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     Isn’t it fun to have a night out with our best friends! Best friends are very important in our life. That’s why you should never betray or do something horrible to a really close friend. Some advice, friends can last longer than some of our husbands…or wife’s.
     Not to change the subject but actually the same goes for a hairdresser, and not just because I cut hair, but hairdressers last longer than most doctors, dentists or therapists. In fact, more advice, get rid of the therapist because in the long run the hairdresser becomes your stylist as well as your therapist, and it will cost you a lot less.
     Now to get to the point of what I want to say. Here is a photo of myself and two other girls taken Saturday, November 9th. The girl on the right is Nancy, the girl on the left is Kathy. I’m in the middle. They are two of my very good friends. Nancy has been having quite a few problems with her boyfriend of whom she just split up with two weeks ago. Before dinner we were all talking about her breakup. She mentioned to us she has decided to feng shui certain areas of her home. Feng Shui is a Japense way of life…structuring a home, room or any living arrangement to get rid of bad energy. Nancy was then hoping that she can use this technique to get rid of the bad energy in her bedroom that could be left from her relationship. In fact some of the rules in the bedroom for feng shui say, when you experience stress, arguments in bed, or end a relationship, the energy expressed in those disturbing moments linger inside the mattress. So Nancy has decided the best thing to do would be to go out and purchase a brand new expensive mattress. We all know how much that can cost!
The feng shui book gives a couple of other suggestions, if you cannot buy a new mattress. You can implement these solutions to cleanse an old one.
*Place the mattress outside in direct sunlight for at least eight hours. Wave sandalwood incense around it before bringing it back inside.
*Perform a salt burning in the bedroom after an illness, break up, or divorce.
     Now I’d really like to get into this feng shui thing to help clear out the negative energy that could be lingering in MY mattress. But come to think of it I’ve never talked about any of my relationships on this blog, only just a bit…not everything. I do try to have healthy and long term relationships. But sometimes they always don’t come out that way. In fact I go through relationships like a newborn having to change diapers. I try, but that’s just what happens.
     So one of the rules they suggest in the book of feng shui is, buy a new bed, well I thought about trying that solution, but that could cost me a total of five hundred and fifty four thousand dollars…and sixty four cents…and that’s just for the year.
     The second suggestion for the mattress is cleanse it outside in the open air. Now if I decide to cleanse my mattress from the breakups I’ve dealt with in the outdoor air like they suggest, I might as well just leave my mattress outside on my upper deck 99.9% of the year. Then I won’t have to worry about disturbing moments lingering constantly inside the mattress. The only downside is, I live in Truckee which is a snowy resort five months out of the year. A couple of those months temperatures hit minus eleven degrees. So how am I going to sleep outside in one of the coldest spots in the Western Pacific. This solution isn’t sounding to cozy.
     Now getting back to the salt or sandalwood thing….What the heck can that do? Start a fire with the sandalwood maybe, then I’ll be able to use the salt to put it out…Just thinking about the mattress sitting outside clearing out those evil spirts wasn’t sounding so good, so how is a bucket of salt or a branch of sandalwood going to do me any good…So whoever is into this sort of riff raff, I just want to tell you how I feel about any of these self help books on Feng Shui, here’s my thought on that subject…f@#k that …………………..FENG SHUI!