Nearing the End of Winter Break

Oh wow, its been a while since I last posted. I'm sorry to those who actually take an interest this blog.

Winter Break is almost over, and the second half of the school year is about to begin. Graduation is looming ever closer and the end of the year crazyness is about to begin. Military ball in February, Prom, Graduation and of course balancing it all with classes. I hope it will go relatively smoothly. I have help, thankfully.

Also around to help is my boyfriend, the best boy ever to be found. He was born and raised in the South, and maybe it was stereotypical of me, but I had reservations about telling him I was Pagan. He is very much Christian, but he took it all in stride and it doesn't bother him in the slightest. I love him all the more for it.

This (school) year has gone better than I could have hoped for in my best expectations, so I hope it will continue down that route, and the coming year as well.

If I don't post again tomorrow, I wish to convey the happiest of blessings to everyone and hope the have a wonderful beginning to their new year.

Irony Should Be My Middle Name

My patron Goddess, Nyx, the Greek Goddess of darkness and deception, fits me very well I think. My life is just chock full of irony and secrecy. Of course, if I had my way, it wouldn't be, but I'm not stupid, and I know when to keep my head down, especially in my family.

Last Wednesday was the first time in two years that I'd been to church. Church of all places... It wasn't even intended. My youngest sister, goes with a friend to a church weekend gathering, and then we went for the commencement ceremony, and then my other sister decides she likes the place. Then bam!, we end up going to youth group Wednesday and now church and sunday school tomorrow. And I think this is going to be a regular thing now.

I feel really bad, because the people there are nice, and they think they're teaching me the ways of God, which they technically are, and I respect that, but all the same, Christianity is not the religion I follow. The church is Southern Baptist, too, and I live smack in the Bible Belt, so if word ever got out...The kids I have youth group with go to my school and everything. My life would be so over for my whole senior year of high school.

But it's only been one meeting, so far so good. But wait, there's more irony to be had!

Just yesterdy, I received a letter from Dayton University in Ohio, saying I was eligible for the Father Chaminade Award. I googled it, but I couldn't find what I was looking for. So, I looked up Dayton University. A private Catholic college. I wasn't even raised Catholic! And I'm certainly not Christian anymore. That would so go over well. An eclectic Neo-Pagan at a private Chatholic University. Time bomb waiting to happen I think...

But on an interesting side note, we had youth group outside, sitting under a tree in the grass. This was the closest I'd been to nature in a long time, and it was nice, all religion aside. After, all the younger classes came outside and everyone just had fun. It was part of the schedule, just being outside and playing like little kids at recess. Definitely not something I expected, but it was nice, running around barefoot in the grass and dirt...