Saturday, November 26, 2005

Scaring Myself Silly

Although halloween has been and gone I seem to be in the mood for scaring myself. Tonight I watched Deadbirds which for a good part of the film I was hiding my eyes in Garfield's arm. As the film went on, in typical horror film fashion it just became more grusome as it could not in story terms sustain itself.

On Wednesday evening me and Kira are going to see The Exorcism of Emily Rose which will probably be even more terrifying as its based on a true story, apparently... Anyway looking forward to it! Ooooh I do like a good scare! I wonder if its acceptable for me to take a cushion to the cinema to hide behind? Obviously if I should ever become possessed my cushion will save me ;-)

(Garfield is the name of some who wishes for his real identity to remain secret so shall always be referred to Garfield...)

Monday, November 14, 2005

Spells!

Last week I got a wonderful delivery from Amazon...

Two brand new and brilliant magic/spell books.

1. Eileen Holland's Grimoire of Magickal Correspondences - this book is going to make spell making so much easier! It lists every ingredient or deity that you have ever needed for any type of spell - extremely useful!

2. Judika Illes's The Element Encyclopaedia of 5000 Spells - I wasn't sure about this book, I thought it might turn out to be a bit fickle like a Titania spell book. Fortunately the book proved me wrong and is actually very useful. Its more like a history of magic in the sense that it lists thousands of spells from many traditions and goes as far as having a disclaimer saying that the writer does not expect some of the spells in this book to be used as they were only relevant a long time ago. Its also very handy that this book mainly lists the actions required for a spell, allowing the reader the freedom to add their own chanting and ingredients if required.

Both will come in very handy for something I am working on that hopefully will make the whole spell making process, much, much easier... (even if just for me)

Monday, November 07, 2005

The Weekend

Had a great weekend.

Visited my brother on Friday night in Sandhurst to help him with his CV and to get him signed up to MSN messenger. For my visit he specially bought a box of fireworks for us to set off in his garden! Which we did - unfortunately we picked the biggest and best ones first so the last few were a bit of an anticlimax...

...And unfortunately whilst the fireworks were going off I inhaled just a bit too much smoke which is not good with my current sinus problems (seems to be made worse by smoke) so I couldn't breathe properly on Saturday - I struggled to walk up the Lewes Road! Anyway thanks to a bit of homeopathic medicine its getting better now and in short while I hope I will be able to play a game of squash. Fingers crossed.

Ooh and at my house it was Jemma and Rachel's joint birthday party - which was fun - apart from the smoke and far too much archers...

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Maybe Third Time Lucky?

Yesterday I had a day off.

Had it all planned.

Yes a relaxing breakfast, to be followed by some listing of stuff on Ebay.

I took my time preparing the stuff for ebay - leisurely putting items on the Turbo Lister. Listened to Marilyn Manson (haven't done for a while - had an urge to listen to the 'Nobodies').

And of course the whole I knew that I should leave about 2pm so that I could visit the psychic in Worthing...

...Of course I then encountered some technical problems with my internet connection - spent ages faffing about with that and actually left around about three!

Somehow, magically got to the shop in Worthing about 4:30 - only to find that the shop had closed early! Oh well maybe third time lucky...

Not a completely wasted day - listening to 'The Nobodies' has inspired me to start working on a particular story again.