Marching Forward

I know it has been a while since I have blogged, life has been a bit weird for the last few months.

I have been working on refreshing my mind and practicing a bit of Wicca and setting up my alter. I know that it has taken me a long time to finally do this here in my home, but I needed to get the apartment settled before I could create the spaces I needed for magickal practice and feel secure in my home.

At this point, I have been able to gather all of tools that called to me except two, and they are my censor and my BOS.  I don't mind the fact that I cannot find a BOS because I am once again at the starting point in my traditions and life, and would prefer to wait until I have at least two thirds of my craft created before I can make it permanent.  I am content to use a binder for now. The censor will come when the time is right and we are aligned.

I am still working on getting my home settled.  I have already been searching out a nice television and a few other household necessities that I need for daily living.  I know that I have been taking a long time to do this, mainly because I had been so uncomfortable living in this place, but I have been here about eleven months, and I am finally accepting this place as mine, even if the surrounding area makes me very uncomfortable.

My finances finally stabilized so that I will be able to continue to obtain the necessities for my home and magickal life.  I have been able to fill my cupboards and get everything under control.  Things will be fine now.
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I have also been able to get my insurances through my work, and come August, I will have vacation time coming to me...it is just too bad that I quit my job last year and had to restart everything over again because I would have had my vacation pay by now....but then again, I wouldn't have been able to get that raise and the added bonus that comes with it had I not come back.  I wouldn't also have been able to show my boss the extent of my experience and knowledge of the business.  I am now in a position where they know that I can perform any job within the department and in the other department, and they can use that to their benefit since they know I will do it.

The next two or three steps in this year long transformation is working on my diet and health.  I don't need to loose weight, but I want to live a healthier lifestyle, so eating better will be my goal starting April 1. I know I said that I wanted to become vegan, and that may yet happen, but in order to do that, I will have to start slowly and integrate more organic foods into the mix as well as slowly eliminating the junk food...since I am currently cutting those back by leaps and bounds these days, that isn't much of a problem.

I have also become lazy these last few months, I rely on the bus to get to places that would normally take me ten to fifteen minutes to walk.  I need to stop this and get my body moving more.  I also have come to rely on the grocery store delivery service for my groceries.  While this is a good service, I could use the exercise in carrying some of the groceries.  

I have stopped eating at restaurants once a week though. That saved money and helped me stop eating junk as often.

There is one more thing that needs to start going again, and that is knitting on a daily basis.  I want to get my yarn business going, but this is another area where I have become lax. The problem had become my obsession with Asian programs and watching subtitled shows.  I can't knit and read the subtitles at the same time, so I have neglected my knitting.  So, it is time to change that and limit my Netflix and other venues to watching the shows that I can listen to while knitting.

I have also been very lazy about keeping up with my knitting blog and other sites that I usually spend time in...that will change as time goes by.

For now, things are moving along, and I am going to work towards my life goals for the rest of this year, and make things happen so that I no longer need to worry about bad things happening.

Spring is here, and with it comes the promise of beauty all around us, warmer weather and new beginnings with flowers, April showers, sunshine, and animals coming back or awakening from the long winter nap...I think I was one of those particular creatures.  I am ready for the rest of my life. 

Blessed Be