#juniperwrites

[junipermint]

I really need to get back into yoga. My back has been absolutely killing me lately.

I know I have terrible posture at work and that's probably the cause of it, but it's hard to stand up straight and decorate sheet cakes!

[juniper-witch]

My coworkers have started calling me “the witch” because my tiny apartment is a jungle of plants and I grow weird herbs, keep a ton of other odd ones on hand at all times, and I know how to cook weird things... not only food-wise, but also stuff like tinctures, salves, and stuff. And apparently also because I have very well-behaved snakes. hahaha. “What normal person has such good, nice snakes?” I have never even said anything about the fact that I... ya know... am. I don’t wear any witchy/pagan jewelry, I don’t talk about spells or whatnot, and even my altars aren’t obviously altars anymore.

When they say “Yeah, Mara’s definitely a witch!” I’m just like “Ha, yep!”. Not even sarcastically... but I don’t think they get it. hahaha. I don’t hide my witchy tendencies, but I also don’t go around witching things up in public.

It’s both hilarious and comforting. They’re my friends. They know me well. <3 I know if I straight up said “Hey you know I actually am.” They’d just all start pointing and screaming “CALLED IT!” and “TOLD YA!” and laugh. Love ‘em.

[junipermint]

I had a dream last night that I was house sitting for a random family and ended up accidentally killing the dad when he came home early before the kids/wife because I thought he was a burglar. They were renovating the house so I tossed him in the dumpster and piled more stuff on top of him and was so frantic about how I was going to explain his absence when the rest of the family returned.

I woke up right as the wife started digging in the dumpster looking for something she accidentally threw away. I got up, had a bathroom break, and went back to sleep.

In my next dream, I was going back to college and for some reason we had to take a long bus ride up a mountain to get to one specific class. On the way down the mountain after that class, it was already dark and my classmates were mostly all napping. One dude, who I for some reason had a huge crush on, was talking about weird dreams he had had.

AND THEN I PROCEEDED TO TELL HIM ABOUT THE HOUSE-SITTING MURDER DREAM!

I told somebody about a previous dream... while dreaming.

What the fuck.

[junipermint]

A two hour meeting later, with me doing very little talking, and I got pretty much exactly what I wanted.

It's disappointing that this is the way it had to come because I love my ladies, but it is what it is.

I got the raise I wanted without even asking. He offered me what I was going to use as my high point for negotiating. I wasn't going to push it. I didn't have to pull out my two pages of bakery problems, I didn't have to refer to my notes of "reasons Mara deserves a raise".

And I don't have to move to full time... Which I think excites me more than an extra $3 an hour.

Still a very nerve-wracking day, especially because I didn't get much sleep last night.

I'm still conflicted because I love the decorators that are leaving, but I also am excited to fix the problems we have without their negativity.

Oh well.

[junipermint]

No guys it's totally fine that I get home at midnight and then have to wake up at 5am for a ten hour shift, then immediately go home and do another family Christmas party all over again. It's fine. No, you really can just stand in the front entryway and talk for another 45 minutes. The nice ol' Minnesotan Goodbye.

*rolls eyes*

Fuck this season. I am exhausted and my "time off" is spent doing things even more exhausting than my actual job.

I am in so much physical pain right now. I wish I could chop my legs off.

[junipermint]

I am legitimately upset that I can't have a pet land snail because it's illegal to import land snails in the US/to ship them across state lines. The only way to get a pet snail in Minnesota is to go out and catch a wild one but surprise, MN doesn't have land snails. Not really. Just tiny invasive aquatic snails and even smaller nearly-microscopic land snails.

Guys that dream really fucked me up the other night and I am truly heart broken over my dream snail child.

[junipermint]

Me when determining if I am attracted to a dude: The taller the better. Not beefy, but strong enough to lift me with a good hug. Prefer less body hair but idk. Nice hair a plus. Love sharp cheekbones. Long fingers yes please.

Me when determining if I'm attracted to a lady: Is it a lady? Oki doki, we're set, I'm in love.

[junipermint]

Fiancé: *sees I'm on my phone while we're watching tv* What are you doing over there?

Me: Reading stuff.

Fiancé: You're looking at pictures of that guy from It.

Me: ...No?

Fiancé: I can see the reflection in your glasses.

Me: *lowers glasses* ... Nooooo?