Thursday I got my computer is back from Chuck and it’s faster than ever.  It seems that even though I do the ccleaner and defrag after each computer session, AOL has its own hidden temporary folder where 8200 items were hiding. Yay to Chuck for finding them all.   I find that my personal growth work is like that, too.  I can do my best to refine my character and drop unnecessary or unkind behaviors, to define goals and move in a focused way toward them, but during my contemplation time, whatever is unfinished will rise to the surface and offer itself to me. It’s a daily occurrence, sometimes an hourly occurrence.  I remind myself that it may be a hidden file, but it’s also a temporary file.  I’m sure there’s more hiding in there to be worked on, but peering into the abyss is not as dark and foreboding as it used to be.  I even see a light at the end of the tunnel.

“Success! Friend requests will now be sent to 415 friends,” the Facebook message on the screen said. “Once they confirm your friendship, you will be able to see each other’s profiles. These users will receive your friend requests shortly.”    WTF?  I’d been peeking through the names in my email address book to decide which I wanted to connect with on Facebook.  As usual I was also fielding phone calls and taking notes, and I must have done a Select All and Send command.  I hope the 415 people in my address book have a sense of humor. Especially the mortgage lenders and insurance agents, good buddies like that…  If you are one of the 415 wondering why you got a Friend Request from me when I only know you professionally or perhaps not at all, feel free to ignore it, my feelings will not be hurt. On that list is anyone who ever sent me an email asking for information or ad rates or sent me a solicitation or event notice.  AOL used to auto-add new names. Also on that list are some family and friends who call themselves very conservative evangelical Christians who would rather not be reminded of the work I do with Horizons Magazine.
It’s cool, guys, no pressure 🙂 Andrea          RELATED: Why I like Facebook

I wrote in Saturday’s How did I attract yesterday’s comedy of errors? that I’d had a series of events go not as planned, toppling my Friday and Monday schedules.  Instead of me going into my busy Monday first thing this morning, I’d had to reschedule my appointments so I could instead take the magazines to the post office for the monthly mailing the post office couldn’t take Friday.  It kind of irked me since I schedule myself so tightly, but it’s my own fault when things go all domino on me and topple when I don’t factor in room for error.  I’m always mindful that when something goes awry, I am the one who attracted it.  When something goes well, I am the one who attracted it.  I figured I’d just have to attract a good outcome to myself.

So today when I take the job in to the post office, it all goes quickly, and I’m in and out in record time.  As I am getting in my car, someone is driving into the parking lot and waving at me.  It’s a friend I haven’t seen in 25 years.  She recognized me as she was sitting at the light on Hwy 192. We sat and chatted for a half an hour and it was fun to catch up.  As she was leaving, she reminded me of a business transaction we had together in the 80’s.  Since she was now 12 Stepping, she wanted to make amends for having cheated me in the transaction and she wrote me a check for $1,000.  Had I not attracted Friday’s comedy of errors, I would not have been where I was this morning for her to see me as she was driving by.  And she lives in Vero. It all happens for a reason.

We meet each Monday, come join us. Sound Vibration Healing for the Waters.   “In the beginning was the Word.”  Could this word have been a sound?  Most definitely it was vibration.  Everything has a vibration.  When we create vibration with intention, we can effect changes.  Imagine co-creating a change from an intention using sound vibration as we unite in collective consciousness.  And then imagine doing this by the water, the ocean.  Sound travels well in water…..about 4x faster in water than in air. Continue reading →

Yesterday was one goofy mix up after another.  In the morning, they delivered the September Horizons Magazine. I usually have help getting the mailing portion of the job to the post office, and yesterday my helpers were out of town.  The mailing went from them doing the job for me, to me helping them get the job done, to them helping me do the job, and now we’re down to me doing the whole job.  I can’t complain though, because it’s still a quick task to do, and I appreciate having their workspace to do it in.  This is the first time I missed having my van or SUV, but I managed to fit into my Toyota Prius everything I needed for the post office.  I’d simply have to make a separate trip back to pick up the carful of magazines I usually take.  I got started early and the job went quickly.  I stuffed the singles into envelopes, I stuffed the 5’s, the 10’s, the 25’s, the 50’s.  But wait, instead of stacks of 50, this time they were bundled in stacks of 49.  Which is no big deal, but it did mean I’d have to re-do all the paperwork to show the correct weights.  I did not have my postal scale with me, since it’s always the same weight.  I’d have to take an extra 10 minutes at the post office and refigure all the numbers.  Oh LOL if I only knew that was the least of my concerns. Continue reading →

I wrote the other day that I was Creating room to breathe here at my home and office, clearing things out and rearranging furniture.  I like to change it up often, because I never want to get too set in my ways.  Like last night I rearranged everything in the master suite, and put things where they’d never been before. That means I had to remember where the clock was and where did I put the standing coat rack I place my wet towels on after a shower?  When the phone rings I have to look for it.  In the office, I look for the calendar and it’s on a different wall, my appointment book is on top of a wire shelf space saver under which is the adding machine and pens, all on the opposite side where they’ve been for years.  I know that it’s doing things like this (crossword puzzles, too) that keep my brain active.  I know that re-routing my neural pathways helps keep my mind young and flexible. Neuron pathways are the channels through which information travels between the brain and body, and they can be trained and used to perform actions like chores of daily living, sports and emotional expression. Continue reading →

I’ve been busy the past few days finishing final layout on the September issue of Horizons Magazine and haven’t had time for too much else.  That seems like a fib when I check the nonsense I’ve written on my Facebook wall all day long, but it only takes a moment to make a post while working in other programs.  I over-moused my starboard paw, so every few hours I had to come up with something else to do to keep my wrist in another position.  I looked around the office and began organizing and rearranging, then decided I’d paint the two tables I just brought in there.  I went to Walmart for white paint, then came back and rolled the tables out onto the driveway.  I quickly gave a first and second coat, and while they dried, I checked the files I had stacked on the shelves in the five bookcases in the office.  Much of it I needed to keep, a third of it I tossed.  One bookcase had a makeshift shelf laid across the top, and I remembered I had another shelf the correct size in the garage.  It took me just 10 minutes to put the proper top piece on, a job that I could have done two years ago.  It’s interesting I think how organized and uncluttered I am, then I find 50 lbs of paperwork I can toss.  One big downside of even a little clutter is that it takes valuable time maintaining all this paperwork and stuff, time I could be spending doing fun things. Continue reading →

I went down to the beach at sunrise this morning and watched the waves lap the shore.  A lot of seaweed had washed up during the night and formed an embankment on the beach.  I thought, the waves are like the people and events in our lives, washing over us and leaving behind their own unique residue.  Many people think they have to acept what washes up on their beach as something to be held onto forever but we always have a choice.  We can weed through what Life gives is and keep only what’s wanted and useful, or we can spend our lives grumbling to others about what trash washes up on our shore.
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