Out and About

written: April 28

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Some gorgeous sunflowers I saw at Tom Thumb today when I went to pick up a prescription. I would have loved to have bought them, but money is tight here at the end of the month. Besides, I would rather grow my own at this point anyways. ::chuckles:: So I’ll have to find some similar to these sunflowers (the colors aren’t tweaked at all), and plant those next year.

I’m feeling better today. We had a lovely storm blow through around 7 am – thunder, lightning, and a ton of rain. Exactly what I was needing. Maybe yesterday’s restlessness was due, in part, to the incoming storm?

I completed my hour log for the Practicum class and turned that in. Just have the reflective paper left. And I’m running so friggin’ low on motivation currently. I just want to sleep and be lazy already. ::chuckles:: Gotta push through. Only two weeks left. I’ve got this. After that, then I can nap in the mornings before heading to work.

I ran around today, doing various, little errands. Honestly, I just needed out of the house for more than a hot minute. David was busy busting down part of the brick retaining wall, so it was a good time to be out of the house. I stopped in at Barnes & Nobel, telling myself I would NOT be getting a new journal until I fill up the ones I already have. Guess what I came home with? Yep, a NEW journal. ::laughs:: It’s the same style journal that I currently use for my BaBuJo (Bastardized Bullet Journal). Which, yes I do have a blank one for that already. BUT this one looks like white marble! So of course I had to buy it.

My left eye is still slightly swollen. And it keeps threatening to puff back up whenever I forget to take an allergy pill. So yeah, I’ve been eating Benadryl like they’re tic-tacs here. Man, I can’t wait until I can afford to go see an allergy specialist and figure out WHAT ALL exactly I am allergic to, and to begin immunotherapy to hopefully stop this type of reaction.

Now that my desk, soon to be converted over into an altar/sacred space, is put together, I need to focus on what needs to be done to it BEFORE I can start all of that.

It needs to be physically cleaned, top to bottom. Then it needs to be spiritually cleaned. This will be done in a few stages – rain water first, anointing oil, and then sage and either sweetgrass or palo santo smoke.