Whine cellar

Friday evening hub and I went to see Bob's play. It was somewhat disjointed at the first half, but seemed to come together quite a bit in the second. Apparently at every show there've been people that don't come back after the intermission, and they've assumed it was because they were offended. I'm thinking people didn't realize that it was an intermission, and figured the play was over. But even just the first half was plenty interesting, and the whole thing gave one many things to think about. It seemed to poke at an issue I'm constantly struggling with, my job.

It's another beautiful spring day and I'm spending it in an office. You know, when I was single and living in a crappy apartment in a bad part of town, it was a lot easier for me to spend 10 hours a day at my job, working overtime ever week- what else was I going to be doing? I might as well make some money. Now my non-work life has improved immeasurably in so many ways since then- it really gets difficult to do this. It's especially hard on days like today- beautiful, hub's at home, yesterday was so busy I didn't have time to relax much... I was very tempted to call in sick, but no, gotta earn that kibble. *sigh* I need a vacation. I need to inherit a bunch of money. I need for money to be abolished and everyone do trade and barter. I need to be at home in bed with my sweetie. All y'all thinking I need to suck it up and deal because everyone has to do this, you're right but screw you anyway. My journal, I get to bitch in it.

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"The average Canadian has one testicle, just like Adolph Hitler -- or, more precisely, the average Canadian has 0.96 testicles, an even sadder plight than Hitler's, if the average Anything actually existed." -Timothy F.X. Finnegan

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One of my long-time Dedicants went through Initiation last night. It went well. There were a few glitches but considering this is only the second time ever I've done this ritual, it's amazing it went as well as it did, because it's pretty complex. Most of the specifics are oathbound, and I wish I could talk about it more- but suffice it to say, he went through it magnificently and I was very happy and excited for him- the anticipation's been building up for days (well, a month to be precise) and I'm happy with the results. I hope he is too; he is a very polite person, and even wrote me a thank you note afterward, but he's hard for me to read. I could be looking for trouble too, so I'm not going to dig too deep.

The other Initiate and I have very, um, strong personalities and we've both promised that we're going to try really hard not to roll over this guy and take advantage of his sweet nature and willingness to go along with what other people want. He strikes me as someone who is used to his opinion not mattering; that will have to change, though, because he now makes up 33.333333333% of our inner court and his opinion is really important!

Here's what a treasure this guy is- he has made a banner for our group that he embroidered himself, on beautiful dark blue velvet with metallic thread, beaded fringe, and sparkly sequins. He presented it to us during the ritual. He's a Sag, for those of you into astrology- ruled by Jupiter, planet of expansion and generosity. I can believe it.

Oh, and we both ended our fast last night. We feasted the newest Initiate with sushi, home made minestrone, hand-picked greens salad, garlic bread, chocolate lava cake, calabacitas, cookies, and mead. I was stuffed and exhausted afterwards. I think I got sugar overload- my insides feel a little wonky and I feel pretty run-down this morning. But overall I'm really happy with the work we did.

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Today is Purim, so it's another good day to feast. We're coincidentally having Adult Swim Corn Dog Fiesta, using the best hot dogs evar (Hebrew Nationals)... not kosher, exactly (milk in the batter, I think) but even so. Happy Purim!

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Rats, I covet my neighbor's pewter goblet. He said he didn't remember where he'd gotten it, so I had given it up for a lost cause. Then I went and decided to look for it online, and found it. Someone buy it for me, please?

Edit: ooh, cheaper here.