Katie’s Magical Practice Number 5 – Money, again:)

I went home this past weekend to support my dad in his campaign for a position on Cecil County, Maryland’s City Council.  It was an AWESOME trip!  I had a great time with him just talking and going about life.  My uncle came up from Annapolis and we hung out really for the first time ever.  I think that we are going to have great relationship.  He wants to have family in his life and was really grateful that I had wanted to see him.  I also had the chance – wait on sec!  I think that I am going to stop here with the tales of my trip for actually a couple of reasons.  1)  In the interest of time, it is 6:15AM and I still need to juice, dress and get to work by 7:30AM, I am going to hold off on telling you about my trip home.  2)  Most of this will be included in my counted blessings.  3)  If I were to write all of this I would want to give it the time it deserved and right now I can’t, so I am going to hold off on this story and suffice to say, I was very busy the past couple of days having a great trip.  Though I did not have time to write down what I was grateful for, I did spend most of the time experiencing my gratitude.  Per The Magic’s instructions, I am going back 3 days in exercises to reestablish my gratitude.

The Best of Yesterday – My flight from Philadelphia to Maryland was supposed to leave at 8:30AM yesterday.  I arrived at the airport at 7:18.  Made it through security rather swiftly and seated myself in the waiting area.  The flight attendant came over the speaker and said that they had overbooked the plane and would be offering travel vouchers for those who agreed to fly later that day.  I started to get irritated with the airline and then thought, hmmm – I should go check this out.  I don’t have anywhere to be until 7PM.  After some negotiations, the attendant and I determined that, if they needed me to switch my flight I had a suitable option and would do it.

They ended up needing my seat.  I went back up to the counter and the attendant gave me my new tickets and my $500 travel voucher, that I can put toward future flights on any airlines.  The attendant also confirmed me on a flight that I was previously on stand by and gave me a first class seat on one leg of my trip.  I arrived home less than 2 hours after my originally scheduled flight with a travel voucher that will probably pay for my next 2 trips.

Counting My Blessings –

1. I am so grateful that I was able to switch my flight yesterday because now I have $500 to put toward future travel.
2. I am so grateful that I hung out with Uncle Milty when I went home, because I learned a lot about my dad, his family, and my uncle.  I now have a completely different relationship with my dad and his family.
3. I am grateful that my uncle wants to have a correspondence.  It will be so cool to get something other than a bill in the mail, and it will really give us the opportunity to get to know each other.
4. I am grateful that Milty and my dad were excited about the idea of having a family reunion, because I think it is going to be so much fun and am really looking forward to it.  Also, if they are excited about it now and we have plenty of time to plan, it will actually happen 😉 .
5. I am grateful for my new iPad, because it is really cool.  It is going to help me be more efficient and keep track of  commitments better.
6. I am grateful that I went home to support dad.  It really meant a lot to him that I was there and I got to know him in a new way.
7. I am grateful that my dad has friends who love and respect him so much.  It is nice to know that people are looking out for him, taking care of him and keeping him in good spirits.
8. I am grateful for selling the CGX stock that we sold, because it reduced my margin to something that will be much easier to pay off.
9. I am grateful that 9/14 is my last $200 Credit Card Debt payment to dad, because that means that I have kept my promise and paid him back in full.  I don’t know if he thought he was going to get it and though he has never said anything to me about the payments, I know that it means the world to him that I am repaying him.
10. I am grateful that I have all of these nice men in my life (dad, Milty, Bob, Greg, Ryan, Michael, Danny, Rob, Mitch, Tim, Mike, etc) who really love me.  Not all of them say it, but it is so great to have such warm healthy relationships with men.  There was always something missing and now I am complete!

It is so cool that I really feel like I could go on forever being grateful.  I have such an amazingly blessed life.  Thank you for sharing it with me.

– Katie