Working on an ancestry book this evening. I don’t really know a whole lot of my family sadly. I didn’t grow up with a lot of them. I wish I had. I never got to get to know my grandparents from either side of my family. We moved around a lot when I was a kid and I just never got the chance to grow up with them, really. Then when we moved back near them again, my grandmother on my mom’s side had alzheimers. Neither of my grandfathers are still alive sadly. My dad’s father passed away a few years ago. I have one remaining grandmother, she’s a sweet lady, though, doesn’t speak much English, which has made it difficult to really form a bond with her.
Anyhow, I’ve been wanting to finish this ancestry book for years, though, it takes quite a bit of time and research, and a lot of my ancestry is missing. So my primary focus on the book starts with our immediate lineage; my parents, and then my husband and I. There’s a brief history of everyone else from what I can scrounge up, with some pictures. I just wish I had more to work with. I wish I knew my Scottish heritage. It’s somewhere on my mom’s side, I think through my grandmother’s line. I’ve always wanted to learn more about my Scottish heritage and get more connected with Scottish culture. I wanted to live there at one point and tried to convince my husband to move there less than a year ago. xD Alas, we won’t be moving there sadly. But I think in the coming months/year I’d like to dive in a bit deeper. Even if I can’t learn about my ancestors directly, I’d like to know more of where I come from in that line as I’ve always felt drawn to it.
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Ideally, I’d so love to have this book finished in time for Christmas so I can give it to my parents, but where I’m working a full time job now, it’s going to be a pretty challenging deadline to meet while still giving myself time to unwind and keep up with house chores. I’m a lot busier these days than I’d like to be, but hopefully come the new year that will settle down a bit and I’ll hopefully get a little more time to myself.
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In other news, one of my coworkers is dealing with a really weird cold. She’s pretty much kicked the cold but the cough has been persisting for about a month and she keeps getting rashes. I can’t help but wondering if she got the covid shot. I remember watching videos of doctors, talking about the testing trials of the covid vaccines and how none of them made it through animal testing trials successfully. All the animals died from the trials, which is wild and highly concerning given the amount of people who have gotten the shots since late 2020. I can’t remember all the details of the video anymore, it was a long time since I’ve watched it but essentially they explained that what’s in the shot causes the body to attack itself and create autoimmune responses. I just couldn’t help but be suspicious when she told me she was having these reactions. Definitely not normal for a cold. Anyhow, I’m hoping she makes a full recovery from it.
Something I’m trying to focus more on recently is eating better. I need to lose 50-60lbs before my sister-in-law’s wedding next year and I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to pull it off yet. Walking is not an easy exercise as it used to be since I developed a foot spur early this year. I’m on my feet all day anyways out of necessity at work, but when I’m home I just want to rest them because of the throbbing. I got better shoes, and they’ve been helping support my ankle a lot, and my feet aren’t aching during work anymore like they used to with other shoes, but my spurred heel still throbs after a long day. I’d love to get a pool membership so I could swim but it’s so damn expensive, over $1k for a yearly membership which is not at all affordable unless you’re making big money, which I’m not lol. I’m not morbidly obese by any means, but, I’m definitely a bit overweight and it’s going to take dropping about 50-60lbs until I’m about an average healthy weight for my height again. If I can manage to lose the weight though, it would probably help my heel spur be less noticeable. I heard that they can go away on their own over time. The calcium can reabsorb into the body. Not sure how long that will take though. In the meantime, I’m just doing what I can to help alleviate the pain.
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Taking a short break from updating my site for a bit. I’ll probably continue to post little blogs here now and again, but with the holidays coming up I don’t think I’m going to have time to add much of anything new. The latest thing I added was a little interactive digital rune oracle deck to my Sacred Space room (under the Divination tab, at the very bottom). It’s probably the coolest thing I’ve made in awhile, so if anyone bothers to read these weird rambly blogs, go check it out and get yourself a free reading! Eventually I’m planning to add more, but that’ll probably be after the new year.