Playing with cats

Today I did a fun volunteer job at an animal shelter in SW Portland. I really enjoyed it even though one of the cats jumped on me. I realize I cannot take care of all the cats in the world and I cannot take care of all the people in the world, including my immediate family. People have to take care of themselves. Thats all. And I don't really like my family or my in-laws very much. I love my daughter, thats all.

Up early

I was up at quarter to five this morning. I worked on some journaling, lit candles and smudged my condo. Did the dishes, some yoga and am now cooking oatmeal for breakfast. I think I am going to take a noon yoga class at the rec center and earlier go to Costco for coffee and half and half. This evening I have meditation and Judy is going to ride with me to the Sangha. I'm considering stopping my Saturday meeting and doing yoga instead. I'm getting bored with 12 stepping.

Reiki healing

Yesterday I went to a Reiki circle at the New Thought Church. We did reiki on each other for about 5 min each. I feel very much in my body but now I feel gross. I am aware of my body and feel I need a cleanse. I have been drinking lots of water. It does feel good being in my body though and on Saturday I have another reiki circle with Aga.

Portland Faith Awakening

Today I am going to the Portland Faith Awakening's luncheon on sex trafficking. This is a subject that I am very interested in and want to learn more about. Also I am really thinking a lot about how life becomes more interesting when I do a variety of tasks, hobbies and information gathering work throughout the day. I realize I want to get rich, not so I can be waited on hand and foot, but because I want the freedom to do the things and the work I want to do. I want to be able to work for myself and to keep the benefits of my work for myself, to distribute to whom I want to. I do not want to have to give my labor or the fruits of my labor to someone I don't want to. I don't want to be forced to work and forced to distribute the success of my labor in a way I don't want to. I don't want to be stolen from or enslaved.

The Grotto and market blahs

Today I took a great trip to the Grotto. It was a wonderful visit to a very spiritual place. I came home to find that the market had done nothing. Yesterday I bought a little Mollycorp. Today I am making a little casserole in the crockpot. 1 jar tomato sauce, 2 c dried beans, 1 packet chili, some broken whole wheat pasta and several jars of water. We'll see how it turns out. I've already added more water. Listened to a King World News broadcast. Good thing I'm more into my spirituality than I am my money. The spirituality is doing great, the market not so good.

New link

I got this one from Caryn Aman. It is Tess Vigland on Market Place Money on the NPR website. I haven't listened to it yet but Caryn thinks its great. Also Caryn to me about getting card stock and gold gel pens at Grahams in downtown Lake Oswego. I'm considering making my own cards and sending the out with a chocolate bar and/or with one of my used books as gifts. I think it will save me a lot of money.

Intention

Yesterday I met with Jeanie, talked to Gina and Bob. I guess intention, intent and intuition are to be followed. Gina says its Angels, Bob calls it our subconscious mind. What ever you call it, it is something. I am following my hunches and ideas more. When an idea pops into my head I give it more weight now and try to go through with it. I don't try and force it. I comes into my life as it does and helps when it does.

New links

Check out:
1. King World News
2. Far Beyond the Stars
3. Frugal Babe
4. Rowdy Kittens
also some assorted political blogs
1. Huffington Post
2. Daily Beast
3. Daily Kos

New ideas for my blog

Tonight I took a class at PCC called 25 home businesses for under $1000. One of the ideas I got was making and selling cards. Another was mystery shopping. Another is adult daycare/errands with liability insurance not being too expensive. Also I want to use this blog with the idea of maybe making it an information blog with interesting web or blog sites. I will try out the mystery shopping websites tomorrow and maybe post them. It was a good class. I think that PCC puts on good 1 evening classes.

House hunting

I am getting more and more interested in learning about real estate investing. I am looking at houses in Aloha and Beaverton for rentals. At this point it is only in the processing and dreaming stage but I am trying to learn about my possibilities. At the very least it is a fun hobby and I plan to attend open houses and learn about what is available. Zillow is a good site to do this.