Everything's Coming Up Roses
As promised from the end of last night's post.
A helter-skelter list of everything lately that has been made of ten-million kinds of awesome, of which there is a list on a bright green, lined, post-it note that I have been filling in since mid-week, when I first decided I wanted to make a post about the epic levels of the awesome going on in my life.
1. I have to point to the post from last night, because my first one says "John Green (Book, Tour, Kat [evegryffindor])." Since you have a long rambling post about the last two of those, I will ramble momentarily about the first one. Without giving you away my GoodReads review The Fault in Our Stars is my favorite book of the year so far. It did not make me cry, but it did touch me very deeply, and it does tackle all of its topics with a truly amazing grace and lack of grace, both of which are inherently necessary to the topic at hand.
Which I say, with the background of having gone through watching a family member live with, and die from, cancer for the first thirteen years of my life. I think everyone should read this book. I want to lend this book to my mother.
2. Book-Related: From the out of nowhere. Well, that's not true. Ali and I sort of bonded over books we loved together starting last year at Dragon*Con, which now and then we've commented back and forth to each other on. Every once in a while she and I would pass book thoughts back and forth, but suddenly from nowhere Ali, Laura and I have formed this adorable, amazing little trifecta of morning twittering’s where we tell each other about the books we are reading, about the books each other must read, the reviews on twitters and GoodReads linking.
3. Book-Related #3: I loved my graduate school, for English Literature & Language, class group so much, and have missed the learning and hanging out with them. And then suddenly in the last week and half it's all exploded in glory. My class? Is now organizing a book club. I had been talking about wishing I had one. But, oh, god. Book Club? With Graduate Class? Smart people? And my bestest, closest Grad Class friend running it? Modern and Class books? With in-depth, intellectual conversations on them?
I'm so so so excited.
4. The world of San Antonio is presently putting on the Beethoven Festival across City for, wherein they are actually going to play every single piece he ever wrote across two months. I am going, have gone, will be going to several of these. I had some previous tickets, and some of the Amazing Sale Sites have even gotten into this and started selling $5 tickets to performances to get people interested. I will never turn down $5 tickets to symphonies. The glee level is high.
5. Cooking has made this drastic swing back into my life. You all got to see the first round wherein I made the Roasted Beets with Balsamic and the Roasted Chicken. I then followed this up with Roasted Green Beans (tosses in oil, garlic salt, pepper) and a truly phenomenally recipe for Banana Muffins with a crumble top. The last was made for Earl (the first batch in stubborn muffins) and for work (which the second batch was a loaf for my work).
It was so smiley making that everyone loved it. Earl ate them while still hot with melting butter. My work everyone got slices up it, and giggled about going to get coffee to drink with it while eating. They ate all of it, and I didn't even have to plan with how to take it home or what to do with it. And they've started asking me what I'm going to make next, because they loved it so much.
6. Work Related Things: Work is going so so so well. The person I shadow has come back from her vacation this week. I'm working so well with both the different departments. I'm getting to see the turnout of all my work. I've started interaction with the guy from New York that half my work is based on. I'm taking care of all the things and it's working so well.
I already get miles of walking a week just from how big my building is. I already eat "Your Health, You Way" food only for lunch and breakfast (of which the new-area, since moving, cafe ladies are now well aware and in the pattern of knowing what I eat each day now). Three of us, in my new team, though have started a work out regime of walking three to five flights of stairs two to four times a week now, too.
Plus, my candy bowl which used to all be sugar free candy for the last two weeks has been oranges from Chico's. The newest deal of 8 for $1. Everyone has been loving it. Having a healthy option to all the candy bowl's in the room. I'm going to keep doing this, picking up whatever the highest number $1 - $2 thing is each time I go to Chico's, no matter what fruit it is. I am so deeply in love with this new plan. Also! It's gotten three different people from my new team to go to Chico's, to be in love with Chico's.
7. YouMeHealth is finally back to e-mailing me! Which makes me so happy, because every morning at 7 am I get to check what the new activity for the day. Which keeps me doing all sorts of Healthy challenges all across my life. I'd been missing it when it fell off of my e-mail and now I get so excited to see what my new challenge will be about. (Like today is about getting involved with volunteering in my city!)
8. TV & Gaming! Without any warning or planning, Gabby (lordoflorien), Gwynne (in_the_blue), and Lynne (varadia) stole me last weekend and blitzkreig Lynne and I through the whole of Wheels on Fire, which is amazing and we ended it on the day after this season's Finale. There are future plans for Marian related to this show, which make me kind of giddy. There were giddy hat sharing pictures, and everyone loving on music and westerns and cowboys, and gleeing like children.
9. TV & Gaming #2! Gabby (lordoflorien) and I have retaken up our Farscape Rewatch that start during the my falling apart in the Fall, giggling and pushing through it. Which convinced me finally to pick up the shiny, blue, full series box set from the Amazon Deal of the Day during this past week. There are, also, some secret gaming plans being talking about here, which may involve this series, secret upcoming revelations, and The G & G Girls. *twirls a mustache*
10. Gaming #3! Marian is awake. I feel like this state should come with alarms and bells. After nearly two years of quiet sleeping, but never leaving, Marian is awake. Very awake. Very, very, very awake.
And at the most perfect time it could happen. As Rachel (herdivineshadow) is suddenly futzing with post-season three Guy. And [Sekrit*Name*of*AWESOME] is planning an amazing, possible game comeback (which is filling my e-mail with long squealing, rambling, children grinning e-mails). I've rewatched my first episodes in season two, and I'm now rereading and archiving all her threads. Gabby (lordoflorien) may be enveloped in this point, and Georgia (winding_path), too. So many things.
11. I cannot even tell you how very many, many, many things are being plotted by Georgia (winding_path) and I. There are five billion bits and bobs and parts and people. And all of them are amazing. There are lists. There are so many plans. Plans for now, plans for later, plans for AUs. Hilarious and serious and beautiful and terrible. And all of these culminating with lovely, endless e-mails that I get to have with that beautiful, dear woman herself on normal life things, too.
12. My Girls! (Li, trelali & Weaves, weaverandom & Debi, innerbrat) Debi is home, and my world this week had e-mail chains of all their perfectest, beautiful faces, again, and that makes me smile like the goofiest pleased little person ever. Having them back there makes me feel all home. Also, related to this are all the travel plans for this year being made! Springtime for New Apartments! The Autumn Invasion of Australia! Sekrit surprise plans! My heart just explodes with showers of hearts and stars for these three girls and all they entail, for they are among the first of my thoughts every morning.
13. I've learned how to make HBO*Go and HuluPlus work on my iPhone. This deserves its own little bullet. (Also, a word to the wise on iphone users, if you don't yet have AppsGoneFree you should. It's a bulletined list every day of who's apps are free for that one and only day, as a digest daily.) Also, I'm in love with Scramble with friends. If your phone can handle it (as apparently some can not), look me up, I want to play with you. Aside from this My Hanging With Friends Duo (Li, trelali & Rachel, songtoisis) continue to fill my days with words and fun.
14. People & Witchy things! Omg, the wood work is crawling with this, too. In the last two weeks alone, three different, both related to my life and completely unrelated to my path, people have called, e-mailed aimed me to ask for tarot readings, to ask for my advice on energy working going on in their life. And for a moment I always look baffled, like I want to glance over my shoulder and make sure people aren't talking to the person behind me. Except they aren't.
And a I glee maybe the tiniest bit once I'm in it, talking about cards, talking about my intuition deck, talking about the basics I've ingrained since before, and because of, my Reiki Master training. It's like waking up somewhere you've always been, always belonged, and realizing the world, of even uninvolved people, are getting to being totally aware of this fact as well. Which leaves me pink cheeked and soft smiling. Glad to help, and hopeful that help does help others.
15. People & Witchy Things #2! Again, this past ritual, I could not make the planning meeting, but the night of, after, I was sent an e-mail requesting, if I had the time and inclination, cold I please do "such and such" to help with the Imbolc ritual. Which, of course, I did. Though I am saving the full write-up for later, because it was a rather glorious night and has a picture to go along with and new chants. Mostly I'm ending it, and this post, with one of the things that made my heart glee.
All of last year, everyone would ask me so hesitantly, "So, how are you doing?" as though to ask was to invoke Rock Falls Kills Everyone on my head and theirs, even when they knew I wouldn't explain. And when the lady running the day, drug me into her arms, laughing and smiling, and asked into my hair, I felt my smile explode against her shoulder (thinking about how I always meant to write the post of how when Georgia [winding_path] used to ask last year, my standard answer was "I'm not good, but I'm okay") and said, triumphantly, into that shoulder, "I'm good."
And, Goddess, even I could hear the radiant surprise and awe in that joyful little word. And I couldn't help the shy, but bright smile I kept when she pulled back touching my cheek, with her cupped hand, and said, "I thought so. You look so much lighter."
A helter-skelter list of everything lately that has been made of ten-million kinds of awesome, of which there is a list on a bright green, lined, post-it note that I have been filling in since mid-week, when I first decided I wanted to make a post about the epic levels of the awesome going on in my life.
1. I have to point to the post from last night, because my first one says "John Green (Book, Tour, Kat [evegryffindor])." Since you have a long rambling post about the last two of those, I will ramble momentarily about the first one. Without giving you away my GoodReads review The Fault in Our Stars is my favorite book of the year so far. It did not make me cry, but it did touch me very deeply, and it does tackle all of its topics with a truly amazing grace and lack of grace, both of which are inherently necessary to the topic at hand.
Which I say, with the background of having gone through watching a family member live with, and die from, cancer for the first thirteen years of my life. I think everyone should read this book. I want to lend this book to my mother.
2. Book-Related: From the out of nowhere. Well, that's not true. Ali and I sort of bonded over books we loved together starting last year at Dragon*Con, which now and then we've commented back and forth to each other on. Every once in a while she and I would pass book thoughts back and forth, but suddenly from nowhere Ali, Laura and I have formed this adorable, amazing little trifecta of morning twittering’s where we tell each other about the books we are reading, about the books each other must read, the reviews on twitters and GoodReads linking.
3. Book-Related #3: I loved my graduate school, for English Literature & Language, class group so much, and have missed the learning and hanging out with them. And then suddenly in the last week and half it's all exploded in glory. My class? Is now organizing a book club. I had been talking about wishing I had one. But, oh, god. Book Club? With Graduate Class? Smart people? And my bestest, closest Grad Class friend running it? Modern and Class books? With in-depth, intellectual conversations on them?
I'm so so so excited.
4. The world of San Antonio is presently putting on the Beethoven Festival across City for, wherein they are actually going to play every single piece he ever wrote across two months. I am going, have gone, will be going to several of these. I had some previous tickets, and some of the Amazing Sale Sites have even gotten into this and started selling $5 tickets to performances to get people interested. I will never turn down $5 tickets to symphonies. The glee level is high.
5. Cooking has made this drastic swing back into my life. You all got to see the first round wherein I made the Roasted Beets with Balsamic and the Roasted Chicken. I then followed this up with Roasted Green Beans (tosses in oil, garlic salt, pepper) and a truly phenomenally recipe for Banana Muffins with a crumble top. The last was made for Earl (the first batch in stubborn muffins) and for work (which the second batch was a loaf for my work).
It was so smiley making that everyone loved it. Earl ate them while still hot with melting butter. My work everyone got slices up it, and giggled about going to get coffee to drink with it while eating. They ate all of it, and I didn't even have to plan with how to take it home or what to do with it. And they've started asking me what I'm going to make next, because they loved it so much.
6. Work Related Things: Work is going so so so well. The person I shadow has come back from her vacation this week. I'm working so well with both the different departments. I'm getting to see the turnout of all my work. I've started interaction with the guy from New York that half my work is based on. I'm taking care of all the things and it's working so well.
I already get miles of walking a week just from how big my building is. I already eat "Your Health, You Way" food only for lunch and breakfast (of which the new-area, since moving, cafe ladies are now well aware and in the pattern of knowing what I eat each day now). Three of us, in my new team, though have started a work out regime of walking three to five flights of stairs two to four times a week now, too.
Plus, my candy bowl which used to all be sugar free candy for the last two weeks has been oranges from Chico's. The newest deal of 8 for $1. Everyone has been loving it. Having a healthy option to all the candy bowl's in the room. I'm going to keep doing this, picking up whatever the highest number $1 - $2 thing is each time I go to Chico's, no matter what fruit it is. I am so deeply in love with this new plan. Also! It's gotten three different people from my new team to go to Chico's, to be in love with Chico's.
7. YouMeHealth is finally back to e-mailing me! Which makes me so happy, because every morning at 7 am I get to check what the new activity for the day. Which keeps me doing all sorts of Healthy challenges all across my life. I'd been missing it when it fell off of my e-mail and now I get so excited to see what my new challenge will be about. (Like today is about getting involved with volunteering in my city!)
8. TV & Gaming! Without any warning or planning, Gabby (lordoflorien), Gwynne (in_the_blue), and Lynne (varadia) stole me last weekend and blitzkreig Lynne and I through the whole of Wheels on Fire, which is amazing and we ended it on the day after this season's Finale. There are future plans for Marian related to this show, which make me kind of giddy. There were giddy hat sharing pictures, and everyone loving on music and westerns and cowboys, and gleeing like children.
9. TV & Gaming #2! Gabby (lordoflorien) and I have retaken up our Farscape Rewatch that start during the my falling apart in the Fall, giggling and pushing through it. Which convinced me finally to pick up the shiny, blue, full series box set from the Amazon Deal of the Day during this past week. There are, also, some secret gaming plans being talking about here, which may involve this series, secret upcoming revelations, and The G & G Girls. *twirls a mustache*
10. Gaming #3! Marian is awake. I feel like this state should come with alarms and bells. After nearly two years of quiet sleeping, but never leaving, Marian is awake. Very awake. Very, very, very awake.
And at the most perfect time it could happen. As Rachel (herdivineshadow) is suddenly futzing with post-season three Guy. And [Sekrit*Name*of*AWESOME] is planning an amazing, possible game comeback (which is filling my e-mail with long squealing, rambling, children grinning e-mails). I've rewatched my first episodes in season two, and I'm now rereading and archiving all her threads. Gabby (lordoflorien) may be enveloped in this point, and Georgia (winding_path), too. So many things.
11. I cannot even tell you how very many, many, many things are being plotted by Georgia (winding_path) and I. There are five billion bits and bobs and parts and people. And all of them are amazing. There are lists. There are so many plans. Plans for now, plans for later, plans for AUs. Hilarious and serious and beautiful and terrible. And all of these culminating with lovely, endless e-mails that I get to have with that beautiful, dear woman herself on normal life things, too.
12. My Girls! (Li, trelali & Weaves, weaverandom & Debi, innerbrat) Debi is home, and my world this week had e-mail chains of all their perfectest, beautiful faces, again, and that makes me smile like the goofiest pleased little person ever. Having them back there makes me feel all home. Also, related to this are all the travel plans for this year being made! Springtime for New Apartments! The Autumn Invasion of Australia! Sekrit surprise plans! My heart just explodes with showers of hearts and stars for these three girls and all they entail, for they are among the first of my thoughts every morning.
13. I've learned how to make HBO*Go and HuluPlus work on my iPhone. This deserves its own little bullet. (Also, a word to the wise on iphone users, if you don't yet have AppsGoneFree you should. It's a bulletined list every day of who's apps are free for that one and only day, as a digest daily.) Also, I'm in love with Scramble with friends. If your phone can handle it (as apparently some can not), look me up, I want to play with you. Aside from this My Hanging With Friends Duo (Li, trelali & Rachel, songtoisis) continue to fill my days with words and fun.
14. People & Witchy things! Omg, the wood work is crawling with this, too. In the last two weeks alone, three different, both related to my life and completely unrelated to my path, people have called, e-mailed aimed me to ask for tarot readings, to ask for my advice on energy working going on in their life. And for a moment I always look baffled, like I want to glance over my shoulder and make sure people aren't talking to the person behind me. Except they aren't.
And a I glee maybe the tiniest bit once I'm in it, talking about cards, talking about my intuition deck, talking about the basics I've ingrained since before, and because of, my Reiki Master training. It's like waking up somewhere you've always been, always belonged, and realizing the world, of even uninvolved people, are getting to being totally aware of this fact as well. Which leaves me pink cheeked and soft smiling. Glad to help, and hopeful that help does help others.
15. People & Witchy Things #2! Again, this past ritual, I could not make the planning meeting, but the night of, after, I was sent an e-mail requesting, if I had the time and inclination, cold I please do "such and such" to help with the Imbolc ritual. Which, of course, I did. Though I am saving the full write-up for later, because it was a rather glorious night and has a picture to go along with and new chants. Mostly I'm ending it, and this post, with one of the things that made my heart glee.
All of last year, everyone would ask me so hesitantly, "So, how are you doing?" as though to ask was to invoke Rock Falls Kills Everyone on my head and theirs, even when they knew I wouldn't explain. And when the lady running the day, drug me into her arms, laughing and smiling, and asked into my hair, I felt my smile explode against her shoulder (thinking about how I always meant to write the post of how when Georgia [winding_path] used to ask last year, my standard answer was "I'm not good, but I'm okay") and said, triumphantly, into that shoulder, "I'm good."
And, Goddess, even I could hear the radiant surprise and awe in that joyful little word. And I couldn't help the shy, but bright smile I kept when she pulled back touching my cheek, with her cupped hand, and said, "I thought so. You look so much lighter."