you're out living it up today. i've got dues to pay.

[kleenexwoman]

My mother lost her crazy expensive ring that her BF/fiance got her, so of course, after tearing her kitchen apart, she called me to ask if I had any psychic powers and could tell her where the hell her ring went. "Sorry," I said. "No psychic powers. Try looking in the freezer, though?" (Whenever I lose anything, it almost invariably migrates to the freezer. I can't explain this.)

Anyway, I did a quick three-card tarot reading for her which told her that:
A) she had lost something very important to her
B) she was looking for it
C) it would probably remain lost until it was found.
THE CARDS, THEY KNOW ALL.

I did also tell her that it would probably be in a significant place, and that finding it would probably also allow her to discover something important. So there you go. Anyway, she didn't find it yet, but she did go to a psychic fair this morning to discuss it with any psychics who might sense her distress. Apparently, she talked to a lady who told her to look at something that was orange (but sort of peachy-apricot orange, not orange-orange), and also showed her how to use a pendulum. She also told my mom that in order to assist in finding a job, I should get a whole unshelled pecan, tell it what kind of job I wanted and what kind of money I wanted to be pulling down, and carry it around with me when I turned in applications and went to job interviews.

I also need good vibes and good energy. That's hard. :( Unless I'm driving my brother to work or going out and submitting/collecting job applications (and I think I've exhausted most places within a five-mile radius by now), I have so little to get up and out of bed for. I probably should be writing or making jewelry to try and sell, but...oh god. Effort.

If you are a day person and are not employed or a housespouse/stay-at-home parent or in school, what do you do all day?

THINGS TO DO LIST FOR NEXT WEEK:
1) Get pecan
2) Work magic on pecan
3) Do laundry, shower
4) Take car in
5) Collect job applications
6) Fill out job applications
7) Submit job applications
8) Work on The Script Of Doom
9) Profit?

Comments

[pianolessdevil.livejournal.com]

Finally! A question I can answer: tell your mom it's under or inside the cat.

Also, yes, I am a housewife, professionally, but this fall I will be a full time student again (since I took off the summer). Let's see, what do I do all day? If there is no cleaning to be done I will read a book, finish paintings/drawings, organize a closet/room, go window shopping, go to the museum/art gallery, plant a garden (haven't done that yet, actually) and sometimes, just barely sometimes, I'll go be social at a coffee shop. : /

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

She doesn't have a cat! I'll tell her anyway.

Hmm. No museums within walking distance, can't plant a garden because we have a condo...I should get some potted herbs, though. I've been wanting to go to the local Starbucks because it seems like such a hot spot, but I can't really afford their drinks :/ I wonder if anyone would care if I just brought in a bottle of water or something.

[cobaltnine.livejournal.com]

Nate got a job shortly after we had a rootworker do a candle for him. I ended up buying a bottle of the oil she used to dress it 'just in case'. I can give you details if you want.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Yes, please. I don't even know what a rootworker is :/

[cobaltnine.livejournal.com]

Now, I've a little experience in this area - never lost my wallet since I got a lucky penny from a rootworker once, and that's where my trust comes in, even though my primary irreligious beliefs are...slightly problematical for some of the practices.

Now, here's what one does: You get the right kind of candle (I'm waffling between yellow and green for you) and 'dress' it with the right kind of oil. This is kind of like anointing, but mostly just coating in a particular way. The most basic thing to do is take a written petition and place it under the candle. Burn as directed - usually straight through seven days, but there are other ways of handling it - and take note of the flame, wax buildup, etc. At the end, magic's been worked and the candle's burn itself will give one a resultant message.

I need a little practice, so if you want, I'll do it for the price of your petition hand-written in the mail. E-mail me if you want to take me up on that; I need to reorder candles anyway.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

oooooooh.

What's your e-mail address?

[edna-blackadder.livejournal.com]

If you are a day person and are not employed

Attempt to force myself to a) find a job or b) write. Try to remember what "effort" means.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

How have both of those been working out for you? They haven't been for me :(

[edna-blackadder.livejournal.com]

Very poorly. I took a break from job-hunting while I had visitors from out of town, but they're gone now so I really have no excuse. And I've been able to write some fic lately, but nothing that will actually get me out of my parents' house.

[squonk.livejournal.com]

(Whenever I lose anything, it almost invariably migrates to the freezer. I can't explain this.)

Like Vanessa's paper in that Cosby Show episode!

THE CARDS, THEY KNOW ALL.

LOL!

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I'm the mistress of Tarot. ...oh shit, I owe like two people readings I need to get on. SOMETHING TO DO!

[anivad.livejournal.com]

The Script of Doom. :(

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

:(

I rearranged two paragraphs of it tonight! That's more than Oscar Wilde sometimes did in a day!

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

Wilde:

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."

I know what he means, though I am generally far more productive.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I wonder how long it would take to write a book word by word, one a day? Or one word or unit of punctuation at a set rate of unit per time?

Someone should experiment with this.

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

If I lose anything, I ask God where it is, because He must know. I then generally look right at it the next second. Probably 95% of times.

There are exceptions. Some things are better lost. Long ago when money was tight I kept a record of every penny spent for a while, and once I had developed good habits, I lost the book. So I asked God where it was, and it refused to show up.

About a month later, when I had relaxed my obsessive accounting, I told the Lord that I had overdone it, and that moment I looked right where the book was. So straight away, I threw it out.

So I can't say "God always tells me where things are when they are lost", but I can say He does better. He also loses things that are no good for me.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Well, she's planning to use her grandma's rosary as a pendulum to find it, so maybe that extra added bit of God-mojo will make it work. Here's hoping!

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

How weird; the one thing that no one ever seems to get into their heads is that God wanted people to be in relationship with him, and not to use forms and symbols. As long as one uses the forms and the symbols, one is talking to them, and not to God. But people persist in it.

It is really just like this. A small child wants their dad to fix them a swing. So they go and talk to his tool bag, and ask his tools. Does their dad:

a) Infer that he should get his child a swing and fix it up, or

b) Conclude that if he ever responds to the child when they talk to his tool bag, then he is not only encouraging the child never to know him, but also to become mentally ill?

But that's what people do; they will find any form or symbol rather than talk to God direct. The two ideas are not even remotely the same.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

c) Teach the kid how to use the tools themselves so they become self-sufficient as they grow older? I mean, that's what my mom did. I'm still not great at fixing complex things, but I know my way around a screwdriver and a pair of pliers. Granted, little kids aren't necessarily going to be able to handle full-sized, functional tools when they're younger, but sooner or later they need to learn to use tools and solve problems without relying on Mom or Dad to tell them how to use everything.

I don't think it's necessarily a sign of mental illness as a child to treat inanimate objects as thinking beings. Kids do go through weird phases. I remember deciding that my old booster seat was a dog and dragging it through the house, and absolutely nobody could convince me that it was not something which needed to be walked, cuddled, and fed (I fed it paper). I grew out of it, and as an adult I think I have a pretty advanced grasp of the difference between "living, thinking being" and "inanimate object."

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm not sure if you're trying to make the point that the tools you're using are working for you for the purposes you want to use them, or if you're basically just asking Daddy for help, to use your own analogy with the toolbag.

I use tarot cards for specific reasons. I don't expect them to be conduits for some supernatural force, I expect them to help me organize my thoughts, or find a way to give advice to people who can interpret it in their own way. I don't really expect the magic pecan to help, but if it does...well, what's the harm? And if it doesn't, I'm out the cost of a pecan. If nothing else, it'll give me an impetus to get up on Monday and go look for jobs.

I don't know if my mom genuinely believes that what she's trying will work, but if it does and she finds her ring, great. If it doesn't work, maybe she'll feel better knowing that she's done all she can think of to find it, or that she was meant to lose it for some reason and it's not a total tragedy. It's her thing and her reasons. These things work for some people.

If you're trying to say that you're using prayer as a tool, go you. That's great. If you believe you're genuinely getting assistance from a supernatural force and that makes things work for you, fantastic. It's a very specific tool and you've learned how to use it well, and that's good for you; if other tools don't work for you the same way they work for some people, maybe they just aren't meant to work for you or for what you were using them for. You can't use a hammer to screw in a nail. I'm learning to work with certain tools for my own reasons.

[charlie-ihsan.livejournal.com]

...what if I wound up in your freezer?

Anyway, I use my time job searching, doing odd-ball stuff, masturbating, and learning Arabic and Chinese.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

*panics*
*looks in freezer*
I give up. Are you in the ice cream container?

Masturbating is a good one. I can only do that so many times a day, though :(

[charlie-ihsan.livejournal.com]

I'm hidden inside the frost buildup. You have to chip it away to find me. :P

Want to learn Chinese with me? Wo men hua shou idyear pu tong kua. :P

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

It's the best glaceoarchaeology ever!

If I only knew what you were typing! I am not a cunning linguist :(

[charlie-ihsan.livejournal.com]

(we could speak a little chinese)