Mithra is the reason for the season!

[elahadrun]

Sooo, when going over our dollars with Josh in an effort to develop a present-buying budget, I realized, wait a second, we are totally financially secure. (Obviously, if Josh were to be out of work for more than, say, three months, we will have a new situation, but he's got a month of work LEFT and we don't think it'll take that long, as much as

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[worthididnity]

My friend Alex, whom you met at the birthday party, lived in NoHo for a little while (it proved to be neither his, nor his partner's bag). He did mention to me last night however, that there was this Tibetan place there, and that it was really good (this was in the context of our visit to the casual sandwhich sub-section of the Tibetan place in Somerville).

Cheers.

[lizzabette]

I've been twenty-five since July. The only depressing thing about it was how few people paid any attention to the fact that it was my birthday.

Then again, I hate my birthday and never want anything to happen on it. And then I'm all disappointed when people don't do anything and then that just makes me hate it more. A vicious cycle it is.

At any rate, twenty-five is nothing to be depressed about. Twenty-five is perhaps the best year I've had since twenty-two. Twenty-three and twenty-four were really depressing. So, look forward to twenty-five.

[tragic_ohara]

Do the misters like to go under the tree? is the important question.

[charlequin]

They like to drink from the tree water!

[anonymous]

>since NO ONE in this area has even HEARD of an advent wreath

So true. I ended up having to buy fancy expensive candles from a shop on the Ithaca commons, the kind that come in pairs still attached at the wick. (So I also had to buy a total of four purple candles and two pink ones to get the proper three and one combination.) I wonder if we have a pagan shop around somewhere.

[ladysusan118]

P.S. it's me.

[elahadrun]

How weird is that? It would be less weird if it hadn't been EXTREMELY EASY to buy an advent setup in Rochester. That's what's getting me, is I would have thought that my current area would be MORE Catholicky than Rochester, and Ithaca at least equivalently so. Josh suggested while we were shopping that Rochester Catholics behave themselves more--I'm thinking it must be that the Polish Catholics don't really do advent candles.

You guys MUST have a pagan store out there, although a couple Google Locals only turned up the Sufi hangouts (there are a ton of Sufis out by you, in relative terms of how many Sufis there usually are in places), and none of them appeared to be stores. I *love* our local pagan store! Oh my goodness they are just so sweet. I can't believe I didn't go for like six months. It's cause I was sad that I couldn't buy everything there, I think. They have a lot of beautiful, incredibly expensive merch. Luckily the mini-candles were only 33 cents apiece!

[unsi_sempai]

There used to be a newagey-pagany shop across from the Domino's, but it closed a couple of years ago. Other than that, the only thing I can think of is that Tibetian head shop on the Commons. Which is weird, 'cause I know there's an Ithaca Pagan community.

(actually from Jen)

[dr_smith]

I want an advent wreath. Wonder how easily I can drag somebody to La Salette.

Re: (actually from Jen)

[elahadrun]

I would go with you if I thought I could behave myself.

...nope.

:P

sorry to disappoint. But you know Timmy's bad enough :)