I’m not a millionaire yet (although I did win $5 on a scratch ticket) but, something has happened that I can only thank Law of Attraction for. Even though it might not seem like a huge thing to many, it was actually a pretty big thing for me.
Are you just dying of curiosity yet? OK, so, backstory. A year ago, almost to the day, the registration on my car expired. Begrudgingly, I went to the DMV and proceeded to spend approximately one million agonizing hours in line only to find out that after all the time I spent there trying not to die of boredom was for nothing. Even though they would let me pay the registration fees (of course–also it should be noted that I am rolling my eyes as I write this), they wouldn’t give me the California plates (I had moved a year previous to that from Las Vegas) because I hadn’t gone to get the car smog checked.
Alright. Whatever, now I have to go get in line at the stupid smog check place and go get in line again at the stupid DMV. Oh, but wait. My check engine light had just come on a couple weeks prior and it’s an automatic fail on the smog check if your check engine light is on. Or, so I learned.
I should mention that on any given, fairly normal, uneventful day, my patience level is about a 2, with 0 being absolutely no patience in life whatsoever. So it was all I could do to contain my growing murderous rage.
After taking my car to the service station to get looked at, it was determined that the problem was blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.. I dunno, all I heard was that it was going to cost around five hundred dollars to fix whatever the fuck it was. My financial status is very much like my patience level. Around the zero level.
So, I did what any responsible person would do. Just kidding, I decided to completely ignore the situation, which is my typical way of dealing with most things I don’t want to deal with. The bury-my-head-in-the-sand thing was working superbly until a couple months ago I got pulled over for not having current registration. Whoomp, whoomp.
I guess you see where this is heading. This left me no choice but to get current registration to show to the court in the allotted two months, or face even more serious fines, license suspension, etc.etc. Seriously though, if I hadn’t gotten pulled over it might have taken me years to deal with this issue…
Well, I still didn’t magically have the money to fix the check engine light situation, so after a week of stressing out and imagining the worst, I went back to flat out pretending my dilemma didn’t exist. Even when it was about a week before the last day I could go to court to prove I had current registration I called and got another month extension. I absolutely excel at procrastination and denial.
Then I remembered Law of Attraction. It pains me to say this, but I have a ‘gratitude notebook’ in which, when I remember to, (which is pretty much never) I write down lists of all the things I am grateful for in life. So I started doing that more than just sporadically.
Also, I made up a fake assistant a couple years ago, so that when I’m asking for something from the Universe I pretend that I am very busy and important and am having my assistant do it for me. Her name is Mila, which is short for Milagros, the Spanish word for Miracles. I don’t know a lot of Spanish, so that could also mean go fuck yourself, but I’m going to ignore any comments and messages that suggest it means anything other than what I want it to. Anyways, I started writing to-do lists for Mila and thanking her for going to the DMV and getting my registration debacle sorted out.
Every time I started to get worried or anxious about getting everything fixed by the looming deadline, I stopped myself. I put my head-in-the-sand approach to a good use this time and told myself it would work out.
And it did. I’m not even joking when I tell you that 2 weeks after I started doing this, my check engine light went off on it’s own. For a year it had been on constantly. Of course I was skeptical, and 3 days later it came back on. So I started believing that it was a sign that things were going to work out, and sure enough, a week later it went off on it’s own again. Keep in mind that this is just days before I needed to go to court. Immediately, I took it to get smogged and it passed. Not only did it pass, but because it had failed the last time, they retested it for free, which saved me another almost fifty dollars that I was expecting to pay.
This might seem like something small to you but in my life, it saved me around $550 dollars and any repercussions of not getting it fixed in time, which would probably have meant a lot more money and a deeper hole to hide my head in. Add in the not having this debacle hanging over my head, and it’s a huge thing in my life.
Yeah I know the Gratitude Notebook and Miracle Assistant are cheesy as fuck, but it worked for me so I’ll own it.
I feel like that was a really long story about a freaking smog check so I’ll wrap it up. Law of Attraction works. Now Mila, I need you to get the headlight fixed and the oil changed. Thanks.
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