Bethany @Bethany@witches.live

oh I'm thinking about buying a digital piano (with, uh, currently nonexistant money) because I want to learn how to play. it's gonna be a bit of a spend because I want a decent 88-key one (nothing SUPER fancy but going for 88 keys ups the price) and decided that's what my change jar money will be for

what's new with me? I bought a cactus! I may have told y'all about it already, but I bought what I'm calling a yule cactus. it only had one bloom this year but the plant is still healthy (I'm BAD at plonts) and I'm told that it'll be better next year. bound and determined to keep it alive. I think that's it, honestly. work remains work and I'm still struggling with writing fiction. alas.

I have been writing a lot over on dreamwidth and I wrote about Yule today and keep forgetting to log in (sorry! I love everyone here I'm just a forgetful potato) anyway I had a religious experience of the pagan variety so I'm sharing https://bethanythemartian.dreamwidth.org/2121.html

one of the things I have always been grateful for is how supportive my family is of my witchcraft? like, they all treat me as a legit witch and nobody treats it like a pretend thing, my extended family doesn't know mostly but my parents and step parents are all super cool with it. my step dad asked me to cleanse his house, recently, because he thinks he's filling it with bad energy. it's just... reassuring.

man, my libido is way down. my gf came over to hang and I just didn't feel it, which is so rare for me it's kind of unsettling. (she was super cool about it and I am glad we're dating, we had fun it just wasn't sex fun which is kind of a bummer but also MAN did I not want to) gotta love the seasonal downswing I guess. sigh.

my roomie's best friend (like, brother but not in blood) was in a horrific car accident today. I'm glad he was lucid when roomie went to see him but he's in a bad way, and having surgery tomorrow. we did have a friend come over and eat chili together with one of our good friends, but it's been a much more stressful evening than anticipated. (this guy is my friend, too, but he's much closer to my roomie. he was standing there when I got the news about my mom's death, and after helping me through my initial shock of grief. talked to me a lot about it because he lost his mom a while back.)

instant messages from housemate for making coffee "bless you" lolol we both work late and sleep late, this is like 'late morning' for both of us, I was up kinda early at 1 pm. yesterday I had to get up at ten which is like normal equivalent of waking up at like 4? anyway made coffee and cleaned the kitchen so my roomie can have cuppa