new blog

So I started a new blog about knitting.  I haven't posted anything there yet but I will in the next day or so.  I am decided not to go back to school in the fall and focus on making art and not spending money to do things for a grade.  I think that its a great choice.   I am really excited about spending more time with my knitting and learning new things.  I will still post to this blog as well.  i am working on a new series of Dance photos that I am excited about.  I will start to post them in the next week or so when I finish touching them up.  Please visit my knitting blog when you get a chance.  

Peace

Life and the pursuit of ART

Today is mothers day, I am a mother and received coffee in bed from my lovely family they even got up extra early to bring it to be sense I am the early riser in the family.   I worked crazy hours this week and have recommitted myself to the gym so it was hard to find to do any but sleep, work out and a bit of knitting.  I feel like lately its what keeps me sane.  I am really trying to figure out whether or not to go back to school the Fall.  Whether I can get out of life what I want without taking college classes. I feel really confused about  what to do.  I don't feel like the classes I took were that good and there is no guarantee that I will be able to get a job once I am done the program.  Then there is my job, I can't go part time so there is the issue of working 40 hours taking 2 classes and getting my kid to two ballet classes a week.   It feels impossible.  While I was taking classes also didn't have any time to knit or work on any new photos or go to the gym.  I wish the answers would just come to me.  

Happy Mothers day to all the Mothers out there,  We are all very special people!!

 

Birthday

Today I turn 41.  Last year I call the City arborist ( the tree guy) about getting a tree planted in  our green belt in front of our house.  We have this program in the city where the city will plant a tree for you and you get to take care of it.  anyway, when I talked with him he said that the green belt was not wide enough to support a tree's roots system.  So I pretty much gave up on the city giving us a tree.  I have two flower gardens in the green belt and a raised bed veggie garden in our yard, Well I guess the all powerful city guy decided that the green belt was wide enough because when we got home last might we had a beautiful elm sapling planting in front of our house.  What a great way to start my Birthday weekend.

 I LOVE this time of year.  I work at a company that is all about gardening.  I love going to work and talking about it with my co worker, and the customers sometimes I Loose sight of what a great Company i do work for.  We get 4 weeks of vacation and sick time.  All of our health insurance is paid for, and most of the time its pretty fun.  I have gotten a new appreciation of the place, Listening to how other working people have it now and how things are only getting worse.  I really am one of the lucky ones.  Did I mention that we are employee owned Co to boot.  

As I move into my 42nd year ART (This could mean a myriad of things, photography, knitting, gardening, ....), family, friends, the ocean These are all things that I want to focus on.  

I feel so thankful for my life and the people in it.  

 

  

Boy is it cold!

Nothing like coming home to 40 degree weather to snap you back into reality.  Its cold I have to work overtime for the next two weeks and I am turning 41 on Saturday.  I love m birthday always have getting older is something that I am hung up on.  Its the having to work on Sunday which is ordinarily one of my days off.  which means I only get one of my birthday weekend days off. I was dreaming of having the whole weekend to do whatever i wanted.  Put the family to work in the yard, see a bad romance comedy, go out to dinner...the list goes on.  oh well us human is flexible so now my weekend is packed with other things.   

Well on Vacation I really didn't take many photos.  This thing happens when I go somewhere.  I feel like my camera gets in the way of really experiencing the place and the people,  When I went to Europe I only took 5 rolls of film the whole trip and I was there for 9 weeks. that was before digital.  I am happy to be home and to see all the tulips blooming.  

Sun,Sun,Sun

YEAH, I feel like one of the lucky ones. My Mother in law has time share in Sunny South Carolina and that is where I am right now. It has been Sunny and warn every day so far and today we went sailing and got to see dolphins. I have so much gratitude we are do lucky to have what we have and the people in our lives who love us. It has been so great just hang out on the beach and be with my family. My daughter and I went for a long bike ride yesterday while everyone else was out "golfing" I use the term loosely due to the fact that there was only 1 "real golfer in the bunch. I will not be writing for the rest of the week. Hope where ever you are its sunny and you are with people who love you.

one down one to go

OK so I have one class down and one to go not to mention its one of the busiest weeks of the year to my job and there is some unnecessary Drama going on that just gets in the way of me doing my job, ICKY!  I finished the felted bag that I have been working on and started to design a new one.  I can wait to work on it next week while we are at the beach.  I will post photos later.  

sleepy Saturday

It's gray and rainy and I work up with wicked headache.  I brought my daughter to her play practice at 9 and then came home and went back to bed until about 1:30.  Dave Left the house for a while and it was nice to be at home in bed in the quiet house.  ( That doesn't happen very often.)  I haven't had a migraine in a couple of years.  They do run in my family, My mother is also afflicted with them.  Any one who has experienced them know that they really SUCK!  All i can do is to get into bed take about 4 Advil and put a icepack at the base of my skull.  So I am not quite myself yet but I am getting there.

Needles to say no homework has happened, there is always tomorrow.