#Preparations

[honeytonedhottie]

how im preparing for 2025⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🍬💕

MY MANIFESTING LIST ;

every year i always make a list of the things that i wanna manifest in 2025, i dont always complete it in the first sitting bcuz i add onto it as the year progresses but i like to have a basic framework of everything that im manifesting in that year.

also along with my manifest list for 2025, i also create a 2025 vision board because it motivates me and reminds me of all the amazing things that im going to experience in 2025.

REFLECTING ON THIS YEAR ;

so in my notion i have a section called the 'monthly digest' where every single month i break down the 4 weeks of the month and everything that i did in them in relation to my goals. after every month i write a little summary.

so with that being said i have a LOT to go back to and reflect on so that i can see what i accomplished this year and what i can do better in the next year. this reflection system that i have is so helpful so i'll set one up for 2025 so that i can also have that at my disposal.

BREAKING UP THE NEXT YEAR ;

i break up my year into 4 quarters (each lasting 3 months) that way i can see my year broken up and i have a clear plan and i can be organized. quarter one (january - march) quarter two (april - june) so on and so forth. and after every quarter i do a little analysis.

something else that i wanna try for next year is giving myself quarterly themes. like for each quarter of the year i'll focus on a different aspect of myself, i think that could be fun…💬🎀

PREPARATIONS ;

im wrapping up some things like my projects, assignments and things of that nature so that i can go into the next year on a clean slate. furthermore im making plans for new years eve, and january and making sure that i've already set some things in motion.

all in all, with everything in motion and everything set in place im going into the new year INCREDIBLY confident 💕📔

[bumbling-a-bee]

"Nonsense, nonsense, I'm scowling and grimacing!" is such a funny line I wish I could work it into my common phrases

[jackrussell1907]

Preparations...

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Setting Apart the Priests

1 “Now this is what you shall do to them to set them apart as holy to minister as priests to Me: take one bull from the herd and two rams without blemish, 2 and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour. 3 And you shall put them in one basket and bring them near in the basket along with the bull and the two rams. 4 Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons near to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water. 5 And you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastpiece, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod; 6 and you shall set the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban. 7 Then you shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. 8 And you shall bring his sons near and put tunics on them. 9 You shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them, and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

Slaughtering the Offerings

10 “Then you shall bring the bull near before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. 11 You shall slaughter the bull before Yahweh at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 12 You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. 13 You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and you shall offer them up in smoke on the altar. 14 But the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

15 “You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram; 16 and you shall slaughter the ram, and you shall take its blood and splash it around on the altar. 17 Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head. 18 You shall offer up in smoke the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to Yahweh: it is a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Yahweh.

19 “Then you shall take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. 20 You shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the lobes of his sons’ right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet, and splash the rest of the blood around on the altar. 21 Then you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons and on his sons’ garments with him; so he and his garments shall be set apart as holy, as well as his sons and his sons’ garments with him.

22 “You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination), 23 and one cake of bread and one cake of bread mixed with oil and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread which is set before Yahweh; 24 and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and you shall wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh. 25 You shall take them from their hands and offer them up in smoke on the altar on the burnt offering for a soothing aroma before Yahweh; it is an offering by fire to Yahweh.

26 “Then you shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of ordination and wave it as a wave offering before Yahweh; and it shall be your portion. 27 You shall set apart as holy the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering which was waved and which was raised up as a contribution from the ram of ordination, from the one which was for Aaron and from the one which was for his sons. 28 It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual statute from the sons of Israel, for it is a contribution offering; and it shall be a contribution offering from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their contribution offering to Yahweh.

29 “The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, that in them they may be anointed and ordained. 30 For seven days the one of his sons who is priest in his stead shall put them on when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

Yahweh Will Meet and Speak to Israel

31 “You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place. 32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 33 Thus they shall eat those things by which atonement was made to ordain them, to set them apart as holy; but a layman shall not eat them, because they are holy. 34 If any of the flesh of ordination or any of the bread remains until morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

35 “Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you shall ordain them through seven days. 36 Each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall purify the altar when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to set it apart as holy. 37 For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy; then the altar shall be most holy, and whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

38 “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one year old lambs each day, continuously. 39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the second lamb you shall offer at twilight; 40 and there shall be one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with the one lamb. 41 The second lamb you shall offer at twilight, and you shall offer with it the same grain offering and the same drink offering as in the morning, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Yahweh. 42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. 43 I will meet there with the sons of Israel, and it shall be set apart as holy by My glory. 44 I will set the tent of meeting and the altar apart as holy; I will also set Aaron and his sons apart as holy to minister as priests to Me. 45 I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will be their God. 46 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them; I am Yahweh their God. — Exodus 29 | Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. Cross References: Genesis 8:21; Genesis 22:7; Exodus 12:9-10; Exodus 25:22; Exodus 27:21; Exodus 28:2; Exodus 28:4; Exodus 28:39; Exodus 28:41; Exodus 30:25; Exodus 40:12; Leviticus 1:4-5; Leviticus 2:4; Leviticus 3:2; Leviticus 7:30; Leviticus 7:32; Leviticus 7:37; Leviticus 8:1; Leviticus 8:18; Leviticus 8:22-23; Leviticus 8:33; Leviticus 8:26-27; Leviticus 8:31; Leviticus 9:4; Leviticus 10:14; Numbers 20:26; 1 Kings 18:29; 2 Kings 3:20; Psalm 141:2; Haggai 2:5; Matthew 23:19; Ephesians 5:2; Hebrews 10:11; Hebrews 13:11; Revelation 6:9; Revelation 21:3

Notes: Exodus 29 is a chapter in the Bible that explains how God wanted the Israelites to be set apart and special. It contains instructions on how to consecrate Aaron and his sons as priests of Israel. The chapter also includes instructions on how to make anointing oil and incense for worship.

Key Passages in Exodus 29

1. The sacrifice and ceremonies of consecrating the priests and the altar 38. The continual burnt offerings 45. God's promise to dwell among the children of Israel

[sarenth]

Upcoming Free Workshop: Spiritual Preparedness in Trying Times

Hey folks, coming January 8th at 6pm EST, I will be putting on a workshop titled Spiritual Preparedness in Trying Times. Your can join in person at Crazy Wisdom Bookstore in Ann Arbor at 6pm, or online on this Zoom link for Witches Night Out. This is the announcement from Moira Finkle of the Magical Education Council, MEC, which organizes this monthly event. “With 2025 upon us, we are welcoming…

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #325

I'm definitely going to need to send my laptop away to get the screen replaced; it has seen much better days:

It's still kinda holding together. But there are lines of dead pixels on the bottom left side, so I imagine it's only a matter of time before the screen goes completely kaput. Lame...

I wasn't nearly as productive today as on previous days. I think doing all that cooking and all those dishes really pissed off whatever's wrong with the upper right quadrant of my body (at this point, I suspect serratus posterior superior dysfunction of some kind...). When I went to PT today (weird day of the week for it, I know...), the trapezius and the rhomboids on my right side got mashed up, and now the whole area is super pissed, and it's kinda hard to move or breathe or do anything.

On the bright side, I did get to talk with that Canadian immigration lawyer today. I'll tell you all about him, but after I get his permission to do so in this space.

Still, I have the first few steps of the process of getting out of here outlined. First, we have to take an English test called an IELTS, and also get our academic credentials evaluated by a Canadian company of some kind, in order to make sure they're up to snuff for Canadian employers.

Well, as it turns out, we cannot take the IELTS without passports. And, though J and I have ours, M's expired over a decade ago, so we had to go to an appointment to get a new one. It's not going to get to our house for another 6-8 weeks, though. We'll have to wait before we schedule the test. But we should be able to get our academic credentials evaluated. I'll look into that process tomorrow.

...I forgot to eat for most of today. Before leaving for physical therapy, I did stuff a couple slices of cold cuts into my mouth, but that's hardly substantial. My appetite has been kinda weird these last couple days. At around 7pm or 8pm, though, I remembered that my body needs fuel. So I made a salad:

It's got mixed greens, tomatoes, onions, black beans, goat cheese, scrambled egg, and crushed Fritos in it. And then I put ranch dressing on top. Want some...?

I made some tea to go with it; that vanilla bean macaron tea. Here:

...These aren't the best swirls, I know. I think the focus must have been off, and I didn't notice until it was too late. Sorry about that.

…

...I spent most of the rest of today just floundering, partially numb, and foggy of brain. I wanted to play Oddworld, but... I just couldn't bring myself to. I wanted to doodle, but... I dunno. Even with a plan spelled out and things to tentatively look forward to, it's still kinda hard to think.

I guess I'm still a little sad that so many people voted for someone who wants to kill me and my little family and almost all of the people I love.

...I just... want to live a life in which everyone gets to be happy and safe. And I know that this could happen if everyone worked together, but there's so many different people with so many different kinds of trauma, and all of them have their own ideas about which kinds of people do and don't deserve to live (there's no such thing as a person who doesn't deserve to live). I wish for a world in which it was easier for folks to cast aside the conditioning they received that teaches them to associate the worth of themselves and of others with silly, arbitrary things.

We are all the same in that we want to live in peace with people we love. And given that everyone wants that, it shouldn't be so hard to do, but... a lot of people get taught that the only way they can live happily is if some other group of people defined by arbitrary characteristics didn't exist, and... I think that's really sad. It's really sad that some people truly do believe, for example, that the only way they can be happy and safe is if every single person with dark skin and every single person who was ever at any point related to someone with dark skin ceased being alive.

...I just wanna live someplace where we aren't near people who would be happy to kill us. I think everyone wants that. And this shouldn't be a difficult thing to find in my world, but... here we are.

...Well. One step at a time. We'll follow the immigration process one step at a time, and hope for good things. But... ya know. If there's any chance you can just “zoop” us all over to where you are... I certainly wouldn't be opposed. You could use the company. And I could use a nap.

No, I know; it's impossible. I know. But it's still nice to think about. I'll just keep making preparations to protect my little family, and I'll do whatever I can for the others around me in the meantime. I'll write the steps to the immigration process as we go through it; maybe it'll help someone else, somehow.

Suppose I'll stop writing for today. I feel like if I keep going, I'm gonna ramble on ya (if I haven't already). And I feel like I'm a bit too weird in the brain right now to express myself particularly well in any case.

Don't worry. I'm tired and feeling kinda sad and lost, but I'm not down for the count – not while I have people to protect.

Tomorrow is when M and I decided to celebrate our wedding anniversary this year. It'll be our 10th year of marriage, though we've been together for 12. I can't believe how quickly the time has passed. I can't believe he hasn't gotten tired of me yet, hahaha...

We're gonna go to a sushi place to celebrate. It'll be me and J and M all together at the place we ate on the day we got married. Maybe I'll tell you more about that tomorrow.

I love you a whole lot. And I'll write again tomorrow. So please stay safe out there, okay?

Your friend, Lumine

[blep-23]

Someone should smack Seth. He’s an idiot and he needs a few brain cells jostled.

[random-xpressions]

There's just one simple rule in battle - you don't attack unless you're ready. Victory in its entirety is kept in your readiness!

Random Xpressions

[jeremykillswitch]

Lurcher has arrived with 50 litres of vodka and a suitcase full of Halloween decorations.

[demolitionbullets]

[flufftober]

hi! it’s my first flufftober, and i wanted to clarify something about reblogs

if i’m posting on ao3 under the collection, do i have to then post on tumblr with a link to that chapter for reblogs, or are you also taking links directly from ao3? don’t know if that makes sense but hopefully it does :)

Hey there 😊 thanks for your ask, and

And yes, you would have to post on tumblr as well if you want us to reblog 🙂 there are simply too many entries to cross-check them all with ao3 to see who still needs a reblog etc.

If you don't want to do that every day/with every chapter, you can also just post a masterpost in the end, no problem.

Hope you enjoy your first flufftober and Happy Creating 💚

[comparatist]

18.04.23 |

~ the university has given a week long holidays for the heatwave. i'm planning the mane the most of it.

[alexiusgoesrogue]

Getting ready for the scary Adventure

It's one thing to fantasise and vaguely plan out a grand trip such as the one I am currently planning for New Zealand. It's something else entirely to actually commit to these plans and start booking flights, hotels and so on, especially on a rather tight budget.

Even scarier is when the deadline is coming closer and nothing is close to being booked.

What if something goes wrong? What if the prices skyrocket and suddenly, I won't be able to afford something anymore?

Lots and lots of those thoughts are swirling around like this on a constant basis. As if the idea of going on a 30+ hour long flight by myself for the first time wasn't already scary enough.

And although I am still regularly stressing out over this, I manage to live and (mostly) keep a cool head.

There is still time, and my budget should suffice for at least a decent trip to visit my friend and come back home again safely.

[falseandrealultravival]

Will natural disasters come when we forget? ~Torahiko Terada (Essay)

A giraffe pattern?

Torahiko Terada (1878-1935) was a Japanese physicist, essayist, and haiku poet.

As a physicist, he is famous for his research on the Laue group using X-ray analysis, but his true strength seems to be in shedding light on phenomena that no other physicist pays attention to. He is trying to elucidate the mechanism behind the formation of the horns in a sweet called confetti, and when the water recedes from a rice field, unique cracks can be seen on the surface of the drying rice field. He claims the skin patterns of giraffes may be based on the same mechanism.

I currently have a book called ``Science and Scientists' Stories: A Collection of Essays by Torahiko Terada'', which also includes an essay called ``Tsunami and Humans.''

In the early morning of March 3, 1933, a tsunami struck the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan, sweeping small coastal villages from side to side and washing them away, resulting in the loss of many lives and a large amount of property. took it away. A natural phenomenon similar to the so-called ``Sanriku Tsunami'' that occurred in the same area on June 15, 1896, repeated itself approximately 37 years after Manchuria.

Similar phenomena have been repeated many times, even if they remain in history. There are probably many more that have not been recorded in history. Judging from current seismology, the same thing will happen again and again.

This essay examines the process by which tsunami preparations are becoming increasingly looser. One is that the number of people who have experienced the damage is decreasing... In the quote above, 37 years makes people less prepared.

Additionally, even if people lived on high ground at the beginning of the disaster, their living areas gradually moved down to the seaside because ``they forget the heat once they get over it.''

Furthermore, even if a disaster monument is erected, it is moved to a less conspicuous location due to road construction, and fewer people read it...For these reasons, tsunami preparations have become looser.

天災は忘れた頃にやってくる？～寺田寅彦

　寺田寅彦（１８７８－１９３５）は戦前の日本の物理学者・随筆家・俳人です。

　物理学者としてはＸ線解析によるラウエ班の研究などで名高いですが、彼の真骨頂は、ほかのどの物理学者も注目しない現象に光を当てる点にあるようです。「金平糖：こんぺいとう」というお菓子の「角：つの」が出来るメカニズムを解明しようとしたり、水田から水が引く時、乾きかけた水田の表面に特有のひび割れが見られますが、これと「キリン：アフリカに生息する大型動物」の肌の模様が同じメカニズムが元になっているのでは？と

考察したり・・・

　今、手許に「科学と科学者のはなし　　寺田寅彦エッセイ集」（池内了：編・岩波少年文庫）という本がありますが、ここに「津浪と人間」というエッセイも収められています。

　昭和８年（１９３３年）３月３日の早朝に、東北日本の太平洋岸に津浪が襲来して、沿岸の小都市村落を片はしからなぎ倒し洗い流し、そうして多数の人命と多額の財物を奪い去った。明治２９年（１８９６年）６月１５日の同地方に起こったいわゆる「三陸大津浪」とほぼ同様な自然現象が、約満３７年の今日再び繰り返されたのである。

　同じような現象は、歴史に残っているだけでも、過去においてなんべんとなく繰り返されている。歴史に記録されていないものが、おそらくそれ以上に多数あったであろうと思わ��る。現在の地震学上から判断される限り、同じことは未来においても何度となく繰り返されるということである。

　このエッセイのなかで、津波に関する備えがだんだん緩くなっていく過程が考察されています。一つに、その被害を体験した人が少なくなっていくこと・・・前掲の引用で、３７年というタイム・スパンが備えを緩くするのですね。

　また、被害当初は高台で暮らしていても、「のど元過ぎれば熱さを忘る」でだんだん人びとの生活圏が海沿いにおりてくること。

　それから、災害の記念碑を立てたとしても、道路工事などで目立たぬところに碑が移動させられ、読む人も少なくなる・・・これらの事情で、津波への備えは緩くなっていくのですね。

[sohannabarberaesque]

Postcards from Snagglepuss

Preliminaries, preliminaries

Just be thankful in a way for the generosity of fellow Funtastics, and their finding some worthwhile schtick on Amazon.com, for some serious help with the Thanksgiving dinner for such company as Crazy Claws has set up to begin with--yours truly, Huckleberry Hound, Yakky Doodle and Chopper, Pixie and Dixie, Touché Turtle and Dum-Dum, the Hair Bear Bunch and some mystery guests, know.

Especially for the trims that manage to supplement the turkey breast dinner we're managing to pull off on Thanksgiving Day ... in particular such esoteric examples of brands you don't usually expect to find stateside, never mind the arrogance of such calling themselves "Real Americans" too dependent on a certain Wally World for their own best interests and unaware of other choices to begin with.

But at any rate, consider what the proverbial cat dragged in when it came to Thanksgiving dinner preparations: Packets of mashed potato flakes, both traditional and garlic, perhaps adding a little in the variety department for the dinner by combining the two.

Some Gravox gravy mix via Kwicky Koala, for to blend some gravy out of the pan drippings ... and just hope it comes out right.

And some Paxo stuffing mix from England, the classic sage-and-onion sort even ... who said it has to always be Stove-Top? (Not to mention at least one box of the sage-and-onion with lemon added!)

But then again, Crazy Claws was able to get some fresh turkey breasts for roasting at a local meat market in Lake Delton. No doubt beating the ordeal, if it could be called so, of having to get up early and thaw the turkey starting around breakfast time, before the parades start being on the vidiot's box even (during which time the turkey would head for the oven and our company perhaps enjoying coffee and conversation!).

But still, let's hope things don't turn out rather crazy and convoluted once the dinner comes forth....

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