Back! (again)

So my friend, Nymphaea, over at the Inner Sanctum has forced inspired me to get back into this whole blogging thing, and now I think that my life is in order enough that i can reliably do this. I'm going to start off slow, posting stuff at least every Friday, but hopefully later I can move it up to every few days. Anyway, enough of the excuses. Time for news!

Since I last left you, I have been super busy. I'm now living in a real, grown-up apartment with my real, grown-up friends. This is bringing along with it such adult activities as working full time and paying bills, making sure we don't starve, and making sure my plants don't die of neglect, as well as some rather unfortunate side-effects such as complaining about the weather and dirty dishes. Oh well, I guess this means that my life is good. I know I'm not complaining, especially since I now live with my amazing boyfriend full time (and not in a college dorm). I've never experienced this much change and growth before now (at least not consciously), so this adulthood thing is kind of like missing a step going down stairs. It's a little scary while it is happening, but immediately afterward there is that exhilarating sense of euphoria as the adrenaline pumps through the body. Like that, but in the soul.

Anyway, new responsibilities also include exercising, which used to be a curse word in my vocabulary. See, I started losing weight and really liked the way that I looked, so I decided to keep it up. not wanting to get too skinny, I've now decided to start doing some muscle sculpting exercises. Starting on Sunday, I want to be in the gym for twenty to thirty minutes a day, six days a week. I'll alternate days between aerobic and anaerobic exercise, so hopefully I build muscle at around the same rate as I lose fat. We'll see how that goes in a couple weeks, though.

As far as paganism, boy things have changed a lot. I have found, through research that I have recently been doing, that the hazy, pseudo-Wiccan stuff that I had been doing was not fulfilling for me. I have found this out because, as of just before Beltane, I am now a student of a tradition! I may post more about the tradition later, if I feel called, but for right now just know that I now have a group of people with which to practice my Craft. My teacher, who is an amazing kitchen/green/everything witch has me doing an amazing amount of coursework which is really helping me cement my practices in my daily life. I'll be posting revelations as they happen, as well as rambling on about stuff that happened in the Interim, which is what I will now call this extended silence.

Thanks for sticking with me, and to all of my new friends, welcome to my blog! For your safety, keep your seat belts on and your extremities inside the vehicle for the duration of the ride.