Webcam, Skype and lots of fun!

Here is a great picture of my dad and me having fun with the webcam, while talking to my mum over Skype. We had a great time!
So my dad and my aunt arrived without any problem yesterday evening, exhausted after the whole journey, so they had an early night, and we went around town today.
The weather has improved today, it was raining a bit this morning, but it is nice and sunny now. From the window where we are looking through now, I can't see one cloud.
So I'd better go now as my dad is getting hungry and starting to nag me about what I am going to make, and should we start to do something now, and if yes, what, etc... So I'll go and start cooking before he starves altogether!
Apart from that, only the car to sell and I'll be ready to go!
I am pretty sure it will happen soon, and everything will be ok.

Spa bliss

This afternoon I went to the spa with a friend. I had promised her that I would invite her to the Thermal suite in the Radisson Hotel for her birthday, and even though her birthday was in January, I never got to it until today. Better late than never, definitely.
And it was great! We spent time in the aroma grotto, on the beach (yes they have an indoor beach), in saunas and steamrooms, in tropical showers and cold mists, and on wonderful relaxing heated chairs.
We got out of there giggling, but relaxed and tired as if we had run a marathon. The chicken and chips with the glass of Sauvignon blanc was welcome after that.
So now I feel all relaxed.
I have only few things left to do regarding packing tonight - I intend to sort out the bathroom stuff, shoes and most of the clothes I know I won't wear until I leave - and I would like to take a bit of time doing a law of attraction meditation before going to sleep. I know that I need, and want, to stay focused right now.
It is too easy to slip down the road of fear and worry. After all it IS a big transition, and many things still need to be sorted somehow before I leave.
But really worrying about them will not help, so I might as well just projecting exactly what I want, knowing that I will attract what I think about most.
So phew! It feels like I have turned the whole worry thing around. But let's not rest on our successes, and stay focused in the right direction instead.

Strange, but interesting times...

It has been yet another while since I last posted anything here.
I feel like I am living in strange times.
Really since the laptop story nothing is quite the same.
My parents called me on Monday evening, i.e. at the time they were supposed to take the ferry, to tell me that mum's ID card is expired and they wouldn't let them on the ferry. So the next few days were filled with frantic attempts to get an emergency passport, or some kind of ID organised for my mum before Monday (tomorrow) which was the date we had rescheduled the ferry to.
However all failed, and my dad is going to have to come here with my mum's sister.
It's not the ideal situation, but no one died or had an accident, and it is really not the end of the world. Also it is giving me a few more days to finish the packing, and meet up one last time with people I haven't seen in a long time.
But somehow it didn't flow very well.
Things are not flowing so well at the moment.
Strange, as they really did at the beginning of my getting ready to move. I sold most of my little stuff very quickly, and have now packed most of what I keep, so I just need to sort and pack bathroom stuff and clothes and I am done.
But, one big thing that is still waiting is the car. I haven't sold it yet, and have had absolutely no phone call about it this week, although I put an ad in many different papers/websites, with lower prices than last week.
Obviously, the fact that I am not selling it makes me worry about it, which probably pushes the very thing I am looking for away from me.
I know I need to relax, trust and let go.
Looking this morning at the reasons why I worry, I found out that selling the car is only one step. From it should come the money I need for the rest of the year. So if I don't manage to sell it, or somehow lose that money, I am stuck with enough money for maybe two months, but far from my dream of taking it easy until the end of the year, and taking my time to go to the States and explore before I have to really do something. So my fear of not selling the car comes down to another fear, the one of not having enough money. And that fear is linked to the fear of not being able to attract the money I need and want for the rest of my life.
I know about the law of attraction, have read about it, and am painfully aware that I should know better than that.
But then again I also know that the best thing I can do in any situation is to embrace it, rather than try to make myself feel better by beating myself up for any "unreasonable" feelings I might have.
So that's what I'll do.
I have dug out my Emotional Freedom Technique documentation, so I can tap the feelings and emotions away. What I like about the EFT releasing technique is that it helps me first accept, and often really find out whatever I am feeling, before letting it go. So it goes with the flow, instead of beating the feeling out of me with pure force. That means it doesn't leave any residues of the little victim in me who cries "but I am ENTITLED to feel that way! Look at how I was wronged!!"
I also reminded myself of one of the basic law of attraction rules: if I want to be wealthy, or attract money in any way, I really need to be, think and act like a wealthy person... Now how would a wealthy person feel about my car? They would probably not worry one bit about it. I mean, if you are a millionaire, you are not going to sweat because you don't know if you will get the 13000 Euro that the car is worth... And as a result, you probably sell it, and get that money or more in no time!
Also a wealthy person wouldn't worry about how to get money for the end of the year, or even for the rest of their life!
So there.
The answer is pretty clear.
So what would a millionaire do today? Probably have breakfast, meet the people they have said they'd meet, and spend the rest of the day doing what they really like.
So that's what I'll do! I am going in a couple of hours to meet a friend of mine whom I haven't seen in a year, and who just had a baby, so that'll be nice.
And then I'll go home and write, because I really feel like it and I haven't done it in a long time.

Sun, Friends, and a bottle of wine

I had planned on packing everything today, or at least as much as I could.
I know I won't get much done in the next few days, as my parents are arriving on Wednesday afternoon, and tomorrow morning I have an appointment at the dentist's, and then I go to work on the organic farm. On Wednesday I have my last Tai Chi session, and then I will probably meet a friend for a last time before my parents arrive.
I would like to do as much as I can while I am on my own, it is just easier that way.
So I had started well in the morning, until I went to my landlady around 1pm, to invite her to the last barbecue I have organised as a goodbye party the Thursday before I leave.
She accepted the invitation for her and her husband gladly, and ended up offering me a glass of wine. It was the middle of the day, and quite hot (at least for Ireland), nevertheless I thought why not, and accepted.
Well, we ended up chatting away for at least a couple of hours, sitting in the sun, and drinking the whole bottle of Beaujolais between the two of us. Ouch!
I felt a bit dizzy when I came back home, and in no state at all to do any packing.
As soon as I felt I had sobered up enough I went on the internet to catch up with friends over Skype, and have been at the computer ever since. Now it is 9:15pm, I haven't eaten or packed, and I have a movie to watch tonight.
But it's OK.
I feel good, and am glad to have such a lovely landlady. I enjoy spending time with her, and at the end of the day, if I am not here to share my time with people, then what am I here for!! Certainly I wasn't born to just pack stuff...
So I'll do a bit more tonight, and tomorrow somehow between things.
All will be well. I know that.

The laptop adventures

What a day!
I have been swimming in a surreal atmosphere since I woke up this morning.
It only just got better now, after just getting my laptop back!!
Here is what happened.
Last week, just before Easter, I called the repair guys, asking what was going on with the laptop and if the missing part had been received, and I was told that yes, and that the laptop had left the workshop on Wednesday, so I should receive it, considering Easter, on Wednesday this week.
When I saw that I had received nothing on Thursday, I called again and, after being redirected from here to there, calling a number in the UK many times and waiting on hold for many long minutes, I was told that it should be delivered that day (Thursday, so) and that if it wasn't, here was the Galway number where I could check up on the delivery today.
So this morning, as nothing had arrived yesterday, I called, and was told that I could go to the depot (only about 5 min drive from my place) and collect it.
I jumped into my clothes, and drove there like a mad woman, just couldn't wait to have the computer back, after all that waiting time!
Only when I got there, there was no laptop of mine to be found. And the guy at the depot soon found that it had been signed for yesterday by a J McGrath. That sounds like my landlord's name, so I went home, called my landlord to check if maybe he took it for me. I was a bit surprised, as I had seen him the night before, and he had never mentioned anything. Knowing him, that was weird.
And sure enough, he never knew anything about a laptop, and wasn't even home until 6pm yesterday! So it wasn't him.
I went to see his wife, catching her at her morning tea in her bathrobe (it was not even 9am by then), and asked her if she knew anything about it. She didn't, but checked with her sister in law, who lives opposite my cottage, if she had received it by chance. No luck there either.
I was running out of guesses, so decided to call the carrier again and see where it had been delivered exactly. It turned out the driver had left a slip in the letter box of some house he thought to be mine, and a woman had called back, saying she knew me, and the laptop had been delivered again, and subsequently signed for by J McGrath.
I found out after a few more calls that some guy in a black BMW actually met the driver half way and collected the laptop directly. Incredible isn't it?
I thought, only in Ireland would things be so easy going that something like that could happen...
Anyway, it took a lot of calls, worries, strange scares and interesting stories about the neighbours who apparently got my laptop (you see apparently four police cars were seen around the place last weekend, and at another occasion men were spotted, carrying boxes around the place with rubber gloves... Juicy rumours heh?) to finally get it back.
Of course the charger didn't come back with it, so I still have to call the repair guys on Monday and have a pleasant phone call, but at least I have the laptop!! Woooooohooooo!!
OK I'll leave it at that for today, but I'd say I'll spend quite a bit of time on the laptop, and on the internet, in the next few days. After all I have many internet hours to use for the rest of the month now!