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Chicken Provencal in the oven, building my Dia De Los Muertos altar and drinking margaritas while the fog rolls in...It must be late October in San Francisco...and look, it IS!!!!. It doesn't feel quite right yet, but I will go with the calendar. I found a place near my house that grows pumpkins in a vacant lot and then sells them cheap to the neighborhood...I will go up and get my quota tommorow.

Last year I was in too much of a hurry and carved them almost 2 weeks prior to the 31st...They truly were scary jack-o-lanterns...what with all of that fuzzy mold growing around the cuts and the sagginess all around...They served the purpose though.....they will be a bit fresher this year...

The "troubles" at work have calmed down and we all seem a bit lighter in spirit because of it. I realize I have not previously spoken of those issues directly and they are still a bit too sore to speak of, my need to kill someone has subsided and I don't want to invoke that spirit so close to All Souls Day...

Since I don't believe in God (mostly...still feel the need to capitalize though...:eek) my altar has begun to combine traditional as well as modern regional traditions relating to death...Which I do most definitely beleive in.....I am gravitating toward an eventual New Orleans/pagan style slant but I am not there yet...I have at least learned from the woman at the produce market on my corner not to mix certain saint candles on the same altar......Even though it doesn't really matter to me, it seems there may be a cost to her in the afterlife for letting me do it..

Having never been catholic or any derivation thereof, I have not the knowledge I need to keep myself from harm..apparently..although I do have a thing for catholic girls......but even they are not enough to save my soul...apparently..