Kadiera's Playground Cute but Evil - it averages out

some days the Gods take care of their own.

Signing classes for this fall came to a screeching halt this past weekend when the music studio I was negotiating with discovered that it would be a violation of her lack of a business license to have people other than her teaching in her home.

So, yesterday I put on my thinking cap. I've got 4 classes scheduled through a neighboring city. I've got plans for a baby expo in January.

My goal is to be able to pay the car payment every month by the end of they year (though, the car payment as such will no longer exist by then, having been transferred to other means of financing that have lower interest rates). So: $300 profit a month. And I've got expenses of $50 a month, plus cost of goods sold and rental of spaces.

Work has gotten wierd. My boss's boss got laid off, and he was one of my favorites.

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I'm reading up on Buddhism. "Buddhism Plain & Simple" and "The Idiots Guide to Zen Living" are in my reading rotation right now. Very interesting, and rather oddly in line with places my brain has already gone.

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I also was accepted into the FWTI clergy training program. Family Wiccan Tradition espouses the idea that your family should be your spiritual home, which also resonates strongly with me these days. And they're one of the most sane, down-to-earth groups of Pagans I've ran into recently.

I wrote a piece a while back on how I'm a bad Pagan.

Apparently I need to add to this list again.

Today I got told that I'm a bad Pagan because I'm not planning to be a stay at home mommy. I've now been informed that, regardless of the reasons one might choose to do otherwise, mothers should give up all aspects of their pre-child life because it's the most natural thing to do.

I question this on general principles. Women have always done what was necessary - I suspect even in the so-called perfect matriarchal societies - which means sometimes working, sometimes leaving children in the care of others, and sometimes realizing that one's own sanity requires having a life outside of one's home.

Hahaha, the joke's on me. We're not done making changes yet, are we? Nope, and this one's gonna be a mess. Better in the end, but a mess to get there.

Ah well. Be careful what you wish for; the Gods have a really fucked up sense of humor, and a rather twisted sense of how to define most words in the English language.