January 10
Today was Try-A-New-Recipe day. It's also turned out to be Never-Cook-That-Again day. While lemon-fig chicken looks good on a recipe site, the actual finished product is a little too sweet for my tastes. Maybe fresh figs would make it less sweet, but the likelihood of getting those at the local Payday is slim-to-none. Oh well, Cian ate it, which is not necessarily a recommendation--this close to the moon, he eats anything.
I'm not a were, but even without a calendar, I can tell that it's close. It's as if I can almost reach out and touch the ratcheting tension, gather it up by handfuls. It's times like this that I'm glad I'm not as sensitive to such things as my mother. This? Would really affect her, another reason that, as much as I miss my parents, I don't want them here.
Earlier this week, I visited Taliese and Kohana. Such a beautiful baby, healthy, bright-eyed, round-cheeked. It's a pleasure towork with visit him. Holding him makes me wish for children of my own, though the likelihood of that ever happening is as slim-to-none as Payday having fresh figs, so.
I've been working with Rena a bit. She's a lovely girl, very sharp, and I think that she'll do well. My methods, I think, might chafe her a bit--I'm boringly responsible about magic. But I can only go on what I've been taught and what I've practiced over the years. Everything in the world is connected to everything else, so whatever you do has consequences, sometimes far-reaching ones, that you could never anticipate. I'm not Wiccan, but I believe in their An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will credo, as well as the rule of three. It is wrong in the extreme to perform magic against someone's will or to use it to bend the will of another to yours. While those things might be amusing or fun or profitable at the time, karma will come back around and kick the shit out of the person doing them. Magic isn't just flashy tricks--it's a way of living your life and integrating yourself into the whole. I was taught to use it to help others, and so I've always tried to do so, but I understand that not everyone believes the same thing, and so Rena must choose her own path.
I'd like to go out and walk in the woods after work, and Önska would love to fly, but I learned my lesson after last month's near heart attack. Still, it wasn't entirely bad--I met Cian, who is smart, funny, sexy as hell. Plus I like to hear him talk. Definitely a bonus.
Curfew's almost up, and I'll be heading off to work soon. I might stop by Bindings after work for a chai, but I'll be heading directly home after that. It's too close to the full moon to be out that late.
I'm not a were, but even without a calendar, I can tell that it's close. It's as if I can almost reach out and touch the ratcheting tension, gather it up by handfuls. It's times like this that I'm glad I'm not as sensitive to such things as my mother. This? Would really affect her, another reason that, as much as I miss my parents, I don't want them here.
Earlier this week, I visited Taliese and Kohana. Such a beautiful baby, healthy, bright-eyed, round-cheeked. It's a pleasure to
I've been working with Rena a bit. She's a lovely girl, very sharp, and I think that she'll do well. My methods, I think, might chafe her a bit--I'm boringly responsible about magic. But I can only go on what I've been taught and what I've practiced over the years. Everything in the world is connected to everything else, so whatever you do has consequences, sometimes far-reaching ones, that you could never anticipate. I'm not Wiccan, but I believe in their An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will credo, as well as the rule of three. It is wrong in the extreme to perform magic against someone's will or to use it to bend the will of another to yours. While those things might be amusing or fun or profitable at the time, karma will come back around and kick the shit out of the person doing them. Magic isn't just flashy tricks--it's a way of living your life and integrating yourself into the whole. I was taught to use it to help others, and so I've always tried to do so, but I understand that not everyone believes the same thing, and so Rena must choose her own path.
I'd like to go out and walk in the woods after work, and Önska would love to fly, but I learned my lesson after last month's near heart attack. Still, it wasn't entirely bad--I met Cian, who is smart, funny, sexy as hell. Plus I like to hear him talk. Definitely a bonus.
Curfew's almost up, and I'll be heading off to work soon. I might stop by Bindings after work for a chai, but I'll be heading directly home after that. It's too close to the full moon to be out that late.