Signed papers purchasing my fourth investment property today. Closing took all of five minutes. Called the insurance lady and she is arranging insurance for the property. She has to call my business partner to get the details of the property as I haven’t been in it yet. My business partner sure makes it easy for me.
Stopped and got a few groceries while I was in town. Cleaned out the pantry a bit. The pantry is feeling crowded to me so need to do some more work in it. I really need to go through every shelf and find what I haven’t used for a long time if ever and get rid of it. It may just be crowded because I buy guest stuff in bulk and have the shelves pretty full right now.
Took a nap this afternoon. I needed to get caught up with some sleep from the weekend. Being in city energy drains me faster than anything I know. For some reason I sleep best in the middle of the day.
My guests have been in and out today. They are very nice and I have enjoyed having them around. She did some laundry today but wanted to hang it out on the clothes line instead of using the dryer. She was excited to see that I had a clothes line. They leave tomorrow morning.
Still texting the same guy. We haven’t moved to phone calls yet. We do exchange a lot of texts a day though. Still not sure where this is going but am having fun. He has a wonderful sense of humor and I am enjoying that. He is a big romantic guy too. Not creepy romantic like the last guy.
I am doing a personal challenge for October. Everyday during October I want to send a different person a note – either handwritten or through email – letting them know how much they mean to me and how they helped change the direction of my life. I am working on securing “we” and this challenge may help me do that.
I sent my first note via Facebook Messenger to the leader of the Spirit Plant Retreat I attended last December in Peru. I let him know all that has happened to me since that retreat and how much I appreciate him. In his response he said he had been talking with someone just a few days ago about me. He shared with them how I had used the barf bucket to shit in during the second ceremony. I wrote back that I guess that is one way to get him to remember me! That retreat was one of those pivotal events in my life. I was ready to release a bunch of stuff that I was holding on to that no longer served. Between the plant medicine and the parasite did I ever release. I do believe though that is what made room for all the good stuff to come into my life now. Hard to pick up and carry something new if your arms are full of old stuff! It was past time for me to release all the stuff I had picked up and had been carrying at that point in my life. No wonder I have lost 45 pounds since the retreat! Talk about a physical symbol of my inner work – they do go together.
Two more days of summer heat on tap and then it turns to more seasonal cooler weather. I am so ready for the heat to be gone. I will have to turn the air back on so the house is cool for my lineman tomorrow night He works out in the heat all day and needs to come home to a cool house. The wind has been blowing today and there is dust everywhere again. Next time I buy end tables for the living room I need to get some that won’t show dust.
Tomorrow I am going to Pioneer Bluffs to help with a private event that is being held there. Not sure what time my guests will leave. Official check-out time is 11:00. The event at Pioneer Bluffs got moved up a bit so not sure I will be much help to them if my guests don’t leave until 11:00. I had warned the person that asked me to help I might not be able to be there until noon. Sometimes my work gets in the way of life! I still have trouble remembering this is work though. It is so easy to have people stay here I forget I get paid for it. I have trouble remembering to collect from my long-term boarders now. They feel more like family and it feels weird to charge them for staying here.
I don’t have anything on my calendar for Wednesday, Thursday or Friday other than normal guest chores. I will be gone both Saturday and Sunday though so it will be good for me to have three empty space days.
I will either get out and mow tonight or take a long walk. If I don’t mow tonight I will need to do it in the morning. I want to get it done before the rains start. I also need to get the chicken coop cleaned out. I try to do that around the first of each month.
Took a three-mile walk last night. It seemed to take a long time to walk it last night for some reason. First time that has happened since I starting walking again. I think I was just still very tired from the weekend. I had intended to add some distance to my walk last night but only ended up walking to W Road on 240. Didn’t go any further than I had the last time I had walked. I’ll see how it goes tonight if I walk tonight instead of mowing. Sure feels good to be out moving my body again
Time to get dinner started. Sure feels good to be back on plan and eating my regular foods. My energy level stays much more level when I eat at home instead of eating out.
Grateful for the sleep I got this afternoon, grateful for the guy I am having fun with, and grateful for the leader of the Spirit Plant Retreat and all the releasing that retreat allowed me to do.
I’m grateful for you sharing your story on how you found relief. So funny!