Autumn!

I love autumn. There is something about the dying days of summer that just suck the life out of me, but as soon as the air turns cooler, even the crisp dry grass doesn't phase me anymore! I'm out dancing in the rain - oh wait... that's monsoon season here. Which means water under my house. (I checked this morning and indeed, there was MUD!)

But I digress. What was I saying? Oh yes. Autumn. I love the changing of the seasons, ALL of them. I love every single one of them, winter included.  Fall has something special though... perhaps it's the colors?

Or perhaps it's the cool air? The nights get chilly and my air conditioner doesn't have to stay on all night. I can just open windows and already I'm having to close them around midnight or else we get too cold. So nice!

There is something else too, in that fall sabbats are my favorite! Mabon! And Samhain! Dia de los Muertos! I'm so excited!

I haven't quite decided what to be for Samhain this year. I'm tired of being a vampire. It's a great costume idea, but everyone's been seeing me in a vampire costume for 15 years. That's a LONG LONG TIME. O_O

So the ideas are: A witch? (hahaha, but good witch or bad witch and as yet I do not have a proper black hat)

A slave? (Master's suggestion, but it's a dead giveaway, no thanks! Small towns suck for that!)

Last but not least, I would like to try out a sugar skull face decoration, for Samhain, not Dia de los Muertos (I doubt very much I'd get away with it at work for long). Sugar skull face. Yup. Very cool and I like it! Check it out...

Yup. I love that. There are lots of sugar skull face decoration ideas too. Ahhhh Catalina...

However you look at it, the death of summer is not such a bad thing. The sabbats remind us of the wheel of life, the ever changing seasons, death being part of the cycle. So here is to the death of summer, the end of the year, Mabon, Samhain, Dia de los Muertos and the beginning of the cycle once again!

What Have You Done For Me Lately?

I've gotta say it. The past few months have felt like I'm sitting in the penalty box at a hockey game. (Complete with bloody nose, blacked eye, and all the trappings that come with a good hockey game!) No, I don't have any of those, at least not physically. Emotionally, however, I'm bushed.

No. Literally. Bushed. BUSHED. As in George Dubya. That's right. Master and I are in knee deep. Mucking through the bullshit and mire caused by George Dubya's lovely action plans regarding travel in this United States. And as we wade, we have discovered that we have PATIENCE.


What? What's that, you say? "Patience is a virtue" ??? Seriously? I call bullshit on this. For this one occasion I'd like to at least point out that traveling to any other country in the world does not call for restrictions against anything you've done wrong ever ever ever... EXCEPT the United States. United, my ass. But that's another story for another day.

OK. Venting notwithstanding, I must add that I am reeling from the email this morning. I am really going to have to find a nice way of insulting that lovely woman whilst thanking her for her services when this is all done and overwith. In the meantime, jam out on this...

That's right. Halloween is right around the bend. And I will say it now. GODDAMMIT nobody but NOBODY is gonna mess with my Halloween festivities. Mabon is so very soon and we are readying ourselves for that, but me... I'm DEFINITELY onto the Halloween stuff. Oh yeah. My favorite holiday. What's the catch? Well, it's another Halloween without my Master present.

Speaking of Master, He is fine and dandy, albeit a bit pissy with the lovely lady I mentioned earlier. But I digress...

Halloween, Samhain, this is simply my most favorite holiday of every year. Being a witch means it is the end and a beginning all in one. Isn't that interesting... technically I get two New Year's. Too bad I'm not Chinese, then I'd have three. :P

Nuff said. Let's get on with the show.

I'm not THAT good. Not enough patience. Besides the fact it would scare the bejesus out of my kid. So let's try one of these?

That's more my speed.

Hasta! Have a wonderful September. Don't let "The Man" (or the bitchy woman - haha) get you down!