Busy-ness, disorders, Dorotheos, and incense

Today has been really busy at work since we're missing people and the receptionist is training someone as well. It's rainy and cold and grey. I got a nice idea from this blog to take a picture every day and post it. It's inevitable that some days it'll be a picture that gets posted both here and on deviantART, but oh well.

Yesterday after reading this post I discovered that a bad habit of mine since 12 years now is actually a disorder with a name: dermatillomania. It's interesting to know that it's an actual disorder with a name, and even more so that there are (supposedly) methods of treating it according to some of the external links at the end of the article. Much reading to do there.

I'm really liking Dorotheos of Gaza: Discourses and Sayings, especially his discourse On Consultation (I haven't gotten much farther than that yet), which prompted some musings of my own about my quite-infrequent talks with my priest. I guess I'll have to talk to him about that lol. It's not out of hesitation to disclose my life, simply because I'm not in the habit of doing it. Dorotheos basically says when speaking about Orthodox monks (of whom he was one himself) that it's extremely important to have a spiritual director that you can turn to in all matters since to rely on one's own direction is folly. It got me thinking about how infrequently I speak to a priest myself (aside from short confessions) and how, if at all, this advice can be applied to a layperson like me.

Things have finally quieted down at work and I have time to finish an entire sentence between calls now lol. I think I'll take some pictures and post them up when I get home. I work till 6pm so I get an hour or so of quiet after everyone leaves at 5pm. Lol I just realized that I'm able to completely tune out the hold music for my company after being put on hold with the dispatch (we're a shipping company) so often. Lol I was just on hold for 5 minutes to be told by the dispatch that the driver had already arrived, and when I got back with the client they say the same thing :P Yay! No problem :P

I also discovered a website that sells great incense. I've known the owner as a member of Desert Calling and here for a while now, and knew that she made incense, but had never seen her website. She recently had it made by another member of DC and posted about it so I thought to check it out and I'll definitely be buying some incense from her soon!