A story about witchcraft and cycles, and some funny pictures.

GODDAMN! Every time I think I'm done with my holiday shopping, I'm still nowhere near the frigging end of it! I keep forgetting little thises and thats, and bags, too. I'm not wrapping anything this year. Eff wrapping, everything is going into a bag.

It snowed today! Not enough to stick to the ground, but enough to make everyone in the store go "WOW!" and stop to look out the window. I was in the grocery store, Wild By Nature, in the tea aisle, and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" was playing. Ridiculously, I love this song. My favorite line came on: "Through the years we all will be together, if the Fates allow / Hang a shining star upon the highest bough...." when all of a sudden the clouds opened and snow started falling heavily. Seriously, many people in the store stopped shopping to watch.

Completely on a different subject, I've been wondering if I should write about this one thing or not. I decided to because it demonstrates so much about the way things happen in cycles, in in retrospect, for a reason--or at least so I like to tell myself.

Last May, as most of you know, I got fired in a really scummy way by my ex boss. Long story superfly short: Some really gross and evil people came into that place, sexually harassed, and put their hands on one of the workers, who was too scared to make a report. I mentioned it to some friends on what I thought was a secure site and asked for their advice. I never mentioned where I work or anything. Someone who was lurking there thought it a good idea to go to the web page of those disgusting people (which I had linked in my LJ right here, about an incident that had nothing whatsoever to do with work,) after which they called my ex-boss who told me that they were giving him "too much of a headache" over me and it was just in his best interest to fire me. You know, in order to get them off his case.

Well, a few weeks ago, the "anonymous" person came forward to admit she had done it, and tell me she was sorry. She recently lost her job of nine years, too, and she brought up the idea of karma. Ideas of witchcraft and the Threefold Law were tossed about, too, though not by me. (Although yes, I am a Witch. I realize that sometimes, even though I lapse a lot. But I never did anything to her on purpose, to retaliate.) I accepted her apology and offered her my good will and my thanks, because she was the catalyst for getting me out of a job as stagnant and toxic as a sewage dump. (Stagnant and toxic to me, because of the way I was being treated by some people there. Other people I think highly of are still there and still thriving, and that's awesome for them.) If not for her, then I might still be there, instead of getting cool notebooks and wondering if I will put stuff in a locker etc. and all this other mad, crazy stuff I never thought I'd be doing again.

Because she admitted what she did, and took responsibility and because she apologized, well, she has my good will and wishes. Perhaps she will find something better too, since she got fired as well.

But the gross, evil people, and my ex boss? I have no forgiveness or good will towards them. The gross, evil people, well, they are not sorry for being the scum that they are or treating the people the way they do. I don't think they even get it. And my ex boss, well, I'll bet he still thinks he did the right thing, too, or will justify it in some way. Plus, there are certain people who, after a certain amount of time and service, you expect to at least have your back.

I am not what you'd call a practicing Witch; that is to say, even though I observe all the cycles (seasonal ones and circumstantial ones like the one I just described,) I don't often do actual spells. I used to, but not so much anymore. Maybe spells are a formality, or maybe they are just practice for your willpower. When I did used to do spells, my best ones were binding, banishing and reflecting. (I always failed at money, love, luck and success ones.) With this in mind, I can't help but believe that the gross, evil people and my ex boss will deal with this sooner or later. I don't think I even have to do anything; I think it will just happen. People like that always seem to screw themselves up anyway. To quote the movie "The Mummy:" "Nasty little fellows such as yourself always get their comeuppance. Always." And when they do, I will read about it, and I'll laugh my fool pagan head off.

On a completely other other subject, I made this dumb, funny Vincent Valentine thing for hyenarave: ( Clicky the cut )

The text is from this enlightening bit of Engrish. I swear if I ever get to go to Japan (WHEN, I should say,) I'll go just for the Engrish and I'll probably buy it all up. Well anyway, when Jo-chan and I were re-playng FFVII a few weeks ago and Vincent had a big scene, all of a sudden we both thought of "your sadness is very sexy, strong, fragile man" and I couldn't stop laughing.

That's my leettle update for today.

Oh, and Alba's Un-petroleum cherry lip balm is the best thing ever. Ever. It's even slightly better than hyperbole itself, which is better than god.
ETA: I decided I needed a witchy icon for posts like this, so I nabbed one of my favorite Waterhouses. By the way, I look so much like this painting that it's just plain sick.

ETA2 so as not to LJ Spam: I just got a MySpace message from my 11 year old cousin.
I made you a poem ready?




Roses are red.
Old cheese is green
You dont know how much you mean to me!

xoxoxoxoxoxo

AWWWWW!

A story about witchcraft and cycles, and some funny pictures.

GODDAMN! Every time I think I'm done with my holiday shopping, I'm still nowhere near the frigging end of it! I keep forgetting little thises and thats, and bags, too. I'm not wrapping anything this year. Eff wrapping, everything is going into a bag.

It snowed today! Not enough to stick to the ground, but enough to make everyone in the store go "WOW!" and stop to look out the window. I was in the grocery store, Wild By Nature, in the tea aisle, and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" was playing. Ridiculously, I love this song. My favorite line came on: "Through the years we all will be together, if the Fates allow / Hang a shining star upon the highest bough...." when all of a sudden the clouds opened and snow started falling heavily. Seriously, many people in the store stopped shopping to watch.

Completely on a different subject, I've been wondering if I should write about this one thing or not. I decided to because it demonstrates so much about the way things happen in cycles, in in retrospect, for a reason--or at least so I like to tell myself.

Last May, as most of you know, I got fired in a really scummy way by my ex boss. Long story superfly short: Some really gross and evil people came into that place, physically harassed one of the workers who was too scared to make a report. I mentioned it to some friends on what I thought was a secure site and asked for their advice. I never mentioned where I work or anything. Someone who was lurking there thought it a good idea to go to the web page of those disgusting people (which I had linked in my LJ right here, about an incident that had nothing whatsoever to do with work,) after which they called my ex-boss who told me that they were giving him "too much of a headache" over me and it was just in his best interest to fire me. You know, in order to get them off his case.

Well, a few weeks ago, the "anonymous" person came forward to admit she had done it, and tell me she was sorry. She recently lost her job of nine years, too, and she brought up the idea of karma. Ideas of witchcraft and the Threefold Law were tossed about, too, though not by me. (Although yes, I am a Witch. I realize that sometimes, even though I lapse a lot. But I never did anything to her on purpose, to retaliate.) I accepted her apology and offered her my good will and my thanks, because she was the catalyst for getting me out of a job as stagnant and toxic as a sewage dump. (Stagnant and toxic to me, because of the way I was being treated by some people there. Other people I think highly of are still there and still thriving, and that's awesome for them.) If not for her, then I might still be there, instead of getting cool notebooks and wondering if I will put stuff in a locker etc. and all this other mad, crazy stuff I never thought I'd be doing again.

Because she admitted what she did, and took responsibility and because she apologized, well, she has my good will and wishes. Perhaps she will find something better too, since she got fired as well.

But the gross, evil people, and my ex boss? I have no forgiveness or good will towards them. The gross, evil people, well, they are not sorry for being the scum that they are or treating the people the way they do. I don't think they even get it. And my ex boss, well, I'll bet he still thinks he did the right thing, too, or will justify it in some way. Plus, there are certain people who, after a certain amount of time and service, you expect to at least have your back.

I am not what you'd call a practicing Witch; that is to say, even though I observe all the cycles (seasonal ones and circumstantial ones like the one I just described,) I don't often do actual spells. I used to, but not so much anymore. Maybe spells are a formality, or maybe they are just practice for your willpower. When I did used to do spells, my best ones were binding, banishing and reflecting. (I always failed at money, love, luck and success ones.) With this in mind, I can't help but believe that the gross, evil people and my ex boss will deal with this sooner or later. I don't think I even have to do anything; I think it will just happen. People like that always seem to screw themselves up anyway. To quote the movie "The Mummy:" "Nasty little fellows such as yourself always get their comeuppance. Always." And when they do, I will read about it, and I'll laugh my fool pagan head off.

On a completely other other subject, I made this dumb, funny Vincent Valentine thing for hyenarave: ( Clicky the cut )

The text is from this enlightening bit of Engrish. I swear if I ever get to go to Japan (WHEN, I should say,) I'll go just for the Engrish and I'll probably buy it all up. Well anyway, when Jo-chan and I were re-playng FFVII a few weeks ago and Vincent had a big scene, all of a sudden we both thought of "your sadness is very sexy, strong, fragile man" and I couldn't stop laughing.

That's my leettle update for today.

Oh, and Alba's Un-petroleum cherry lip balm is the best thing ever. Ever. It's even slightly better than hyperbole itself, which is better than god.
ETA: I decided I needed a witchy icon for posts like this, so I nabbed one of my favorite Waterhouses. By the way, I look so much like this painting that it's just plain sick.

ETA2 so as not to LJ Spam: I just got a MySpace message from my 11 year old cousin.
I made you a poem ready?




Roses are red.
Old cheese is green
You dont know how much you mean to me!

xoxoxoxoxoxo

AWWWWW!