So I was re-reading my bone reading post (http://trynewthings.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/426-got-a-bone-reading/) and I realized that I did come into a random sum of money- a lottery ticket winning $1000- that was (I believe) from a long forgotten scratch ticket given to me around Christmas (December.) Maybe there is something to that bone reading after all.
During recess today, some of the kids decided to play a game called Fortune Teller. They stood around a concrete pillar and took turns telling fortunes to each other. When they ran out of kids, they asked me if I wanted to know my fortune. Of course! Here it is (per a third grader with no ESP that I know of):
“You will be a teacher for a few more years.”
“And then what?”
“You’ll do something else.”
Thanks, kids! haha FYI: I love being a teacher and imagine I will stay one for the rest of my career.
Time: 15 minutes
Cost: $22.00 (+tip)
How’s this for irony:
I had to go to Braintree to find a palm reader! I searched high and low in Salem (the psychic/Wicca capital of North America) and could only find the one guy that I wrote about the other day. Well, I called Open Doors and it turns out they have this woman Emma who is a palm reader, tarot reader, and also does the crystal ball (which may be another new thing- who knows.) I called at 3:30 and they set me up for an appointment at 7.
Here goes:
-I will have 3 children (boy, boy, girl)
-These children will be born between the time I am 32-34
-I will live to be approximately 100
-I have had ten past lives and I come back with ten specific people who mean a lot to me
-My grandparents died within a very short time of one another and it was about 5 years ago (TRUE)
-I will stay in the education field, but not in my current position (WHEW!)
-I am at risk of kidney problems and diabetes
-I like solid foundations and don’t like to rock the boat. I am very specific and set in my ways. (TRUE)
-I like squares and things with corners (TRUE- this made me laugh because I HATE circles. I know that’s weird.)
-Brian and I have the same birthday (TRUE- I have no idea how she knew this) and we have traveled through many past lives together. She also said that we will be married forever and that his love line will look just like mine (TRUE- I checked when I got home!)
So who knows, but it was an interesting way to kick off my weekend. Cheers!
Time: ten minutes
Cost: $10.00 plus tip
Picture to come.
You may be asking yourself, “What the hell is a bone reading?” because I know I was. I was wandering around Jackson Square in New Orleans with Jill St. (not to be confused with Jill Sh. who was at the hotel) and we came across a man at a folding card table with a large sign offering bone readings. I thought that it was something about reading the bones in your face or something, but no.
I sit down at the table across from the man and he gives me a black cloth tied in knots. He tells me to hold it, so I do, and then he chants something in what I assume is Creole. Then he rubs this oil on my hands and tells me to untie the knots and dump out the contents from the cloth onto the table. A bunch of bones and some dice spill out. I’m like, “Exactly what type of bones are these?” and they are just chicken bones, so it is okay.
My fortune is this:
1.) I will come into a large sum of money legally and without anyone being harmed by December. (Note: I love that he added the “legally.” WTF?)
2.) Lots of people are jealous of me. (Yeah, right.)
3.) I am going to be doing lots of traveling. (Over the next year, I am going to Spain for six weeks, to Maryland, to Cabo San Lucas, and skiing out west, probably Park City, Utah. I was in New Orleans at the time of this bone reading, and I just came back from Jackson, WY a few weeks before that.)
4.) Brian is a blessing in my life. (True.)
5.) A man will come to me in a dream and I have to listen to the message. It will be revealed in its own time. (I have been having lots of dreams about my grandparents recently. We are talking, just the three of us, and I always feel like I should try to remember what they say, but I never can. I guess I will have to try harder.)
6.) I will live a long life with good health.
At no point did I say anything about anything to this guy. He was too busy trying to check out Jill St.’s “excellent physique” and “great hips.” Hilarious.
