Disneyland Called and I Answered

Due to popular demand—haha, actually, the one person, my cousin Rickie, requested pictures, so here you go...

Halloween Time! at Disneyland

It all started one day when I got this thing in the mail. It wasn't even addressed to me. It was addressed to my cousin Eva who used to live with my family but now just has mail sent here sometimes. It was a Disneyland magazine advertising the resort and it had this huge pumpkin, jack-o-lantern thing on the cover. I flipped through the magazine, totally fascinated, thinking to myself and the Universe that I would like to go there during Halloween Time someday, as I'd never been there at that time and seen it decorated up that way. When I finished flipping through the magazine, I looked at the cover again. Oh, it's a pumpkin with Mickey ears—how cute. I ripped the cover off and taped it up on my wall of vision boards and psychic paintings—the place where I manifest stuff. Someday. I had trouble sleeping that night and rolled around restlessly in bed. Then I suddenly sat up and turned on the light. I stared at the magazine cover on my wall and it was only then that I realized that it wasn't just a pumpkin with Mickey ears, it was Mickey as a pumpkin! I laughed at myself for taking that long, three times looking at that illustration, to really see it.

The next day, as GG and I were driving to the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Fest, he told me out of the blue that he might be going to Disneyland the next weekend. My whole body lit up with excitement and without really thinking about it, I invited myself on the trip, hahaha! It took a couple of days going back and forth about the practicality of taking the trip, but as I stared at the Mickey pumpkin on the wall, I couldn't deny that it felt like the Universe was telling me to go. Everything was too perfect and it felt like a hunch, and one should never violate a hunch!

So that Friday night we started on our way down to Anaheim, stayed at a great hotel (had a discount!), and bright and early the next day we were there, Disneyland, at Halloween Time, just like I had envisioned one week before:

At the entrance


Halloween Time!


Just inside Main Street


I took a lot of pictures of It's a Small World

I noticed all sorts of new things on It's a Small World that I hadn't seen before, like the bush animals outside look new to me:

Moose

Inside...

Happiest Cruise


Chinese pandas


Moon

And I saw all these characters from the Disney movies that I never noticed before...

Alice and White Rabbit


Pinocchio

There were many others. GG checked later and these new additions were apparently made in 2008, so they were already there when we went in January this year. No recollection at all! But that's good, because then it's like every time I go, it feels new to me.

My peeps


Sun


Moon

Back outside...

Super cuties at a stand just outside of It's a Small World

My favorite rides this time were It's a Small World, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, the Haunted House that was decorated with Nightmare before Christmas stuff—I like the visually stimulating rides.

Some other stuff from Halloween Time:

Day of the Dead stuff


Day of the Dead band

Main Street, on the way out, feels really short. I mean, we walked into one store and because all of the stores are connected, when we walked out, all of the sudden, we were already at the other end of the street and at the entrance. I wasn't ready to leave, haha!, so I made GG walk back with me along the outside of the stores on one side of the street and then back down on the other side just so I can get my fill of Main Street and the last bits of Disneyland before we absolutely had to go.

One more look at Main Street


He's winking on this side!

The next day we took our time heading home. GG wanted to check out this famous hot dog place and it happened to be nearby, outside of Knott's Berry Farm:

Pink's bacon burrito dog

Hopped over to the Snoopy store across the street after Pink's and I found the cutest Lucy hat. They have all these Peanuts paraphernalia with the gang as first drawn back in the day and then how they look now:

Lucy then...


...and now


How does it look on me?

I wanted to get some Chinese/Taiwanese snacky stuff before leaving the L.A. area so we drove around and found this place called Cofftea, as in Coffee and Tea. The people there are so nice! And the food is good, too. I ordered a hot milk tea, yummy, and this, yummy yummy:

Condensed milk and chocolate toast

We admired the way the sprinkling of the sprinkles were so precise that they landed only in the chocolate sauce on the plate.

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere on our way home, GG asked me what I'd like for dinner. I said, "Noodle soup. Asian noodle soup." He said he didn't know where we could get noodle soup, except that there is this one Chinese or Vietnamese place at one of the rest stops that he'd seen before, but he didn't remember where. So we were going to stop at this big ranch place to look at their menu and I suggested that we also go check out Denny's across the way, and then suddenly, right there in front of us, was this Oriental Express Restaurant, the exact same place that he was talking about. The Chinese sign said something like "cow palace", indicating that they specialize in beef. No surprise, since we were in the midst of cow country. It made me wonder if they would have anything like a vegetable noodle soup, but I figured, What the hey, go in and take a look. And I think we probably walked into the one place in all of miles around that had a Chinese vegetable noodle soup, just like I was wanting. Miracle.

Add to that the miracle of finding my calendar for next year later at another rest stop, hee hee!

Well, that was my second trip to Disneyland this year. I will not say it's my last, because they have hung up the Christmas decorations already and I do love my Christmas decorations! I'll leave it open—you never know when Disneyland might call again.

The Affirmation of the Magic Purse

From the second book of The Collected Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn, Your Word is Your Wand (originally published in 1928, that's why the language is a little funny and the money is different):

A woman came for a treatment for prosperity. She possessed just two dollars in the world.

I said: "We bless the two dollars and know that you have the magic purse of the Spirit; it can never be depleted; as money goes out, immediately money comes in, under grace in perfect ways.

I see it always crammed, jammed with money: yellow bills, green bills, pink checks, blue checks, white checks, gold, silver and currency. I see it bulging with abundance!"

She replied: "I feel my bag heavy with money," and was so filled with faith that she gave me one of her dollars as a love offering. I did not dare refuse it and see lack for her, as it was important that I hold the picture of plenty.

Shortly afterwards she was made a gift of six thousand dollars. Fearless faith and the spoken word brought it to pass.

The affirmation of the magic purse is very powerful, as it brings a vivid picture to the mind. It is impossible not to see your purse or wallet filled with money when using the words, "crammed, jammed."

Love that last line—it's my favorite part of the story. Crammed, jammed!

This is a really good book. It's helped me to put faith into action, and I've opened doors in my spiritual work the past month. By trusting that I'm provided for by the Universe, I worry less, have fun more, and allow more money to come in from different sources. I highly recommend!

I Am One Who Appreciates

From the Abraham workshop in Boca Raton, Florida, on March 24, 2010:

Jerry and Esther... will be often in a restaurant, or sometimes moving down a highway, and they will find themselves feeling so good they will want to exaggerate the aspects of the moment in order to milk it just a little longer. Sometimes someone will offer them a compliment or a gift or a letter, and they will talk about it and talk about it and talk about it and talk about it and talk about it. Sometimes they will read your letter ten times because it felt so good the first time, why not do it again? In other words, milking, milking the moment, milking the moment of being in the Vortex for the singular intention of practicing the In-The-Vortex vibration. So when you find yourself there and you practice the vibration of it, now you find yourself more hovering, if not near, the vibrational doorway of the Vortex. And as you hang around in this vibration of hope, in this vibration of optimism, in this vibration of positive momentum, what happens is your Vortex just takes you in again and again and again and gives you evidence of your alignment, which then you want to talk about and milk further still.

If we were standing in your physical shoes... our mantra to our self would be: I'm going to radiate my perspective from inside the Vortex. I'm going to do one hundred percent of my calling of people when I'm sure I'm inside the Vortex. I'm going to write one hundred percent of my emails when I'm sure I'm inside the Vortex. I'm going to have one hundred percent of the conversations with the people I love, my children, my mate, the people I work with, from inside the Vortex. And if I am wondering whether I'm in the Vortex or not, I'm going to hold back and remain silent and look for an opportunity to be in. I'm going to be the blabbermouth of all blabbermouths from inside the Vortex. And I'm going to be very silent when I realize I'm not in the Vortex. No more am I going to defend or justify my experience or try to prove myself right or make others understand my position because I now understand the futility of anything I'm doing or saying or thinking while outside the Vortex. I have made a decision ­right here right now ­ to the best of my ability, moment after moment, I'm going to be in the Vortex.

In making that decision, it is our promise to you, that you will find
yourself there ten percent more tomorrow than you were today, and the next day ten percent more, until in a matter of ten days, maybe two weeks at most, you will have moved your position from mostly outside the Vortex to mostly inside the Vortex. And what that means from a manifestational standpoint is things that you have been waiting for for a long time are going to begin to show up and show up fast. What it also means is your level of joy is going to begin to soar in unexpected ways. Your ability to think will become clearer and people will be quite amazed at the clarity of your being. Your physical apparatus will begin to come into alignment. Medicines you've been using will become unnecessary. Conditions of your body that have been unpleasant will begin to fall away. Muscle toning will begin to take place. You will begin to breathe more deeply. The metabolism of your body will come
into alignment. Every relationship you have will find improvement in it. Your ability to perceive what is going on on this planet will be moved to new heights, and your ability to create whatever you are wanting ­ whenever you're wanting ­will become apparent not only to you, but to others who are looking at you...

Nothing matters more than the way you feel. So your new mantra could be: Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to look for those things I'm wanting to see. For I am one who compliments, I am one who appreciates, I am one who loves. It is my natural heritage. It is who I am.

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