Update Post
First off, my lovely girlfriend made me this new icon. Which I just love and will probably be showing off a lot. :-)
Been doing all right, health has been fairly good but then again it has been really warm so there's no reason it shouldn't be; wait until it starts to get cold again then there will be trouble. Starting to try and talk to the family about potential Christmas plans, will it be possible to take one more holiday trip (and only one more, too expensive, too much of a pain in the ass) to see the baby. I wouldn't mind it, but it will depend on whether or not we have a place to sleep somewhere which, as I've discussed before, is complicated because every room in my mother's house is occupied (and no one else has a lot of free space) and my sleeping problems make it difficult to impossible for me to sleep in a public area; not that I would come without some sort of sleeping aide, not after what happened last time, but still that will only help so much. Hotels wouldn't work because we don't drive.
Not too terribly optimistic so far, but you know if I end up having to spend Christmas in Baltimore with Renee that won't be a bad thing at all. We could just do something quiet between us and the gods - last year we had wanted to have stockings for the gods with gifts (perhaps small bottles of liquor) but it didn't work out in practice, if you remember I didn't sleep almost at all when I went to visit the family and stress and exhaustion and my usual seasonal crap made me really fucking sick when I got home. I was out of commission for long enough that the thought just sort of went away. We'll see how discussions go, but if I have to stay here I won't be upset about it.
I've been spending a little bit too much time playing video games lately, hence my silence. I justify it because the games I'm currently playing (the long, long, long games) are not mine and I do want to get them back to their owner some time before next year. But after this, I'm going to need a break to focus on other things. In the meantime, I'm trying to remember how I used to get so much writing done while mindlessly leveling RPGs. Maybe then I wouldn't feel like I'm wasting so much time.
Spiritual life slowly getting back on track. Been doing what I'm supposed to do a little bit more often, and am revisiting my regular practice schedule - expect post when I have a new idea worked out. Trying to iron out what I need to be doing verses what I think I should need to be doing (for whatever reason) has been difficult to say the least.
On positive note, Renee and I bought a copy of Wyrdness: Mysticism in Modern Heathenry. And what do you know, I'm mentioned in the acknowledgment. I didn't know that, I'm flattered. Its a good book so far, too. :-)
Been doing all right, health has been fairly good but then again it has been really warm so there's no reason it shouldn't be; wait until it starts to get cold again then there will be trouble. Starting to try and talk to the family about potential Christmas plans, will it be possible to take one more holiday trip (and only one more, too expensive, too much of a pain in the ass) to see the baby. I wouldn't mind it, but it will depend on whether or not we have a place to sleep somewhere which, as I've discussed before, is complicated because every room in my mother's house is occupied (and no one else has a lot of free space) and my sleeping problems make it difficult to impossible for me to sleep in a public area; not that I would come without some sort of sleeping aide, not after what happened last time, but still that will only help so much. Hotels wouldn't work because we don't drive.
Not too terribly optimistic so far, but you know if I end up having to spend Christmas in Baltimore with Renee that won't be a bad thing at all. We could just do something quiet between us and the gods - last year we had wanted to have stockings for the gods with gifts (perhaps small bottles of liquor) but it didn't work out in practice, if you remember I didn't sleep almost at all when I went to visit the family and stress and exhaustion and my usual seasonal crap made me really fucking sick when I got home. I was out of commission for long enough that the thought just sort of went away. We'll see how discussions go, but if I have to stay here I won't be upset about it.
I've been spending a little bit too much time playing video games lately, hence my silence. I justify it because the games I'm currently playing (the long, long, long games) are not mine and I do want to get them back to their owner some time before next year. But after this, I'm going to need a break to focus on other things. In the meantime, I'm trying to remember how I used to get so much writing done while mindlessly leveling RPGs. Maybe then I wouldn't feel like I'm wasting so much time.
Spiritual life slowly getting back on track. Been doing what I'm supposed to do a little bit more often, and am revisiting my regular practice schedule - expect post when I have a new idea worked out. Trying to iron out what I need to be doing verses what I think I should need to be doing (for whatever reason) has been difficult to say the least.
On positive note, Renee and I bought a copy of Wyrdness: Mysticism in Modern Heathenry. And what do you know, I'm mentioned in the acknowledgment. I didn't know that, I'm flattered. Its a good book so far, too. :-)