Not all that glitters is gold, but sometimes it's awesome anyway.

[mrissa]

So timprov and I had just finished getting burgers and malts with the folks, Grandma, and Johan before he goes back to Sweden. (Yes, laurel, I give you permission to imagine me sitting at the Malt Shop with Johan Santana, even though that is totally not what happened.) (markgritter is in California or he'd have come too.) And there is a new store along the stretch there with the Malt Shop and Blackbird and Heidi's and Patina. It's called something like Shoppe Local, which means that we have to pronounce it Shoppy Local, because we are abby normal.

And! They had! Oh, this is exciting. Other than the Christmas presents. And other than the baby presents for someone who is spawning and will be relieved to see I take open (semi-hostile) hints about baby presents. And other than the print of the octopus on the dictionary page from "thenceforward" to "thermal capacity." And other than a couple of greeting cards I will keep in reserve for when I need them.

I got a locket.

Did you know I always wanted a locket? Well, I didn't. But this is my locket. It is gold, and it has a raven girl on the front in black. She is wearing a raven cloak over her dress. She is cheekily pleased as raven girls are. The locket is just the right size so that when I put it in the palm of my hand and close my fingers around it, it fills my hand. And the gold is textured in a way that reminds me of my Gran, and the chain rattles along it in that percussionary locket way.

I don't know who goes in it for sure yet. I was thinking Niddhogg and Yggdrasil, facing off inside my locket, but we'll have to see. Wee tiny pictures of them may not be the easiest thing. Hel and her lupine brother might be nice. It is that kind of a raven girl, you see. Well. Or else I am.

Comments

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

. . . I really want a story now about the sibling dynamics between Hel, Fenris, and Jormungand.

And how the three of them feel about their dad.

(The icon is me playing Hel in a LARP, and my interactions with Loki were one of the best parts of it. Somehow I'd never really internalized that as an actual family relationship until the game, and I hadn't thought to include the wolf and the serpent until now.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The short story I was working on today but shouldn't have could be titled Sigyn And Fenris Wander Around Mythic Pre-Columbian North America. The stepparenting there is weird weird.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

o_O

I want to read that story, too. So I say "bah" to the notion that you shouldn't work on it. :-)

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

It's officially Your Fault that I now have a 323-word beginning to a story titled "Serpent, Wolf, and Half-Dead Thing."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

*contrite face*

Oh, wait, that's some other face.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Times like this, icons of yourself in different moods come very much in handy. <g>

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Somehow I don't really have Contrite Face icons. I can't think why.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Oh, how cool!

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the other day that I would like to have a locket, but I'd probably just put my uncle and grandparents in it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have said that the Norse gods feel sensible to me, sort of a similar approach to my relatives, but that doesn't mean my actual grandparents.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't think you were comparing your grandparents to Niddhogg, Yggdrasil or Hel!

[laurel]

I'm so imagining you guys hanging at the malt shop with Johan Santana now. Awesome! But if that were the case, I'd be cranky we weren't invited as we're just up the street but then I've had a Day and so on.


That's very cool that you found just the locket. I very much want a good scent locket, but have yet to find just the thing. (Some BPAL scents I like don't work with my skin chemistry so a locket would be cool.)

I haven't been down there to that block (except as I whiz on by in the car) in what seems like ages-- haven't seen what autumnal things they have in Patina and I suppose they'll be changing over to Christmas stuff soon.

I had to ask Kevin if Shoppe Local was where the barbershop was was or where the flower shop was. I guess it's where the flower shop was. Huh. Will have to investigate. I approve of quirky little shops.

Still haven't tried Blackbird or Heidi's. And haven't been to the Malt Shop in ages and it was kindof our default there for a while as it's close and comfortable (when not ridiculously crowded).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Let us know if you're up for trying Blackbird, or we'll give you a call if we're going one of these times. I love it. I want to go there fairly often.

[moiread]

Oh gosh. If I had known you had always wanted a locket...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, it's okay that you didn't know. I didn't know either.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

We definitely need to see pictures of this locket!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Possibly when I get the pictures in it. We'll see.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

OOo. Most excellent locket.

<3

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds lovely.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

<3 Thank you for the nice thing to read.