Normally, you’re not the most direct person in the world. Nor are you the most concise. You sometimes display tendencies to sidestep the main issues and take the long way home to the truth. Why, then, have you apparently turned into a sleek paragon of precise communication? To what do we owe your crisp new efficiency, your knack for cutting through the crap, and your commitment to saying exactly what you mean? Maybe it has to do with the alignment of the planets. Or maybe you really, really don’t want to be misunderstood.

Hmmm. That doesn’t describe me I don’t think.  Thanks to Mercury in Leo and Saturn in Capricorn, I’m pretty darned direct.  More so than some folks think I oughta be.  Perhaps it’s the concise part that has been lacking.  I know one thing for certain.  I really, really don’t like being misunderstood. 

Had a rough night and day.  Women stuff folks.  Just in case you want to read something else…

Couldn’t get to sleep last night what with the awful cramps. CRAMPS. I got my tubes tied in 1991. Me no want kids.  And me no want some of the equipment that is used specifically and only for that purpose.  Take it out.  But they refuse.  I mean I really shouldn’t be rolled up in a fetal ball in tears after taking 4 vicodon and 2 aleve now should I?  Thank god for oxycodone.  Yes, I have to take that for my cramps.  And if I only take one, they still hurt.  But I can’t stand being as messed up as 2 is unless they are really bad.  So last night I didn’t sleep until 2am waiting for the meds to kill the pain.

Today? The migraines hit.  Hadn’t had enough sleep, the barometric pressure dropped, muggyness abounds and I spent the afternoon sleeping.  Don’t think I’m going to make my meeting tonight.  Darn it.

Why oh why am I one of the peri-menopausal whose monthlies come more often?  *grumble*

I’m surrounded by the smells of the herbs I harvested last evening.  Angelica, artemsia, sage, rosemary, lavender, fennel.  Mmmmmmm. Lovely smells.

I’ve been working hard to get the last pouches done for the solstive Concentric Circles event.  And to get my autumn necklace done.  All the little charms have been waiting patiently to be wired to each other for many months now. I’ll have something to show you all very soon.

Ta for now as I go take drugs and watch movies and bend wire.

I promised my brother the other day that his recent photo from Dubrovnik would be the first thing I would post on my next blog post. I lied, sorry bro, it was that bit about Palin…  took the time to read the blogs on my list today, get caught up and feel as though I should have been outside enjoying the September.  My favorite month of them all.  I live for September’s.

With no further dithering and screwing around I present one of the loveliest sites ever.

He’s so lucky!  Two weeks on the Dalmatian Coast.  *sigh*

I’m sitting here applying for jobs while the sun finally shines.  After almost two weeks of rain and cold temperatures, cold enough to turn on the heat fer crying out loud, we are back to our typical September.  I love September.  Sunny days, blue skies, a slight breeze, a hint of turning leaves in the scents… 

My blackberries molded on the vine thanks to all the rain.  I’m pretty sad about that. But I do have some frozen from last years bumper crop left.  What berries didn’t mold I’m leaving to the wild beasties.

I walked around the lake yesterday, it was incredibly gorgeous.  I took photos. I can’t seem to get any of them to go to my email. Darn, I had a lovely shot of a dragonfly with striped wings resting on a huge blackberry leaf next to some plump berries that didn’t actually mold.  You’ll just have to imagine.  I had photos of the mimosa trees in bloom, the seagulls with their wings all cattywompus from the wind, it was a lovely day.

I must get out in the sun again today…  Warm up my toesies.

After much thought I have renewed my petition to join a local Kingstone coven.  I went through their outer grove class, learned tons, it was a blessing. But I wasn’t ready to go further.  So I didn’t pursue it.  Now that my schedule is my own and it no longer matters if circles go until 2am I’ve renewed my request.  I meet with my beloved and much missed Higher Priestess on Monday to talk.  I will of course have to be interviewed and re-meet folks and then they will vote.  There are no guarantees.  No worries there. What is meant to be will be. 

My experiences with the two women I met recently showed me that I wanted structure but that I wasn’t interested in being the creator of it just yet. That I have much to teach but more to learn.  I finally have designed my life so that I have time.  Oh goodness plenty of time.  Perhaps a bit too much. 

Have been applying for jobs and the opportunities present themselves but so far no bites.  Launched a new site last week, they were very happy, perhaps some other work will come out of that.  Visualizing my ass off.

Off to go worship September and do some herb harvesting…