-t - palm reading and a crystal ball?

My office moved to a new building; they're quite proud of the cleaning/disinfecting and have signs up about it. They're also proud of the bees they have on the roof.

I once saw someone who, having read about how much honey bees produce, caught sight of a honey extractor. They were CONVINCED that the beekeepers tossed their bees into the extractor and basically squished the honey directly from the bees. eeep

and things are getting weirder (didn't think it was possible)

Bees on the roof! Awesome!

I can't figure out how to apply palm reading to Target. I could read my own palm, I suppose, but surely that would be the same every month...I have no idea how to go about faking my way through a crystal ball, much as I would enjoy owning a crystal ball.

Timelies all!

We signed Mr. S up for soccer. Today was the first session. It's once a week for 50 minutes, which isn't a lot, but it's some extra activity, which is always good.

Scrying, -t? Black mirror or black bowl full of water. Pendulum, which I've never used nor understood. Oracle cards rather than tarot? Runes?

I have runes made from cattle bone--little tiles with futhark runes carved on them. I've had them for ages, keep them in a soft suede bag just the right size to hold them. It didn't occur to me until recently how ironic and slightly grisly that is.

Hm, pendulum has potential. I don't know how it's supposed to work but I've seen it on Charmed, I can probably fake something. Thanks! Ooh, maybe this is a good excuse to get a Magic 8 Ball!

I am being brave and trying the Keurig hot chocolate that has been in my desk for 2+ years. It tastes a little odd, but not like it's gone bad, exactly. Maybe stale is the right word.

Argh. Got an email that my flight Friday was canceled (boo) but worse yet they claimed to not be able to put me on any other direct flights (theirs or anyone else’s, to any of the three dc airports). Eventually booked me a change of planes in Nashville (?!) and a middle seat. Grrrrrr. If I wanted a connecting flight that got in late I would’ve booked one!! But per law they don’t owe me anything. Grrrr.

Shameful secret confession: I have two non-Buffista friends on FB who have both had babies enter their lives in the last few days, one a grandbaby and the other a baby. And either one of them is ungodly cuter than the other or one has a much more gifted photographer in the family than the other; I don't know what it is, but I do know that they're both picspamming baby pictures constantly and with one I'm like, "Yup, that's a baby, it looks like a baby, you must be happy," and with the other I am completely smitten and agog (that baby also has a more dazzling backstory, but it's still just objectively a more aesthetically pleasing tiny human).

And then I feel bad for the less photogenic baby and all their doting grown-ups, and vaguely ashamed, but not enough to lie to myself about which baby I'm more selfishly delighted to see roll across my screen.

I'm a terrible, terrible person.

Ha! No you’re not. That said, lots of cute cute babies end you less conventionally cute as they age, and vice-versa! Little growing humans go through lots of phases. Don’t feel bad!