Vacation update: I’ve finally figured out what I’m doing next week. Spending much needed time with my cats. If you can judge what kind of a parent a person will be by how they treat their animals, then I am a neglecting parent.

I learned one thing: I cannot get frustrated at decisions, which are common, I can only get irritated. Frustration is for inanimate objects whose only choice in life is to do what I make them do. Which means, I get frustrated with myself and irritated with others. End of Story

Well, I’m home sick….I hate the flu. As for updates, if anyone tries to access me from freakchylde.net, I’m currently down because I’m trying to change most of the site over to my server. I’ll find out tomorrow around this time if it worked. So, my fullest apologies to all who miss the Playground for a day.

Weekend was fairly good. Friday, my client didn’t how up or call me, but now he knows that’s what he needs to do when he can’t make it. Went to see Rasputina in concert. It was good, I think Malora takes too many drugs, or does a damn good impression of acting vacant, but the music was still good. Never seen so many Hot Topic goths in one place in my life, thus far. Saturday was decent, it wasn’t as hot as it usually is at work and the day went by pretty fast. Today was pretty slow, woke up late, went food shopping, did some stuff around the house. Tonight looks pretty tame too, I think I’m going to stay in because I have nothing better to do and there’s not much going on any other place I might go to. Who knows, maybe something interesting will pop up, but doubtfully on a Sunday.

Ok, things are good. Worked on redecorating the office/work room and went shopping. Snagged me a Buddhist tone bell, which I love, new inscense, finally hung the sword up, and created a new hook for my handy dandy ritual gear. Finally found a Buddhist chant cd, haven’t listened to it yet, but from its description, it should be the tonal singing. If not, I know Borders has one. This place is really shaping up nicely.

Well, I finally got my concise anglo-saxon dictionary in the mail, and here are the sub-final results of my research into the root words of “wicca”:

wicca: m. wizard, magician, soothsayer, astrologer
(please keep in mind that this word is not just left for males because it’s masculine) (actual anglo-saxon root: wicga)

wicce: f. witch (found in AElfric and the Old English Glosses)

So Gardner wasn’t too far off, but that’s given that these words are recent additions to the anglo-saxon vocabulary (potential fix?) and have only been found in a couple places, which still leads me to be skeptical of whether or not they actually did exist. Now to go hunt down the texts they were found in, with the original language to do a translation.

some people judge their worth by how much trust other people are willing to give them, and how much use they can be to other people. and some people just give up.

the tears will eventually fall.

If coffee is god, I have found its consort. Today, my caffinated lipstick arrived in the mail. Nice coffee red lipstick, complete with shot of caffeine every time I lick my lips. Now I definitely have reason to kiss myself every day.

In other news, school was much better today. Having an instructor that actually knew what he was talking about and could relate the topic to the rest of us confused massage therapists was nice. Now that that is all over with, I hope we never have to see that other annoying instructer that feels the need to laugh every time she gets uncomfortable with us. *grrr* Now, it’s time to go caffeinate myself to see how good this colour looks on me.

So, today I got to do energy work part 2. All went well until the polarity 1 course this afternoon. Yep, I’m a pagan, no, I don’t believe in polarity therapy. IMO Polarity therapy is the psychology of the massage field and in agreement with my priest, it’s the layman’s way of not having to go the long route and get trained in Reiki. The westernization of eastern medicine. Lovely concept. Well, to add to that, the instructor was one I really didn’t like. She has this lovely little habit of not actually answering the question. She spends more times running circles around the subject than an Irish Bard telling a story. Basically, she said that we are welcome to advocate and “suggest” that our clients change their diet to reflect the Polarity lifestyle. Well, one minute problem….the Ethics code that certified and licensed massage therapists have to abide by specifically states that nutritional council is outside our scope of practice and can potentially result in the loss of our license. I wonder if she’s read the ethics code since she graduated. At any rate, I felt more relaxed after the class, but that’s because of all the rocking. I didn’t feel any more balanced than I did before the class, but that’s because my Therapeutic touch partner did an excellent job and made me feel balanced again. *sigh* And I still need to work on that meditation. Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow night after yoga. I get me time, so I guess I should start using it more wisely.