S9EP9: Situation Normal

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Piz-Niffer

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Dick Pointer

Soup, the Son

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Wisconsin Belle

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It is…Sunday, April 2, Two-Thousand and Twenty-Free. Time...Arousing

I don’t know that I have a Trinity this week. I really wasn’t paying that close attention to my life.

Theme – ???

Lesson – ???

Observation – ???

The Post

This was a week. A good week. It wasn’t perfect, nor remarkable. But it was good.

The truth is, I don’t that I can actually tell you a whole lot about it, but I’m going to try.

For the past week and a half, two weeks, I have been playing around with online content. It started simple. I took video from LIVE! and cut it up into much smaller pieces. I started sharing it as FB Reels. I started with the WTML page. Then I began also posting to my personal page. Within the last day or two I have added the Rev. Matt page.

Along the way, I also started sharing them on TikTok. Once on TikTok, I decided to start doing some of the things I have been holding onto just for TikTok, such as my WTML on TikTok post. I’ve been thinking about TikTok for a lil over a year now. Nameless one had suggested it. I just didn’t even know what to do with it.

The problem, for me, is that once you start, if you really want to build any kind of a following, you need to keep going. You need to post often. I have been trying to do at least one a day on all of those spaces. I don’t really have that much material – even with the LIVE! footage. So, I decided to reach back into the archives. I have been pulling The Whoodoo Tour videos and clipping out fun stuff – the jokes we told, some of the Outtakes reels, whatever I can find that I think will work.

So far, I am not an overnight viral sensation.

WALT: You’re kiddin’.

That’ll be enough out of you.

WALT: For now.

Anyway, I’m satisfied with how it has been going. I will continue on that path until I run out of material or decide it just isn’t worth the time and effort.

I had a strange week schedule wise. Monday, I had a strong beginning of my day. By the end of lunch I was only $17 from my goal. I came home for a break and just couldn’t motivate myself to go back out on the road. [going back to this Theme of Mondays off.]

This would have been just fine, except Tuesday night got cut short as well. This time it was because I forgot my glasses when I went out for the dinner shift. As it gets darker it gets harder for me to see house numbers and street signs without them. Unfortunately, the dinner push was also fairly slow. I may have been able to do a little better if I had been able to stay out [and see.]

Then Wednesday rolled around. The Professor was down and so there was a Safety Meeting. My plan was to go, have one, stay maybe an hour and then get back on the road. This plan never, EVER, works. It leaves me in a quandary. I think the social time is important. Yet, I can’t keep losing the income.

So, my week was looking pretty grim in the beginning. I was getting frustrated. Dare I say, even a bit depressed. Sometimes it feels like I can’t make a right choice.

Somewhere along the way, things picked up a bit. Friday, I had a $200+ day. Those are rare, but always appreciated.

I came into the weekend, running a bit short financially. I still had some groceries to get. I wanted to wash The Rocket. Plus, Piz-Niffer’s son was in a performance at one of the community theatres in The Valley so I wanted to go and show my support. [He’s a good kid.] This would not only take me off the road for a bit but also cost me money.

Coming into this morning I was so very close to making my Goals. However, I texted Niffer and told her that I would come as long as I had a strong enough morning. She offered to pay for the ticket. I accepted. Interestingly enough, I had a very strong morning. Not enough to have covered the ticket completely, but I was on a good path.

My main priority this week was to not finish in the red. It has been three months of that – starting behind and ending behind. Somehow I have managed though. I made my Goal. I had to cut some things. For instance, the ticket which was paid for by someone else. I didn’t wash The Rocket again this week. I don’t know how many weeks it has been, nor do I know when I will get the [financial] chance again. I also cut back my second grocery trip to only the absolute bare necessities – which, in this case, was a loaf of bread. That was all I really needed to keep on keeping on. Still, I made my Goal plus $6.55. And, to boot, I was able to be home a little after 1800.

The next two weeks get a little challenging. I’m trying not to give it too much thought, but I must be honest, I’m concerned. I don’t know how I pull this off and keep myself where I want to be.

First, my financial Goals are at the high end this coming week, and even higher in the following. As the budget stands I need to make more each day than is probably possible. I mean, this week, there are some days I could hit the Goal. But, next week, I will be lucky if I hit the daily Goal once.

The whole thing with the finances in the next two weeks is that I am not only catching up with a few bills, but, also, The Princesses are coming to celebrate our Easter on that last weekend. So, I need to stock up some food and supplies. I also need to put some sort of Easter together.

This has always been my thing. Every year, no matter how poor I was or how difficult things were, I have always put some sort of Easter together for them. Now, to be fair, Big ‘D’ did the plastic eggs. She wanted to. She saved up change all year long to put some in those eggs. However, she also did it in true Big ‘D’ fashion. [One year, I think we counted 300+ eggs between the two girls.]

Last year, at The Nest, I put some baskets together for them and we even had a small egg hunt inside the apartment. This year, I have a whole big ass yard – front and back. I have to do something. I don’t have a whole lot of plastic eggs but I have some. I just need to figure out what to fill them with. I’d also like to get them each something for Easter. Something small, but something nonetheless. I may do a combination gift. I saw a commercial for the new upgraded Clue game. I know they both like it, but I also know that it is one of Sunshine’s favorites. It would also serve as a ‘gift’ for the house. We have very few board or card games here. Maybe it’s time we start a collection.

Of course, I also have to put a dinner together. This may not be as costly as I have it in my head. The plan is to make the list and get little bits of it at a time as I do my grocery shopping over the next two weeks. My shopping habits are going to shift a little bit. I am reverting back to going about twice a week. I’ll still be spending about the same amount but in smaller doses which will make it easier for the bank account to bear.

My other issue for the girls’ visit is heat. I stopped buying pellets because I could no longer afford it. This is fine because I have three heaters. They have been heating the home perfectly. I figured if I get one more then they each have one for their rooms and there are still two down here – one for the main part of the house and one for my room. However, one of those three heaters has decided to die.

I’m not sure how I am getting around this yet. In a perfect world I would be able to buy two heaters – which is about $120. Another option is to get just one heater and Just Enough pellets which will run about $87. Neither of these make me comfortable. I have a host of bills coming up in the next two weeks. A last ditch option would be to just get the pellets and I will have to figure out how to sleep on the living room floor. Then the girls can have the two heaters.

I wouldn’t be concerned about it but my scheduling is weird for the next two weeks as well. First of all, next Sunday is Easter. I really do not know how that day is going to go financially. Many people have dinners/lunches and I am finding quite a few restaurants that are closed. To boot, the following weekend I will be taking Saturday night through Sunday lunch off so that I can spend time with The Princesses. We’ll do our dinner on Saturday and Sunday morning we will do the egg hunt. After I take them home I can work again.

On top of that, I have obligations this week. Tuesday night there is an event at The Meeting Place. It’s an important one. We will be having visitors. It’s not required, but it seems the right thing to do. When the visitors come you want as many people in attendance as you can get. Immediately after, there is a dress rehearsal at The College I would like to go watch. I like to support the ladies the best I can. Their show is on Wednesday, but I can’t get to that.

On Wednesday, Spooky Queen’s youngest son’s school is singing the national anthem at the local minor league baseball game. He asked me to come. So, I will be there. [I had Looch get me a ticket. Hehe.]

So you see, right out of the gate, I have two dinners off the road. Plus I do not know what Sunday will hold.

I just need to take these next two weeks one day, one step at a time. The two weeks after that are projected to be fairly easy – both with scheduling and finances.

On the ‘spiritual’ end of things, I have been receiving messages. One was for “3 days.” Tomorrow is Day 3. Another was “30 Days.” That would put me at the end of the month, right up against Beltane, which was already a marker for me. I set that as my Goal to be straightened out and have the flexibility to take Mondays off.

Another message was, “you don’t see what’s happening.” I have no clue what that means.

Another confusing message was the name Melissa. I have no idea.

So, that’s where I am at this week, Fellow Travelers.

If you’re not already there, go to the Welcome to my Life Facebook page – WTML. Or the YouTube channel – WelcomeToMyLife08. You can also find me on Facebook under Rev. Matt. And now, you can find us on TikTok @WTML23.

Wherever you are and whenever you are – Like, Comment, and Share – we’re on a Journey and it takes you to get there.

So, without hesitation, for now and for always, from here in Geistopia, this is your beloved Rev…

WALT: And Walt…

DOC: Unt Doc…

JOHNNY: Aaaaand Johnny…

And those guys, saying, “Stay Tuned-In, Fellow Travelers,” and wishing you Peace, Love, Light…

WALT: And Freakishness, Baby.

The Totems & Archetypes

**from Ted Andrews’ Animal Speak**

Wolf - Guardianship, Ritual, Loyalty, and Spirit

Teaches you to know who you are and to develop strength, confidence and surety in that so that you do not have to demonstrate or prove yourself at all. Very expressive with hands, face, posture, or some other manner. How to empower your verbal communications with appropriate key language. Teach the lesson of proper governorship - the balance between authority and democracy. How to use ritual to establish order and harmony in your own life. Helps us to understand that true freedom requires discipline. 22-24 months. Need to make use of all that is available to you. Remind us to not waste, as much as to remind us to keep our spirits alive Great discrimination. Listen to own inner thoughts and words. The intuition will be strong. Learning to trust your own insights and to secure your attachments accordingly. Help you to hear the inner and guard from inappropriate actions. Time to breathe a new life into your life rituals. Find a new path, take a new journey, take control of your life. Do so with harmony and discipline.

Woodpecker – The Power of Rhythm and Discrimination

Drumming. New Life Rhythms. Applications of shapeshifting. Are you looking at aspects of your life rationally? Are others around you not discriminating in their activities? Are you or others in your life jumping into situations with little or no analysis? It will become increasingly important for you to follow your own unique rhythms and flight. Do what works for you in the manner best for you. The foundation is there.

Owl - The Mystery of Magic, Omens, Silent Wisdom, and Vision in the Night

Symbol of the feminine and the night. Ties to fertility and seduction. Bird of magic and darkness, of prophecy and wisdom. Symbolically associated with clairvoyance, astral projection and magic, both black and white. Hints of the light of the sun, alive in the dark of night. Meditation on this alone will reveal much about the magic of Owl within your life. Will be able to see and hear what others are trying to hide. What is not being said. See what is hidden or in the shadows. Detect and pinpoint the subtleties. Unique ability to see into the darkness of others’ souls. And life. Their medicine can extract secrets. If your neck is stiff and inflexible, you are hindering your perceptions to a great degree. Often reflects that you were born very perceptive - with a vision of others that you may or may not have recognized or acknowledged. Unique ability for seeing into the eyes and souls of others. Keep silent and go about your business. Eliminate those aspects that are not beneficial and unhealthy.