Written By Elloise
Sept. 7, 2018, 10:19 p.m.(7/20/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Fairen
Eagle Stormbreak? YES.
Written By Elloise
Sept. 7, 2018, 10:13 p.m.(7/20/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Edward
What do you think of Eagle? Hawk? Kestrel? What about VULTURE?
Written By Elloise
Sept. 7, 2018, 10:12 p.m.(7/20/1009 AR)
Something in me - sometimes, I think, makes it difficult to screen out competing stimuli, focus, and slow down, all of which increases my frustration levels. I am taking on too many projects, doing too much research. Being unable to measure up to anyone's (my OWN) expectations or feeling guilty about missing my self-imposed deadlines creates additional tension.
BUT, now, I'm not the only one in my space and that's a really weird realization because I need to slow down.
But only just a little bit.
BUT, now, I'm not the only one in my space and that's a really weird realization because I need to slow down.
But only just a little bit.
Written By Elloise
Sept. 2, 2018, 8:43 p.m.(7/6/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Edward
* Honeybees,
* A raven,
* One very large spider,
* And a baby.
* Or two.
* A raven,
* One very large spider,
* And a baby.
* Or two.
Written By Elloise
Aug. 31, 2018, 12:42 p.m.(7/1/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Edward
I misplaced Madame Death Cupcake. She escaped her enclosure. Please, walk very gently around our home, Myed.
Written By Elloise
Aug. 30, 2018, 10:48 a.m.(6/27/1009 AR)
Would you ever set the table for a spider? Of course you might. I would! I spend the better part of a week catching and trapping all sorts of insects that I know the Shrine's spiders particularly enjoy. It's part of what I do to honor Death, by tending to her some of her favorite creatures, and I've made a ceremony around feeding the spiders. (GOSH, does that sounds weird Scholar? Do you like spiders? I want one for the morgue. A BIG ONE.) You might be surprised to find out you’ve been inviting spiders inside your home without even knowing it. If your home contains any of a spider’s favorite foods, can you blame them for coming in? Common house spiders – the ones you’re most likely to encounter – eat bugs that you don’t want to find around your house, so, YES you should thank you for making your homes and shops pest free. Yes, say thank you! They might even say: you're welcome!
Written By Elloise
Aug. 27, 2018, 6:08 p.m.(6/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
Are you really talking about the interior of the posterior? Uh-oh. I'd hate to be the one that's making puns on the bottom line, butt, I'm still going to. On the subject of sticks, I think, that with what the gods have joined together let no man put ass-under. Turn the other cheek, or you'll get bummed out.
Written By Elloise
Aug. 26, 2018, 11:57 p.m.(6/20/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Edward
We don't always see eye-to-eye. I know you're willing to be patient. Soon, I'll find a couple of really thick books to stand on - or a box - and I'll try. I'll really try.
Written By Elloise
Aug. 26, 2018, 11:55 p.m.(6/20/1009 AR)
It's been an interesting week filled with interesting work that's been interspersed with news that's been both sad, terrible, and wonderful. I still have a lot of missives to sort through, unfortunately, and Cheese says that I can't throw my letters away into the fire. I guess he's right, I suppose, because people would still write to me and I would still need to answer them. But. I wish I could. Just half of them, at least, because I don't know what to say to someone who wants to be my friend.
Written By Elloise
Aug. 19, 2018, 7:19 a.m.(6/4/1009 AR)
Thought: Uncertain if considered a drive or an instinct. Preset motivations that push our behaviors in predictable ways. Drives are not unmodifiable or even irresistible, like instincts - but they are innate. They are not learned - and (with occasional exceptions) they are common. I think. I think I will need to learn.
Written By Elloise
Aug. 17, 2018, 12:26 p.m.(6/1/1009 AR)
After learning about the social practice yesterday when I followed the sound of conversation and laughter and I asked about this thing of peerage social auctions - AND it is a thing - with the permission of my Edward, whom I'm writing about and this is concerning, I - Elloise (Elly) Strombreak (nee Leary) - being of VERY SOUND mind (even if I DO like to study skulls and other stuff) do hereby put forth my partner Baron Edward Stormbreak (also known as Cheese - also known as Myed) for auction as a Gala escort because I will be visiting Whitefrost during that time.
I will be splitting any funds and favors received for him between the Isles Canines and the Harlequins of Death.
(See - that's fair, right Cheese?)
I will be splitting any funds and favors received for him between the Isles Canines and the Harlequins of Death.
(See - that's fair, right Cheese?)
Written By Elloise
Aug. 13, 2018, 10:54 p.m.(5/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Godric
THANK YOU for letting me touch the gross stuff in a controlled and safe (safer - safer-ish) environment, Inquisitor Godric.
Written By Elloise
Aug. 8, 2018, 3:54 p.m.(5/11/1009 AR)
Scholars -- I've heard talk. Umbra? Aeterna? No, no thank you. I'll take iron - stone - steel - and brass. I like silk, sure. But wool - sturdy cotton - and leather are all good too. I'll take precious gems and metals, but they'll get used in alchemy experiments.
Except for these pearls...
Except for these pearls...
Written By Elloise
Aug. 4, 2018, 5:23 p.m.(4/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Edward
Today. Today I learned a very important new lesson about relationships. When the raven calls your husband a foul name, you apologize. When the feathery toddler lands on the taxidermy specimen of the sailfish and shits on it - and the bottles of rum beneath it - you take ownership. You also make journal entries about it. And you promise to learn how to train birds. Accidents happens, Cheese.
Written By Elloise
Aug. 2, 2018, 1:05 p.m.(4/22/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Edward
It's not work that's as exceptional are the gold cuff I got you (my first gift, remember - when we were first talking) but it's the first gift I've given you that I've made. My hands, my haphazard forge, my work. So it counts for something. Something important. Doesn't it?
Written By Elloise
Aug. 2, 2018, 12:22 p.m.(4/22/1009 AR)
A note, scripted in a Scholar's overly neat hand:
Well, first it has to be iron. It's abundant, used often in alchemy. It promotes growth, dependence, and protection - , confidence, courage, strength, stamina, and resilience. It's a very human metal, iron is. The call of iron. The reminder of iron. It has to be iron and it has to be combined with another metal. It should be copper. Warm in color and it holds heat. The temperament of copper. The call of copper. Symbolic of artistic creativity, affection, caring, and balance. The same size because all things being equal are in balance. Thirteen-sided. It will take time to make, but I will.
Well, first it has to be iron. It's abundant, used often in alchemy. It promotes growth, dependence, and protection - , confidence, courage, strength, stamina, and resilience. It's a very human metal, iron is. The call of iron. The reminder of iron. It has to be iron and it has to be combined with another metal. It should be copper. Warm in color and it holds heat. The temperament of copper. The call of copper. Symbolic of artistic creativity, affection, caring, and balance. The same size because all things being equal are in balance. Thirteen-sided. It will take time to make, but I will.
Written By Elloise
July 29, 2018, 4:50 p.m.(4/15/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Edward
Apparently, marriage is supposed to be divine. With blissful days and nights. I think that I may be doing married a little wrong, because it's mostly all the same things that I did before. Only now I do them with a different name. And that there's someone you're still learning about that you're sharing everything with. Maybe that's divine. Learning new things usually is. Oh, also -- I'm sorry for leaving that box in the main room. You know the one with all the grubs and beetles? That one. Yes, it also has a goat skull in it. I got it from the butcher's shop. How ELSE am I supposed to clean it?
Written By Elloise
July 27, 2018, 2:25 p.m.(4/10/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Corbit
Spoken like a bookworm, Corgi. More accurately, spoken like a Scholar of Vellichor. You're going to be an excellent addition, brother-mine.
Written By Elloise
July 26, 2018, 11:07 p.m.(4/9/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Edward
Small animals, Edward?! No, never! I am still deciding whether I would like a DOG or a BIRD and I would never! Although if you're going to make permanent such pithy one-liners I WILL state for the record:
You STEAL all the covers.
You STEAL all the covers.
Written By Elloise
July 22, 2018, 1:40 p.m.(3/28/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Elloise
Your sister, Arcadia - and your brother, Corbit are your best friends. Cousin Fairen and cousin Tomwell and Cheese count too. But, listen you - you need second best friends aside from all of them. That means that you need to be social. More social. More acceptably social. That also means that you need to stop talking to yourself --
Oops.
Oops.
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