Oh new reading series

So, on Jason's urging I have started reading some of the Dragon Lance books.  I have always been hesitant about starting these series.  Lets be clear, there are a lot of Dragon Lance books.  I am not reading them all.  I am reading the ones by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.  These are the works I think most of the early D&D games were based on.  In fact, the first book I read felt just like that, a D&D campaign being told as an epic story.  Which, of course, means that I am totally hooked.

I have finished the first book.  It was odd.  You do not start at the beginning.  The friendships and relationships are already established for the most part.  I felt like I was playing catch up the first few chapters.  Then the story kicked into high gear and I did not notice.  It was a great thrilling book, that quite literally had me laughing out loud frequently.

I am currently about a third of the way into the second book and much like the first it is told as a great campaign.  Also, here you don not start where you expected.  It does not pick up right where book one ended but instead a few months down the line.  I was worried I had the wrong book and checked several times to make sure it was the right one.  But the story has started and I no longer care about missing one adventure as now I am off on another.

My hope is to have the second book done before Thanksgiving.  That way I can read the third one by the New Years.

Fortune Telling

For those not aware (and there are many), I am a novice fortune teller.  I actually really love the tarot.  I collect decks and I give decks as gifts so my collection is always growing and shrinking.  Tarot has been a part of me since I was a teenager.  I read in college for my friends, I read in England also for my friends, and I have read for charity.  I do not find the cards evil. I do not see them as demonic.  I see them as a line into the unknown that guides me to the past, the present and the future of my reader's soul/psyche/river of life.

I have not been upfront with my passion, in fact I have been known to hide it in the shadows.  This has made the currents angry.  Yes, you read that right.  I believe in life currents.    I believe items have power beyond what we see.  Thus when I say the currents are mad, I mean my cards are mad at me.  They refuse to answer questions or do so in the most infuriating manner.  So, to make them happy and to return to our balance I am bring them back into the light!  I will hide "my wicked ways" no more!  There I have said it, and it feels so very good.

I do have many decks (current count is about 7) but I primarily read with only one deck.  I love her, she speaks to my soul so easily.  Yes, my deck is a girl just ask her yourself.   She is an Arthurian Legends deck published by Llewellyn's and art by Anne-Mare Ferguson.  She was given to me (as all great decks are) by my sisters who understand me better than I do myself.  She was with me in England, in fact my best friend there had the same deck!  She was also the deck that I used to first read my husband, which is how we met.

Sample of the artwork

My hope is to spend some time posting tarot card studies, linking articles on fortune telling, and may be even digital readings.

Now that I have taken months off.

Well I was not meaning to disappear for months on end.  I really was intending to come back sooner.  I just need sometime to find a way.  That means yet again I have changed the look of the blog.  Hope you like it.

Jason is still in school and doing very well.  He is a very busy bee.  He should be done fall semester 2016.  That is our hope.  Fingers crossed!!

I am still baking, crafting, and reading up a storm.   I am so far behind on my to do list that I am getting pissed at myself.   I should have been done with so many projects by now but I just cannot seem to get them started properly.  So far this month's list stand at:

• Jeremiah's Tunic
• Hoite's Apron
• Christmas gift 1
• Christmas gift 2
• Lotion Bars for stockings (requires buying a mold, like this.)
• Stockings?

It is a stout list but one I think that is do-able.  A few items can be carried over to next month.

I have been having a ball the past few months by dancing.  I have been taking belly dance with a friend/owner at Moon Haven Studios.  This is making me feel worlds better about myself.  I am so badly out of shape and this has been one of the best ways to get my energy back up.  I have danced with her before so I am not so anxious about myself around her.  I am sure at times she is ready to shoot me but it is so nice to feel safe enough about myself to talk without fear.  Truly love her for that feeling alone!!

This is from the first class a few years back.