Freaking Me Out!

I’m filling my weeks with so much stuff.

It’s all stuff that I absolutely love.

But it’s wearing me out!

This week I had to be at the shop on Monday to partially clear what I could from the art room.

Tuesday morning was coffee with my girls. Lots of regular possums away, but lots of the infrequent visitors turned up. It was loud and fun and giggly and it was almost 11am when they all left.

It was a big sales day followed by the journaling lesson which had two extra people join in for the day. A different energy, a lot of fun but very tiring.

That was followed by more work to clear everything from the training room and set out the 17 chairs ready for meditation the next day.

Wednesday was meditation, time alone with The Gypsy, morning coffee with the meditation ladies and a busy sales day. The treatment room had to be cleared in readiness for The motivator the following day.

Thursday was time with The Motivator, average sales and then a trip into The Bay to accompany AH to visit the doctor.

Friday was average sales but setting up and preparing for the vision board workshop that afternoon, which went for 4 hours! Pretty average for vision boarding to last that long.

Finally today (Saturday) which ended the week with a very quiet sales morning - the Howard Markets were on today so that usually lures people out of our town.

I got ALL my Christmas gift wrapping finished and I’ll mail everything on Monday.

I started AND ended my day with a dip in the pool, and now it’s 8.13pm and I can hardly keep my eyes open.

In the next week, all of the workshops and classes will be winding down for the year. I’ll have no classes between 18th Dec and 5th Jan and no meditation between 10th Dec and 27th Jan!

Right now, I need to sleep 😴 

Nite all.

Blacked Out

It’s 10:38pm as I type this in the dark.

We’ve been blacked out for almost four hours because of fallen power lines.

💡Power outage - update 💡

🔹 Customers affected: 1,949

🔹 Start time: 6:56pm - 03 Dec 2020

🔹 Est. fix time: 12:30am - 04 Dec 2020

🔹 Reason: The loss of supply is due to fallen power lines.

🔹Status: Crews working on-site

It’s a very hot evening and the house began to warm up after an hour of no air conditioning, so I decided a swim in the pool would be appropriate.

It was delicious in the water and floating on my back staring at the stars was the perfect way to spend 30 minutes. My ears were under water so there was complete silence and sometimes it felt like I was actually floating in space.

There was a slight breeze, so after a while I began to feel a bit chilled. 

I came inside, changed into my pyjamas and at 10pm we were sitting in the lounge room eating vegan ice cream in GF cones. Very indulgent for so late at night, but we are grown ups! We can do anything we want!

I had a nice day at the shop with The Motivator and thanks to a busy final hour of trade, my sales were good.

Adoring Husband had an appointment with his Dr to get some test results, so I decided to accompany him. He was concerned that the results would not be good and wasted much time worrying about something that might not happen.

His results were good. No sign of cancer and there were even improvements in some markers.

See? Wasted energy worrying!

The Dr seemed a bit put out (it’s been 5 yrs since I accompanied AH to his office) by my questions and concerns regarding another matter, but we left with some helpful advice that we will try and at least he knows that I’ve still got Barry’s back and I’m not going to let him get away with anything that I disagree with.

After that appointment, we stopped at Tinkerbells but they have new opening hours and they close at 3pm! How rude!

We did a grocery shop at Stocklands and stopped at The Good Guys where we purchased a new dishwasher to replace the 8 yr old Bosch that just died. 8 yrs is good going for a dishwasher that gets used every day.

We had to stop at my shop on the way home so it was 6pm by the time we pulled into our driveway.

I bought a cooked roast pork at Coles which was still deliciously warm when we got home and we ate warm roast pork sandwiches on fresh low GI bread for dinner. Melt in your mouth delicious!

So I didn’t make up for last nights lack of fruit n veg and I wont be making up for it tomorrow night either because I have my vision board workshop after work and won’t be home til 6pm again! AH will provide his usual Friday night chicken wing dinner.

What a busy life!

It’s now well after 11pm so I guess we should attempt to sleep in our very warm house. I expect the house will be humming and buzzing when the power comes back on in the middle of the night.

Nite all.

Emotional Hit

For the second time this year, I had to put the “class full” sign on the door and turn people away from meditation!

There were four men in attendance (very unusual) and two of them went out of their way to speak to The Gypsy afterwards. One of them said “Who knew we would find a shining diamond in a place like Burrum Heads!?”

It was an emotional class with some silent tears flowing as we discussed The Power of Self Respect.

There was something about The Gypsy today that was special. She had a loving aura that touched us all.

The usual ladies stayed for coffee afterwards but I didn’t get much time with them because of those pesky customers.

It was a good sales day.

I ordered some gorgeous linen pants and silk tops which are guaranteed to be here before Christmas - I can’t wait!

A big box of snap buttons and snap jewellery finally arrived! Really nice buttons too!

The trays of paint were finally dry so I peeled the sheets of dry paint off the trays and lay them flat on top of the training room cupboards ready for their owners to claim next week.

We cleared the treatment room ready for The Motivator tomorrow.

I rearranged the furniture behind the counter to make more room to move.

It was stinking hot all day and I pedalled home in the heat. My only option was to get changed and jump in the pool!

I swam ten laps, stretched, danced, floated and got the inflatable bed out to float some more. It was pure delight! I listened to 80s music and sat in the Bali hut for half an hour thinking “how bloody lucky am I?”

I made king prawns on toast for my dinner. Adoring Husband made chilli mango chicken wings for himself - a fruit and veg free night. We’ll make up for it tomorrow night.

I’ve just played my BBC2 pop master quiz and now I’m ready to sleep.

Nite all.

De cluttering Of Sorts

I was told that shaving your legs is a form of decluttering.

The act of shaving your legs washes away the old, making way for the new and works in a positive way to bring abundance.

So this morning I gave myself an extra 15 minutes (I haven’t shaved my legs since March so it wasn’t going to be quick job!) to get ready for work and I shaved, all the while telling the universe that I was planning on a bumper week of sales in the shop and bringing financial abundance.

Of course it’s only day one of my working week, but today was a blinder! My coffee girls kicked it off with a bang and the day continued along that vein. 

The day was pretty crazy!

The art from the weekend was dry but the silicone trays were still full of wet paint which was problematic because there were so many of them!

I found corflute signs that could be used to hold the trays which are now lined up along the wall in my office area, as well as atop the tall display cupboards. Some are also in the kitchen.

As planned, “Happy Gal” arrived an hour early for the journaling class, to help me clear everything from the training room and set up for journaling. 

I’m feeling incredibly grateful for the women who have become part of my tribe and who have really begun to step up to the plate and make my life easier, by helping set up for classes and then clean up afterwards.

I had two extra ladies in journaling today and they really brought a lot to the class. A nice change of energy. One is on holidays so she’s only here for one class and the other is from The Bay. She plans on joining us on an irregular basis.

After the girls all left, Adoring Husband and I cleared the tables and set up for meditation in the morning.

It was after 4pm when we arrived home to discover ... no power. We still have no idea why there was a blackout, but thankfully the power returned within ten minutes of us coming through the front door. 

It was at the front door where we found a missed delivery ticket! If not for the blackout, we would not have found the ticket because we don’t normally use the front door!

Because I’d washed my hair this morning, I chose not to go swimming. Instead we had an early dinner and came to bed at 8pm.

As you know, tomorrow is an early start, so it’s sleep time for me.

I’m done for the day!

Nite all.

Found It

I found my motivation today.

I was awake at 6am but it was 9am when I got up, changed into my swimmers, made some tea and breakfast, took it out to the Bali hut and enjoyed a very relaxing half hour eating before stepping into the pool.

The water was perfect and I swam some laps and stretched and floated. I remembered the new air bed that Adoring Husband had inflated last week and had stored in the pool storage room. He fell off it twice while struggling to balance. I had no such trouble.

I floated on the air bed and parked it so that only my legs were in the sun and the rest of my body was shaded by the umbrella.

Eventually I forced myself to come inside to get started on the many items on my list.

It took me over two hours to clean the bathroom thoroughly. Emptying the drawers and cupboards, tossing old make-up and shampoos and face creams - 2 bags of rubbish - reorganising the drawers and leaving one empty for Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair when she arrives in less than 3 weeks!!

I scrubbed the tiles and floor, sprayed oil of cloves on the grout in the shower recess, scrubbed and polished the glass in the recess. Dusted the shelves and everything on them. Replaced the towels and floor mats.

Well, you know the drill.

I did two loads of washing.

It was then time to sit down and begin typing out and printing the journaling lesson for tomorrow. I worked on that for an hour but had to set it aside so that we could drive to the shop and clear the training room as best as we could.

Most of the art wasn’t dry yet and the silicone mats were full of very wet paint.

We did our best to clear enough space for morning coffee and hopefully another 20 hours will be enough to dry off the art. I think the silicone mats will take a couple more days to dry.

Returning home, we prepared dinner of pork sausages on the barbecue with a fresh salad.

Then it was back to the drawing board for the journal lesson. I’ve completed the next two lessons now.

There were two things on my list that didn’t get touched. My monthly newsletter is due tomorrow but it will definitely be a couple of days late. The art piece didn’t get touched either, so that is now my priority.

It’s almost 11pm so it’s time to sleep.

I feel much better at the end of today, than I did at the end of yesterday!

Nite all.

Unmotivated

I think the week took a lot out of me.

Believing that Adoring Husband and I had an appointment in The Bay on Monday, I’d made a small list in my head of things I wanted to do around the house today including cleaning the bathroom, doing some washing and finishing the commissioned art piece. 

I also wanted to swim in the pool.

At no point during my day in bed, did I feel remotely motivated to do anything at all. It was even a chore to get out of bed and walk to the ensuite to pee!

AH brought me a cup of tea followed by some bacon with honey on toast - my first bread in quite some time. I’ve lost 4kgs since cutting bread, potato and rice from my kitchen. Having said that, I’ve eaten all three of those things this weekend ... could that have anything to do with my mental state?

I DID write my next two lessons for journaling, but did NOT create the lesson sheets to print and issue so I still need to do that tomorrow.

Between naps, I spent hours watching videos of Natalie Angel “letmetrybeforeyoubuy” on Instagram. She is an average sized woman who tries on and models different brands of clothing. She tells us if the sizes are true, the quality is good or bad, shows us how to style different items, gives us prices, available colours and the corresponding websites or shop names.

The videos are quite short (around 13-15 mins) but they all roll one after the other so before you know it, a couple of hours have passed. Well, more than a couple of hours actually.

I got out of bed at 6pm and made myself a bowl of food - avocado, tomato, cucumber, onion, mango, watermelon and chicken with a splash of balsamic vinegar. It was delicious!

I’ve been informed that we don’t have an appointment in The Bay tomorrow so that means I can do all the things that I didn’t do today.

Right now, it’s time for bed ... again!

Nite all.