I don’t know where the time went, frankly. I have been learning a lot of new things but they aren’t all that interesting for a blog post.

For example, how excited are you going to get knowing I’m learning how to use HootSuite to broadcast status updates to FaceBook, Twitter and Linkedin? Or that scheduled updates sometimes do not go out to Linkedin and sometimes they do?

How interested would you be to know I’m learning how to use MailChimp for mass mailing of newsletters?

Probably not all that interested I’d wager.

I’m also teaching myself how to cast and read astrological “secondary progressions” where you move the birth chart up one day for each year of life. My birth chart moves up 60.89 days from my day of birth and that is my “secondary progressed” chart. Then I look to see if there are aspects between my birth chart and my progressed chart.

Progressed charts and doing “Transits”, which is looking at the current planets and where they are transiting in your birth chart, are two ways of doing “Predictive Astrology”.

I do want to point out that what astrologers predict is your “mood” not what you will “do”. Ok? Let’s get that clear.

I’ve had 2-3 potential astrology clients go silent after a couple of email exchanges. I’d prefer to have people just say, “No thanks” and I can have closure, but to just fade away is a bit confusing. I decided if they don’t write back then I won’t pursue them. We probably would not have built a long term relationship in that case anyway.

I can feel all y’all yawning politely behind your hands.

What else have I been doing… Oh, last night (or early this morning, as the case may be) I finished the second part of book 7 of the “Dune” series. My son, Tosh, my third born (also known as Bushyaib), and I are working our way through all of Frank Herbert’s books and then the books that his son Brian and Kevin Anderson are wrote after finding Frank’s boxes of notes 10 years after he died.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)

The last polymer clay work I’ve done you can see on my home page http://www.norajean.com , which I have not updated since the middle of last month. Things still on my website/polymer clay To-Do list is to rework the NoraJean-Designs domain because it has a FrontPage 2003 theme and the new browers don’t like that. So the e-commerce came to a screeching halt. I need to redo all the slide shows for the same reason, been chipping away at that chore.

I do want to make some new YouTube video tutorials but I have to catch myself when I’m in the mood to clay, shoot, edit, caption, update and all that for no pay.

As much as we’ve been having to hustle to make ends meet month to month it’s not worth writing about because it gets boring to read as well as to write. Everyone is struggling right now so my situation isn’t particularly special. I’m grateful to God that we do make it month to month.

Oh… I did set up my sewing area, finally. It took a year to manifest but my space is so small and the sewing supplies comprise a dozen bankers boxes, plastic drawer thingies, cookie tins and other assorted stash boxes, it took a year to organize and do the rubic’s cube dance. To move one thing one has to move a dozen other things when the space is small.

I have been collecting stuff that is going down to recycling. I have to catch myself when the urge to purge clutter hits me and then the plastic bin is all packed up and ready to get the old heave ho.

I’ll be getting the CITY-o-Clay library books back from Denise in Austin, TX. She has been the volunteer librarian for a long time and half of the books started out in my personal library anyway so I’ll be taking on the duties of volunteer librarian for our ClayMate’s lending library.

Again, it’s not exciting information but it’s what I’ve been involved with. Training two new Moderators for the COCModSquad also was part of that To-Do list. We need to recruit new volunteers for the COCModSquad. People get busy with their lives and we go through a turn over on a regular basis. Mark that on my COC To-Do list.

I will admit to being more regular on FaceBook than I am on my blog here. Twitter too. You can catch up with me on those two social networks by going to my home page. There’s links at the top of the page to make it easier. I read that one of the draws that sites like FaceBook has is the near instant interaction.

A scientific study showed that the social interaction on FaceBook releases oxytocin and that forms a loving bond. That’s why social networks are addictive because the bond is chemical, albeit the chemicals are made by our own brain, nevertheless, it’s very strong.

Writing on my blog here gets some comments now and then but it mostly attracts SPAM. Same too with my astro-blog. Plus, neither blog has that instant interaction feedback loop that FaceBook and Twitter have. You read a post, write a comment, I get an email about the comment to approve or delete as SPAM. I have to log in and go to the dash board and it lacks that feel of instant interaction.

Oh stop that yawning behind your hand, already!

When I get my final divorce papers in the mail I will be writing more on my blog. To have my ex-husband’s attorney copy pages and pages of my blog here and my astro-blog to be part of court documents gave me pause. What I wrote wasn’t all that scandalous. She just figured all the testimonials on my astro-blog came from paying customers, which was a laugh. Long time friends who I have been giving free readings to for years, more like. But attorneys are taught in an “adversarial” method and she had training and I did not. I know I didn’t get as good a settlement as I could have if I wanted to continue the hassle. I just wanted it over with and to have the both of them out of my life. But her copying pages from my blog made me stop writing. I know that now.

One of the astrological things we are all going to have to look at going forward is how do we censor ourselves? Back in the mid 1960s when these transits were in effect the economy was robust enough to protest and be alright with that. Now if people protest they could lose their job, end up homeless. “The Powers That Be” (TPTB) have been very successful in making us all step back and fume but not make a big noise. TPTB have set up the environment where we censor ourselves because we’ve lost so much security, 401K value, property value, etc., that we go to chat rooms or online discussion forums and fume there instead of taking our anger out into the streets demanding change, justice, equality, and other impossible things.

So I do think I’ll be blogging more regularly once I get my final divorce papers. I won’t be writing about “him” or the divorce, which will be final 9/15/2010, because it’s boring and stick a fork in me, I’m done.

But I will be writing about what ever comes to mind whether it is claying, sewing, reading, current events, because if I bore my family they get disgruntled, but if I bore my blog readers they can just click off.