Below is an extract of my first blog post, which was written back in February 2013, and details the dream lifestyle I had hoped for back then:
After my walk or swim or surf or whatever, followed by my cappuccino from the Beach Bakery of course, it’s then time to mosey back home, possibly to get Nic off to school, or possibly to start work, whichever way I do it. The house will be breezy and open and light; all those walls will be painted plantation white, and with the terracotta floors and the timber blinds it feels a bit like you’re in Tuscany, especially with all those crazy bouganvilleas and frangipanis scenting and blazing all around the place, and the palms nodding in the sunshine, lush green against that blazing blue sky.
The kitchen window is wide open on its struts to let the afternoon sun in when it comes, and the pool beyond is blue and clear and so inviting. I will be in that before too much longer.
The interesting thing about the above post was that the house I would be moving into (if I ever made the move at all!) was nothing like the above description. It was dark, had small windows, very little breeze, and vertical blinds. It had no frangipanis and certainly no pool. But the above description is part of my dreaming at the time of what I would like, should I ever get to live in Noosa one day....
The above description however matches exactly! the house I purchased just a couple of months ago, and which we now live in!!! Even to the floorplan, and the very specific description of the big kitchen window wide open (this house has a servery overlooking the very inviting pool just beyond)! This house is breezy, open and light. The walls are plantation white. The floors are terracotta (laid on the diagonal of course, in true Tuscan style) and there are timber blinds to every window. And Nic gets to admire the gorgeous frangipani just outside her window. I get to look at the lush palms nodding in the sunshine, which frame that sparkling pool, as I work in my office each day, or as I'm cooking up a storm in my quaint white kitchen. Note: the kitchen faces west too, to the afternoon sun, again as described above!
So was I dreaming of a future house I didn't know existed? How on earth did I write about it, before I even knew of it?
Also the fact that to enable me to acquire this house, I had to let go of trying to control the timing and the sale and the price I got for my house, in order to allow the positive energy to flow, and deliver to me what I had dreamed of having. The house sold at a dreadful loss, and I was signing a contract on this one within three weeks of the settlement, at a price I could afford, in a location I am still amazed at... and I described this house back in February. And here I am!
After I moved in, the house needed a dog (to utilise the very social dog park just behind the house, again something I knew nothing of, and the waterways, ditto). I got on Gumtree, searched for a free red heeler (my bestest dog ever from many years ago was a red heeler named Mutley, who sadly we gave to my brother-in-law when my husband and I moved up here all those years ago). A pretty specific search, isn't it....
Next coincidence: a free red heeler, advertised that morning, located a five minute drive away. And Boof (apart from his penchant of rearranging my kneecaps when excited) is a model dog, despite having sat in a yard for the first four years of his life with very little interaction, no outings, no socialisation, and certainly no swimming. He is gentle yet protective, loves other dogs and people, riding in my cars, fetches, swims, sits, even shakes hands. He is a gun footy and soccer player! And he has no problem behaviours at all, other than the danger of his big boof head around my knees.
Need another example?
I've almost bought a few dishwashers of late, both new and secondhand. After all, I'm not used to not having one! There have also been some ripper boxing day sales, and besides in my past life it was always about instant gratification. But why waste my limited funds, when I could choose to wait and see if one would present itself to me in its own time, and for free. So I'd resigned myself to washing dishes by hand for a while, but quietly hoped the Universe would present me with one before my house guests arrive in mid January... and if it didn't, well I (and them) would be washing dishes by hand. So what.
Yesterday again flicking through Gumtree, and a local search for a dishwasher turned up one about 15 minutes away, free. Needs a clean. It's a nice modern digital Dishlex, but it's the wrong colour apparently... but looks a treat in my white kitchen. It wasn't even a new ad, in fact it had been advertised for three days by the time I saw it. I rang it, and was on my way over to collect it within 20 minutes. I brought it home, wrestled it inside, cleaned it out, hooked it up, and voila --- no more dishpan hands...
These days I'm a firm believer in the Universe providing what you put out there. All it takes is patience, but more importantly, a total letting go of any preconceived ideas of what ought to happen, or when, because that's not mine to call. All I know is that everything I want these days DOES happen in its own sweet time... as well as some things I don't want, LOL.
On that note, I'm off to the fracture clinic at Nambour Hospital tomorrow... wish me luck..... XXX
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