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October/Gilbhart 31, 2010 ERE Sunday/Sonnestac, Samhain

10/31/2010

(Gilbhart = Yellow Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)]

Plans: cram study

AM Prayer: Sunday, we pray to Sonne/Sunna, lighting a yellow candle (symbolic of the Sun):
Greetings to you Sonne, Lamp of Wodan/Odin: newly risen! Hail to you who has shown on all our ancestors, who shines on us, and who will shine on our decedents yet unborn. Share with us some of your light, your energy, your power, so that we might better fight our battles and attain our goals. SONNE/SUNNA HAIL!!

Rune Summon
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Kenaz (U): The torch, light, shaping, fabrication or fashioning of primordial material, the hearth fire, brightly burning, knowledge, divine inspiration under control of human craft, knowledge from within, intuition, Self awareness, creativity and transformation, clarity of thought, the application of the Divine.

Outcome: The mornings are so beautiful anymore

Morning bicycle ride through Delano http://www.wichitadelano.com/

Medical Terminology; gotta cram in that wisdom!

My niece and my great-nephew were the first trick-or-treaters. I hope this wasn’t a trick, but she told me she was pregnant again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOfuckingHOO!!!!!!!!!!! A divine child (Kenaz)? Audie is just blasé when it comes to my family; another nail for the future.

It was a record night of trick-or-treaters!

MLS Playoff Match http://www.mlssoccer.com/ on ESPN online http://espn.go.com/espn3/index#
LA 1:0 Seattle

PM Prayer: Nirdu/Njord:
Nirdu/Njord, god of harbors and seas close to land, Father of the Vanir; Freyr and Freyja, help us to remember the cargoes of wealth that float to our doors daily from the wonderful universe in which we live. Though our misfortunes may rise and fall like the tides, the chance of prosperity, like the eternal sea brimming with fish, is still there. Like the salt-sea spray, awaken us to the possibilities that surround us, so that our nets may be cast wide and return full of life’s gifts. HAIL NIRDU/NJORD!!

PM Rune: none

Comments: cared for animals, Meeka inside

Alaf Sal Fena!

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October/Gilbhart 30, 2010 ERE Saturday/Sibbastac

10/31/2010

(Gilbhart = Yellow Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE

Plans: study…

AM Prayer: Saturday, normally attributed to the fertility goddess, Saeter, we pray to Sibba/Sif, lighting a green candle (for fertility):
Sibba/Sif let us see you in all the growing things that sustain our lives. Help us look beyond the packaging and promotion, to the richness of the Earth from which all bounty comes. When ordinary eyes see only corn, let us see your golden hair hid in its silk. When others see only bread, let us see the grain, beyond that, your smile and laughter. Feed our might and main, Holy Sibba/Sif, that we may do our work in the world. HAIL SIBBA/SIF!!

Rune Summons
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Gebo (irreversible): The mystical union of gift and giver, repay gift for gift, a fair exchange between people or gods and the Luck that accompanies it; freely exchanged, contracts, relationships, sometimes sexual, sacrifice, and hospitality, do not take more than we are wiling to give, the voluntary sacrifice of resources.

Outcome: Meeka for a dawn walk

Audie off to stylist

I, for the first time in I don’t know how long, shaved off my bear but left the mustache/chin hair-look; kind of like a Col. Sanders look. It’s just an effort to obtain uniformity in the length. It was a necessary sacrifice in the relationship I’ve had with my beard for years.

Casual bicycle ride around the neighborhood; bicycling always feels so good I need to keep that up!

MAJOR grocery expedition; it’s all on her because I am absolutely broke.

Errand trip #2

What the fuck happened? I knew it was a lazy afternoon but I didn’t realize it was THAT lazy of an afternoon. Didn’t get any studying done that’s for sure.

MLS Playoffs http://www.mlssoccer.com/
Dallas 2:1 Salt Lake
San Jose 0:1 NY
Well, so far 2 out of three of my teams in this playoff series aren’t performing as they should…this is only halftime so there’s still hope. I’m pulling for Colorado, San Jose, Salt Lake and Seattle (tomorrow‘s match). After that we’ll see who’s left.

PM Prayer: Ostara/Idun:
Ostara/Idun, keeper of the golden apples of youth, keep us young inside. When we are starving for laughter, hungry for the lightness that comes with having few years on our shoulders, slip us one of those gleaming fruits that we may see the world through youthful eyes. Let springtime be in our steps, love in our hearts and a song on our lips. Change us to the core! Fill us with optimism and dreams for the future. HAIL OSTARA/IDUN!!!

PM Rune: none

Comments: cared for animals, Meeka inside

Alaf Sal Fena!

The Passing of Thor!

10/29/2010

This is to note the passing of a wonderful and carefree dog. W and I picked up Thor several years ago at an event in the park called Woofstock. He was a Great Dane/Bull Mastiff mix! How do I express the sadness in my heart for this great creature that has given comfort to some and struck fear in others; when all he ever wanted was to know he was loved and appreciated. HE WAS EVERY BIT OF THAT AND MORE! You will always be loved, Thor!

October/Gilbhart 29, 2010 ERE Friday/Frouwastac

10/29/2010

(Gilbhart = Yellow Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

Plans: study, play

AM Prayer: Friday, we pray to the glorious siblings, Walburga Frouwa/Freyja and Ing Fro/Freyr, and lighting a gold candle (for Freyja’s tears and Freyr’s golden boar, Gullinbursti).
Walburga Frouwa/Freyja, who could not love you? Women as their own inner glory and highest attainment as the self-made woman, men for your beauty, passion and strength. Praise to you for the gift of life, and for the love that makes life worth living. Remind us always that it is the strong who love the best and the most, and that only the mighty can truly be gentle. Fill our lives with passion and lust that we may live our lives to the fullest. HAIL WALBURGA FROUWA/FREYJA!!

Ing Fro/Freyr, you are the god of “Ar”, the good harvest and prosperity: you are indeed the lusty enlarger of life. When the day to day wears us down, remind us of pleasures and joys. Help us recall the wonderful excesses that brought our lives into being and which sustain the human spirit during good times and bad. Without you, there would be no life and certainly little delight. Thank you, Ing Fro/Freyr, for the rushing life spirit and the eternal play of passions that make our lives fruitful. ING FRO/FREYR, HAIL!!

Rune Summons
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Raido (U): Wheel, horse transportation, riding, ordered/rhythmic movement, a journey, wise counsel, the law of the cosmic right, freedom and moral responsibility of the Self, ordered change, ethical conduct, personal discipline, to be in charge of one’s own journey in life, the proper course of faring, progress.

Outcome: I would say so…

I have an insatiable desire to learn something of the language I heard growing up. I finally broke down and called Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church http://alexanderwohl.org/ with my inquiry. I was givent the number to the church historian and we had a marvelous conversation. With the proper spelling and information I found a website with a wealth of information about Plautdietsch (rather than Plattdeutsch): http://www.plautdietsch.ca/index.html. During breaks from the university I plan on investigating this to the utmost! It’s becoming an obsession! I have a sense of moral responsibility about this so the language I grew up with doesn’t die. There’s no way for me to say I will ever be fluent in this, but the interest alone I think is enough to drive me to learn a bit of this! It’s defiantly all a part of the Cosmic right!

Running errands with Audie meant a trip to the liquor store. Against my better judgment I agreed. Sure enough, I cant trust her with alcohol as she violated our agreement. GODmother_fuckingDAMNIT! This violates trust on so many levels!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a HUGE setback; just when I thought things were going better. Yep, the proverbial other shoe has dropped. I knew it was just a matter of time.

I took some gifts over to the J'sW house. I know he's planning on getting me something just...well...just because, and I wanted to get him something first; him, and the ladies of the house...his wife and his DDCFG step-daughter.

Some good study time…

PM Prayer: Wuldar/Ullr:
Wuldar/Ullr, god of ski and bow, you glide through the snow-clad forests bringing death to game and life to your people. Remind us that life feeds on life, and that the beauty of the prey is formed generation after generation by the culling ferocity of the predator. Let your Yew-bow be the great World-Yew under another guise, so that through the spirit of the hunter, we may climb its branched to ever higher levels of awareness. HAIL WULDAR/ULLR!!

PM Rune: none

Comments: cared for animals, Meeka inside

Alaf Sal Fena!

October/Gilbhart 28, 2010 ERE Thursday/Donarstac

10/28/2010

(Gilbhart = Yellow Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

Plans: classes

AM Prayer: Thursday, we pray to Donar/Thor, and lighting a red candle:
Donar/Thor, thunder forth in our lives. When we would hold back, let us advance. When we would be weak, help us be strong. When we would shun life’s pleasures, sharpen our appetites for that which is lusty and good. Help us grow from strength, and teach us, elder brother, how to throw our own Hammer, and slay the giants who appose our will. HAIL DONAR/THOR!!

Rune Summons
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Jera (irreversible): Harvest, 12th Rune of the Futhark, the number 12, cycles, a turning point, cause and effect, the Rune of return, two halves of a cyclic whole, harmony-in-movement-in-balance, improvement, growth, progress, patience, the result of a previous action, reward for the right (or wrong) action.

Outcome: Morning class went pretty well. We got the results from the last exam and there was a noticeable improvement on my grade. Kit’s still not where I want it to be but it is 16 points better than the previous exam. I would say it’s a Jera!

Audie is down for the count. I hope this isn’t the other shoe dropping.

Afternoon class went comparably well. We got the results from that exam, too. It was the one that was most concerning to me but I passed it (and passing in the operative word) with an 82%. For me that was the Jera in preparing for three tests in two days.

MLS Playoff match http://www.mlssoccer.com/

(With a Leinenkugel in hand…MLS on main screen (ESPN3.com), college (American) football PIP, Baseball “world” series on in the kitchen…hehe)

Colorado 1:0 Columbus

Nite-nite!

PM Prayer: Scata/Skahdi:
Scata/Skahdi, fleet on your skis and let me be the game you bag with you bow. Stun me with your grace and beauty, tuck me in the skin-sack at your side, and then take me to your home where wolves howl. There, teach me to know the pleasure of the hunt, the joy of exertion, and the crisp freedom of winter and wilderness. Brand my soul with wind-burn, so that even in the tedium of daily life, I will feel your warm breath, warm on my check, telling me to be strong, able and worthy of you. SCATA/SKAHDI, HAIL!!

PM Rune: none

Comments: cared for animals, Meeka inside

Alaf Sal Fena!

October/Gilbhart 27, 2010 ERE Wednesday/Wotanstac

10/28/2010

(Gilbhart = Yellow Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

Plans: clinicals

AM Prayer: Wednesday, we pray to the Divine couple: Wodan/Odin and Frija/Frigga, lighting royal blue (for Wodan/Odin) and light blue (for Frija/Frigga) candles.
Rune god! Wolf God! Raven god! WODAN/ODIN!! We call out to you, not as a slave or on bended knee, but on our feet and opened-armed as befits your offspring. Watch us as we struggle, but the fight and fame must both be ours! Grant us that victory which we win by OUR might and mane! If we live well, Wodan/Odin, grant us access to one of the Great Halls where we may feast, drink and be merry with those who have gone before us until the time comes to live or fight once more. WODAN/ODIN, HAIL!!!

Frija/Frigga, teach us to be patient but not passive; wise but not haughty in our wisdom; far seeing yet not blind to that which is before us. May we nurture life, increase life, and live our own lives more fully. Through you we give honor to our human mothers. Through you we see all the beauty that surrounds us as well.

Rune Summons
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Berkana (U): The feminine, Nerthus, birth processes, rejuvenation, growth, nurturing, mature wisdom, recuperation, purification, the birch tree, birth, becoming, life changes, the Earth Mother, the kind Mother, Frija/Frigga at her most Motherly, healing, bringing into being, a significant life passage.

Outcome: I had the privilege of working with one of the best people in clinicals today. I worked with her once previously in fluoroscopy and had a good day. Today was a major growth experience as compared to the tech from the christian hell I experienced last week; and I think I’ll take him up on his offer.

Hardly home and my brother called asking for help moving a huge, archaic, dinosaur of a television out of his basement and into his garage. After moving the monster my brother offered his thanks by taking me/us out to dinner tomorrow. I’m always glad to help my brother.

Audie had some roast chicken with potatoes, cabbage and Brussels-sprouts ready: YUMMERZ!

PM Prayer: Paltar/Baldr
Blameless Paltar/Baldr, shining god, let your goodness and your reconciliation smooth our paths on Earth. When our days here are over, light up death’s darkness with the promise of rebirth. Help is to avoid evil, and seek the good. Inspired by you, we will keep our reputations spotless that our lives be proclaimed a victory of the Spirit, and out leaving this life a tragedy. PALTAR/BALDR HAIL!

PM Rune: none

Comments: cared for animals, Meeka inside

Alaf Sal Fena!

October/Gilbhart 26, 2010 ERE Tuesday/Ziustac

10/26/2010

(Gilbhart = Yellow Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

Plans: classes

NOTE: GODDAMN lousy night’s sleep and a headache from the christian hell…

AM Prayer: Tuesday, we pray to Ziu/Tyr and lighting a purple candle (for honor):
Ziu/Tyr, you chained the Fenris Wolf that threatened the worlds. We can’t do that, but we can do other things, some ordinary, others heroic. Remind us of your bravery and your sacrifice. Give us the courage and strength we need to fetter out own Fenris. Keep us mindful of our duties, and help us keep our fears bound as tightly as you bound old Slaver Mouth. Thus doing, we may we share in your glory by imitating you. ZIU/TYR HAIL!!

Rune Summons
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Wunjo (U): Joy, pasture, joy attained with the fulfillment of a wish, the Clanic relationship, social contacts, fellowship, happiness, optimism, realization of true will, social and domestic harmony, good cheer, new social relationships, Fridu/Frith; within a secure setting, the good side of Wodan/Odin.

Outcome: I certainly hope this has to do with my two exams today!

Borderline on the morning exam…there were some things I knew and others a fog.

Last minute cramming for the afternoon exam

It was almost a repeat of the morning exam; some things I did know, others a fog

OMGs…now I get it…in a back ground kind of way. It was a move that needed to be made. It seems the gods and ancestors are in agreement.

Errands with Audie

El Mexico Café for dinner

Med term

I passed the exam for Med Term with an 82%

I’m going to call it an early evening; clinicals tomorrow

It’s a BEAUTIULLY cool evening.

PM Prayer: All you gods and goddesses bless and keep your Holy Folk. From the cold shadows of the glaciers to the colder shadows of space, always, we have been your people. Guide and guard your North folk as you did in ages past. Wodan/Odin, give wisdom and craft to wits shaped by ice and fire that our foes be foxed. Donar/Thor, give us strength and the will to use it. Ing Fro/Freyr and Frouwa/Freyja, give full wombs so that bodies will be found for the souls of heroes. Let your Northern Folk grow in number and in power, so that our kind may live, love, survive and thrive, not just today, not for a millennium, but for ever and ever!

PM Rune: none

Comments: cared for animals, Meeka inside

Alaf Sal Fena!

October/Gilbhart 25, 2010 ERE Monday/Manostac

10/25/2010

(Gilbhart = Yellow Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

Plans: study, class, study, take online exam for Medical Term, study

AM Prayer: Monday we pray to Mano/Manni, god of the moon, and lighting a white candle (symbolic of the moon):
Greetings to you Mano/Manni, silver messenger on high, as you fly silently on your way reflect into our souls the glory of the High Ones that we might aspire to the realms of the gods. Bathe our world in soft brightness, and whisper to our souls of joyous realms beyond our knowing. Mano/Manni let us see the goodness within us and without us, all the nights and days of our lives. MANO/MANNI, HAIL!!

Rune Summons
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Inguz (Irreversible): Yngvi Ing Fro/Freyr, the god of Ar: prosperity, abundance, sexuality and fridu, gestation, the womb and the tomb, fertility, fruitfulness, peace and plenty, nature wisdom, sacrifice for the positive, completion of one stage and progressing to the next, internal growth, wait.

Outcome: Meeka for an early AM walk

Doesn’t fell like autumn yet, but I know it will soon!

Cramming Med Term

Sometimes tough decisions have to made in order to sacrifice for positive growth…it’s not easy by any means, but it IS necessary.

I contacted my mortgage company in an effort to reduce my house payments. It seems I do qualify for a home mortgage modification to keep my house payments at 31% of income, and since unemployment income is dropping, so can the payments. However, I’m more interested in reducing interest rate more than anything. I should get some paperwork by the end of the week.

Still no unemployment into my account; hoping now for tomorrow.

Studied Med Term and Rad Physics

Positioning Lab at the hospital went well. After class I visited again with my instructor. She made a suggestion that I just might be able to use; that is, if I seriously am having trouble with memorizing I may have some kind of deficiency that I can claim and the university may have to make accommodations for me.

Wendy’s snack…

Took Audie to her doctor’s appointment; it seemed to go pretty well

Braum’s for ice cream

Evening study brought to you by Medical Positioning

PM Prayer: The Norns:
The Norns all three are present at birth
To weave our Fate from merriment to dearth.
Urd, Verdandi and Skuld, the dark queens renowned;
Glorious ladies ‘neath the Tree, work your mysteries in us now.

That which “was” we clearly see.
That which “is” formed now in our deeds.
That which “will be”, will yet be; but cannot see.
We celebrate the Norns, the Ladies Three, for eternity.

PM Rune: none

Comments: cared for animals, Meeka inside

Alaf Sal Fena!

October/Gilbhart 24, 2010 ERE Sunday/Sonnestac

10/25/2010

(Gilbhart = Yellow Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

Plans: nothing but…

AM Prayer: Sunday, we pray to Sonne/Sunna, lighting a yellow candle (symbolic of the Sun):
Greetings to you Sonne, Lamp of Wodan/Odin: newly risen! Hail to you who has shown on all our ancestors, who shines on us, and who will shine on our decedents yet unborn. Share with us some of your light, your energy, your power, so that we might better fight our battles and attain our goals. SONNE/SUNNA HAIL!!

Rune Summons
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Kenaz (neutral) so it could be either

Kenaz (U): The torch, light, shaping, fabrication or fashioning of primordial material, the hearth fire, brightly burning, knowledge, divine inspiration under control of human craft, knowledge from within, intuition, Self awareness, creativity and transformation, clarity of thought, the application of the Divine.

Or

Kenaz (R): A dimly burning torch, choosing to remain in the dark, a lack of Divine wisdom, lack of creativity, a self-imposed cocoon, the inability to shape the basics of life, pig ignorance, arrogance, uniformed, ambiguous thought processes, negative/dark influences, cruel sexuality, uncontrollable human craft processes.

Outcome: Ya know I try, I really do, to make heads or tails out of Radiologic Positioning. I’ve even tried to talk to the instructor about things. In this chapter there is just such a massive amount of information to memorize I don’t see how I’m going to do well on the exam. I have until Tuesday. BECAUSE I’ve spent so much time on Rad. Positioning I have yet to start on Rad. Physics.

The Rheinwood open meeting was a great escape for the day. I truly believe we have the best people a Kindred could have!

Two final Matches of the regular MLS season http://www.mlssoccer.com/
Columbus 3:1 Philly
LA 2:1 Dallas
So the MLS playoff pairings are set: http://www.mlssoccer.com/playoffs

PM Prayer: Era/Eir:
Era/Eir, whose loving hands and sweet breath brings healing and health, PRAISE YOUR NAME AMONGST NORTH-FOLK! We thank you for your gentle caress, your soft ministrations and your care. When stress, strains, aches and pains plague is, you come with your lithe figure and flowing hair to ease our distress. Eir, goddess holy and wise, we honor you. HAIL ERA/EIR!!

PM Rune: none

Comments: cared for animals, Meeka inside

Alaf Sal Fena!

October/Gilbhart 23, 2010 ERE Saturday/Sibbastac

10/24/2010

(Gilbhart = Yellow Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

Plans: study (this time for sure...PRESTO!)

AM Prayer: Saturday, normally attributed to the fertility goddess, Saeter, we pray to Sibba/Sif, lighting a green candle (for fertility):
Sibba/Sif let us see you in all the growing things that sustain our lives. Help us look beyond the packaging and promotion, to the richness of the Earth from which all bounty comes. When ordinary eyes see only corn, let us see your golden hair hid in its silk. When others see only bread, let us see the grain, beyond that, your smile and laughter. Feed our might and main, Holy Sibba/Sif, that we may do our work in the world. HAIL SIBBA/SIF!!

NOTE: That damned fence-jumping dog was in the back yard again at 1AM when I let Meeka out for a bit. Once again Meeka let it know of her displeasure! J

Rune Summons
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Sowulo (Irreversible): The Sun, Sonne/Sunna, a lightening bolt, victory, success, life force, confidence, optimism, the clear light of day, can be a destructive lightening flash (clearing), the will to victory, appearance of a guiding principle, guidance in journeying, spiritual guidance, and leadership.

Outcome: Meeka for a walk

I’m not feeling too well this morning…

McDs for breakfast

Some Medical Terminology

Radiologic Positioning

Braum’s http://braums.com/ for the heluvit

A bit more Radiologic Positioning…I found something called Study Stack http://www.studystack.com/ on the internet that might prove to be of some use.

Victory will come when I do well on a Radiologic Positioning exam.

MLS http://www.mlssoccer.com/ This is the final weekend of the regular season…by now I don’t think anything is really at stake but for pride.
Houston 1:2 Seattle
DC 2:3 Toronto
Kansas City 4:1 San Jose (DAYUM!)
Colorado 2:2 Salt Lake
Chicago 4:1 Chivas

PM Prayer: Heimdall:
HEAR ME HEIMO/HEIMDALL, the genetic link between gods and humankind. Your keen eyes and sharp ears guard the world of the gods. As you stand so alert for the approach of giants, remind us that we must also watch for our own encroaching evil. Let weakness, cowardice, lies and dishonor be barred from the Rainbow Bridge leading to our heart’s abode. Be a model for vigilance, that we may rise to the best that is in us, and someday join the Noble Gods in their shining home. HAIL HEIMO/HEIMDALL!!

PM Rune: none

Comments: cared for animals, Meeka inside

Alaf Sal Fena!