent the night and stayed part of Monday.  I had a NAMI meeting last night, it was uncomfortable for me.  You have to realize the dynamic of NAMI is mostly parents and their wayward (mental) kids.  That creates all sorts of communication problems.  So guess who acts out?  It's not the ones with mental illness. :)  So I didn't get much done all weekend.  I'm trying to play catch-up today.  That includes blogging.  I'm always so tired in the mornings.  I realize it's after 1pm now.  Gonna try to get a handle on that. 

bye!

Possibilities

Today I embroidered and visited with my brother. He comes over and uses my computer. Not usually a problem. I didn't do anything school-oriented today. Tomorrow I'm going into town with my mom. I'm going to check in with my doctor about the new Diabetes drug I'm taking. And go grocery shopping. And maybe go to the mall. Not much is going on this week, for once. I'm thinking of starting an embroidery blog/challenge. What should the challenge be? A certain number of embroidery pieces? I just don't know. I don't have much to write about tonight I guess. Lots to think about, just not much to write about. All for now! bye

Miss Thing

One thing I have learned about using computers--simpler is better. I was having problems with Windows Media Player, it wouldn't recognize the CD I wanted to rip, so I started looking at all the help information. When I got to the part about changing registry values, I thought "maybe not". Instead I restarted the computer, I'll call her Miss Thing, because she's quite temperamental, and that worked. Often, if I'm having problems I just log off or restart and that works. I'm kinda mad at myself for taking an hour of fiddling with WMP and searching help menus before figuring that out.

Decisions have been made. I'm helping out my mom financially. She is in dire straits or this wouldn't happen. I finally got Star's number so I can call her if I want. It's unlikely that I'll get to Olympia this month, so visiting her is out of the question. Not sure if she can have visitors once she gets on the chemical dependency unit.

I've been extremely stressed out lately. I haven't been able to read. This has settled down some tonight. I read a chapter in Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher, an excellent book. I summarize each chapter on one of my creativity websites. Maybe I can get Chapter 4 done tomorrow. I made chocolate chip cookies today, from a 2 pound tub of cookie dough. They turned out really good. I gave most of them to my family.

I have 3 craft projects going for my mom and best friend. Coasters, floursack towels, and an afghan are all in the works. I need to do a project for myself. I have these rune bookmarks started, just simple lines, but I'm hankering for a new project. Have to think about that.

I'm wondering if I should announce this blog on Facebook, my creativity and divination websites, and the Nature U. website. It might be nice to get some comments. On the other hand, maybe I should wait til the current crisis(plural) blow over. Sigh. What to do, what to do? That's all for now! Bye!

Good Forecast!

I just did my Divination for the week. I look up my Transits (Astrology) on my handy-dandy wall calendar that I calculated myself and look them up. Then I draw one Rune and meditate on its meaning. After that I throw my coins and do an I Ching hexagram. Finally, I do a short Tarot spread and look up the meanings of the cards. I got exceptionally good forecasts this week, although the Tarot spread indicated a lot of people involved in my life this week (court cards). I'm not sure if I'm looking for revelation or just a confirmation of what I already know. A friend of mine, Bean, told another friend of mine she was going to Hell for reading Tarot cards. Well, that's the end of that friendship! Bean told me the same thing about a year ago, but we remained friends, sort of. I will do a lot to patch up a friendship, even with a Conservative Christian. But I'm wondering if I compromised myself instead...

I took classes at an online writing school for awhile, I'll just call it Peer Review Writing School because that's what it was. No teachers to speak of. Well, you can learn from your peers, but it would have been nice to have more than just a book and some information for each class. Some classes I was the only one there. I guess I just need more guidance than some. See I said I might bitch a little bit. I don't know how I feel about this blogging. Star wants me to blog on a diet and exercise website. I might do that. But I would blog there about food, exercise and stuff like that. Well, that's it for tonight!