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[Feb. 2nd, 2010|01:05 am]
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Okay I don't have anything to talk about today either, but I thought that I might just be annoying and keep writing about my day. Like a journal of sorts. I don't know if I'll keep up with it every day, but it's fun to try, right? So today I've caught up on some television. I really like television actually, and I'm in love with the Travel Channel and Food Network. Most of the Travel Channel shows deal with food, so I suppose I'm a bit biased. In any case, they're both fantastic. You know what I really love? Ace of Cakes. Those people can make anything with cake. It makes me want to go to Baltimore and have them make one that looks like Mt. Olympus. With some really decadent kind of cake, but it will look really neat as well, I think. I've also been hooked on World's Worst Cooks, which is totally amusing to me. I know so many people who were just so bad at their job, but really this is just insane how bad these people are. I don't get how anyone can burn boiling water, or leave something that's raw or anything like that. Being bad at cooking is so foreign to me, though I guess there's a lot of things that I can't do.

A lot of what I've been doing too is reading. Sherlock Holmes at the moment, it seems like a good place to start. I really adore Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I just like the way that he writes. He really captures a character I think. I'm just about done with Realtor classes and then I have a HUGE test so that I can get my license and then I can find somewhere real to work. Part of me wants to open up my own realty business, is that too ambitious? Probably. I know that I can do my own business though. I've had my own businesses before, in different places and different eras. I know that I can do it, definitely. But should I just jump in, or should I go work with some other people. It's always better to have people work for you, than work for someone else. I guess I have to ask around, see what's even available. The market's iffy right now as it is.

Hm, I suppose that's it. I hope everyone's well. As well as can be expected anyway. I think I'll go try some of these dishes out for myself.
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[Jan. 31st, 2010|03:50 am]
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Classes are going well, I'm almost done with them actually. I've been doing a lot of tagging along with other realtors and they tell me that I have a knack of helping people find their homes. That doesn't really surprise me, but I'm just glad that I can do it. It's still really cold though, I keep thinking about moving to Florida and just staying there. It's the only place that's over 40 degrees. There's so much that I could talk about, but I just don't know where to start. Perhaps I'll just start to ramble, that way no one will actually want to read it and skip over it. I know that I said I was lonely, and that I tried to make friends. No, I tried more than that. I actually had feelings for someone, and it never turned out quite the way I wanted. First time that I actually felt like that, and I got my heart trampled on. I suppose that happens to everyone though. Perhaps it means that I've run away, and perhaps that means that I've shirked my responsibilities, but we all know that I'm really good at that anyway, so who cares? It's odd, because there are people dying and being hurt and I'm not really sure that I care much. I mean I cared, and that still.. I'm always left in the dark with things. And if I went missing and died, no one would realize I was missing either up here, and probably not even in Hades either. It's no longer whining, it's the truth. And I'm tired of caring about it. A lot of the time, I'd think it'd better if I could just disappear and be gone for good, there might be some kind of peace in that. But I doubt that will happen. Just when I think I'm starting to taper off, the Canadians make Operation Hestia. Noble effort of course, but it just means that I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. So I have to get used to all of this. Staying in my little corner of the world, where no one knows where I am is nice. I don't call anyone, I don't talk to anyone much anymore.

I have, however, been going to different churches, with different religions. I've attended a lot of Christian churches. Some of them are so nice and lively. People actually celebrate and they love it, and it kind of reminds me of home except for where there is no real sacrifice. But everyone just seems to have such a good time. Then there are those where people just stand around and they hate it, which is sad. I like some of the Christian songs though, they're nice, and the people who sing are amazing. Then I went to a lot of other temples and synagogues and the whole lot. Some of them are so beautiful. I don't know if I was looking for anything there, or if I found anything but it was nice going all the same. I talked to some really lovely people. I know so many people look down on mortals and the like because of whatever reason. They're supposed to be beneath us or something, but some of them are very remarkable. They are much more remarkable than most of my family as a matter of fact. Everyone acts so.. I'm not even sure there's a word for all of us. I'm including myself in this of course. But we're so set apart from everything. We're in our own little realm. And we think that everything we does, does not effect us in the slightest. The thing is, is that we're all going to be gone eventually and it won't be anyone's fault but our own. We push everyone away, we're making ourselves disappear. Those of us clinging to this life, or wishing to go back home as just making themselves disappear faster. It's sad.

I thought that I had something profound to talk about with all of this, and really I'm just rambling back and forth about good things and bad things. Isn't that what we're supposed to do with these darn things? There are times when I kind of want to throw myself into a fire to see if I feel anything at all. Sometimes it feels like I can't feel much at all. I spent so long being at home, being all tied up in that because that was my place. And now that it's different, and times have changed, I decided to leave. I decided to finally see the world in all it's glory. But I'm still confined to this place, my home, no matter where it is. Wherever I am is home, because there is nothing else that I have besides myself. And in that case, it is like wherever my home is.. it isn't. Because a home is supposed to be more about just the wood and the brick and the cinder it is made from. It is supposed to be about so much more. And yet I don't have any of those things. Funny how a goddess of the home doesn't find a home in anything anymore. I wonder if I'll just wander all my days and not have a home. Perhaps after I get my license. I'll just get in the car and go.

Give me fire. No one would find me then.
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[Jan. 28th, 2010|04:02 pm]
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OOC nonsense: Proof that Hestia didn't always hate her daddy )
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[Jan. 10th, 2010|05:01 pm]
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I've finally found a new place to live. It's further south, though I'm wary about saying where exactly for obvious reasons. However, those that I trust will know where I am, if they should need me. My home will always be open for those that need help. It's a little run down and derelict, but I know that I can repair it and make it look great again. The woman that showed me the house was a bit surprised that I'm just one woman moving into a whole house by myself without a husband or children or something. But she also was a little impressed that I seemed to talk about the house the same way that she did. She asked me if I had ever sold houses before, or been in real estate, and I told her no. Anyway, the conversation ended with me taking the house and her giving me a number to call about taking some courses in the business so that I can get a license to sell homes and become a real estate agent.

For some reason, I just decided to do it. I've called and enrolled. I've got myself a temporary job at one of the local restaurants down here, which is nice. But selling homes, I don't know why I didn't think of it before. It seems like something I was born to do.
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[Jan. 3rd, 2010|01:38 am]
I cannot go on feeling like this. It's pointless.

I just don't know how to turn it off.
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[Dec. 18th, 2009|08:34 pm]
Call me a coward, but I'm swanning off. I'm no good at this anyway.

Edit: I'll be around to help anyone who needs it. I'm not completely running, I just do not know how to fight.
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[Dec. 11th, 2009|10:35 pm]
I never know what to write in these things. There really isn't all that much to say. I haven't been sleeping at all. Not for a couple of days at least, maybe a couple of minutes here and there. I suppose I don't need to sleep, but I fear it's taking it's toll. It's the same being cold. I hate it when it's this cold out. Even the fireplace isn't keeping me warm. I suppose that might mean something, if one found meaning in things like that. I keep watching this show called Dirty Jobs. It's kind of fun, and I'm amused but I'm still tired and cold. All of these religious holidays are coming up, that are supposed to have food with them. I don't mind this time of year for that reason though, working always brings me a lot of joy. And I'm plenty busy at the restaurant.

But then I come home, to a home that's not really my home. I mean I share it with my sister, and that's lovely. I adore her and she's so great for keeping me. But it's not mine. And I still don't know where to go. I keep being torn between just heading off somewhere where no one will find me, and going back to being alone and trying to actually be more.. something. I'm lonely. Beyond lonely, and I guess I've been that way for a couple hundred years at least. I didn't really realize it until recently. But I've just cut myself off from things. I shouldn't, but a lot of me just wants to run away from the things that will only make me miserable and go hide in the base of a volcano for a while.

No one would realize I wasn't around anyway. This is seriously depressing. Maybe I should go just so I won't have to write things like this anymore. I blame me being utterly tired. Naps don't help. There are things that I need to say to people, but I can't really find the words. I don't know how to say them because I've never felt this way before. So I'm totally clueless and scared. Just one pile of bad things I suppose.

Right. I'll stop complaining now.
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[Nov. 15th, 2009|03:35 pm]
Now that I'm all settled in, I guess I should make this official. I'm going to make Thanksgiving dinner for anyone who doesn't have anywhere else to go or who just wants to come over for dinner.
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[Nov. 8th, 2009|02:11 am]
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If you only knew I'm hanging by a thread the web I spin for you.
If you only knew I'd sacrifice my beating heart before I'd lose you.
I still hold onto the letters you returned, I swear I've lived and learned.
It's 4:03 and I can't sleep without you next to me, I toss and turn like the sea.
If I drown tonight, bring me back to life. Breathe your breath in me, the only thing that I still believe in is you.
If you only knew.


I sort of babysat the other day, for some people that I work with at the restaurant. I never understood what the deal was with babies, especially mortal ones. But anyway, I looked after the baby and I kind of see why so many women are fond of them. They're really quite adorable, and small. Not that I'm ever thinking about having my own of course. But it was nice to hold one while I could. I'd never tried before. In any case, I've all my things packed up and ready to move. They've wrote me a very nice check for my "inconvenience" which is insane and stupid, but there you go. I guess I'll use the check as a down payment on a new place to live. I just don't know where that is. I miss having a home with a fireplace, for obvious reasons. That's really the only thing I want, I just don't know if I can afford to live in a place that has one. Or any kind of fire at all, really.

I might make Thanksgiving dinner, if anyone's interested in you know.. eating with me. Suppose if I made it all for myself, I couldn't eat it all. But my appetite actually surprises some people. Doubt I could eat a whole turkey though. Stuffing, perhaps. But I like cooking it, even if I don't get to eat it. Maybe if no one comes, I'll take the rest of the food down to one of the shelters.

Guess for now I should concentrate in actually finding a roof over my head and a place to make said meal.
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[Oct. 16th, 2009|03:04 pm]
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It seems that a company wants to buy up the property where my home is and make room for a highway or a mini-mall.

I have a week to pack up all of my things.

I don't really know where to go.
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[Oct. 8th, 2009|01:03 am]
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I had thought about going through the Julia Child cook book, but someone already did that (besides Julia) so I thought maybe I should just make one myself. Except I'm not sure I know any recipes that are exactly my own. That or maybe it would be five volumes long. I have acquired quite a bit of food over the years.

It's getting chilly, but I'm looking forward to having all the leaves turn. It's such a pretty time of year. Maybe I should go for a walk and take a look at them, if they've even changed. Maybe going up out of the city to look at the leaves anyway. I always like getting out of the city. Anyone want to come along?
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[Oct. 7th, 2009|03:53 pm]
Hestia, you who tend the holy house of the lord Apollon, the Far-shooter at goodly Pytho, with soft oil dripping ever from your locks, come now into this house, come, having one mind with Zeus the all-wise--draw near, and withal bestow grace upon my song )
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