Snake @ MindSay

Hey guys!

Long time, once again.

I am, at the moment sitting at the hospital in the room, on the TV PC. It's freakin' awesome, may I add. I'm fine everything is going better. My mom is in here and I'm just "rooming" with her atm.

So, I'm almost done with school. I only have 3rd pd. I think I mentioned that already. But it's so boring in that class. English 12, in which I have a 66%, like wtf...English is the easiest subject EVER, but I hate the class, and I hate the teaching style. I feel my intellect is way above all the other kids in that class. I guess I feel that way because my dominant life colour is Green. Greens just happen to think that they are smarter, and above everyone else at points...and that class is a prime example of what makes a green feel that way. I HATE british lit.


Me and my Joseph are doing well. We'll have been together a year on March 29th. I'm moving in with him in June, when I graduate.
I'm still working at CrackDonalds too........

Other than that...I got a new tattoo on the 3rd. I got a Centaur on my wrist, representing the Sagittarius. =D

I think I'm going home for a bit today. I stayed at the hospital last night, and this couch sleeps horribly. lol.

My snake isnt looking so good. I took her to the vet for a respiratory infection.and i've been giving her medicine orally with a dropper...I saw an improvement but then it started getting worse. Any advice?

Well I'm off here for now I think I'm gonna head home for a bit.

i'll ttyouallsoon
ttfn
-nicole

   We had an unexpected visitor recently. Most Sundays, when we are home, we have dinner with the family. Most of them still attend the same country church that they grew up in, which is very near our house. We like to have dinner ready and they stop by after church. We all have dinner and great Sunday afternoon conversations together. (By the way, here in the South, many of us call the noon meal "dinner" and the evening meal "supper".) Anyway, a couple of Sundays ago, after everyone had eaten and visited for a couple of hours, people began to leave, and soon only Tracy, her daughter Brittany, and myself were left sitting around with nothing to do. I said, "let's go out to the garage and clean and straighten it up". They agreed and I walked outside first. When I turned around to wait for them I saw this.

My first thought was, I wonder who stuck this rubber snake on the light switch as they were leaving. My second thought was, hey, I'll scare Tracy with this. So I yelled, "Honey, are you about ready to come out"? Well, just about the time she walked out of the door I realised, IT'S A REAL SNAKE! I grabbed her and pulled her away from the door. I know it's just a black snake but they can still bite. I took out my cell phone and snapped this picture. Our little visitor then crawled back down the wall using the edges, of the rocks as little ledges, and was soon back in the woods.

I was just sitting here (NOT writing my paper, of course, why do that?), eating some soup and thinking, when a car alarm went off outside my building, and I realized that those things are so ineffective nowadays.  Nobody reacts to them anymore.  And everyones' sound alike, so no one goes to check if it's their car or not.  Anyway, my thoughts wandered to The Viper.  Does anyone else remember 'The Viper'?  It was this dumb early/mid-90s commercial for a car protection service.  You would activate the system as you left, and then if someone tried to break into your car, some hologram or other image of a snake would appear, in an attempt to scare the would-be burglar off.

Hello!

Who would believe there was a snake in the car!?!?  A plane, sure ;), but not in a personal sedan, no.  It just doesn't sound plausible, does it?  Nobody would ACTUALLY have a snake in their car to use as a scare tactic.  I mean, if they actually did it, made it seem like they had this hissing, spitting viper in their car, and then their viper was real...wouldn't that put them in grave danger, too, because hey...they're driving around with a live, uncaged snake in their car?

Anyone?

.Ever since I was a young child, I've wanted a pet snake--specifically a ball python. I kid you not. Does it bother me that I would have to feed it dead rodents? No, it's the cycle of life. Does it bother me that it could kill me if it constricted around my head too tightly? No, it wouldn't do that. We would be buddies. Yes, the snake and I would be buddies.

.But here's the problem... I fly to school.

.How is that a problem? You might ask. I'm painfully serious when I say this: you really can't have snakes on a plane. Not in your carry-on, not as checked baggage, not in cargo. No snakes on a plane. But how do people moving from one side of the country to the other take their pet snake? They don't. Airlines are totally discriminatory against cold-blooded animals. The only way you can ship a snake as cargo is if you are a "known shipper" with a personal business that ships at least 6 times a year.

.I can't leave my possible future snake here. My mother would never take care of it. Sigh.

.In other news, I like porn. Porn porn porn.

The medicine of the Red God teaches us how to live. This medicine teaches us how to live in harmony with nature, with our world- and with one another.

Once we had medicine bundles, the collective unconscious of our tribes were carried in these. To the outsider they were a curiosity, to us they were our soul.

The ways of the animals mimic our own ways, we learn much by watching, by doing, by working- together.

We are not separate from the world, we are one with our world. We are the earth, we are the water, we are the air we breathe.

When we are grateful, with gratitude in our hearts, Mother Earth senses our vibrations and sends to us a teacher. This teacher can take many forms, the rocks, the sea, the clouds. Mother Earth sends to us the woodpecker, the snake and the trees.

Woodpecker medicine shows us how to drum the heartbeat of Mother Earth. To sing the sweet song of thanksgiving so that Mother Earth may speak to us and guide us on our path.

Sickness begins when the body is not whole. The trees, the birds, the animals, all speak to us of trust in one another, in sharing and providing for each other.

Just as the woodpecker tree provides for the woodpecker so too so the leaves provide for the snake.

The snake is the symbol of transformation. Healing and new life are a signature trait of the serpent. The snake has the ability to shed it's skin, as do we, and to renew itself into life once again. The snake turns poison into medicine but we, the people, must make that transition with the snake. We can not make the medicine bundle alone. We must heal, renew, transform.