Archive for November, 2009
**Insert Twilight Zone Theme Song Here**
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve mentioned the Law of Attraction before, and the role it has played in my life.
But now it’s starting to get weird.
I’ve been reading up again on some LOA stuff. I find that if I brush up every six months or so, I stay on track with knowing what my goals are and staying focused on those goals. A few years back (three, maybe?), when I first read The Secret, I put something out there, and I never told anybody about it. Being the logical, naturally skeptical person that I am, I decided to give the law of attraction a few tests. When I would think about it, I would use it for a great parking space, a short line at the store or green lights while driving. One big thing that I threw out there was a feather. More specifically, I pictured a very large bright pink feather laying on the ground. I thought, OK, if this stuff really works, this bright pink feather will come into my life. Just one feather.
Fast forward to October 31, 2009. After a night at a neighbor’s party, I woke up and came down into my kitchen to a) take three ibuprofen and b) drink some coffee. And I saw it. One very large and very bright pink feather laying on my counter. I was so, well, hungover that I didn’t make the connection right away. Later that afternoon, when Tony was awake, it hit me.
“Where the hell did this huge pink feather come from?” I asked. He said that Mary, his sister (who had dressed as an American Indian) gave it to him for the girls. It had fallen out of her costume. Then I told Tony about the whole Law of Attraction/pink feather story.
Weird.
Two days later, we were sitting in the basement. The girls were playing and Tony and I were watching television. I knew that my neighbor would be stopping by to pick up her son’s special cup that he had left at our house that afternoon. It was about fifteen minutes before she said she would be there, and I looked at Tony and asked if he thought we would hear the doorbell down in the basement. Right exactly after I said that?
Ding-Dong.
Creepy.
The next day, I was on the telephone with Tony (he was at work). I had been forgetting to tell him about a band that wanted to play at the bar. While I was talking to him (about something completely different), the thought of this band hit me like a ton of bricks. I told him to stop whatever he was telling me, I HAD to tell him about this band–I’d been forgetting for a week!. I sat at the computer to sift through my emails and get this man’s phone number. As I started my email program and it checked for new mail, I got an email from this guy! The time stamp was just a minute earlier…when that overwhelming feeling hit me like a ton of bricks.
I’ve decided that i don’t believe in coincidence anymore. EVERYTHING happens for a reason….even if I don’t really know what that reason might be.
On a side note, the non-smoking me is doing very well. Although I may become addicted to dum-dum suckers and double bubble gum. Oh well 
Have Chicks, Will Travel
Posted by: | CommentsIt has been crazy beautiful here in the ‘burgh for November. It was sunny and sixty five degrees yesterday. As I was going through my normal Saturday morning routine (mostly involving paperwork for the restaurant), I spied with my little eye four free passes to the Pittsburgh zoo that were on my fridge. They were set to expire at the end of December. I looked outside, I looked at the passes, I looked at the kids. ”Who wants to go to the zoo today?”
There was literally cheers and jumping up and down.
So, after we finished all of our work at home, we packed up. We had to stop at the bank and the restaurant first, but then we could have our little adventure. As we were getting ready to go, Becca asked me where my backpack was. I told her it was in the closet….why? She told me that I needed to take it to the zoo. OK, I understood. I told her I didn’t need to take it to the zoo…I didn’t need diapers, wipes, bottles, extra formula, etc. The last time I took Chloe to the zoo, she was just about to turn three. Well…she was out of diapers by then. But I still needed that emergency extra outfit, just in case. (I never actually had to use the extra outfit, but I felt better just having it).
I told the girls that they were much easier to just take along to places now. And they are. I fed them McDonalds in the car. Beautiful. I didn’t have to rent a wagon – they walked the whole time. Chloe was a bit nervous on whether or not the animals could get out. We had a great time – the two favorites were the monkeys and the polar bears. One of the polar bears was in the water, playing with his toys. We ended the day in the Kids Kingdom, running across wobbly bridges, crawling through tunnels and climbing gigantic rope spider webs.
There wasn’t any fighting. Although there were a few attempts to plead for a stuffed animal to take home, they both settled for a huge sucker and a mood ring (yes, I got a mood ring for myself, too – but not a sucker). It was a fantastic afternoon. It was one of those days that I fantasized about when I was awake at 3:00 am feeding a bottle to a cranky infant.
My chicks rock. My family rocks. Although Tony couldn’t be with us yesterday, we get to have an awesome family day today. I’m holding on to yesterday. And next week, when I’m screaming for everybody to stop touching each other, telling Chloe to stop choking the dog and cleaning up everybody’s mess, I’m going to stop, sit down, and think about yesterday.
Maybe it will stop me from having the “Mom Freakout.”
Holy Grocery Store, Batman!
Posted by: | CommentsWell, this morning after I dropped Chloe off at preschool, I decided to check out the new Market District Giant Eagle. It is honking huge. Now, I just needed a few essentials, and I only had a little bit of time. But this is a place where you could spend hours and hours. First I headed towards the Citizens Bank to the banking for the restaurant. Not so lucky there…it doesn’t open until 10:00. So, I meandered a bit. I walked past the seafood counter. Want fresh frog legs? No problem. They have every kind of meat and seafood you can imagine. The bakery just looked fantastic. I didn’t play too much in the restaurant area, because I was pushing a cart. But it looked way cool.
It took me some time to find the things I ACTUALLY needed, but it would have taken me time in any grocery store that I was in for the first time. I found what I needed, held back my desire to plop myself down with coffee and a book, and headed out. For 9:00 in the morning, that place was pretty darn busy.
You may have read yesterday that I finished the daily to-do list. I think I will finish today’s, also. Just one problem, though…three of our waitresses called off for the night. Out of five. Jinkies. I’m scrambling to get shifts covered.
I haven’t waited on a table in seven years.
Please, God, don’t make me have to go in there and play waitress. I don’t think I have the energy.
Gotta Focus, Gotta Focus
Posted by: | CommentsWell, how the hell are ya? I’m just peachy, thanks. We made it through Halloween pretty well. I went to a party (no kids allowed) up the street on Devil’s Night and realized that I can’t play drinking games like I used to. Although I didn’t have a big hangover, I did have a big headache…and needed about five more hours of sleep on Halloween morning.
Trick-or-treat was changed up a bit this year. Tony took the girls around while I stayed at the home front and passed out the goods. The girls were happy with their stash of junk food, and have been playing candy store ever since.
I am in the process of going through some pretty wicked nicotine withdrawal. But I’m still smoking. How, you ask? Well, I’ve been using these Quest low nicotine cigarettes. Although they are incredibly hard to find, I managed to get enough to get by (I think). These smokes are set up in three steps. Regular cigarettes have about 1.9 mg of nicotine in them. The step 1 Quest cigs have .6 mg of nicotine. I am on my last pack of the step 2 cigarettes, and they have .3 mg of nicotine in each. Step three is nicotine free. I’ve been smoking the same amount of cigarettes I usually smoke (about a half to 3/4 of a pack a day). But, believe me, I’ve felt the difference in my body not getting nicotine! Up until today, I have had the severe sleepies. At first I didn’t make the connection. Then a couple of days into it, I realized that my body was functioning without the high levels of stimulants it was used to.
I have about two and a half packs of cigarettes left (one of step 2 and 2 of step 3…like I said, they were hard to come by). I figured that once my body was done needing nicotine it would be easier to work on the psychological addiction I have.
OK…enough about that. Can I tell you that I actually STARTED CHRISTMAS SHOPPING TODAY? Well, it was all online, but I still bought a few toys for the kids. I’m going to convince myself that I love the Christmas season, I love to shop, and the whole thing is stress-free…even enjoyable. Right now I don’t believe any of those things that I just typed. But, I’ll bring that good old law of attraction with me and just believe it.
Well, happy weekend
BTW – I finished my whole to-do list for today. ”blog post” was the last thing!!!!
