First, I am participating in the Reality Project. You can type it in as a category and find the other blogs and information if you care to join. Second, yes I know today's date is the fourteenth of October. Basically, my theory is if I can remember whatever it was I thought yesterday, its important enough to blog about. We'll see how that theory works. ;)
October 13
It was a sunny day today! A miraculous moment in Washington State. Its generally at least cloudy, if not prone to drizzle. So naturally, when there is not a cloud in the sky, I am perfectly prepared to...do my homework. Say what? Homework? Shouldn't I at least want to go outside? I'm a major fan of the internet and all, but I didn't think my nature deficiency was this serious.
Once I convinced myself to go outside, it felt lovely, but I still had that nagging sense of...work on your paper! paper! paper! After a while, and spending some time running errands with my parents, I caved. Maybe if I blog about the environment tomorrow I'll make up for it.
(EDIT: The neighbors just pointed out a gigantic hornets' nest in a tree in our front yard. Yes, I do mean gigantic. The thing is huge, we might need to find a hornet As much as I enjoy fresh air, I'm supposedly allergic to hornet and bee stings, and I have no idea where my Epi-Pen is at this point. For some reason, I don't think I'll be planning on spending much time outside at home)
While we were out running errands, we ended up going to the local mall. I end up wandering into a store called Magickal Gardaen. Turns out, its a pagan store. So I'm wandering around, smelling the different incense and oils and looking around, and my parents and little sister apparently decide to follow me into the store. They were so loud, talking and laughing, but staying amazingly close to the front of the store. It occurred to me that they were totally out of place, but I felt rather comfortable. Maybe its the fact that while I was with him, my ex practiced Asatru and some of my closer friends are Wiccan, maybe its the fact that I'm more than ready to break away from my parents and when we actually practiced any religion, it was Roman Catholicism. I'm not saying I'm pagan or catholic or anything like that, I was just musing on the sense of belonging you can feel in some stores. Walk into Hot Topic. You either love the smell and the music and you can enjoy browsing or you don't and you flee to Abercrombie or Hollister. Kind of odd how something so simple as the smell of the place can either repel you or give you the sense of belonging, isn't it? Am I the only one who wonders why that is?
So, thats the thirteenth in a nutshell.
~Gabi
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I can see where your coming from, it reminds me of my cousin and I, she and I are very simialr minus shopping, I took her into Hot Topic once, a store I could browse for hours and be totally content, much like the book store, where she went white in the eyes like a frightened race horse approachign the starting gate. I could feel her get rigid as I pulled her in. I do not believe I have ever been in and out of Hot Topic that fast. She then quickly dragged me into Hollister where I precided to sigh and follow her around. (I did get to go back to Hot Topic but that is another story and a funny one at that).
*Kai