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Catching up my week home
Apr. 24th, 2012 09:36 pmWell, I've been back for a week almost and way too busy to write a journal article. LOL I can't wait until after Beltaine when things should get a bit more low key!
So I left Costa Rica on Wednesday and had a lovely stop over in Miami where I got to hang out with Mic & Rayna and the boys. The flight home was on a total cramped bus of an airplane but I slept a fair bit and got home on Thursday midday. Kurt picked me up at SFO and carried me off to my favorite diner for food. I am very happy to be home!
I don't really remember what I did Friday. Unpacked. Did laundry. Got started on my interfaith photo project.
Saturday was a bembe. Between this and that I hadn't been to a house event in months and it was really nice to reconnect with folks and with the Orixa. I went out for the usual suspects (Pomba, Ogun, Oxossi, Brigitte) but also for Oko since Diana and I were the only senior mediums present and she was still Nana at that point. It was really interesting. He looked at our dance floor as a plowed field that needed to be prepared for planting. There was thick broken glass shards (like maybe from a vase?) all over it which he saw as rocks that needed to be out of the field. So he cleared all of those and also took a trowel Ogun had been sharpening and tackled some of the weeds. He was very intent on making the floor into a place we (the House) could grow from. It felt like a pretty helpful working even though he isn't a Power with whom I have much history. I got home about 8pm and basically fell over. My pedometer says I danced a couple of miles over the course of the day. Orixacise. *grin*
Sunday morning I did some World of Warcraft. Sad to say, I haven't had any TIME for WoW since getting home to speak of. But I did an hour on a gear run in Ulduar and then an hour with Falkenrath Knights, our friends and family guild. And then I had to get ready for the coven and friends to arrive to work on Beltaine. We had a totally awesome get together which included a read through, restringing the maypole and a barbeque and picnic in the back yard. We have amazing friends and family and I hope Beltaine is as good as that rehearsal party.
Monday and Tuesday I worked on my interfaith photo project. It is about 95% finished; I only need to print some captions that had typos or that tore when I was trying to put them on. The tacky spray glue was much stickier than I had hoped (the period when you can reposition is quite short) and for some reason the fact that the cardboard tri-fold is black made my hands into grimy paws that a blackleg miner would recognize. Totally crazy. Russell came home and we cooked dinner finished watching whichever Harry Potter movie we're up to (we've been watching them one by one).
And so now I'm caught up. Tomorrow the carpet cleaners are coming, so I imagine I will finally get to play some WoW since I will be hanging out waiting on tradespeople. And then Thursday I have an interfaith meeting and I'll need to finish my project up. Friday David comes down in anticipation of Beltaine. Saturday we do the ritual and Sunday is the big culmination of Silicon Valley Reads and the Religious Neighbor Next Door project. So next week, I want some bloody time off. But I will probably apply for unemployment and make an appointment with the placement firm I have a month's consult with and, well, time off seems unlikely.
So I left Costa Rica on Wednesday and had a lovely stop over in Miami where I got to hang out with Mic & Rayna and the boys. The flight home was on a total cramped bus of an airplane but I slept a fair bit and got home on Thursday midday. Kurt picked me up at SFO and carried me off to my favorite diner for food. I am very happy to be home!
I don't really remember what I did Friday. Unpacked. Did laundry. Got started on my interfaith photo project.
Saturday was a bembe. Between this and that I hadn't been to a house event in months and it was really nice to reconnect with folks and with the Orixa. I went out for the usual suspects (Pomba, Ogun, Oxossi, Brigitte) but also for Oko since Diana and I were the only senior mediums present and she was still Nana at that point. It was really interesting. He looked at our dance floor as a plowed field that needed to be prepared for planting. There was thick broken glass shards (like maybe from a vase?) all over it which he saw as rocks that needed to be out of the field. So he cleared all of those and also took a trowel Ogun had been sharpening and tackled some of the weeds. He was very intent on making the floor into a place we (the House) could grow from. It felt like a pretty helpful working even though he isn't a Power with whom I have much history. I got home about 8pm and basically fell over. My pedometer says I danced a couple of miles over the course of the day. Orixacise. *grin*
Sunday morning I did some World of Warcraft. Sad to say, I haven't had any TIME for WoW since getting home to speak of. But I did an hour on a gear run in Ulduar and then an hour with Falkenrath Knights, our friends and family guild. And then I had to get ready for the coven and friends to arrive to work on Beltaine. We had a totally awesome get together which included a read through, restringing the maypole and a barbeque and picnic in the back yard. We have amazing friends and family and I hope Beltaine is as good as that rehearsal party.
Monday and Tuesday I worked on my interfaith photo project. It is about 95% finished; I only need to print some captions that had typos or that tore when I was trying to put them on. The tacky spray glue was much stickier than I had hoped (the period when you can reposition is quite short) and for some reason the fact that the cardboard tri-fold is black made my hands into grimy paws that a blackleg miner would recognize. Totally crazy. Russell came home and we cooked dinner finished watching whichever Harry Potter movie we're up to (we've been watching them one by one).
And so now I'm caught up. Tomorrow the carpet cleaners are coming, so I imagine I will finally get to play some WoW since I will be hanging out waiting on tradespeople. And then Thursday I have an interfaith meeting and I'll need to finish my project up. Friday David comes down in anticipation of Beltaine. Saturday we do the ritual and Sunday is the big culmination of Silicon Valley Reads and the Religious Neighbor Next Door project. So next week, I want some bloody time off. But I will probably apply for unemployment and make an appointment with the placement firm I have a month's consult with and, well, time off seems unlikely.
