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Reconnecting

Jan. 8th, 2012 09:18 am
pt_tangles: (Hair Flower)
A friend of mine made the resolution that 2012 would be the year of reconnecting. Of being less robot and more human. To her that meant seeing her friends and loved ones in person more often. It meant talking on the phone rather than texting. More real human interaction; less social media.

This idea really spoke to me. I can remember using phrases like IRL or meat-life, like there was another kind. As if your online presence can be an additional life outside of the day to day slog. A few years back I pulled the plug on my cyber-life.

I have noticed that with the rise of social media, the computer is not only threatening to pull me back in, but everyone else as well. Now, I'm not going to give up my Facebook (having just moved away from all my friends and most of my family, I think I would be lynched for going that far), but I think I do want to make an effort at reconnecting on a human level.

For me, I think that will mean letters. Next week, I plan to go out and pick up some stationary. Then, I am going to write out our 'Thank you' notes for L'il R's Xmas presents, as well as some letters to loved ones who I already miss. There's something about writing longhand that I need. I don't really know how to describe it, but it's the reason that I still keep a paper journal. It's the reason that I am keeping a notebook of letters that I will one day give to my daughter. It's the reason I feel closest to my mom is when I read her letters and recipes; even after ten long years, I can feel her near me when I see her handwriting.

I was also contemplating making masks to help me reconnect with the Sabbats. I had come across my old element mask design sketches (I think I had only done water), while I was packing. I have a couple ideas floating around for Imbolc. Dunno if I could get it done in time what with the move and all of my crafting materials being in storage for the month. Maybe I'll do the sketches for the Sabbat masks and start putting the Element masks together.

I have a DeviantArt account, phaetalon, if anyone is interested in seeing photos in progress and finished. I may post the sketches too, if I can remember to either photograph them or if I can figure a way to get access to a scanner.

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My New Year's tarot spread was 4 of Wands, 10 of Wands and the Fool.  Which for me was both encouraging and oddly familiar as well.  I know that at roughly mid-year I tend to hit a point where I know I have started too much to keep up with.  

I need to work on that, I think.  The trouble is that I get excited about new projects and ideas, and I forget to pace myself.  This leads to overburdening.

On the more immediate future front - we have found a new place.  After 6 years, we are finally moving out of this 'temporary' apartment.  Our new place is a 3 bedroom townhouse.  It's not in New West, which is a little sad.  I am going to miss my town, but Coquitlam is a nice town too.

I am very excited about finally having a decent sized place.  I am also a little nervous about moving.  I have wanted to move for so long, but we have managed to stay in one place for a fairly long time.  I guess now it is just about getting through it.

I am glad that we have time to get everything together before moving, since I didn't actually make it all the way through the winter with being sick.  Chest colds are the worst when you have asthma.

All in all, I think that 2009 is going to be a pretty exciting year.  I might even get my last credit card paid off.  Yay for being steps closer to freedom from debt!

--PT
I have been pretty quiet over the last while. Mostly because I have been fighting (and losing) a yucky chest cold. It finally got me right in the middle of my Yulemas holiday. I am starting to feel better, but I am at that stage where I start to wean off the drugs and I suddenly feel a lot worse (but functional, where I wasn't before).

Turns out that I didn't get the promotion at work. I am finding that I am actually ok with that. If I am promoted before my one year review, then I miss out on an opportunity for an extra raise (the way it works at our office is that the clock starts again at each promotion. So, if you move up fairly quickly, then you never get a year review or the raise that goes with it).

I have been thinking a lot about the new year and where I want to be at this time next year. I have been inspired by this post by [personal profile] dbmyrrha
1. Go home and look at yourself in the mirror. Start changing your dress, your behavior, so that you float like a god, not shuffle like a robot.

2. Look around your home. What kind of dead robot lives here? Start throwing out everything that is not "tuned in" to your highest vision.

3. Make your body a temple, your home a shrine.

4. You are a God. Act like one!

Compared to other years, a lot has happened to me in 2007.  I finally got out of retail, and I am working full time for the first time in a long time (I am still a little undecided on if I like that - I do miss having the free time, but the money is nice).  The whole scandal with trying to recapture a sense of community that ended with obscene amounts of drama at Pagan Crossroads site, and helped to give birth to Wickets (Sana, I am gonna need some help moving Wickets out into the daylight).

I've made some new friends, and I have gotten back into knitting with a passion (complete with Ravelry account).  There has been some yuckiness health-wise, but I also finally lost a whole lot of weight, and have gotten healthier than I have been in a long time.  WD broke his ankle and was finally broken of his Warcrack addiction.

I am slowly making my way back to properly tending my house and kitchen.  It isn't easy with being so worn out and having only a few hours a week to spend with my other half.

I am great at making resolutions, but not all that great at keeping them.  I want to lose the last few pounds that stand between me and size 10/12.  I think that pilates is the way to that goal.  I have picked up a book in the hopes of designing an easy routine that will get me more active now that it is cold and yucky out.

But, above and beyond all else, this year I am going to finish Jet's course.  It has been on hiatus since the issues with PC.  I guess I was getting a bit weird without realizing it.  But I am ready to move forward again, and I am not going to let lack of time or energy get in my way.  This is something that I feel I have to finish.

Secondary goals are to get in better shape, move to a bigger place, and get the little green car running again.  I'd also like to get back into the habit of reading the tarot again.  I am not sure that I could keep up with a daily or a weekly reading.  But I could probably do a full spread every month.

I am also going to try and add more celebratory elements to my practise.  I am actually pretty excited about Imbolc this year.  I am not sure what I am going to do yet, but I have a good feeling ;)

I have high hopes for 2008.  I think that what I have set out for myself is perfectly attainable.  And if I am lucky, then we will be having a good long vacation and maybe a nice road trip (I am hoping for a cross Canada trip this year).

Happy January, everyone!  I am going to go and sleep now.  Let's hope I wake up feeling somewhat human tomorrow.

--Phae  

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