Day 1 of Soul Coaching

It is finally November! I have been waiting weeks to begin Soul Coaching. I’m glad I have the chance to do this with other people; I think it will help me be more honest on my journey. I can lie to myself, but it’s hard for me to lie to others. In preparation I bought a journal. On the first page I wrote a sacred contract to myself.

I, Victoria Slicer, declare to myself that I will dedicate the month of November
2008 to connecting with my soul. I will be honest with myself and others to
uncover the truth about who I am. I will try my best to be gentle with myself
and listen to my soul. I will trust that change will happen.

Victoria Slicer
1 November 2008

I also made a personal alter. I will probably add to it over time, but here's what it looks like now.

This is just the beginning of the month. I look forward to learning more about myself, learning more about the blog friends I already have, and meeting new people! It's going to be a journey I won't forget, I'm sure of it.

Glogster Halloween Dreamboard

I decided to try and make a dreamboard saying goodbye to animosity, fear, and sadness. I used glogster. It's something a teacher introduced me to and I was glad to be able to try it. It's just about 10:30 now. I'm going to finish looking at everyone's posts, and then sink into a nice deep sleep. I'll post about my Halloween tomorrow. There will be pictures!

Looking forward to beginning Soulcoaching tomorrow as well! =D

Happy Halloween/ Samhain!

Grandpa Ben

RIP Grandpa Ben

1932-2008

I gathered some the items for the alter I am dedicating to my Grandpa. It was really hard to do. The two pictures of him have been on our fridge. I borrowed them for this. The candle is a white tea light that I put black paint on. I probably wouldn't be able to light it anyway, as my parents don't like me having candles in my room. The card is from his funeral. The shotgun shell is from his 21 gun salute. The lighter was the one in his pocket on the day he died. He always had one with him.

The relationship I had with my Grandpa is hard to describe. I wouldn't say we were close. When I was younger I didn't see him much. He always worked a lot. When I did see him, he was a strict person. I think I began to understand him more as I got older. We still never got very close, but I began to care for him more. It is so different without him, and our family is not the same now that he is gone.

At this point words fail me. I never realized how much I missed him until very recently. He was there my entire life and then all of a sudden he's just not. We lost him in April and over the past few months things have changed dramatically in my family. It's hard to explain, but he was like the glue holding my dad's side of the family together. It seems to be falling apart now. Everyone in my family will always miss my Grandpa. Things can never be the same, but I hope they can get better.

Breast Cancer Awareness

Mrs. B tagged everyone who won something on her blog to join the Pink Sisterhood. I urge everyone to click every day to give women who need it a free mammogram. (You can click on the other links there and help others, too!)

So help some people! Go here and click to give.

Rules-

1. Put the logo in your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who shared it with you.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs
4. Add your link to the list of participants below
5. Leave a message for your nominee on their blog.

I don't really know who has or has not put this on their blog yet. If you haven't, then please do!

1- Fara 2- Massy 3- N.O.Y 4- Mariuca 5- A Great Pleasure 6- LadyJava 7- Kim 8- Pink Thoughts 9- Turn-u-Off 10- Roxiticus Desperate Housewives 11- STAY AT HOME MOM 12- SpicyBug 13-lala 14- Vixen 15- Mrs. B. 16 - Tori 17- YOU

Odd Happenings

Bad electrical hookup or what? I am not sure what it is but some weird things have happened around my house. I have an old lamp that sometimes randomly turns off. It has never bothered me when it does this because of its age. It sometimes turns back on hours later. Again, it’s expected that if it turns off that it will turn back on.

Weirder things have happened in the past couple months though. One night while my sister was downstairs, and I was sitting in my room, her radio turned on. I yelled down to her to come upstairs and turn it off. It freaked both of us out a bit. My sister was convinced it was a ghost! We have lived in this house for three years now, and I don’t think it has a ghost in it. I do think I have convinced some Fairies to visit me though.

I told her I thought it was a Fae playing a joke. She said that she hoped it was, because a ghost would be scarier. I told her to simply ask politely that whatever it was leave her things alone. She did this and did not have any more problems, until last night.

Last night my sister was downstairs and I was upstairs reading. She always forgets to turn off her lights when she leaves her bedroom. Usually I end up walking in there and doing it for her. I didn’t really want to get up and put my book down though, so I just left it. Her light is fairly new, so there was no reason for it to just turn off like it did!

Tia went and asked the ghost or Fairy to please leave her electrical things alone again. I wish I had done the same. Around 1 or 2 in the morning my light goes and turns on! It didn’t turn off at all by itself that night, so I don’t know why it turned on.

Has anyone else had things like this happen? What do you think? The Fae have played tricks on me in the past, so I do think it could be them. I don’t doubt that the wiring in our house is bad, but it has only happened to me when I am upstairs by myself or my sister is asleep in the other room.

Runes

With Halloween only a few days away it seems like a good time to talk about divination. I made a set of pumpkin seed runes on Saturday. I love them! They are the perfect seasonal runes. I haven’t seriously tried scrying yet, and I haven’t gotten the hang of tarot, but I enjoy runes.
For me runes are fun. I pull a rune out of my bag every morning. This daily rune just tells me what to expect that day. So far it’s worked out well.
When I first set out to learn more about runes I was suggested a ton of different websites. I found some useful, and some not so useful. I still don’t know as much as I could. One of the really useful websites I found is Eric Wodening’s Rune Pages. There is a lot of information here.

I, of course, also bought a book about runes when I first became interested in them. It is A Practical Guide to the Runes by Lisa Peschel. It’s an okay book with some good information in it.

I’m not sure what else there is to say. Halloween is on Friday! I’ll be going out trick or treating with a couple friends. We have a foreign exchange student from France who wants to experience a real American Halloween, so sometime that night we are also going to watch some scary movies. It should be fun!

As for Samhain, I didn’t realized how much I miss my Grandpa until I started thinking about what I would do. I am planning an alter right now. I’m gathering photos and other things for it this week. It’s going to be sad, remembering him, but I can’t think of a better night to face my emotions.

Music

I warned you I wouldn't be around for a couple days. The dance was fun! I'm glad I won't have to do it again though, because it was a lot of work. The haunted walk took hours to set up. I didn't get pictures, and I'm kicking myself for it.

Less than a week until Halloween! Keep checking Mrs. B's 31 Days of Halloween, it's too good to miss! I just recieved my shirt I won from Dawtch today. I will take a picture soon, but I'm not sure if I will be able to wear it for Halloween. It's going to be cold! We've been known to get snow on Halloween before. I'm hoping we won't this year, but you never know.

I bought my journal for Soul Coaching yesterday. It's already colorful, but I may still decorate it. I'm very excited for November. =)

Six Random Things!

I got tagged by Nydia for the Six Random Things Meme about myself.
Rules:
1. Link to the person or persons who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

1) I love to write. I used to want to be a writer, but I changed my mind because I really don't think I'm that good at it. I still write stories and poems when I get the inspiration for it but I haven't been inspired to write in a while.
2) I have never broken a bone or had stitches before. I have been close to needing stitches, but they used a skin glue instead. I was so relieved, because I was more scared about that than the fact that I was bleeding.
3) I have always been quick to tears. This causes some problems for me. People think I'm some sort of delicate person who they need to be careful with or they'll hurt her feelings, when really I could just be mad.
4)I have lived in the same small town my entire life, and I still don't know the names of all the roads. It's pathetic, but true. I never payed attention to those things before. Now that I am learning to drive I might want to know the roads.
5) I have an over-protective family. They have sheltered me my whole life. I don't know what I'm going to do when I get to college.
6) I am scared of spiders. I know it's silly, especially when I only see three kinds of spiders where I live. We either have daddy long-legs, little jumping spiders, or barn spiders. Nothing too dangerous. It's something about the legs that just freak me out.

Because I don't have many blog friends yet, and almost all the ones I do have have already done this, I can't tag six people. My only blog friend who has not done this is Aelwyn at Hedgewitch Hollow! And I believe she did something similar a few months ago. Hope she doesn't mind!

Driving Test

Today I went to take my driving test. I passed the written with only 4 out of 30 wrong. I was so relieved! Because the DMV was not busy I even got to take the driving part. This is where I got nervous. I do not really like driving to begin with, but I know I need my license. Skipping all the horrible details, I'll just say that I did not pass the driving test. I know what I need to work on, and I'll be driving everywhere we need to go for the next two weeks. I go back to try again November 3rd.

After the test I went and bought things to make chocolate covered pretzels. My cousin and I are going to make them later this afternoon for the Halloween Dance on Friday. I'll get pictures and try to post them tonight when I get home. I will probably not be on the computer at all tomorrow or Friday. Tomorrow we need to set up the Haunted Walk and Friday I'll be helping at the dance.

This afternoon I have homework to catch up on. Maybe I'll find some time to relax, I am skipping school after all!

Pumpkin Bread is Wicked Awesome

Yesterday I made Mrs. B’s Prosperity Pumpkin Bread. It is so delicious! If you like pumpkin, I suggest making this bread. It’s a simple recipe, unless you’re like me and decide to make a double batch even though your biggest bowl is too small. xD Because I made so much I am giving it away to people. Everyone who’s had some loved it.
I planned on posting about the bread yesterday, but my computer decided it didn’t want to connect to the internet during the afternoon. It’s working fine today so I think we just have a problem with the wireless router. We need to buy a new one.

Today I had to leave school early to go and get jabbed with a needle. I hate shots, they hurt- and these HPV ones hurt worse than most. What’s stinks is my little sister didn’t even freak out like I did. It would have made me feel better if she had.

If I ever finish all my homework I will find something more interesting than my life to post about. Finding things to write about shouldn’t be a problem next month. Soul Coaching begins on November 1st! Anyone who is participating, remember to check out the blog and see what you can do to prepare for the 1st.