Really, I am....but not all hot dogs. They have to be 'push cart' hot dogs or 'dirty water dogs' as they're know in N.J. I was once even told that the secret to keeping them red was vinegar in the water...shhhhh don't tell.
I've been following the laws of attraction for a couple of weeks now with gratitude and thanks to my girlfriend Ellie who's little boy is now three weeks and one day old. She had gotten so many generous and great gifts, but fall is coming and she told me that he needed jeans. Bingo--in less than 24 hours, not one but four pair appeared from people who neither made it to her baby shower or hadn't yet seen the baby (ha!) It's been non-stop for her with about 15 people per day coming over for weeks. I suggested a sip-n-see at 6-8 weeks and she told me how right I had been--next time around...(If you don't know what a sip-n-see is, it's when you throw one big party--everyone gets to sip on cocktails and see the baby--all at once--no hurtsy feelings over who got to see the baby and who didn't.)
The next thing that happened for her is that she said to me that she has more clothes for him than she currently knows what to do with, and at this point she'd rather set up bank account for his education...bingo--just like magic, her attorney sister-in-law Barb (we both adore eachother) called the next morning to tell her that she's setting up an IRA with automatic withdrawls for the baby. Ask and you shall receive.
I had my own bit of magic happen today. I woke up remembering that I had forgotten to apply for a tax credit--way back on June 1st. I called the recorded message to find out that extensions were in place until October 19th. After it was all said and done, I realized that I wasn't eligible...oh well, at least I tried. Next year will be a different circumstance and I will be. Meanwhile, as I put away the necessary documents, I came across something that will give me funding if I wasn't eligible for the state tax credit...tomorrow that will get handled. BUT, I received $472.00 that I wasn't expecting and I've been working toward saving in the 'contactor' fix the house (again) fund. Now I'm only about 10 bucks shy of where I wanted to be...thank you universe and please bring me more.
In the meantime Ellie suggested that I go through the exercises in THE MAGIC. I've woken up for the last couple of days and written my ten gratitudes for the day, and it's been strange what's popped up for me. Things that I wouldn't think that I'd be grateful for are pouring out of me, nonstop.
Since all of the 9/11 programming has been on TV this weekend, I remembered what had happened to me on 9/10/2001. I had read Suze Orman's 9 steps to financial freedom and was doing those exercises when above me hovering and facing NY were black helicopters...maybe 4-5...they weren't moving, just facing 'the City'. I live less than 35 miles from Manhattan. I had forgotten that I was doing 'the laws of attraction' back then.
Hot dogs...for all of the years that I lived as a vegan, they were a guilty pleasure. I can remember my aunt taking me out for the day--on a day when we cut out of going to school. I was in 5th grade. I remember what I wore--a purple pants suit with tiny white and yellow daisys on them. She asked me what I wanted for lunch. I could have had anything and she offered me steak, pizza, anything...but I wanted hot dogs with extra mustard and sauerkraut. I still eat them that way today. I still can't leave Manhattan without having at least one...last call for dogs just the other side of the Lincoln tunnel. So for today and as weird as it may seem, I'm grateful for hot dogs. For the memories of my childhood, the jobs that I've had where food trucks sat outside and across the street...there was nothing better than the hot dogs...and my ex getting his daily fix of them with chili, cheese and bacon. For the ballgames I've gone to with Neil but without the peanuts and cracker jack...just hot dogs. Where Michael who now lives in Georgia took me to the worst parts of East Orange to scout out properties for him but we stopped on South Orange Ave. for the best dogs in the area. To my own shopping center where today 6 bucks got me two just the way that I wanted them (with pepsi--consumed and a bag of doritos--not). In those moments of soggy buns this afternoon, I couldn't have been happier.
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