K, I was kidding, really! I wasn't offended. I know exactly what you mean. As for the book, it sounds interesting. Tell us more after you get into it, okay? There are so many interesting "coincidences" in life, don't you think? I remember someone saying in Al-Anon that "a coincidence is a miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous"... isn't that great?!

And even more interesting LT is that, while I'm only on pg 45, this woman mentions that a friend of hers took her to an Al-Anon meeting. [her bf was a drinker]. She's mentioning how much she had in common with these folks, yet thought to herself she would never go somewhere and open up to strangers.

I agree with you. There are many interesting coincidences. I'm hoping that I will be more open to seeing them. Maybe this book will help open my eyes?!

Thank you for the reassurance. I would have felt awful if I would have said something to offend you.

K.

That sounds like a neat book, I will have to see if our library has it. I'm not sure that I have my life totally on-track, but I hope it's getting there. I still don't feel totally ready for a relationship, though the desire is there. I guess my main priorities for a few more years will be my kids, and as quickly as the time is going by, I'm happy to do it. I do not want to look back and have regrets about how I raised my kids....
Well, I live on the Gulf Coast, so I am probably a ways from where you are, Korona....the guy sounds nice, though. I have had a couple of close calls with long distance relationships, and don't think I'm going to do that again. I am starting to wonder about myself now whether I am getting too self-sufficient, and what I will be like when I finally have an empty nest. Wish there were easy answers.....

I'm not ready to let this thread die yet...

I'm leaving in the morning for my New Year's Cleanse with my head filled with hopes for the new year as well as plans for my new home and business.

I won't be back until late on the 1st, but I wanted to be the first to wish all of you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Bump!

Tell us about the cleanse when you can LT!

K.

I'm home from the Cleanse. It was great - 4 days of listening to Byron Katie work with people on whatever issues they brought with them. I did the juice fast and my energy level got pretty low, so sometimes I felt really tired and I felt restless a lot, but it was hard to pull myself away from listening, so I stayed through most of it. There was a "no talent" show on New Year's Eve to give people an opportunity to get up and perform in some way they'd always wanted to do, even if they had no talent - of course some people did have quite a bit of talent and what everyone did was entertaining. I was an observer for this and the entire cleanse!

I got home to a surging generator, that sounded like it was failing, and no water. I stayed up too late reading my accumulated e-mail and woke up to my generator running, thanks to my maintenance man, and now my water running thanks to his friend the pump guy. Apparently the problem with the water was affecting the generator - something to do with the pump freezing, the capacitor (??) burning out and then drawing too many amps. So everything's good - it's so tempting, after listening to Katie for 4 days, to say that everything's always good, no matter what happens anyway. It was nice not to trip out on the apparently negative circumstances and waste time stressing over something that's now resolved.

How's everyone else doing?

I would have been observing right next to you!
I'm not one to draw attention to myself. Sitting in the crowd is more my speed.
I can't imagine doing what you have done. Good for you!
Glad all worked out well with the generator. Thank goodness for small problems. If they were all big what would we do?

Good to see you back LT!

I've had a couple exciting moments in the last 3 days that I'm hoping are kicking off my new year.
Went out for NYE, it was lame, but the highlight was, some young 29yr old guy guessed my age to be 34. I accepted the guess graciously! It felt good for a few minutes, then I fessed up and told the truth.
New Years Day, I went walking, and passed a guy that's newly divorced and got to share a smile and a hello! Major highlight!
Today, a guy that I've been doing some bookwork for on the side came by and told me they are considering adding me to the payroll. Which was the great news as my job ended back in June.
Things at the moment are looking good for 2007!

Lets hope its good for all of us.

K.

Hey K, Sounds like the new year is starting off right for you! So glad to hear it. My biggest new thing so far is that I've finally become willing to let go of the last areas of my job I haven't so far been willing to let go of and allow the person I hired to replace me 2-3 years ago (wow, can't even remember now!) to try it. I've been so afraid she wouldn't do as good a job as I do, couldn't handle it, but I'd never be able to replace her. I was also afraid of being out of touch with what's going on there if I didn't stay on top of the paperwork. I have plans to expand my business and need the extra time to work on it but since I don't know if I can do it, it was easier to keep doing what I was doing, even though I was getting sick of it and resentful of her for not doing it. Crazy, huh?! So, hopefully, the new year will bring some changes in my business, at least the beginning of a new home, as well as some fun in my social life, whatever that turns out to be!