new month, new season...

[rivendellrose]

After 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 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.

Comments

[maymargaret.livejournal.com]

Well as far as the bus card goes, I did exactly the same thing. Bon Toussaint.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Bon Toussaint!

It just boggles me that I can be so all over the thought of Halloween... even remember the rent thing... and yet forget the bus-pass. I think it's because I still subconsciously think I have a U-Pass, you know? *Sighs*

[capnexposition.livejournal.com]

When I saw you yesterday I meant to wish you a happy Dia de los Muertos, but was feeling sick and cranky. So..happy Dia de los Muertos!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Happy Dia de los Muertos to you, as well!

Did you end up getting where you were trying to go? A bus finally showed up a while after you left and ferried those of us waiting for the 44 over to the other side of 15th (just past the Safeway in Ballard)... where we waited while a bus-driver took got some dinner and took his break, then finally let us on and finished the route. So despite getting off work at 4:30, I got home ten minutes past the usual time for me to arrive back at the house. *Sighs*

[capnexposition.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually. It was practically the perfect bus for my purposes. And my sympathies on the bus driver thing. Seattle Metro is one of the most lackluster public transportation systems I have encountered in my travels. It makes me realy embarrassed to think of outsiders coming here and trying to do much of anything via public transport.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Shrugs* I think people make too big a deal of the problems with the Seattle system - I really don't have any significant issues with it. Occasional inconvenience is nothing compared to the joy I take in not needing to have a car.