3:00am Panic stricken and frantic to find a ride home! That’s how I felt in the dream I just woke up from. I’ve had a head cold since midnight Friday and knew when I woke up I must have a fever. It’s the only time I get troubled dreams. Except for when the hospital gives me Dilaudid. My fever was only 99.3 but that was enough. I’d been riding in a car with real life soul brother Robert Pheiff at the wheel. He was pointing out the sights as we passed them. We came to a town and parked to visit at a house where there was a small party. When I was ready to leave, I looked through all the rooms and on the grounds and could not find him. I called his phone number and we had a bad connection so he couldn’t hear me. A friend handed me a present and inside was another phone, It did me no good since his number was not programmed into it and my phone had disappeared when I grasped the new one. A young woman was willing to help me, she gave me a ride where there were more phones, and she asked if anyone else could give me a ride. Finally a call went through and he was on his way back. I tried to be patient while waiting for him but I was in a very anxious and panic stricken frame of mind. I remembered that sometimes I dream about being lost in a building with many doors, but it’s never a panicky dream. When I remembered that, I woke up.

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Just had a reading on a universal topic. Your partner can love you even if they have stopped participating and responding as they used to. Relationship Saving Tip: Let them love you in their own way. Do not expect your partner to be everything for you. Do not expect them to be your best friend and your lover and your advisor and your cheerleader and your rescuer and your income and your entertainment. Do not think you have to text them with every move you make and every thought you have. Put that energy into cultivating your own interests. Rather than pouting that your partner doesn’t go to the gym, find another workout partner. If you’re the night owl and they go to bed at sunset, find someone to hoot and howl the night away. If you find that is not enough for you, there’s always time to make a new decision. Most importantly, don’t risk losing your best friend.

It’s easy to eat healthy and fresh while traveling.  It just takes a little planning ahead.  I used to travel so much I learned to bring healthy snacks with me.  I was reminded of that when the man and I went to breakfast this morning. We wanted to stick close to home so we went to IHOP. I was reminded why I don’t go into just any restaurant. My spinach mushroom omelet was 900 calories and 90 grams of fat (although I got it without cheese), the hashed browns 300 calories and 20 grams of fat. I usually do a max of 60 grams of fat a day. Had I given it a thought, I’d have researched the nutrition facts ahead of time. I must say though that the omelet was really good and it was huge. Here are IHOP’s nutritional facts (calories, fat grams, carbs, sugars, etc) –>  https://www.ihop.com/…/PDFs/nutritionalinformation.ashx  Continue reading →

I just hooked up my new Acer H6 Series 23″ IPS LED monitor.  I only bought a new one because the manly man needed his back after I borrowed it for 18 months. I had him do all the settings adjustments since he’s the tech wizard.  He showed me how to use the screen for two programs!  I’m loving the new monitor.

Here’s my new Stamina R360s exercise bike, a $25 Craigslist find, six blocks from home.  Score!  I found a user’s guide online but not for my model, so don’t know how to adjust the tension on the front wheel. Reviews of this machine say that’s a popular problem no one seems to know how to fix but while it IS high resistance, it IS do able as is.  I was able to remove a screw behind that black knob (shown in the photo bottom center) to adjust the length for my long legs.  I couldn’t budge the knob by hand so I used a strap wrench.  It’s fun!  So far…

This morning I wrote on Facebook, “Who can recommend a plumber in Palm Bay, FL? I’m on a septic system. One slow flushing toilet yesterday, today the other one also a slow flush. Heard a sucking sound in toilet #2 a minute after toilet #1 was flushed, opened it and saw the water had drained out of the bowl. I’ll plunge but want a referral to a plumber.” An hour later I went to Home Depot for a new plunger and Carl in the plumbing dept said from what I told him — and he asked several questions for details — I don’t have a clog but may want to check the filter. I had the grey tank rejuvenated in 2011 and the black tank pumped out about the same time. I came home from Home Depot and both are working fine. I got lots of referrals to plumbers, however, and here they are with contact info if I have it:   Continue reading →

My friend Selene is having a problem with constipation and hemorhoids.  I looked up the metaphysical cause, which said “holding onto past angers and being afraid to let go of them.”  Selene told me, “I don’t know how to release the past hurt and anger. My dad passed when I was 15. Two years later, I got a blood clot in my brain. I was the youngest and the only child left at home. My mom never liked me. At an early age, I just didn’t like her either. I had just run away from home and within a month I got the blood clot. Since I was on mom’s insurance, she was called. I’m glad for that insurance in retrospect, since, I felt strongly about only getting on board with over 80 life insurance, I thought, I would never need it in my youth, silly me. She came and was beyond livid. She felt somehow I purposely developed that blood clot just for the attention. She really never spoke to me again. Not that she spoke to me much, or kindly before that. I honestly don’t know how to get over it all. I have tried several ways. And I seem to keep reliving my childhood…I am in situations I perceive I am “stuck in and unloved.  I wish I knew how to release the past hurt and anger.”  I shared with Selene a process that works for me for releasing hurt and overcoming grief. I felt great relief after I did the process for the first time.  As time went on and the hurt and grief arose again, I would repeat the process.  Here it is for you:    Continue reading →

We are attracted to people that feel familiar on an energetic level – which means (until we start clearing our emotional process) people that emotionally / vibrationally feel like our parents did when we were very little kids.  At a certain point in my process I realized that if I met a woman who felt like my soul mate, that the chances were pretty huge that she was one more unavailable woman that fit my pattern of being attracted to someone who would reinforce the message that I wasn’t good enough, that I was unlovable.   The way to stop reacting out of our inner children is to release the stored emotional energy from our childhoods by doing the grief work that will heal our wounds.  The only effective, long term way to clear our emotional process is to grieve the wounds which we suffered as children.  Until we start releasing the hurt, sadness, rage, shame, terror – the emotional grief energy – from our childhoods we will keep having dysfunctional relationships.   Robert Burney, M.A.

When I come across a mirror, I look into it long enough to see myself, fix what needs fixing and move on.  Everyone I meet is a mirror.   I like to take a look at those around me and find what it is about me they are mirroring. Sometimes I’m surprised and delighted. Sometimes I’m horrified and humbled. I’m always grateful for the mirror.