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For Now at Least....

The whole picture thing was an attempt on my part to pump myself back up.

I don't have any energy right now to continue with frequent email correspondences, so I'm sorry to my friends whose feelings I have hurt by my frequent incommunicado states. They have nothing to do with you personally. I'm just tired. I'll resume when/if the energy returns.

I Didn't Know it was That Bad....

Do I annoy anyone else?

Here's your chance to tell me. Since I allow anonymous comments on this blog, you can speak your mind without fear.

What about my personality would you change?

Synchronicity - a Gift

Early yesterday morning I was playing Scrabble with Klaus. While playing, I received an email from Knight. The subject field of the email was entitled, "Zoll", which is a German word. Not knowing the meaning, I went to the translator that I use and typed in the word. The English translation it gave me was "Give". The same moment that I translated the word, Klaus made a move in Scrabble. The word he formed was, "Give".

Now, the interesting thing to note, is that the translation the website gave me isn't correct. "Zoll", Knight said, means "Duty". So, the synchronicity, then, is extra special to me.

To give is my duty?

Photo Focus

Bored. Working on a picture show, playing around -

http://surroundingsofexistence.blogspot.com/

Surfing and the sun......

Hang gliding.... Ice.... Brazilian woodpeckers.... me.... felines and canines....

Botticelli....

Life then and now.....

Fairies living in forests of fungi.....

It's just another manic Monday.....

Swimming to the Light

Sea-Monkeys are attracted to the light.

Maybe they should call them Seek Monkeys.

Nothing a Game of Scrabble Won't Fix

After Experian "solved" the mistake they made by merging someone else's report with mine, I went to check the new report they sent me and it's still all messed up with someone else's problems. It's really hard not to focus on this right now. I had a good cry for the person with the bad credit, my family, the economy, the wars, me.

In my daydreams I save the world.

I think maybe a game of Scrabble with Klaus might be good for me.

Welcome to the Rest of the World (Or Maybe, Welcome to Reality?)

I've had a wake-up call today, a serious one at that, that perhaps places me within the same realm of worries as the rest of the world right now. I thought about keeping the incident off the blog because I don't think anyone wants to hear about my worries, especially when right now everyone else has their own. Maybe my "problem" is only a little-itty-bitty-Sophia problem, even though to me it seems like an end-of-the-world problem. But I have to moan and groan about it because it makes me feel better, instead of holding it inside feeling like a balloon about to pop under pressure.



Basically, the good credit that I've worked hard to build over the 12 years since my 18th birthday has just gone to pot, all because of a mistake made by the Experian credit reporting agency. They merged someone else's report in with mine because of a typing error. The other person's Social Security number was one digit different than mine. This person has horrible credit, with over $10,000 in write-offs or collection agency accounts. It all ended on my credit report, and I didn't know it until I received three letters in the mail from various credit card companies informing me that they closed my accounts due to "delinquent credit accounts" found on the Experian report. Naturally, I called Experian and they removed the other person's information off my account, but the credit card companies that took their credit lines away from me will not replace the credit because they said I wasn't making use of all the limit. I had a very good balance to limit ratio which made my score look good, and now my balance and limit are almost the same. I was just getting ready to refinance my house so I could have more affordable monthly payments. Also, it was nice to have a little bit of credit in case of emergency.



I'm trying to remind myself that other people have bigger problems - well, the whole world has problems, actually. I'm trying to keep my problems in perspective, it just seems like the nice little world I was living in - Sophia's World - has just crumbled.



I don't like that something as materialistic as a credit score can affect me so much as to take my focus away from spirituality.



I'm trying to accept this lesson. It's a hard one. I know I should thank the Universe for showing me what other people are going through right now.



Throughout the latter part of today I've been hearing in the back of my mind, a famous phrase by Meher Baba, "Don't worry; be happy."