Update

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The “massive” week is finally over. Last Monday night Michael’s mum (mother-in-law aka MIL aka Devil Woman) flew over from Perth arriving in Melbourne around 6am. We had to pick her up, then collect the cat, then get her to her motel. The motel room was an absolute disaster cesspool of grossness when we got there so I ended up asking Grandma if she could survive a week putting MIL up in her spare bedroom. She agreed so then we took her home and set her up there.

Grandma and MIL ended up getting along quite well. I’m sure by the end of the week they were both sick to death of each other and ready to go their separate ways, but it has served a couple of things. 1. Was to reintroduce Grandma to the need for regular giveaway that can sometimes be more about what we are offering and less about what we are willing to offer at the time; and 2. MIL now has a better connection to my family and may not isolate herself so much from family gatherings, which is the way she was headed from our last “misunderstanding” where she interpreted my invitation to join us for meals and family events as demanding that she attend whether she wants to or not.

The house closed last Tuesday without any issue whatsoever – HUGE RELIEF – so we are now home owners in our beautiful little town of Lakes Entrance. We then set our sights toward finding a new car, because my current little car – Lily – is on her last tyres… poor thing. She has been leaking power steering fluid like there’s no tomorrow causing all kinds of smoking to be going on under the bonnet (hood for Americans) and just an embarrassment in general. But I wasn’t going to pay to get that fixed when I knew a new car was on the horizon.

We were quite fortunate and did some very good manifesting around a car. I had been seeing Toyota Corolla Ascent station wagons around EVERYWHERE. There was even one for sale two houses down – but they were asking way too much for our budget. So we were looking on the CarSales website last Wednesday and put in an enquiry on a couple of cars we liked. Two of them were Corolla Ascent wagons. We then were on our way to get some groceries with the MIL when we got a call asking if we wanted to view the car right then. They were in an entirely different direction, but we said “Sure!” and turned the car around.

We fell in love with this Corolla. It’s 2002 and been owned by an older lady, her son was selling it for her, full service history, nothing wrong with it at all. We put a deposit down pending the RWC coming back as fine the next day. The next day we picked up the car and I’ve been driving it ever since! It’s a beautiful car J  Michael has named ‘him’ George, it seems to suit. Poor Lily is just getting worse, and I am afraid she’s not long for the wrecker’s yard. There are days I wish I hadn’t ever been exposed to Herbie movies as a child because I really do have a soft spot for all cars now……. My heart is very sad at sending her anywhere L

It’s going to be a busy couple of months coming up before I permanently move down to Lakes. I feel like I’m doing a bit of a juggling act, but it’s got to be more the pregnancy brain fog, everything just seems so much more HARDER at the moment to get my head around. I write myself the simplest of notes just trying to plan out my week because otherwise I get to the end of the week and wonder what it was that I had planned to do ???

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I’ve had some incredibly strange dreams lately:

1. There was a massive, massive, massive tornado headed toward town. My son (that I’m pregnant with now) was about 8yrs old and we were with some of my friends and their children and running for our lives trying to find a place in town that might actually just have a basement (yeah, ok… not likely in Australia). We found an old Masonic lodge type building that had one, but it was going to only be able to hold about 10 people, almost all of us plus a few others, and had to make the decision to go down there sneakily so as to not create a panic among all the people who were milling around knowing they were likely about to die… gah!

2. The next night I dreamed that I was at the farm I grew up on, and in the shed out back. Water just started rising outside the shed, I could see through the windows and it was EVERYWHERE. I was thinking, what do we do once the shed starts to leak? How are we getting out of this one? The world is flooding and we’re all going to die!

3. Not a catastrophic dream, but interesting just the same. I was looking into the sky and saw an alignment of moons (12 of them) in a circle in the sky, like a Medicine Wheel. They were all at different phases of the moon, and in a perfect circle. My teacher’s teacher was there and said to me “This is so rare we might never have seen this in our lifetime.” For a start, Earth had 12 MOONS to line up for a start, but it was more like a constellation you’re seeing in the daytime – you know how when you see the moon during the day with the blue background? It was so beautiful, but seemed very prophetic or something at the same time. Very significant; I have a feeling this might be a lead up to a women’s wheel on our new property.