Today I went for another acupuncture session, and this time we’re focusing on the sugar allergy. Wow, I’ve been avoiding sugar for many, many years, and although I don’t plan on going crazy on the refined stuff, I’m so happy to be ridding my system of all sensitivity to it — because it’s in almost everything!

Yes, I can remember many times when I thought I was avoiding sugar, only to feel like crap afterwards and knowing that some of it snuck in… restaurants in particular love to put it in every sauce, dressing, marinade, or just on the grilled chicken breasts that are supposed to be pure.

Now, I just finished my 6-hour avoidance of sugar like after every treatment (the food changes, but the procedure stays the same) and that’s the last time I HAVE to (rather than CHOOSE to) avoid it.

So anyhow, the number of needles went down again… I just ended up with two in the back of my neck. And I enjoyed the treatment a lot, because this time the doctor asked “out of the blue” if I’d been getting headaches (well, he actually got that message from my body, but it seemed to come from nowhere).

I admitted that yes, I had been getting them quite often over the past week or two… and that I used to get them a lot, but they had greatly subsided except for very recently.

So he gave me an acupressure treatment on the back of my head and the sides of my neck, where it was so tender that it hurt like heck for him to press, but felt good at the same time because I could feel the pain melting away. I call that a “good hurt”.

One of those instances where it’s true to say, “No Pain, No Gain!”

It was almost as good as getting a full massage… which reminds me, I’m due for another one soon!

Except this was a bonus massage, because it means that sugar will no longer be an issue for me. Sweeeeet!

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Well, it’s been Doctor Week around here… four appointments for various things all squished into three days.

The last appointment was at the Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic in Medford (the biggest city around here) where they did some specialized Ultra-Screen tests for our baby, since I’m an “older” mom (meaning over 35).

Finally we got to see Peanut’s face, seen here in the ultrasound printout… a whole lot different than the small “bean” I saw a month ago!

We’re still not sure if it’s a boy or a girl, but bets are coming in on both sides.

It was quite an interesting experience though… besides the fact that we also saw the baby in 4-D (a picture is on the next page), we discovered that we have a larger-than-average baby — which wouldn’t be an issue except that it meant I couldn’t get the blood tests that were supposed to be part of the special screening.

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Saturday evening, Barry and I took an impromptu drive through Colonial Valley, a nearby little oasis of wildlife that we had never visited before, but had heard all about the beauty.

And it was almost as good as going to the zoo… maybe even better, because we got to see animals in their wild habitat, calmly co-existing with humans (as well as a few that were domesticated, and also co-existing with humans).

The first deer I saw, bounding along the grass towards the road we were driving on, prompted me to gasp in delight — which scared the heck out of Barry, who was driving.

Right beside him were three more deer, casually grazing beside the road. We drove by slowly, and I took a couple of pictures from the car.

Then we came across the herd pictured above — nine of them all together — and I had to get out of the car to get closer for this picture, with one of them looking right at me.

By the end of the drive we had seen 16 deer in total… all within about the span of an hour or so. Who can say they’ve gone out for a casual drive and seen 16 deer within an hour? I was pretty impressed by the whole thing.

In fact, when Barry said whoever saw the next deer would be treated to dinner, I manifested the 16th one almost immediately.  I looked around, then straight ahead, and said, “There it is… crossing the road up ahead.” And there it was.

But it wasn’t just about deer…

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A year ago this weekend, Barry and I were at the System Seminar in Chicago… and met face-to-face for the first time ever.

We had been working together for over 6 months by that point, and had just had a major success with the launch of Masters Of The Secret…

And we had been friends for over a year.

As business partners, we had done our fair share of arguing (hey, two ambitious, driven people who are passionate about what they do are bound to clash from time to time)…

But meeting in person allowed us to see that there were elements of each others’ personalities we had never noticed or given the other person credit for before.

Hanging out for the whole weekend — shooting video interviews together, attending sessions at the seminar together, eating meals together, and one night even exploring why “Chicago, Chicago is my kind of town” with a trip downtown to a jazz club and The Second City comedy show — cemented that we really were good together, both as friends and business partners.

But something else happened that weekend that was totally unexpected…

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Brennan Kingsland of Shepherd’s Haven Sanctuary, a private animal rescue shelter, left me a comment earlier that brought me to her blog…

And I saw a video she had posted there that really had some impact.

If you ever think you “don’t have enough” or “everybody’s better off than you”, this video will help you realize that’s not necessarily true.

And yes, it’s set to a cover of an old Tears for Fears song I used to really like, so that won points for me too.

But while it’s important to appreciate the fact that you’re probably richer than 75% of the world (according to the video), it’s equally important not to let that lull you into a comfort zone.

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Okay, I finally did it… I gave in, faced my fears, and got acupuncture done.

Yes, acuPUNCTURE!

I always said that I didn’t mind acupressure, but acupuncture was something I never wanted to do. Geez, who wants needles stuck in their skin, and willingly to boot!

But I’ve read and heard too much about what it can do to heal the body by re-aligning our energy flow, that I just had to do it, scared or not.

Lesson learned: Facing your fears is the best way to overcome them (I already knew that, but I need reminding each and every time!)

And wow… I discovered some really surprising things today!

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This morning I went to get my second ultrasound done, with my new OB/GYN at the Women’s Health Center here in town.

The baby is 9 weeks old now… and wow, has it grown since my first ultrasound at 6 weeks!

Not only that, but I saw it actually moving this time — whereas at 6 weeks he/she (or Peanut, as we call him/her) was just sleeping. And I heard the heartbeat, as strong and healthy as can be.

Here’s my latest baby picture. You can almost make out the hands and feet, which were actually waving around quite quickly at the time. The arrow is pointing at his head (yes, the head is the same size as the body).

It sure brings the term “miracle” into perspective when you can see the living results two people made… basically out of thin air!

I’ve seen the miracle of birth many times when I was breeding cats (and one of the reasons I chose my doctor is because she delivered her first litter of kittens at 9 years old)… but it’s different when it’s inside you.

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Today Barry and I were watching the Final Four basketball play-offs, part of the NCAA March Madness tournament.

We’ve been watching it all along, and guess what? I’m actually enjoying watching it!

I always figured that if I was going to watch sports, it might as well be at the pro level — the players are better, so the game would be more exciting, right?

But Barry has taught me that college basketball is even more fun and inspiring, because anything can happen — with a little determination…

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Easter has come to represent a time of new beginnings.

Eggs are a symbol of new life, Spring is a time of new growth, and we see images of baby rabbits, ducks and chickens everywhere we look.

Of course the religious tradition of Easter revolves around new beginnings as well, so it all makes sense.

This year, the Easter Bunny brought Barry and I something special… a new beginning of our own.

We just found out we’ve created the ultimate in manifestations — a new being (who will embody an old soul, but be new to this lifetime) that has already been created, but will be born to the world in November (shortly before my own birthday).

Yes… we’re expecting a baby!

Probably the most exciting, life-changing manifestation that exists!

And just like manifesting a career, a partner, a house, a car, wealth, health, or anything else — it’s after the initial seed is planted that the gestation period kicks in, and finally what you’ve created appears.

It never appears right away — because it needs time to develop, and for you to be ready for it, while it gets ready for you.

Funny how we all accept that when it comes to pregnancy… and yet we’re impatient when manifesting anything else on the above list.

Maybe we need to think of all our manifestations as babies, so we give them the patience, love and understanding they deserve.

Happy Easter!

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Today Barry and I picked up some plastic storage boxes at Wal-Mart, and one of them had a small cardboard rectangle inside… I’m not sure what the purpose of it was, since it wasn’t cushioning anything, but it fit loosely within the perimeter of the container.

A low semi-box inside a box. Or rather, a low wall that didn’t separate anything.

Barry put the cardboard piece on the floor in the dining room… and Jupiter immediately decided that it was a good place to hang out.

She kept going in there again and again… sometimes just relaxing, and sometimes using it as a vantage point, hunting blind and launch pad to attack Mercury from whenever the latter happened to stroll by.

It seemed to me that she somehow felt this low box — this wall that doesn’t separate anything — was a place of safety and comfort.

And beyond that, she seemed to think that as long as she was INSIDE the box… nobody outside could see her, and hence Mercury wouldn’t suspect the upcoming pounce.

Of course, kids play these kinds of pretend games all the time… but when I saw my cat doing it, it made me think of how adult people remain in their comfort zones with a false sense of security.

What makes it worse when people do it is they don’t advance through life to their full potential because of this sense of security they have — whether associated with a JOB, a habit, or remaining with a life partner that is completely wrong for them because it’s “easier” and “safer” to do so.

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