March 29, 2008

• Just Some Stuff II

  Hurray! I got my tax check… in record time I might add. Guess I’ll be going to HR Block from now on instead of doing it myself. For the last three years, I’ve finished and sent out my taxes in February and not gotten them back until May, June, and July, respectively. And that’s just insane!

  Unfortunately, it’s already spent and I haven’t even deposited it yet. I have to fix my windshield, get my car inspected (I already know I need three new tires, so at least $200 for that), I need new glasses (it’s been three years), and I hope to put a little extra on my credit card.

  Whoops, and there goes my tax check. If there’s anything left, it goes into savings, but I’m fairly certain my car will eat most of it. Eh, I’d rather have a horse, but the tarmac would be hell on its hooves and where would I keep it at work? I miss having horses…

  When I was younger, we always had animals. My great grandparents kept ponies for us, and every time we visited, we would gather the eggs from the chickens… until the one year we came home with chicken crabs. lol When the school sent us home, my mother was mortified. I mean, who knew chicken crabs were as virulent as lice. And that was the last time we gathered the fresh eggs from the chickens. Beyond that, we always had dogs and cats… until we found out they were probably the reason I was always coming down with pinkeye. Allergies suck. Non-furry pets are just not as cuddly. I mean, have you ever tried to pet a fish? Lizards are only slightly better. They still won’t cuddle. Something about them not having evolved that part of the brain that shows affection or something. And they don’t have very good personal hygeine.

  For years my father kept a horse for me. I believe she was a mustang. Her name was Bitsy. (I was very young when I named her ) I used to sit, sketching her, for hours. Horses were the first animal I drew well. If I road a horse now, I’d probably be sore as heck, but I miss it. A car just doesn’t have a personality like a horse does, or well it can, but it’s usually a disagreeable one. And besides, horses are better for the environment. If I had the space, I’d have a horse. I’d probably have chickens again too, and cats… outdoor cats won’t give me pinkeye (hopefully). I was never much of a dog person. I don’t dislike them, I just can’t see myself having one.

  Oh if only I or some relative would win the lottery! I can’t even imagine what it must be like not to worry about money. Had anyone heard that Borders is up for sale? Apparently they were up for sale seven years ago and nothing ever came of it (they took out a loan which is due next year), so my boss has told us all not to worry… our jobs are not in (immediate) danger, but it’s terribly stressful! Not to mention that, as merch supervisor I am responsible for all the displays in our store and the dictates from on high have been more asinine that usual. They keep taking stock out of the store, but they still want the same number (or more) displays. It’s maddening. And people keep coming in and asking if we are closing or if Barnes and Noble is buying us. No! We are not closing (any time soon) but it’s really depressing to have people asking that all the time. Really depressing! And B&N is not going to buy us. Duh! They follow us around the country like a pesky little brother. Everywhere we are, they are. It would be counterproductive for them to buy us out when chances are there’s a Barnes and Noble across the street from every Borders in the country. Our local B&N actually moved from down the street to directly across the street from us. Guess we weren’t enough competition before. Still we get more people coming in and complaining about them than not… words like unhelpful, ignorant, rude immediately spring to mind. They’re not exactly the competition people seem to think they are.

  Ah, if I won the lottery…. I’d publish my folklore manuscript and maybe start my own Pagan/magick publishing company. I’d go back to school to study business so I could open my own interfaith bookstore. I’d buy a house with enough land for several horses and other animals to run around, in addition to enough farmland so that we would never have to buy produce at the grocery store again. I’d start a scholarship fund for Pagan students to study religion and history. I’d travel, extensively. I’d visit holy sites before they are destroyed by ignorance. I’d donate to protect them and to green peace and environmental and animal protective groups.

  So many things I’d do with that money….. guess I should start buying tickets or something….

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  March 28th

  The sun and moon were created.

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  The old Roman festival of Sacrifice at the Tombs is performed to honor the ancestors.

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  Scott Cunningham died in 1993 from complications lymphoma.

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  March 29th

  The Bobo people of Africa believe the equilibrium of the sun, rain, and soil is upset every time humans farm. Each year, they masquerade in special costumes and painted masks, begging the intermediary god to correct the balance, banish evil, and bring rain.

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  This is the date of a festival in honor of Ishtar in Babylon.

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