10 points – Name the song and the band. : )

Missed me?

I’ve been busy. Fucking hell.  Where to start?  Probably where I left off.  Or somewhere in between.

School just started back up again!   This semester I am enrolled in German I, Business Communication & Report Writing, and the same Math class that I took last Fall because I failed it. Blah. I’m thrilled about the German class. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time. The Math class… well, you can imagine how excited I am to be re-taking that.  The Business class is a crock, but necessary for my goals. I changed my major! The dissolution of the Collective left me floundering a bit and questioning my goals & my direction for the future. The parting was such that it was made clear to me that I am to have nothing further to do with the Memoreum project, so I was left with the question: Do I still want to be a Funeral Director? The answer came as a resounding “No”.  That, of course, led to another question: So what the hell do I want to do then? After a lot of debate & soul searching I decided on pursuing just a general associates degree with a certification in small business management.

Why small business management? Because X & I are finally going to make our dreams come to fruition and open a store together!

Cool huh?  We’re going to start on-line, the Ebay store should be up and running soon. Our goal is to open it on Dia de los Muertos. We also want to set up our own website in conjunction with the Ebay store (Fire, are you interested?  Shoot me an email or give me a call when you get some free time. We’ll need a quote.) We’re calling it Cootie & X’s Full Circle, specializing in eclectic clothing and arcane books of the second hand variety. Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?  We’ve got our profile and Me page up. Check it out: http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=cootiexsfullcircle . It makes me giggle every time I look at it. I’m so excited I’m practically beside myself over it.

Besides that X & I have a lot going on right now and are facing some big decisions that will bring major changes to our little family over the course of the next year.  But that’s ok, we’re ready for it.

We are getting ready to finish up Fire in our Element Walk and roll right into Water. It is fascinating to see how the Walk evolves and changes in each Element. Fire has been quite different from Air and I imagine Water will follow suit.

Hands down, this has been the best Summer of my Life. We spent a lot of time by the pool, boat drinks in hand, soaking up the Sun. I’m tan. Amazing. I haven’t been tan since I was 14 years old. We’ve played many a game of Scrabble and a few hands of cards. We’ve had amazing fun with Friends.  My relationship with my Family has grown stronger and healed so much.  I have re-discovered so many things that I love and had forgotten.  Oh!  And we expanded on our Bill & Ted’s philosophy to create the X & Cootie Credo!

  1. Be excellent to each other.
  2. Do what is necessary and be as polite as possible.
  3. Find the positive. If you can’t find the positive, find the funny.
  4. Whatever works.
  5. Pics or it didn’t happen.
  6. Be nice to old Gypsy Women. They can fuck your shit up!
  7. When someone asks if you are a god, say “Yes!”.

We are forming some sort of Pagan/Discordian/Geek hybrid tradition here, and I love it.

I am very much looking forward to the Fall. It is, after all, our favorite time of the Year.

Hail Eris!

Yeah, they’re coming on strong. Already I feel my focus, time and energy being stretched in a half dozen different directions.  Time to pull in and hunker down.

I have Anatomy & Physiology I, Survey of Algebra, and History of American Funeral Directing lined up this semester. It should prove fun.

If you don’t hear from me often, be patient.  I’m riding the wave.

~Marianne

Feeling less like I want to hide from the world.  Fall semester starts soon and that makes me happy.  I’ve felt like I’m wasting time this summer while away from classes.  Coming up I’ll be taking Human Anatomy & Physiology I, Survey of Algebra, and I found an Intro to Funeral Service class that I signed up for!  Very excited about that one for sure. 

Work is easy and uneventful.  Today I received kudos for having perfect stats and 100% on all my Quality monitorings for the week.  It is not a hard job, for that I’m thankful.

I’ve been working for some time on trying to trace my Maternal bloodline.  I’m stuck on my great-great-grandmother, Dellie Stump.  I’m thinking a trip out to the county where she lived and died is in order soon.  I found out recently that a fire in the courthouse there some time ago destroyed a lot of records.  I may be at a dead end… that would be a pity… but I’ve not given up yet.  Needless to say, she is haunting my dreams as a result.

 

Good night friends.  Be excellent to each other.