I'm bored of checklists!

Did 300 today, don't want to do another 200, even if it would catch me up to today.

So, nyah.  I'm not going to do them.

Wonder if I can get 45 minutes of work out of typing.  Probably, if I worked on First Love or Addiction and Legal Prostitution.  Sadly, my muse for both fled in terror when I started going bonkers.

Bonkers, yeah, totally nuts!  Bonkers.  *hums happily*  

Ok, so I didn't really go nuts.  Just let myself get overloaded.  Once I realized what was going on, I sought help.  Free help in the form of a nifty book called Goddesses in Everywoman.  A psychologist took 7 Greco-Roman goddess archetypes, grouped them in three categories and demonstrated how the traits and tendencies of the archetypes manifest themselves in women.  I highly recommend the book.  

The categories were:  Virgin (Artemis, Athena, Hestia), Vulnerable (Hera, Demeter, Persephone) and Alchemical (Aphrodite).  Artemis represents women's independence, determination and focus on change.  Athena represents strategy, cunning and supporting the status quo.  Hestia represents spiritual calmness and homemaking (separate from housewife-ing).

Hera represents marriage and housewives, Demeter represents motherhood and caregiving, Persephone represents girlhood and innocence.

Aphrodite represents sensuality and creativity.

As with the myths, all of these positive things are balanced with negative.  Artemis can be dismissive and hostile to men, Athena is often cruel and cold, and Hestia can be so wrapped up in herself she loses sight of the outside world.  Hera is vindictive and jealous, Demeter overwhelms and smothers, Persephone is unfocused and easily taken advantage of.  Aphrodite can string others along and be inconsistent.

Few women show, in my experience, just one archetype.  More often, they're an amalgam of various goddesses, either working together or fighting.  

I now present, in order from childhood to now, the archetypes of Queenie.

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I also have been having a strong desire to indulge myself in "girly" things.  I want to buy candles for the house, some cute new outfits and maybe some lingerie, and makeup.  Ever since I found an Avon catalog at work last week, I'm craving new makeup.  Doesn't matter then I wear it next to never.  I just want to trash what I have and get all new stuff.  Foundation, some eye shadow quads, couple of lipsticks and a blush.  I haven't had blush in years.  I also want to get some moisturizer to supplement the witch hazel I clean my face with every night.

*checks time*  Hey, cool!  33 minutes down, 12 to go!  

So yeah.  I want make up.  And perfume.  And new socks, and new underwear and some brightly colored tops and another pair of work shoes and an evening purse and several pairs of stockings and another pair of pants or two wouldn't hurt either.  

Then I want about 2 dozen votive candles in various colors and scents for the house.  Wall sconces would be good, wrought iron.  Some hanging plants, hung high enough to keep the kitties out of them, but not so high I can't water them as needed.  And one of those cute long necked watering cans.

*looks back over her list*

Doesn't seem practical, really.  There's only so much money and everyone else needs clothes too.

Thrift store!  Give me 20 bucks and see how far I can go with it.

Oooooo!  A challenge!  

*sniffle sniffle*

*sneeze*
*sneeze*
*sneeze*

Note to self.  Take allergy meds.  The dust from the mail is killing your sinuses.  Right.  Bleargh.