It's been a hectic week...work has been crazy with deadlines and change requests and multiple competing priorities. It's busy in a good way, but just frustrating spending so much time trying to meet deadlines and then have your client throw a change request that completely derails your deliverable dates. Just part of the business I guess...
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On another positive note, one of my real estate clients had an offer accepted on a property this week. It's a short sale, so now we're waiting for the seller's lender to approve the deal. The listing agent says it shouldn't take long as they have been working with the lender throughout the entire ordeal.
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We added a new family member to the household this week. Tilly the Turtle joined us on Monday evening after I picked her up from Petco that afternoon. She seems very happy in the pond. She was very skittish for the first few days, but now comes out and suns herself every morning on the rocks. But if we open the back door and go outside, she quickly darts back into the pond to hide.
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I started a new certification class for my hypnosis credentials. I have two certifications already...one as a hypnotist (the basic class) and another in past life regression therapy. I'm working on a smoking cessation certification now. I have thoroughly enjoyed these classes and have been using self-hypnosis to affect some positive change in my own life. I don't know what else I will do with these new certifications, but I've already had friends who want me to help them with issues they are working on.
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I have been planning a spiritual retreat to Santa Monica in October. I'll be gone the weekend of October 16th for three days. I was hesitant to book the trip because of the money, but James and I have been blessed with additional income due to the real estate referrals I've had this year. We are desperately working to become completely debt free in the next few years...and that includes paying off the mortgage on the house. I did a cashout refinance a few years ago to make some improvements and we are underwater now with our mortgage due to the housing recession. It's not a bad thing as we can make the payments, but after all of the layoffs I've been through we realized that we need to learn to live within our means and not borrow for anything. So, I'm working 12 to 14 hours a day lately trying to earn enough to get everything paid off and sock enough savings away to last us for a year or so in the event of another layoff.
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I'm dedicated to a more spiritual path this year. I found myself for a long time giving in to negativity and cynicism around me...I was allowing myself to be drawn in to petty drama and bickering. And yes, Prop 8 did and still does tick me off. I'm at peace with it right now because I know in my heart it will be overturned in the not-so-distant future and because James and I were not affected by the outcome. The important thing is that he and I are together and are thankful how much things have changed in my life time to give us the legal rights that we have now.
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So, here I sit on a Sunday morning blogging and petting Willow. I have a slight headache from some wine I drank last night. I watched "Push" with Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning on the big screen last night. Not a great movie, but definitely not bad. But, before I knew it the entire bottle of wine was gone...and James doesn't drink, so I can't even blame part of it on him!!
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Hope you're day is filled with blessings and love.
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