Coming up on 200 posts here! Pretty exciting stuff. Hopefully, I catch it this time, when it happens, unlike when I blew past 100 and didn’t notice. Magic and mystery are afoot.
This is number four, of 4, 3, 2, then the famous 200th post.
I’m already in painting-friendly clothing. Changed almost as soon as I got home. No idea what I want to do with the heart canvases next. That’s supposed to be the fun part.
Kiddo asked for drive-thru money today. She said she only needed a dollar. Just a tad bit short to pay for what she wanted to order in the app. But I’m her mom. She’s my only child. I sent $10. Nearly all of what I had left, but tomorrow is payday. Already shows pending.
Bills, cat supplies, household staples, all await paying/purchasing.
Tonight, however, I can let all that go.
Tomorrow, before work, I will stop at the vet’s office for sensitive tummy cat food, and liver-flavored cat probiotic powder packets.
Depending on how long that takes, I may also shoot for the grocery store, for basic essentials. And I have been thinking I should probably bring something to the Sunday meal, for Easter.
If there isn’t time tomorrow, I’ll do the store Saturday, and maybe also snag a pie, or a cake, from the bakery. One of our stores had some really cute Easter cakes one year. Made up to look like eggs and such. Gorgeous frosting. It’s a thought.
I also want to set some money aside for adventuring, since there was talk of a Door County trip, and I owe Tom for his covering my wrap and tots, at the bowling alley. Don’t want to take advantage of his kindness. If it’s the 3 of us again next time, I could offer to cover a meal or drinks or something, somewhere. Only fair. Even if he doesn’t come along, I would need some money to feed myself.
Ideally, I would also like to sock away some cash for a fix to my current transportation situation. I suppose I could apply for a loan of some kind, but I don’t know how much I could get. And it would suck to end up mired in debt again.
Right now, all I have left is PayPal Credit, and a retail clothing store card. The clothing store account, I’ve been paying off statement balances every month, and avoiding interest. Will likely have to cut back on those purchases, too. But I do need to go through the clothes I already have, and see what can be donated, what I still need. Now is a good time.
In happier and again more magical news…
I think I’ve read most of the stories in Poppy Z. Brite’s Wormwood collection now. Haven’t always gone in order from the beginning. Pretty sure I read the introduction and the first one or two stories, then saw Ghost and Steve reappear in a second one, and skipped ahead to that. Picking and choosing the rest one by one, now.
Got confirmation tracking is now available on my paperback copy of Lost Souls. Even if I only just recently reread it, I may give it another go, once it’s here.
A different kind of magic than the vibe in the first photo. The image, I just really dug. Whimsical. Fey. But not the dangerous fey world of Holly Black, I don’t think. This fey being just looks a little sad. Or maybe just contemplative.
Vampires feel fey adjacent to me. They’ve been juxtaposed within the same fictive worlds by other writers/storycrafters. I wonder if anything published under the Brite pseudonym ever addressed the fey?
Anyway…wishing you all the merry. I’ll be collecting glimmers and gratitude along the way. NOW… I best get painting!
All the Bright and Sparkly Things 
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