I’m still alive, I swear, LOL. The last little while has been spent working, more working, being mom, and working on my transcription course. Between all that, I’ve been enjoying the two new Marilyn Manson songs and trying to have a normal sleep schedule.
This month is going to be a bit crazy… I need to start getting my stuff together for Mabon, Thanksgiving, and Samhain. Also, the Empowered Modern Witches Summit happens at the end of September, and I’ve been at the edge of my seat in anticipation for that because this year’s theme is shadow work (free tickets for the summit are here).
One thing I did was reactivate my Photobucket account. It’s quite a mess in there, but it had all of my graphics and icons that I made for my blog and my LiveJournal when I was a teenager, and a lot of photos from when I was 16-18 in it. The photos were quite mortifying – I still can’t believe I wore Eric Draven style make up for years and no one stopped me, LOL. I might share them on here if I can get over the cringe.
Hopefully, this weekend sometime I will finally be adding some poetry and things under the writing section here. WordPress is being weird, so we’ll see what I can do. I am going to dig my old notebooks out of the closet and see what treasures I can find in them.
KiTTiE’s new album, “Fire,” has been announced for June 21st and I am so fucking excited. It feels like it’s been forever since they released new music and I couldn’t hit the “preorder” button fast enough.
I hope you all are well. This last month has just been sickness after sickness for me, and it’s all culminated into influenzae. I haven’t been sick like this in years, and it’s one of those illnesses that once I think I’m getting better, I wake up with some new kind of symptom and the roller coaster starts all over again. Right now, I’m extremely congested, I have a wet cough and it sounds like there is a geiger counter going off in my chest. I’m hoping that I’ll have whatever this is flushed out of my system by the end of next week… I finally get some time off and I am not spending it in bed with some NyQuil and a box of Kleenex. I refuse.
Something exciting that’s been happening this month… I finally splurged and bought myself a desktop, thanks to my fairly decent tax return. I bought the tower, and Charlie helped me out with the other components. I’ve decided to finally take the leap and finish my transcription course, and working with my laptop was just not going to cut it. Right now I’m in the process of clearing out my mom’s old craft room and turning it into my office, so that I can get everything set up. I’m really happy about this, because I will finally be able to get my butt into gear and start posting content here. My laptop is nearly impossible to work with (poor little shit can barely handle an open browser with more than one tab), and now that I have this really awesome desktop, it will be much easier for me to do what I want. I am hoping that by this time next year, I’ll be taking my RHDS exams, and then getting in some transcription side hustle.
It’s been raining here almost non-stop for the last month. It’s put a damper on my outside activities, but I’ve really been enjoying it. Rain = my favourite. My lawn is starting to look like a forest, though, so I’m hoping it dries out for a few days so I can mow it down. My lily of the valley that got massacred by the cattle that invaded my yard last year has come back, and I almost cried when I saw it. It’s one of the last things my mom planted before she got sick, and I was afraid that it wouldn’t regrow after they tore it all up. Hopefully those cows stay in their pasture this year.
Update to my previous post: I responded to Harriet. In hindsight, I should have just ignored it, but I think if I’d done that, she would have found another way to reach out. I simply told her what Emilie’s feelings on the matter were. I thought I was pretty polite considering, and I know it wouldn’t have gone well if I’d said what I really wanted to, so I did make an real effort to be polite. She responded immediately by trying to gaslight me, and she went on about how she’s trying to “be an adult” and they’ll “respect Emilie’s wishes” and blah blah blah word vomit bullshit. Because she immediately tried to gaslight and be patronizing, I’ve made the decision to just leave it alone. I said what I said, I meant what I said, and I have nothing more to say on the matter. It wouldn’t surprise me, really, if she reports back to Emilie’s birth father or if he put her up to this to begin with. I archived the conversation and I’m not giving her anymore of my emotional labour.
Things have been a bit up and down lately. Norovirus is currently tearing its way through my house, and thankfully I am now mostly over it. I don’t know where I picked it up from, because I’ve been by myself at work and haven’t really gone anywhere else, but I came into contact with it somewhere and it got me. It got me really, really good, starting last Friday morning. It came on so suddenly that I was confused as to why “that” was happening.
Thankfully I’m now mostly over it. I just feel terrible because both Emilie and Charlie have it now. Emilie vomited in the truck on the way home yesterday, so we had to pull into a gas station so I could clean her up. Poor little dear was so grey, she looked like a lump of clay. Wasn’t too hard to get her to stay home and rest, but I’m going to try and get some Pedialyte into her later on. That might be a bit of a fight.
Autumn has transitioned from sleeping in mine and Charlie’s room to sleeping in her crib in her own room. It’s been an adjustment for me, because I’m so used to her being within an arm’s reach at all times, and I’m right there when she needs anything. Charlie invested in a pretty sophisticated baby monitoring system to ease my mind, and it’s been quite fun to peak in on Autumn and talk to her through the camera. I will never get enough of this:
Sleepy one-eyed pirate.
This weekend, I need to put her curtains up and do some more decorating in her room, but the transition has gone really well so far. The bassinet that she was sleeping in was a pretty snug space, so I thought that not having that snug feeling would make it hard for her to sleep, but it doesn’t seem to phase her at all. I went in to check on her early this morning, and she was completely sideways with her limbs thrown every which way. Takes after Charlie in that way, I guess, LOL.
Going to be working more on the yard this weekend, as well. I might take some pictures of my progress if things go well. I have to get the lawn mower out of the garage and get it functional for a quick mow, too. As long as the deer cooperate and let me work, I should get a lot done this weekend. My next big project is to get my hands on a small chainsaw, so I can get the fallen trees cut up into more manageable pieces and get them all picked up. With fire season already here (thanks global warming), the faster it gets done, the better. And then once the fallen trees are done, I can start taking measurements and planning for the new fence and (maybe – possibly) my chicken coop.
