Long weekend, long post

[featherynscale]

Just to catch up for the last few days... I haven't been much in the mood for writing lately - in fact I've been right out sulky. I don't care for that as a mood choice, so I think I'm going to stop now.
I didn't do anything at all for the 4th of July this year, which is odd, since all told, I generally enjoy blowing things up or watching other people do so. It just didn't seem right this year though - Sorry I missed the party, America, but you've been kind of paranoid and mean lately, and I hope you start feeling better soon - I'm kinda missing hanging out with you.
I did get a new hair color and cut though. I went with kcwitch to get her tattoo on Saturday, and felt like I needed an appearance change as well, so I had all my hair cut off.
Serindipitously (if that's even a word), the new cut and color helped me out in Sunday's ritual quite a bit - we did a contest/fundraiser to choose the patron deity for Gaia for the next six weeks or so, choosing among gods from the Egyptian pantheon. I was Bast, the cat goddess. I didn't win, but that's okay - Osiris is a perfectly fine sort of deity and there are no hard feelings. I, characteristically, was more interested in getting people to pet me than to vote for me. And we raised about three times what we normally do in a summer fundraiser and collected a ridiculous amount of food, which will go to Harvesters. So that all worked out well, and nobody got struck by lightning, or swarmed by locusts or anything, even though most of the gods called the other gods hippo-fuckers at several points in the process. A good time was had by all.
I'm not sure I'm quite done being Bast yet - it's a lot of fun, and I may continue. But, as I was told, if all that does is make me move in a more feline way and occasionally swat at things that are shiny and/or dangling, that's probably no harm.

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[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Church fundraisers suck, no matter what the diety. But the format was fun, and you got cash out of me that you normally would not have. The costumes rocked! It would have been cool to have Greta up there, Mik thought she was supposed to be Isis? You all looked quite tasty... well except David... but he appealed to my logical side. The sex after death thing was sort of odd, as I figured I'd die at about 70-80 and haveing sex for eternity in that form sounds more like hell. 8-P

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It was fun though, wasn't it?
Greta was fabulous - I didn't even recognize her until Andrew called her by name (and the wrong name at that). She came as Ma'at, who is the embodiment of natural law - where Thoth writes the laws for men, Ma'at is the law above that - laws of physics, of cause and effect, etc. In the original plan, I was going to be Ma'at, but Heather apparently thought that that might cause some sort of large-scale catastrophe, so I got re-assigned.
And I thought that David was pretty tasty for a baboon. :) As it worked out after the thing was over, we were talking about which god we'd have given to if we'd been on the other side of the game, and it works out that I'm a fan of Thoth and he's partial to Bast. So that was interesting.
You'd have to ask Heather about the egyptian concept of the afterlife sometime. I think that she said that they believe/d in the same sort of "perfected, uncorrupted bodies" in the afterlife that christians do. (Quotes because I can't remember if that's the right phrase or not.) So you might enter the afterlife at 80, but you'd be damned fit and tasty for an old dead man.

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

i thought it was quite fun too. i didn't know you didn't have plans for the 4th or i would have had you come to the great mall with us. we go every year to watch the fireworks there. it's a great display and never crowded. i hate overly large crowds. we also went to see charlie's angels that day too.

oh and...

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

don't want to forget to say again thank you soooooo much for going with me to get my tattoo! you don't know how much that meant to me.
this was a huge step in my life and i was very happy that i got to share it with someone who i have come to love and think very much of.
also wanted to let you know how friggin drop dead sexy i think you are. the hair cut is great. the dress was uber sexy on you. but you have always been super sexy to me. i say you should show off more skin. you've got great legs!

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[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Heather... that would be the one who rarely comes to Gaia, and had no idea whom I was, yet was running the ritual? That was sort of weird.

I suppose part of my problem is the lack of belief in an afterlife... although my mindset is that if there is indeed an afterlife, my deeds in the presentlife should hook me up. After all, even according to Dante, pious non-believers don't go to HELL hell... ::grin::

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I don't think you go to Hell in kemetic theology either - it's just that Anubis devours your body and possibly the various important bits of your soul. Cheerful thought of a morning anyway.

Heather has been part of Gaia for ages and ages - she used to be a regular ritualist before her son was born and until she recently foisted it off on David was the Treasurer. You're more likely to see her at RfBs than at Sunday rituals, which is why she doesn't know you.

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[diermuid.livejournal.com]

RfBs? I'm thinking of all sorts of funny word combos, but assumably I am off.

Baby thing makes sense. I just figured she was very kemetic, and the past few months hadn't appealed to her. I know I've seen her around a half dozen times, just not at ritual. Then again I've been spending more time hanging out with the kids. ;-)

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[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

RfBs = Rituals for Business. Board meetings.