{"id":700,"date":"2009-06-28T06:11:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T13:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/blog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2009-06-29T06:55:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T13:55:31","slug":"sometimes-i-just-have-to-tell-it-like-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I just have to Tell it Like it is."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Everyone. Welcome to the TPC Blog. I hope today brings you great joy.<\/p>\n<p>I have a confession to make. I did a coaching lesson with Paula from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofabundance.com\/coaching.htm\"><strong>Art of Abundance <\/strong><\/a> (Which was amazing by the way. She helped me realize a few things I have to work on.)\u00a0 and based on what I wanted to change in my life I was supposed to be abstaining from the casino for 30 days and so far I&#8217;ve gone twice. Yesterday was my second time. My husband says I&#8217;ll give you money just come. He makes it very difficult to refuse.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking at it differently though now. It&#8217;s just a fun time like a movie or something. Entertainment only. I think before I wanted to win not just have fun. Something inside me has definitely shifted.<\/p>\n<p>So yesterday was fun I was there having a good ole&#8217; time. I spent all Bobby&#8217;s money he gave me but I&#8217;m even ok with that.<\/p>\n<p>I did have a strange adventure at the casino yesterday however and as it is blog worthy I thought I&#8217;d share.<\/p>\n<p>There was an empty seat at a slot machine and I sat down and put in a receipt for $6.50. Then this older man who looked like he might not see too well said oh no I was supposed to watch that machine for this man while he went for a smoke. That&#8217;s fine. I told the guy to relax as he felt like he was a bit nervous about my doing this and he didn&#8217;t protect the machine.<\/p>\n<p>It happens all the time. When the person comes back they usually reimburse you for your money or they come and take out your receipt. No biggy.\u00a0 I put up the chair so it wouldn&#8217;t happen to anyone else. I think there was $80 in there from the original guy who went for a smoke or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>I kept a watch for him coming back and when he came back I said listen I put $6.50 in so you can give me $6.50 or we can call them to get out my receipt. In the meantime I had already spoken to one of the lovely people that pay you out about it.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t this man say &#8220;too bad for you&#8221; (in a tone that made my skin crawl) &#8220;I had the chair up&#8221;. I knew in my heart and soul that this man was someone who always got his way especially around women and I was thinking &#8220;na not this time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I made my voice really low and said &#8220;firstly the chair was up because I put it up not you,\u00a0 secondly its my $6.50 not yours and I&#8217;ve already told the people at the casino, and thirdly I now tithe you the $6.50 for the lesson but I&#8217;m telling security. Whoa you should have seen him go off. I ended it with another few choice words which we won&#8217;t mention here. I went and told the lady what happened and she got security. I left the three of them all figuring it out. He was getting a lecture from security about leaving the machine etc. If looks could kill. I just smiled and walked away.<\/p>\n<p>What is wrong with people sometimes. Oh I know it was a lesson for me too of not being so Pollyanna and living life like everyone is really nice. (Although I did read somewhere on one of Esther Hicks sites that &#8220;Pollyanna lived a really nice life&#8221;.) When did grown people lie about $6.50?<\/p>\n<p>When I found Bobby and told him he was horrified. <em>What<\/em>? You are having fights at the casino? Ha ha. It was so funny. He did come to my rescue and said let&#8217;s go find the guy and get your $6.50. Always my hero. Of course I didn&#8217;t involve Bobby as the issue was already over for me. Well except for getting excited about how funny its going to look in my blog.<\/p>\n<p>After my experience with this creepy person there were lots of other people who made my casino visit a happy one. It&#8217;s fun sometimes. Like the older man I sat beside who had 135 free games and we would laugh silly every time he got a new one. This made up for one bad apple.<\/p>\n<p>There always has to be balance I guess. Good with the Bad.<\/p>\n<p>Quotes for You:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.&#8221; Helen Keller<\/p>\n<p>When looking for quotes I found these two by J J Dewey which kind of touched me so I will share with you:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Darkness is dispelled by shining a light on a problem, not by casting additional darkness on its path.&#8221; J J Dewey<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can shine a light and dispel darkness, but you cannot shine &#8220;dark&#8221; and dispel light.&#8221; J J Dewey<\/p>\n<p>Very wise.<\/p>\n<p>I promise to stay out of trouble &#8230;. Until we meet again, Sharon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychiccottage.com\"><strong>The Psychic Cottage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Everyone. Welcome to the TPC Blog. I hope today brings you great joy. I have a confession to make. I did a coaching lesson with Paula from Art of Abundance (Which was amazing by the way. 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