First thing: My wife's feeling really run down again. She went to work anyway because (a) she's still testing negative, and (b) everybody's living in their respirators right now because of the ancient insulation they're working in and around.

She came home early because she literally fell off a ladder (but NOT down the damn stairwell she was working over, so thank you gods for small mercies) and, while she didn't break her arm (thank you gods for small mercies) she's a little banged up and has Retired To Bed like a smart woman.

I will be getting dinner going here in a minute or two and feeding her some protein and carbs and hot sauce to help her feel better.


Second thing: I wrote my poem for the week. It came reasonably easily (I finished a partially drafted poem first, which may have helped things along) and, for the moment, I'm feeling moderately confident about the possibility of having a Microchap finished - or at least drafted - by the end of February. Which will be a nice change from Not Much Of Anything outside of the collaborative work I'm doing with my girlfriend. It felt nice to actually write something.
I keep thinking about the "Polyamoury and Power Exchange" book I drafted... last year? Some time? That I haven't dug into editing.
It was a really horrible draft. Like I'm honestly not sure if this is thee kind of thing where I EDIT vs the kind of thing where I take the three salvageable bits and try to draft something better mostly out of whole cloth. But I'm thinking about it again - mostly, I suspect, because of how my relationship with Muse is progressing, but also because Babygirl will be arriving in town in, like, one month exactly (TBH, I'd like to convince her to hold off until Mid-March given her lack of snow-tires and intent to arrive here by car, but). Basically, things continue to get Realer on that front, and it's got me chewing on stuff in an "I wrote about this before" kind of way.


Third thing: I missed both Imbolg rituals I'd planned to attend last week, due to The Rona BUT both ritual groups incorporated ideas or liturgy provided by me, which feels really good. Babygirl and I did a long-distance Imbolg ritual together on Sunday night, which was also really nice.


Anyway. Dinner Awaits.


TTFN,
Ms Syren.
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( Mar. 12th, 2019 11:30 am)
Okay.
I spent part of this morning replacing tealight wicks.

I'm burning paraffin candles on my altar right now. That's not my ideal situation - partly because petroleum products, and partly because they're not something I made myself - but they do the job in a pinch and I'm waiting for (A) the ice to melt off my back steps, and (B) the cash to order more beeswax, before I start bashing up the last of my current order.

The tea lights I got are the one-ounce kind, which is great. But the wicks are too thin and they tend to either drown in the melted wax, OR burn a tunnel out of the middle of the candle but leave a thick wall of un-burned wax around the edges.
So I yanked out all the wicks and replaced them with the ones I use when I make beeswax candles. They're thicker and should (hopefully) do the job of actually using up all the wax.

It's nice to have the altars lit again, I don't mind telling you.

It's kind of a spring cleaning day over here. Putting books back on shelves, getting rid of superfluous paper, putting away the clean laundry, sweeping and vacuuming (the vacuuming, I still need to do - but I found the rug-beater attachment, so it can happen!)

Roll On, Spring! :-D
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