Lessons learned from Esmeralda

A few weeks ago some friends and I took a trip to California, and of course when in California you have to swing by Disneyland! I did a lot of things that I had never done before, like eat Dole Whip and visit the Tiki Room. The Tiki Room was incredible and the rest of the day I was singing “in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room all the birds sing words and flowers bloom in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room”. I think it should have scared me, but animatronic birds flying above my head singing really was the most entertaining thing of the day!

The other thing I found that I have been missing all these years was getting my fortune read by Esmeralda. Usually she gives you vague and cliché fortunes that sound like an extended “Confucius Say” fortune cookie. But I, apparently, am special and deserved a more severe reading. Here is my fortune:

“You have been living every day, eating, drinking, sleeping, a little work and a little leisure, day in and day out, month in and month out, year in and year out. Where do you expect it all will end? You have never adopted any plan without shortly discarding it. Because your plans do not immediately mature, instead of striving harder to succeed with them, you let them go and live on and on, with no thought to the future whatsoever. Start right now, plan out your future and work for it. Work, Economize, save, and you will win great success.”

I don’t know what it is about getting nailed by a talking mannequin head, but I was really depressed afterwards. I realize that it is just by chance that I got the bad fortune but there is truth at the heart of it. And if Esmeralda can’t make me stick to my goals then who can? I have turned over a new leaf; no more procrastinating and being lazy for me! I am going to start going to FHE and institute. I am going to organize my basement. I am going to use that treadmill I bought, and by golly my life is going to be awesome!

I also learned that my lucky number is 8 and if I put another quarter in the slot Esmeralda would give me another tongue lashing.

Thanks Esmeralda!