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My Session With The Other Side......

Yesterday, I had a reading with a Medium I had heard on this weekly radio show back in LA. Viewers would call in and she would connect them to the spirits trying to “come through” from the other side. She wasn’t like those hacks you see on TV who say things like, “I see someone with the letter A.” Yeah, sure that’s not vague enough.

Anyway, this particular Medium always gave really exceptional readings to the callers and she was dead on so many things (no pun intended) and since it’s now been a year since my mother has passed away I thought it would be a good time to see what this whole spirit thing was about. So I made an appointment.

Can I just say if I had any doubts before I certainly don’t anymore. She told me so many things that only my mother could have known. It was insane and highly emotional, draining and cathartic.

One of the more amusing things was when the Medium brought up my cats. I should preface this by saying lately my mother’s two cats have been driving me bonkers because they will get up in the middle of the night and I hear them playing around and meowing in the living room. So anyway, the Medium says I see cats. Do you have cats? I said yes. She goes on to say that my mother will come at night and play with them and that she tells them to be quiet so they don’t wake me up. The Medium also said that apparently the cats are very in-tune with my mother and her spirit and if I looked closely I would be able to tell when my cats saw my mother. So I know this sounds crazy but honestly how could this woman know this stuff? I mean can it be a coincidence she saw me surrounded by lots of cats who have become quite playful in the middle of the night?

The best was when the Medium started cracking up. She says to me “In all my thousands of readings I’ve never had anyone say this to me (meaning a spirit).” She goes on to say that my mother told her that they do teach hauntings where she’s at so if anyone gave me trouble I was to let her know because she would do some haunting on my behalf. This sounds exactly like something my mother would say. My mother was the type who would say things like “I wish we had an “in” with the Mafia,” when she would hear about someone in our family or a friend who was having “issues” with an abusive spouse/boyfriend. So for her to say this is nothing less than what I would expect.

Oh, and good news. The Medium said I’m on the right track for my future (a usual concern of mine). My mother told her to tell me to “stop pressuring myself.” She feels I’m so crazy about not having done enough yet but I need to just stop and relax and realize that it’s all building to where it’s supposed to (and anyone who knows me knows I am obsessed with that very fact. I just have to keep reminding myself I have time). My mother kept repeating for me to "have fun" right now as seriousness would come later.

I’m sure there are those who doubt the validity of such things but after this experience, I can’t not believe. Of course, we believe what we want to hear and in my case I do. Frankly, I like believing my mother is around me all the time watching out for me (and if need be willing to do some "haunting" on her spare time)......

I Have No Roots

“I have no roots.” These were the exact words my friend Dawnmarie uttered to me when I told her of my latest craziness. Indeed, the reason for my absence from my blog world is because I made a major life change in a very short time frame and have been going non stop since.

A little over three weeks ago I was offered a great job as a Director’s Assistant at DreamWorks. However, it was not the DreamWorks in LA but the one in Redwood City (just outside San Francisco). I was offered the job on Tuesday and started the following Monday. This meant packing up a bunch of my stuff and essentially moving up north in six days. Oh, what I won’t do for a little change.

Of course, I couldn’t find an apartment over there in such a short time but a friend of mine offered to let me stay with her as long as I needed. Unfortunately, she’s allergic to cats which meant I had to leave mine here in LA by themselves during the week. Talk about guilt!

Basically what this winds down to is the fact I’ve been living up north but having to drive (6 hours) and or fly back and forth between there and LA on the weekends. I was pretty much exhausted after the first three days.

However, there is good news to report as I finally found a place to live and moved in today. Of course, I still have my place in LA that I have to try to rent out or something but I guess I shall take it one day at time.

Despite all the craziness I do love my new job and the people have been great. There’s such a huge difference between the Northern and Southern California mentality. Everyone here is so laid back (we get to dress casual every day! Yeah..) and it just seems a world away from the LA scene.

I’m still focusing on getting my film made (priority numero uno) but in the mean time I get to be where it’s green and pretty and the air is clean (and it helps to have an actual paycheck with benefits)…..

I guess Dawnmarie’s right- I don’t have roots. But I’m still young and now’s the time to do it. Change is good. Following your bliss- even better….