such a dirty and excitable pagan.
Jan. 2nd, 2012 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alegitimateeagletodayyyyy was pretty okay, as it stands. I'm about to get up and make some baked mac'n'cheese so that's exciting. I though about playing Skyrim and then decided against it and may have decided for it again? I'm not sure. I tend to be kind of silly.
Today's the 1 month anniversary of getting together with Liz, which sounds kind of silly and sappy to say, but there it is? It really feels like I've known her forever. We have a lot of the same ideas and thoughts and tastes and stuff, but we're also different enough to not get sick of each other, I think. I can say pretty much anything to her and she feels the same way, or she understands enough to let me have my opinion and have her own at the same time. We do have things we don't see perfectly together, but that's good. There has to be some differences in a relationship, I think. XD
That being said, I am incredibly nervous that when she sees me or talks to me irl for a great amount of time she won't like me as much anymore. I know it's silly and stupid (mostly because why don't I worry I won't like her? wouldn't it be possible both ways? y so self-involved?) but I do tend to get loud and abrasive and excitable and I know that rubs against peoples' ideas of me or interests. Normally I wouldn't give a shit but this is different. She's my Steinette, damnit. We're both incredibly bad at processing and understanding emotions and yet this works for us.
I'm going up to see her in February. I still can't really believe I'm actually going to. I'm taking the days off tomorrow and waiting for a week to buy the airplane ticket (a. it will be cheaper b. stupid pesky fucking rent) but it's happening. GOSH. I have so many feels on the subject but it's mostly just me freaking out and being giddy and stupid all at once. XD
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Today, my roommates and I went to this shop in Denver. It is SO FUCKING COOL. A lot of the reason I have a hard time getting into Paganism and my witchy practices as a whole is because I'm pretty much one of five witches in Longmont. (I'm guessing. Honestly, I'm more than confident I'm the only one. Not a lot of people around here think in the Pagany way - that's more Boulder's speed, and they're 20 minutes away and impossible to find witches and fjkdlajkdlfjdksljd!!! I just want someone to talk to who I can actually speak with and see and deal with and aaaaAAAAUGH!) But, this place 1) offers classes 2) has so much amazing swag, o m g. there is literally not a single religion that isn't represented at least once! 3) has Witches running everything (like one of them proclaimed I JUST LOVE WORKING BUSINESS MAGICK while we were there. I lol'd) 4) feels so safe.
Everyone there was so nice and they have a FULL FUCKING APOTHECARY, complete with oils and all sorts of things. There's a tea shop in the front, and in the back there's the apothecary and a wall of Tarot decks (SERIOUSLY!) and books and candles and cases and all sorts of stuff in-between. They signed me up for their customer rewards program (buy a shitload, eventually get 10% off coupons) and I got a catalog. I bought the Shadowscapes Tarot deck and a sheet for handy and fast symbols of Tarot cards (it even has a basic word for what the suit stands for and what the card is reversed :|a it's not incredibly in-depth but it sure is handy!), as well as Cottage Witchery by Ellen Dugan.
Okay let me take a brief moment here and just say it is FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to find books on hearthwitchery. Hearthwitchery and Hedgewitchery are often considered the same things but THAT IS A VERY, VERY COMMON MISCONCEPTION. Hedgewitchery is incredibly attuned to nature. It's most often described as used by shaman women or "medicinewomen", the kind of people who would make medicines for the entire town. While this sounds like an apothecary situation, it's not. It's much more involved than that, trust me. Hearthwitchery is the magicks that go on within the home, usually for protection, banishment and all sorts of things. It's also referred to sometimes as "kitchen witchery", because a lot of hearthwitchery is cooking and cleaning, on top of apothecary work.
I am a hearthwitch, not a hedgewitch. There are a lot of very serious differences.
WHY IS IT SO GODDAMN HARD TO FIND BOOKS ON HEARTHWITCHERY!? SEEEEEEEEEERIOUSLY. sheesh.
I also bought Wild and Weedy Apothecary, a book with a lot of apothecary terms and stuff in it BUT it also has a bunch of recipes for cooking while using herbs! OMG. I had to have it almost immediately. I've a mortar and pestle upstairs (black marble. it is a thing of goddamn beauty) that I should bring down and clean and start using, to get the hang of it. I'd love to get into apothe-stuff as heavily as I can; you can make teas and incense on top of using it all for good luck bags and bath bags and normal spells and abnormal spells and PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING.
plus it feels like potions and I want to do those too? and also I love mortar//pestles. shoot me.
You guys should have SEEEEEEN all those candles they had. And fancy snuffers and fancy holders and everything! I will certainly be looking into their classes AND going back asap.
I am very very serious about getting my ass in gear re: pagan stuff!! I will be a studious witch this year, gdi! I have slacked off FOR TOO LONG.
whew this was longer than I expected. But I was really excited about coming home to write, so that's a good sign. I hope it keeps up because even if no one is actually listening it's nice to think I have someone to talk to. :3 Blathering at and all that.
Maybe I can post my recipes once in a while. Hearthwitches cook a lot, yknow. :3 (and the sauce I'm making for the baked m'n'c is based off of this sauce, except I make a little more and also FUCK AMERICAN CHEESE, I use Colby and sharp cheddar instead. The pasta I have is shaped like screws (for exactly the reasons my RP//fandom friends are thinking) and after I stir in the pasta and pour it all into a dish, I slather it in grated cheeses and bake it for about an hour.
Today's the 1 month anniversary of getting together with Liz, which sounds kind of silly and sappy to say, but there it is? It really feels like I've known her forever. We have a lot of the same ideas and thoughts and tastes and stuff, but we're also different enough to not get sick of each other, I think. I can say pretty much anything to her and she feels the same way, or she understands enough to let me have my opinion and have her own at the same time. We do have things we don't see perfectly together, but that's good. There has to be some differences in a relationship, I think. XD
That being said, I am incredibly nervous that when she sees me or talks to me irl for a great amount of time she won't like me as much anymore. I know it's silly and stupid (mostly because why don't I worry I won't like her? wouldn't it be possible both ways? y so self-involved?) but I do tend to get loud and abrasive and excitable and I know that rubs against peoples' ideas of me or interests. Normally I wouldn't give a shit but this is different. She's my Steinette, damnit. We're both incredibly bad at processing and understanding emotions and yet this works for us.
I'm going up to see her in February. I still can't really believe I'm actually going to. I'm taking the days off tomorrow and waiting for a week to buy the airplane ticket (a. it will be cheaper b. stupid pesky fucking rent) but it's happening. GOSH. I have so many feels on the subject but it's mostly just me freaking out and being giddy and stupid all at once. XD
---
Today, my roommates and I went to this shop in Denver. It is SO FUCKING COOL. A lot of the reason I have a hard time getting into Paganism and my witchy practices as a whole is because I'm pretty much one of five witches in Longmont. (I'm guessing. Honestly, I'm more than confident I'm the only one. Not a lot of people around here think in the Pagany way - that's more Boulder's speed, and they're 20 minutes away and impossible to find witches and fjkdlajkdlfjdksljd!!! I just want someone to talk to who I can actually speak with and see and deal with and aaaaAAAAUGH!) But, this place 1) offers classes 2) has so much amazing swag, o m g. there is literally not a single religion that isn't represented at least once! 3) has Witches running everything (like one of them proclaimed I JUST LOVE WORKING BUSINESS MAGICK while we were there. I lol'd) 4) feels so safe.
Everyone there was so nice and they have a FULL FUCKING APOTHECARY, complete with oils and all sorts of things. There's a tea shop in the front, and in the back there's the apothecary and a wall of Tarot decks (SERIOUSLY!) and books and candles and cases and all sorts of stuff in-between. They signed me up for their customer rewards program (buy a shitload, eventually get 10% off coupons) and I got a catalog. I bought the Shadowscapes Tarot deck and a sheet for handy and fast symbols of Tarot cards (it even has a basic word for what the suit stands for and what the card is reversed :|a it's not incredibly in-depth but it sure is handy!), as well as Cottage Witchery by Ellen Dugan.
Okay let me take a brief moment here and just say it is FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to find books on hearthwitchery. Hearthwitchery and Hedgewitchery are often considered the same things but THAT IS A VERY, VERY COMMON MISCONCEPTION. Hedgewitchery is incredibly attuned to nature. It's most often described as used by shaman women or "medicinewomen", the kind of people who would make medicines for the entire town. While this sounds like an apothecary situation, it's not. It's much more involved than that, trust me. Hearthwitchery is the magicks that go on within the home, usually for protection, banishment and all sorts of things. It's also referred to sometimes as "kitchen witchery", because a lot of hearthwitchery is cooking and cleaning, on top of apothecary work.
I am a hearthwitch, not a hedgewitch. There are a lot of very serious differences.
WHY IS IT SO GODDAMN HARD TO FIND BOOKS ON HEARTHWITCHERY!? SEEEEEEEEEERIOUSLY. sheesh.
I also bought Wild and Weedy Apothecary, a book with a lot of apothecary terms and stuff in it BUT it also has a bunch of recipes for cooking while using herbs! OMG. I had to have it almost immediately. I've a mortar and pestle upstairs (black marble. it is a thing of goddamn beauty) that I should bring down and clean and start using, to get the hang of it. I'd love to get into apothe-stuff as heavily as I can; you can make teas and incense on top of using it all for good luck bags and bath bags and normal spells and abnormal spells and PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING.
plus it feels like potions and I want to do those too? and also I love mortar//pestles. shoot me.
You guys should have SEEEEEEN all those candles they had. And fancy snuffers and fancy holders and everything! I will certainly be looking into their classes AND going back asap.
I am very very serious about getting my ass in gear re: pagan stuff!! I will be a studious witch this year, gdi! I have slacked off FOR TOO LONG.
whew this was longer than I expected. But I was really excited about coming home to write, so that's a good sign. I hope it keeps up because even if no one is actually listening it's nice to think I have someone to talk to. :3 Blathering at and all that.
Maybe I can post my recipes once in a while. Hearthwitches cook a lot, yknow. :3 (and the sauce I'm making for the baked m'n'c is based off of this sauce, except I make a little more and also FUCK AMERICAN CHEESE, I use Colby and sharp cheddar instead. The pasta I have is shaped like screws (for exactly the reasons my RP//fandom friends are thinking) and after I stir in the pasta and pour it all into a dish, I slather it in grated cheeses and bake it for about an hour.
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Date: 2012-01-04 01:50 am (UTC)Not at all! I love random comments (or comments at all, really) and I'm glad you swung by!