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I had a marvelous surprise dinner with Ms Amanda last night. :-D

She brought me fresh pasta and we made sauce with garlic and asparagus, and I made dessert (pre-fab sponge cake + vanilla yoghurt + thawed raspberries).

It was fabulous.

*~*~*~*~*

To My Daughter

I was a seal once
before I took off my skin
and became human

*~*~*~*~*

Choices

choice is
picket fence behind me
open ocean before me
seal skin in my two hands
tearing

*~*~*~*~*


There's a story between those two verses.

I need to find it and write it down. :-)



Yesterday I: Cleaned.
The job is not done. But I cleared out all the food-substitutes that the tenant left in my freezer (they are now composting in the back yard and, it wouldn't shock me, making the local feral cats very happy. I will need to cover everything in peat moss very soon, I suspect) and composted a lot of the seeds that have been sitting around my house for years.

To do tonight:

Buy 4' worth of small, sodalite spacer-balls (beading) for the making of two necklaces (there may be some silver pearls involved in this purchase, too).

Re-organize kitchen - make use of that now-empty cupboard to clear a bunch of the pans and stuff off the top of the shelves. :-)

Take out the (copious) recycling.

Clear the shattered trellis out of the back yard (more recycling).

Make sodalite rope necklace (to go with the rhodochrysite and cheroite ropes I've already got).

Potentially help Paul move the Huge Desk either into the office or out of the house. (I think I'd like to put that up on Freecycle - the thing is enormous (and heavy), and we don't really have space for it. It would be nice to get it gone. :-)


To do tomorrow:

Register for the day @ Gaia Gathering (around 11am)

Attend "Lost in Translation", "Personal Revelations of the Goddess", "The Last Fifteen Years", and "Queering Our Magic".

Come home (ideally) happy. :-)

Make dinner.


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

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We smashed up a giant desk tonight.

Which doesn't make tonnes of sense, really. (Maybe it's just 'cause I'm tired, but it just seems like a random collection of words to me...)

what I mean is:

We had this HUGE (very heavy, very not-coming-apart-y) executive desk in the basement room. Which we managed to get out of the room and into the hallway.

We could not get it back in.

So we broke it in order to get it apart. It is now in The Dumpster. In pieces.

On the one hand, it's a huge waste of a good desk.

On the other hand, we couldn't get it out of the hallway without taking apart and the only way to get it apart was, in fact, to break it. :-P

So that was the end of the desk.

It was also the end of a bunch of old computer parts (apparently it's okay to put those in this dumpster - though I don't know why).

Tomorrow (sometime when I'm not at Gaia Gathering), there will be The Excavating of the Bed.

Which will involve getting rid of a lot of cardboard (easy, but annoying) and a couple of bins worth of stuff (somewhat less easy, but still good to do! Yay!)

Eugh.

Freaking work.

But at least we're getting stuff out of here!!!


My jewelery-making plan was a bit of a bust tonight, I'm afraid. The sodalite balls at Michael's were the wrong size entirely. :-P

But I shall hit the market tomorrow before Gaia and see what I can find at Sassy Bead. :-)


As it stands, I am now tired and sleepy and in need of a rest. As such: Goodnight.


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)