Icons and LJ Memories

I just bought a paid DW account, and now I have 100 icon slots.
This makes me very happy. 

I had three accounts on LJ and hundreds of icons.
I loved finding new icons as well as creating my own. I didn't have the ability to create gifs or do fancy lettering, but I liked taking images which I loved and found significant and reformatting them as icons.

I also have about a dozen icons which were made for me by friends, which I treasure. The one which made me smile the most this evening was a simple pail of water, which was made for me during my years of having a great deal of trouble with water, from my residence flooding repeatedly to water pipes breaking when I visited another work site. Fortunately, my days of struggling with water seem to be over.



It's been interesting to go back through those folders and decide which images I'm delighted to upload again, which no longer seem relevant, and which inspire more of a let's wait and see attitude.

QoS was my primary account on LJ, and I also had a very active sprituality/priestess account called ShadowAndStar. I'm not going to separate those topics here. I also had an erotic blog which I loved very much. . .  but since I don't have any erotic activity in my life right now, there's no reason to re-start it here. (*crosses my fingers hoping that will change one day)

Oooh! Question Time!

Taken from otter

How old are you?
54 - but I don't feel anywhere to that age

Tattoos?
One on my left upper arm: the runes Dagaz, Jera, and Mannaz, which are a combination of LM's and my initials

Ever hit a deer?
No, thank goodness

Ridden in an ambulance?
Once.

Sang karaoke?
Nope.

Ice skated?
I had lessons when I was a small child, inspired by Peggy Fleming, but I didn't do very well. I much prefer roller skating.

Ridden a motorcycle?
Not on my own.

Stayed in hospital?
Oh, yes. . . I've had multiple surgeries, and a caesarean birth which resulted in a two week stay.

Skipped school?
Only in college

Last phone call?
Wolfling

Last text from?
Wolfling

Watched someone die?
LM and my father.

Pepsi or Coke?
Diet Coke, which I drink far too much of

Favorite pie?
Chocolate cream

Favourite pizza?
Pepperoni and ham

Favourite season?
Fall

Broken bones?
Never

Received a ticket?
No. I've been stopped three times, but never ticketed

Favorite color?
Jewel tones: purple, royal blue, scarlet, emerald

Sunset or sunrise?
The stars

Why yes I'm procrastinating

It's Friday evening, almost 9:15.

I need to meditate, and I have to get up relatively early tomorrow morning and drive 45 miles for my masonic day: discussion group, then lunch, then setting up the lodge, 90 minutes or so of ritual/meeting, then taking down and packing up the lodge, then a 45 mile drive home.* But I'm sitting here at my computer making frivolous blog posts.

There's nothing wrong with frivolous blog posts, but this really isn't a good time for it.

But I'm happy to be here, and it feels good to be happy and frivolous again after so much time in darkness and grief.





* There may be a visit to a pirate bar before driving home. . .