JACKPOT! Creative financing for the trip!

About a month ago, I bought airline tickets to Costa Rica on a whim. Jax and I were looking for our first out of country volunteer adventure and he was adamant that it be in a rain forest. So a few Google search and Sidestep hits later, and Costa Rica it was. Destination - a go. Details (like funding) - uhhhh.... still a bit vague. Until today!

But thanks to groovy little options like "Bill Me Later" you can have up to 90 days to figure out how to pay for things which are way out of your current league (like month long trips to Central America), so I figured, what's the risk? There are approximately 30 Powerball opportunities before the first payment is due, so I am confident that we'll make it somehow.

Today, I hit the jackpot. (and no it wasn't Powerball - duh it's Thursday!) So, how did I do it?

Background: I do believe in putting out a positive vibe. And I also believe in tapping in to the everflowing Prosperity River that always snakes and winds within our reach just like the path in CandyLand. Oh yes - it is out there! Usually located about 2 milimeters above your extended fingertips, flowing directly over your head. We just choose to stay stuck in the Molasses Swamp of mortgage payments, the Gooey Gumdrops of credit card debt, or in my case - the obscene and ever dark Lollipop Forest of vet bills! Jump a little higher, *believe*, and take a dip!

Anyway, I knew that I would get the money to fund this trip. I just knew and I trusted.

Honestly, I am not one of those cheesy, "You just have to believe!" kind of people. I don't just believe you can, "Think yourself thin," or "Pray for a cure!" or "Imagine your perfect mate right into your life!" That's a bunch of self-help mumbo jumbo, which, by the way is a multi-billion dollar business praying upon the lazy and the hopeless.

Real change takes effort. But positive thoughts can go a long way to instigate change. I do believe that it is possible to visualize something and that visualization can become a reality. That is not to say that a whole rotten, stinkin' slew of unpleasant things I DID NOT visualize have already happened, because they have, (like stomach flu and squashed road squirrel), but there is a mysterious power to prayer and belief that I think can help to shape your reality. I got the proof today.

Still reading? Good, this has a cool ending. I'm gettin' there.

So, I get a call from the City of Camden (SC). It appears an error had been made with my utility bill and am being credited a refund of close to $2000! Cha-ching! Ironically, my high utilities were one of the reasons I closed my yoga studio in the first place, which is what gave me the freedom to plan a month long trip to Costa Rica with my son. Seredipitous? Fortuitous? Small town utility f-ups? You decide!

Me? I am right now believing in those Powerball numbers! And jumping up like a Gingerbread Pawn with open palms to the Prosperity River!

Woo hoo! We have the cash to get Project Compassion Jaxon in action!