I've never been one that likes being labelled or put into a box - I am, who I am. Over the years I've had many 'encounters' I guess you would call them, with entities of some sort. I've had readings done for me and been told on more than one occasion that 'you're psychic, you just need to learn how to use this gift etc etc'. To be honest I've never really taken too much notice of these comments, as I've put it down to these readers telling everyone one something along these lines. After all most people who have readings done, would love nothing more than to hear that they're psychic and they just need to learn how 'to tap into it'.
I don't have a label for what happens to me, I can't make it happen on command, but it does happen..... In fact it's happened twice this week! From an early age I have seen things at random that I cannot explain. It actually hasn't happened for a few months, but this week I got a double whammy!
The other night I couldn't sleep so I decided to read a book, my wife was asleep. So here I am sitting in bed reading - then all of a sudden in my mind I see the face of one of my staff members, immediately followed by the image of an older man. This man had his hand on his chest over his heart and he said 'tell her I'm okay'. Now I had no idea who this older guy was! So when I went to work and explained to my staff member what had happened and described what he looked like, she looked away from me, then looked back. She said it was her grandfather, he passed away before she started working for me and that she was at his house the day before. She also said that she had been thinking about him a lot lately, as due to circumstances she wasn't able to get to the hospital to see him before he passed and she was angry at herself for this. Don't ask me why I saw this, or received this message? I do not know! I have never seen a photo of her grandfather, nor did I know that she had gone to his house.
Okay, so take two.... Yesterday for some unknown reason, the face of a woman I used to work with when we lived in the mountains flashed through my mind. I really didn't give it much thought, I just went about my work. Then this morning while I was eating my breakfast before leaving for work, I was scrolling through Facebook...... A woman I used to work with at the same workplace, had written how sad she was to hear that this woman had passed away...... Again, don't ask me? I don't know, I have no explanation.....
Some of you might remember around the start of the year we bought a bird. He was supposed to be my bird...... I could hold him and pat him on the back, he would 'share' my breakfast with me etc. Well when I bought the store I was up and out the door 7 days a week lol as a result Tango and I are no longer the best of friends lol He is now my wife's bird. She can do what ever she likes with him, and he's okay with that. She even kisses his beak!! Personally I wouldn't dare put my face near that beak.... Unless I wanted my nose or lip pierced! lol
I can't even get him out of the cage! I actually left the door open one day and walked away in the hope he would come out.... But nope! He just sat there looking at me through the bars. However, here's the kicker!! The first two sounds he made were whistles - which I taught him! Then he copied the sound of the microwave - which I use. Then he mimicked the sound of my mobile phone. After that was his name, followed by pretty boy, who's a pretty boy, Tango Tango, and birdie birdie birdie. All of which I taught him! This bird has double standards! He doesn't like me and wont come near me, yet mimic's what I say! Go figure! Geez and they say cats are finicky! lol
So here is an update of my Queen cross stitch - even though two of the boys are done I still have the backstitching to do on them. I'm hopeful that I will get more done on this pattern this weekend, as it's a long weekend and my store isn't opening on Monday. I have opened in the past on Public Holidays and it just isn't worth it, so I'm closing the store on Monday.... Which means I get a day off! Woo Hoo! :) I know that most people would love their long weekend to be nice and sunny (which it's going to be) but I would really love it if it was cold, miserable and rainy! lol
When we lived in the mountains it was either rainy, cold, snowing, misty, foggy or all of those combined lol Sunny days just weren't that frequent, and it was something you simply lived with - without giving it a second thought really. Now that we live in a coastal area it's always sunny, and I have a hard time stitching when the weather's nice. I don't know why, I guess it's because I feel that I should be doing something (constructive lol) outside, rather than sitting on my butt inside stitching lol First world problems huh? Anyway, enough weather waffling. If you live in Australia, have a great long weekend!! :)
Well I said I'd be back lol and here I am! (I'm typing this post on a tablet via an app, so I hope the format is the same as typing it on a PC lol) It's amazing, since I bought the store, I pretty much stopped reading and I completely stopped cross stitching. I was either too tired, couldn't be bothered or spent my time after work looking at new products to sell. But last week on my 'day off' (lol) I started working on a cross stitch pattern that I purchased months ago. It's from Clouds Factory and it's the band Queen.
I should also mention that Queen was in Australia recently and we went with some friends to see them! OMG - Amazing! That is all I can say! lol Anyway, back to the cross stitch :) I've done 2.5 of the boys. I love Clouds Factory stuff as they are just quick, small and simple patterns. I also have a Halloween themed one and a Beetlejuice one as well (I can watch Beetlejuice again and again! lol) I will probably do Beetlejuice after this Queen one.
I've also started reading again, I used to read most nights before bed but then I stopped. I just couldn't focus on what I was reading, my brain wouldn't switch off, I had constant thoughts of what I had to do the next day or what I had forgotten to do that day etc...... But for some reason, since I have stepped back a bit, my brain has eased up and allowed me to read and actually take in what I'm reading, rather than scanning the words and not remembering a word I had just read! Very frustrating!
Apart from getting back to reading and cross stitching, I actually cooked dinner the other night! lol Now this might not sound like much, but prior to buying the store I used to do the majority of the cooking for three reasons: 1. I like to cook 2. My wife doesn't lol and 3. My wife prefers my cooking over hers. Because my wife is a shift worker she needs to have dinner fairly early and I'm never home in time to cook, so she has been doing the cooking. But now that I am taking the odd day off here and there, I'm back online searching for new recipes to try :) :) :)
Okay I'm off! I'll catch you all again soon!
Hi Everyone!
Yes my last post was in Feb! This is not because I didn't want to write anymore or fell off the face of the earth, but I bought a business. Up until about a week ago I had been working 7 days a week in my business to try and turn things around. Guess what? When you work 7 days a week you get really tired! lol So I have just recently decided to take one or two days off a week, depending on what's happening and how busy things are to allow me to be able to do this.
So what kind of business did I buy? Well I'm not going to name it because I don't want customers googling it and finding my blog lol But it's a retro, vintage, alternative clothing type shop. It's open 7 days a week and will soon have an online store. I had been to the store as a customer and I had always liked it, as there is nothing else like it around! So when it came up for sale - I had to buy it! It was advertised one night, and I bought it the very next day..... and I wasn't the only one after it!!! lol Which is good, because if I ever want to sell it, I know I'll get the same response.
When my wife and I looked at the books, it was just hanging in there by the skin of its teeth! So it was a bit of a risky purchase, but I felt that I could turn it around! Slowly it's happening, the people are returning and word has gotten out that the store has new owners and new stock in the store!
I still have days when it's quiet and I sit in the store and think "What have I done?!?! Did I make the right choice buying this place??" I'm probably not the only new business owner to feel this way, but quiet days do tend to rattle me a bit.
Buying this store has been a MASSIVE learning curve, as neither my wife or I have worked in retail nor owned a business. Crazy huh?!?! Yep! But I'm not one to let a lack of experience get in my way, nor will I go down without a fight! This business will shoot back to its former glory and hopefully beyond!
I know this wasn't a long post as I didn't have much time today and I've got to go out, but I'll catch you all again soon!
P.S Yes I'm putting the P.S at the top for a reason lol. This is my second attempt to get this blog post written today, as I'm still taking pain killers my brain just doesn't want to link words in the order that they should normally be found lol Due to this reason, I took a break from writing today as I was constantly correcting mistake after mistake.... So I do hope that the rest of this post makes some sense and is readable :o)
The Original Start:- I haven't got much to blog about on the parrot front, as I've had the the first part of my dental implants inserted this week.... So I've been off with the fairies, thanks to the painkillers. Don't worry, I'm not going to show you a photo lol. So most of Tango's time has been spent with my wife, as I was either asleep or just not feeling well enough to cope with his antics lol. I go back next week for a check up on the stitches and the posts/screws that were implanted, then after three months I go back and the crowns are put into place.
A couple of days before I had the implants done, I went to see an optometrist as I have started cross stitching again, and I've found that my old glasses aren't quite doing the trick...... They are seven years old lol Anyway, as I expected, I needed new glasses. So I asked if I could keep my old frames as 1. I like them, 2. They're really lightweight, and 3. They cost me a small fortune! I was told that it would cost me more to keep my old frames and it would be much cheaper to get new frames with new lenses!?!!? The girl that I was talking to looked at the figures of what my health insurance company covers, and it would have cost me a minimum of $150 just to send my old frames off! That's not including the price of the lenses.
So then she looked at the figures of what it would cost me to get new frames and lenses and the total gap I would have to pay was $139.50. This cost was for two pairs of glasses.... mind you, I only wanted one pair.... But the deal that was running was 2 pairs for the price of one. It's just crazy! So in the end, it was cheaper to get two pairs of glasses, instead of just changing the lenses in my old frames. So next week I will go and pick up both pairs of my new glasses lol
Anyway, as I said, I have started cross stitching again. I used to cross stitch all the time when we lived in the Mountains. As it was so cold there, having an indoor hobby was a must. But since we've moved to The Central Coast and it's so hot, I've found it very hard to get interested in it again. The photo above is of a witch, I have actually done more than this, and I thought I had taken a more recent photo.... But I can't find one and to be honest I couldn't be bothered right now digging it out and taking another photo lol I will post a photo when it's completed :o)
I also discovered an online store called 123stitch.com, wow, what a dangerous website! They sell everything that you could ever want! I have already made a number of purchases from them lol Even though they're located in the USA, their prices are so much cheaper than Australian prices. Plus they stock so many things that you just can't buy here.
My Sister recently found a website called Clouds Factory, and they have some brilliant patterns. They're all small patterns that you could stitch up as they are designed, or you could turn the characters into cards - I've purchased a couple of the patterns and I also have a 'wish list' going there lol. I'm also back on Chatter Fox, which is an online cross stitch/crafting community.
Anyway, I'm outta here and back to the lounge room. :)
