Gas Whisperer & Other Recent Adventures

April 12th, 2011

Hello People!!!

I’m a day late for my Half Moon Book Review *) but it will post later today!  In the meantime, here’s a snippet of what’s been going on in my life for your own, personal amusement.

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I’ve been trying to get some form of exercise on a daily basis, and the harder I try, the more miserably I seem to fail at it. A few weeks ago I decided that the next morning, Monday, I was going to get off my butt and start running again.

I woke up with my back out, and barely able to move.  Then, after two days, when I finally started to be able to move more freely, I came down with a flu that took me through another week and a half.

A while back, I also went through a really weird loss of control when I was reading Marianne Williamson’s, A Course in Weightloss.  Apparently I have some very serious beliefs and thought patterns related to my body and my weight.  Which isn’t really surprising.  Who HASN’T had their heads filled with garbage about their bodies?

I watched a documentary called Fat Head that really changed the way I was thinking about food.  It’s still pretty far off base as far as I’m concerned because it promotes things I don’t agree with, but taking a more personally tailored approach which includes home cooked, organic produce, and using my own amazing powers of common sense, I’ve found myself eating a low carb diet.

I know our epiphanies are our own, and they’re never as amazing to anyone else, and that’s why I’m not going to babble on about my whole body realization.  The short of it is, I realized that to love, honor, and respect my body is to invite God to experience and create through it.  It’s like cleaning the temple in anticipation of the King’s arrival.

I decided a more structured morning routine was in order.  I make routines, but I’m not so strong with the following of them.  It’s that Aries in me :)

My new, whole being, morning routine is now as follows…

** Body ** Go jog.  Seven and a half minutes out, alternating jogging and walking measured by the distance between phone poles.  Then seven and a half minutes back.  Only 15 minutes.  I can do that.

** Spirit ** Come through the door, out of breath and sweating, pour a glass of water and drink it on the way to my chair.  Open a 15 minute meditation timer, tip my head back and just breathe.  My mind is clear after exercise, and my body is exhausted.  Why not use that to my advantage?

** Mind ** When the meditation timer dings, I refill my water, and grab an apple from the fridge before I reset the 15 minute meditation timer, and pick up whatever Spiritually natured book I am currently reading.

And if I go in directly and shower after my reading, I can knock the whole thing out in an hour.  A one hour daily devotion dedicated to honoring myself, and in doing so, I’m inviting God and my Angels to work through me, because I’ve created a holy and sacred environment within me.

I have been working this routine perfectly for two days now.

Yesterday and today.

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Yesterday~ The Gas Whisperer

I leave to go to the store.  I HAVE to get gas.  I’m a little worried I won’t make it to the station.  I take a deep breath and thank my Angels for their assistance in getting me there and for bringing me peace.

The last time I did that, it was a mind blowing experience, so I was confident that all would be well.  Wouldn’t you know it, I had the exact same experience again!

I saw the gas station sign as I approached and it said $3.78.  I looked away a moment and glanced back up and watched the sign change to $3.89.

CRAP!  What should I do?  But then I knew.  And I had to be right because if I got to the other place at all, I wouldn’t be able to go anywhere else.  I was running on fumes.  And so I went for it.

A couple miles down the road, the sign comes into view as I approach…. $3.75!!  Even cheaper than the original price at the other station!!

And then, in my shock, as I was pulling in, I said, out loud…. Oh my God, I’m like… The Gas Whisperer…. which made me start to giggle a lot harder than one might think. (LOL)

There is only two pumps and there were already four cars parked next to them, but as I pulled in, in a fit of giggles, all four cars pulled away and seemed to circle the pumps on their way out as though they were choreographed.  It was really odd.  But I pulled right up and filled my tank ALL the way up.

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Yesterday Evening ~ Affirmational Assault

I have recently reconnected with a girl who grew up across the street from me.  We were best friends.  We even did that whole “blood sister” thing when we were like, 9 and 10.  We’ve lost touch and reconnected several times through the years.  It’s always almost like we’ve never been apart when we come back together.  We were always close.

We were having a very Spiritual and philosophical conversation on the phone yesterday evening and we got to talking about how I feel about the law of attraction and how I believe the Universe operates, and the evidence I’ve seen in my own life.

Then the conversation turned to money when she found a dollar in a pair of jeans out of the dryer while we were on the phone and she exclaimed, “I love how I keep finding money everywhere!!”

I was absolutely blown away by being given such a BEAUTIFUL soapbox from which to preach (LOL), and I took the opportunity.  I started to tell her how that was a wonderful affirmation, and how if every time she finds ANY money, she would make that declaration, she would find that there would be a lot more found money in her future.

I said…

Every thought is a prayer.  God doesn’t stop listening… you just stop being aware of the presence.  Say things about money that make you happy, like…. I love finding money!  I love when people GIVE me money!!  I feel SO good when I know I have enough money.  I feel so relaxed and contented when money flows easily to me.  I love winning money!  I love GIVING money!!  I love that the world is just one big energy stew and that I can have as much money energy as I want!!  I love that there’s always enough!

It was quite a little rampage I went on.

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And Today ~

I won $70 on a lottery ticket this morning.

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Ironically, I spent $72 yesterday to fill my gas tank.

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The New Tattoo & a Countdown

March 18th, 2011

~ The Nineteen Things I Love About Spring Countdown!! ~

We’re at TWO days today, and I saw a furry little bunny in my backyard by the light of the nearly Full Moon last night!  It was beautiful, and just a little guy!  It made me feel like the Spring Goddess, Eostre , had just bestowed a great Blessing upon me and my house.  May that Spring Blessing also reach all who read these words *)

#2~ The Placement of the Sunrise

As we all know, the sun’s location at rise and set changes throughout the year.  Well, in the Spring, this is what my bedroom window looks like at 7 am….

Spring Sunrise 1

Spring Sunrise 2

I know there’s snow in these pictures, but it was what is presumably our last blizzard and took place just last week.  Today we are expecting record high temps in the upper 60s and all the snow has been gone for days.

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I got inked yesterday.  I know I’d said I was going to, but ya know, sometimes plans fall through.  This time, however, they did not.

I’m really happy with how it turned out and I love it’s placement.  I was a little more than a little afraid of what a tattoo on the inside of my wrist would feel like, and let me tell ya, I was no sissy for considering it because, WOW did that hurt! LOL

I have to say though, I am the owner of five other tattoos, and this one is most special to me.  I also have realized that it’s the only one I see constantly.  The others are down on my ankles, my back, and my bicep.  I know they’re there, and I DO look at them, but it’s certainly not the same.

Every time I reach out to pick something up or stir something, or even to scratch  my nose, this one is looking at me.  And to me, it’s a symbol of how I am part of the totality that is All That Is.  It’s a symbol of my innate ability to grow and create.  It reminds me that I am in the All just as completely as the All is in me.  I am never alone.  I am always loved.

It probably wouldn’t say all that to anyone else, but that’s the beauty of having these individual bodies and perspectives.

Every time my eyes light upon these symbols, I am immediately present, and self aware.  I feel sort of like I installed a consciousness button on myself :)

Spring Tattoo

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My Mister & a Countdown

March 14th, 2011

~ The Nineteen Things I Love About Spring Countdown!! ~

Oh boy, oh boy!  Six days to go!   *does happy dance*

#6~ The sounds!

Winter has such a silence to it.  And don’t get me wrong, I love the silence of winter.  I love when you stand outside in the dark, and the world is so still and silent, you can literally hear the snowflakes.  THAT is divine.

Spring brings a whole new set of sounds though.

Rain.

Thunder.

Birds… like… 50 different bird calls, and babies everywhere cheep cheepin’.

And I’m convinced that on nice, snow free days, when I sit in communion with Mother Nature and quiet my mind, I can hear the blades of grass springing up from their winter slumber.

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So much good stuff going on here these days! Tomorrow me and my Mister are driving 3.5 hours to New York to buy a tow truck.  That will mean that he has a tilt bed, a road service truck, and a tow truck.  That will mean that the day he strikes out and becomes his own boss is SOOO close!!  That will mean that I can stop praying everyday that he gets fired.

He’s been working for the same guy for 13 years, and it’s time to stop casting his pearls among swine.  Especially when the swine is really becoming quite the crooked businessman.  We get a choice in who we associate ourselves with.  Why not take advantage, and stay true to ourselves?

And talk about someone who’s embracing his talents and doing what he’s good at.  The other day a semi came into the shop for a rear bumper repair.  Mike walked out and looked at it, turned to the guy and said, “What did you hit?”

The guy said that as far as he was aware, he hadn’t hit anything. He’d just done a walk around before getting back on the road that morning, and saw the damage.

Mike knew he was lying.  Mike also knew that a forest green Dodge Caravan had slammed into the back of the trailer and been dragged for 40 feet before coming loose and being left in the middle of the road as the semi drove off down the road.  He saw it in his mind’s eye as soon as he looked at the bumper.

He went in the shop and called the local police to inquire if there’d been any traffic accidents involving a green Dodge Caravan, and the cop came back a minute later to confirm that there had been.  The driver was in the ICU in critical condition.

He told the cop he had a semi truck with a cab full of beer cans and green paint all over the bumper. Did he look in the cab and see the cans?  Nope.  He just knew they were there.  And actually, he didn’t know.  As he was telling the cop about the truck, the beer can part just rolled out of his mouth.  He wasn’t making it up, or even thinking about it at all.  It was just added information being channeled through him, and he’s so relaxed and allowing of information flow like that, that he just lets the info take over and flow out as it will.

And he wasn’t wrong.  The cab was packed with about 20 empty beer cans.  The driver was still intoxicated enough when the cops arrived that they were able to arrest him and charge him.

Still drunk!  Had Mike welded up the bumper and sent him on his way, he’d have been sending 80,000 pounds of drunk out onto the highway.

As a side note; He also “sees” things that way when things are broken. If a truck comes in because it won’t run, Mike just walks around it once, pauses, walks around it again the opposite way, and stops.  Wherever he stops is where the problem is.  A broken wire or frayed connection.  A fuse.  An air line.  He always knows, and always within minutes.  When he launches his own business, he’s going to have trucks back on the road faster and cheaper than anyone else around.

He’s just that good : )

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