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| Mon, 10-13-2008 - 9:47pm |
Aloha!
This is another update on my wacky life.... I've been thinking maybe I should do things differently this year...
I know God loves my butt and wants me to change course after what has happen to me this past week. This is a long one... so get your energizer drinks ready!! ha ha ha!
As you all know I just turned 58 on October 1st which was exactly 7 days ago. Every birthday I do something new... like jumping off 300 foot waterfalls guided by experts at the sport... or one year I went sky diving on my birthday (that was a horrible experience)... another year I went white water rafting in the Grand Canyon for a whole week (that was fun but dirty)... I've been rock climbing (hated it)... I learned to sail a 45ft sail boat one year (that was incredible)... and one year I traveled 65 miles on a jet ski in 8 hours just to see if I could do it(that was going way past my comfort zone)... you get the idea as to how I like to start a new year of living... But this birthday all I wanted to do was just relax and coast until I reach 59. But nooo ..... this is what has happened to me since I turned 58 which has made me change my way of thinking about how I am going to spend this next year being 58....
For me ...like some of you... stuff seems to happen to me in threes until I get the idea life is trying to tell me something. Maybe for me the three thing happens because it takes me that long to catch on that I am suppose to learn something from a sequence of events and I haven't.... and so stuff keeps happening to me until I change the course I have been on in life and start trucking down a new path ... I hate this part of living... It is scary and spooky for me to change directions especially if I have been on a certain path for any length of time and I am comfortable with it.
First, I run into a rock going 60 mph and lived this week... now that was interesting and a positive out come happened from this negative event in my life! Bottom line this rock got my attention big time that maybe I should do things differently this year.
Second, I get home from my rock experience and waa laa I instantly come down with another infection in the same exact spot that MRSA and Flesh eating bacteria popped up at 3 years ago. What are the chances of that happening? The infection turned out to be just your run of the mill bacteria staph infection. That was cool.... Next to running into a rock at high speeds, getting another infection which could have potentially caused another part of my body to be amputated is the worst thing that could ever happen to me. So now, I getting the feeling maybe some thing is trying to tell me something? But then naaa... these are just a couple of coincidences so I decided to stay on the course I am on which is cruise control this year.
Now the third event which makes me reconsider my life plans for this coming year is this... I get a phone call this morning and it is the fraud department from my credit card company notifying me that some one has just charged an obscene amount of plane tickets on my credit card. The first thing out of my mouth was... “It was not me... I did not do that.... I am not paying for it!†They calmed me down and we went through a lot of verifying maneuvers to convince them I am Me blaa blaaa blaaa... And by the end of the day, things were settled. I could not believe someone tried stealing my identity and then tried to charged stuff to my accounts... This was the 3rd and final sign I needed from the great beyond to make me wake up and start moving in a direction in my life that will be more productive to my well being then the one I originally planned on 7 days ago.
In the top ten things I worry about in life are...my health... and having enough money to live on. Both have been attacked since I turned 58 this week... My life was threatened big time by a rock and a microscopic bug I can't see this week. Then someone tried to steel my identity this week. Then on top of that my financial nest egg was threaten when the economy in the world crashed big time this past week. Those are more then enough reasons for me to find those big girl panties of mine, put them on, and start searching for signs which will guide me on the right path I should be going down this year. I certainly don’t think the supreme being who puts the signs in my life liked my decision this year to just kick back and enjoy life... like I did last year! errr... I hate that about living... Now I have to get up off this sofa and exert some energy... because the signs in my life are telling me the direction I am going in is counter productive to my well being... er... errr.... errrrr. I think I would rather go bungee jumping! Or pull my toe nails out then find that path this year... ha ha ha!
My question to you is this... do you believe in being given signs in life which if read correctly will guide you to the best paths to take in life? And if so how do you ignore them and still win?
Aloha,
Lei
Edited 10/14/2008 12:50 pm ET by hulagirl_leilani

Hi Leilani
Yes I do believe that life gives you signs and if you do the right things and learn from those signs your life can be much better. I usually don't ignore them after getting some pretty big life threating things happen to me. However being a "normal" human being what ever that is. I do sometimes take risk I probably should not. However riding jet skis at 60 mph or jumping off cliffs would not be something I would do. I really just try to live my life as happily as possible and when there are bumps or bolders in the way, I handle those problems head on and go back to just being me. Sometimes I win and sometimes I don't but that is just life.
Aloha,
Lei
Well now that I just erased my entire message that I'd typed, I'll make this rather short.
Yes my dear you were velly, velly lucky - all three, the accident, the infection, and the fact that they were on top of it enuf to call you about the identify theft rather than you finding out on your bill & having to call & convince them that it wasn't your charges... DH just got a similar call a couple weeks back!?!?!
Me - I've been beating my head against a wall w/the matrix math portion of linear algebra for a midterm last week - so all I've heard for the past few weeks from both myself & my study buddy is "are we done yet?!?!?" Sorry I missed your whooping & hollers from the river.... :( Plus trying to get ahead enuf in my neverending HW that I don't have to haul books on our vacation trip back to Maine & Massachusetts next week. On my way to Oak Hills tomorrow nite (on Amtrak this trek) for another attempt to spend the weekend w/the g'kids - that's where I was headed in June. The deal is here, Amtrak goes east once a day & west once a day - & thru Needles, when it's on time, it's at 1:30 in the AM - plus my D just shared w/me last nite that the Victorville station is a really seedy place known for a few murders, etc so she doesn't want me sitting there by myself having to wait either way; but the train ride will give me 8 hrs of study time between getting there & coming home.... I took the 40 up to Kingman a couple weeks ago & ended up staying well behind but having to watch a trucker leapfrogging everybody all the way up there - I wasn't very comfortable w/that drive... Also, got hold of a HS buddy who lives in Escondido that I haven't seen since her D got married a couple years back & she's going to try to drive up Saturday so I'm very much looking forward to a long catch up w/her around not getting much sleep between now & Thursday nite & setting myself up for total exhaustion chasing a 2yo & 5yo around the yard/swingset/jungle gym, painting, doing playdo creations, baking, & whatever else I can think of to keep them occupied so they're goners by 9pm from Thursday thru Sunday.... (and I have been living life pretty laid back sitting on my rearend since June.....!) Taking lots of Advil & Alka Seltzer for the cold I'm trying to keep at bay...
Sounds to me like we've had a rather good year - we're still here to talk about it and even consider what to do next with it...
Will check back with ya soon,