The seasonal shift and my arthritis are not getting along. It's been weeks of "mostly okay as long as I don't try to do physical activity". Today, though! I have done three things that I had just been glaring at on my list! The things weren't super important, but they matter enough to need to be done and I'm glad I could do them.

Sometimes it hurts when I have to explain to someone how I approach divination as a psychological tool for sorting through what you already know to be true and making decisions about action. It's exciting to explain to some people! Others...it hurts.

I know why they want to believe I have some secret knowledge about the future. Or that someone does, if not me. That's why it hurts. But I won't lie to comfort them.

Okay, the poll has closed... I'm now going to devote way too much of my life to finding out why my sister-in-law and 39% of you who voted call a skein of yarn a "skeen" of yarn. That word is "skayn".

Wow! To create examples to be used in the book I'm writing, I did four different types of divination readings on...well, writing the book. I feel like I just called myself out four times.

When I get anxious about this, I need to remember to go back and read what I wrote down for those readings. I really do believe in myself. I just don't always remember that.

I know someone who pronounces the word "skein" a way I have never heard it. I have heard, and said, that word many times throughout my life so far. MANY times. But not like they say it.

Skein, as in "a skein of yarn" - How do you say it?

@Alfred Why didn't Harpo Marx speak?

I want to see Grover from Sesame Street and Grover Underwood hang out together and be loveable furry ol' Grovers.

Y'all! Percy Jackson just found out who his father is, which confirmed what I was suspecting! And he found out who his favorite teacher actually is, which confirmed another thing I was suspecting! And it's after 1am but I might have to stay awake and finish the whole book!
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My new dice are here! The blue and purple ones are the new ones. The swirly purple ones are the ones I've had for some time. Now I can explore more options with dice divination because I have two sets with different looks.

Both sets are Elder Dice, so they're different but also go together.

If I dress for Spring, will Spring show up?

Nice day outside! I'm getting out my hula hoops!

Okay... it's been too long. I accidentally slapped myself in the side of my head with a 10 pound hoop because I know the moves but it's been too long since my body last did them.

Maybe go lay down for a while. One trip to the ER for a hula hoop injury was enough for this lifetime. Not trying to do it again.

I have decided to read the Percy Jackson books because everyone I personally know makes references to them, but I haven't read the books or seen the movie. I'm not opposed to reading YA fiction because even most adult fiction is below my reading level (thanks, hyperlexia...been this way my whole life) and it's mostly safe on trauma triggers.

I already love page 1!
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The new dice will go well with the ones I already have for divination work. Similar, so they all go together. Different, so I can easily tell them apart when used together in a reading. And having a whole second set opens possibilities.

I will still be frustrated that I cannot find the piece that repeatedly goes missing.

My favorite d20 goes missing from time to time. I've had it for nearly 20 years, and it disappears for months and then shows up again. None of my other dice do this. I can't just replace it. I would know it's not the same piece.

And that's how I ended up ordering a whole new set of dice today. 🤦‍♀️

Oh! I have the story up on AO3!

The Call of Sockthulhu

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3273095

Years ago, I wrote a version of "The Call of Cthulhu" that is like Lovecraft meets "Toy Story". The whole thing is played out by toys. (The policeman comes from the Fisher-Price family.) Cthulhu is Sockthulhu...a doll made from socks.

I also made Sockthulhu at the time, and found him this weekend while going through some boxes!

Well, I've sat locked in fear and despair long enough! Let's see what I can go disrupt just by daring to exist in that space! 🥳

I'm finally getting started reading N.K. Jemisin's "The City We Became"! This one's been on my list of things I intend to read for a while.
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I found a spot in my current knitting project where the yarn had frayed nearly to the point of snapping! It wasn't easy for me to fix it, as those stitches were already finished. It would have been even harder to fix if it snapped and things started unraveling some day in the future when I'm wearing it, though.

Woke up to find this in messages from my husband today. 💜

https://youtu.be/Lxwcmhj63l4