Shopping Adventure (found something good)
I am feeling much better now, hacking up the last of my cold but I'm breathing well again. Feeling well enough to finally leave the house (and when I am sick now I am housebound, living in a fourth floor walk up I may be okay to leave, but those stairs can be a killer when I'm perfectly healthy when I'm not feeling well forget it), which we needed to do anyway, errands to run.
Renee had to grab a few things for Christmas presents. I'm not actually buying presents myself but my family will pick up things and I can just pay them back later (I never know what to get those fucking people, and its gotten even worse since I don't live with them anymore) so thankfully I don't have to face the Christmas crowds. :-)
We were wandering through the mall pricing some of the things I was thinking of asking for to see if its a reasonable request (I'm kind of running on empty as far as ideas go this year around), when we passed by a jewelry cart and I stopped to nose around, because I usually do. As usual everything is on sale and the people working the cart are really pushy to make a sale. We weren't intending on getting anything, and then I saw something of interest. A circular silver pendant inscribed with runes.
I've actually been looking for some sort of Norse jewelry I could wear to represent that part of my spiritual life (yeah, I actually like jewelry but I am hyper picky about what I will and will not wear) but I wasn't finding anything. I wasn't interested in a Thor's Hammer for several reasons, one that so many of them are huge and fucking ass ugly, two they are mostly associated with Thor and while he seems okay with having a casual friendship with me he isn't one of my potential big Norse contacts, and three the symbol is more strongly associated with mainstream Asatru and I'm just not interested in having anyone make that error (and yeah I know there are people who are not mainstream Asatru that wear it anyway and that is fine really, this is my own preference here). But this one here I liked, serves my purpose better than anything else I had found.
I would have come back for it in January, but sales guy was talking about all sorts of deals if we buy it now and so Renee bought it as my Christmas present (along with a chain to wear it with).
And I have had the Norse gods on the brain lately. I love it when my luck works out like this. :-)
My early Christmas present aside, Renee and I are planning our holiday celebrations for January. For one thing its after everyone else's holiday, we'll have money again and January just sucks ass, its a horrible boring month where nothing good happens so now we have something to look forward to. We likewise picked up a few things for that while we were out. We decided to totally rip off a mutual Livejournal friend's idea (you know who you are :-)) of making stockings for the gods and including them in the festivities. Popped into Micheals to pick up the stockings and glitter glue (to write names on them).
Now to think of Divine stocking stuffers. :-P
Renee had to grab a few things for Christmas presents. I'm not actually buying presents myself but my family will pick up things and I can just pay them back later (I never know what to get those fucking people, and its gotten even worse since I don't live with them anymore) so thankfully I don't have to face the Christmas crowds. :-)
We were wandering through the mall pricing some of the things I was thinking of asking for to see if its a reasonable request (I'm kind of running on empty as far as ideas go this year around), when we passed by a jewelry cart and I stopped to nose around, because I usually do. As usual everything is on sale and the people working the cart are really pushy to make a sale. We weren't intending on getting anything, and then I saw something of interest. A circular silver pendant inscribed with runes.
I've actually been looking for some sort of Norse jewelry I could wear to represent that part of my spiritual life (yeah, I actually like jewelry but I am hyper picky about what I will and will not wear) but I wasn't finding anything. I wasn't interested in a Thor's Hammer for several reasons, one that so many of them are huge and fucking ass ugly, two they are mostly associated with Thor and while he seems okay with having a casual friendship with me he isn't one of my potential big Norse contacts, and three the symbol is more strongly associated with mainstream Asatru and I'm just not interested in having anyone make that error (and yeah I know there are people who are not mainstream Asatru that wear it anyway and that is fine really, this is my own preference here). But this one here I liked, serves my purpose better than anything else I had found.
I would have come back for it in January, but sales guy was talking about all sorts of deals if we buy it now and so Renee bought it as my Christmas present (along with a chain to wear it with).
And I have had the Norse gods on the brain lately. I love it when my luck works out like this. :-)
My early Christmas present aside, Renee and I are planning our holiday celebrations for January. For one thing its after everyone else's holiday, we'll have money again and January just sucks ass, its a horrible boring month where nothing good happens so now we have something to look forward to. We likewise picked up a few things for that while we were out. We decided to totally rip off a mutual Livejournal friend's idea (you know who you are :-)) of making stockings for the gods and including them in the festivities. Popped into Micheals to pick up the stockings and glitter glue (to write names on them).
Now to think of Divine stocking stuffers. :-P