Too Much To Do, Not Enough Time

Way too much to do these days. I still have piles of boxes from the Mystic Realities Bazaar to put away, notify the winner of the Davol CD drawing, compile the entries for the MR Sellars giveaway drawing, clean the apartment before visitors this weekend, laundry to do, and all kinds of other stuff.

Last weekend I was in Sioux City, IA with my friend and business partner, Sarah. We were vending at the First Annual Mystic Realities Bazaar hosted by Three Rivers Paranormal Research. It was a wonderful weekend. Not a HUGE money maker for Pangaia Metaphysical Store, but it was well worth our time and effort. Not to mention it was great to get away for a weekend and have some fun. We wound up with a total of four table spaces. Our friend Fay was supposed to have joined us, but she woke up sick Saturday morning and was not able to go. So the hosts of the event agreed to give us Fay's tables (arrangements are confidential as to how that worked). That increased Pangaia's space from one table to three; add to that the table space I had for doing Past Life Insight and Intuitive readings.

TRPR has arranged for all of the vendors and readers to get advertising on their website for a month to compensate for the poor turn out. Seems that the school district had changed their graduation date at the last minute due to the severe winter weather they had. So their graduation coincided with the Bazaar's weekend. A bit of a downer for patrons, but it was still a wonderful weekend.

This coming weekend I have visitors from out of town coming. A friend from Tennessee is dropping in to join us for the monthly PAN luncheon and discussion. My mother is coming up from Colorado to attend my niece's graduation from high school. So, I need to get off my duff and do some cleaning around here. Get those stacks of boxes put away, clean the bathroom and kitchen and see about doing something about the carpets.

In conjunction with the Bazaar, we did a drawing for a copy of Davol's Good Signs CD. Murf from Murphy's Magic Mess on KZUM-Lincoln gave us an autographed copy of his CD to give away. My friend Cairelle of Witchy Living in NOLA helped select the winner. I need to get off my duff and call the lucky winner so I can arrange to send her the CD.

Speaking of drawings... This past Saturday on Pagan-Musings we had MR Sellars, author of the Rowan Gant Investigations, on for the full two hours. His publicist sent me several copies of a chapter  sampler from the first nine books and some other goodies. Murv sent me a message on Facebook offering to throw in some signed copies of his first three books to sweeten the pot for the drawing. Woot! We are planning on having him join us again in July after book ten comes out.

So, that pretty much gets me caught up for now. Way too much to try to do in just a few days, but I am always trying to do more than I have time for.

Until next time....

Fell of the Smokers' Wagon

Been several weeks since I last posted to this blog. And I am sorry to say that I was not successful in quitting smoking this time around. I have the nicotine gum still, and the Commit bottles. Perhaps sometime in the near future I will attempt again. I have no excuse for the failure.

Perhaps what I need to do is daily meditation, prayer, and invocation of Ganesha to help me to over come this vice. Ganesha is the Hindu elephant-headed god. He is said to be the Remover of Obstacles. And smoking is certainly an obstacle to a happy and healthy life for me.

I will keep you all informed as time goes on....