I managed to wear out my right paw during the 14-18 hour days this past week finishing up the September Horizons, so this will be short. In fact, I cheated and wrote this a couple of months ago and had in fact forgotten it until now.  Recently, a client who had negotiated a particularly long term contract decided they wanted to back out and asked for a refund.  I’d spend considerable time on the phone with her last year making sure it was what she wanted to do, and I gave her a good price for the 2 year run.  Each month she couldn’t seem to get the info to her ad designer on time, so there was always a lot of back at forth at the last minute to get the ad in by deadline.  That was my first red flag.  My second was that although she’s a life coach for others to attract abundance (why is everyone that these days?), she cuts corners and solicits friends for business in social situations.  Instead of really listening to them, she dissects their conversations for words that she believes indicate they need her help.  She gives unsolicited advice to the point it’s hard for some people to be around her.  We all know someone like that, don’t we, or several? Continue reading →

I finished final layout for the September issue of Horizons just in the nick of time last night.  Now I just need to spend a few hours proofing it before sending it off to the printer. I used to freak out if I was this late finishing it up.  But now, 17 years later, I know I always manage to get it done on time.  And nothing changed but how I perceived it and how I reacted to it.  A change in perception can literally change your world. In 1995, I bought a Geo Metro.  You know, one of those little roller skate sized cars that got really good mileage.  It was the last regular car I had until the Toyota Prius I bought last year. In between, I had SUVs and vans.  I always needed to have a vehicle I could haul thousands of magazines in if I had to.  One day, I’d driven over to Tampa to pick up the magazines from the printer, and the job filled the entire car.  Typically a 7 hour round trip, I was driving home much later since I’d visited with my mom for a couple of hours.  I was about 2 hours from home and had a phone appointment in 3 hours.  Then I got a flat tire.  The Geo Metro had one of those little donut spare tires, and it was, you guessed it, under the floorboard of the hatchback area.  Which had several thousand magazines piled on top of it.  So here I was, after a long day, alone, having to unload stacks and stacks of magazines to get to the spare and change the tire.  It took me about 30 minutes.  I timed it so that I was doing all this alongside the after-work-Disney-area-traffic.  Perfect timing on my part.  Can you imagine how I felt that day?  How would you have felt? Continue reading →

I got a neat email from someone the other day.  She writes:  I read your Facebook blogs in addition to your Horizons monthly article and I admire your life. May I ask you an intensely personal question…are you in a relationship?   I ask because there is no indication that you are and if not, you seem supremely happy with your life the way it is. And I would like my life to be as content as yours seems to be. You seem to have found the key. Relationship or not. I so loved the email that I posted it on my Facebook Wall. I commented: “Well, besides being in a relationship with every single other being – physical and nonphysical – in the entirety of the Universe? No individual partner, no. I haven’t pair bonded in years. Maybe that’s the key :)”  I was only partly kidding. Continue reading →

I just awoke from an interesting dream.  In it, I was standing on a hill watching through binoculars as what looked like hundreds of small robots came crashing into a small village below, causing minor damage.  They all looked exactly the same and were about waist high.  I came in here to write the day’s post and, when I logged on to my blog, I saw I had 94 comments waiting.  I immediately thought there are my robots. It only took a few moments to delete them all.  I recognized how I had attracted them.  Earlier, before my nap, I wrote the post LOOK Before You Cash Any Rebate or Credit Card Rewards Checks. I don’t usually write about things like that, or pay much attention when stuff like that happens.  But I’d spent a few minutes getting the links right and wondering why I was doing a post like that at all.  Then I found the reward points rebate check that Advanta had sent me.  I felt a spark of emotional investment and, of course, that was the fuel that set the corresponding manifestation in motion.  Hence, I attracted the spam robots.  So COMMENTS are turned off until I am vibrating at a different point of attraction 🙂  And if I play my cards right, that may be any minute now.

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If you’ve cashed a rebate check or check for reward points recently, you may have just authorized a $150 annual fee to be charged to your account, or a monthly charge.   Advanta is sending reward points rebates right now.  And the Snuggie. You know, that comfy looking lounging robe they advertise on tv?  Apparently the Better Business Bureau had to get involved after massive customer complaints.  They say “rebate” checks for $8.95 have been issued to Snuggie buyers, snaring them in with an old trick used by credit card companies.  On the rebate checks, in fine print, it says that by cashing the check, you are automatically charged a $149.99 annual membership fee.  Here are some links: Don’t Buy A Snuggie Blanket, Don’t Cash the Rebate check.   Snuggie Scam: Pay $150 for A $9 Rebate and Better Business Bureau issues warning over Snuggie scam. And it’s not just the Snuggie. A lot of products offered on late night tv also get the same rap, as well as credit card companies sending checks for reward points:  Rebate Scams: How They Get You

ADVANTA IS DOING THIS NOW: I wondered why I even cared about this, then just now looked on my desk and have a “rebate check” for “reward points” from Advanta, who I used to have a credit card with.  The accompanying info had already been thrown away, so I could not read the fine print.  However, I simply tore the check up so I did not end up depositing it.  Synchronicity.  The Universe rescues me in the nick of time once again.  Vibrational match!

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I’m doing final layout for the September Horizons this week and so I fielded calls and read emails all day yesterday, from 8am until 9pm.  This is the week of 12-16 hour days working on the mag and not much else.  But it’s a labor of love and so the time goes quickly.  I woke up feeling ready to start the new week.  I’d spent the weekend making sure every bit of filing and bookkeeping was done and, for the first time in months, nothing remained on my desk except what I need for the current issue. I ran to the bank and then to the market since I noticed I’d eaten the last bag of spinach last night.  I munch on spinach or romaine at night instead of chips or popcorn. Leaf by leaf.  As I shopped, I contemplated that for the past year I have been cooking just about every day, now that my diet has gotten a little purer.  For years I ate out 7+ times a week.  I know when I stopped eating (most) meat in 2005, my food bill was easily cut by half.  So when I got home, I sat down and looked through my records to see how my cooking at home routine compared financially to my dining out all the time routine.  I was surprised that my total was $8,887 less.  I thought, wow, that’s an extra almost $9k, which is kind of like the Universe giving me a raise. Continue reading →

I woke up yesterday morning with an almost overwhelming urge to go to the grocery store and buy canned vegetables.  When I found the Indian Pantry Moths last month, I emptied out my pantry and washed everything down and have just kept it empty the last couple of weeks to make sure they are gone.  I now keep all dried beans and cereals in the refrigerator instead of the pantry.  I used to keep my pantry stocked and when I changed my eating habits in 2004, I gave all my unhealthy foods away.  That ended up being everything.  Then I began eating so differently that I just never bought many cans of anything at any one time.  I may have half a dozen cans of garbanzos and black beans, a couple of soups and some dried beans, but that was it.  I kind of like the idea of the cabinet being bare: not a lot of food that I am committed to eat before it expires.  I’ve always had commitment issues.  Then I woke up this morning with the urge to stock up on canned vegetables.  I think I was channeling my mother.

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I had two interesting dreams the beginning of this week.  I dreamed a few nights ago that I was making coffee for someone and drinking it myself as well.  The label was missing off the can so when I went to make it, I had to ask around to see how many scoops to how much water.  Something I would have to do in real life if there was no label.  It smelled so good.  It tasted so smooth and rich and roasty.  I dreamed the night before that I was eating different kinds of chocolate and really enjoying the different tastes. And it tasted just like chocolate and it tasted just like coffee.  But in the dreams I liked the tastes and in real life I don’t.  They were interesting dreams.  And I’m someone who has a lot of interesting dreams. Continue reading →