Horoscope Week 22.July

In the upcoming science fiction movie The Adjustment Bureau, Matt Damon plays a politician with big ambitions. Everything's going his way until he falls in love with a dancer. Then the representatives of a mysterious group intervene in his life, warning him that he'll never achieve his dreams if he stays with her. "We are the people who make sure things happen according to plan," they say. "We monitor the entire world." I'm happy to inform you, Libra, that this scenario is utterly make-believe. There is no "Adjustment Bureau," on earth or in heaven. It is true, however, that if you don't have a master plan, then your destiny is more likely to be shaped by your conditioning and by other people's master plans. So get working! This is an excellent time to either formulate a master plan or refine the one you have.

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Blackberry Wine

Looks like this will be a weekly blog. The days of daily updates are on hold for a bit.

It's been a nice week, lots of small pleasures. My parents and I drove down to Fayetteville, a small town on the Tennessee-Alabama border, to buy some fabric. We decided to take a quick trip into Alabama to see a store my dad loves, so we drove south. We put the address into our GPS, but apparently the store hasn't actually been built yet, so it took us to a dead end. Like, through a seedy little town (everyone in town eyed us suspiciously as we drove by,) down a country land, and right up to a fence covered in signs saying "DO NOT ENTER!! DANGER!!" So we went home. Left the house at noon for a short drive, and didn't get home until 8pm. :-)

I also went over to Katie's to make blackberry wine and blueberry cobbler from fresh berries she had picked the day before. The cobbler was out of this world! The wine will have to wait a while, but I have high hopes for it. Katie's mom made this rockin dinner of pita, hummos, sun dried tomato, basil, olive pizza, and pasta. Cobbler for dessert. Then Katie and I sat in the hot tub until all hours of the morning and talked.

At one point an ambulance went by somewhere in the distance, and every dog in the neighborhood started barking at the siren. Including the wild coyotes just feet from where we were sitting. If you've never heard a coyote, it's one of the most terrifying sounds on earth. Because it doesn't sound like it's from this earth. They almost sound human, but at the same time ghostly, otherworldly. And they were right next to us, somewhere, in the dark.

So we just sank into the hot water a little deeper.

In other news: Justan's yorkie, Achilles, sired a litter of puppies, so we went over to check them out. Awrrr! I'm not a dog person, but I am decidedly a puppy person, especially when they're this age. They haven't even opened their eyes yet! Sigh. So cute.

Justan made chicken parmesan (one of my favorite dishes) and we watched the first three episodes of the Original Series of Star Trek. I was surprised, truthfully, at how much I enjoyed it. Very good show, so far. Though, I do find it amazingly interesting that in every episode I've seen so far, they meet some new strange alien, it turns out to be evil, and they kill it. The end. Hmm, revealing of 1960s American society? Hmmm....

I also got some new lawn furniture, which sounds dull until you realize that I spend most of my time outside, reading. Inside is just too cold for me. So, now I have a comfy couch, and a couple of comfy chairs. Could have a nice party! :-)

And a pink flamingo to accompany me. I named him Frederico.

I Am A Trekkie

A few days ago, Justan and I watched the new Star Trek movie. Though I've never seen the original series, as a devout Trekkie, I know enough about it that the movie was awesome. (Despite Vulcan being destroyed and stuff. I mean, alternate histories are well and good as long as the weird time loop gets fixed. Cause, I've seen TNG and DS9, and so I know the future...) Ahem, anyway, Justan and I have decided that we must remedy the fact that I've never seen the Original Series, and he's never seen Deep Space 9. So, it's a summer of sci-fi for me.

Ideally, I'd like to watch every episode of Doctor Who, but that might have to wait (according to the Wikipedia page, there are approx. 769 episodes.... sigh.)

I downloaded an app for my (ridiculous) new phone that is a tricorder. I was just hoping for something to make Star Trek style blips and boops and stuff, but apparently this this actually does really cool stuff. Like measure the acoustics of a room, or altitude, or magnetic fields, or solar flares on the sun.... Seriously. Wild.

I also now have Worf or the Enterprise's computer telling me when I get a message. :-P

In other news: mom and I went back to the pool today. It tried to thunder and rain on us a little, but the sun kept coming back out. Later on, I sat on the front porch and watched it actually rain until it got dark. Then I watched Doctor Who. :-p

It's the little things, really, that make me smile most.

Horoscope Week 9.July

It's high time to banish the excuses you think you have for not doing your best. There is no longer any valid reason to hide from your true calling or deny yourself more profound happiness. You are ready to see that the supposed "obstacles" to your success are actually instrumental to your success -- prods that will make you so much smarter and stronger that you cannot be defeated by circumstances. Why is this happening now? It's because a force working behind the scenes -- you can imagine it as God or destiny or karma if you like -- is clearing away the illusions that have held you in thrall to false ideas about who you are. If I were you, I'd shout "hallelujah!" as I pinch myself in the butt and pat myself on the head.

The Coming of the Ship

I disappeared, I wandered off, and I stopped writing. But I didn't stop living. Oh no, nothing close to that. It's July now, and it was March last time I wrote. Spring slid away beneath me, Summer crept in. I can't describe the days I left unrecorded. Can only say this: the past few months have been as full as any could hope for. New friends becoming old friends, and meeting old friends anew. I have, yet again, crossed oceans and slipped into different worlds. I have laid in the sun, danced in the rain, and seen the day break more times than I can count.

I was there, and now I'm here. Story of my life, and one I just don't get bored telling. I hope you won't either.

I hope I'll have something good to say in the coming days!

I'm back.