Sleepy Weekend

This was a long weekend. I took off early from work on Friday with every intention of going to FyreDancer's memorial out in Cape Coral. By the time I got home, settled down the cats, got changed, put gas in the car, it was almost 6pm. Add on another 3 hours of driving to get there (and factor in extra time because I ALWAYS get lost if I'm going somewhere new and it's dark out), and I figured that I would just interrupt the memorial. :( So I stayed home, lit a candle for her on my lare shrine again, and spent some time remembering what a wonderful person she was.

After a restless night's sleep Friday night, I was thankful for Saturday to come. I went to Curves and got their schedule again. I'll be starting to go back as of tomorrow. I can't wait. I remember how I felt when I was working out and it was goooooood.

The rest of the morning was spent trying to find something to put Amaranthea's birthday present in. I'd already found a card, and plopped my poem into it. But I didn't have any of those gift bags in the house that were big enough for the tamborene!

After finally getting Doug out of the house, we drove south to Amaranthea's house. 'Bout an hour drive from my house to hers. We got there just after 4:30p. It was nice to meet her family and her other friends. But it was also odd to have to be careful about "being in the broom closet." It's been a while that I've been to something at Amaranthea's house that was open to muggles.

We ate. We talked. We drank. We ate somemore. We talked somemore. We drank. A lot. ;) When she finally opened presents and cut the cake, it was around 9ish. I was so happy that she liked my present. She screamed :) And she liked the poem, too. I pointed out to her that it spelled out her name down the lines. I'm so smart like that! *teehee*

I got to spend a lot of time with Amaranthea's step-mother. She's a very interesting person! I'm very glad that I got the chance to talk with her. She's got some amazing insights.

I also got to spend some time chatting with Lady Bridget and Lady Jenny. That was also nice. Lady Jenny invited me to her Ostara ritual (it'll be the first ritual that her children have attended!), and Lady Bridget told me about a trip to Bok Tower in Lake Wales that she's doing. I've never been, so she invited me along. Hopefully she remembers -- we were up to about our 4th cosmo's at that point ;)

When I finally tore myself away -- at around 3:30am!! -- I was pooped! I dropped Lady Jenny off at home (her Ray and Bridget's Reikin had long since gone home) then drove the hour back to the house, got into the house, pet the cats, then crashed hard.

But not too hard, as the cats had me up by 8:30a for feeding (since they missed dinner the night before -- they had dry food but not wet). Then it was off to the green market to work out the procurement of honey for Doug's mead. Then it was off to the Greek Fest with Grant and Doug. I have to admit, I was a little disappointed at the spread they had. Sure, they had a lot of people, but not a lot of "fest", you know? I suppose I'm spoiled, as I'm used to the big Greek festivals up in NY.

Then came home, crashed again. I really need to do a write-up about Minerva. She's been poking me in the back of the head for the last few weeks, but I've just been so busy that I haven't made the time to really stop and listen.