Contemplating making some homemade laundry detergent.

Edit: If you are interested in some, let me know and we can work something out and if you currently use the liquid or the powder. I have become more disenchanted with the stuff that you can buy at the store and the prices that they charge.

Got to take a couple boxes of cds to the post office tomorrow on my way in to work. another trip on Saturday to mail off the books that are being sold. (just too heavy to carry on the bus to do a during the week run)

Part of me is wondering if this isn't just a weird depression that I am going thru or it is just the shedding of a bunch of diversions.

Been looking at some of the domestic registeries in the nation and noticed that many of them apply to heterosexuals as well. While they don't give the full benefits of being married, there are still things that are quite appealling, like no divorce process (there is a separation/termination update process but nothing like the divorce process) and one can still take advantage of single or head of household filing status. Not bad. It doesn't look like it is portable if you move out of the area or if it holds. Interesting.

Maybe.

Been getting the itch to move on. Well at least change cities. Plans are fluid and the consistent ones are ones that I can do any where. Really wanting the family stay at home thing more than ever. I can't believe that it has been a year already. Who knows where life will take our little clan but it just doesn't seem like roots are really taking hold in Chicago.

Just sold a couple dozen music cds that the used shops wouldn't buy for close to $100. Still have a couple dozen left that I may try on amazon.com. Got a couple boxes of books to go thru and pack up to send off and then go thru the other books to see what I want to sell. Ebay is offering a special for listings so may try them and will see about listing the rest on amazon.com. Kinda feels good that my time this morning has been so productive. Hoping the rest of the day goes as well too.

Today I am taking a much needed mental health day. Gabby is at the nanny's and my sweetie is at work (well on the way there). The house is quiet and I have a ton of projects that I want to get done. Like some of the cleaning and rearranging that I keep putting off but has been bugging the crap out of me. That and doing a bunch of stuff for Tree of Divine Light and putting some cds and books up for sale. Pretty much anticipating that the return on the time will be well spent.

I have been having this urge to purge myself of all extraneous material goods. Most of it is just extra weight that doesn't need to be carried.

I know that I need to take some time today to just reconnect with the world and not spend the entire day working on stuff.

Lunch anyone?

There's the awesome parts, there are the parts that I wish were better and then there are parts that I wish I could just get rid of. Why in the hell is this b-day hitting me so hard?

1099 – First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.

And my lesser feast!

Tempted fate and broke through my superstition of bringing donuts to work.

It seems that I have gone into another rabbit hole. This one is too much fun to stop exploring tho.

Yesterday while cleaning and rearranging, I ended up falling and spraining my elbow. Went to urgent care to get some muscle relaxers. Feeling a bit better but slept for close to 20 hours over the past day. Not much fun for a holiday. Missed vending this morning as I knew that there was no way to set up my tent or move my merchandise. Next weekend going to visit my aunt so not vending next weekend either. But the following should be a good weekend (praying for no rain). Just glad that the fall wasn't worse than it was and it could have been very ugly.

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to." - Kahlil Gibran

Last year it was some uncertainity in income and having a new baby. This year it is income uncertainity again and a change up in child care arrangements and my little girl is turning one. At least if things follow the patterns of last year, things will be ok and even out in August/September. Just not a fun feeling. At least this time around, there is some anti anxiety help that I couldn't take last year. Not much help but at least it helps keep me from totally freaking out.

I am always wary of psychics that ask if you want a reading before even saying hello. They usually scream of con artist. There is a new one on Devon that I stopped by to check out. It looks like she has her family living with her in the store front (the price is much cheaper than surrounding rents). Not that I have anything against the multiuse of a space but it looked very seedy and nothing remotedly like she is going to sell any product. (I am also sceptical of any readers that have a store front that aren't selling product)

Gabby had her first popsicle today. It was lime. She loved it. :D

I feel like I am forgetting something in prep for vending on Saturday. I'm sure I will remember it sometime.

seem to be the primary hairstyles for bike messengers. Crazy.

Is mass consumption and consumerism the Choronzon of the New Aeon? I would say yes.

What are your thoughts?

I have been reading the book "The 4 hour workweek" by Timothy Ferriss. Not reading it from the perspective of how to get rich quick but looking at ways to eventually set up some low work income to help fund some of my other projects. I really like most of his ideas and think that many of those ideas can help realize the freedom that I need to pursue those projects. There are a ton of great references for other information in the book (the reason why I picked up the book in the first place).

For once I actually found a book of this nature that I would recommend to others.

I will beginning vending my wares at the Edgewater Green Market beginning Saturday June 27th.

Edgewater Green Market is open every Saturday from 7am to 1pm and is located on the corner of Broadway and Norwood (just north of the Thorndale Red line stop).

I will primarily be carrying my handcrafted items from bath salts to candles and more along with a general sampling of items that I will be carrying in my store.

I will also be taking custom order requests.

Stop by and say Hi.