Intention

I'm surprised I remembered to draw a card this morning. It was garage sale day.
We set the alarm for 5 - a time I don't get up under normal circumstances, let alone a Saturday. My plan was for us to get up, move the cars, and then spend time in the garage putting all stuff into categories, so that when we went to set up the tables, it would just be a question of arranging everything.
Lately, I've been having a lot of problems sleeping. While I'm tired, it's taking me hours to fall asleep (lights off and all at 11 or so, but not falling asleep until 1 or 2). It has always taken me 15-20 minutes to fall asleep - I'm so envious of people like Andy for whom sleep seems to be instantaneous with their head hitting the pillow. During the week we have the alarm set for 6:3o, so I'm not letting myself sleep in during the day. I'm not sure why...just seems to be a phase I go through from time to time. Last night it was 2:30 before I fell asleep, so the alarm going off at 5 was not well received.
I did manage to draw the magic card, and today it was divine intention. What do I want to get out of the day. It was a good mantra for me today. It came to me that my intention for today was to have peace.

Andy is a true extrovert - he loves being in a crowd. When we had a garage sale a few years ago, he had no problem becoming "Crazy Andy with deals galore". I am an introvert - crowds, especially strangers, are a challenge for me. So tired and out of my element is not a good combination. Reminding myself that my intention was to have peace in the day helped me relax, let go, go with the flow. I think it made all the difference today.

One thing that did come of out this was a potential face to face book club. One woman was looking through the piles of books that we had, looking for one book in particular. I mentioned that I had read it, and that it was good. She said it was for her book club, and I said that I had read it for my book club.

A few years ago, I had been looking for a book club to help me get out of my reading rut - making me read books I might not have otherwise picked up. I couldn't find a real life book club, so I joined one online. I sort of fell out of the groove about a year ago. Before that I had been reading the books, and following the discussions. but not participating much.

Anyway the woman and I started talking about books and book clubs, and we kicked around the idea of starting a club for our complex. I think it would be great if we could get it off the ground. I live in a town house complex with about 200 houses, but I haven't met many of the other people, other than my direct neighbours. It would be nice to have a social outlet. I'll have to conact her later this week about seeing if this is something that we could indeed start in September.

Certainly a spontaneous turn of events to come out of a garage sale.