Tuesday's Childe is Full of Grace...
...Not the physical sort, of course. Despite years of being able to dance and float/twirl/leap like a graceful faun, most of the time, I'm a klutz.
I have a lot of broken bones to prove it! I did manage to slam BOTH elbows and one of my knees before I made it out of the front door.
But there was a kind of fun grace today, despite the fact I went to bed too late (2 a.m. this morning) and got up too early (7:30 a.m., ditto). Before 11:00 a.m. I'd run into the basement multiple times to do two laundry loads, I packed up three packages for mailing, I climbed up on the roof THREE TIMES to reshow, re-reshow, and re-re-reshow the guy working on the bad shingles how to take photos. Then I crawled around in my closet, stuffing tissue paper into shoes that I was boxing up (so that I'd have ROOM for my shoes!)
I read, I ate breakkie, I had a Coke (yay!), I took a bath. THEN I ran errands.
It's been one of those Aquarian Days: The skies are full of wind and clouds; there are intermittent bright sunshiney bits punctuated with dark, rainy bits, and it's been blissfully under 72 degrees Fahrenheit. I did my best to get cake, but believe it or not, the vaunted Taylor's Bakery does not have cake on Mondays.
But that's okay, because I SMELLED like cake! *BPAL Beaver Moon*
I ran up to Moorman's to purchase 1 oz each of Sandalwood and Vanilla essential oils. I thought about their Amber, but it smells kinda wimpy and I already have Amber Paste at home. Ran into Wild Oats to grab some cobalt bottles with droppers (2 oz size, $1.49), and also tried my best to buy some pastilles, but the store I found them in had Rose, Pear, Mulled Merlot, 'Wildberry'...and too many other choices. TooManyChoices = AquarianConfusion, so I don't buy anything.
Then I did my now-infamous Raving in Bookstores. As most of you know, I spent all my formative years working in libraries, both under Dewey Decimal and later Library of Congress systems. I have actually been a Cataloguer. I used to create those cards that used to be in those card files, and I put the numbers on the books. I shelved the books. I understood the order of it.
Modern Bookstores are a nightmare. Not only are they phasing out the books, but the books you want are no longer filed in any kind of sensible order.
Example: Anything on the Knights Templar can be found in: World History, European History, New Age, Philosophy, Religion and likely other places I have not thought to look. Let's not even speak of the fact that 75% of them are bogus or "quasi-factual"; the booksellers can no more tell a real history from a New Age writer looking to cash in on the Da Vinci Code, so they're all shelved in ALL these sections, usually in multiple places. No matter if they ARE historically accurate or not.
Example: Celtic ANYTHING. OMG, what a can of worms that is! You can find Celtic '_____' in every place cited above for the Knights Templar, as well as in subcategories like 'Shamanism', Myths and Legends, Children's Fairy Stories, and out-and-out Magic(k) sections. Doesn't really matter WHAT the "Celtic" subject of the book is, good luck in finding it! Even the clerks are mystified that their computers tell them a book is IN the store, but they're not sure what section to look in, either, so they waffle around and guide you by the nose back to the very places you already checked.
*shakes head* I hate shopping online for books because I want to physically SEE the condition of the book (since many are "previewed in the shop" and can show a lot of wear even when NEW) and I detest paying up to $10.00 per book for shipping.
I came out of TWO different Borders stores with only two of the four books I was looking for.
Then I made the mistake of going to Half Price Books...*whines and bites fingers* It was very, very hard to get out of there without buying the dozen or so books I wanted. I only bought FOUR, and one of them may be going to someone else. But it made up for the stupidity of Borders. (You only have to look in about THREE places instead of about SIX at Half Price Books, because at least THEIR staff have something of a clue!)
As I rambled, Aquarian Mind clicked on. I don't hear well, so my brain often fills in the missing information with ideas and words that are often noways close to what was actually said. When this happens, I usually excuse myself, explain I'm an idiot, and could they please repeat that. My eyes and brain have the same sort of malapropisms going.
I was standing in the middle of the New Age books in Borders and saw all these books from some bestseller. I burst out laughing because my brain altered the title and I was sure the books all said:
TRUST YOUR BEES
It's actually "Vibes", but I was very tickled over this, because I'm sure you all remember I'm into bees. Bees are one of the major symbols in my life. (And if you didn't know or missed the other rants before, now you know! That's partially why I'm into Honey.)
Even FUNNIER was after I calmed down about this esoteric Message From Beyond that was telling me I needed to Trust My Bees...I found a book on BEE SHAMANISM!!!!!!!! That was one of the two books I bought, because I was so delighted with the idea that someone was using bees and their behaviour to illustrate human truths of the soul.
http://www.amazon.com/Shamanic-Way-Bee-Ancient-Practices/dp/089281148X/ref=sr_1_6/002-1774397-5281646?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180990517&sr=1-6
So there you have it: TRUST YOUR BEES!!!!!! They'll not only bring you Home, but they'll show you the way to the Pollen!!
*cackles*
Nechtan :)
I have a lot of broken bones to prove it! I did manage to slam BOTH elbows and one of my knees before I made it out of the front door.
But there was a kind of fun grace today, despite the fact I went to bed too late (2 a.m. this morning) and got up too early (7:30 a.m., ditto). Before 11:00 a.m. I'd run into the basement multiple times to do two laundry loads, I packed up three packages for mailing, I climbed up on the roof THREE TIMES to reshow, re-reshow, and re-re-reshow the guy working on the bad shingles how to take photos. Then I crawled around in my closet, stuffing tissue paper into shoes that I was boxing up (so that I'd have ROOM for my shoes!)
I read, I ate breakkie, I had a Coke (yay!), I took a bath. THEN I ran errands.
It's been one of those Aquarian Days: The skies are full of wind and clouds; there are intermittent bright sunshiney bits punctuated with dark, rainy bits, and it's been blissfully under 72 degrees Fahrenheit. I did my best to get cake, but believe it or not, the vaunted Taylor's Bakery does not have cake on Mondays.
But that's okay, because I SMELLED like cake! *BPAL Beaver Moon*
I ran up to Moorman's to purchase 1 oz each of Sandalwood and Vanilla essential oils. I thought about their Amber, but it smells kinda wimpy and I already have Amber Paste at home. Ran into Wild Oats to grab some cobalt bottles with droppers (2 oz size, $1.49), and also tried my best to buy some pastilles, but the store I found them in had Rose, Pear, Mulled Merlot, 'Wildberry'...and too many other choices. TooManyChoices = AquarianConfusion, so I don't buy anything.
Then I did my now-infamous Raving in Bookstores. As most of you know, I spent all my formative years working in libraries, both under Dewey Decimal and later Library of Congress systems. I have actually been a Cataloguer. I used to create those cards that used to be in those card files, and I put the numbers on the books. I shelved the books. I understood the order of it.
Modern Bookstores are a nightmare. Not only are they phasing out the books, but the books you want are no longer filed in any kind of sensible order.
Example: Anything on the Knights Templar can be found in: World History, European History, New Age, Philosophy, Religion and likely other places I have not thought to look. Let's not even speak of the fact that 75% of them are bogus or "quasi-factual"; the booksellers can no more tell a real history from a New Age writer looking to cash in on the Da Vinci Code, so they're all shelved in ALL these sections, usually in multiple places. No matter if they ARE historically accurate or not.
Example: Celtic ANYTHING. OMG, what a can of worms that is! You can find Celtic '_____' in every place cited above for the Knights Templar, as well as in subcategories like 'Shamanism', Myths and Legends, Children's Fairy Stories, and out-and-out Magic(k) sections. Doesn't really matter WHAT the "Celtic" subject of the book is, good luck in finding it! Even the clerks are mystified that their computers tell them a book is IN the store, but they're not sure what section to look in, either, so they waffle around and guide you by the nose back to the very places you already checked.
*shakes head* I hate shopping online for books because I want to physically SEE the condition of the book (since many are "previewed in the shop" and can show a lot of wear even when NEW) and I detest paying up to $10.00 per book for shipping.
I came out of TWO different Borders stores with only two of the four books I was looking for.
Then I made the mistake of going to Half Price Books...*whines and bites fingers* It was very, very hard to get out of there without buying the dozen or so books I wanted. I only bought FOUR, and one of them may be going to someone else. But it made up for the stupidity of Borders. (You only have to look in about THREE places instead of about SIX at Half Price Books, because at least THEIR staff have something of a clue!)
As I rambled, Aquarian Mind clicked on. I don't hear well, so my brain often fills in the missing information with ideas and words that are often noways close to what was actually said. When this happens, I usually excuse myself, explain I'm an idiot, and could they please repeat that. My eyes and brain have the same sort of malapropisms going.
I was standing in the middle of the New Age books in Borders and saw all these books from some bestseller. I burst out laughing because my brain altered the title and I was sure the books all said:
TRUST YOUR BEES
It's actually "Vibes", but I was very tickled over this, because I'm sure you all remember I'm into bees. Bees are one of the major symbols in my life. (And if you didn't know or missed the other rants before, now you know! That's partially why I'm into Honey.)
Even FUNNIER was after I calmed down about this esoteric Message From Beyond that was telling me I needed to Trust My Bees...I found a book on BEE SHAMANISM!!!!!!!! That was one of the two books I bought, because I was so delighted with the idea that someone was using bees and their behaviour to illustrate human truths of the soul.
http://www.amazon.com/Shamanic-Way-Bee-Ancient-Practices/dp/089281148X/ref=sr_1_6/002-1774397-5281646?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180990517&sr=1-6
So there you have it: TRUST YOUR BEES!!!!!! They'll not only bring you Home, but they'll show you the way to the Pollen!!
*cackles*
Nechtan :)