2005-10-30

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Well, Samhain Ritual #1 is over. The last people just went home about an hour ago.

*dies*

A very good rite, with many fond memories of the beloved dead shared and many negativities burned/banished in the cauldron. AND my beef roast (sirloin tip) turned out beautifully after being sprinkled with rosemary leaves. Thanks for the tip, [livejournal.com profile] nightdog_barks!

We DID burn more flash paper than I anticipated, which means I'll have to make a stop downtown on Monday afternoon and pick up more. *sigh* It's damned expensive stuff, but essential for that particular portion of the rite since regular paper burns with too much smoke. I got some good pictures of the floor altar (I hope), and the ritual text didn't clunk TOO badly... heh. K's boyfriend J did a great turn at invoking the Horned God, considering that he's never played any ritual role before. And everybody brought wonderful, wonderful food... K brought chips & dip/cheese & crackers, R a lovely bean salad, A a delicious regular salad with many kinds of green leaves and oil dressing, LA some ginger-and-stevia carrots, [livejournal.com profile] cockatiel_art a yummy fruit stew, and K and J two luscious pumpkin pies. Everybody went away well filled, and the offering bowls to the deities/dead were packed with goodies!

I am dead tired (pun possibly intended). Bedtime for crowdogs... I'll worry about packing the Ritual Carpetbag for Samhain Ritual #2 (at Holly's on Monday) tomorrow.
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Oh, my aching back... literally. When I lay down last night, I discovered that sitting on the floor for the better part of an hour during the ritual croggled my back up REAL good. The worst pain was around my right shoulderblade, for some reason, and kept me up for a while trying to find a comfortable position before I finally gave up and took some Ibuprofin. Ahhh, sweet relief.

George and I are keeping an eye on some eBay auctions for Lee, one of which will be up this evening: an iMac G3 600 MHz with 256 MB of RAM, a 25 GB hard drive, a CD-RW, and Mac OS 10.3. It's a Graphite, which looks cool, and should be more than powerful enough for her purposes. It's up to $108.50 US, and, considering that we're willing to go as high as $175, it's well within our price range. Just waiting for an email back from the seller to see if he'll take a Canadian postal or bank money order, or Western Union, as a form of payment.

It looks like Jeff's gaming group is coming over HERE tonight, as opposed to meeting at his place as usual, since they're suffering a burst sewer pipe which makes gaming over there impractical. What excellent timing, that I happen to have the place cleaned up from yesterday's event!

Off to change...
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Here:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5822572495&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

That lovely little iMac I was going on about in my previous post. It went for $152.50 US, and the total, with shipping and Western Union charges for sending the payment, will come to approximately $260 CDN -- we'll know exactly how much after we wire the money.

I hope Lee and her husband will be pleased!

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