Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. I planned to refinish the tub, drive to Albuquerque for a week, and drive back.

Instead, I applied the first coat of finish, and then drove to Deming to retrieve my mother from a hospital after her car rolled around on I-10. She's fine. Nothing broke. Some bruises, some minor scratches, that's it. I am thankful.

Deming, I learned, is a five hour drive from Tempe. We stopped for a nap outside of Tucson on the way back. I tried to apply the second coat of bathtub finish within the specified timeframe, but it turned out that I was tired and befuddled, so really what I did was screw it all up. I'll have to get another kit and start the whole process over. But at least the first coat was decent and it corrects the problem I set out to correct.

We drove back to Lordsburg on Friday to get all of my mother's belongings out of her car. The wedding cake smells like cake but looks like paste inside its cooler. In stark contrast to that, we took four bottles of champagne from the car intact. There was only one wine bottle that broke so that the car and my mother reeked of alcohol. All of the wine soaked contents of my mother's car are now sitting aromatically in the trunk of my car. The car was a Subaru Forrester.

We also drove back to the crash site to make sure there wasn't anything left there and generally look at it. The cop was there taking measurements for his report, and so he walked us through the scene. That was probably a good thing, but I did find it stressful. I took plenty of pictures, but didn't think the skid marks and trenches and broken fence posts would photograph well with my cell phone and so don't have any to post here yet.

Since I'm not in Albuquerque like I thought I'd be, I was able instead to do some work this weekend. Provided party services on Saturday night, worked with a great hypno client on Sunday afternoon.

I am so tired... and I can't use my bathtub until Tuesday!
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So about that surprise block party... I suppose if either of us were sports fans my friend and I would not have been surprised, considering that the All-Star game was here today. We did figure out the overall theme and put it all together. But how fun is it to think you're doing one thing and find yourself at a block party instead? If you don't know, I'll tell you - it was fun. :-)

Today I was a useless blob all day and then I realized that I should be getting my bathtub ready for refinishing and became a frenzy of activity at 9:30 pm. Really it's absurd. Better than it was for a while there, but still a very unstable schedule.

Therefore, even though I've been planning a post in my head about disembodied spirits in general and the finer points of exorcism using hypnotherapy methods, today is not the day. Maybe tomorrow.

There. That should make you tune in!
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Once in the stillness of a lazy day she turned from him and walked away. His hand reached not to keep her there; her back to him, she did not care.

There in the shadow as she found her way she moved along on feet of clay. His voice called not for her return; a sound for which she did not yearn.

Once in the tempest of a storm-tossed night she ran from him headlong full flight. His eyes looked not to see her go; her back to him, she did not know.

Clear through the woods her heart did sing, she rushed along on feet with wings. And when at last she did take flight... all the wrongs at once came right.
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Oddly, I find that things I wrote ten years ago or so are all true today. Prophetic without realizing it... or could it be manifesting?
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So about that BBQ free Laveen Pit BBQ... it has been dubbed the Lavegan Pit BBQ. I can't imagine how disappointing it would be for the organizers, vendors and performers to have the pig come out of the pit the wrong temperature. They couldn't serve it, and so we had the option of eating rolls, slaw, beans and cookies, or taking ourselves somewhere else. And that's how we ended up at a Red Brick eating pizza four hours after we thought we were going to be eating BBQ.

Four hours later because of course we still caroused the stalls, such as they were, and checked out the old cars and took the kiddies in the group on rides. I found a hot pink bracelet that matches the hot pink earrings I happened to be wearing. And also a couple of neat things to give to my mother.

So I worked most of yesterday, and got to spend some quality time doing fun things with friends today. Life is good! :-)
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Sunday, February 8, 2009 - 2 am (or so)

I love psychic musicians. True, that might sound like a sweeping generality, and maybe it is. However, I can't help noticing that almost all of the best relationships I have are with musically inclined people who are very far over on the intuitive side of things. Let's count.

My musician. (I call him that even though really he doesn't belong to me at all.) The greatest gift I ever received while working in the soul-destroying life-sucking career field. At any rate, he's a musician. Plus! We have dreams that we both remember. I call them spirit dreams.

My piano teacher. No, she isn't teaching me to play piano, that would be a losing proposition. She's a friend and she teaches piano to people who actually have some aptitude for the instrument. And yet! I met her in hypnotherapy class. She's extremely intuitive although she does not consider herself psychic, but she definitely belongs on this list.

My friend the closet dancer. Forget it, she isn't dancing in your closet! She's from a very musical background, and although she doesn't play an instrument she has dance in her blood the way musicians have music in theirs. Most dancing works out better with music so I say she counts, and guess where we met. That's right! HypnoBirthing® class. She's at least as much of a whackadoo as I am. At Least.

My legal eagle friend. We met in a way that had nothing to do with hypnotherapy. At a spiritual gathering, in fact. And she plays an instrument. And she's very intuitive indeed. Not to mention her very strong focus on healing work.

So I think the odds are very good that what I need in a relationship is a psychic musician! Glad I finally got that sorted out!

Perhaps I should consider calling it a night. What a day, though - I participated in a wellness fair by providing Reiki treatments on a donation basis, and I went straight from there to birthday party where I was the tarot reader. I thought the band was great, but unfortunately what I was doing forced me to tune a lot of it out. It takes a little while to wind down after a full day - but I have a little four-footed friend stomping all over me and insisting that it's time for bed. He's usually right, so off we go!
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What I'm really appreciating about this new lifestyle is the way that every time I start to feel like a complete slacker, I find something to do so that I don't feel that way.

I slept too much yesterday. I was feeling sluggish and disgusted by that, when I had the thought that maybe it was time to write more of the castle story. I tend to forget that the sleep disorder was related to that. So I sat down and wrote. The story could use more polishing, but the whole thing is now down in black and white. I'm aware that I could fill in more detail but find myself deeply reluctant to do so. Which is fine with me. What I have done has been difficult enough.

I spent some time looking into publication methods. I thought I wanted to go the traditional get an agent route, but maybe not. Maybe one of the hybrid methods would be good. Fortunately I don't feel the need to actually decide until the book has been written. I got started with the modern day chapters and realize that it's going to take some work to get my story organized into a clear presentation of my ideas.

On another note, what a great super bowl game! I'm not really a sports fan. I don't follow anything, don't watch it on television... but this year I really wanted to watch the super bowl. Maybe because of the miracle of the Cardinals having made it that far. And you know, it was a good game. I couldn't help noticing that the Steelers are roughly 10% larger in physical size than the Cardinals. And even though they couldn't hold the lead, I thought it was very impressive that the Cardinals even took the lead. It was a good showing and they have nothing to be ashamed of. Okay, maybe the personal fouls were a little OTT, but whatever. Go Cards!
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