This morning when I went to the kitchen, my husband told me we have a stoker.

He was giggling while saying it, so I knew it was not serious.

I looked at the direction he pointed. There was a grasshopper clinging on a red rose right outside of our kitchen window. The grasshopper was intensely watching us.

The grasshopper gave us the first laugh of the day.

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Today was a relaxing day.

My husband studied almost all day for his upcoming certificate test. My daughter drew a painting with acrylic paints on a canvas. I could finish reading three books.

Our day ended by going for our routine evening walk in the neighborhood area.

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The other day I happened to read the news about car seat trade-in campaign in Walmart. They will accept a used car seat and offer a $30 gift card in return. They will accept any brands’ ones. The traded-in car seats will be recycled with their partner company. The campaign date was originally set from September 16th to September 30th.

Last night I showed my husband the campaign information on their official website. I noticed they decided to make the campaign end earlier than their planned term, due to the overwhelming response. They set the last day of the campaign as today September 21st. Luckily I made it to participate in this trade-in campaign.

The other store also offered the trade-in campaign, but their deal was not good as that of Walmart. The other store offers only a coupon for 20% off a new car seat, and the coupon is valid to a very short term.

Compared with the other store, Walmart offered a great deal to people.

I appreciate Walmart to have this generous campaign to everybody.

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It was a busy day.

I cooked breakfast, ate, and cleaned it up. I did laundry and hung them up in the back yard to dry. I cleaned the house. I cooked a beef kimchee soup and origiri (rice ball), and some vegetable dishes for lunch/dinner. By then I was almost running out of time. I jumped in my car and headed to the local airport to pick my husband up.

Everything went by on time and smoothly.

After we came back home, my husband fully enjoyed my homemade food after his two weeks business trip.

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In the night after I was done all my to-do-list items for today, I finally got relaxed.

I experienced a light bulb’s blow out twice in a row.

First one was the light bulb in the refrigerator. The light bulb on the top shelf gave out its last and brightest flicker, and it was dead. It never died off on us until tonight after our six years living in this house.

Second one was the light bulb in my computer room. The same thing happened. The light bulb on the ceiling gave out its last and brightest flicker, and it was dead.

If it happened only once, I would not pay attention to it. However, since it happened twice in a row, I thought about the message from the event.

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Maybe it happened for my husband.

He came back from his business trip through the long airplane flights. Even though the people whom he encountered and dealt with during the work were very nice, he must have accumulated unknown stress from staying in the hotel, constantly eating restaurant foods, and being away from family.

I believe the light bulb’s blow out was helpful for him to discharge his leftover electricity in his body.

Anyways I am glad he is safely back home.

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I started making a Halloween dress for my daughter in the morning. I needed to make a mad dash to the local craft store. There I bought some decorative items such as Halloween buttons and orange pompoms, and a pair of snap buttons.

I was surprised that the dress was completed within one day, by the evening.

Making a Halloween dress was one of my to-do-lists since I bought the fabric on September 13th. Now that I could remove it from the list. Now I am feeling relieved.

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Whenever I mention about my sawing products, many people think that sewing is my hobby. Or they think of me having lots of free time to do so. And that is probably why people casually ask me to sew something like a bag or a dress for them for free of charge. I am still working on saying no to people when they casually ask me a favor.

The truth is this.

First of all, sewing is not my hobby. I do it only for my daughter and myself, and sometimes for my special people such as my family members and close friends. I do it to show my love and appreciation to them. I don’t fully enjoy doing it. It gets stressed me out when it is one of my to-do-lists for a long time.  

Second of all, I am not bored at all. I always have tons of things in my to-do-lists.

I love reading books. I love meditating. I love having a conversation with my family spirits. I love studying through online classes. I love watching Japanese funny comedy shows. I love cooking. I love keeping my house clean and neat.

With these, I am always running out of time.

Please don’t misunderstand me. I am always busy on something. And I am enjoying every moment while I am doing my favorite things.

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As I wrote in my previous article, I attended the online lecture about the influence of electromagnetic wave on September 12th. It was an eye-opening lecture. Until then, I didn’t know much about the influence from electromagnetic wave. I didn’t pay attention to block it.

As a matter of fact I used to sleep with my cell phone and ipad right beside of my pillow. I used to use them at the last moment of falling asleep and at the very first thing in the morning. As the consequences, I used to have a hard time to fall asleep right away. I used to wake up with a dull headache almost every morning.

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Now I learned.

Since the lecture day, I don’t keep my cell phone and ipad in the bedroom. I have started sleeping without any WiFi equipment in the bedroom.

My small efforts make a huge difference. My family and I noticed the difference. We have started sleeping more soundly and waking up more comfortably than ever.

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As one of the benefits of good sleep, my spiritual gifts got improved. One of my spiritual gifts is to receive messages from spirits in my dream and remember my dreams in details.

In this past one week, almost every night I was with my parents in my dreams. We enjoyed having each other. One day I was visiting them at their house. The other day I was enjoying our vacation in Las Vegas with them. These were one of our actual memories, but in my dreams, we were much more active and happier than the actual experiences.

In my dreams both of my parents were young and healthy. They laughed a lot with their big smiles. We danced and sang songs. My dad was using his cane as his dance tool. It was hilarious movements.

I believe they are true themselves. My parents are originally happy and active souls. I want to keep focusing on seeing them as they truly are.

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While walking in the neighborhood area, I always have fun observing the surrounding nature. I am blessed with the natural environment where we can encounter wild animals such as deer, javelina, and rabbits. We also have rattle snakes. Luckily snakes are shy and scare of humans, so that I don’t run into them often.

Among all the wild animals, I always enjoy observing especially working ants. They are fun to watch. Our neighborhood ants are unique. They carry unusual items to their nest.

One time I witnessed an ant carrying a cigarette butt.

The other time I witnessed an ant carrying a big bird’s fluffy feather.

And today I witnessed the most unusual item that an ant was carrying.

It was a wiggly eye.

I usually walk our neighborhood area in a big circle twice. I saw the wiggly eye ant on my first round. On my second round the wiggly eye ant was gone. I guess the ant successfully brought the wiggly eye back to his ant nest.

I wonder what their queen would think of these unique items in her nest. I wish I could go visit their nest and look at all of their unique items that they have collected so far. They probably already have a cash, a ring, a bracelet, and all kinds of humans’ items. It will be fun to look around them in their cozy nest.

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As a countermeasure to block electromagnetic waves, I bought 10 house plants.

Pachira money tree

Cactus with red flower

Cactus with yellow flower

Green cactus

4 pieces of lucky bamboo plants

Aloe vera

Gardenia

I went to five different stores to find these plants. Luckily enough I encountered nice and kind store workers in all the stores. I believe it was thanks to the gentle energy emitted from plants.

I am happy for our new family members.

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I made a new friend unexpectedly.

She is my neighbor. I often saw her jogging in the evening while I was walking with my family.

We always wave or greet each other. She always puts a friendly smile on her face. I wanted to talk to her, but since she was jogging and I was walking with my family, we never had an opportunity to talk.

This evening the opportunity naturally came to us.

She was walking with a small girl. I was walking with my daughter. Both of our little girls had a scooter, and we were just next to the park with a small skating link. We smiled at each other and asked our girls if they wanted to play riding a scooter together. Both girls happily said yes. That was how we ended up sitting on the bench and started chatting.

We were surprised to know that both of us wanted to become a friend each other. We both were hoping to talk. We both were happy for this unexpected opportunity.

We started introducing each other. She was 9 years older than I. The little girl was her granddaughter.

I asked her about her jogging habit.

She shared her story about the reason why she started jogging as her daily evening routine.

She used to be obese. During that time she had aches here and there in her bodies. Her blood test showed the high numbers in the cholesterol related test items. She wanted to live healthy so that she motivated herself to do something good for her health.

She started walking for a short distance. Then she gradually extended the distance. Eventually she switched from walking to jogging. Again, she gradually added more distance. She has been keeping the good habit for ten years or so. With those her daily accumulated efforts, currently she jogs 8 miles (12.8 km) every evening. She successfully lost her 40 lbs (18 kg) and never regained back.

I was in awe. It was a great story.

She said I can join her jogging anytime. She was willing to support me. She said she can jog slowly with me, or she can reduce the distance for me, as a starter.

We exchanged our phone number.

From tomorrow I will start practicing jogging. I will start by myself, little by little. Then, eventually I am going to ask her to let me join her.

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I talked with my friend through Skype.

I knew my friend would ask me about my parents. It is a sensitive and private matter for me. From my recent uncomfortable experiences, I didn’t want to hear anybody’s comments about it. I didn’t want to talk about it. So, before I started conversation with her, I made my mind on not to talk about it at all.

After our casual chat, my friend asked me the question. She asked me how my parents are doing. As I planned, I instantly answered to her “Nothing new. Everything stays the same,” and I tried to change the subject to avoid talking more detailed information about my parents.

I could not do so, though. Without thinking logically, I started talking about my parents. Soon enough, I started shedding tears. I hated the moment and myself crying and talking about my parents. I felt embarrassed for crying in front of her. However, all in all, it was good. Because, after I shed tears and let go of my emotion, I felt relieved and good.

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In the evening, during we were watching the movie, for some reason, my daughter became irritated or something. Then she started shedding lots of tears. Same as I did, after she talked about her emotion and shed tears, she felt good. She didn’t exactly know what the exact reason why she cried about.

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My daughter and I talked about shedding tears and releasing emotion.

I told her crying was just fine. We all have to shed tears from time to time. Tears are equal to the sweats from our soul. Shedding tears is a great way of healing and cleansing of our soul.

It is important to select the right person whom you allow to show your hidden emotion. The person should be the right person whom you fully trust. In my case, my friend was the right one. In my daughter’s case, I was the right one.

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In the night, an interesting synchronicity happened.

For some reason I was thinking about my Australian friend. I opened her Facebook Page. She posts a daily card reading in her Facebook Page. In her newest post, she explained about the Full Moon in Pisces and its influence to people. The influenced people would have a sudden emotional explosion. By releasing it, the old and unforgotten emotion would be healed.

Then she shared her own experience. While she was in the grocery store, she had an emotional explosion. One of her forgotten memories of her childhood suddenly came back to her mind. She collapsed and wept in her car at the parking lot.

I was glad she shared her experience. I thanked her sharing and posted my personal experience in the comment and closed the Facebook.

Right before I shut down my computer, I noticed one new email in my email box. I was in awe to know that it was from my Australian friend. How cool it was! We were thinking of each other at the same time. I appreciate for her friendship.

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Yesterday I leaned about the electromagnetic waves. So, starting from last night, I try to avoid the contact with my cell phone and ipad as much as I can. I stopped keeping my cell constantly with me.

Since I was away from my cell phone, I didn’t notice a phone call from my daughter’s school.

After lunch, I went to my cell phone and noticed a voice mail from school. It was from the school nurse.

With my heart beating fast, I listened to her message. I got relieved to know it was not emergency. The school nurse called me just 5 minutes ago.

Her message was about my daughter’s allergic reaction in her lips.

My daughter is allergic to peanut. Today’s lunch menu was a peanut butter sandwich. My daughter ordered an alternative menu. Unfortunately the lunch lady gave her a peanut butter sandwich by mistake. Since my daughter believed it was an alternative sandwich, she took a bite. Immediately her lips got swollen. That was how she ended up visiting the school nurse’s office.  

The school nurse asked me if it is okay for her to apply some ointment.

I went to school and saw the school nurse. I asked her not to apply any ointment. I also explained her the allergic symptom would disappear after a hot shower.

I brought my daughter back home and gave her a hot bath. My guess was right. After a hot bath, her swollen lips soon disappeared. Specifically, I also gave her a reiki healing energy, some homeopathic remedies, and a big hug. These will work for her most of the time.

It was great that we live very close to the school. I am so glad that we didn’t transfer our daughter to the far away school. And I am happy that I am always available for my daughter.

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P.S.

When the school nurse called me, she wanted to give my daughter a dose of Benadryl before I arrived at school. Since I never heard of the medicine name and didn’t know about it, I asked her not to give her any medicine.

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On the next day when I saw the school nurse again at school, she told me this.

If she cannot get hold of me next time, since the allergic reaction can be tragic, she wants to give my daughter a dose of Benadryl. I nicely asked her I still would like her to avoid giving my daughter any over the counter medication.

I prefer to use the alternative methods such as homeopathic remedies and traditional healing. I could tell from her gesture and face expression that she disagreed with my option. I didn’t want to argue with her, so I stopped saying anything more.

I am still one of the minorities who are aware of the danger of over the counter medicines.

I cannot force anybody to change their opinion. All I can do for now is to follow my heart and do what I believe.  

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