So, I have been away from the blog for awhile for three reasons: 1, a week-long trip to Arizona; 2, a weekend trip to a sci-fi convention, and 3, an unplanned experience with a serious infection that almost landed me in the hospital. Event-filled few weeks, yeah. So the first reason I was away, my…
I’ll be back to posting soon; am still in Arizona at the moment, yet sadly have to leave tomorrow. *sniff, sniff* I’m then off to a convention this weekend, but by next week I’ll be back to posting, including sharing lots of amazing pics from this wonderful, beautiful, magical trip. Really, I don’t want to…
…in which I am determined to have a wonderful, happy day. To celebrate life and love. How? Well… I started off reading favorite blogs this morning while Bast helped… And I just had to get a close up: And today in the mail I received the simple yet gorgeous Life is Good mug I’d been…
Creative Goddess: I am finally into the first week’s project of the Creative Goddess course, and I’m loving it. I actually was scared of the blank canvas, as Leonie said might happen…but once I started playing with the paint, all that went away. I’m painting with my fingers, too; I’ve decided that brushes are too…
Today was a slightly harder day to get through. I think I’m not releasing as much as I should be, so my pain and anger and helplessness are coming out in other ways. I feel the urge to just curl up into a ball and hide away, despite my current intention to learn to “open,”…
Today I got an invitation to happy hour on Friday to celebrate the demise of my former company. I find that amusing in a sick kind of way…I might go, just to see people and to see how they are doing. I thought the company would last longer before it died…but nope, it was in…
I figured it was time I updated on the creative tings I’ve been doing: Creative Every Day: I have been creating every day since I joined. Nothing earth-shattering, just some doodles, some paint, and the beginnings of a new project idea. Part of the new project involves crochet, as I’d come across a wonderful book…
I don’t plan to share much about my grieving process, except to say that it’s hard and that it comes in waves. I feel this aching sadness that my mom won’t get to see this or that or do this or that…that all the stuff I still want for the future she won’t see/experience…and then…
My mother has passed away after complications from chemo. I cannot begin to describe my state of mind right now. I need to disconect from the blog for awhile; I will return eventually. —— Edited an hour later to add: That was a quick “disconnect.” It seems I am not meant to disconnect from my…
Here’s a new favorite quote I found on the lovely blog A Room of One’s Own: “The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ~Marcel Proust That is one of the truest statements I’ve heard in a long time. I’m going to apply it to my upcoming…
Well, haven’t gotten the new design going yet. Yesterday the power cord on this old Powerbook stopped working, and after a mini-meltdown, I decided to just replace the damn thing. I plan to get a new computer soon, but I can’t do it just yet, and a new power cord for this old gal was…
…in the house as well as here on the blog. I’ll be redesigning today with a fun winter theme. :) And probably making more winter sigtags, lol. This will help me not think about work stuff, too; yesterday wasn’t a very good day, although it ended up not as bad as it could have been…