I’m trying to be a better housekeeper, and so like normal, I’m turning to a variety of sources to see what works.  So far I have further proof that my husband is particularly attuned to all things Eastern. After learning about how to feng shui the “traveling” bagua of my home, I noted how we were sending energy into Venice and then went outside and stuck a stick in the ground to finish a missing energy line (or something like that). This afternoon my husband hops online to tell me that the “pie-in-the-sky” business trip to Italy (to the Veneto even) suddenly sounds really likely and he’s looking up plane tickets. The sad part about this is that the only plane tickets he could currently locate were $2000, which means I can’t afford to join him.  So… I research, clean, energize, and put a stick in the ground, and my husband goes to Italy without me. FML.

I’ve also been continuing my love-affair with all things Norse, and I’m learning to read runes. They told me that in order to keep my house clean, I have to make a plan and stick to it with the strength of a wild ox, and then I will  find joy and success. Go figure.

Finally, I had to laugh at how my research for housekeeping has kept me almost constantly on house-keeping for Jesus sites. I didn’t know JC was so big into hearth and home, but apparently he is. And I’m never going to be a true success because I refuse to get up fifteen minutes earlier than my husband (according to an astonishing number of websites, the Bible says I have to be an early riser, regardless of what God and nature instilled into my constitution)  who gets up at 5:30 in the morning so that he can wander around the house in his underwear for 2 hours (you didn’t need that visual, did you >:) – would it help if I said he’s got muscles on top of muscles, ’cause he does. Re-visualize. Looks better now, eh?) . But other than that, I have gotten the most use out of a site created by a woman who homeschools her children because…. public school encourages Satan or something. I’m not sure whether to be slightly appalled that I am being electronically mentored by this woman or to remind myself that we can all learn from each other if we just open our ears and get past our prejudices. I think I’ll do both.