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December 28th, 2007
 | 07:54 pm - The last Advent Mistletoe
Colin and I lay awake in bed, holding each other. He seems to like rubbing his thumb over my left ring finger and though I like feeling his touch, I like not feeling it for just that small moment. Because it means that we are engaged.
I squeeze him really tight for just a moment, just at the thought that we are engaged. I do love knowing that. Even though I love him very much and I know he loves me very much, the thought that we are engaged makes me feel so very light and overflowing.
"I think I would like to fetch some for Dad's hearth as well," I whisper into the dark room.
"Fetch some what?" he asks, his voice also a whisper.
( Mistletoe )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/opiummmm/foxies/confused.gif) curious
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December 14th, 2007
 | 10:15 pm - Our First Christmas Tree
Colin and I have been alternating fetching the advent mistletoe. I explained to him that the hearth of the main room is the place where the mistletoe is hung for Christmas, and so should be left bare until then, but every other place is perfectly alright.
As today is an odd day, and I have odd days, I hung the mistletoe while he was asleep. We lay in the pantry now, snuggling and kissing under the mistletoe when I say, "We should fetch our Christmas tree today."
"We should," he nods, kissing me again. "When do you want to go?"
"Somewhere in a forest with spruces," I reply, kissing him back. "Do you know where spruces are?"
"We can find one. Dad, Dennis, and I usually go to a place where they sell Christmas trees, but we can go to a forest," he offers, running his fingers through my hair.
( Our First Christmas Tree )
Current Mood: curious
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December 1st, 2007
| 12:57 am - A tradition carried
I wait until Colin is asleep and then slide out of bed. It is very, very early on the first day of December and there is something I must do before another thing is done.
I walk to the hearth where I had set my robes to stay warm, and dress quietly, so I do not wake him. Then I toe into my slippers and sneak through the hall, up the stairs, through the sitting room, and take my cloak and scarf from the cloak room. Then I go up the last bit of stairs and apparate to where I had seen a perfect place before.
The tree is very tall. I cast a small insect-foot charm on my fingers so that they will stick to the tree as I climb. Then I pocket my wand and climb up and up until I have reached the large bundle of mistletoe.
( Advent Mistletoe )
Current Location: out and about
Current Mood: curious
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November 25th, 2007
| 12:36 am - A reunion with Colin
I do not know when Colin is coming home from his trip. He was not sure how long it would be and I know that he took several rolls of film with him and will most likely use them all, so it will take a very long time to develope all the pictures.
I wanted to have something special made for when he came back, but I suppose having a bowl of sex truffles by the bed will do. And so I have had it by the bed for the last few days as I sit in the library and research and read with the door open to let the heat in.
I hear the sound of a door and then a voice call out. "Luna?" Then the sound of footsteps quickly coming down the staircase, almost running.
( A reunion with Colin )
Current Location: Ness Keep
Current Mood: curious
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November 6th, 2007
 | 02:01 pm - Days without Colin
I had slept the entire night of my memory, which was really into the afternoon of the actual day. When the memory ended, I think I just slept, though it is difficult to be conscious of yourself sleeping when you are not dreaming. I do know that when I awoke, the lake was glowing like the sapphire gem of the afternoon and I was alone.
I took a very quick shower, not enjoying it as I usually do, and alone, and then dressed for a trip into town to buy supplies and pay the last amount that I owed for the cauldron.
( Yesterday and Today )
Current Mood: curious
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November 4th, 2007
 | 07:30 pm - Goodbye for a little while
It is already Monday morning and Colin leaves today. We have shared our time together as much as we were able ever since he gave me the news about his trip, and it has been wonderful though we are both a bit sore.
I have been awake all night, though I am quite tired. He will be gone in less than a few hours now, and I do not want to waste a moment with him. Though sleeping is perfectly nice, I can sleep later. I just want to watch Colin.
( Saying goodbye )
Current Location: Ness Keep
Current Mood: curious
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November 2nd, 2007
 | 06:52 pm - News atop kitty toys
I have an entire journal filled with facts on sex, from when I had been studying for the truffles and before. It has always been a topic that has interested me, because it is a way to share love, and transform the emotional feelings of love into physical feelings of love. In theory, it had been quite interesting. I remember how deeply Daddy felt for Mum and how she felt for him, and knew that the emotions were quite spectacular, to want to be always with somebody and always want to see them happy. That there was a way to express these inner feelings through actions that are only for the two people, that the act fits the two people together so closely like a puzzle that is made complete, and that it is one of the most wonderful experiences.
And I am happy that such a wonderful thing is something that Colin and I share so often together. If there is a way to make such an incredible connection even more wonderful, then I should like to for us, and for everybody who loves each other in the world. That is why I am glad that, even though I have no books to research in, Colin and I made such extensive notes while we were studying for the truffles.
( Colin comes home with news )
Current Location: Ness Keep
Current Mood: curious
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October 29th, 2007
| 08:10 pm - Spirals of feelings
Colin and I are lying on our bed, as it is the most comfortable place to be. His head is on my stomach and he is asleep, but I am looking at the window and the blue light that is coming in dim through the lake.
His hair is soft, I think as I run my fingers through it. A school of fish swims by us and pauses just long enough for the light to glimmer off their scales. I turn my head very slightly and breathe in the smell of our blankets, the side where Colin sleeps. I think about how I didn't really used to think of myself as having a side and how quickly it became a part of me. When I snuck into Colin's room when we lived with Dad, he was always on one side and I always slipped into the other side.
( Change and life and love )
Current Location: Ness Keep
Current Mood: curious
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October 19th, 2007
| 09:21 pm - News that makes me smile
The stew is nearly done now and it smells lovely. I started to prepare it when Colin left to see his clients today. He has been gone a very long time and I was hoping during lunchtime that he has remembered to eat. Sometimes he gets so excited about photography that he forgets, and I think it is very sweet, but it is also very important to eat.
The salad does not have much lettuce in it. It is mostly cucumbers and celery and radishes. Perhaps I have made too much. If I have, the stew will store nicely in the cooling closet. It is like the ice box that Dad has at his house, but it sticks into an underground stream, which is very cool, and it is kept chill just by the temperature of the water. It is very clever of the McCains to make it such.
It being stew, it is simple to let it sit on a low heat and read while it is finishing. However, the smell of the stew and the wamth of the fire is making me rather drowsy and my head is nodding over the book until I am laying my head on the coffee table book table.
Current Location: Ness Keep
Current Mood: curious
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October 18th, 2007
 | 09:51 pm - Chocolate makes wonderful inventions
I sit in the library, opening the coffee table book and looking through the pictures. There are many tables in here that would be most helpful. Colin and I have very few pieces of furniture. I suppose after we have taken care of food and work needs, we should start to save for furniture.
I feel a pinch and reach inside my pocket for the phial of potion I was able to afford to make this time. I do find the time of month to be painful and boring and long, but the absense of such times are telling of things that we are not ready for, so I am glad for them, even if it means that Colin and I must abstain.
I sigh and look out the window into the water of Loch Ness. It has been such a very long time since my last idea for an invention. If I am to expect to make a living on my inventions, what good will it be to me if I am unable to think of things to invent?
( When I am thinking of inventions of the past and for the future )
Current Mood: curious
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October 13th, 2007
 | 08:18 pm - Welcome to Ness Keep! and enjoy
Colin has gone up to the hill over us to wait for Dad and Abby to arrive. They are driving here all the way to London and will be staying the night as I have heard that it is such a very long way away. He took with him a thermos of hot chocolate, but it must be cold by now. I hope he is not cold up there while I am down here with the fire setting up for the guests.
We do not have much furniture at all, I am afraid, and so I found some of Peleira’s kitty toys, laundered them, and engorgioed them to make poufs for sitting. Some of them smell like catnip, which I think is rather nice. I am hoping that soon we will have enough in our account to go to the furniture shops to buy something to fill the empty spaces so that we will be able to entertain more, though I am not sure how much that will be.
( Luna and Colin's housewarming party )
Current Location: Ness Keep
Current Mood: curious
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October 9th, 2007
 | 08:07 pm - A meeting, invitation, and talk of armour
I walk to the bed and look at the three ties that I have tied to the post on my side, considering which I should wear. It sounded terribly important when Hermione and Ron asked us to meet with them to talk about something, and so I want to dress for an important occasion, though not the sort of special occasion that Colin and I have together.
"Colin, I am nearly ready if you are," I say, walking into the wash room, tying my Ravenclaw tie around my neck and my Gryffindor tie in my hair.
"Just about," comes his muffled answer. "Still looking for...wait, never mind, found it," he calls. He then comes into the bedroom, this time wearing both trainers, instead of just the one he could find. "Ready. Are you?"
( Having a meeting with Ron and Hermione Weasley )
Current Mood: curious
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September 29th, 2007
 | 02:44 pm - A nice luncheon with Hannah Abbott
I have been very busy working on the ribbon and trying many things. It is difficult, as there are no spells that I can find that are like a rewind button. Colin told me about rewind buttons. When you are using a cassette, the rewind button takes you back earlier in the cassette or all the way back to the beginning, and that is exactly what I wish for the end of the ribbon, as I have solved the other problem.
But I will think of that later, as Hannah and I are having luncheon together, while Colin develops his pictures for Susan Bones. Hannah has helped me quite a bit and I wished to thank her. Because of her help with the patents, I was able to start production of the chocolates and make money so that Colin and I could eat. I was very lucky that Fred and George Weasley offered to sell them for me. Otherwise, I do not know what we should have done!
( Luncheon with Hannah Abbott )
Current Location: Creole-Ohamora
Current Mood: curious
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September 25th, 2007
 | 08:22 pm - Book Ribbon trial
I had finished reading the book aloud over this weekend. Of course I had become distracted by other thoughts as I was trying to extract the memories of each chapter and after testing each memory, which for some was quite pleasurable and I set those aside in a special basin, I finally collected all the chapters.
There are thirteen strings of memories in all, which I knitted together with the thin crystal knitting needles I had used for the studying ribbons. The Room gave them to me as a parting gift, and I have taken good care of them. I hope that it is happy.
The ending ribbon is very thin and not too long. I have labled each memory and knitted them in in order, hoping that the movement of left to right will happen naturally, as that is how we read.
( The completed ribbon )
Current Location: Ness Keep
Current Mood: curious
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September 21st, 2007
| 07:59 pm - Planning a Party
Backdated to Wednesday Sept 19th
When I awoke Tuesday with quite a bit of pain, I discovered that I had taken the last of my potion for it last month. When I had finished the vial, I had tried to remind myself to remember to make more when I had the opportunity, but it hadn't helped much as I had forgotten in the excitement of buying the house and starting production of the studying chocolate.
I know that Mr. McCain would not have this sort of potion left behind, and I do not mind making it, but I am a bit short on some of the ingredients. Peleira had discovered some catnip up in the fields and I had picked some, so I have been drinking tea made of it to ease some of the pain, but the potion is really the best and I shall have to make some before I forget again. Which means that when I take the Purely Educational to Fred and George Weasley, I shall buy more potions ingredients and fill our potion stores.
( Ideas, errands, and budgeting )
Current Mood: curious
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September 17th, 2007
 | 07:23 pm - Memories of chapters
The cauldron is large enough to make just a bit more than one hundred jars of chocolate. I had started more the very day after Colin and I bought the ingredients. I would have started that night, but I wished to make something special for Colin, and so I did. Our kitchen is lovely for making interesting things.
It takes a week for the chocolate to be completely finished and that means that there are still a few more days. But there is nothing much to do the last half of the time besides stir it and wait. And so I have time to work on other inventions.
( Inventing again )
Current Location: Ness Keep
Current Mood: curious
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September 14th, 2007
 | 06:00 pm - July 25th - A day in Disneyland!
Colin and I had not left to see Tide Alley until the third day of the trip. We were enjoying too much the opportunity to be alone and lost track of time when we were together. We didn't mind that we were missing days in a new place, because the time we were using instead was spent preciously.
It was our fourth day, therefore, that Colin and I left San Francisco to go down to Anaheim. It was a long trip, as we took the bus. I had never been on one and found it terribly interesting at first, which Colin said was cute. Then there was just so much of the same thing and I became bored and fell asleep on his shoulder.
When we arrived, it was much too late to go to the place that we wished to. It was still open, but there were only a few more hours left of it and Colin said that it would be better to spend the money for an entire day. So after eating dinner and finding a motel room, and being together, we went to sleep early.
( Going to Disneyland together! )
Current Location: Disneyland
Current Mood: curious
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September 12th, 2007
| 11:29 am - Making deliveries and running errands
When I had purchased Ness Keep, I did not think that spending my entire bank balance would be a problem. It was my money to do with as I had wished, and I wished to buy a home for me and Colin, whom I love dearly.
We had moved into the house on Friday and immediately set to straightening our bedroom and work stations. But then when I unpacked my cauldron, I realized that all I had for my inventing was the cauldron and a few apothocary items. I had enough of everything for a small batch of the studying chocolate, except for the cocoa beans, but that was all.
( Making deliveries and running errands )
Current Location: Ness Keep
Current Mood: curious
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September 7th, 2007
 | 08:47 pm - Our house
Colin's and my bedroom is at the end of Ness Keep on the bottom storey. There is a large window that looks out into Loch Ness, a half-circle window that is flat at the ceiling. Colin and I placed our new bed on the wall facing the window so that when we wake up, we can look out into the lake if we wanted.
Colin is looking for jobs today and I have been home starting the chocolate since it takes a very long time. We would both love to set our things out and make this place feel like our home, but all we were able to do was set our work places to order and arrange our bed.
( Our first night completely alone together at last )
Current Location: Ness Keep
Current Mood: curious
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August 30th, 2007
 | 10:06 pm - Maybe a place to live?
I have been looking through many papers for a house, magical and muggle. Seeing the prices of the houses that they have there, however, I am not sure I will be able to find an affordable place to live. I may have made quite a lot of money with the studying chocolate, but the amount I have does not come near the price for even a small one-room shack.
Things are not looking promising at all and the optimism that I have felt about the patent seems very shallow now, as if I am able to parent and make the chocolate, I will have no place to make it.
( Another letter with promising information )
Current Mood: curious
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