mercury in retrograde

all i know is that murcury kick my ass!

starting 3 weeks ago......

thursday:
gio and i went snowboarding and then to indian spring (maybe this is an indian curse?) and we had the best time!!! snow was fluffy and big and the springs were warm and loving......but on the way home (dum dum dummmmmm) the car just stopped working!

we thankfully broke down next to denver west - where there's a wild oats - so we waited three hours for the tow and had a hot soup picnic in car and snuggled in the back for warmth. did i mention it was snowing all day in denver?

we got home chilled but happy.

friday morning:
i went out to see if my car would start and she did! so i thought all was well.......

sunday:
sam and i were going to use my computer to work on his pamphlet.
when i tried to boot her i found out that my imac no longer had any memory that it was a computer....(today found out that the "board" is broken or that the arm for the drive is broken....jury is still out.)

tuesday:
gio and i dropped off the imac with amnesia at the mac outlet (next to mustards last stand on universtiy).
on the way back from taking the computer in the car started acting up.... we found out the next morning that the car was dying and would only cost twenty seven hundered dollars to fix her....snowball, my car, was now dead to me!

wednesday:
i hunted on craigslist for a new car.
we caught a break.
a car cost much less than fixing snowball was spotted by gio (he's so good!).
i ran off to see it and test drive it- it was a gem.
the seller offered to follow me home with it and i offered him a couple hundred less than the asking price. i was happiest of all!

thursday:
mercury struck again.
my beloved driver licsens with the best photo ever fell out of my pocket.

i came home to find that gio has had a terrible tragedy. one of his beloved turtles killed himself.
yes, poor harvey had a habit of turning himself over. he's been found flipped over in the water on the dry ground and this time under his heat lamp.
crys rouse from gio -pleading with harvey "why harvey why!!".
my heart jumped to hear gio's pain........
gio tried to see if harvey was still living at all but all attempts to bring back harvey failed.... and now there are only five turtles remaining.....billbob met an untimely death about a month ago. billbob didn't survive the pond winter hibernation. so both harvey and billbob reside under the fancy pear tree that sam i bought....the memorial tree.....

but health and happiness are still filling us.....but watch out for the monster named mercury in retograde!


"What does Mercury affect?

In general, Mercury rules thinking and perception, processing and disseminating information and all means of communication, commerce and transportation.
(see that transportation!!!)
By extension, Mercury rules people who work in these areas, especially people who work with their minds or their wits: writers and orators, commentators and critics, gossips and spin doctors, tricksters and thieves.

Mercury retrograde gives rise to personal misunderstandings; flawed, disrupted, or delayed communications, negotiations and trade; glitches and breakdowns with phones, computers,
(once agian it was mercury that caused the computers amnesia)
cars, buses, and trains.
(oh, did i mention that the train lines had a coal spill that closed them for two days?)
And all of these problems usually arise because some crucial piece of information, or component, has gone astray, or awry.

It is therefore not wise to make important decisions while Mercury is retrograde, since it is very likely that these decisions will be clouded by misinformation, poor communication and careless thinking. Mercury is all about mental clarity and the power of the mind, so when Mercury is retrograde, these intellectual characteristics tend to be less acute than usual, as the critical faculties are dimmed."

all my love...sorry for the hippy stuff
xxoo
j.le toni

p.s. here's a picture of me and the car