Getting What You Wished For

[errantember]

I've been looking at a way out of the corporate scene since several years before I even entered it while still in the public "education" system. I lost my job of 10 years last January. Here's how Manifestation Theory works in Real Life:

INPUT: "Gee, I wish I could ditch this cube and become a Permaculture Designer/Firedancer/Musician /Career Coach/Natural Builder/etc/etc/etc, grow my own food, and have a smaller eco footprint..."
"I'd also like to get some chickens."


OUTPUT:

You're entire US Team gets axed. You get severance, unemployment, and health insurance for months.

You buy a Geo Metro from your old roommate and routinely get 40 MPG. You learn how to work on cars.

Recognizing your need to improve your home improvement and carpentry skills, The Universe makes everything break at an increasingly rapid rate, so you have to become a ninja to keep up.

Your married girlfriend's new prospect totally takes your offer to rent an unused wing in your house. He's excited about your plans to re-finish his wing in natural plaster and your chickens.

One of your oldest friends loses his house and needs a room to rent, and you are therefore forced to finally clean all that useless shit out of your life. Storage space evaporates.

Your uncle introduces you a Crazy Money Making Opportunity involving corpses.

Your other girlfriend who's moving gives you her chickens, plus a working coop. Another total stranger gives you two more.

Your already-started gardening efforts Hop the Fence, and you now have 10 edible species lose in your yard, restoring soil, providing food, and pissing off the neighbors.

You finally start fixing things faster than they break. You build new things. You might sell them.

The list TOTALLY goes on and on.

Life is Go(o)d. :)

Be careful what you wish for, but only *slightly* careful.

Comments

[jslorentz.livejournal.com]

This is an amazing post! Thank you for sharing. :)

Will you be at PMF this weekend? Kare and I are coming down.

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

I am torn between the two responses I'm tempted to give. So I'm going to go with both of them:

Response #1: This is so true...thank you for yet another example of how the Universe is designed to always answer "yes". "Yes" to everything you ask for. "Yes" to everything you think. "I can't do this"..... the Universe answers "Yes". "I wish I could..." the Universe answer "Yes". :D

Response #2: You said: "He's excited about your plans to re-finish his wing in natural plaster and your chickens." hahahaahahahahahahaha...sorry, just pictured a section of house refinished in plaster and chickens. Would you plaster them first? Or stick them in the plaster? Either way, that's fucking funny.

~smootch~

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

yeah, I totally want to see what a space finished in plaster & chickens looks like.

:P

You are awesome, btw.

[errantember.livejournal.com]

The funniest part is that, properly processed, chicken bones and feathers would actually make a *really* good substitute for stray in a cob building.

"Get me the wood chipper."

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[dj-warhammer.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of when I was wishing I could go back to school and reconnect with my family, so the city of Atlanta immediately started trying to kill me and take all my money. Result? Moving to Savannah and starting at SCAD. :)

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Life is *so* accommodating that way.

I'm eagerly awaiting that pube.

[worldmegan.livejournal.com]

I. Am so. In love. With this post.

[spottedvasa.livejournal.com]

I've enjoyed being around for such an interesting 10 months of your life :) *smooch*

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Me, too!