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AND!! 😊 I am now down to my last full month of rest and relaxation and do as I bludy well please LOL!!

February and March have been and continue to be my slowest months. Many shows used to be in March but for some reason many managers of these shows moved to April where they have invariably failed.  As a vendor it is obvious why attendance drops in April as the gardening season opens and people want to be outside. Now in March as most of Alberta is still entrenched in winter many want to get out and so they choose indoor venues. It is fine by me; I live by what is shown to continue with 😊 So April now becomes my first shows. All announced next month.

I speak about this A LOT LOL: Your personal seasons. [derived from your birth date so it is PERSONAL] But lo and behold my year is sending me balance as quickly as I can say “thank you Universe” 😊 For my new readers I am in my Personal Six Year [season] and this tells me the Universe will send what needs to be balanced my way. Then you recognize it, fix it, and ask for the next balance!! And sometimes I did not realize that it needs to be balanced.

First thing to happen this month? Telus and my bills LOL. February's bill arrives $22 higher than last month. I seek the reason why within the typed-out pages and YES!! There it is. My internet is on a 2-year contract and the special deduction was only applied for one year and that expired. Onto Telus I go and get a ‘live’ agent. Without going into full detail as that would take you hours to read, just know that after looking at my bill she offered me AMAZING deals even though my contracts were still a year away for expiration. The internet was revised and my $22 replaced [as $25]. Then she offered me crazy deals that would take 50% off my TV and internet. I said to her “here is what I can do without “Crave and another 2 areas I do not watch”. The I specifically told her DO NOT delete Netflix nor my Amazon Prime as it is cheaper to have Prime through Telus. Fine she says. So, I agree to my contract and the last words I say are “are you sure my prime will not get cancelled NOR my Netflix?” Assuring me ‘no’ I say my last “yes I agree”’ verbally to this contract that now saves me $70 a month.

Going to my email I have 3 LOL. Yup, Netflix is cancelled and Prime is cancelled so they say. And my contract states I have Crave!!! Oh Telus!! BUT!! It is late and when I call back, I get someone from out of the country who cannot help me but says they have emailed this person and asked that she call me tomorrow. No biggie as the Netflix email said it would bill to a credit card that I knew expired. Wake up to Netflix notifying me of this LOL. Call them and explain and then go and work out and then since I have not had a call back, I call Telus. AND!!!! I get a male who I shall call ‘sweet sweet Will”. 😊 Why? Because this man bent over backwards to help. I got Crave switched out for Netflix immediately and then I asked him to wait while I walked though the steps of connecting it with password etc. and then he said that he could not do anything about Prime but if I wanted to just take the $10 a month he could activate that but he suggested I go to Loyalty and although he could not guarantee I would get it for free, perhaps that would happen as I had been told it would be included. I said, “heck Will, if it saves me $120 a year I’ll go to loyalty”. Then complimented me on my tech skills LOL. Seems like Telus knows my age. He said very politely that most people who called at my age had no clue how to activate and set up stuff. 😊 Then we discovered we both had elderly cats and what do folks do when they have cats?? Well for those who do not have cats we talk about them like folks talk about their kids LOL.

Onto Loyalty I went as sweet sweet Will connected me, and within two minutes another nice young lad had added Prime FOR FREE as he said I had been promised it and I quickly connected it while he waited. Two emails in my box saying ‘thank you for your purchase through Telus’. All is working now, and I have massive savings here. BUT!!! The balance in my bills did not stop there. My 2-year contract on my mobile was up this month. I had been on ‘just switch it out to a new phone’ deal. Well, the back of my phone cracked somewhere along that timeline and under the impression I still owed $600 and did not want to pay that amount this month I stopped at Telus to switch it out. BUT!! They do not just switch out a cracked phone. Called them when I got home and the agent said “yes, that is correct, no switch out if the phone is damaged”. OK I said, no biggie I’ll just pay it out. Bill arrives and it is $50 LESS and no $600 on it!! Thank You Universe for the cracked phone as I do not need to switch it out right now.

BUT!! It did not end there. The last offer was a landline and funnily enough with all these satellites failing and cell phones going down I had been thinking about installing one lately. WELL! For a mere $13 a month I could have a land line and it would knock another $20 off the bill by accepting. That would mean that I saved another $7 by taking this deal. I now have a landline BUT have to call Telus as it is not working. I’ll update you later on this 😊 UPDATE: I have a tech coming to my home on March 6th to fix this.

THEN!! For those of you who do not use Constant Contact you pay by how many emails you have and send out to. But every time you hit a higher number of emails your bill goes up. As it is billed in US dollars it really hits the pocketbook. AND!! February brought my yearly renewal and a SUPER-DUPER higher bill. So, I went into my account and created a section where I can see how many people have NOT opened my emails and set it for 6 months. I had 687 people who had not opened my emails in 6 months, and they were all deleted to bring my bill back to the threshold of what I paid previously. BUT!! That was still high and so for now I have put it on a monthly payment till either the US$ drops OR Constant Contact offers a deal for a yearly bill 😊 If by any chance you are reading this and say ‘oh I am on your mailing list but once I see the email I just go to your website or if you read it directly from Facebook then please go to my website and sign back up your email 😊 But normally these emails are ones people give me at shows because they cannot muster up the courage to say “no thank you” when asked if they would like to be on my monthly newsletter list OR they think I may give them a better read if they produce an email 😊 Whether you part with an email or not you get the same service 😊

Talk about lowering my bills as balance. AND!! More to come on that as I just cancelled my yoga membership. Upon taking my 6 month in September, they assured me that the fee would remain the same after the contract was up and I told them “Fine, keep my credit card on file then”. LO and behold this month’s bill was $10 higher and when asked about it I was told “oh in September we had no idea the increase would go up in February”. HUH?? Then you should not promise people no increases if they continue after the contract is up. That is the service I got from Prana Yoga on 199th street in Edmonton. And they will not agree to what they promised!!! So, I cancelled it saving me yet another $109 a month. I will find yin yoga online I am sure. Or I know enough to be able to do this on my own 😊

NOW!!! The biggest balance of all. Most of you know about my son who lives near me, has dinner once a month outside of our homes with me and is always here for Mothers Day, birthday, Easter, Xmas etc. But what many do not know is unless you know me a LONG time, I have another son who is married and lives in Serbia. He too is funnily enough in the balance year [6, all about home, family and life balancing itself]. Without going into massive years of ups and downs, know that I have not had a lot of contact with this son. Although my other son keeps me updated with what he does 😊 My granddaughter in Vancouver calls me and says, “Paul is trying to contact you and wants to know what is best to use”. I say “OK, I have a phone, and email”. I prefer phone. The phone rings about 5 minutes later and shows ‘Serbia’. There on the other end of the line is Paul. We talk about stuff for about an hour and arrange to keep in contact. He works on the rigs in Brazil and says we will have a nice Zoom call when he returns home. AND! As he promised, on the 24th, his beautiful wife, two more granddaughters that I now have met and him sat, and we chatted for two hours. All was worked out and family areas are now BALANCED!! BUT note that Paul is in the Personal Six Year that states balance your life so that the lessons can be behind you 😊 See how it works when you BELIEVE?? [I wrote about that last month in my newsletter]

I now look forward to what March will bring in the form of “HEY VcToria this needs to be attended to”.

And so, February went. Slow in reads as in 2 phone reads, 3 Zoom reads, 6 in person reads and 1 Ritual order plus quite few orders from my store area for books and things I created to go along with my late fathers republished works.  But for me that is what I call standing still SLOW!!! AND!! Not one person took my Special Valentines Day Couples Read. I suppose LOL that it maybe because most who are on my email list have had a reading with me at some point in time, OR just like February is the bill paying month for most people that could be. I know better than to offer it again 😊

However, I am not one to waste time and funnily enough what I wanted to do last year in the kitchen I did this year. I created homemade breads, and best of all vegan cheeses: truffle brie that sadly did not freeze as well as I had hoped, and tastes better eaten when first made. I made a lovely firm cheddar that sits in my fridge now and tried a blue cheese that just will not mold. [turning blue] It is a two-month job that entails it fermenting for that time. But it should have started to mold on the 7th day and did not. I have moved it from the fridge to the counter in hope it will ferment better. More on that next month.

UPDATE on blue cheese: it is molding fast and furiously now that it is on the counter and tastes PHENOMENAL😊

I bought all the supplies for vegan ‘meats’ and tried my hand at that. For the firm ones that need to be steamed they came out well, but not for the ones that I simmered. Funnily enough my taste buds have changed so much that I really prefer my dried beans, rice and all the yummy things made with those ingredients. However, I will finish up the stuff I bought, and as ‘practice makes perfect’ is one of my mottos who knows maybe I will find the trick to the ‘meats’ that look like the company who sells ribs, steaks and roasts called Juicy Marbles. AND!! Lastly, I made home made butter that I now will continue to make instead of buying the vegan ones that have doubled in cost and I used the nuts I bought to make milks. That I intend to keep doing as both the butter and milks are GREAT, plus my home-made bread and cookies from the milk pulp.  😊

PROUD to say, that as I noted last month, I started working out in my home gym on the 15th of January and as today being the 26th of February, I have only skipped ONE day of working out. I appear to have taken on a schedule LOL. I get up, do my office work, green juice, one coffee and then head to work out. Then I cook, do some housework, sometimes work on my website, and then settle down to TV etc. etc. if I have no reads.

I also seem to have gotten back into Candy Crush [ level 5500] as I had put that aside for awhile while I took up reading. Reading will be picked back up with the shows 😊 Seems the yoga on Friday, as it is not live streamed, is attended to in person and I have not missed an in-person Friday yoga. Saturday and Sunday the Yin yoga is live streamed, so my nicely designed yoga studio downstairs is warmed up and I have not missed any classes except one where my son Paul and his lovely wife Jasmina zoomed in at this time. Serbia is ahead of us by 7 hours or more, so it was around 11pm their time when we were done.

HOWEVER, LOL even with all this working out I have only lost TWO pounds which is very annoying. However, I do enjoy cooking and eating so perhaps that is why. But the body also tightens up a lot, not like when you are 18 or 20 or 30 or even 40 but it does lift and tighten. So, I will accept that fact that working out gives me TONS of energy and lifts the skin a bit LOL!! I look OK and by many people comments ‘just fine’ 😊 [for those who do not know I am turning 71 this April]

I LOVE resting indoors during the winter months of my sabbatical and to show you how much I do not go out, the last time I filled up with gas was December 15th, 2023, LOL. But I did venture out with my grandson as I do every month. Again, heading to Earls on the 21st at 1pm. Once there I had the tofu wraps and the plant-based mushroom and cheese pizza 😊 The bill was the same as last month LOL. Thank goodness I cook a lot as eating out would put me in debt LOL. [ a few drinks where within that bill]

A friend came over on the 14th to return some teacups and I invited her for supper. Not realizing when she texted me that it was Valentines Day LOL. Anyway, I made shepherds pie, mushroom soup and for dessert the panna cotta. Then we talked about the popularity of ‘sound baths’ these days. If you do not know what this is it consists of crystal bowls, drumming and sometimes singing depending on who organizes then. We decided to go to one. I knew one was coming up at my yoga place BUT!! sadly it got cancelled and we signed up for the one on March 9th coming up, PLUS the one at the Westin downtown on March 17th so I will have two to compare and talk about next month.

Yes, I did venture out for groceries and bought mandarins, onions, sesame oil, natural peanut butter, apples, avocados, nutritional yeast, Brussel sprouts, no beef bouillon, carrot sticks, cauliflower, tons of celery, [for my green juice] tin of young jackfruit, mushrooms, vegetable oil, morel dried mushrooms, ONE vegan butter, green onions, gravy mix, tons more mushrooms [cremini, portabellas] 8 lbs of lemons [for green juice] 3 silk creamers, liquid smoke, turnip, fresh mint, freezer bags, tomatoes, 11 cucumbers [for my green juice] extra firm tofu, potatoes and lastly mango vegan yogurt. Then I headed to Bulk Barn and got some hard wheat kernels as I needed to make rejuvelac for my cheeses plus raisins and cranberries for my cookies that I make with the pulp from the nut milks 😊 I also needed red wine to cook with and while there I grabbed a treat for myself with a bottle of Moscato. Last month I had ordered 5lb of cashews, 2lbs of almonds and 1lb of hazelnuts so the cheeses could be made. Since I only paid the for the nuts this month, I kept that into the grocery bill for February 😊 And lastly I ordered some cheddar culture on line from Cheese Maker so that my cheeses could be created. Total food cost [with wine] was $474.12. Hopefully March is not that high 😊

I also ventured out for my lotteries and the one-time trip to the natural pet store for China and her food. The costs for her are below in the Cat Cost column 😊

And lastly, I headed to Home Depot for my Buddha. At Christmas I had asked for this great Buddha statue I fell in love with at Home Depot and received a gift certificate :) Finally I felt like shopping a wee bit and headed over there. The statue was still there and along with that I bought all my vegetable seeds that Home Depot seems to have gotten in as an early stock. PLUS :) I bought myself another plant that I still have to transplant and decide where it will live.

And TV and Netflix?? Well yes, a lot of rest in that area and besides my regular shows on TV on Netflix I watched: Toy Boy Season One and Two over the first 7 days of February. The ending really pissed me off and I wonder if another season will arrive. But all in all, I loved the show. Then I watched Triptych. Did not make notes on it and cannot recall if I liked it LOL. Then still having Crave [but seriously never finding anything there worthwhile] I watched Furious 7 and then the last movie made with Furious 7. Pretty sure I had watched them all before, but I enjoy one of the actors immensely. Jason Statham. I find incredible sexy and manly. LOL LOL 😊

Watched the Super Bowl and its incredible nail-biting finish in overtime 😊 Then back to Netflix with Yakamoz 2035 which does have translation on the bottom. So, a foreign film. Took me a few days to watch it as I had other things to do BUT AGAIN the ending was massively disappointing.

Then I watched the movie The Player particularly because Tom Ellis [who played Lucifer] was in it but heck was a lousy movie. I would give it 5/10. Then onto MC2 that took me four nights to finish. I usually watch about 3 episodes of anything I am watching and, on this series, AGAIN the end pissed me off. Then I watched Clickbait and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed that series. And as the month closes, I watched Little Nicholas [The Scoundrel] a true story in 3 episodes and would I have watched it if it was longer? NO!! But I did watch it and seriously you can see how crooked the government is. It was a Spanish film and little Nicholas is now in the Supreme Court with his charges. Watch it, you may find it fascinating. Also has English at the bottom so read quickly 😊 I now have started watching The Marked heart and since there are two Series and over 20 episodes it will take about two weeks or more to watch. I will give my opinion next month 😊

And that wraps up my month as today [27th] I will start to copy, edit, paste, and upload the newsletter.

Enjoy March as it sets the energy for spring to arrive. Take care of what you deem important to yourself and then life will take care of itself. Meditation is the key to balance. 😊 It may take some longer to allow the energy shifts to take place, but if you believe it WILL NOT change then it will NOT 😊 You can hold onto any energy you like for as long as you like. But when you wish to change that part of you it comes easily when you believe 😊 Remember you are your own creation. That is why we have freedom of thoughts. It is one area nobody can control or steal away 😊 Bring in a positive March 😊

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