Tricket's Journal

I changed hosts about two months ago because they offered so much more for the price. But I have had nothing but problems since the change and I've just about "had a butt full!"

My email is down again.... and all of my links to access my website are also down. Changing host companies can be such a pain in the ass. I keep hoping that they get things straightened out.

Anyway, today is not such a great day.... my back is fucking killing me. Mornings are always a bitch, but lately it's been .... well, way worser!

Love that expression.... bad english... but it says it how I feel!

Today is not so great.... tomorrow is another day!

Well, well, well... I renewed my membership for my journal, so I will start posting again.

I have made a commitment to start using my journal. I feel that writing may help me sort out some feelings and issues that seem to keep me from being happy. I just never seem to get there. Part of my problem is ... I take on too much. I have my fingers dipped in just every little thing I can. I need to concentrate on finishing one thing at a time. It is causing me a great deal of stress and unhappiness. There seems to be no balance in most everything I am doing lately. I get so excited about everything... that I just want to do it all at the same time.... and I can't! Being a libra... good Goddess... I am driving myself nutso. I must have balance... or I go haywire!

So, from now on. I will try and improve this kaotic pattern that I am in. One day at a time ... one issue at a time.... one thing at a time.... please!

All in all .... is a blah day!

Well, I haven't been here for a while. Entirely too busy! And I don't see any change in that soon. But that's okay....

One of the things that has kept me so busy is redesigning the Witches of Solstice Moon Newsletter. I must say... it turned out beautiful. I'm happy and that's saying a lot. Cause I'm so damn picky. It's that Libra thang! Perfection and balance... the two things that drive me most nuts! :o)

This Friday, we leave for West Virginia for a week on vacation. I'm so excited I can't hardly stand myself because I have never been east of the Rockies. What an adventure!

During this week, I get to ride on a big sale ship and tour the harbor of Newport News area. I am going to Jamestown and Yorktown to see re-creations of a Powhatan Village. Which is the heart of where Pocahontas was born and lived as a young girl. This holds enormous interest for me.... being she is my 10th great grandmother. How exciting this will be for me!

Well, kinda burned out and need to go to bed.

Today, has been a busy day and an awesome day!

Just a quick post for today. Finally.... got those wedding flowers done. Shipped them to Idaho and they arrived safely and intact. Thank the Goddess!!! Hee Hee

Tomorrow I leave for Idaho to attend the wedding and be with all of my family... I am truly excited. I miss everyone so.

There has been so much going on lately that I have been incredibly busy. That's a good thing! Anyway, I have been creating a sister website to my existing one which will be more for shopping resources and a lot of other fun things of interest. It's going to be a while coming though. But I do finally have my format figured out.

For my main graphic on this site, I found the most beautiful print called "Crescent Moon" by Ed Org. The moment I found it, I knew without a doubt it must be the one to use on my new website. Then.... I went a step further and located the print through a Gallery in England.... which is where the artist lives and I purchased it. The fellow who owns the Gallery is such a nice man. I have corresponded with him several times through emails and somehow I feel a connection there. One of those "sense" things.... I guess!

Anyway, not only did I find the print and was able to purchase it.... but I think I found a new friend. :o)

All in all..... it's an awesome day!

Thank Goddess.... I am done with the wedding flowers! And I must say... they turned out beautiful. They are really traditional. Which personally, I like more natural... but then it's not my wedding.

Back to my life now. I love doing the flowers, but I am such a perfectionist that they must be perfect or I am not happy. Sometimes, that's a bummer and I cause myself unnecessary stress.

Anyway, just wanted to post that I am done with the flowers and waaaaaay happy!

It's an awesome day!

Feeling much better. Although still somewhat sore! Better than it was though. Hate that throbbing shit.

Received my Fairy Oracles today. I am so excited to learn all about them. I've decided to put a page on my website about the Oracles and put a link to Froud's website for online Oracle readings. Too cool!

I will make a special graphic to give credit to Brian and Wendy Froud for allowing me to use their beautiful artwork and link to the Oracles. I love their fairies and fairy books.

Also, got my new alter pentacle. I ordered it from Crystal Caverns. She's awesome to do business with. It's beautiful... made by Dryad.

I started working on those damn flowers again today. Man, what a job. It's starting to wear me out. I'll be glad when they are done.

Overall... today is an okay day!

WOW! Major bummer at the dentist. Man, I hate when things get tricky with your teeth. My teeth are beautiful.... but it has not been an easy road. I was in so much pain last night that I didn't even go to bed... just sat up and ate pain killers. The pain never really did go away, I just got so stupid... I didn't know if I was up - down - sideways or what!

I do feel somewhat better today. Haven't even worked on the wedding flowers for a couple days... haven't felt like it. But I need to bust ass on them in the next week.

Updated a few things on my website. I always find things to critique. Never fails.

Anyway, all in all .... it's been a shitty day!

Went to the dentist today......enough said!

Still working on wedding flowers. Although, I feel like I am making a lot progress. I'm almost half done. They are turning out so beautifully. Tiffany, my niece whom I am doing the flowers for, is going to be really surprised at how beautiful they are going to be. Her colors are white roses, lavender dahlias, pink buttercups and a few accent flowers with rainbow colored pearls and fairy dust. Too Cool! I'm so pleased.

I just need to ramp it up and get them done, so I can ship them off to Idaho before her wedding June 1st. There shouldn't be a problem.

Two celebrations today...Beltane and my hubby's BD. I put fresh spring flowers around and lit green and white candles today. Burned a little incense and worshipped the Goddess and God.

Today is an excellent day!

Not too much going on this Sunday. Just thinking about Wednesday, May 1st... hubby's BD and Beltane. I have been preparing a celebration for both.

Still working on wedding flowers. This is the third wedding in a year that I have done flowers for my nieces. No more weddings please... at least for a while... I'm kinda getting a bit burnt out.

Hopefully, tomorrow will bring some energy my way. Today has been a laid back day. That's okay... sometimes I need an easy day.

All in all... it's a good day!

This is the first time I have used my journal for a while. I wanted to pay for a full membership with LiveJournal... I've done that, so I can use it for some time now.

Been busy... went to Idaho for three weeks and it sure is nice to be home. I missed my boys, hubby and dogs. Now I just need to settle back in and start on some projects that I have put off for a while. I did start some creative work yesterday... starting to make my niece's wedding flowers. They need to be done in the next couple weeks so I can mail them off to Idaho. This is the third wedding I've done since last August. I have three more nieces' who are not married... sure hope they wait awhile. I've just about had a butt full of wedding flowers.

I've been thinking about getting back into my watercolouring. I need to.

Anyway,three things at a time... hee hee.

Overall....it's a good day!

Haven't been here for a while. So much going on with the birth of two great niece's, Mama and Daddy visiting, and then I got sick. Caught this nasty cold somewhere. It's the first time I have had a cold in about eight years. Guess my resistance has been down a bit. I'd like to cough myself to death. :o(

I haven't done much with my site or anything. Sure hope I get to feeling better soon. Up early cause I can't sleep. Took a bunch of drugs for my cold and try to lay down again.

Other than being sicko....it's a good day!

I just finished reading a private entry in my Guestbook. It really touched me. I love how some people can share feelings of depth. I don't respond to everyone who writes in my Guestbook, but sometimes I feel like I need to respond...or want to respond, I should say.

Life and all that that entails is so dimensional. It is so deep...and I love going there with my mind, body and soul.

Kinda rambling tonight...but that's okay. If you don't ramble and seek and try to reason feelings out, you'll never find the answers.

Jenni, my darling niece and friend had her baby Thursday. We all welcome our blessed Madilyn (Madi). I have not seen her, but I know she must be perfect. I know her parents...such kindred spirits...Dave and Jenni giving life to this precious being. I give my heartfelt love and blessings.

I cannot wait to see her. Perhaps I can travel to Idaho in March. I will plan on this.

May the Goddess and God watch over her throughout her life and may she have fulfilled dreams and wishes come true.

It's a good day.

It's been kinda nice to sell some things on eBay again. A couple of my auctions didn't sell for the reserved price I wanted, so I relisted them again today. Sometimes it's hard to get out of something what you have into it. I know when I shop on these auction sites, I definitely want the best deal I can find. It can be a lot of work. Especially, cause I have to dress up my auction pages with backgrounds and graphics. Not a lot, but just enough to make it interesting and fun. For the past year, I have used GeoCities to load and save my auction pages, graphics and pictures. It's worked pretty good so far until I got a message from GeoCities yesterday telling me that they shut it down because it was getting too much traffic. Even though I still had 11 MB left to use. What's up with that? Pissed me off! I sent them an email and told them that I needed to finish my auctions and to please leave it alone at least until then, so it doesn't screw me up with eBay. I also told them that after all is said and done, I will close my account with GeoCities. I have my own web domain and I don't need it. It was just easier to keep my website and ebay separate. But I loaded everything up onto my domain and it works better and faster anyway. So *#@^ em!!!

Other than that....it's a good day!

I've decided today, that I am going to finish all those crafting things that I have started and not finished. And if I have lost complete interest in it...sell it or get rid of it. I am notorious for starting crafts and not finishing them. Not everything I start, but most. I guess it depends on whether or not I get bored easily with it. I definitely have my favorites. The sewing (sewing machine sewing)...most of it has got to go. I just never cared for it...even though I always did it. One thing though, I am going to make myself a "cloak". I just need to find the right material. I have the right pattern and it's wonderful, just what I want.

It's about keeping myself busy, I suppose. Since we moved here to Arizona about 1 1/2 years ago, I have gone through many changes. I like it here, but I miss my home....Idaho and I miss my people. Arizona is beautiful and people overall are friendly. I just haven't met many kindred spirits that I feel I can be friends with. I've never been one to go out and solicit friends, I guess that's part of my being such a solitary. Always have been...always will be. And that's not a bad thing. Just sometimes a lonely thing.

Even thought there is a bit of melancholy here today.....

It's a good day!

Today, I started listing a few things on ebay again. There are so many books that I want, I decided to sell some things that are just hanging around and not really being used. I have decided that if I haven't used something in a year...get rid of it! I am such a pack rat. I keep everything. Sometimes it's hard to let go, but it's best to just clean out once in awhile and maybe start new. In other words, get rid of old shit, so I can by more new shit. Then a year from now I can start all over again. Weird concept.

I have been preparing for my Imbolc ritual. Saturday, I will be visiting with my folks and will not have time to spend spiritual time in a ritual. Therefore, I have decided to celebrate tomorrow...Friday. Imbolc this year is very important to me because I am getting rid of old...not just material things, but all that is old and negative and serves no purpose in my life. A good time to start anew.

I have been working on my Book of Shadows for some time now and chose to make my own paper for it. This has been quite a job. But I feel the preparation will be worth while. The usual parchment that most Witches put in their books is just to thin and it just doesn't hold much magick for me.

It's a good day!

This morning, I have been working on my web site, tweaking it. It never fails when you think everything is working okay...you forgot some link somewhere. Broken links are a drag and I have to drop everything to correct it immediately. It drives me nuts! I guess that's part of being such a perfectionist...sometimes it can be a hinder. Other times, it gets me what I want..the way I want it. I talked to my sisters in Idaho today...sure do miss them. Thank goodness for computers..at least we can communicate without it costing two arms and a half a leg.

It's a rainy day today. Good day to stay inside, build a fire and be creative. Imbolc will be Saturday, the 2nd...I will prepare for my ritual. White daisies, white candles and a few other things to make it magickal.

Having a good day!

Trying Out My New Journal
I just signed up with "Live Journal" today. I thought it would be fun to have a place to put down my thoughts each day and if someone wants to respond to those thoughts, great!

Today started out rather early. My boys..Amos and Andy (my dalmations) woke me up wanting to go outside. They heard something and would not leave me alone until I got up and let them out. It was only a few Doves visiting the backyard. Silly boys!! Oh, well..time for a good cup of strong coffee.

This is it for now..just trying it all out to see if it's what I want.

Having a great day!

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