Too Much Work for a nickel....

Our new house

We just moved into our new apartment today. The girls and I really love it!!. The universe is so good, because if you just let the creator do her job she will always give you the best. So after the people tried to extort money from me I started looking for a new place to live. While I was packing up my stuff I realized that mold was growing in some of the corners behind the furniture. Look at the blessing there those peoples greediness saved my health. BLESSTATIONS!!!! The house was very cold because it was stone and marble, and it did not get much sun. There also was a crazy man who lived above us and always wanted to move things around at 11 o’clock at night. So moving was the best thing for us, funny thing though had they not tried to get all that money from me I would not have moved because moving is a a lot of work when you have children. But god knows best… So our new place has 2bedrooms….YEAH!!! I have my own room!!!! No more getting karate chopped in the neck while I’m sleeping; No more waking up chocking and swinging thinking I’m getting attacked. …lol…Nice sound sleep for me!! YEAH!! The girl’s room has twin beds so Nana is pumped, we have a fire place, and the house is warm and gets plenty of light. But here is the kicker, I asked if they could put in a washing machine and they said okay. The guy calls and says he’s down stairs with the washer, so I’m thinking two or three men will bring it up. But much to my surprise there is only one man. He sits it down and says “Here you go” I’m looking like ‘what is this’. He starts explaining how to use it, you have to pour water inside plug it up then after take the clothes out dump the water, I cut him off “ like hold up, I’m sorry but I don’t have a clue what you are talking about. I need a machine that I put the clothes in dirty and dry and my next contact with them is rung out and clean. You do realize I was only born in 1981, my grandmother would know how to use this, but I am clueless.” He starts looking and me like ‘you spoiled American’ yes America has spoiled me a bit. …lol.. Then he says “if this is too much just have your maid do it” then I said “ oh you got jokes huh??” he did not understand what that meant, so I just asked “what maid”. He said she will be her on Wednesday, have her wash the clothes, everyone in Morocco knows how to use this. Super BLESSTATION!!! My new house comes with a house keeper…. I always wanted one of those…. Yeah!!!

I could not wait until Wednesday; I needed clean clothes now, so I tackled the weird manual machine today. I push it to the sink loaded it with water, put my clothes in and soap, then let it spin for 20 min. took my wet clothes out put them into a bucket, then drained the water out of the machine. Then I put my wet clothes back in the machine with more water, let them spin for 30 min. I’m sure they need another rinse cycle but I was tired by this point and this process already took like 2hours. So then I rang each piece by hand, I think I pulled a muscle in my ringing out a pair of sweat pants..lol after that I took the heavy wet clothes to the roof and hung them up…. Wow! that was a lot of work. I am defiantly giving the housekeeper a tip because that is too much work for a nickel…literally…. I told Nana all I had gone through while they were at school, her response “Welcome to Africa!!”…..

ZUMBA DANCE PARTY ESSAOUIRA MOROCCO

DECEMBER 29TH 2012

2PM TO 4PM

JUST NEAR LA MAISON GOURMANDE!!!!

 

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Now That's Good Living!!!

Yesterday was 12-21-2012, and believe it or not I hardly noticed it. I have mixed emotions about that. Part of me feels like I should have dedicated my whole day to praying and sitting in silence. But the other part of me feels like I have done that over the past few years, working to get me to this place. I have so much peace in my life right now. This is what I have been waiting for my whole life. Growing up I was so uncomfortable with everything; I kept searching for the meaning of life, for the others who were like me, for the reason I never satisfied, basically I spent my whole life searching for me.  Yesterday slipped by me because I was having so much fun. Is it possible to get to a point in your life where you have just arrived and there is no more to ask for, only to give thanks for all you have been given…… That’s how I feel right now; I feel like I’ve been waiting 100 life times to get to this point right here, what more is there to ask for??? Some would say “you can always have more” but isn’t that the meaning of gluttony?  I feel like if I take this time to be completely present in what the universe and I have created then as I need things they will come to me before I even knew I needed them. Now that is good living!!!!

My mom is always sending me these recordings about deeper clarity, abundance, and prosperity. So I was listening to one yesterday evening while I was getting ready to out to yet another fabulous Moroccan party. Most of the time people talk about abundance it the form of things, how to clear your energy field so you can win the lottery, how to meditate to get a new job, visualize a never ending stream of money, practice this and you will have a new car in 30days or less,..lol.. The list goes on and on. But yesterday this gentleman had a different theory that I really connected with. He said that you can only really have true abundance if you are not connected to it……Then he went on to explain. The person doing the interview later asked him “well why do some people have so much and others have so little” his response was something like “ who is judging the amount of what something is worth???” A few post ago I wrote “just cause you got it all, do mean you got it all!!! And that’s REAL!!!!. The other day I was walking down the street and I saw a homeless man sitting on his little mat reading the Quran with so much conviction and passion. I was looking for something in my pockets when I walked pass him, during my search 20DH fell out on to the ground in front of him. I did not notice, but he chased me down to give it back to me. I was so completely touch by his honesty ( here we have a man that may or may not have had any food that day, clothes tatted, dirty, and turn, very few teeth in his mouth, spends his nights laying on the hard cold ground with a stone for a pillow,  no shoes on his feet, and yet has a heart that is so connected to universal law) I wanted to cry I was so touched. I know people who are dipping with material things and not a fraction of that mans honesty. So I 100% agree with the speaker last night, who is to judge worth and value of abundance, the man with everything and still that is not enough, or the man who seems to have nothing, but in truth has it all……. I thanked him for returning the money to me, then told him I’d like for him to keep, but he kept trying to explain that I dropped it, he found it and since it was mine I should take it back.  Trying to hold back the tears, I held his hand with the money in it, looked him in his eyes and insisted that he keep it. After about fifty “shukran’s” (thank you) he finally walked away. And just like that two blessings were exchanged; for him a week worth of meals and for me the honor of being in the presence of a true light being. So I say the day after 12-21-2012 that I have waited a hundred lifetimes to be rich and full of everything that really matters, my cup runneth over!!!! And for that I am eternally grateful!!!

Prayer works

So here is some great news to welcome the winter solstice. I went to immigration and explained to them the problem and about the people trying to extort money from me. They said not to worry that they would give me 2 weeks to find another apartment and to just make sure I get the lease legalized and bring it to them and I will get another 3month extension….. So yeah! I don’t have to take a long bus, train donkey ride to Spain. All I can say is prayer works!!!!!

Anything worth having is worth fighting for!!

You know that saying if it’s worth having then it’s worth fighting for….. Well I am in that type of situation, not with a person as most would think when using that phrase, but more with myself. Those of you who know me and have followed my life know the type of person I am. “Wow that Mahatara sure can take a licking and keep on ticking…… But I often asked myself ‘why did I choose to keep on ticking’ when so many choose to give up. My children are a good part of that answer, but the real answer is, I kept ticking because I knew deep down inside that there was a reality that I owed to myself to live. There are very few successes in life without failure, and all of my “oh No’s, not again” led me to this point. I always try to follow the path of least resistance, but now I wonder what is on the other side of resistance?? Here in Morocco  I have seen myself in a way I’ve never seen me before, my heart has a joy in it that I have never known before, and for the first time in my life I finally feel at home….. My tourist visa is up and now I am faced with either leaving Morocco or renewing my visa.  Some people may wonder how can a person who comes from “the greatest country in the world”…lol… and find salvation in a 3^rd world country…. Life is funny that way, just because you got it all; don’t mean you got it all…. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure….

 So during this process to renew my visa I have to prove that I pay rent, which I have done for the past two months, but it has to be proved… So interestingly enough the person that has to provide this information to the immigration office for me, has decided at the last minute that I need to pay them $9000DH or they cannot provide this information….Meanwhile knowing that my visa will expire in 5days; talk about being caught in between a rock and a hard place. When I tried to reason with them they kept insisting that this is how things are done. I asked those people weeks ago for this document, and they said it was lost… REALLY!.. HOW CONVENIENT!!…Then they tried to hit me with the one two wammy, like you are American surly you can come up with this amount. So I’m thinking “its not a matter of rather I can come up with it or not, you are straight trying to hussel me.”( I don’t think these people have had much contact with BL Americans, they don’t know I’m from the Projects , I will get Projectish and I would have that whole office up in smoke…lol… They are lucky I know Jesus, and it’s almost 12-21-2012..lol…)  No, but on the real, I was real upset and starting crying, so I went to the ocean. While I was there watching the girls playing so freely and absorbing the beauty of our mother crashing up against the rocks along the coast line, I starting thinking about the life I had built here, the friends I had made, and the peace that I have on a regular basses, and how I am not ready to give all that up, not without a fight. So here comes another intense part of my journey. You know what grandma use to say “if you want something done right, do it yourself” so I am going to cut out the middle man and just leave the country, this way I can stay another 3 months without any problems and when I get back I’m looking for another place to live.  So I will have to pack up our house and leave it with a friend. Then take the bus 3 hours to Marrakech, from there take the train 8 hour to Tangier, then take something ( I don’t know what yet) to the borders of Ceuta Spain, and then walk across the borders.  So if you had the thought to donate anything to the Urban Mystic Gypsy Fund at the top of the page, Now would be a really good time….

Before I go on, let me stop and say my heart goes out to all the families who are trying to migrate to a different county to have another life, for whatever reason. It is not easy and I can see how some people will try to use manipulating tactics because they feel you are desperate. I often hear people talk bad about immigrants, like “why don’t they just stay in their own country?” and I think “Do you really wanna go there.” It is easy to judge someone’s situation when you have not taken time to walk in their shoes. So to all the families traveling around the world trying to give their children a different life, please hear me when I say ‘ Keep praying, keep trusting, and know that the Creator has Angels all around to help us stand tall when we feel like falling. And even though things may seem tough now, know that there is always a rainbow after the storm.  Many Blessing to all the readers……I’m going to pack L