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Current mood:	cheerful
Entry tags:	fun stuff, good things afoot, life as it happens, what's up, wow!

The Way Of Things Lately

So I haven't really been using the computer for much except checking email of late. Mainly because I've been ungodly busy. Yes I know I keep claiming this, but it's actually true. Between taking care of the house, and study group preparation, I have also made new friends! Yes friends in the real world. :D Isn't that a shocker? So I have people coming over to my home, and I'm going to theirs as well. Plus I am also hanging out with, lokiswench at least one or more times a week which is the awesome, as well as hanging out with J, about once a week, and if I'm lucky hanging out with J&K. So this is keeping me hopping. This does not mean I am letting the house go to all hel though, don't worry on that front. It still looks pretty spiffy if I do say so myself.

Oh yes, and I am also in counseling now once every couple of weeks too. I reached a point a few months back where I was uber-stressed out and just couldn't handle life very well and so my psychiatrist recommended that I got into counseling(something I had been working on myself if we all remember anyway), and he found me a decent one at OSU. So that has taken up a fair amount of my time.

I have not been making soap as much as in the past simply due to lack of time, plus funds... Most of the extra funds in the house have gone toward repairing the truck which has had various serious problems. But I now have a surplus of money again for a change and am at the point of being able to consider getting back on the soap train. I have been selling soap again lately too which is very cool.

In the past few weeks I have joined several local pagan groups here that meet regularly. There is a pagan discussion group which meets bi-weekly, and there is a tarot/divination meetup as well. This is part of how I've made the new friends that I found. It's nice to be more active in the community again and not be all heathen all the time. Sometimes you need to do 'outreach'. There is a pagan directory that they are putting together locally and I am going to list our Study Groups(though not the Kindred Blots) on it. In preparation for this I am going to find a place to hold the Study Groups that is not the house(already have a place in mind),this will mean less work for me ultimately as I will no longer be preparing the plethora of food that I do for Study Groups or have to run around like a maniac cleaning up to make sure that everything looks spiffy. Plus, I won't have a shit-ton of people I potentially don't know traipsing through my home. That of course is the main reason for taking this out of the house, my home is not that large and having a lot of people here would crowd everyone. Of course I'm going to have to take a lot of books with me to Study Group but life goes on.

I'm very excited about life right now and I think that is a good thing. I still have not decided on where to concentrate my volunteer efforts since the food pantry closed down, but maybe just becoming more active in outreach within the Pagan Community qualifies? I don't know, I have to think about that to a certain extent. After all I have spent years as a kind of semi-hermit.

I think that the advent of warm weather, as always has brought about a positive attitude change. So don't worry about the lack of entries folks, in this case it just means I'm out there living the good life and enjoying life as it happens.