Of wine and gods...or one particular god who really digs wine...

Yesterday I grabbed some candles and a candle holder for the Dionysus altar. It was at Yankee candle, and they were one of those little boxes of tea lights. I could swear I grabbed a box that said Vinyard.

Later at the liquor store, I was getting some wine for ritual use. I was pretty adamant that I wasn't getting shiraz- after a couple of bottles, I'm still at the point of "ew". So...I decided to try cabernet sauvignon....I like sauvignon blanc, maybe I'd like that too...I dunno, it made sense in my mind. In any case, if I'm doing a ritual that involves drinking wine, I'm going to drink something with a taste that I can at least tolerate. I have this funny little quirk about not wanting to to drink things that I don't like the taste of.

Anyway. I get home and later have gone upstairs for my Saturday ritual that I do. I pull out the candles and pop one into the holder and then I look down at the package.

It doesn't say Vinyard. It says Vintage. I have no idea how I missed this- Yankee vintage candles have completely different labeling than the normal candles, of which Vinyard is one.

Know what kind of wine it was???

Shiraz. Seems he's gonna get it somehow or other.

Good-Bye Badly-Faded Fuschia Hair...

I dyed it last night. Dark gold-toned brown, perhaps just a bit more of a chocolate-tone than my natural color, but about as dark. Wasn't intending to go quite so dark, but it was what was available at the time and I didn't want to go elsewhere, so I went for it.

I finally got a corkscrew yesterday...I've gotta say, I like artificial cork a lot better than the real stuff. Artificial cork crumbles. Though...it's a lot easier to to put back in the bottle than the fake stuff.

and in other news, I pulled my camera out today, was going to try and use it, got new batteries and all...I tried three rolls...the first two, I snapped one shot each before the automatic rewind activated, the third roll it actually snapped the picture itself and then rewound.

I'm really hoping there was just something weird about the film because it was old. If my camera is broken, I'm going to be really upset.

It didn't do anything weird with the partially-used roll that was in the camera that I shot off when I loaded new batteries...hmmm....I have some other film that I'll have to try, it's all really old, so I'm not worried about the film itself. But I love that camera, and it's not made anymore. *Sigh*