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Amended: Looking for a housemate in San Diego

myblissfullife — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:03:05 GMT

Wow! This was quick! We've already rented out the larger room, but we still have the smaller one available. It's got it own private bath too. Our roommate got married and is moving out (can you believe he wants to live with his wife???!!!!), so we're on the search for the coolest housemate ever...here's the deets: Looking for housemate who is clean, social, fun and open-minded to share 4 bedroom home with hot tub, big back yard, grill and fire pit. Atmosphere is spiritual, earth friendly and healthy. Burner/Pagan friendly. Nice quiet neighborhood that doesn’t mind occasional parties. $750 rent includes all utilities paid (Cable, Internet, electric & water), private bath, home-cooked meals and laundry service. Located in South Park and minutes from Morley Field, Downtown and Balboa Park. Available September 1st. $400.00 deposit. No animals, sorry (allergies). Some storage space available. No drugs or heavy drinkers. We also have a smaller room that rents for $650.00 with $300.00 deposit.

Looking for housemate in San Diego

myblissfullife — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:02:33 GMT

Our roommate got married and is moving out (can you believe he wants to live with his wife???!!!!), so we're on the search for the coolest housemate ever...here's the deets: Looking for housemate who is clean, social, fun and open-minded to share 4 bedroom home with hot tub, big back yard, grill and fire pit. Atmosphere is spiritual, earth friendly and healthy. Burner/Pagan friendly. Nice quiet neighborhood that doesn’t mind occasional parties. $750 rent includes all utilities paid (Cable, Internet, electric & water), private bath, home-cooked meals and laundry service. Located in South Park and minutes from Morley Field, Downtown and Balboa Park. Available September 1st. $400.00 deposit. No animals, sorry (allergies). Some storage space available. No drugs or heavy drinkers. We also have a smaller room that rents for $650.00 with $300.00 deposit.

Housemate wanted for North Park/South Park, San Diego

myblissfullife — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:39:41 GMT

Looking for housemate who is clean, social, fun and open-minded to share 4 bedroom home with hot tub, big back yard, grill and fire pit. Atmosphere is spiritual, earth friendly and healthy. Nice quiet neighborhood that doesn’t mind occasional parties. $750 rent includes all utilities paid (Cable, Internet, electric & water), private bath, home-cooked meals and laundry service. Located in South Park and minutes from Morley Field, Downtown and Balboa Park. Available 1st week of September. $400.00 deposit. No animals, sorry (allergies). Some storage space available. No drugs or heavy drinkers. We also have a smaller room that rents for $650.00 with $300.00 deposit.

So much, so fast

myblissfullife — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:24:38 GMT

I've always been a person who likes to keep busy. For some reason, if I'm doing nothing I feel like I'm wasting time. The only time I can really relax and do nothing is when I go on vacation. Those who know me can attest to this. The Village Witch is beginning to really get some roots, which is exciting. But, on the other hand, it's a hell of a lot on my plate. Not to mention the fact that after I stepped down as coordinator of San Diego Pagan Pride, the whole thing fell apart. So now, I've stepped back in to try and straighten everything out so that the event will be successful again this year. Yes, another thing on my plate. So now, my wonderful husband and I are very excited about another prospect and yes, that will be another thing on my plate. Can I go back and get another plate because my current one is overflowing...but in a good way! But my guides have been kind and promised me that yes, I can do more, but they will help and make my job so much easier. So here I am, excited, overwhelmed and feeling the need to get very organized so that I can do everything I'm supposed to be doing. I'm getting this "right now! right now!" feeling. Like there's no need to put anything off, even the tiniest things. Instead of saying "yeah, I'll do that today", why not just do it right now and get it over with? One more thing I can check off my list. Last year was my year of letting stuff go and getting rid of stuff that was bogging me down. And now it looks like this year it's all being replaced with things are more in line with my true purpose. I can't wait to see what happens next!

Happy Mother's Day to Me!!

myblissfullife — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:55:19 GMT

Today is Mother's Day, which last year completely sucked. At least this year I got a "happy mother's day" first thing in the morning. I'm going to make my husband take me out to lunch, even though he's totally hung over. Then I'm going to come home and do not-a-damn-thing all day. I love my children!! But first I think I'll go and get a pedicure.

Why do I always have to see the weirdest shit????

myblissfullife — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:57:52 GMT

Ok, so it seems that while I'm driving around, running errands, minding my own business, I always see the craziest shit. So, I think I'll share one. Yes, one of my favorites. So, I'm driving (of course I'm driving) in the ghetto of San Diego. Far off in the distance I see a tall man on the right hand side of the street getting something out of his car. As I get closer, and upon closer inspection, I see that he is african american, older with graying hair, very slim and oh boy, has no shirt on. Ok, this would have been just fine, but noooooo. So since he is older his skin isn't as, shall I say, taught, as it was in his younger days. And because he is so slim his faded jeans are drooping, which is giving me a perfect view of his faded leopard print briefs, which are also sagging. And yes, because his briefs are sagging, lucky me, that means I get to see his old, wrinkled, saggy ass too. So now there are sags upon sags upon sags. I had to circle the block just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. No, no luck there. See what I mean? I always get to see the weirdest shit. Stay tuned...you'll never know what you'll get.

Perhaps evil is a phenomenon of intent

myblissfullife — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:40:26 GMT

I was reading the other day and I came across this simple little sentence, “Perhaps evil is the phenomenon of intent”. I love little statements like that that really get me thinking. So I posed this statement to my husband and my roommate and it prompted a lot of discussion. I personally don’t believe in evil, as in saying, “the devil made me do it”, or “that person is evil”. I believe that some people do things with the intent of causing harm and that can be construed as evil. But I do believe that evil is a man-made, Christian concept. I see things in the dark/light aspect. You can’t have one without the other because then you wouldn’t have anything to compare it to. There must be balance. But is it the person that is evil or the act? I think that most people, by nature, are good people. Sure, some may be a little nicer and some may have what I call “crappy delivery”, but all in all, I believe people to be good. Of course, there are people who are just miserable and aren’t happy unless they’re making other people miserable. This, carried to an extreme, could be called evil. But what about people who do things that we would all call evil, but they have no control over what they’re doing? Is that still evil? What if someone is, what my brother would call, “one sandwich short of a picnic”? What if those little voices inside their head are so loud that it compels them to carry out an evil act? Yes, in the end their intent is to cause harm, but was it their intent in the first place? Or do we say that these people are different and that they don’t fall into the equation? What is evil anyway? There are some things that we would all consider evil; murder, war, genocide etc. Hollywood gives us enough examples of what evil is. Or, at least, what they believe evil to be. Evil is subjective, even for those that don’t really believe in it. If we say that evil is destruction then we are saying that all evil is destruction, aren’t we? When wildfires engulf parts of our Earth, we see that as a bad thing, but in nature it needs to happen so that the plants can reseed and have new growth. What about earthquakes? Are they evil? Sure, they destroy things, but it makes way for new birth, so is that evil? If you have an office building and someone blows it up, killing all of the tenants, yes, that could be evil. But what if the owners of the building decided to tear it down because it’s old and infested with termites and that they’re going to build a new one in its place? Is that evil? And there is the intent again. I think that the concept of evil comes from people’s lack of tolerance. Look at all of the wars our beautiful planet has had to suffer. They’ve all come from people not being able to tolerate difference. It’s human nature to believe that our own personal beliefs are the correct ones. But why is it so difficult for some to accept that others don’t believe the same things that they do? Why should that be construed as evil? Why is it so hard for someone to say, “I understand what you believe, but I just don’t agree with you”, and leave it at that? I believe that lack of tolerance is part of why people do “evil” acts. They’re acting like spoiled brats. They’re basically saying that if we’re not going to play their way then they’re going to take their ball and go home. For Goddess sake, grow up. Can you even think of how boring this world would be if we were all exactly the same? What in the world would we ever have to talk about? The exchange of ideas and thoughts are the beginnings of creativity and change. Things must change. Without change, we become stagnant. Look at the Earth, for example. She is always changing and we should take that as a sign of how we ought to be.

Almost free!

myblissfullife — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:12:30 GMT

Ok, so this is the first weekend in a VERY long time that I have almost nothing to do. This morning we went to a birthday breakfast...and that was it. Tomorrow all I have is a Pagan Pride meeting...and that's it. I feel very unproductive. But hey, this is what I was trying to do. You know, get rid of outside commitments. Now I feel like I'm not pitching in. What the heck? This better feel a lot better in the long run or I'm gonna be pissed! So tonight I'm going to a friend's house and we're going to watch Flashdance (yep, the cheesy 80's movie) and drink wine. Can't think of any better way to be unproductive. YEAH WINE!!!

Back to the grind....sort of

myblissfullife — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:33:37 GMT

Ok, so I have this group of girlfriends that I go on a trip with every year. We always go somewhere different, which is fun. This year we're going to...drumroll please....Gatlinburg, Tennessee!! Yep, you got that right. Home of Dollywood and her big boobs. Aside from the whole boob thing, they (whoever "they" are) say that Gatlinburg is beautiful, especially in the fall, which just happens to be when we'll be there. So, ok, we're going to Tennessee. Mmm...bbq...sorry, I digress. I've decided that if I want to continue to go on all of the fun trips then I need to start paying my own way. Yeah, sure, my husband lovingly takes the payment out "in trade", but that doesn't make the checkbook balance at the end of the month. So, I'm back to working...sort of. I'm working at my best friend's office, but only when I can and/or want to, which is kind of cool. It's not much, but DAMN!, I'm SO tired all the time now. I haven't worked in years and now I remember why I wasn't too fond of it in the first place!!! The good thing: she own's her own business, so here I sit, drinking a glass of wine in her office and blogging (which I always thought was a sort of porographic word, but that's beside the point). YEAH, WINE!!

Getting older

myblissfullife — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:11:49 GMT

As my 40th birthday looms in front of me, I have found that I am looking at so many things in different ways. I reflect more on what has happened so far in my life. Some of it was crap, but the rest of it has been pretty dang great. Like my mother would say, you can't appreciate the good stuff without going through some of the crap. I no longer feel invincible like I did when I was 20. Life IS short...really! I have found that I'm a lot more patient with most things, but on the other hand, I'm less tolerant of some. I don't let myself get pushed around like I used to. I've learned that it's ok to say "no" and not feel guilty about it. You know what? Just for the heck of it, one day, when I'm really old, I'm going to walk around and hit people randomly in the ass with my umbrella and call them Young Whippersnappers.

Letting Go

myblissfullife — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:40:35 GMT

So, it looks like this has been the year of clearing the plate for me. But it's good and it feels wonderful. No more Navy obligations, one group that I belonged to is gone and yesterday I gave notice that I won't be volunteering with a group next year. Yeah, it's all been volunteer type stuff, but I've found that I felt more obligated when it was a volunteer situation than when I was actually working at a job. I worked in the same field for 15 years and never felt this stressed. My hubby and I have big ol' changes coming down the pike and it was time to get rid of the obligations that weren't serving my highest good. It will be strange, having time to myself (well, initally). Hmmm...time to read, time to spend with my children, time to spend with my husband. Just time. I've come to realize that when I don't want to let go of something that I have to sit back and wonder why. Is it because I'm just convinced that no one will carry on the work or that they won't be as organized as I am or just because I have a hard time saying 'no'? In any case, it was when I realized that I wasn't enjoying what I was doing anymore that I knew it was time to let go. But you know what? It feels pretty cool to say "not my problem". So, here I am, wondering what will be in store for me next. Actually, my wonderful hubby and I already have a plan, but it's just the wondering of how exactly it will all work out. Yeah, I'm nervous, but it's better than being irritated and pissed off, that's for sure!!