Hello Dear Friends. How are you this glorious day. I’m looking forward to the wonderful weather coming up. Woo hoo.

I have to tell you about last weeks radio show. As you know I had Eryn on to do readings with me and I thought it clever to have Eryn to our house to do the radio show (hopefully she has recovered from the shock of the clutter) and we can both use our laptops across from each other on the kitchen table. We looked like we were doing a game of You Sunk my Battleship.

Who knew (well probably everyone but me) that it would cause a ton of interference between the computers.

I was all excited and I was acting cool in front of Eryn like I do this all the time and know what I’m doing and we were both ready for our call in listeners when all of a sudden we were the producers worse nightmare.

How it works on the radio show is that a few minutes before you go on the producer calls and says ok sound check. Well he wasn’t prepared for our Dueling laptops and he was like OMG what’s going on. When I told him our clever set up he was like get at the other ends of the house to separate them.

Well the other end of our house is like 12 feet I think as the dogs were in the front of the house and we were at the back.

The producer did some fast typing on Skype and a few quick phone calls and it was fine. We did a few switches between us with Eryn taking the earphones and then switching to phone and back and forth but he cleverly pulled it off.

To add more panic I suggested Eryn to hang up the phone during the break to recharge it not thinking that we would need to pick up the other phone to keep the line live.

I’m not sure if the Producer of the show is talking to me. I’ll find out on Wednesday when he doesn’t call and I am replaced with another Psychic.

I can official say to myself here “What was I thinking?”

So to my Producer Extraordinaire, thank you for pulling it off and to Eryn, sorry for the panic next time I’ll know better. Thank you both for being in my life and for being you. After all someone has to pick up the pieces of my crazy thinking.

Quote for you:

“Chaos, panic and disorder – my work here is done.” (Can’t find author here?)

Until we meet again, Sharon

The Psychic Cottage

Hi Everyone. We are home now and Bobby finished the 30K.

Woo hoo! I was even there when he went over the finish line. His first 5K I was off reading by the water and missed the whole thing. It was his first race too. Oops.

He did it in three hours and thirty minutes. Not bad considering that he started last May running at all. I’m very proud of him.

I wasn’t too pleased when I was heading back from my adventure and stepped in fresh dog poo though. Thank goodness it was raining and there was sand everywhere for some reason. Like really people do you need to bring a dog to a race and do you need to not pick up the poo? Oh well. Isn’t it good luck to step in poo or is that if a seagull poops on you?

So all in all it was a great day. Poop and all. Bobby is zonked out on the couch.

Way to Go Bobby!  Love you!

Quote for you:

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.”
          – Bill Squires

Until we meet again, Sharon

The Psychic Cottage

Hello Dear Friends.

I’m sitting here in wonderful Hamilton in Pam’s Coffee Shop at the Internet cafe and I’m waiting on Bobby.

I’m so proud of him. He is doing the 30 K around the bay. It was very exciting when they are all at the gate. The energy was quite magical. It was also kind of creepy like the Universe has been taken over by thousands of people with cool running shoes.

I have been wandering around the City but everything seems to be closed up until 12 when the City opens.

I did see from the phone book that there is a little new age store. I’m so excited I found a computer place because there are a few scary people walking around Hamilton. One lady started yelling at me because I didn’t smoke. Kind of peculiar. I did meet a couple of nice people though too.

We got here and had to park which felt like miles away. I was exhausted by the time we got to Copps Coliseum. I was complaining about the long walk from our car. I couldn’t even imagine running 30K. It’s so bizarre. In the words of the owner of Singer Shoes as mentioned in my blog “There are worse addictions”.

I’ve been watching him live on the internet. What a wonderful event. He has the greatest number. 747! Now that’s cool.

So good luck Bobby! I’ll keep you posted on the next email how he did.

Quote for you:

“Jogging is very beneficial.  It’s good for your legs and your feet.  It’s also very good for the ground.  It makes it feel needed.”  Charles Schulz, Peanuts

Until we meet again, Sharon

The Psychic Cottage

Good Morning Dear Friends. Are you feeling the switch in energy. Ahhhh. It feels good.

I hope you are all in a wonderful mood and are thinking positive and happy.

I have exciting news for you.

As you know from earlier blogs (Rachel) and (Rachel) to name a few,  I totally adore Rachel the woman that did my Psychic Cottage Character and the amazing Illustrations on The Psychic Cottage website.

I was in touch with her recently and lo and behold she has started her own shop on Etsy called Thrasher and Wren. Rachel is the wonderful individual who took my ideas (mostly in my head) and gave birth to my Psychic Cottage Lady and all the designs on my site. Mouth Media with their brilliance and talent made her illustrations come to life but it could never have turned out the way it did without Rachel.

When people say to me ” I love your website” I always answer back “me too” as I am always amazed that it happened the way it did. It is beyond anything I could ever have imagined it to be. God is good for bringing Mouth Media and Rachel onto my Path.

Rachel my Friend success looks great on you and thank you for being you.

Quotes for you:

“Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.”  Wynetka Ann Reynolds

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”  Elbert Hubbard

Until we meet again, Sharon

The Psychic Cottage

Good Morning Everyone. It’s very early on Saturday morning. I had a bit of a nightmare so I’m up and about. I don’t want to go back to bed as I don’t want it to pick up where I left off. It was a troubling sort of dream. Probably happened because we went to see Alice in Wonderland last night or we were watching Fringe before bed. I was trying to get through this little hole and I was too big. Maybe its the fear of gaining back the weight I lost. Who knows. Where is Carl Jung when you need him.

My husband and I had a date day yesterday. We went for breakfast, then walked around Port Perry and went in all the stores, had lunch at the Fish ‘n Chip place on main street, went to Hanks the bakery (yum), then we came home watched a little TV and then went to see Alice in Wonderful in 3D with popcorn  (hey I think I know why I didn’t fit in the hole in my dream because I ate so much yesterday).

I so loved the movie. It was great. I want to go again and sit more up front to get the full effect of the 3D. I think we were a little too far back and off to the side. We love the seats with the bars in front as no one is in front of you and you can put up your feet. When we went to see Avatar we were right up front (and I mean the front row) and it was like we were in the movie ourselves. It was great. A little hard on the neck but great.

Johnny Depp was too cute in it. I think my favorite character though was the rabbit. I do love the caterpillar though too.

The person they casted for Alice is so beautiful. The white queen too was great. I loved the way she held her hands.  It will be a timeless classic I’m sure.

So on our date when we were in Port Perry I found something I have been waiting to come to Canada for forever. Yes of course its a gadget. As you know we have a Keurig coffee machine which is the best thing ever (no more Tim’s) and there is this little gadget to go with it that makes the foam for on top of your coffee. They only had it in the US and I’ve wanted it for forever.

(As Bobby is always so generous on our date days (well always really) he got it for me. I did get a mini  lecture on the way home about all the other gadgets in the cupboards but I reminded him of how much we love the Keurig which I had to convince him of before that we cannot live without now. All was forgiven. If we had of gone a couple of times for fuzzy Starbucks it would have cost the same anyway. This is forever.)

I continue here… I never had much luck with the hand held ones but this is different. It’s like a miniature little kettle and you add your skim milk, push the button and you get wonderful creamy hot milk and if you add the little frother thing you get foam.

No more cream which is sinfully fattening. The foam stays too. It’s perfect. Me and my gadgets.

We got it at Tweed and Hickory in Port Perry. See it here. It’s a great store. The women that work there are so funky and fun. Actually Port Perry is having a Diva Night on April 23rd (2010) so it is a great time to go. I always lose Bobby for a while when he goes in this store as he tries to tell everyone thinking of buying a Keurig machine how great they are. He must sell like 5 machines for them every time we visit.

Here’s some quotes for you:

“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.” Barbara De Angelis

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin

Until we meet again, Sharon

The Psychic Cottage

Good Evening Dear Friends.

 Happy St. Patrick’s Day. I hope its lucky for you and you win the $35 million tonight in the Lottery.

Would that be WONDERFUL! Oh ya.

Don’t forget its The Psychic Cottage Radio show tonight.  Come visit its at 9pm EST. www.ask1radio.com

A Blessing today instead of a quote:

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
~Irish Blessing

Until we meet again, Sharon

The Psychic Cottage

Good Morning Dear Blog Friends. How are you today? Today I woke up feeling like I was on the verge of something new and exciting.

It’s  not starting out that way though.

This morning I hinted to my husband that I might want to start running with him. Now he did 30 km for fun yesterday so I don’t mean that kind of running but just around the block or so. I haven’t figured out yet if I just want the cool running shoes or I really want to do it. Time will tell on that one.

Thinking I should start thinking about exercise last week I came across this box that my friend Kaleigh gave me when she was clearing out stuff. It is an Ab slide. Now when I opened I don’t think she used it much as it was still in its packaging and I had to put it together. I’m not judging at all because it has sat in our house for a year already too. After what happened to me though I’m kind of glad she didn’t use it.

This morning I was about to jump in the shower when I spotted it. So I put down a pillow for my knees on the carpet and tried to use it. I’m sure it wasn’t pretty as I was naked but no one was home so no harm. I got in the groove…once….twice…three times then all hell broke loose. Somehow the silly thing got stuck when I tried to push it and I went flying over it with the momentum of my push and my face went smack into the carpet, my glasses went flying and my right cheek took the brunt of it making a huge rug burn.

Once I realized what happened and the shock wore off I started to laugh hysterically at how funny the whole situation was. All I could think about as I was rolling on the ground laughing like a mad woman was “you really have to stop asking for blog material”.

I didn’t look at my face as I was a little nervous so I had my shower and then looked in the mirror. Oh my there is a big scratch on my face and a red mark down it from the rug. I’m thinking I have some “splaining” to do when my husband gets home and the funny part is he will totally believe me as funny things happen to me all the time. (Since confirmed he said “you look like the outlaw Josey Wales”.)

So  that’s my exercise for the day. Who invents these things? Maybe they have a little video camera in them that activates on use and they all sit around and watch them. I was thinking though if I had a camera on me, and of course I was dressed, that clumpsy mishap of mine would have made me millions on YouTube.

I knew there was going to be trouble in the karma department when I let out a giggle when the lady went flying off the treadmill on The Biggest Loser.

Quotes for you:

“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.” Mark Twain

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare

I promise to stay out of trouble….until we meet again, Sharon

The Psychic Cottage

Good Evening Dear Friends. Welcome to The Psychic Cottage Blog.

What’s new in your world? I hope you are having fun.

For our anniversary I bought my husband a copy of the First Season of Fringe.

It is so amazing. We totally devoured it.

I’m in love with Walter. He says the best things that make me smile especially when he makes me question our existence here.

Sometimes I think what if our existence here is like a micro second and when we get back to our energy self we say ok I’ll go down again this time I’ll do this or that. To us the existence is 80 or so years. A long time that we have created. Geez you have to wonder sometimes don’t you?

With this “micro second” way of thinking though its hard to get in the thick of it and take things too seriously.

So that’s it I just wanted to tell you that we LOVE Fringe and if you haven’t had a chance to see it check it out. It’s a little “gooey” at times for sure but the lines they use keep you laughing and questioning things.

Quote for you of one of my favourite lines on Fringe:

“Peter: Are you sure?
Walter: My boy, I’m not even sure that we exist on the same plane of consciousness, but yes, I believe so.”

Until we meet again, Sharon
The Psychic Cottage

Welcome to The Psychic Cottage Blog.

Today is a fabulous day for many reasons. One Bobby is off doing his first l/2 Marathon for which I am very proud and two the Weather is like totally awesome. Sometimes life is just so good I have to pinch myself.

I have to tell you about this amazing little restaurant in Bowmanville. It’s called La Cucina at 9 King Street East in Bowmanville.

I always heard  Marie, the owner of “Under the Toad Stool” and Jenny from “City Cottage” always talking about La Cucina for lunch. Well now I know why, it is so yummy!

Every time I go to the shop Bobby is like are you picking up food from La Cucina? I’m not sure what I would do if I was there every day. I think I would gain all the weight back I lost.

The best part is that the portions are large so it is kind of a two day meal. For me anyway. The first time I got it I had lots extra and I usually share with the puppies but even though they had this look of “pleeeassseee” there was no way I was sharing this with them. I’m like I don’t think so. I almost like eating it over two days as then I get to experience it twice.

The owners are a lovely couple. They talk to you about life while they make everything up. It’s very magical really.  You know how I love when someone has found their passion and this couple surely have.

All the ingredients taste so fresh and wonderful. I believe even the bread is home made by them that you get with your meal.

They are closed Sunday’s until Summer I think which is probably a good thing as this blog is making me really hungry.

I believe they do catering too. I can only imagine the possibilities on this one. Maybe if I bring a lasagna from them I won’t be asked to bring water next time (I’ll save that story for another blog).

So that’s it. For the lovely couple who own La Cucina thank you for being you. Success looks good on you.

Quote for you:

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”  Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story

Until we meet again, Sharon

The Psychic Cottage

Hello Dear Blog Friends. How are you this delicious night.

I wanted to tell you that the new newsletter is out and its a fun one! Lots of wonderful things in it for you to enjoy.

If you haven’t signed up yet make sure you go to the right of this blog and put in your email and I will make sure you get a copy of it.

Happy Birthday to my Pops in Heaven too.

Quote for you:

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” — Anais Nin

Until we meet again, Sharon
The Psychic Cottage