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Valera

Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.

About Me

I like poetry, long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.About me? I happily married to a wonderful man, we have 5 children (together) and we are co-owners of The Village Witch. We love camping and go as often as we can. More about me: I over-commit myself, I love to feed others, clean my house, take care of my family and drink really good wines. I have an affinity for imported goat cheese and for throwing away anything that sits too long and collects dust...including people...

My Interests

Wicca, Witchcraft, Pantheacon, The Village Witch, Bellydancing. Cooking, entertaining, reading, cleaning, organizing, travel.

I'd like to meet:

Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood (I'd love to know what really happened) and my great-grandfather who was shot down in Mexico (how cool is it to have an outlaw for an ancestor?). Oh, and the DeFranco Family.

Music:

Anything except super hard core rock and hard core rap. Stuff I can dance to is good too. I love bellydance music!

Movies:

Love the classics; Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffanys, The Three Amigos. I don't like stuff with lots of gore and blood or stupid-humor movies.

Television:

Law & Order, CSI, Medium, Dead Zone. I don't watch very much tv.

Books:

I don't really read novels, but I love how-to books. Anything that gives me more information is great. Oh, and I love cookbooks.

Heroes:

My husband, my daddy, my brother, Martha Stewart and Mary Poppins.

My Blog

Death and dying

Nice title, huh? Yeah, it's that time of year. They say that this is the time of year when more people die and now I'm convinced it's true. It used to be just a statistic to me, but now that it's hitt...
Posted by Valera on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:36:00 PST

I'm not in charge of bugs

  Ok, so we live in San Diego, which, by definition is a desert. I accept the fact that there are going to be bugs and icky stuff that might come into my nice, clean home. But seriously, this is ...
Posted by Valera on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:29:00 PST

I'm so done

   So, I did it. I finally sent in my final reports for Pagan Pride and my resignation. I'm outta there! Yeah, it's going to be weird not being involved. Especially since it was just such a ...
Posted by Valera on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:14:00 PST

A few days off

 So, tomorrow we leave for the desert house and won't be back until Sunday. Yippee! I'm so excited. This is one of my favorite things to do. We'll have 3 1/2 whole days of doing not a damn thing....
Posted by Valera on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:40:00 PST

Lovin' the reiki

    Tonight one of my friend's was supposed to come over so that I could give her her 3rd reiki attunement. After dinner I started feeling icky and was worried that I wasn't going to be...
Posted by Valera on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:18:00 PST

The need to slow down

    Ok, yeah, so I know that my favorite saying is "keep moving". Everyone knows that. But damn! There's just so many things that I want to do and that need to be done that I don't feel...
Posted by Valera on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:45:00 PST

That cool thing I found

    So, this morning I headed out to the South Park Farmer's Market. Yeah!! I really liked this! It's small, so all of the vendors know each other, which is kind of cool. There's a guy ...
Posted by Valera on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:50:00 PST

The Geezer Crowd

    So, today I get to go to lunch with my mother and all of her friends. She's got a group they call "The Birthday Group". It's about 15 women and they all get together once a month to...
Posted by Valera on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:10:00 PST

Time to be a kid again

    So, Darrian comes to me this morning and says, "I need to make a dog house for my puppies." Translation: "can I use a bunch of the blankets and chairs to make a complete mess in my ...
Posted by Valera on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:25:00 PST

I just found something cool

    Did you know that South Park (our little corner of the world) has a farmer's market every Saturday? Right on. Organic produce, crafty stuff, homemade jams and such. I just discovere...
Posted by Valera on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:37:00 PST