I love knitting. Absolutely LOVE doing it!

That's why I repeatedly force myself to endure the torment of casting on and the first couple of rows.

#CoSoKnitting

Somebody complained the board game "Life" has gotten too "woke" because you can opt to not get married or have kids.

Lindsey Graham is not married and does not have kids.

Is Lindsey Graham "woke"?

Birds are dinosaurs, though! So hummingbirds are "living dinosaurs". Pigeons are "living dinosaurs". Corvids are very intelligent "living dinosaurs".

People are going to push me to start angrily educating them.

Oh. My. Noodles. I'm going to snap at somebody excitedly calling something a "basically, a living dinosaur" one day.

Sturgeons are not "living dinosaurs". Alligators and crocodiles are not "living dinosaurs". Not everything that lived in the periods thought of as "dinosaur times" was a dinosaur.

For anybody who's interested, I do a broad, general divination reading every year for hints of guidance for the new year. Just looking at what can be expected in the flow of things.

I did it with my playing cards this time and have posted it to my Substack.

https://diydiv.substack.com/p/a-reading-for-the-new-year-2023

When it comes to goals for a new year, I find setting loose goals works for me. "Write 5k words every week" may set me up for failure because my life doesn't usually allow that space. But I can work on "get more focused on writing and plan out topics". That will almost certainly lead to more, and better quality, writing for me.
#CoSoWritingCommunity

One of my #Christmas favorites is John Denver reading "Alfie the Christmas Tree". It's on the album "John Denver and The Muppets: A Christmas Together". I played it for the cats and ferrets today.

"So in your Christmas prayers this year, Alfie asked me if I'd ask you to say a prayer for the wind, and the water, and the wood...and those who live there, too."
#CoSoChristmas

She couldn't go back to the wild, and she couldn't be adopted by an aquarium.

Discovery was a real being, and the nets took her from us. We have to be more responsible with our planet. We can't shrug things off as, "But it's okay because there are people out there cleaning things up and rescuing animals!"

That work matters, but they can't save everyone. We all have to do our part. I'm going to love this turtle and work for healthy water for all creatures.

But she does deserve to be remembered! Discovery lost a flipper when she was trapped in an abandoned fishing net. They rescued her, but she was young and being trapped altered her growth and development.

Her lung development was unbalanced, and she had an air pocket in her body cavity. They couldn't operate for the air pocket because her lungs made the anesthesia not be an option. The air pocket caused bouyancy issues and she couldn't dive.

It turns out the turtle I was assigned to - Discovery - died this spring. So a family member asked me if I'm going to contact someone about being assigned a different turtle.

"No. She's with the Lake Monster now. She needs to be remembered. And I'm the right person to adopt a ghost turtle."

Everyone ignores the fact that I'm slowly developing a Lake Monster cult and agrees this is peak Fizzy.

I was given one of those...you know the "adopt X animal to contribute to wildlife rescue work" things? One of those for sea turtles. I had "adopted" a humpback whale when I was in high school, and a family member "adopted" an elephant for me a few years ago.

Y'all. My turtle is a ghost turtle.

Yes! I managed to get baby Baphomet finished in time! My arthritis will never forgive me, but whatever...the goal was achieved!
#CoSoPagans #CoSoCrochet

Had to move plants tonight. Family members were recognizing them by their names...Mother Spider, Warner, Keanu Leaves, etc.

I realized I talk about them often enough that people know who they are when they do see them.

My sister-in-law invited me to join her for her Solstice ritual. Her tradition and practices are different from mine, and it meant a lot to me to be invited to share that with her. #CoSoPagans

Things I never thought yarncrafts would lead me to say, but here we are:

"Don't let antbody in yet! I still have to stitch his little caduceus-penis on!"

It wasn't written into our marriage vows, so I don't think my husband understood he was signing on to have every card trick I do tested on him. He's always so good about it, though. I say, "I need to try this," with a deck of cards in my hand and he makes space.

Oh. It must be somewhere between the middle of December and New Year's Eve. That breakdown I have every year is happening.