It's our anniversary weekend, and what's the best gift I could possibly hope for? An organized home! So we're working on it (actually, as I type, Garvin appears to be cleaning the cat box from the sounds coming from the Blue Room).
I unpacked my Tarot collection and took a quick inventory. I have 23 actual distinct "real" Tarot decks total. I am only counting in that number the ones that have a full minor arcana, so the Cat Tarot isn't included (only a Major Arcana), nor is the LoTR Oracle or the other such things that do not have approximately 72 cards. I have five sets that fall into that category, and an intentional duplicate deck (I love the Robin Wood deck so much I had to have two, as I was doing too much damage to the deck I play with and wanted one in good condition for my "collection" set... tho they've both gotten a bit beat up now so I think I need a third one LOL). I've got all the decks and books displayed now on a bookshelf in my dining room and that makes me happy (tho the bookshelf does need to be secured to the wall for my SANITY with little mister monkey around).
My birthday is coming up in little more than a month, I wouldn't mind more decks (I really like it when it comes with a book, but that's just gravy) if anyone feels like getting me a sub-$20 gift. I don't even care if they're used as long as they're not horribly beat up. I don't use them for readings or anything like that, they are just artistic inspiration for me when I get creater's block (they work well for writing as well as visual arts, you see). I'll be posting a full catalog of what I own on Squirreal sometime soon, I swear. I also want to be working on the Total Lego Tarot more in the coming cold months (getting organized is the first step, you see), so I'll be needing to update Squirreal with the new images. My friend Serena has been suggesting that she'd be willing to help with web graphics (she's doing an independant study art class at the moment, so it would count as class credit for her), so hopefully that will actually get me off my duff and doing something with it.
But not in November. That's going to have to wait a little. I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) and things will be rather tied up between that and Liam. I'm a little paranoid about the subject matter I'm writing about, worried that I'll be getting hate mail, so I'm keeping my pen name and my real life identity fairly separate. If you're really open minded about religious issues and want to read my original fiction, send me an email and I'll send you the link to my author page as well as the writing blog I've set up for that pen name. The writing blog will continue on past November and have updates on other stories I may write. My NaNo novel is not the novel I've been working on for a few years now, but it's very related. The Nano one is actually a collection of short stories, so easier for folks to follow along. The other novel isn't being written in a linear fashion so it's rather hard to share with folks (I write scenes when they come to me, then organize them with where they fit in the timeline, then later I'll go through and stitch it all together).
Well, time to get back off my duff. More later.
