Hubby and I

The Author of this post is Herman Barry

My husband and I have a pretty heated debate going on at our house. He really wants us to go to http://www.tvbydirect.com/ and sign up for a lot of additional TV channels so he could watch all his sports on the weekend. I really don't think it's a great idea for a number of reasons. First of all, my husband already works 50 hours a week and I feel like anything that takes up more of his precious free time is just going to shortchange the family. On top of all that our sons are both in their teens and I don't think it's a great idea for them to spend all their time watching sports. I would much rather than be outside playing or hanging out with their friends, but the last thing I want is for them to become couch potatoes. I don't know, maybe I am being too controlling and I really just feel like I like it the way things are around here and I don't know that it's a great idea to disrupt our lives.

What creates a Spark in you?

My awesome Friend Valerie wrote a great post called The Secret Life of a Wannabe Writer and she got me thinking about when I was younger and how much I loved celebrity things, TV shows and Movie Trivia, how I watched my favorite Robert Downey JR and Drew Barrymore movies over 50 times each. I would learn every single scene, what music was playing in the background, what people would say, and my lips would move with every word uttered by the actors on the screen. I would collect movie memorabilia and searched constantly on Video Rental Places for the latest movie posters and/or movie cardboard cutouts to put in my bedroom.
Most of my thoughts were dedicated to movies, TV shows, Books of Fantasy and my Dream Journals where I would write all the dreams I had and would then go back and finish up the stories. I would create alternate situations, different endings, etc. I spent most of my childhood daydreaming and to tell you the truth I don't recall much of my real life events, especially 4th Grade, I have no recollection what so ever of being 9. Don't remember what teacher I had, who were my friends, where I lived, what I did, nothing. As I grew up I got married and left that world behind, and tried to concentrate on the present and live in the here and now. But I must admit that for many years I felt awkward, as if I did not know how to live as I was not used to it. I left my dreams behind and concentrated on being content with everything that was presented to me. I decided not to dream, not to want, not to wish for things that I did not believe I could have. After many years I finally realized by discovering the Law of Attraction that the way to be happy and get the best things in life is to have a very specific desire of what you want, to feel that you deserve it, that you can achieve anything and everything that you want, and here I was being content, thinking I did not deserve anything that I didn't already have, not wanting anything, forcing myself to separate from beautiful things, exotic things, fancy things, beautiful houses, nice cars I would refuse to even look at catalogs or magazines that had images of things that most people would love to have, beautiful houses, elegant clothes, beautiful hair, nice make-up, healthy bodies, etc. because seeing these images would cause a reaction in my body of desire for these things and because I believed that I was not capable of getting them so I decided to put them in the back of my mind and forget they even existed. But now I know the secret, and it is that we have to expose ourselves to all those images and thoughts of those things we want, because we deserve to have everything we want, we can have all these things, the world is abundant and it has more than enough things for every single one of us. But we need to be specific, we need to want, we need to ask, we need to have the deep emotional desire to get whatever we want to get and we will receive. So now I am working on bringing back my desire for all these things that make my life happy.
Have you found your spark yet? What makes you happy? Are you open to receive all these happy things in your life?

TV or No TV, That is the Question

It's been two weeks since I have no Direct TV, one day it just suddenly stopped working, as it constantly searched for a non existent signal. I called Direct TV and they sent over a technician who said that he could not fix it because the Satellite was owned by my landlord who is using a private contractor for his service and legally they cannot touch it as it is private property. They told me I should call the private contractor to get him to fix it. Well, the private contractor said he can come over right away and fix it, for $92 and he will give me a receipt so I can get credit from Direct TV. This sounds really fishy, so I tell the guy that I am going to call Direct TV and find out if it's true that they give credit for that. I call Direct TV and they say that they do not give credit for that kind of thing. So here I am back and forth with Direct TV and the private contractor and nothing is getting resolved. I don't feel comfortable paying $92 to get some guy to upgrade my Direct TV service so that I can use it. The thing is that instead of having individual satellites for each apartment, the landlord is using one big satellite and splitting it, and it has been overloaded and cannot accept any more people, so in order for me to see TV, I need the upgrade. So I am left with one question, TV or No TV.
With today's technology and the help of the ability to watch TV in the computer and devices that allow you to see the computer on your TV screen and the wonderful invention of Netflix and their instant view movies and TV shows I must say that in 2 weeks I haven't really missed having TV. And what I have noticed is that the girls now play more, draw more, paint more, talk more. And life seems a little bit better. There are periods of quiet when the TV stays still and the girls go about their days as if the TV didn't matter and it makes me realize that No TV has been a blessing. We have to carefully select what we watch and we don't have to worry about watching something at a specific time, we watch whatever we want, when we want it. And that is great.
So today I called to cancel service on my Direct TV and after a long talk with the Direct TV people they told me that they were going to investigate this private contractor because the story I told them did not sound like something that it is legal as my service is not set up as a multiple dwelling service. So while they investigate I will enjoy my TV-less time and the quietness that comes along with it.