October 12, 2004

• Ah, vacation…. from yesterday till this coming Sunday… I am on vacation from work and my webcomic (for those who might have wondered). Not that it won’t be waiting for me when I get back, but for now all I have to do is what I choose to do.

  
  

  And what I chose to do is catch up on Xanga, Tribes, my email, and of course clean the house, read copiously, have a yardsale, and harvest my herb garden. Oh yes, and I wanted to try my hand at making paper mache masks… of Kali and Ganesh. I would like to hang them over my altar.

  
  

  I was worried last week because I woke up one morning with a terrible pain in my neck and it lasted into Sunday… six days! It was so bad I felt like someone was trying to twist my head right off. I was sick in the head and stomach and could barely stand to eat.  I still have blisters on the back of my neck from the heating pad. I didn’t get anything done… my email is backed up like you wouldn’t believe and those who missed my newsletter anouncements, now you know why there wasn’t one… because I couldn’t even manage to finish it. I couldn’t stay on the computer, or online for that matter, to do more than make sure the junk mail didn’t clog up my email. Well, the newsletter will be back next Wednesday… for Samhain.  

  
  

  So far, I have brought out my winter clothes and read through the Wolves of the Calla (yesterday and the last 100 pages today). Yeah, I know it’s been out a while, but I was waiting for the last before I started so I wouldn’t have to wait on it like the rest. I don’t really care for King’s works, but his Tower books are a masterpiece and he should be glad to retire now that he has finished it. I know I’ll be glad if he’s truly finished… more room for the up and comers on the shelves when the old man is gone. I’ll probably manage to finish the last two and “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell” also… maybe more. I’m a glutton for words when I have the time to consume them.  

  
  

  Tomorrow I think I’ll harvest the herbs for the dehydrator. The sage and lemon balm did particularly well this year. Two of my favorite herbs… the thyme looks a bit ragged though. It didn’t do nearly as well as last year.

  
  

  Two dreams I had while my neck was wonky that might be of interest to you… one I was in a half-sunken house, looking for some important paperwork for someone. It was not my house and not my papers, but the papers were important to the success of some changes someone wanted to make in the world. And as I was looking for these papers in the water-logged basement of the sunken house, I was being chased by Jason of Friday the 13th. The second dream was much simpler, but stranger. I was walking through a graveyard with a coworker and she said when she died, she wanted her tombstone to carry a list of her five favorite books. Even though I thought it was a really great idea in the dream, I said something like, “that’s stupid, no one goes to a graveyard to read.” heh

  
  

  And finally, I leave you with this article which should scare anyone who reads it but has nothing to do with the holiday approaching.

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