ten good things: all that dies is reborn, formless sinking into form

1) Hey, whaddaya know: Asking for help figuring out a thing results in figuring out the thing.

2) Wouldja look at that: Asking for help productivity a thing results in productivity the thing.

3) Related to #1 and #2: I have awesome friends. *hugs all y'all, and also all #yuletide, and a stray person who isn't reading this but who shall be personally hugged via email momentarily*

4) Dirty Dancing finale. Didn't see the rest of the movie, didn't care to, other things to do, but that finale is some fine dancing.

5) Afro Celt Sound System music. (Or Volume 1: Sound System and Volume 2: Release, anyway, I don't own any of their other albums yet.) Amazing how much easier it is to do uninteresting tasks with music going to distract the brain.

6) Visible progress tidying the basement!

7) Found my copy of Doris Orgel's We Goddesses. (On the shelf where it was supposed to be all along. Imagine that.) I knew Athena is a redhead, I just couldn't figure out where I knew it from. Any artwork that depicts her otherwise? Lies! Not lies on the level of depicting her with eyes any color but gray, but lies nonetheless. Though I have a suspicion that the artist for We Goddesses chose to make her a redhead solely so she, Aphrodite, and Hera would all be really easy to visually distinguish—Aphrodite is depicted as blonde and Hera as black-haired. (I have such fond memories of this book, which I first encountered in eighth grade. Suck Fairy hasn't even been by.)

8) Milano double chocolate cookies.

9) I cannot for the life of me recall, or identify, precisely what the scent of the square pink candle is (something floral, but that's as much as I've got), but it sure makes the room smell pretty.

10) I do not have to go acquire glass bowls with lids on account of I already have some—they're in the pile of "2014 Christmas gifts that idk what to do with between now and apartment-getting time", and the smallest of the set is the perfect size. (I think.)

11) For Tara - Hecate Chant by Sharon Knight. Actually, Sharon Knight full stop, and also SJ Tucker. Tucker's Blessings and Knight's Songs for the Strengthening Sun got me through the whole work week. ("For Tara - Hecate Chant" is actually on Strengthening Sun's companion album, Songs for the Waning Year. But that line's been stuck in my head and I'm not sure why.)

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Marie Kondo pointedly says words to the effect of "Don't let your parents see what you're getting rid of." This strikes me as a sensible tactic. So, knowing my mother, last night I emailed her this:

Subject: going to weed my wardrobe on Sunday, or else next weekend

And I would appreciate it if you did not look at the discards and say anything along the lines of "your sisters should go through this to see if they want anything" or "this should go in the garage sale pile" or really anything that impedes the progress of the discards from this house to the Goodwill donation station or alternately the trash bin. I have more clothes than clothing-storage space and the point of this exercise is to reduce the total volume of Stuff in this house--and I doubt I am attached enough to any clothes I have worn to unwearability, excepting the "Don't feed the bears" T-shirt/nightgown, to turn them in to quilt blocks or whatnot.

Her reply:

The community is doing a garage sale on May 16th, so there wouldn't be long to wait. I DO intend to go through what you are getting rid of, however, like it or not. You can put the basket or paper bags or whatever by the rocking chair in my room so they are out of your room.

Mother. The point. You have missed it.

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Oh come on self. 45 min till dinner-making time. Go do something useful. There's no shortage of things that need cleaning, and there's laundry to fold, and books and TV to consume...faffing about the Internet is not actually useful.

(pastitsio and garden salad, btw. all y'all omnivores, envy. I make tasty pastitsio.)

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Since silveradept asked, my dragons!

Sadly I am not sure I have the business card for either of the booths at the Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival where I got these...make that I might have the glassworker's business card (I'm not sure, I might have got this card at a local craft thing) but am pretty sure I don't have the pewtersmith's. I do however definitely have the honey place's card! (But they don't seem to sell the mead kits online, which will be sad should the kit I've got turn out excellently and should I then wish to duplicate the results.)