I found on the internet videos showing how badly treated animals are.  These videos are not for those sensitive at heart, the images depicted are very cruel so you are warned.  I do not eat much meat already but it made me rethink about vegetarian lifestyle.

http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp?gclid=CM6mpsaEro4CFRcIYgodG2P7Yg

http://veg-tv.info/Earthlings

I just found a great place where to get chat rooms for free and I put one on my blog, all you need is Flash on your browser to make it work.  You can choose to sign up and create a profile with the name and avatar of your choice, with other extras, or to not sign up but be a guest with the nickname you want.  It's a chat room for Pagans and for those who want to discuss divination tools like tarot and oracles.  There are cute emoticons and all.

You are welcome to come of course!  More the merrier!

 

Unlike some, I've never been able to connect to runes. I've found the idea of making my own set exciting but considering I don't like runes that was out of the question. I've seen a few sets of stones that are obviously invented and have no background whatsoever, unlike the runes and oghams. I use oghams but it a set of cards and not stones or wood sticks, it's the oracle Green Man Tree Oracle by John Matthews, beautiful art by Will Worthington. So while discussing about such sets in ISRC Forum, about maybe making our own oracles, I came up with the idea of this oracle made out of FIMO. I've thought about symbols and I finally made the oracle. The small FIMO stones I made are in metallic copper and I painted the symbols with metallic copper paint. I put here a picture of the oracle but there are more in the Gallery. I am just trying to inspire you to make your own set of stones with you own symbols. I put here my symbols to give you ideas. I've just noticed that I lost the stone Home. Good stones can turn bad depending of surrending stones.

Home: where our heart is, the center of our lives, family, friends, shelter.

Sword: conflict, fight, argument, to be careful about what we say and do for it can be used against us.

Broken sword: defeat, broken pride.

Tree: growth, abundance, lastingness, success, stability, organisation, structure, work, also represents the element earth.

Thunder: bad situation, bad outlook, problems.

Two arrows meeting at the sharp points: meeting, reunion, party, group of persons.

One arrow: movement, travel, change, distance.

Star: hope, wish, destiny.

Letter: news.

Tear: sorrow.

One full dot: beginning, birth.

Sun: happiness, clarity, truth, success, male, optimism, self-confidence.

Unfinished symbol: something unfinished, problem not resolved yet, overestimating ourself in a situation, something at the infancy stage, too soon to tell.

Aquarius sign: thoughts, lucidity, ideas, project, dreams, represent the element air.

Dollar sign ($): money, abundance, success, gambling (in negative).

Moon: moody, emotions, mystery, delay, confusion, lies, deceit, doubt, female, represents the element water.

Flame: passion, energy, dynamism, self-confidence, represents the element fire.

Scythe: end, death, change.

Flower: joy, happiness, gift.

One bland one: surprise, unexpected.

One heart: warm and cozy feelings (but not necessarily shared), romantic feelings (but not necessarily shared).

Two hearts: shared warm and cozy feelings, shared romantic feelings.

Broken heart: heartbreak, broken relationship, lost relationship, broken deal.

Ladder (or reversed as Gate): situation that goes better, help; as Gate, obstacle, delay.

Circle: protection, vicious never-ending circle.

V: victory, success.

Iceberg: not everything is what it seems, hidden aspects, lies, something hard or impossible to reach.

Crossroad (X): decision to make, choice, doubts, indecision.

First, I've decided to clean up my page and rewrite some other sections of my Profile, I just copy-pasted what I wrote on my MySpace page and I can see it's a lot of text that I put, and some more related to gaming than Paganism, even though I do game daily. So, I've decided to make some sort of top ten for each category so the whole thing does not crowd my page. Usually, one of my pleasure for such pages is to make a pretty skin (one of the reasons I don't like FaceBook), and I'm good at those things, but I really love the red template so far and I think I will not touch it... for the moment.

Second, my internet connection is back and I can finally be online. I've played some Guild Wars which is great because I was so missing it I was dreaming I was playing my characters at night. Now I can do it for real.

Third, I'm really exhausted with the move. I spent 2-3 weeks waking up very early in the morning and search for boxes and drag them home walking (no car) and then pack non stop until very very late at night. My hands and feet were so hurting. Then I spent 2 weeks unpacking. I really need a break so I've decided for the next weeks not to do anything related to my place, because there are still things to do. I'm in vacation of some sort.

I've moved to my new place and everything went fine. Well, almost everything... I have no internet connection yet, not until july 11th they say. So I'll keep suffering I guess in the meanwhile. I'm really happy about my new place, it's great and the neighboorhood is nice and not too noisy, even though there is a bus that passes in front of my place and a big street really close. I have to admit that in many ways it's better than my previous place and that I'm kind of happy I was kicked out after all.

With some money I put aside and a gift certificate I got from friends, I bought myself a digital camera so I'll be able to take tons of pictures now. I was taking pictures as a hobby years ago but stopped because it was way too expensive. With the extra money I got from my previous landlord for the move, I shall buy a few pieces of furniture for my livingroom, I have nowhere to sit on.