Voted

Yep, I got up early (a truly herculean feat for me as of late) and went to our Municipal Building and cast my vote.  I took a book along (Demon: A Memoir by Tosca Lee) as I was expecting a long line.  Nope.  I didn't even have to wait.  I was in and out in under 6 minutes.  Smooth operating.  Now it's just a waiting game to see how the chips will fall in this election.

Depression has been running rampant in my head these past few weeks.  I'm sure if I had the ability, I would sleep 12 hours a day easily for months on end.  I've upped my medication and have seen some improvement, but not enough to banish the depression (and the desire to cut that always comes with it) completely.

This weekend is jammed packed with activities.  I'm exhausted just looking at it, to be honest, but they're all things I want to do.

Friday is an early release day for the students, so we report to work at NOON (instead of 2:15) and work until 6:30 pm.  The extra cash will be nice.  After work is Mike and Lillian's Halloween Party.  I was going to make something to take over there, but I'm just too exhausted (MoonTime started on Tuesday, which saps a lot of energy out of me).

Saturday is the Boardwalk Ferrari Fall Conscorso -- 60+ Ferraris on display and it's FREE to the public.  The next showing won't be until sometime in the Spring, so I would really like to go to this. 

Saturday night is the Coven's Samhain ritual.  This is the first time the Coven is having one, as we usually go to Raven's for her public ritual.  I always bow out of that because I'm just not a fan of public rituals and I think that Samhain isn't the best ritual to make public.  It's my favorite holy day and yet, I feel like most of the public wants to be there just in hopes of seeing something cool/creepy/spooky etc.  I just find it disrespectful.  *shrugs*

But after that, it's a nice quite Sunday, that I'm sure I'll sleep in until noon and just be an utter bum the rest of the day.

Snarls

Art: Leopard
Artist: Volodymyr Burdyak

Man, work is just one beat down after another.
Thankfully, my students....my coworkers....and my bosses are awesome.
Now if only I could get the other mother fuckers (insane parents and asshole PTA volunteers) on board, then it would all be gravy baby.

But I am not holding my breath.
Nor betting on that horse to cross the finish line any time soon.

None of the places I've applied for a pharmacy have called me back.  No nibble on my bait what-so-ever.
So I might just have to through Anthem College and pay my $15k to break into this job field up here.

David's job is eating him alive, ever so slowly.  He's so miserable.
He's looking into being a physical therapist assistant, and gradually working his way up to being an actual physical therapist.

We're just not sure how we are going to be able to afford it financially.  It's going to be expensive.  Plus, with Anthem College, I have to do like 9 months of full time UNPAID internship.  That's 9 months, where David is having to carry the full weight of our bills and living expenses. 

I dunno which path is right one at the moment. 
Jump or not jump, that is the question.

Seriously.
If I were allowed to backhand just a handful of bitches each month, it would seriously fix so many of the problems at my current job.
And I'm not greedy.  Just let me slap one bitch a month.  I'd be fine with that.

New Photos of Leviathan

Just some new photos of Leviathan.  She's been out and about in her tank, making for some nice photos.


I love the reflection in the glass.


I liked this one where she was using herself as a pillow.


A nice smile.


Another nice smile.


Not quite all the way under her turtle shell (cement) hide....and the barest tip of her tongue out.  :D

Thankful Thursday....er....Friday!

ART: Gerda 3
ARTIST: silverwing_sparrow

Wow.  Who knew caribou had such large feet?  I know I didn't.

I am thankful:

1. that this work week is over and was relatively sane.
2. hilarious students that always give me a good laugh.
3. rediscovering a book (Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries) that I had given up for lost.
4. serious drop in temperature -- our high tomorrow is only 53!  Woohoo!
5. nice, long, three-day weekend.  I'm planning to hit the zoo on Sunday.
6. finding a number of interesting groups of MeetUp.com.  I've found some photography groups and wildlife groups that I plan to check out soon.
7. working on sanding down a bit of my athame's handle.  I've found out that I really enjoy working with my hands.  Wish I could do more of that.
8. working in Annette's journal at the moment for a quick little swap I'm hosting. 
9. David took part of yesterday and part of today off, so it was nice to hang out with him a bit before I had to go to work.
10. great check-in with my psychiatrist.  I go back in December and at that point I'm going to ask about checking-in every 6 months instead of every 3 months.

3rd Year Anniversary

David came up to me and said he needed to borrow my purple ring. He took off with it and came back with a jewelry box and said "Happy anniversary!"

Inside it was my purple ring. He was just nice enough to let me wear it all this time. *laughs*

Man I love my husband!

Wolf Scratch Art

I finished up this scratch-art project last night.
It was a kit that I picked up at Michael's craft store. 
I worked on it probably about a week and a half.  And I'm damn proud of it.
I think it turned out very nicely.
I'll have to go back on payday and see what else they have!

I'm slowly breaking the idea that i have that I'm not artistic.  Maybe one of these days I'll be able to do a similar piece, 100% on my own.  I would love that. 
Need to check out some books on drawing/sketching from the library and get to work!  *smiles*

Goddess Protect Me

Goddess be with me today.
Protect me from lies, dishonesty, and vicious negativity.
I ask should these be directed at me
or my staff
that they simply be reflected back
to the sender.

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To say that this has been a hellacious school year would be just scratching the surface.  I've refrained from writing about it because I'm doing my best not to dwell on it.

That, and I'm already having to document it for work, and I just have no desire to continue to beat that dead horse.
Beat the parents that are maliciously LYING?  Sure, I'd be more than happy to do that.
It's just that having assault on my record would greatly limit my career opportunities, so I restrain myself.

Today is that day that the most vicious liar usually comes in to pick up her child.  It's also the ONLY day of the week that she picks him up.  Every other day, it's either the step-father figure or one of four family friends.

This is the one claiming I'm a racist, that I'm bullying her child, that I'm encouraging my staff to bully him, that I protect pedophiles, and everything under the sun that falls into that realm.  Luckily for me, I've documented all of this AND have witnesses that can testify for all the various times she's changed her story.  I've requested that she, my boss, and I all sit down and see if we could get all the facts out at once and clear the air.  She flat out told my boss that's never going to happen because she is just too busy.  *shakes her head*  Which is fine by me, because I have not desire to sit down with this woman and have her lie straight to my face.

At least now I know where her son gets it.  Luckily, he's just as poor a liar as she is.

I've applied for pharmacy jobs through Wallgreens and Target.
Walmart doesn't have any in the area.  I still need to apply through CVS.  And then begin looking at the hospitals.  I want OUT of child care.  Let someone else deal with that stupid cunt.

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This past Saturday, we all met up at Kiranae's house for Mabon.  It was a lovely ritual.  Very personally moving.
Imagine my shock when I heard from Rose (our High Priestess) on Monday, that Kiranae's house had burned to the ground.
Kiranae was at home at the time, but got out safely.  She got three of her four dogs out too.  Sadly, Bailey didn't make it.  The firemen pulled him out (he's an old Yorkie) and were giving him CPR and trying to revive him, but Kiranae finally stopped them and told them he was gone.

She is AMAZINGLY upbeat about the whole situation.

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And I think that's pretty much it that I wanted to touch base on.
I need to get better about writing.
I'm just REALLY enjoying not having the Morning Pages looming over me any more.
I've begun looking at what it's going to cost for me to make the beaded wrap/case for my athame.  I'm really enjoying that.  *smiles*  Can't wait to get started.