My whisper'd wish would be to take all of the war-mongering leaders of the world up into space on a big space ship (because unfortunately there are an awful lot of them), hand them all a little box with a large red button attached to a very large onboard bomb, and ask them to either make peace or blow themselves to where-ever - let God and the Devil sort them out from there.  Perhaps it wouldn't be necessary to have a pilot - we can auto-pilot ships to Mars, so certainly we could put this thing into some safe distance away from the Earth.  My bets are that we'd see fireworks within less time than it would take to get it into orbit, though, unless we withheld the boxes until they were far enough away.  On the other hand, maybe if they realized that it was their own butts they would be blowing up, they'd make peace amongst themselves.  Naw!!! most of them have been fighting for so long, they've probably forgotten that any such thing as peace could exist.

Do that, and at least we'd be able to start off the year with a little bit of peace.  I am so thoroughly disgusted to have to say that I belong to the same human race as those Leaders in Israel and surrounding areas, who on either side of this BIG squabble over a little chunk of almost useless, barren rock (at least from what we are shown on TV, although I'm sure there must be something better as well), continue to kill, maim and torture one another.  Same story for Iraq, Iran (eventually) and Afghanistan.  They are all so selfish, self-centered and bereft of morality, personally, I really don't like even sharing the air I breathe with them.

Let's be clear here - I'm not taking sides on this issue - I don't think either side in the Israel-Palestine conflageration are "right" for the way they are treating the people who live there, who would like nothing more than to live peacefully, love, be healthy and have some prosperity - just like anyone here in Canada or the USA would want.  So it is far beyond my scope of intelligence to even consider how they think that continually hurling bombs and rockets at one another is going to accomplish the wishes of the people for whom they are trying to claim the land.

Here's the thing, though.  I also do not see any REAL will on the part of the international community to really push them into a permanent peaceful solution - and by that lack of will, I get a foreboding sense of condonement, for any number of reasons, be it profit of oil wells, or their own flawed religious beliefs that they can bring about some sort of "last days" desperation that would supposedly recall "Jesus" into duty.  I think, in a way, that this is part of the reason I just cannot get on the "2012" bandwagon either.  I think there are going to be a lot of people who will be very disappointed when December 22, 2012 rolls around.  It is, IMHO, as much of a fairy-tale as the expectation that "Jesus" and his angels will suddenly show up and magically everything will be renewed and peace will reign supreme.

The only way we are going to have peace on this planet is to stop fighting with one another over anything.  Money, food, fuel, land, good looks - whatever!!!  If you refuse to stop fighting, then go find another planet or a space-ship, and go blow yourselves up somewhere else!!! Large companies need to share more of the profits from the work of their workers, WITH those workers, who in turn would then have more to share with those who are barely living.  The obscene profits we see year over year at the banks (who are now crying broke?), and the obscene "bonuses" they give the top dogs is immoral!!!  As long as there are people starving and without shelter on this planet, it will continue to be immoral!!!  So put them on that big space-ship, too, because they're also part of the problem.  As for dogs like Madoff - well I hear it's great white shark season in Australia - just dangle him a little bite at a time off a dinghy!  That's what he deserves!

(NOTE TO IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA:  I really resent that you come over here and bring your wars, via your street protests, to my country.  If you want to fight, go back to your own country - I shouldn't have to support keeping you from killing one another on the streets of this country with my taxes.  Anyone who protests wars amongst themselves here should be deported, with no leniency, back to their own countries, where they can protest and fight to their hearts' content).

No, I didn't drink last night and I am not hung over or even in much pain (although my index finger is a bit cranky right now), except perhaps in my soul's heart.  I am just getting started.  I have decided that this year I will no longer be silent in the face of so much blatant torture, of any nature, that the common person is being made to bare.  So I am probably going to make a few (more) enemies.  Like I said before, in a different post - it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it!

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My butterfly is currently cocooning to repair a busted wing....  so I'll just blow out some kisses for now

I had two big adventures:

1) Purchasing and moving into my Condo.
2) Going to Florida to take the Certified Trainers courses for the NGH and NFNLP.

The Condo has continued to be an adventure, most of it unpleasant.  I was, and still am to a certain degree, contemplating eating my losses and selling.  With the major index finger injury, I am going to have to put that on hold because it will be another month before I can do some of the small fix-its that will need to be done in order to make it more attractive to buyers.

However, there has also been developments towards removing the current Board of Directors and also finding a different Property Manager/Management company - apparently I am not the only person here who is having major problems.  Questionable accounting and exceptionally high pay increases for building Supervision/substitute supervision, and a lack of return on outpout are other issues.  So perhaps having to wait on my finger to heal will allow better management and perhaps getting at least the major issue - the awful stench in my master bedroom, looked at and hopefully fixed.  If that could happen, then I could probably put up with the other issues, at least until housing prices start to go higher again.  I made the decision before I found out about the "mutiny" that regardless of what happened, I was not about to let that bee-yotch of a Property Manager interfere any longer in my intentions to work from home.

The trip to Florida was a major coup for me over my agoraphobic tendencies.  It's not a huge issue, but I tend to avoid crowds and crowded places, preferring to shop on "off" days, and I rarely go without having a list, and return home immediately.  It took lots of personal hypnosis to keep me from going into panic mode in the airports, and I used techniques I know to get myself "legally" high in order to do the plane trips.  I also found that I was a heck of a lot stronger than I thought I was (lugging close to 30 lbs. with me on the way down, and close to 20 lbs. on the way back - I checked the second bag on the way back - through 3 airports between 10 and 7 hours respectively).

I still think that they could have allowed me to bring my jam I bought in Florida home with me - had packed it so I could have a snack on the plane - but it fell into the category of "gell", so I had to give it up to some over-bearing, over-zealous American customs inspector.  He probably kept it for himself.  Should have opened it up and spit in it - I was ticked off enough to do that!!!  Sheer freaking paranoid idiocy!!!  So I didn't get anything to eat for close to 10 hours, and by the time I got back to my daughters place in Mississauga from the airport, I was shaking from low blood sugar and massively high adrenalin.  A few candies and a soda pop had kept me from going into shock on the final flight.  I don't think I would ever fly down to the States to do a course again - if it's in the mid-year months (May thru October) I might drive.

Anyways - those were my big adventures.  Lots more could be said, but I've probably already bored everyone to tears as it is.

Happy New Year 2009!!!!

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I am probably going to be offline for a few days - I managed to all but rip the end off my left index finger at Christmas Dinner tonight - broke the tip of the bone right off and ripped the nail off.  A trip to the hospital tonight to get it set and 10 stiches to re-attach the end of the finger - now I am home - the freezing is coming out - I am sort of hen-pecking to type this - and hoping that the major pain killer prescription they provided kicks in soon.

So, it all depends on how well I'm dealing with the pain - I used a lot of self-hypnosis to get through before they froze it in order to reset it and stitch it together, and I'll be using quite a bit I expect to hasten healing and help keep the pain down probably.  I'm on Oxycoten - so I'm probably going to be flying high for a few days.

Hope you had a nice Christmas - mine was good until just sitting down for dessert.  When I went to pull the chair in closer to the table, the seat came off the base, and my finger tip wedged under the seat and the base of the chair.  Naturally, when I felt the pain, I jerked my hand out, and heard a crunch. So I was left with everything just above the nail hanging down attached by a bit of flesh on the bottom of the finger.  OUCH!!!  Guess I won't be playing piano for a while.  Maybe now they'll fix the damned chair!!!

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Giving the finger to Xmas 2008

Mostly for me it is now a time of physical hibernation and mental/emotional planting of new seed thoughts and ideas - a germination period for growth.  I have a distinct dislike of being cold, and at some point in my life, hopefully in the not-too-distant future, I will find a way to be comfortably warm all year 'round.

The only thing I like about the snow is that it covers over the barrenness of the leaf-less trees and brown grass, making looking outside my windows at least a bit less hard on the eyes.  I totally hate driving in winter.  I don't go out unless I have a really good reason to do so (mostly for groceries), so I tend to stay huddled in my place as much as possible.  I totally hate having to wear boots, and put on so many heavy clothes in order to keep warm outside.  It is just so time and energy consuming!!!  To pass the time I do a lot of reading, meditating, surfing the 'net, and watching TV shows I've taped. This year I also plan on doing some actual work on projects I've been putting off for too long.

As a child, my earliest "fond" memory of winter was digging a snow house out of the HUGE snow-bank plowed up in front of a neighbour kids yard - I was probably about 5 years old, because I hadn't started school yet.  It was a truly amazing feat - we had several "rooms", poked holes down from above for air and light, and it lasted about a week after we made it.  The whole area covered was probably a tunnel about 30 feet long, with "rooms" off on either side at intervals.  It took us about a week to build.  The snowbank was probably 8 or 10 feet high.  We rarely had enough snow to do that, so it must have been an unusual winter in the southern-most part of Canada.  I've only since then seen that kind of snow living in Northern Ontario (Sudbury and Elliot Lake, where I remember many a cold morning and night digging myself out of or into long driveways, a foot or many times more, deep in snow with only a shovel). Neither of our parents seemed to be aware that we were doing this, and they had a royal fit about it when they discovered what we'd done.

As a child, the other thing I liked about winter was going ice-skating - this was always an outdoor activity, and I totally hated mild winters where the ice on the pond didn't freeze enough to safely skate on it.  We did have a couple of home-made rinks on our extra "lot", but my brother and his friends mostly monopolized it for playing hockey - while I wanted to figure skate.  I think that's when I started to dislike winter - around 14 years of age.

In my teens, the other reason I disliked winter was that I had to walk a mile, morning and night, to and from the bus, and some of those days, burdened with a large heavy purse (didn't have knap-sacks back then), gym bag with either swim-suit/towels or runners and gym suit, and an arm-full of books and binders, I trudged my way through four-to-six inches of slimy slush, or slid down the ice-covered road (often finding the wet pavement with my bottom) to only have to stand and wait an extra twenty minutes to half an hour for a bus that never seemed to be on time.  It was either running ahead of schedule on good days, or abysmally late on nasty days!

So for me mostly Winter weather is the season of "Baw! Humbug!!!"  Can hardly wait for Spring!

Has found her way home.

Magel Barrett Roddenberry, widow of famed "Star Trek" creator, Gene Roddenberry, who played so many interesting roles in 38 years of the series, including just two weeks ago finishing off her part as the voice of the ships computer (a role she has reprised many times over in all of the "Trek" series) for the upcoming 2009 movie, has passed away, on Thursday, December 18, 2009.


You can read the news story here.  She was the glue that passed through all of the series - as computer voice, as Nurse Chapel in the original series, as the intrepid "mother" of STNG's resident psychic (a role which she continued through into "Deep Space 9", falling in love with Odo).  She also was the executive producer for two other TV science fiction series, "Andromeda" and "Earth: Final Conflict",  so I guess it could be said that she certainly made her mark in the Universe.

Somewhere up there, she's smiling down on us, probably hitching a ride on a comet to who knows where!!! Bless you, Magel, for walking among us all of these years!

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I am not a citizen of the USA, however, I am here on the North American Continent, and I'll explain later in this blog why I've decided to pass this along, and hopefully I haven't missed the boat on timing for this.

I received this in an email from a fellow Gaian this week.  Please read and act!!!

Quote from below: (...the Bush Administration cynically chose that very day to advance an outrageous plan that will sell off leases for some 300,000 acres of spectacular Utah canyonlands to oil and gas speculators.)

See message and links below. These kinds of petitions actually do work if enough people are involved. DownsizeDC.org, another organization,  has repeatedly proved that.

Thanks,
Larry

 http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/

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Subject: An important message from Robert Redford

The following message from long-time environmental advocate,
 Robert Redford, urges Americans to protest President Bush's plan
 to auction off Utah's Redrock wilderness to oil and gas
 speculators on December 19. It was sent to you by

 http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/

 Dear Friend,

 No one voted on Election Day to hand over Utah's Redrock
 wilderness to oil companies.

 But the Bush Administration cynically chose that very day to
 advance an outrageous plan that will sell off leases for some
 300,000 acres of spectacular Utah canyonlands to oil and gas
 speculators.

 While America was voting for Barack Obama and his vision of a
 clean energy future, Bush and Cheney's underlings were
 conspiring to plunder one of the crown jewels of our natural
 heritage for their fossil fuel cronies.

 Please register your own opposition right now.

 http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/wilderness_giveaway

 The auction of Redrock country will take place on December 19.
 At stake are world-renowned vistas near Canyonlands and Arches
 National Parks, as well as near Dinosaur National Monument. The
 highest bidders will earn the right to turn vast tracts of
 pristine wilderness into industrial wastelands.

 It's bad enough that Bush officials went behind the backs of the
 American people with this disastrous scheme. But what's worse,
 they didn't even tell their own National Park Service until
 after the fact.

 In my mind, this theft of our heritage goes beyond the cynical
 -- it's criminal. What will be left to give to our children and
 their children if we allow this administration, in a parting
 shot, to destroy our legacy of public lands for short-term gain?

 I hope you're as angry as I am about this blatant land grab,
 because we've got to stop it -- and we have to act fast. The
 NRDC Action Fund is mobilizing more than one million Americans
 in an outpouring of protest over the coming days.

 Send your own message of opposition immediately. Tell the Bush
 Administration that you will not allow it to destroy one of the
 most beautiful places on Earth.

 http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/wilderness_giveaway

 We'll automatically send copies of your message to your two
 Senators, your representative, and to the Obama transition team,
 which has signaled their opposition to this disastrous attack on
 our Redrock heritage.

 The Bush Administration is racing to complete the auction of our
 lands before Inauguration Day, which will make sales difficult
 to reverse.

 We must fend off this land grab now -- before the oil and gas
 companies can lay claim to the spoils.

 Those spoils include stretches of Desolation Canyon, which has
 been proposed for national park status. Bush's own Interior
 Department describes the canyon as "a place where a visitor can
 experience true solitude -- where the forces of nature continue
 to shape the colorful, rugged landscape."

 The very idea of oil and gas operations invading these remote
 sanctuaries -- which have remained untouched for millennia -- is
 deeply upsetting. Once the dirty deed is done, our wilderness
 can never be restored. That's why I'm asking you to help us
 sound the alarm and organize now.

 Tell the Bush Administration to cancel the Redrock auction.
 Remind them that we the people are the rightful owners of this
 majestic wilderness and that we won?t stand for its destruction.

 http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/wilderness_giveaway

 And thank you for joining with me and the NRDC Action Fund to
 save these beautiful wildlands for all future generations.

 Sincerely,

 Robert Redford
 NRDC Action Fund

 P.S. After you send your own message of protest, I'll let you
 know of an easy way to spread the word to your friends and
 family. With only 10 days to mobilize one million Americans, I'm
 counting on you to rally everyone you know to speak out and save
 this precious wilderness from destruction.
 http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/stop_wilderness_giveaway?rk=EdXSji9qNSpmW

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Please forward this, or link to it in your own emails and blogs, to as many people as possible before December 19, 2008.  I would also suggest that you contact your Senators and Congress people, and let them know that you need them to stop this environmental disaster now.

Now for the EXTRA reason I have sent this.

Approximately one and a half million years ago, a very large volcano basin was created.  When this Super-volcano erupted, it changed life on Earth from the amount of ash it threw into the air, and the middle part of the USA was changed from verdent forests to plains and flat-lands - basically stretching from western Utah across through Missouri, north through Wyoming, and south through New Mexico - these states encompass what is now known to be the external basin for the volcanic activity.  The start point for this activity actually lies in YellowStone National Park, and recent changes to certain areas there have caused grave concern by scientists about the potentials for this area to once again "explode" with the force of just about all the nukes on the planet combined.  The reason for concern is that the timing for this cyclic event is actually past due - apparently it blows it top regularly every 50 to 65 thousand years or so, if I remember the numbers correctly.

So, I did a little extra research, with the help of my "source" The Herald* on this, and the information was that, just as California has a fault-line along the San Andres, so too, apparently there is a fault line that runs from YellowStone down through the vulcanic areas in Utah.  So if oil and natural gas were pumped out of that area, it will eventually, and probably sooner than later, create underground gaps in the rocky mantal below.

Now, one would think that this would actually be helpful to alleviate pressure on the volcano's, but actually it doesn't.  What it does do is allow for the flow of hot interior molten rock to begin pushing it's way up to the surface through these gaps, and as pressure builds, instead of one little vulcano, you suddenly have a Super-volcano half the size of the State!  Because we don't already know exactly when the original huge vulcano will pop it's cork - although according to scientists examining that YellowStone evidence, it could potentially be sooner than later, even without interference - it is probably a very unwise thing to go drilling into this area for oil and natural gas.  If it explodes, vast portions of the United States and Canada will be affected.  Moreover, the ash that would be thrown into the air would be enough to create another very long-term world-wide Ice Age, which apparently is what happened the last time this happened.

Even if no huge volcano's are created, there is still the potential for some very devasting lava flows, which would also give off some major pollutants of gas and ash into the air.  The affects of doing this drilling are just not known, but even the above ground ruination of natural beauty, and the health-ful affect it has on the planet, needs to be considered - and hasn't been by these greedy monsters!!!

Now, I haven't included any other links here to other material to support this, because it's easy enough for those to be found through search engines, should anyone be wanting to pursue the study of it further.  What I want people to do here is to consider what the potentials for this proposed lottery sale are perhaps for yourselves, moreover future generations living on the North American Continent.  The greed that has pushed the economic and human toll for the sake of a few more drops of oil or natural gas to historic heights, could very well be the end of civilization, maybe existence, on this planet.  For the sake of the planet, don't sit on your hands and leave it to the next guy to take up the cause.

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*Sheila M. Street, CI CH M.NLP channels "The Herald".  Information on both Sheila and her Source can be found at her web-site, Channeling The Herald . Private sessions with "The Herald" are available, in person or by phone to a large part of the English speaking world.  Sign up for notification of future planned events, and upcoming book publications.

Sheila is also a National Guild of Hypnotists and National Federation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Certified Instructor, Master NLP Practitioner and NLP Coach.  She is planning to hold her first Hypnotist Practitioners course in February 2009, and first NLP Basic Course in March 2009.  She can be contacted for both registration for these events, and personal Hypnosis and NLP sessions at Hypno-Dynamics .

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(Couldn't get the Question of the Day thing to work, but here it is anyways...)

I would like to know which of my 'friends' insists on adding audio that I cannot seem to find the switch-off for - YOU might think it's cute, but when I'm surfing and trying to read what other people have put down in their blogs, it is damned annoying!!!  So for crikey sakes, cease and desist, or at least make the dang turn-off switch HIGHLY visible!!!

I know I've been bounced before (by Sol) for bitching about this, but if that's what it takes to get some peace, well, so be it.  Manners manner!!!!  Not everyone has the same musical tastes and we should have a choice here of whether or not we listen.

My grown-up Christmas wish for December for the world is that those who have set this horrendous world-wide monetary crisis in action will have a huge Epiphany, get their crap together, and share their huge wealth, instead of hoarding it for God-only-knows-what-reason (and maybe God even has a problem figuring them out!)

If the attempt was to enslave the common man, I think they have been drinking way too much fine wine and plugging their ears with caviar for way too long to really understand that every man, woman and child has a spark of the divine in them (even these idiots have it, for crying out loud!) and WILL NOT submit to being slaves.

Certainly, the sanity of people in general can be called into question at times.  The "Black Friday" tramplings and shootings really call into question what people really believe in, even at this time of year when supposedly many are celebrating religious  or spiritual festivities, whether it is Channukah, Christmas, Qwansa, Yule - whatever!!!  Is getting to the check-out counter with that made-in-China doll, or that made-in-Taiwan blouse or shirt more important than taking a little extra care to make sure you don't mame or kill someone else in the process???  This is insanity!!!

So can we expect that our leaders are going to act any better?  I do applaude my neighbours to the south (mostly) of Canada for at least electing someone who might make a difference in the long run, but he is really going to be battling uphill for at least a couple of years - the Bushite's made dang sure of that.  Unfortunately, whenever the US economy takes a dump, Canadians end up with the crappy after-farts (pass the Air-wick pallleeeeezzzzze!).  I think, as world citizens we have a divine duty to lead  by example, and demand, then, that they live up to a much higher standard.

So here's what we all need to do:  When you're out shopping for your gifts, don't push, don't shove, don't swear at the poor clerk who's trying to please you, and don't think you have to be the first on the block to give (or get) anything.  Do's - be polite, be generous, smile, make time for your family (they'll probably appreciate that more than a thousand dollars worth of gifts), and do something nice for a stranger as often as possible - preferably at least once a day!  More do's - keep positive, keep your attention planted on your goals, keep the company of those who are supportive of you and your dreams, and keep a daily gratitude list of at least five items.  Put at least half of what you'd spend daily on coffee /tea /lattes /beer /wine into a jar or envelope, and give it to your local food-bank at the end of the month - and do it every month for at least the next year.  Make it a habit to think of others FIRST!!!!

Those are the things, done well, done often and done by many, that are going to help change the group-consciousness dynamic of the world this coming year.  If we change that, then those selfish money-groping monsters who pushed us into this financial crisis will be forced to change - they are really at the bottom of the heap spiritually, so any real spiritual effort put forth, by spiritual law, is irresistible to them.

That's it!  That's my wish!  In the words of Jean Luc Picard "Make It So!!!"

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My grown up Christmas list

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Thanks to WonderlandAlli I got tagged with the "Friday Five" for this week.

So here goes:

1) What are you thankful for today?  Being able to breath fully again, after having had some difficulty with that over the last week.

2) What do you appreciate about the Earth? Trees, grass, water, waterfalls and lovely gemstones (hey, had to have "gem" in there someplace, eh!) :)

3) Who is the last person you said "thank you" to? That would have been the Condo building Super as he cleaned the hallway carpet - for stopping by and occasionally watering my umbrella tree, Eli, while I was in Florida.  Eli has been a constant companion now for over 23 years, and she now stands (again, after being severely damaged 12 years ago) almost seven feet high, with huge broad leaves.  She lives in my bedroom because it's the brightest room in the Condo.

4) When was the last time someone thanked you? I'm probably not remembering some of the more perfunctory "thank you's" I've had over the last few days, but on Sunday I had several people do so from greater depths than most do these days. It felt good to be so appreciated.

5) What is your favorite way to say thank you?  My favourite way is probably to give someone a hug, if I can do so in person.  Otherwise, when I do say it, I like to look the person straight in the eyes and say it with a nice, warm smile.

Well, the instructions were to tag five others to do this, but since Friday has just about run out, and it appears many of my friends have already been tagged, I'm going to do everyone a big favour and not tag anyone else today.  Maybe next Friday........LOL!!!

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Thank You For The Music - Hidden Track - Mamma Mia The Movie

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Well, my time in Florida is almost over, for now.  I know that I will be back - perhaps in a year or two - and hopefully I will be smart enough to rent a car so I can get around to more places than I did this time around.

I feel absolutely wonderful!!!  I feel much stronger than I did when I arrived here.  In spite of the fact that I managed to get a raging bronchial infection (probably from recirculated air-plane air), with the help of the group I was with, and some timely antibiotics from the instructor, I was pretty much over the worst by Saturday, and feeling really good by Sunday.  On Monday I just vegged around the hotel, went for a walk to get some water and caught up on some internet surfing.

I met seven wonderful new friends - six students, and the instructor's wonderful wife who video-taped us, made sure we had a good supply of water, and made us feel totally special all the time.  We will always have a strong connection, and I am now looking forward to the convention next August to reconnect - and we'll probably do a lot of phoning and emailing until then.

Each day I power-walked (because I was generally running close to late) about half a mile from the hotel to the Chamber of Commerce building where the classes were held.  Some of that was in high humidity, and until Sunday, over 80 degree heat.  Fortunately, most evenings we went out to eat and I got a lift back in someone's car.  I can tell you that I will probably not want to eat in a restaurant for another year, at least.  Which is just fine, because I had my coaching session with the instructor today, as well as some great hypnosis, and I have a feeling that the work I started here (getting a good workout with that power walk each morning) is something I am going to continue, and I plan on being a whole lot "lighter" by next August.  I also got some help on doing some weight-loss hypnosis work.  Today I did a late afternoon excursion around town on foot - walked four blocks over to Venice Avenue, and then down four blocks, and reversed the trip back, with a stop-over for supper at "The Clock" restaurant, where I also ate last night.

I will not have a lot of time to veg once I get home, as I have a bit of a financial deadline to get something moving.  Depending on how bad my home bedroom smells when I get there, I may also be putting the Condo up for sale and planning to move again.  What I did notice is that since I have arrived in Florida, my nose stopped bleeding and my complexion (especially my arms and upper chest to neck area) cleared up quite a bit, so whatever has been causing the stink back in Canada must be pretty toxic.

Regardless, I learned so much about how to power myself up to be ready to teach a series of three-to-five-day weekend courses, and how to extend that knowledge into working with corporations, I am really looking forward to plunging head-first into this new phase of my career.  The nice thing is that I now have a good support group in the other students, as well as the instructor who is happy to see that we push forward in whatever and wherever we want to take this training.

I also learned that I can make myself at home almost anywhere, and I am no longer putting the brakes on travelling, which has been a large part of why I hadn't promoted the other side of my life - the channeling part - almost from the beginning.  I know that I will probably pack a whole lot less next time I travel.  LOL!!!  I know I can carry a heck of a lot more than I thought I could - I lugged a large bag with heavy binders, my laptop and my normally heavy (at least 7 or 8 pounds) purse with me on those half mile power-walks.  I learned that I can book my own trips, plan transportation, handle money carefully and appreciate the people who work hard to make my travels as comfortable as possible.  For those of you who have travelled more in your lives, some of this may sound very elementary, but these were the things that challenged me, mentally and emotionally (and worrying about the physical) about travelling previously.  No more!!!

So - Look out world - Sheila is coming through!!!!

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