What’s in a Name?

  May 14, 2013 - 8:24 pm | ,
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Now that I’ve set up my new website, it occurred to me this morning to Google my full name, just out of curiosity to see what would come up.

My site did appear at the top, of course. But what really amused me was the “Images” section.

There’s a picture of me, followed by a random mishmash of photos from my Facebook page and former blog posts.

See?

Jennifer Flint Screenshot

It’s a chaotic cornucopia of curiosities – and to be honest, I couldn’t be happier.

I’m totally picturing future prospective employers googling my name as well, going “What the???…” and then needing to go lie down for a while.

I often have that effect on people.

I’m okay with it, though, thankfully.

The person I do feel sorry for, though, is Jennifer Lynn Flint, M.D., whose listing comes up shortly after mine – probably only due to a slight lack of coolness in the spelling of her middle name.

I should probably call her up, and try to warn her that in the event of a really minor typo, some of her patients may come in requesting aura readings, crystal bracelets, and squirrel training tips.

It might behoove her to make a note of it on her business card, in fact – something along the lines of:

Jennifer Lynn Flint, M.D.
I’m Not the Weird One, But I Can Give You Her Number

I should probably cover the cost of that, in all fairness.

I think I have a coupon for Vistaprint somewhere.

P.S. For the ultimate irony, I sincerely hope that the screenshot above is eventually added to my list of images on Google, such that people googling me will find an image of me googling myself.

How googlicious.

What more can I ask??

Welcome to My Universe!

  May 14, 2013 - 3:22 am | ,
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Being filled with a strange sort of focused energy lately, I decided it was finally time to bite the proverbial bullet and start my own self-named, self-hosted blog and website.

What you see here is the result of that effort, and I hope you like it.

I’m resurrecting the title of a blog I wrote a couple of years ago, and which some of you may remember. This phrase was given to me when I was quite young, and I will be sharing more about what it means to me in future posts.

UniverseGenerally speaking, I just wanted a space that is a little more personal to me and my admittedly unique view of the world, and which gives me room to write about my life and the numerous topics that interest me – metaphysical and otherwise.

Sometimes it may be humorous, and other times serious, but always genuine and revealing.

I live in my own colorful little galaxy (don’t we all), and I hope you’ll enjoy taking a peek inside it every now and again.

And although this redesigned blog may take a slightly different direction than the previous one, if you have a look you’ll find much of my former content housed here as well, such as the Mystery People experiments, tiny poetry, and my Monday Mantra series. I will likely be adding to these in the near future.

I also continue to provide aura readings and other forms of intuitive guidance, as well as custom healing jewelry design. You can find more details on these services in the page tabs above, or contact me at info@jenniferflint.com if you are interested in arranging a reading.

I hope that both new and ongoing readers will subscribe by email over here (I guess since I’m self-hosted I no longer have a “Follow” button, sadly) – and that way you won’t miss any new entries.

Now buckle up, and let’s shoot for the stars!

 

 

 

Not a Dry Eye in Sight

  April 23, 2013 - 5:24 pm | ,
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I went to the ophthalmologist today, because for the last couple of weeks my left eye had been rather scratchy, and I couldn’t figure out why.

I thought I might have injured it somehow, or gotten something in it, such as my iPad (eye-Pad?), which is pretty much glued to it constantly.

To my surprise, though, it turns out I just have a pretty bad case of dry-eye, which may be connected to my difficulty with carbohydrates and such, or possibly the endless staring contests I have with our rabbit.

She always wins, too, so it’s not really even worth it.

Eye Green

Finally an excuse to put a big creepy eyeball into one of my posts. How I’ve dreamed of this day!

Funny, but I really hadn’t even noticed this little difficulty.  My eyes felt fairly comfortable up to this point, I never used eyedrops or anything, and they never looked red or irritated.

But apparently they were just short of withering into little prunelike spheres and dropping right out of my head, which would have at least entertained any onlookers at the time.

Inconveniently, though, I’m still kind of using them (although my boyfriend tells me not to worry, since my third eye would probably fill in anyway).

So my doctor sent me off to WaldeMart (the store we do not speak of) to get some fairly expensive eyedrops called Refresh Advanced, and some nighttime ointment called Soothe, which was also not super-cheap.

But he kindly only charged me $40 for the actual exam, since I don’t have insurance, so at least I could still afford them.

God bless him.

The doctor also sold me a dietary supplement called EZ Tears, which he says his customers swear by.  Apparently it’s so good, in fact, that they started giving it to patients instead of prescribing Restasis.

This is also partly because that lady in the commercial weirded out so many people, of course.  You know the one I mean.

And when they ran out of the supplement once, these poor souls all turned into bloodshot dry-eyed zombies and started scratching at the windows of the clinic, moaning pathetically until the next shipment came in.

Or something like that.

I may be exaggerating the story he told me just slightly, but that can be blamed on my desperate medical condition.

Right?

Eye Closed

Anyway, EZ Tears is an Omega-3 and Vitamin D3 supplement, among other things, like primrose oil and turmeric.

It’s supposed to help with all kinds of general inflammation, in addition to making you gush more efficiently at the end of Titanic.

Not that I needed any help with that.

Good lord.

So I’ll give it a try and let you know if it works, because there may be others among you who suffer from the dreaded curse of Secret Dry Eye, and you don’t want to let that kind of thing sneak up on you, believe me.

Nor any of those zombies who ran out of it.

Eye sure wouldn’t.

Rekindling My Interest (Part 2)

  April 17, 2013 - 1:09 pm | , ,
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iPad BookI’ve been trying to make lots of positive little changes to my routines lately, with the idea of making more progress in my life in general.

One thing I wanted to do was to to read some actual books, which was the one thing I never seemed to get around to.

I was always saying “I would read more if I had more time,”  but finally I realized I would just have to MAKE the time, if it were really any kind of priority.

That’s when I remembered that I used to have habit of reading at the table while I ate, and that this might be the solution to my dilemma.

So I switched to Kindle books instead of the foldy kind, and now I read a little bit over my cup of coffee every morning, instead of  just going through Facebook and email and that sort of thing (ha ha, I just typed “goring through Facebook,” which still seems oddly accurate).

Surprisingly, I get through whole volumes rather quickly this way, and as I mentioned in my previous post on this subject, I can even highlight, share, and make notes on them too.

And unlike paper books, my iPad doesn’t object if I get butter on its pages now and again.

Pretty slick, huh?

And what am I reading right now, you ask, even though you probably didn’t?

“I Would Change My Life if I Had More Time,”  by Doreen Virtue.

It’s a very useful book, not terribly long (so you really CAN get through it over a few cups of coffee), and the Kindle version is only $1.99.

Maybe you’d be interested too!

No time like the present, because time IS a present.

Use it or lose it!  :)

Tears for Spheres

  April 8, 2013 - 5:59 pm | ,
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Bubble Soap

When I went to put my smoothie cup in the sink just now, I was momentarily transfixed when a shaft of sunlight from the window hit the fluffy soap bubbles as the cup filled up.

I stood there in awe, gazing at all the shimmering, symmetrical, auralicious colors, and listening to the delightful crackling noises as the bubbles began to pop one by one.

Sometimes it’s difficult not to be overcome by the beauty of the infinite miracles that Source is so fond of producing – each one a universe unto itself. 

I nearly wept at the wonder of it all!

And that’s when it suddenly hit me:

I really need to get out more.

Good heavens.

I suspect all the broccoli has gone to my brain.

Dream Sequence

  April 5, 2013 - 9:23 am | ,
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Video Camera

Last night I dreamed I was making a ten-part video series for the Internet called “How to Make a Ten-Part Video Series For the Internet.”

In the dream I filmed the first part of the series, and then at the end I said “Okay, now do that nine more times.”

True story. I swear.

Geez, I’m even a smart-aleck in my dreams.

There must be some kind of special sleeping pill for that.

Loony-esta?

Sign me up for the clinical trials!

Now Cut That Out!

  April 3, 2013 - 4:32 pm |
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Operation Game

I asked El Boyfriendo the other day why he wasn’t more interested in metaphysical matters (not that it really matters).

“Oh,” he replied, “I went to the doctor a while ago and had my spiritual growth removed.”

I see.

Well, good to know.

But I think they might have missed his humor tumor.  

Vegging Out

  March 22, 2013 - 4:34 pm | ,
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Smoothie Green 2I was feeling particularly energetic yesterday morning, so I got up a little early and had a NutriBullet shake for breakfast instead of my usual eggs and coffee.

Then I had another one for lunch, since that’s what I normally do anyway.

That’s when it hit me – I’ve accidentally turned into one of those nutty, nutty, nutballs who walks around drinking weird looking concoctions instead of eating food, weighs practically nothing, and will probably live to be 150.

Oddly enough, this was not my intention at all. Being highly carb-sensitive, I was really just shooting for functional.

I seem to have accomplished that, but if I’m not careful I’ll go all Green Mile up in here (literally), and end up hanging out with our ancient evil rabbit Downy forever, since she clearly has no intention of crossing the Rainbow Bridge anytime soon either.

She’s just not sure if they’ll have Nibble Rings over there, is all I can figure.

Dang it! I really had something more along the lines of the Thorn Birds in mind, in which I have a nice party on my 80th birthday, bequeath my fortune to someone inappropriate, lie down and wake up on the Other Side, looking rested and refreshed.

Could all the rest of you please start drinking these things too, so at least I’ll have some company over the next century?

It’s only polite. 

Plus, we can pretend we’re in a vampire movie or something.  That’s totally hot right now.

Oh, and if there are any other intuitive readers out there, could you have a quick peek and see if my aura looks like broccoli?

Because if it does, I’m afraid I may end up with self-steam problems.

I’m only a human bean, after all.