Last week, the title of this post found its way into my head.  It was a couple days after I’d written that Financial Marathon post when I got a last minute voiceover for the following day.  I’d already figured December would be pretty sucky on the VO front with only a couple on the schedule, so that was a nice unexpected shot of dough.  Then, in the last few days, I booked 3 more (2 for tomorrow and one for the first week of January).  Considering it’s the holidays when that kind of work tends to go deadsville, this is pretty dang good.  So once again, the phrase “The Universe Will Provide” popped into my brain.

Today however, it graduated to becoming my new mantra.

For the last 4 days, I’ve been worrying about the wall of snow my car’s been sitting behind.  Since tomorrow morning’s job is a 40-minute drive away, I had to do something about it.  Sweet Nick, who’s been getting me out of tight spots for the last 5 years and continues to do so, even though we’re no longer an item, said “let’s dig each others cars out together and if mine is easier, you can borrow it to get to the job” which instantly made me feel better, since there was no way I could have done it alone.

So this morning, we look at my car and realize it’s worse than I thought, there was just too much hardened snow to even try clearing it.  While I could borrow Nick’s car to get to my job, it meant my Xmas plans (driving to upstate NY to my best friend’s annual sleepover party) would have to be canceled.

The Universe Will Provide.

We’re standing there, looking at it, realizing it’s a lost cause, when that funny old guy I mentioned in the last post, the one who lent me his shovel, appears with that same huge grin on his face and starts chatting with us.  He’s been working over there the past couple days removing snow from the Union Hall parking lot, a few yards from where my car was parked.

A mere $25 later, he and his Toro snow blower had cleared all the snow around the car but not before showing me his handgun (kept under 4 pairs of pants which entailed an amusingly tame strip session), telling me about his colon cancer in ‘03 and his wife who has Alzheimer’s, and sharing with me a few joyous philosophies on life.  I couldn’t help but hug the guy in thanks and that 73 year-old hugged me back so hard, he picked me up off the ground!  Then Nick helped with the finishing touches (because my battery died, too, so when we got his car out, Nick saved my ass with a charge).  Suddenly, my worries from the last 4 days evaporated and in its place, an incredible feeling of inner peace.

The Universe does appear to be providing, and just when I need it.  I also love saying it because “The Universe” is such a profound, infinite thing, it makes me feel there are positive forces at work.  But don’t worry, I’m not going all New Agey on you all, I’m too pragmatic for that, but it doesn’t hurt to have a positive outlook right now. I think it’s making me more receptive to whatever opportunities arise.

Off topic, I wanted to say that it never fails to amaze me how many people comment on this blog. I feel the love and want you to know I’m sending it back in waves.  But sometimes I feel guilty because while one day I might be in talky mode and reply to everything, or at least a few comments,  often I don’t even have the energy to reply to anything.  That’s totally my weird hermit ways and why, though I’m technically on Facebook, I only log in fast enough to check out whatever it is I’ve been told to go see, before logging off within seconds.  So if I don’t reply to your blog comment please know that it’s not because I don’t cherish it and sincerely thank you for contributing, it’s just because I’m a hermit freak sometimes.

I’ll leave you with something from my apartment building that made me laugh.  There’s a new sign on the inside of the front door, I guess in case you can’t remember how you got in the building in the first place or for those who think that the street and cars seen through both outer door’s glass panes might be a mirage.

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