la_belle_laide | Beltane, tarot, trees and things, dogs, heaters, cycles and rings

Some Tarot I did last night, brief notes for future reference:

Arthurian

1 querent. 6 of spears inv
2. queen swords inv (always upright. you read these upside down the first time.) me
3 message higher self. queen spears (mom or gran)
4. subconscious the sun
5. past gave rise to present 5 spears
6. relations to others - fool inv
7. psych state effects outcome - 6 swords inv cycle of worry, travel delays
8. envir + unseen forces - 9 cups inv
9 hopes + fears - knight cups inv
10 outcome - judgment

Hudes

1. present or querent: empress
2. imm infl. just ahead: lovers ??
3. goal/dest : 2 pent inv literary ability among other things
4. dist past: hermit inv
5. recent past: 8 swords inv
6. future, broad: page wands inv
7. attitude / perspective: judgment
8. env, factors, forces: 7 cups
9. emotions, desire, fear: king wands inv
10. outcome if sitch stays the same: 8 cups

S'up 8 of swords inverted for recent past. Nice to see you, not. Look at all that major arcana; you can tell some big things have happened. And, yes, I did write "sitch." O_O

Mom and I went to our chiropractor today which is always great. On the way home we stopped at one of my favorite landscaping / garden places and I bought really cute chickens and hens (the plant, not the animals,) for my little Japanese sort of garden thingie thing. I also saw these ridiculously tremendous and gorgeous pink cherry trees with blossoms about as big as my fist, at least thirty on every branch and I fell right in love with them. Last year I told myself I wanted to get one cherry tree per year and eventually have a big cherry tree grove, my own sakura festival. ^_^ Well, we'll see.

It's rainy and foggy today just the way I like it, but the rain had tapered off when I got home so I took Haku for a jog. I've been going almost every day on this vacation, alternating dogs. Haku is obsessed with going jogging with me. When it's Sano's turn to go, Haku gets pissed and he barks and howls as we're leaving. When it's Haku's turn and he sees me getting my running shoes on, he starts whining and poking me with his nose, and then once I get him on the leash and we're out of the yard, he starts Snoopy-dancing. He keeps tossing his head and looking back over his shoulder at me like, "WE'RE OUT HERE, RIGHT, LOOK AT US, WE'RE GOING TO RUN, RIGHT MOMMY, LET'S GO!" Once we do start running he gets so happy.

Because it is Beltane today I took him to the beach where he promptly went insane out of his goddamn damaged little mind. At first we ran a little and then he started jumping around like a fool and I started laughing--I swear at this point we had to have shojo anime sparkles and bubbles around us--and then he just flipped out and started shoulder-checking me and jumping on me with his muddy paws, going around in little circles and just being a doofus. He jumped real high as he tried to bite a seagull that was a good fifteen feet overhead. It was cute, but then I was like, "All right, you're way too retarded, we're going home." But actually I started to get worried he was going to have a seizure. On our first run to the beach, he started fly-snapping at his back end like he does right before he throws a fit, and I got worried. Today is a record day for Haku, a full fifteen days without a seizure (*knock on wood, let's keep it going!*) Since he started, he's never gone more than 14 days. I hope the medicine is kicking in.

Well, I'm obviously not dancing around any poles or any bonfires unfortunately, but I am baking a bird cake and folding my laundry and, OH! It's possible that I could be getting a new stove! A nice new oven and stove, with a dedicated line so that I could really let loose with my mad cooking skillz! I'd be so happy.

Oh and yeah, remember how I was telling you guys all about my Gran's ring? The one where I had the stone replaced so I could fit Jo-chan's birth stone in there? (Actually my Mom and Dad did that for me. Thanks Mom and Dad.)
This is the ring:

(Gosh, my hands look so old and skeletal, don't they? Jeez. And I take such good care of them, too. When they're not punching things.) They couldn't do a pearl so they did alexandrite which is also June. It looks so pretty and it feels really nice. Although I must have a lot of salt in my diet because it only fits that finger (and my index finger) in the daytime. At night and early morning I have to switch it to my ring finger otherwise I won't be able to get it off. WTF.

So like I said, I went out with Mom today and when I saw both my parents this morning they were like, "Did you go to Grandma's last night and turn the heat on for Belle?" (Belle is the giant mastiff she left behind, she is kind of shared by everyone now although she can't go up and down any steps so she is alone a lot of the time; it makes me very sad but this is another long story.) Anyway, I was like, No, why would I turn on Gram's heat, maybe one of you guys did it and forgot? But they said neither of them did. I joked, "Maybe Gran turned it on for Belle after all," because Grandma was always cranking the heat (and then opening the windows when it got too hot!)

I don't know how the heat got on! I wish I could believe something really cool happened. But in reality, maybe it was just on the entire time and no one noticed. Or maybe someone turned it on a few days ago and they don't remember. I don't know.

So this is funny, I have been re-watching Sorcerer Hunters, an ooooold favorite of mine and one of my first anime shows that I really loved. I've also re-read the manga, too. I seem to remember

shikei_and_cz liked that one a lot, too. It is as much fun as I remember it being. I finally broke down and got the DVD set. I remember they started releasing it on DVD the day--the day--that I bought my last VHS of it. That always pissed me off. Anyway, I gave the VHS set to Jo-chan. I hope she likes it.

Wolverine comes out today (HUGE JACKEDMAN) but I'm going to give it a miss until next week when the crowds wear down. I hate crowded theaters with a bunch of goddamn obnoxious people; I swear one day I will punch some bitch in the cinema. Sometimes "SHHHHH! GOD!" just isn't enough. Yes, I get shirty with people who are noisy and rude at the movie theater. I've been known to throw Gummi Bears.

So, should I get that tree tomorrow or what? It's so much cheaper than I thought, but OTOH that job I was looking forward to got canceled and I haven't lined up any tutoring jobs yet. Sometimes I am so unconnected to reality. Soon I'll have my LMT license and I could be pulling 20-30 bucks an hour if I'm super lucky. But not yet.

Weee, it's raining again.

I never finished Okami. I should break that one out again.

Byebeeeeee!