Sourdough Starter Recipe

Prep: 10min
stand: 5 days

1 pkg active dry yeast
2.5 cups warm water (105F to 115F)
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tbsp sugar or honey

1. Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup fo the warm water. Stir in the remaining warm water, flour and sugar. Using a wooden spoon, beat until smooth. Cover with 100 percent cotton cheesecloth. Let stand at room tepm for 5 to 10 days or until mixture has fermented aroma and vigorous bubbling stuops, stirring two to three times a day. (fermentation time depends on room temp. a warmer room will hasten the fermentation process.)

2. To store, transfer sourdough starter to a 1 quart plastic container. Cover and chill

3. To use, stir starter. measure amount of cold starter called for in recipe. Bring to room temp. Replenish starter after each use; For each 1 cup removed, stir 3/4 cup all purpose flour, 3/4 cup water and 1 teaspoon of sugar or honey into remaining starter. . Cover with cheesecloth; let stand at room temp 1 day or until bubbly. Cover with lid; chill for later use. If starter is not used in 10 days, stir in 1 teaspoon sugar or honey. Continue to add 1 teaspoon sugar or honey every 10 days unless starter is replenished.

(Better Homes Cook Book.)

How I ALWAYS Make the Sale.

Whether it's a booth at the Farmers Market, my online business, or working for someone else, I will always make the sale. But not because I'm a great salesperson. More because of the training I've gifted myself with. (Investing in myself, my knowlege, my mindset. The information is out there, and you don't need a big expensive fancy degree to LEARN it.)

It started with Attraction Marketing - learning all about it, what the heck it is and how to make it work for me, like it works for so many other people out there who are working for themselves. I learned these skills with a little training called Magnetic Sponsoring. This was geared towards the work at home stuff I was doing, but I found it worked in ALL of my business dealings and social networking.

I've also got an amazing CD collection now, with speakers from Success Magazine, and through my Watkins business. Filled with Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, and about 20 other speakers. I listen to this stuff all the time.

The next step was two fold. I picked up the Building On A Budget course (because, the internet is full of free ways to advertise, but how do you take advantage of it, and get placed higher than the competition, for FREE?) and at the same time, started with a course called Black Belt Recruiting. THAT one taught me SO much about how to DO all of those most uncomfortable things that have to do with recruiting. And, recruiting is the lifeblood of any online marketing business!

All of these things I use for my online businesses, but have REALLY made me into a more confident person in my day to day life, too. They were extremely reasonably priced, and I wrote them off at the end of the year as a business expense.

Lori

No time for SAD.

Seasonal Affective Disorder.

I've had it in years past. It would last anywhere from 1 to 6 weeks. I really think it depended on what was going on around me, from year to year.

However, this year I prepared. And rationalized. And talked it out with girlfriends. Every year, it usually hits me in February. By then, I'm exhausted from shovelling snow twice a day, and have too much time on my hands to think. Think about money, the future, and the sitting still doesn't help.

I was waiting for February. And the last week of January, a taste of it caught up to me. And it was over money. And bills. And the pressure all those things create. I prayed hard, and talked to the Universe a LOT, but tried my best to face the realities of all the possible outcomes, if I couldn't make the bills. (This is a self employed life. I imagine the stresses are the same intensity, just different focuses for those traditionally employed.)

However, somehow the month ended and it all came through. I don't know how. I still owe money, and I've got lists on my walls of who gets paid first, or next. But nothing blew up, nobody died, and we're finding creative ways around it.

I really think, for me, the key is to not shut down. To stay open and LISTEN. The opportunities are always there. And, I have issues with sitting still. It's not that I CAN'T, it's just that it's better if I have a book in my hand, so I feel like I'm doing something. (I really do feel like I need to be doing something. Even if it's meditation, I'm thinking before hand "This is the block of time where I rejuvinate and revive my sense of wellness. Therefore I am doing something.")


In other ramblings. It's Sunday morning, and I should be getting de-stinked to go to the Studio for a crafty liquidation sale I'm having. (again - get rid of some stuff I don't use, get some monies for the bank.)

Instead, I'm screwing around on my new Pintrest Board. I'm having fun with it, filling it all with my favourite things.

I've been doing Pole Fitness class. It's super fun and silly. It's always something I wanted to add to my "Resume of Crazy and Adventuresome Experiences." (I need to think up a good anacronym for that. Heh.)

I've lost a little more weight than I intended. I'm sitting around 117, and I only wanted to go as low as 120. So, now it's time to muscle up a bit. I'm not talking weight lifter muscle chic. Just "Firm, thanks."

I been doing belly dancing moves when I walk the kids to school and to the studio. (Hah, picture THAT!) No one can tell, it's all under my winter coat, just moving the ribs, upper and lower belly, and hips. Funny enough, it's been helping me firm up, and I don't even think about it. I need to tell you though, I used to have a pretty soft round belly before this, and being able to see and make my belly move around like that is Fun House Circus level silly. hehe. I'd be fun to do something with it.

My belly dancing DVD has some awesome yoga on it too. And those things are the only thing I'm doing to work out.

Oh, yesterday I went with a girlfriend, as part of her entourage (ha!) for her book signing at Chapters in Barrie. She rocked the house. It was a very very successful day for her! I'll write a proper blog about that a little later.

I have an entire project due for my Sustainable Urban Ag course tomorrow. (Food Dehydration and Drying.) Holy procrastination. I suspect I'll be up all flippin night. (which might be fine. I have no solid tarot readings booked for Monday, so there's the possibility of staying home on Monday. ) It's been a very busy weekend (that started on Thursday for me! lol.) My body is pleasingly exhausted.



Ach. It's 8:20am... I really have to get myself in gear to get to the studio. I'd love to stay and talk more, but I gotta fly. I'll bring the notebook down there, so I can carry on this line of thought. I don't feel like I'm done yet. And I still have to make myself breakfast, a lunch, and de-stink. Oh, snap, and do some quick rabbit chores....

(see. Must Be Always Busy.)

Lori

This is What the Voices Want - Everyday Psychic

"The book must be written!" Say The Voices. They are persistant, chirping in my right ear. I normally refer to them as my Guides. Except ofcourse when they show up unannounced and out of context.

I reply outloud "Really? Right now? Could this not have waited until I'm out of the tub?"

"It is Time." They say matter of factly.

"Great. I'm down with this. But can I get through shaving my legs first?"

Silence.

"I'll take that as permission granted."

This is my life as an Everyday Psychic.



The book, called "Everyday Psychic" is making itself happen, with the insistence of My Guides (Do I need to give them ghost-writing credit? This sentence makes me cackle.)

I am a psychic reader with 17 years professional experience, although not all of those years were spent embracing my skill. In this last year, I've come to an understanding with everything that hearing The Voices and seeing ghosts means, and integrated it into my normal, everyday life. I connect with people all over the world to give them the guidance they seem to so desperately need.

The one thing I need to teach now, is that you all have this skill. It's just a matter of bringing it out. I've discovered along the way how to let it flow naturally, without bells and whistles, and without untouchable mystery. This is what I need to show and share with you.

Because if I don't, they're just going to keep insisting until I do.



Everyday Psychic will include:

• How to bring out your own psychic intuition
• How to get your own guidance messages (Yes, you can!)
• Plotting your own life path & feeling less lost.
• Contacting Spirit Guides (And assuring your loved ones that "The Voices" work on the side of Good.)
• Dream-Life, and will I ever feel rested again?
• Balancing Real Life & Psychic Life.
• Tools, Tarot, and Touchable 'Magic'.
• Going Public & Marketing (If you should, and WHY It's OK!)
• My own wacky everyday story - The Big Floppy that forced me to listen.
• Enlightened Swearing.
  

It IS the time for this project - More and more of us are finding ourselves at spiritual and enlighted crossroads. We are trying to figure out how we fit it into real life, how to avoid the typical New-Age-Cloak-of-Absolute-Silliness, and should we tell our loved ones the about the truth we're discovering about ourselves?

This goal of completing this book and getting it out there is to demystify the word "Psychic" and all the other fancy words that go with it; To help you connect with your own psychic gifts (yes, you have them); And to help you find the guidance and answers you need for your own life, confidently within yourself.


Want More Information about EVERYDAY PSYCHIC? Click Here.

Losing the ohm.

So, the Universe sets me on this path. Says "Stop the Money grab, do what your soul is here to do."
And, I listen. (More like I was forced to listen, and then decided to go with it. ) So, it's THAT month. Where, there's more month than money, and I have tried to remain calm. I have been optimistic. I have been open and allowed the Universe to bring the money. The end of the month is creeping up on me.

Even though I'm doing my soul's work, money must still come. Life requires it.

I have been considering all manner of insanities to make it come. All of the things are NOT my souls work. I'm feeling confused. Because the last time I didn't do my soul's work and got wrapped up in the money, the Universe had me fall on my ass and sit still for 3 weeks. So does that mean I'm stepping backward if I take a minimum wage job? (You should see how much work it is to dumb down my resume.)

This is hard.

I think today I am stuck.

I hope I feel better tomorrow.

L.

.......You Might Be a Doomer (say it like the Redneck Guy. What's his name again?)

The Universe points me in the directions I'm supposed to be going. After the drama of last march, I'm afraid to NOT listen. There is a lot of trust going on here, though. To not hit the panic button and change direction is taking an awful lot of will power.

I think however, there's an inner "Doomer" trying to get out. Hehe. What's a "Doomer" you ask?

Yeah, the sky is falling, the end of the world is here, the pioneer days are back, I got left behind during the apocolypse, I'm ready for zombies. Those are extreme examples, I suppose. More scientifically, Doomers worry about food shortages and crisis, oil crisis, money crisis. And, are prepared.

I think there's always been THAT person in me lurking (there are people who've known me a long time who got used to the phrase "When the pioneer days come back." coming out of my mouth. )

Taking the Sustainable Urban Agriculture course, gardening and learning to preserve, learning to sew, and now rabbits? Yes, I really should make peace with this part of me, and not let the doomsday notions take over. I think I've kept it in check pretty well so far.

Oh yes, the Rabbits have arrived! I'm so pleased, they are beautiful. The doe is a Champagne D'argent, and she is so BIG! The buck is only 6 months old, and he's a New Zealand Satin cross. He is SO social! Tomorrow however I'm going to have to get them some litter boxes, and proper food. And once they are settled in for a bit, it'll be time to breed them. (I should probably check the moon on that one.)

I have so much to learn - But this is another one of those things that has just felt RIGHT.

The garden plan is plotted, I have most of my seeds already, I've got a bunch of jars in the basement... What's most pressing is learning everything I can about the rabbits, getting through my second course (Food Processing for Urban Gardens) and finding the money. (Again, the Universe said "this is what you must do" and I say "ok, make it so!)

I'm babbling. I have an assignment to finish.

L.