a wedding, a funeral, and a birthday.

On Thursday it was my birthday. I turned 24! yay!
the whole day (until Dave got home) was spent doing my medieval studies essay.
Kaitlin and i had set a deadline of 1pm to hand it in, so I did it. I think I did OK. we will see.

when Dave got home he was carrying a huuuuge package- i had no idea what it was, but when i opened it it was a toolbox! how exciting- i think it was a hint for me to clean up all my tools i have lying around actually hehehe. inside the tool box was another, smaller package, this contained a brand new DS lite, a cyclon-d memory chip ( so you can play multiple games) and two tickets to the rocky horror show!! he had secretly organised with Katy for her to have the day off of the show, and now me and her are going to go together! wow! isn't he sweet?!

that night i went to Tegan's house and dropped off some kebabs, and we organised to travel to the park on Friday ( yesterday) and have a BBQ together with the ducks. Tegan gave me a beautiful pagan journal, an awesome piece of art/spell craft made from her own hand made felt, and some printed calico with a key on it, and a handmade paper card. it was all so tactile and loverly mmmmm texture.....*drool*

I went to Katy's house yesterday while Dave was at a funeral and we had fun times getting tipsy ( at 10.30am!!) and listening to songs from the past and talking about stuff. ( at one point i nearly cried when she was talking about her dad!) and wishing Sam a merry wedding, since both of us had no way to get there. Katy made me a mix CD of songs that we both used to listen to, and we fondly remembered all of our long history together ( nearly 10 years now!)

today ( Saturday) I bought some fisherman pants and a new pair of boots, and it was glorious! I haven't been up to spotlight, but i hope when Dave returns from work, we will go to k mart, I will buy a bike, and then spotlight! yay!

love to you all! !

beltane

Dave and i just came back from a lovely weekend camping in the crater of Mt Franklin. it was a fun trip which saw us setting up camp on the friday night and going through the weekend to sunday participating in rituals and the like all weekend. Dave didnt really enjoy himself so i had to make him see the fun times as well as the bad. we werent prepared i will say that, but it was fun nonetheless. i seemed to get along with everyone, but in some instances i felt angry and irritable about some things, which i guess was mainly from the lack of sleep on the first night. Dave felt uncomfortable around one particular member of our little group, and usually i felt fine amongst them all. Saturday night for me started off good, however i became annoyed fairly quickly on how EVERYONE was focused on the "pagan politics" and i couldnt go from one group to the other without hearing people talking about it. I can understand if people want to clear stuff up, but getting back to the group after a wander and hearing people ask me about political stuff i don't know anything about was rather annoying.
Sleep was horrible both nights, with dave and i forgetting our mattress, but was eased considerably by the kind and thoughtful efforts of Tegan who supplied people with ear plugs. over all, as it was my first pagan gathering, i thought it was pretty good. i saw some wonderful ideas for pagan clothing and i remember drunkenly vowing to make corey a black velvet cape like one dude had. I wish i had a camera still...
overall, Beltane was a new experience, and even though it didn't have the energy i thought it would have ( the circle wasn't as charged as i thought it would be) it was still i great time shared between close friends, i will just try to block out the peripherals next time :)

i have decided to cancel my birthday plans for this sunday and do something communal with Bernardo when he gets back from Canberra as Dave has to work on the saturday, so were were going instead to Armageddon expo. it should be fun.

P.S the camera is still broken and its driving me mental.