Blessings Darlings!
More ethical ways food is available to those who work in restaurants.
We cut off the heels of whole loaves of bread before slicing the bread for things like French Toast. Those heels often …
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Excitement!
Blessings, Darlings!
I’m too excited to sleep! So I’m blogging at 4 am.
Oh, the sleeplessness STARTED because …
Restaurant Scrounging, Part 1
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RESTAURANT SCROUNGING
Those of us with lower end incomes – in my case, my second job working at a dead end restaurant job – don’t have the income to get a real ‘retreat’ where we’ll prepare for what will come in a future collapse. We’re too busy living too close to a personal la vida collapse now.
However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t glean things from the not-yet collapsed world out there.
Financial Fun
Blessings Darlings!
Today being the first of the month, one of the activities of the day was paying bills. This included the electricity bill … the last electricity bill before they show the cost of heating our home.
Them Ancestors
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As many of y’all know, I don’t use ‘calendar dates’ for the Celtic holy days. I use nature’s signals. And given the recent unusual cold weather in the Northeastern US – we had our killing frost last night. So by my reckoning, Samhain is …
Learn to cook. It’s not hard.
Blessings Darlings!
Work – at the restaurant – has been a bear lately. We’ve been getting slammed with customers. And it’s not as if our food is something to write home about. Folks can make this stuff at home easily, and without spending much time. And without spending the silly amount we charge for this stuff. Really – $1.25 for a cup of soup? Two dollars for a soda or a cup of coffee?
I just don’t get it.
Visualize THIS.
Blessings, Darlings!
Today in an extremely fluffy Facebook ‘witch’ and ‘Wicca’ group – where I’m totally sure that no one has an initiation in lineaged Wicca or could explain what an egregore is and how that related to lineaged Wicca – I was … informed … that magic is all about visualization.
So I asked if that meant that the blind can’t do magic.
Taking A Wider View
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This morning, when I finally got up (I closed last night, got home at midnight, then spent an hour on the phone with Verizon because cable TV is down), the Chubby Hubby informed me the outlet that all the florescent lights in his lab are plugged into was broken. He had already tried re-setting the circuit breakers, which were in the garage, but that hadn’t helped. He’d ‘fixed’ the problem by adding an extension cord and using a different outlet.
Okay.
You’re not REALLY going to eat that.
Blessings Darlings!
Back in May I posted about eating weeds, and how bitter some of them are. And WAY back, when I reviewed the Hunger Games books, I posted about how the author had clearly never eaten the dandelions she had her characters eat and enjoy. And folks in Pagan groups online seem to post ALL THE TIME about edible wild plants – “And the seeds of plantain and etc can be ground into flour and cooked and eaten!”
Well, yeah, they can be. But the odds are …
Tea Time
Blessings Darlings!
I’m at my desk with a hot cup of tea, preparing to do a bit of divination by reading tea leaves. This is NOT something I’m good at, instead, it’s a skill I’m still learning.
And I bumped up against a limitation of this as a form of divination.