Got something you need a new perspective on??  Get away from it for awhile.  Your focus will clear like a bright and sunny day.

Ain’t life great?!!!!!!!

Love ya,
Theresa Jane

Oh and BTW I love this song:

I must pause here and mention that as I type this I’m Iming with my son Zac on Facebook whose informing me that: “Your not going to like this but guess what?  Caleb signed himself up on Facebook.  He said he was going to tell you but I knew he wouldn’t and he said that he would say that he saw how much fun Facebook is and he wanted one”.  All I could say to him was, “Oh that stinker!!! and since I was already texting with my daughter Blessing I told her this little piece of information and then added, “My children!  LOL”  Of which she concurred   I’m also texting my other son John as we create a new web site.  LOL.  Technology!!!  Keeps you jumping that’s for sure!!  If not down right splintered at times.

So what’s the web site that we’re working on???????  This is what raises my ordinary day out from the dum dittiness and ramps it to something spectacular.  Remember I mentioned there were new things on the horizon and I couldn’t wait to tell you??  Well I can tell you a chunk today!  And that is that today we officially had our first church service.  That’s right we are now a 501 c3.  A church.  Our name is: Harmoney Health Wealth Spiritual Church.  We had seven in attendance, besides our teacher of course.

Now I know that this has raised some surprised eyebrows.  If not I have to say I’m the one surprised, since I’ve never mentioned or even hinted at this before.    So what are we about???  Weeeellllll, right off the bat I want to say that we aren’t your ordinary church.  We are a 21st century church to be sure.  First of all we don’t and won’t teach doctrine.  That’s for individuals to receive from their home churches.  Ergo the reason we don’t meet on Sundays.  We don’t want to interfere with that aspect of individuals lives.  We are here as an “addition” to what they are already doing.  We are about what our name states: teaching health, wealth, and spirituality and we are founded on 8 spiritual principles:

“Forgive and be forgiven.”
“Sow and reap what you give out.”
“Have eyes to see and ears to hear.”
“Treat others as you want to be treated.”
“Love your neighbor as you want to be loved.”
“Give your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength to THE CREATOR OF LIFE–God.”
“Visualize dreams, wishes, desires, and prayers as if they are happening NOW.”
“Be perfect–complete in love–as THE CREATOR OF LIFE (God) is perfect: loving all people.”

We believe that by learning to practice these principles all individuals are enabled to secure
ANYTHING and EVERYTHING
they want by creating the life they want to live.

Our church is lead by John Solomon Sandridge who is truly the most amazing human I know anywhere.  The man that gave me life through his skills as a Naturopathic Spiritual Intuitive.  I literally am alive today because of him and I’m alive and healthy and also have my inner healing because of…his teaching and his skills as a naturopath and life coach.

Now I want to add that this is just the tip of the ice berg when it comes to our church.  There is much, much more to tell.  And that I’m hoping that in addition to my chats with you the web site will fill a lot of that in real real soon.  But I will tell you that within a week we should be in our office that has a large area for church and two other rooms for offices!

All I can say is that tonight I’m smiling broadly.  All our work is coming together and beginning to birth.  What could be more satisfying??

Stay tuned because there is sooooo much more and it will keep coming.  In chunks and pieces.  But tonight I’m outta here, the bed beckons like a beacon in the night.

Night, love ya,
Theresa Jane
-over the weekend me and my business partners decided to take 30 days to focus on being positive only.  So every time we are negative we are to zap it by correcting it with being positive.  I’m really enjoying this practice, it’s making such a difference in me and my outlook.  You may want to join us.  If you chose to practice being positive till June 16th let me know!  It’s always better when a bunch of people do something together.

So back onto a new “to do” list they go.  Remaining undone.

That’s the issue with a web site we keep wanting to launch.  That’s the issue with this little bit of information that I need to get faxed off to a company we have an account with.   That’s the way it’s been for the light bulb I need to replace in my kitchen.  The one that I mentioned a couple months ago that blew the very same night I finally replaced one that had needed replacing for about 2 months.

Then there’s those moments when you finally…finally got a small, yet important to you, thing done.  Ah the rush of exhilaration.  The overwhelming sense of releif that makes you question why on earth you just didn’t get the bloody little thing done ages ago…That’s what happened just a few minutes ago.  I added a blog I read to my blog roll: Cathy at the Red Door.  FINALLY.  Do you have the slightest idea how many times I muttered that I needed to do that?  You don’t want to know.  Well, now it’s done and I feel tremendous about it.  I also want you to consider giving her a look.  Great blog.  Great friend.  Very skilled and talented lady whose finally finding the courage to push herself/her art out into the world a bit more after all these years.  I applaud and support her.  I’ve known her for 20 years but didn’t know until she began writing her blog what a tremendous writer she is in addition to her art skills.  She writes very moving pieces.  I personally think she should write more.  But then, look at me…with my list of dangling undones 

Now, if I could figure out how to post photos in my blog…

Night, Love ya,
Theresa Jane

So honestly not much to report today.  And bed calls, loudly.

Night, Love ya,
Theresa Jane

I’ve spent a lot of time this week on something I’m not particularly fond of…book keeping.  You could say that I’m finally doing that aspect of our business after all this time.  Oh, I’ve been keeping receipts.  That’s one thing that I do do.  I keep most of them in a file.  In my two drawer, Rubbermaid, file cabinet.  Others are “stored” in various forms: emails, pay pal history, bank statements…  So, since it is that “most wonderful time of the year”, and I’m not referring to Christmas, I needed to gather all that information together into one neat pile and present it all to my friend/tax lady/accountant.

You could say I’ve spent a lot of time on that project this week.  Which spurred the following public announcement, made because I believe this will help me hold to my resolution…my New Year’s Resolution/Goal for 2010–yeah, yeah, I know a little late, but better late…–is to get my act together with this whole finance thing.  My friend/tax lady/accountant pressed me to allow her to teach me how to use Excel.  She claims that its’ simple.  The way she said it you could easily envision “simple” with a bold, capital S.  I need to let her teach me since, as she says, “it will make your life so much better.”  Well, all I can say is that’s a steep promise to make.  I mean…make my life better.  Wow.  Here I am working day and night on my business and my inner healing work all for the end goal of making my life better and a simple thing like Excel is going to accomplish that for me.  Amazing.  Who knew??  So much for the view of people who live, breath, eat, and dream numbers and columns.  LOL. 

“Frankly,” I told her “I wish I had the money to pay you to do it all.  Because I would.”

I want you to know that I love my friend/tax lady/accountant.  From the day I met her five years ago there was an instant bond between us.  So I am thankful to her for what she is about to do.  But then on the other hand who ever knew then that I would have her to thank for a better life?    

But seriously, enough of my punchy, I need sleep, pounding words out on my key board, I mean all this.  I’m going to finally go where I’ve never gone before.  I’m going to learn how to keep track of my financial life. My personal life needs me to.  My business needs me too even more…

Here’s an amusing antidote for you…for my whole life I’ve been surrounded by book keeping/accountant types who LOVE this sort of thing.  They live and die by it.
Now two amusing facts/stories that reveal who those people are:
One of them is my “ex”.  He went to college for his accounting degree and was in that profession for nearly 12 years.  He lives in Excel.  I mean this literally.  His entire life can be found in there.  If there’s anything that has numbers, I promise you it’s on a spread sheet.  Now I’m not putting him down.  Frankly he amazes me with his skill at creating those calculated sheets.  See all the years of our marriage I groaned and ran from the bills, check book, anything that resembled book keeping.  I didn’t do any of that, but I did keep every single receipt–well okay almost every single receipt–and pass it along to him.  This was a crucial thing for me to do…if I wanted peace.  He had to have those receipts.  Because, see, he had coloumns to fill in.  No receipt…a space would go empty.

I’ll tell you those blooming recipts caused more than one arguement…

The other is my mother.  She is the duplicate of my “ex”.  She’s all over numbers.  Works them with the ease of Julia Childs with food.  I gave her quite a lot of concern as to what would happen to me, being so number resistant.
Back in the early days of my marriage I was the one who handled the check book.  A serious mistake… Well something was going on with my check book so she took everything from me–months and months of stuff…–and tried to reconcile it.  After hours of stabbing away at those large number buttons on her huge accountant/calculator thing– that remains a mystery to me to this day– that steadily spit out miles of white receipt tape imprinted with black numbers, she tore it off and declared it completely unsaveable.  “Close the account,” she said.  So I did.
But that really didn’t solve anything…Ergo, the “ex” took over.  Which as I think about it may be the very reason he decided to go to college for accounting.  Well, look at that.  My weakness inspired another human being to greater things in life…

Night, love ya,
Theresa Jane
-I hope tax season is going well for you!  It’s served to transform mine 

Got a call from the principal at Zac’s school it’s been approved for him to attend half days.  Now to have the doctor agree and write the excuse.

Do keep us in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow, well, today, since it’s 1:07 a.m., as Zac has an appointment with the kidney specialist.  I’m hoping for two things that the blood levels will have made another significant improvement and that the doctor will write that excuse for half days.  That little man gets so worn from school it’s really needed.

I’m needing rest as the appointment is at 8:30 in the morning and I need to be up even earlier to get ready.  And ya know if you’ve been around here long enough, I’m not what ya call a morning person…

Night, love ya,
Theresa Jane

Night, love ya,
Theresa Jane

Didn’t get to blog Saturday with all the work I had to do between my business and the work I do to earn money to pay bills, it just didn’t leave any time to blog.  Worked today too but I’m going to touch base before getting to bed.

I’ve been cranking away getting those technical things completed that I mentioned I was working on.  And I’m thrilled to say that all but one were finished as of Saturday at 5 just before I had to leave for work.  John Mark and I have also been plugging away at our other web site.  Hope to unveil it soon.

I have to stop here and say, although I’m rarely at a loss for words today I am.  I’m in a funny mood.  Been all day.  Being a woman comes with this little quirk.  The natural organic process of being a woman dictates that there will likely be days such as these.  It can leave me wishing I were a man so that I could be steady all month.  Other than this, I wouldn’t have it any other way.  Being a woman that is.  This is something that has come very naturally to me, and I really love it in most ways especially being a mom.

Had a wonderful surprise this morning.  My door bell rang and my kids were standing there smiling saying, Happy Valentine’s Day.  They gave me a candy heart box and a bag of miniature Reese’s Cups–my favorite.  It’s days like those that make being a mommy great.   Haven’t seen a lot of my kids this weekend as I’ve worked most of it.  Cal was here yesterday till I had to go to work and then today Cal and Grace… till I had to go to work.  The others have had a full social calendar keeping themselves busy.  Like Dan wanted to go and play with his friends in the snow on Friday and Saturday–that’s hard to compete with when there isn’t snow as the norm in Alabama.  Grace was at a girlfriends sleeping over.  Zach, between my schedule and him sleeping his days away we haven’t meshed.  Ah to be a teenager and be able to do that.

Well, this is about it for today.  I wish I had more zing in my post.  Hopefully I’ll find some tomorrow. 

Night, Love ya,
Theresa Jane

Tuesday, the bottom falls out of my services.

Wednesday Repair Guy #1 shows up, diagnoses the problem… need new wiring from the outside in–thank God I never cancelled the wire maintenance I had debated saving the money on that.  This is a bigger problem then he has equipment to handle, someone needs to come… tomorrow.

Thursday, today, Repair Guy 2 shows up, upon opening the door I could tell this might not be good.  He was so not excited about being here, it was, as my parents used to say, “Written all over his face”.  And might I add, his body language exuded it as well.  Ask him, “Did you speak with my manager about wiring this?  There was a note on this job to that effect.”… “No?  Okay well, please go over to the office and speak with her.  She just wants to make sure you do something a certain way.”
Guy leaves.
Almost an hour passes.
Go outside, walk around looking for Repair Guy #2.
Return to apartment, call front office, sure enough he was in there and manager gave him the go ahead to do the repair.
Call Repair Guys office.
They try to assure me he’s on site somewhere as his report states that he is still there.
I try to assure them that he is nowhere in site.  No guy, no truck.  Insist they stay on the line with me till I get an answer.  Tell them that this would be no surprise if he left, as three times before in the last four years I’ve had technicians show up, stand there and look at, but not touch, my equipment, say they needed to go to their truck, and disappear off into the day light without a trace or a word, so this time I want an answer.
45 minutes later…it seems he did indeed leave within the first 10 minutes of being here and his report states that my manager told him he couldn’t do the job.   Support guy is now suddenly abrupt, and rude,  and wants me off the phone.
“I need this rescheduled.  What?  I can’t reschedule, my manager has to?  I can’t elevate this to a manager or supervisor?…  This is the procedure.  Unbelievable.”
Call manager, ask her to call.
Four hours later, she hasn’t reached anyone who will do anything.
I call.  Lodge complaint.  There will be a supervisor calling within 24 hours.  That’s all 24 hours…
5 hours later supervisor calls, thankfully not 24, he will have someone out on Saturday, no he won’t send the same man again.  Yes, I’ll get a letter from my manager giving permission for the work to be done.

So till Saturday I have no phone, no internet, and TV that’s there one minute, gone the next.
Lovely…

Otherwise, guess what have I been doing???  Working: my job and my business, and being with my kids, went to movies with Zach today: The Incredible Mr. Fox, at the Dollar theater and Legion, at full price theater during the super matinee special: 6 small bucks.  It’s fun doing two movies in a row especially when I liked them both.  Afterward home to address the son, who can’t wait to be old enough to shoulder a back pack and travel the world, about his 2 D’s and 1 F on his progress report.  We’re being mean…of course.  And if  you knew how easy we went on the boy, he’s not even grounded…

Been digging into some technical things lately, which are things I don’t particularly enjoy.  Many calls to Apple support.  One tech woman I had to ask, “Have you ever had any experience with this issue or are you simply reading off a screen?  Because I really need someone with experience, like I had earlier.”

Night, love ya,
Theresa Jane

Night All,
Theresa Jane
-who hopes you get this before everything drops off again