Words of Wisdom and Joy

Things have been rough all over lately. Folks on my friends list have been having awful struggles, and I've been none too cheery myself lately.

I read the following on transfiguration's journal, and thought that it merited repeating. After outlining just how tough things have been recently for herself and many of those around her, she wrote the following:

So. Everybody. Do it for me, do it for yourselves, do it for the people who love you best and want to see you make it to January in one joyful piece.

Change your luck.

Do it in whatever way makes sense to you. Make a perfect cup of tea and revel in the bliss of that for a moment. Take a moment to be grateful for the fact that, even though things are tight, you still are getting by. Snuggle your loved ones, your animals, your Complete Works of Shakespeare, whatever you adore and is in reach, and hold onto it. Hold it like a star before you and let it guide you for a little while--it, and not the weary hours and the fretting and the cracks. The cracks were ever there, and ever shall be, and the cracks are not the point anyway. (The wise man said, there is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.)

As for me, I think there's a perfect platinum watch fob out there somewhere, and I still have my hair.


And God/dess bless us, everyone!

Posted via Gadget

Posted via gadget. . . We'll see if it lasts. . .


ETA via Laptop: Nope. Logged out. Logged in to another account here, then the gadget went back to error messages!

However I've just ordered a handset upgrade to the latest and greatest device, which uses a higher end part of the spectrum and evidently does not have these problems. We'll see how it goes. .

High Wind Warnings

The Ex just called to ask if I'd seen the warnings of 30-40mph winds tomorrow, with gusts of up to 70mph. No, that bit hadn't registered with me.

He's going to pick up Wolfling this afternoon and take her to his place, since that house has never lost power, even in a couple of really big storms where the rest of the region was out.

I'm probably going to take shelter with my parents to ride it out. Their house is smaller and takes less power to heat. I'll bring lots of blankets.

But if the power goes out, I'll be cut off from LJ for a few days. I'll have my gadget for as long as stand-by power lasts.

Hopefully it won't be that bad, but one never knows. . . .

Despite the Userpic. . .

I am not actually drunk.

I would rather like to be, however.

No particular reason save that I'm home alone, and it's dark and cold and I've been listening to music that's disturbing me all kinds of different ways for the past two+ hours.

Unfortunately -- or fortunately -- I gave the last of my vodka to Tiwaz on Tuesday night and the liquor stores are all downhill and several miles beyond.

The storm isn't scheduled to hit until tomorrow, my Wolfling is secure with her dad, and my refugee houseguest is safely home. The work week is over, my boss is pleased with me, and I got a $25 gift card and a thank you note in the mail because the managers in my group think highly of my "curiosity" and my ability to ask great questions. All of which is good, but still I'm thinking that there's no rest in sight. I'm stressed about the storm to come, of Christmas shopping left undone. None of my Christmas cards are even started. Again. And I still have lots of calls to score to get good data.

I've been out of sorts most of this week, and the last couple of days have done nothing to help that.

I need a Cntrl-Alt-Reset button, please.



And just now I'm remembering my quote from transfiguration about finding moments of bliss. . . *sigh

Time to curl up in my blankets with some authentic self-nurturing something.

I would like to be able to snuggle my Wolfling.

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