Great post.
I'm trying to develop my relationship with my guides and also my own psychic abilities. Just everyday things like guessing who is calling when the phone rings; trying to visualize something that was misplaced; and interpreting signs.
At my brother's wedding I correctly identified my Best Man's gift, and when he came home I correctly identified what he had handed me in the brown paper wrapping from his Honeymoon cruise. I've gone whole days correctly guessing who is on the other end of a ringing phone. Oh, and how could I forget the question I posed a few days back, "I wonder when Erin is going to reply to one of my posts?" I checked the forums to see you had in the "Interview the person below you" thread. Recently I had one of those "the little birdy told me" feelings that my mother was in a car accident. I didn't know how severe it was, but she turned out alright. I'm always sending her messages to pick up certain groceries, or something like chinese take-out (she may act on them, or ignore them, but she always receives them.) It's neat, surely, but I want to aid people rather than entertain myself.
I look forward to a birthday phone reading with you. It'd be great to get some third party advice.