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new month, new season...
Nov. 1st, 2006 10:38 amAfter all the fuss and excitement about Halloween, you wouldn't think I'd be able to forget that after Halloween comes the beginning of a new month as well as a season/year. I guess I'm just not used to my holidays lining up with everyday reality. :P Either way, I'm lucky that this morning's bus-driver didn't seem to notice (or at least care) that my pass was for last month. I'll have to get a new one this afternoon.
Last night was a fabulous (if quiet) Samhain. I helped![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maymargaret to make white-fish and mussel chowder, which we ate with fresh-out-of-the-oven oat bread and hard cider, and all the candles I could find in the center of the table. It's good for me to live with other pagans - I remember to do the little things that make a difference, like setting aside a plate and a shot glass for the dead, unlocking the doors for a while to let in luck, etc. After dinner, we all settled down and watched the beginning of The Nightmare Before Christmas, and then a few Halloween-oriented Buffy episodes. Then it was downstairs for me, a quick prayer and some getting used to my new runes, and bed.
I did not appear to have any particularly impressive or prophetic dreams last night. I never know whether to be pleased or disappointed by that. I love the feeling of the dreams that hit with a metaphysical force, but on Samhain there's an element of 'you asked for it,' I suspect. And as I am a well-trained pagan, I accept that asking for such things is usually a bad idea.
And even if the rest of the world doesn't agree that November 1 is the start of winter, at least one institution agrees with me.... coffee shops. Tully's is already advertising their Christmas-y drinks, and I am sooo very weak versus peppermint. I'm looking forward to trying that out soon. Maybe I can snuggle myself into one of their fireside chairs today or tomorrow, and do some writing. After all, it's also the season for NaNoWriMo... and I woke up too late this morning to get anything started yet. What a way to start the marathon. The rest of the Halloween fics will be coming, I promise, I'm just a teeeeeensy bit behind in my schedule!
Oh, and a Happy Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos to those who celebrate! ...And please forgive if I've butchered the Spanish.
Last night was a fabulous (if quiet) Samhain. I helped
maymargaret to make white-fish and mussel chowder, which we ate with fresh-out-of-the-oven oat bread and hard cider, and all the candles I could find in the center of the table. It's good for me to live with other pagans - I remember to do the little things that make a difference, like setting aside a plate and a shot glass for the dead, unlocking the doors for a while to let in luck, etc. After dinner, we all settled down and watched the beginning of The Nightmare Before Christmas, and then a few Halloween-oriented Buffy episodes. Then it was downstairs for me, a quick prayer and some getting used to my new runes, and bed. I did not appear to have any particularly impressive or prophetic dreams last night. I never know whether to be pleased or disappointed by that. I love the feeling of the dreams that hit with a metaphysical force, but on Samhain there's an element of 'you asked for it,' I suspect. And as I am a well-trained pagan, I accept that asking for such things is usually a bad idea.
And even if the rest of the world doesn't agree that November 1 is the start of winter, at least one institution agrees with me.... coffee shops. Tully's is already advertising their Christmas-y drinks, and I am sooo very weak versus peppermint. I'm looking forward to trying that out soon. Maybe I can snuggle myself into one of their fireside chairs today or tomorrow, and do some writing. After all, it's also the season for NaNoWriMo... and I woke up too late this morning to get anything started yet. What a way to start the marathon. The rest of the Halloween fics will be coming, I promise, I'm just a teeeeeensy bit behind in my schedule!
Oh, and a Happy Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos to those who celebrate! ...And please forgive if I've butchered the Spanish.
