well, ok... maybe they weren't TOTALLY unforseen (ok ok, it was an inevitability)...

anyhoo, due to certain circumstances, my journal is going to have to go friends only for now.

if you're interested in reading (about sex, smut, every day life, living a poly relationship, gardening, pagan stuff, musings on everything, etc etc) then g'head and comment here to be added.

thanks, all! :)

I have been invited to consider studying with CAYA's Amazon Priestesses. I am so honored and excited about this. I have some initial work to complete and they will have made their official decision in January as to whether this is a good fit for everyone and the training begins in February.

As many of you know, CAYA is the group that deedeebythebay and i have both been attending rituals with since the last Pantheacon and whom we are taking the next year "off" with ("off" in terms of not hosting rituals here at thechoirloft and attending ritual with CAYA instead).

I am very much looking forward to this challenge.

There's a separation going on between a friend of ours and their partner. There is a child involved and there is a 3rd party in the community who is directly involved. While this third party claims that they are only trying to help their own friend, they have taken actions that have had severe consequences against our friend. What the 3rd party doesn't realize is that they're getting involved in an area where they have NO RIGHTS, no basis in truth, and while they are generally a good set of people... well, they're about to destroy the life of a child.

Please... send good thoughts towards this person so that they may find some peace and stop meddling in affairs they only know one side of the story of. help them see the light so that they may walk out of a place of darkness that they are about to slip into as their (hopefully non-intentional) hurtful actions tear at the life of a child. Additionally, please send good thoughts towards the safety of their own child as this family harbors a potentially ill and dangerous person in their midst.

I hold only thoughts of light and healing for all of those involved, directly or indirectly. May they all find solace somewhere and may they reap what they sow.

found via Standing on the Side of Love...

Fox News Blockhead, Sean Hannity, is urging his followers and viewers to continue the kinds of mobs that have been seen at Town Hall's across the nation in regards to the proposed National Health Care. Luckily for us, Hannity's website notes all the Town Hall times and dates and i would hope that those of us who would have a rational discussion can match or exceed in attendance those who would go just to mob the discussion.

The schedules and locations from Hannity's website.

i NEVER want to move *EVER* again.

i'm tired, sore, and cranky. i've been eating either pizza or some other kind of take out pretty much since last Friday night. It will be good, this week, to get our kitchen back into a semblance of working order such that *real* food can be cooked.

a super huge thank you to all of our friends who came and helped out. There were so many of you who came last weekend and helped us through the big crunch and those who continued to help throughout the week and this weekend. My deepest, heartfelt thanks to all of you who worked so hard to get The Choirloft moved and settled in. Thank you, so very much, to you all.

Today we spent the day cleaning up the last bits of what was left in the house. tomorrow, coyote3502 and deedeebythebay will have the walkthrough with the landlady. What remains to be done there is a small bit of spot cleaning before the walkthrough and then we will need to clear the backyard and the garage. OH....and we'll need to go through the garden as well.

SPeaking of which... the deer that live around the former incarnation of thechoirloft have figured out that there are no people at home right now. They went through and decimated the strawberry and wax bean patch. Those strawberries have been being worked on for nearly the whole 5 years of our existence there and it was only this summer that the patch was really going like gangbusters and putting out a lot of fruit. Sadly, the deer made short work of it, the potato patch, the herb patch, and a good bit of the beans and even some of the tomatoes. *sigh* i will say that i stood in stunned, slack-jawed silence in front of the strawberry patch (deedeebythebay cried and coyote3502 clucked his tongue in sadness) for quite a bit of time - it was shocking what they did to the patch. OH... and they even went in and gnoshed on the geraniums (pelargoniums, actually.... but most people can figure out geranium easier LOL)

anyhow... this week will be a lot of unpacking and putting away of things. hopefully, my room will become usable sometime soon - i'm going a bit crazy at the lack of a bedroom right now (my room got flooded not with sewage but from the overflow that comes out of the tub upstairs. someone forgot to put a gasket into it and it was overflowing into the walls.... which explains why my electrical outlets kept popping the GFI that they're installed on...) This week we'll also be getting a furniture delivery for a new set of living room items and a big plushy recliner for me. this will be an added expense to the monthly budget BUT... most of these items were sorely needed.

still anyways... i'm looking forward to W&S here this friday. the new house is pretty spiffy (sitting down on the basement deck in the darkness of night makes me feel as if this place were a cabin in the woods...) and with that, i shall enjoy sleeping in it's spiffiness. :)

tonight's dinner:
- baby spinach and spring greens salad with white and yellow nectarines, cubed beets, slivered almonds, parmesan cheese, and a light italian dressing
- caprese salad (heirloom tomatoes of yellow, red, and orange varieties, blood orange olive oil, balsamic vinegar, slices of fresh mozzarella cheese, and fresh basil direct from our garden)
- mushroom and herb couscous
- curried chicken cutlets (courtesy of coyote3502)

paired with a nice Gewurztraminer :)


and for dessert:
- lemon sorbet
- ginger and lemon cookies

all on the back patio, listening to good tunes, and enjoying the cooling off of a summer evening.

life does it's best to remind us that... life is good :)