Thursday, November 5, 2009

11/5/09 Bloomington, grandkids and bookstores

Progress report. Eating and weight loss: Impkies are winning. Use of time: Angelites are winning and they tell me that if I keep on and keep on changing the way I think that eventually my new thinking will result in natural and permanent weight loss. I know this to be true.

This morning I woke up and got right out of bed. I got into the shower, got ready for the day. All my Hatha Yoga got done. Yay. We had to leave at exactly 11:30 pm for Luke to teach a lesson and do his show case for the students. I went downstairs with a smile to fix breakfast and get my things ready for the whole day. Everything got done. The angelites were smiling and glowing and cheering me on.

We had a lovely trip to B town. I knew we'd have to make a decision about Thanksgiving. I was leaning toward going to B town. Emily and Brian are going to have tons of people. I think that adding Luke and I, Rain and Ry and the kids plus Ry's family--would be too much. But we'll see.

On the way to B town, Luke and I talk about changing churches. I haven't been happy at St Luke's for a while. I wasn't sure why. It's a great church. Again, they do so much great work in the world. I admire Pastor M so much. I just think that we are going into another direction spiritually. We're decided that we're going to church shop for a year or so--until we find what we're looking for. I'm not saying that we won't settle into one church if we find that special place . . . . . I just feel that it's going to take time.

We get to B town in time to pick up Xavier We're arriving a bit later than usual because of Convocation--Luke's student show case class. It's better when we're late because there isn't so much traffic. That traffic kind of freaks me out with all those kids and all those cars.

Luke got a hot dog for X and some low fat ice cream for he and I to share. Then we went to the bookstore to play for awhile. I got a great book on crock pot cooking which I plan to do more of this winter. Also I found two fun mysteries that I'll enjoy reading. You know, I have gotten so many books from 1/2 price bookstore that I haven't liked and don't even want to read beyond the first few pages. Such messy self indulgent writing. Ikk. So, I'm glad that I paid full price for the two paper backs that I'm going to read and love.

We got two books for Xavier and two for Violet--Max and Ruby was one for Violet and the brother and sister bunny are my fav as well.

We came together as a family in B town's Puccini's. Violet came in tired and half asleep on Rain's shoulder. When I showed her the Max and Ruby book, she came right over to sit on my lap and let me read to her. I gave her some kiddy fruit chews from the health store and she ate every one. We talked and laughed. Everyone seemed to have a good time, talking and eating
together.

The ride home was kind of hard. I still get tired. But I focused my mind and was able to drive home safely. I listened to a tape by one of P Yogananda's swamis. I really like the message of this tape. He talks about affirmations. New ways to use the mind and to think about the value of the mind. We are all part of the mind of God. Like waves in the ocean. Can you separate a wave from the ocean. So we are like that. We can create miracles.


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