Hi everyone! Long time no chat. When we last left our intrepid heroine, I was recovering from an event that left me feeling powerless and desperate to leave my living situation. I also had just set myself up on GigSalad as an oracle reader for parties. For the latter, I’ve had two requests of interest but no bookings yet. As for the former, I am now in a better situation but it is also temporary.
Gain: I’m in a big room that has plants wintering over in it so it feels very fresh. It’s clean, which is a huge relaxing point for my body right now. The kitchen is spacious and had a piano in it if I want to dig through things to get to it. It came with a big bed, dresser, and closet space, with an armchair to curl up to read or write in with a footstool. It’s nice. I don’t have to pay for laundry anymore either.
Loss: My work commute is longer requiring more walking. Lots of stairs, which have been hard for me and my left knee is already complaining. I have to give my bed away because I have nowhere I can store it that won’t cost me hundreds of dollars a month, not to mention having to move it. Rent will be more and will escalate the longer I’m here.
Gain: I’m living with a woman around my own age who was caregiver to her own mom and has a couple of grown children, so I may make a friend out of her as well.
Loss: She likes it cold at night so at 10pm, the temperature in the house drops a lot, which wouldn’t be so bad if the vent in my room didn’t start pumping out cold air that blows right in my face. I’m up early writing this because I lost hours of sleep because I was so cold. I need to wear a hoodie tucked around my face, heavy socks, and sweatpants just to be able to sleep, which is so not my usual M.O. I have to leave for work in an hour and I got 3, maybe 4 hours of sleep?
Loss: I fell for an email scam that had hacked a good friend and I’m out $200. That money was earmarked to take advantage of some holiday deals - especially getting Yousician Premium for 50% for the year and to see Gowan in concert Thursday. Yup, the money big boss is back with a vengeance. Hoping a free ticket for the concert comes to me and that somehow the money for Yousician appears in the next 35 hours (there’s a countdown clock).
Money has just been haywire! I’ve also had a couple of unexpected charges come through that I needed to reverse (thankfully I could), and I had the price of an ebook I was buying on sale literally change between the shopping cart and checkout. Wish I knew what that was all about.
Gain: Just before I was scammed I got a great deal on a lovely piece of Blue Mountain pottery that I bought to commemorate having finished my cancer journey and getting a great job. $9.99 y’all! For a relatively large piece. Where do you see that?
Loss: Had a long cry last night when I realized that all my holiday decorations are in storage and I’ll be pressed to find space for the snow ball decoration my sister gave me a few years ago. I’m so tired of wanting something of mine and then having to follow it with “but it’s in storage”. I miss being surrounded by the objects that mean something to me, that carry my history. I’m tired of not being settled somewhere permanently.
Gain: I’ve gone back to the Change Me Prayers of Tosha Silver. I’m being reminded to offer my challenges up to the Divine Beloved (who is really my higher self). Every time I do I feel much better. I’m in the midst of a massive change so I just need to trust that all is working for my higher good.
Have you had some crazy things happen to you in the last couple of weeks? I’m told it’s a time of big shifts and it would help me to hear yours. Hope you’re having a great week.