Reality Sets In- AAAAH Cats

It's been a week of some really beautiful thunderstorms, which have cleared the Air only to have showers to make things more muggy again. The weather I must admit has been a shocker as to the heat of it all. It's really been too hot for comfort. Plus with all the pollen & pollution in & around Brum my asthma is playing up something rotten, leaving me coughing like a ten year old chuffing on a fag trying to look cool, but failing.

The reality has just set in about me& Rich moving in together & it looks like we are having the cats. Hmmm, I'm not the happiest of bunnies there as his cats use my legs as scratching posts when they can't be arsed to get off my lap to do it on the carpet. They also take delight in drinking out of my cup, noone else's, just mine. They are also jealous of the fact that there is a man in Richard's life too so don't really like the lack of the attention that he gives them compared to what they were used to before I came along. A least I have found their point of terror, they don't like maracas, so I shall be getting a fair bit of use out of them I feel. MWAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Plus I'm panicking as to if we have hidden any of our house keeping habits too, but I suppose time will tell. Well we have started house hunting but nowhere that feels like home has presented itself as yet. It just all seems like a commitment I have never seen before & I really should stop panicking about things that haven't happened yet.

Right I have therapies to do.

Goodbye

Sorry It's Been So Long

I can not believe it has been so long in writing anything on here. Well not too much has happened as it has been way too hot to do anything. Plus I got caught in the trappings of Big Brother (I didn't really take any notice of it until last year) & Doctor Who (I don't remember it being on as a kid). So there has been a fair bit of loafing.

Week before last I went for a job interview for a company that employs people to steward events at places like the Carling academy (yay I'll get to see bands & get paid for it) & UCE. I was successful as you can gather. I just need to send off my contract & I'm officially employed, albeit it casual employment. It'll keep the wolf from the door I suppose now that my own business has become none existent.

The placement at ABplus is still going well, although last week I was sent home early as hayfever had got the better of me. I was in a very bad state as my head was aching so much that I felt that decapitating me would have been humane. I took the approach of physician heal thyself & took honey, chamomile oil & eye drops. I'm now much better, although I have the occasional cough. ABplus were getting ready for the charity ball last Friday so mayhem ensued, I was errand boy sent to collect prizes for the ball amongst other things. Well I hope things will have turned back to normal by tomorrow.

I also received the 2 things I wanted the most for my birthday a bodhran off Richard (a plain one without the fancy patterning as we saw, all it takes to make a drum go from being £30 to £70 is a little Celtic knotwork). The other thing was a copy of the Modern Atiquarian by Julian Cope, this has been a book I have been meaning to acquire for some time but wain factct bought by mum & dad, so I had my three birthday wishes after all.

This morning I was at Stonehenge doing a ritual with the Pagan Association, I was calling upon the East, & I didn't do too badly but that was because I had written down my lines on paper & I have quite a powerful set of lungs on me for shouting. Again it was an energetic affair with the spiral dance around the stones but unlike last year my trousers weren't falling down as I wearing a ritual cord with my sword attached. The views were spectacular as the sun rose over them, I just can't believe I was awake at hat time of day let alone 112 miles away from home, but I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Richard & I are now looking for a house together, which seems all surreal, but heart warming & scary. This is getting very serious I'm settling down. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH when did that start happening. We've also talked about a bonding ceremony bit like a handfasting but with it beina lotot more intimate, with no onlookers or Wiccanesque Ritual which sounds all romantic.

And before I go all mushy on you I think I'd better go.

Bye.

Crappy Birthday

Friday: Left ABplus & got absolutely hammered, I was first taken to the White Swan for a couple of pints, then we moved to Equator after finding The Wellington was closed where the most of my braincells were killed off. I was very very drunk & remember making comments I would never dream of saying when I'm sober. At least I got back in one piece.

Saturday: I'm lucky to not have hangovers of a morning, but that was where most of my luck ends on that day. Richard is doing a club night on the 8th of July & the guy coordinating it couldn't be bothered to come around on the week before when he was supposed to. So on my special day infact our special day as it was mine & Richard's 1st anniversary for a large portion of the day involved us not being couply & me being on my own, as Richard was having to play him his set & he knows how much techno music drives me insane,. I was relegated to my vegetable garden, where I discovered to my horror half of my garlics, most of my onions & all of my carrots trampled now dead after a stupid lame assed tree surgeon decided rather than take the wood that he cut down the path he decided to walk over my plot instead. Rich tried to make up for it by doing nothing out of the ordinary & snuggling on the couch to watch Buffy, which was nice I guess but it didn't feel like well like a celebration that we had been together, or that it was nothing but a normal day.

Sunday: We went hiking up the Clent Hills which was more like what I would have had in mind for my birthday. He did it to make up for it & in a way it did but I was still left feeling why couldn't we have done it yesterday? Why couldn't he have postponed the rehearsal of the set, after all he was let down & it was at Richard's inconvenience last time & this time. I wish Richard had noticed earlier & made something special on the actual day rather than trying to make up for it, as it is always a let down as it is a consolation prize when all is said & done. I enjoyed the cake which lasted us three days it was chocolate full of happy hormones, though not enough to concur my mood though.

I think the moral of the story is I'm not over the depression & if Richard & I are to enjoy special events like this in the future, although we are more for the spontaneity, to actually plan it & get disappointed that it hasn't gone to plan rather than leave it to spontaneity & get all upset that some inconsiderate person ruin our day, as the person in question knew it was a special day for me/us. Sorry for sounding like a selfish kid, but it really got me down, when I thought I was getting over it.

Well everything is back to normal. Rant over.

Happy Times

I'm really not sounding that bored any more or that depressed which I think is a good thing. But then again I feel like I'm doing something worthwhile for a change. ABplus are happy to have me here still & I'm still happy to be here. Therapies seem to be going well, no complaints so far only compliments even off those where I didn't think I'd get it from. Plus I'm going to be experience Hopi ear candling for the first time today.

I now only have 2 days to go before I'm a quarter century old. It seems though that I may be late in getting my birthday present off Richard though as he is skint, we've had to postpone going away for the weekend because of it, but we are still going away. I'm also concerned that because it is our first anniversary on the same day that I'm only going to get the one present. I know it sounds very materialistic of me but, it is more the principal of the matter. I could be just paranoid though. I must admit though I'm more excited about having an anniversary with some one which is unheard of yay me & Rich.

I have had a new idea for a book As well so that may or may not be cool depending if Ken wipes it again from the computer. So things are looking up. We had the Fluffy Bunny Book Review at the moot on Tuesday which was highly amusing when Alix reviewed Night Magick by Cassandra Easson, where you can learn to breath like a creature of the night, I thought you did that anyway by shagging but then again what do I know seeing as though I was not a Celtic warrior Princess from Atlantis.

On that note so I don't rant anymore about Fluffies, I shall say goodbye. Goodbye

The Garden

Well trhis week has been pretty uneventful really. ABplus is going well, I'm redoing some of the consultation sheets etc, doing treatments & just general things, so nothing really important there, I'm just glad to be there as it is better than constuction. I have applied for a job as a steward for which I can pick & choose my own hours. Everything in that part of my life is going well. My relationship is harmonious. So where's the bad? The answer lies with the garden.

I'm still very much behind, especially after the manic May that I had. The couch grass is so tall you can hardly see the greenhouse, I'm late putting seeds in & Richard's grandma whose ground the plot is on is getting narky saying I spent May wasting time (Christ knows what stopped me from laying into her). So I decided to do a 16 weekend digging the garden & planting. If she is ungrateful now she will get a full blown slanging match, as I have managed to sprain my ankle, sneeze up blood & get heavily sunburnt. But atleast peas, tomatoes & marigolds are planted. Also doing the garden I missed the Pagan Association Moot Orgaisers Meeting. so the garden is taking priority at the moment. All hands on dirt as long as thet are throttling the pigeons who like the tate of my broccoli seedlings.

That was a short post but hey not much has happened so I wont bore you. Goodbye.

PS. Yay Scary Mary got voted out the Big Brother house the crazed fluffy wouldn't know real Witchcraft if it hit her round the face with a wet kipper.