Mosaic Art Creations
Facebook apparently draws one away from the prose and more detailed blog updates. But then maybe, I just forgot about this. It’s time though…good exercise to write more regularly, and maybe move away from the FB all things Isabella, all the time. A bit more of the personal here. ok…finding it, remembering my log in, […]
Read Moreto minimize redundancy, please stay tuned to the travel blog and I will return to my personal blog after I get home. http://tagalogtravelblog.blogspot.com/ be well!
Read MoreI am not sure if it is possible to not wake up in complete gratitude for this life. But it doesn’t matter. I am happy to have so very much to be grateful for. Time for work, so I will leave it at that for now.
Read Morehard to believe – but I am having bittersweet feelings about leaving for a month. Crazy talk, eh? I am just so happy. But the month will speed by, at least for me. Philippines, I am coming back!!
Read Moreof course, this is an advertisement for a brand new drift boat…but I so want to learn to row them…what an amazing weekend
Read Moreand it is bittersweet. I am excited to be going back to the Philippines, really I am. And yet, I never expected that I would be thinking how much I would like to be spending this coming month tucked in some cabin in the woods, or traipsing around Alaska, or fishing anywhere or relaxing on […]
Read MoreI am both excited to be returning to the Philippines and thinking about how much better good experiences are when shared…sure didn’t expect to be sorting through all these feelings on the 2nd day of the new year! Not that I am complaining! Focus on the beauty of it all, and how quickly a month […]
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Read MoreWhat an amazing last couple of weeks. Hard to even capture all the joy and excitement and feelings of hope and potential for the future. I am spending this holiday in the present, embracing the bliss and wonder of things that feel like they are happening the right way. For once? Has it been a […]
Read MoreI am just living in the present and loving every moment. I think this is how it is suppose to feel. Who knew?
Read MoreI can’t get over how quickly time is flying. Crazy, really. Have to post the beautiful steelhead…and let me just say, I am blissed out these days. grateful grateful grateful….I don’t want to lose sight of it for a moment.
Read MoreBrad’s friend and our shuttle hero Can you see it down there??
Read MoreSunday November 16th was one of those extraordinary days where the weather, the friends, and the adventure came together to make a day of delight and wonder. Brad and Kelsey invited me to fish from their drift boat. We left their place around 6am and explored several options for the best waters. Picking a drift […]
Read MoreI bribed Julie with wine for her help putting the 8 tables together…wine and drills…yikes
Read Moreok….it is done for now. Still a lot of stuff in that room but at least I can find it all now. Shall we start with the embarrassing “before” pictures? How did that room get so trashed?
Read MoreI have started again. For real. I am tired of looking at runners and feeling guilty; feeling like I should be out there. I feel better when I do. There is no denying that. It is all about making it habit again. And for that, Julie is helping. Hard to stay in bed when someone […]
Read Moreok, today is in fact Tuesday, which makes tomorrow the ever loved mid-week fishing trip – I am not sure there is much better. Fishing instead of working…yummy. I hope to have photos of the bounty but for now I post this gorgeous piece of bronze art…in honor of the fish we will be catching […]
Read MoreCause frankly, I am not understanding my feelings….welcome to November I guess.
Read Moreok, so, Monday and Tuesday are the big inspection…and then GSE is meeting with Bob Aguirre Monday night. Tuesday we meet at the Venetions for a board meeting. Wednesday, I testify on PDX, but actually have no evening plans. Thursday, Rick’s b-day at China Bay in Beaverton. And impossible as it seems, Friday is Halloween […]
Read MoreI couldn’t stand it. Not a minute longer. I got up early yesterday and put a turkey in the oven. Yes, before work. I checked on it once on a break, and sent my dad to turn the oven off later. Do you know how good the house smelled when I got home? ok, the […]
Read MoreTuesday: Lunch with mom and an evening GSE meetingWednesday: Lunch with Vega and meeting Teri at the VenetianThursday: Lunch at Rotary and SEWING!!!Friday: Pack for the GSE Manzanita tripSaturday: GSESunday: GSE and home for sewing and catch upMonday: No plans!Tuesday: prayer breakfast and evening concert – Johnny A…with…? :0-) Wednesday: Finish sewing project that is […]
Read MoreI haven’t seen Appaloosa yet and still want to. Wall-e played today at noon at the Venetian and I missed it, dang, but Tropic Thunder is playing this week (one I gladly prefer to pay 4 dollars for) followed by the new Mummy movie which I also have not seen yet. Seems like these next […]
Read MoreWell, I almost made it to bed….but then I looked up the movie I might see this weekend… http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/09/17/appaloosa/ I will go to sleep thinking of Viggo. Yum.
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