that I have an online journal that I have neglected for the past 3 years…and as my 2 (yes you read that right) friends on here can be witnesses to, I tend to drop off the face of the internet and randomly show back up years later. It’s not for the lack of wanting to keep up with the journal, I just tend to forget about it, or tell myself I’ll do it later.
For those of you who don’t know me, I am a mom to a precarious 13 year old girl who thinks she is the adult and I run a daycare in my home. So constantly surrounded by swarms of kids who rule this world of mine!
Other than living the day in & day out of my work schedule and keeping up with M’s school activities, I really haven’t had much of a change than all the journal entries before. I still cook, craft and home can foods. (I do remember that I had promised a journal entry about canning....I will do this)
I think the highlight of my past 3 years is the trip I took to New Orleans with my best friend. We went for Halloween weekend this year and I fell in love. I am seriously contemplating moving to New Orleans when M graduates in 4 years.... yes you read that right, my life will be redefined in 4 short years. I am currently having mixed feelings about this.
I have put off dating because well frankly with all the crazy we see on the news I dreaded introducing someone to M’s life for the fear of them being crazy or worse. I won’t say I haven’t had a few lonely moments when I broke down and joined a dating site....yeah not the brightest idea. So from my picture you all can see that I am a plus size woman.... lets just say that people think we are naïve and over eager to have a relationship. After about the 20th message about wanting to hook up tomorrow from a random guy I deleted the profile and said forget it. Not exactly what I had signed up for.
Recently I have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes… so I am now on a no carb, no sugar diet of my own doing… and I have lost a bit of weight… hoping to loose even more. Tomorrow is the beginning of my attempt to fit exercise into my schedule. You’d think it would be easy getting exercise in chasing around all the littles, but it really isn’t enough. I must add strength training 3 times a week and 20 minutes of cardio in the morning and at night daily. (if you haven’t figured it out I’m reminding myself lol)
So back to New Orleans… my friend and I attended the New Orleans Witches Ball…and I absolutely loved it. It was held in a mansion… open bar… amazing food… just one of the best events I have ever attended. While we were there I had a reading done… and basically the oracle cards said that I was ignoring my gifts from the universe and that I needed to accept them. Right after that, we went up to the auction and I decided to bid on some wiccan tools and books which included a set of oracle cards. There were quite a few bids before mine, but I decided why not just bid once, if it’s meant to be then so be it. The gifts I had been ignoring were my ability to do readings and my dream premonitions. A few years back I decided to get rid of all my wiccan ways and leave that life. No particular reason, just decided I was done with it. Well… there was 10 minutes left with the auction and people were hovering around the tools, deciding if they wanted to bid on it or not. There were 3 different people who kept going back to it, looking at it, walking away and then going back… I figured one of them would have bid on it last minute, but no one did. I left the ball with a whole new set of wiccan tools. And I have never felt more like myself than I do now. I bought a new set of tarot cards as well. They feel so natural to me. Anyway, so I guess that is the first life change I have made. I am diving back into the world that I loved, looking forward to new beginnings.
While we were touring the city, we met all sorts of unique people. The one shop we went to, Boutique du Vampyre, was different from all the others in the French quarter. It was a small shop that I honestly could have spent days in and not been bored. The merchandise is unique to the New Orleans area, and the staff was just so attentive and down to earth nice. We actually visited the shop more than once. April, one of the employees, was just so friendly. Asking us what we were in New Orleans for. Telling her about the balls we were attending we got to talking about the other vampyre events that go on in the city and she spent quite a bit of time just talking with us. If you are interested in the shop itself, you can check them out at www.feelthebite.com … on one of our other visits, we met The Vampire King of Kentucky… we talked with him a while and he told us all kinds of vampire lore specific to New Orleans. We hung around with him for a bit just talking and then we met Wynter Wilkins. She is an author and I absolutely love her books. You can find them on amazon and find her on facebook…if you are interested :) … I really hope this part isn’t boring you… I am still having euphoric memories of the trip lol. Next year… we are going for the entire Halloween week and we are skipping the anne rice vampire ball (it was fun but it wasn’t my favorite part of the trip) and we are attending the blood lust ball with all the other vampires. We’re still attending the witches ball as well.
Well I am going to end this on that note for the year… It was a great year for me, heck it’s been a great 3 years for me… I’m looking forward to what is to come, and I’m still a little anxious to see the next 4 years go by…but we’ll see where life takes me …
Have a great new years eve…stay safe.... and have a Happy New Year!
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