ha!! here's a murder of crows!

i'm feeling bloggy today! lol!  so i had to share a story. i wanted to tell you all about the cool thing that happened yesterday. i took miss lib for a walk. she is so great for everything, so i wanted to take her out. she's my love, my life, my business partner,  my muse.. so she had to come with. ;) so i went at the perfect time.. the time when the sun is just going down. my time, dusk. the crows are usually gathering to gossip about their days and the weather is always just right. so out we went. i saw a ton of crows flying to their normal spot... or so i thought. so i figured i'd follow. well, they ended up gathering in a different spot. as i walked down one of my favorite tree covered streets, here's an example: not the street i was on.. but very similar. anyway, i looked up and gasped! there were at least 100 crows in one tree! it was soo cool! then i looked around and to my amazement, they were in all of the trees!! there were thousands of them! i could see where the cluster started. so i paused. and picked up libby. i suddenly felt like i was dorthy in the wizard of oz! lol! i slowly meandered down the street, only glancing down to make sure i didn't trip on a crack. the sound was so cool! i heard noises from crows that i've never heard before. they were cooing to each other. it was so cool! the chaotic side of me wanted to yell really loud and watch them all fly away! lol! but i refrained. :D i'm hoping to get out there tonight and see them again. it was quite magical and beautiful. so i just had to share. and you know what else i have to share?!?!? i wanna continue my luv-fest, so roam with me people!!

this song reminds me of summers off from school. :) it makes my heart sing! happy thursday my friends!!! ((((hugs))))~ alysia

thanx to amber, now i know how to make my font way bigger! ;) thanx amber! :D so i was just on karismar's site and she has the beatles *love is all you need* video on a post. and you know, between the ringo concert, my healing studies, and that wonderful reminder... i am in LOVE!! with who.. no no no.. with what. ;) with life!! i also am reminded how much i love my work. :D i am connecting on a deeper level with the dogs. most of them have always been so good for me, but now they are kissing my face the whole time i groom them! lol! i need to step back from the *stresses* of my job, and focus on the great stuff! i mean, if i was to ever loose this ***goddess forbid!!!*** i would miss it terribly! i mean even if i was in hate mode when i lost it! when you peal back the layers you can see the truth. :) and you know, sometimes brilliance just spews out of my mouth! lol! it's a rare occasion, i think there are more blue moons then when this occurrence happens! lol! but i wrote on one of lisa's post this; *no truth could be spoken more clearly.. no thought could be expressed more succinctly then those spoken directly from the heart!* i mean where did that come from!!? did mr. poe jump into my brain! watch, it is someone else's quote! lol! i swear it just came out! but i am realizing more and more that i need to shut my brain up and listen to my heart. :) if you live your life with love, then there will be no stopping the joy that can come into it! alright kiddos, i've gotta get going to work now. :D see, i'm thinking of it in a happy way, no dread. yay! hope you all have a wonderful day! hope you all do something that is just for you! i hope you all let your heart be in the the driver's seat today!!! think of this pic and you will find it hard not to:

(((hugs))) and lots of ♥~ alysia

what a freaking amazing day!!!! the day started off like most. a relaxing time at home. getting ready to head off to the post office, the store {to get my mom some flowers}, then hit to road to temecula. well... lately, as most of you know, i have been opening myself up to the universe, the divine, and my spirit guides. well, yesterday they were yelling at me all day! lol! it began with an urgency to take my time. i wanted to get to my mom's fairly early, but something was making me want to stay behind. i also finished up some laundry that i didn't put away {lack of time}. but as i was about to leave, i looked at my precariously placed laundry and thought, "i better move that. i don't want to come home to laundry that was clean but now isn't cause it fell on the floor!" so i shifted it. and got in the car. now, i don't think i mentioned this before, but my car took a dive when i drove out to my mom's on friday. i'm passed the emotional end of it all. i just want to get it fixed and move on with it! lol! my alignment is messed up. so when i came back from my mom's i took her car, because i knew i'd have to come back to her house for the ringo concert. {the less i drive my car the better!} so my mom has a hybrid car. some of you may know, that they usually start off on the electric engine, then move to the gas one. when it moves on to gas the car will jolt a bit. so the car did that... but it didn't stop! i sat there and was like uh-oh! her car is dying! i thought it was in it's last death throws! {it's a really new car thought! but i just figured with my luck...} and then i looked up to see all the wires above my house dancing too. then i directed my gaze to my rv to notice it swaying from side to side!! then i went, "oooohhh! it's an earthquake!" lol! this was a fun one! anyone who has been in one or is from ca would know.. you have rollers and shakers. this was a roller! one of my favorites! it's way less scary. and as i've now found out, it's way less scary in a car! lol! shocks rule! i waited for it to stop then i got out. my neighbor's daughter came running out of her garage with her hand on her heart. i was like are you ok?! and she said that it just freaked her out cause all the crap in the garage shook. then i went into the house to check on my dogs. everyone was fine. vito was scared though. but if i talk loud he gets scared! lol! i walked around the house to see that i had some pix that were slanted, my crystal ball {the big one!} fell of it's stand and rolled around in my thing i had it in. {thank the goddess it didn't fall and break or hid a dog!} some stuff in my cupboards did fall. oh and most of the cupboards in my kitchen where open! one of my halloween bottles fell over. but didn't break. the only casualty is my cauldron mug i got last year. i had it in my dish dryer and it fell over. they handle broke. but i can still use it. maybe as a pot or something. hope target has it again this year. :) then, like any other native californian, i went along with my day. :) i went to the post office and then the store. omg! the store was messed up! i guess a bunch of bottles fell over. they warned me when i came in to watch out for broken glass. i then found out that it was a 5.8 earthquake. which was centered in chino hills.. now 5.8 isn't small.. but the biggest one i've been around for {i think} was a 6.7. however, that one was farther away from me. this one was literally 15 minutes from me! so we got hit pretty hard. crazy huh?!? it was felt all the way down to the mexican boarder and all the way over to las vegas! so that was a rockin way to get the day goin! lol! and i realized, that if i had left earlier, i would have been at my mom, or on the freeway when the quake hit. i would've been worried sick about my dogs! and my laundry soooo would've fallen! lol! so sometimes it's good to listen to yourself!

next i got to my mom's and we went to her local witch shop. he he he, here's the thing. she is not a witch. she doesn't believe in what i do.. however, she is big on buddhism and seems to really like the idea of stones and their meaning. and she was the one who got me into astrology when i was young. :D when i got to her house i gave her a card that told her she got to have a choose your own adventure b-day. she got to *shop* for her gift. so her choice... go to the witch store! lol! she ended up finding a celtic birth sign necklace. it is a sword that is for lughnassa. and i found a cool banner that has this saying on it: "success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success. if you love what you are doing, you will be successful." i think that's something i need to wake up to everyday. ;) we then went to bob's big boy for linner. {it was to late to be lunch, but to early to be dinner} i didn't eat much. they don't have a lot for us veggies. oh well. then off we went to see ringo!! :D

k. he is just amazing! it was such a fun concert! he is so comfy in front of people. he kept talking to people in the audience. at one point he was talking about his new song *liverpool 8* and a dude stood up and screamed. then ringo goes "are you from liverpool too??" then the dude screams and ringo goes "let me hear you speak" and the guy goes "YYYAAAAA!!!!" then ringo says "well we all can go YYYAAAAAA!!" lol!!! he did stuff like that all night! so funny! and in ringo's liverpool 8 song i have now found another fav quote for me. he says "i always followed my heart, and i never missed a beat." :D isn't that great!!! that is tattoo material if you ask me! lol! what's with me and hearts?!? so the seats were out of this world! we saw him at the pala casino. they had a stage that was reminiscent of my hard rock days. it was a portable stage. and all the chairs where folding out door chairs!! we were at the end of the first section. we had a great view! it had the ambiance of a wedding more so then a concert! lol! but it was awesome! nothing better then a concert outside. :D so his allstarr band included: Colin Hay, Billy Squier, Hamish Stuart, Edgar Winter, and first timer Gary Wright and on drums, Gregg Bissonette. so i heard, dream weaver, frankenstein, land down under {a personal fav.}, and a few others that i can't remember right now! lol! but the best was billy squier and stroke! i love that song! lol! and it was so funny cause all these men are rockers, but from a different time then billy.. well, a different style really. he was wearing jeans and a tee, where as most of them where in suit type things. lol! and he was just ooosing with sex appeal! it was pretty funny! and gary wright was a crack up! every time he wasn't singing he would look around with a dopey grin on his face. with his bleached white teeth glistening in the moon light. lol! i couldn't keep a straight face! so it was a memorable night to say the least! ringo is the man! very entertaining! i would love to see him again! and he played yellow submarine as his encore... which was sooo funny too. he said, "now is the time that the band and i would go hide in a little black corner and wait for you all to scream for us to come back. but it's just silly, we know we are coming back.. you know we are coming back.. but it's rock 'n' roll tradition. well.. we aren't gonna do it. but you all can cheer for us!" lol! it was great! and he ended with john lennon's *give peace a chance*. so wonderful! i just loved it!

and then, to cap off my night of rockin and rollin i had to drive my alignmently challenged car home! i was shaking so bad i had to turn off my cd cause it kept skipping! my arms felt like they were on fire! and my back itched from the gyration. lol! so i had one heck of a rockin day!! :D hope you all have an amzing day too! (((hugs)))~ alysia

yesterday my parents and my aunt and uncle {not justin's dad. another bro of my mom's} went to visit justin. i guess my dad told justin that he wanted to get a tattoo in his honor. justin was so excited about the idea of it! my mom came up with the idea of all of us getting the same tat. so far, my mom, aunt, and i are in! my dad's doin his own thing, but we girls are doing this:

  i guess this is justin's badge or something.. lol! i think i need to ask him exactly what it is! i'm sure i'm going to be explaining it a lot! but in the banners we will probably do his name and then on the bottom say my  hero. :) it's still a work in process! and yes, my future bf will be doing it! ;) we are going to pick justin up and bring him to the shop so he can be there for the fun. and yes, we all wanna have it done at the same time. well.. on the same day that is. :D my dad has his own dude, but we girls will be using my man. i'm so excited!! i'm not sure when it will happen, but we will see. my aunt is a photo queen, so i'm sure we will have tons of shots for you all to see when we get it. :)

so guess what tomorrow is..

ha!! ringo live!!!! aaahhh!! i'm so excited! i can't wait! i know it's not going to be an exciting rock show, but it will be fun and funny i'm sure! i love love him! can't wait to tell you all about it! :D so know what that means?? today's my mom's b-day. :) i'm so happy that she has my aunt at her house with her. she is having a great day today! i called her and she was having a blasty blast! i usually call her and she's not doing anything. she is like, it's just another day.. so i have a feeling this will be one of the best b-days evah!! hope you all have a wonderful day tomorrow! i know i will! (((hugs)))~ alysia

what a perfectly lazy sunday! i have been up for about 3 hours and i am still in my pjs and i have been on the computer the whole time! lol! keeping up with you all is quite time consuming!! *not in a bad way of coarse! ;)* so my plan for today??? it is one of witchy goodness. i'm gonna go pick up some morning glory and perhaps some basil  and other herbs. someone left a trellis by my trash so i took it and put it in my backyard. :D i'm going to have the m.g. climb it. and yesterday i had pizza with fresh basil on it. and damn was that good! so i was thinking i need some of that too. :)  i also plan on doing some cleaning and laundry. cause i am over due! oh and i am thinking of doing a small spell for my bro. he is in japan right now! this is his first time out of the country. so i am excited for him! he is on a business trip and his wife will be meeting him out there too. :D so i just wanna do a little protection for him. :)

so here's a little side effect to my *psychic showers* {for anyone who missed that post: i do a small meditation before bed to let go of any anger/pent up rage/irritations/you get the idea! lol! from that day}. i have noticed that i forget what it was that irritated me! i wanted to post some things that happened the day i saw justin.. but i had to stretch to remember! lol! it's kinda nice. and once i remember i don't feel irritated or anything. it's like i am remembering something that just *happened*. kinda weird huh?!? i think i truly am letting go of it at that moment!

so here's some magical things that i wanted to tell you all about. {yes they involve the drama that i want to share. ;) } #1. i explained how justin stepped on a home made land mine... well... when he was deployed, i did a protection spell for him. it is the same one that i've done every time he's gone out. however, this time i placed protection on everyone who was with him. i ask to have all of his buddies protected. i ask to have no one who was with him die. {he's lost some great friends, so i didn't want him to have to go through that again!} what i  find to be totally amazing, is that no one died! his platoon even was under fire when he was taken away, but no on died! and here's the things that are amazing to me. justin should've died on at least 2 of his deployments! the first time he was the gunner on the hummer. so he had the  most dangerous job. he was completely exposed! and he was hit. they ran over a bomb and all he got was shrapnel in his hand and some hearing loss. the driver didn't make it. :( but really wouldn't you think the dude who is not inside the rolling vehicle should've been the one to loose his life??? and this time.... he stepped on a freaking land mine!! and so did 2 other guys who were with him! no one died. and check this out! when he got hurt, they called for a hummer to come and take him and the other injured ones away... that hummer hit a land mine! as far as i know, no one died. then they had to wait for a black hawk to come get him. once he was being loaded onto the helicopter, the attack began. so he and the other injured dudes were safe. crazy huh?!? when i heard about all of that it made me sit back and scratch my head. i am in awe of the awesome power of magic! that is intense! and thennnn..... his personality/positiveness and healing, i feel, has a lot to do with magic as well! he had some scares with blood clots, but he was ok. he is feeling good enough to put himself into a wheel chair! in his hospital room he has a roommate. that dude only lost 1 leg. when his doc came in he sounded like he was soooo sad. and sooo depressed. so see. you all are helping immensely! thank you so much for that! :) 

now onto our bindings.... his step mom has been soooo good to him! her true colors are shining with my uncle, who in turn is telling us all about her wonderful demeanor *note the sarcasm!*  however, justin is completely unaffected. at first, when i heard that she was being a bitch again, i was like damn it didn't work!! but then i realized i bound her to be good to justin. to not hurt him in any manor. so that, as far as i'm concerned, is working! the only thing that i didn't foresee as an issue is his father... my uncle. he is playing the victim right now. justin's mom has been with him this whole time. she even flew back to ca with him she hasn't been home at all. my uncle lives very close to where she lives, which is like 4 hours away from s.d.. apparently the military has housing for the families of the injured. so she has been staying there. well.. up where justin lives, there has been all kinds of fund raisers going on. my uncle said that you can't even go into a grocery store without seeing a bucket there for him. isn't that cool?!!? well, some of the money is being raised for his mom and dad so they can visit him. you know, for gas, dog sitter, and whatever else. my uncle's work has said that he can take all the time he needs off... well... here's the thing. justin is on his second week of being in ca. my uncle hasn't gone at all. he is saying that his ex wife has *probably* taken  all of the money. that he doesn't know where any of it is... well you know what?? so f**king what! he's an adult, he can either call her and ask, or he can pay himself! why should justin not have his dad with him just so that he can prove a point! LAME!!! i went ahead and had my car fixed, even though it cost me more money then i had, just so i could visit my cousin! so why can't he! i make WAY less then him and i still did it! it cost me $600 to go see my cousin. it won't cost that much for my uncle. he can get housing from the military or he could stay with my mom who is like an hour away! ggggrrrrr that just pissed me off so much! and his wife has been selfish and i know that a lot of it has to do with her and the fact that she doesn't want to see my uncles ex!!! so ya. that's some of the drama! but like i said. i think the good outweighs the bad. as long as justin has his friends and some of his family and is in good spirits, then as far as i'm concerned, things are good! i've asked my mom over and over to let me go off on both of them. but she says no. they would be surprised at how mean i can be when someone i care about so much is being hurt! but i will bite my tongue and bide my time. if i ever see them directly hurt justin.. then there is no stopping me! lol!!  they will have the full wrath of my grandma! i'm sure she will take me over! lol! ok. i think this is llllloooonnnngg enough! :D i hope you all have a magical day!! sending tons of luv to you all!

((((hugs))))~ alysia