Another thing I've found the iPhone to be really handy for (besides taking fabulous pictures) is taking notes for writing. I've been using the Evernote app (which someone, I don't remember who, recommended to me way back when I got the iPad) to keep writing prompts. What I like about this app is that it syncs with the iPad and the MacBook, so I have those same notes on all three devices. Ye gods, I'm becoming a tech head.

Before this, I put things in little notebooks and promptly forgot about them. Now I have them all in one place, so to speak, and since I use it often I am reminded they are there, and I actually use them. Pretty neat. I do love this technology stuff.

I was thinking today, as I was walking around at lunchtime in the glorious autumn sunshine, about how much how I think of myself has changed in the last few years. If you'd asked me ten years ago what I was, I would have said "Witch" or "Wiccan" first, because that was pretty much the most important way I defined myself, and had been for a long time. Now, I'd probably say "writer" or "photographer" first, because those are the things that take up more of my consciousness now. I'm always thinking about writing, always looking for the next photo. It's how I express myself creatively.

I no longer define myself by the Craft, because it no longer defines my lifestyle. I am more of a kitchen witch than a Wiccan priestess, which suits me fine. It was the right thing at the right time; I learned so much and met so many wonderful people (who are still an important part of my life). These days, however, I'm much more likely to be out wandering the woods taking pictures or sitting at the computer writing than I am to be at a ritual. How I connect with the gods has little to do with ritual and a lot to do with how I live my life every day.

I guess I have become, in the immortal words of Joss Whedon, a Techno-Pagan.

I am the kind of person who enters every contest. Every one I see. On Facebook, Twitter, LJ, you name it. I've won a few books, and an iPod.

Today, I got an email from the marketing person at Little, Brown (yes, the publishers). It appears that I won this:



That's an iPad. Which I really, really wanted.

I also won this:



A signed copy, no less. I've already read it, but what the hey. I'll read it again.

Friends on FB are being all protective of me (thanks, guys!) and telling me to make sure it's legit. Well, I did enter the contest. I Googled the person who sent me the email (she's a marketing person at L,B, and I found her on LinkedIn), and the url of her email address (it took me to the publisher's website, where it tells me I "like" their FB page). So it looks pretty legit to me. *g*

All they want is a notarized affidavit of my name, address, and that I'm over 18. No SS#. And Elizabeth isn't my legal first name. So I'm not particularly worried.

So, SQUEEEEEEEEE!