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

[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.