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Too...much...ice...and...roses.

I ordered myself two bottles of the Yules I hope will work on me, dropped into a decant circle for the three that probably won't work, but I'd be sad if I didn't know, and added a bottle of the best of the Halloweenies on me (The Lurid Library). I've still got some Haloa from last year, and Jacob's ladder from 2 years ago, and that'll pretty much cover me for holiday scents.

Next circle for me will be the Carnival Diabolique update.

I think I just came out --again-- to chunks of my family over the last few weeks. At various times the queer thing and the open relationship thing and the pagan thing have come up before; they ask, we tell, they get uncomfy, and then, apparently, they forget, because at some other family gathering it comes up again and they are surprised.

My little-little sister, and then my brother, and then my big-little sister, all joined/found me in Facebook over the last few weeks, most recently yesterday with my brother writing on my big-little sister's wall that he'd "found out some interesting things about our sisters" via Facebook. I fussed for a bit originally about making a limited profile for family, but then I decided not to bother. No one's said anything in particular to me, but I have to assume they know. Is the whole family gossiping about me and my girlfriend? I have no idea.

I'm not sure if it's the chickenshit approach or the gracious one to come out that way, by just kind of having information out there and public. It wouldn't really have happened before the social networking sites; there's no where I would have put a picture, a name, a list of things I'm into, and a collection of names of my friends in one place, easily accessible to anyone. But really, I kind of like this transparent world. If family wants to talk about it, they can ask. If they're uncomfortable, I don't really feel any need to put anything in anybody's face.

But yeah. I'm queer. I like men, women, neuters, and genderqueer folk.

If there's anything about you that you think I'd ought to know, or that you kind of hoped I'd notice, feel free to bring it up. Or just point me to your Facebook profile. :P

I've gone through all the stuff from the Halloweenie update, and I'm ready to send a lot of it to better homes than mine. I promise next-day shipment.

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I have this nasty-cough-that-maybe-is-bronchitis-i-guess-maybe-i-will-go-to-the-doctor-if-it-isn't-better-in-a-few-days thing. We just told projectmothra that we weren't having snacks between lunch and dinner, and that he needed to go outside and play and not play video games, but I'm secretly waiting for him to go out with bard_bloom so I can eat some fudge that read_alicia gave to us and then play Elebits.

A late night conversation with lediva has brought out some serious nostalia/cravings around Screaming Yellow Zonkers, the yellow popcorn in the black box for people who think nuts suck. It had a black box and alien mascots and was very yellow.

Here, have a commercial from 1972.

Sadly, the brand's not currently being produced, but ConAgra recently bought the Lincoln Snacks company, and maybe they'll bring it back. I'm tempted to start a petition or something.

I meant to write all about our weekend at Harvest Home Gathering here, but I never really got to it. There was ritual, and selling stuff, and topless fire-dancing, and body image issues, and I wish I had the motivation to write about it, but I don't, so I'm letting it go.

I've been doing a bunch of beading/jewelry making of late. I'm still learning the basic technical skills of it, but the stuff I'm making is pretty. Not sure if I'm going to sell some of it at Pagan Pride next weekend or give it as gifts or just keep it all.

I pretty much blew off both the Pagan holidays and the Jewish ones this weekend, but I did have a lovely weekend visit from lediva. We went to see Across the Universe (which I would highly recommend) and we also went to see the Gotham Girls Roller Derby, which was less confusing in the second half after I got a peek at the write-up of the basic rules. It was still essentially a sporting event in a hot gymnasium, which is not-so-much my thing, but the crowd was interesting and it was certainly cool to see that much intensity being played out that close up. I don't think I'll personally go again, but I can see why people like it.

lediva also ended up getting me set up to use Bloglines instead of the crazy random pile of bookmarks and remembering to check in on stuff that I've been using. Anybody have any favorite, lesser-known blogs I ought to be looking at?

Perfume showed up Friday night, and all the packages are going to go out tomorrow morning. Even though I don't like the chasing people down to fill orders and get paid and worrying I'll be stuck with lots of leftovers thing, I love the actual part where I get to play with all the perfumes and do the decanting and everything.

Wow, this looks much more like a classic LiveJounal post than anything I've written in a while.

(Format mooched, via shadesong. But I'd really been meaning to do this, and she reminded me. I know, this makes it look like a meme, but I'm serious.)

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(Stealing format from Lis Riba!) It's the Days of Repentance, the period of time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur when we try to repair any damaged relationships we have with each other. If there is anything which I did over the past year which hurt or upset you, please let me know. If you are willing to share it publically, please leave a comment below; if you'd like to discuss it privately, send me an email. I will see whether I can make amends, and make right anything which I have done wrong, and make changes to prevent repeating such wrongs in the future. I don't promise that I can. But I do promise that I will try.
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CnS arrived last night for Halloweenie circle. If you are a short attention span kind of person and want to hop into any open slots in the circle, ,it's here.

free to good home -- about half a pound of cut and sifted catnip. It's a little old -- I'm discontinuing it from the Mother's Hearth site because I don't sell it quickly enough, compared to the powdered. It's a little old, but still perfectly good for making tea, or stuffing cat toys. For some reason I feel inspired to offer it here. First comment gets it.