Gorgous day!

Finally a break from the heat…only in the low 90’s today.

I think I will be picking up a couple more clients for work. Which is good…I can use the extra $ and really do have time. It’s just that I have really been enjoying these past few weeks. Extra hours will do me good and I will still have time to do my own things…I’ll just have to learn how to manage my time better. HOW…how do you manage time for someone like me who likes to be open to whatever happens. There are plenty of websites out there with experts in these areas…I’ve read a few. But nothing is sinking in. I don’t like to be too rigid with a schedule. This is something I struggle with.

Monday I got a phone call from my middle son and he said that him and my grandson are thinking about coming here for the Labor Day weekend. This has made my week! So we will have a cook-out on Sunday so any family members who wish to see them will be able to.

Lately, I have been having insomnia…I can stay up easily until 2 am most nights…but have trouble getting out of bed til 9 am. This is not good for the work day. I have tried many things…chamomile tea, hot baths before bed, reading til I get tired, raw honey in warm water, sex, putting lavender in my pillow and many more home type remedies. I really don’t want to resort to over the counter meds…but might need to on days when I have to work. hormone levels for women at my age (4 change and estrogen gets low. Studies have shown that hormone replacement therapy causes breast cancer and stroke. So I am not going on that. However there are bio-identical hormones out there. I have tried wild yam cream and it did make me sleepy. However, I stayed tired into the next day.

This is what happens when Jacques-kitty leaves a claw mark on me! It welled up like an allergic reaction would. He was sitting my my lap and stared slipping and tried to cling on with his nail! Ouch!

Home and newly inspired…

Here is where we stayed. This is the house Rich built!

We had a great time in N. Carolina. The interior is so very relaxing. No clutter and such clean lines. It inspired me to come home and clean up the clutter! (Not finished!…lots of clutter here due to all my stuff and all Rich’s stuff coming together when we moved in together). So it will take some time. But the uncluttered look really appeals to my senses!

This is the kind of tub I want some day. It is a Japanese soaking tub. Isn’t that stunning! It is real deep, only one person can comfortably fit…we didn’t get a chance to try it out. We chose the hot tube and pebble stone shower!!

The swimming hole…too cold to swim in but gorgeous!

OMG I made something!

Here is a finished product! It is a beaded coin pouch with a drawstring tie. Isn’t it cute…made completely by hand.

I just designed it as I beaded along…didn’t know how or what it would end up being. The colors of the beads and material just belonged together.

Hot!!!

It is burning hot outside. I just brought in a load of laundry from the line and OUCH…my feet got burned on the deck! More 100 degree temperatures. And no rain in sight.

Some good news came my way this morning…Friday after work Rich and I will be leaving for N. Carolina for the weekend. He built a vacation home for a client and they let us go out there whenever it is empty. And this weekend no one is going to be there except us!!! We went there a couple of months after we started going together and it is always a great time. Being up in the mountains and secluded with a hot tub and rolling stream behind it. The “stream” has huge boulders in it and is as loud as a thundering waterfall!! So as you can tell I am super excited right now.

We are still working on the hall bathroom. I have been lazy with pictures. I will try and post some soon.

India’s call centers…

The weirdest thing…for the last few days my phone (land based) has been ringing every half hour between 7:30pm and 9:30pm. The other day I answered it and it was and Indian sounding accented man. I told him please don’t call here again. We signed up for the no call list and really haven’t been getting many solicited calls. So tonight the phone starts ringing again…so I answer. No one says anything…(it must be the delay time with sound) so I say “talk to me, who is calling….talk to me” and then the guy says something and I recognize the Indian voice so I just hang up. Right away the phone rings again…I answer “Who is this…why do you keep calling me??….” he says his name…(I can’t remember) and I don’t let him talk…I just say “please don’t call my house any more.” and I hang up. The phone rings again…and this time the guy starts auguring with me…about not letting him talk and what if this was the IRS and I started arguing with him…it was crazy. He called me back to argue!!! Finally I let him say his spiel and asked him why he is calling he says I am qualified for a $5000.00 something…I cut him off and said politely ” I’m not interested”. He said “OK, thank you have a good night” Can you believe it? After all the arguing…do they get money or something for making you hear their spiel? I wanted to call him back to argue some more!!…haha It was jut too weird.

The temperature reached 100 today!…No walking Mattie…I did hang out clothes after work. And I am thankful that I am feeling much better today.

Richie is supposed to come home Sunday…he was supposed to come home last Sunday. His friend needs him to help him do maintenance on rentals. So he has been in Iowa City, Iowa for the last 2 weeks.

I should be doing lots to fix up the house to get it ready for sale this spring. Or working on jewelry or paintings…or something creative. But my motivation level has been low. I do get somewhat down when he is gone. He is my Rock and sanity net…(yes I said sanity not safety).

So I have been doing a lot of reading online…watching meaningless TV shows. Doing some yoga. But really…just hanging out waiting for him to get back. That is so pathetic…

I want to be positive…I remember when my ex-husband and I were going through problems and I had just read the book “Where ever you go, There you are” by Jon Kabat -Zinn.
After reading it, I tried meditation…while laying propped up on my pillows in bed I would just breathe. And after a week I discovered that my mind seemed clearer. It was at this time that I finally came to understand not to fight things. But just to let them be what they are. And not to try and change things or people. This was a huge thing for me (being somewhat of a control freak) to do….or not do.

So I am thinking that maybe some meditation will be helpful right now.

A little under the weather…

My stomach has been grumbling for the past 2 days. I’m not sure if it is something I ate (some cheese on a spinach quesadilla yesterday…as dairy always gives me trouble) or if I picked up some kind of bug from all the company this weekend. All I know is that I have no appetite and headache and upset stomach…please go away!

So, not much going on here…I did stop at the store and picked up some cherry juice (no added anything, I read my labels compulsively now!). And also some apples, Southern peaches and blueberries. So when I do start feeling better I will have some good food!

It is so hot outside. The weather has been in the high 90’s all week and forcasted to remain that way the rest of the week! Plus the air quality here in the Atlanta area is in the RED. Not wise to be outside much…so what to do with my pitiful self?

I’ll web surf a bit and then…see if there is a good movie on later.

Cheers!

What the…?

It is nearly 1′oclock in the morn’n and I’m still up! What the….?

I signed up with Lunarpages yesterday and so today I have been playing around on their website trying to get familiar with it. AAARRRGGG…computer savvy is not me…but I am trying. So because my domain name was registered and hosted by another host I am waiting to have it transfered to Lunarpages. The directions were not real easy for me so I can only hope that the transfer happens. It can sometimes take up to 72 hours…let’s see…ummm….that would be 3 whole days!! And here it is the weekend..so the transfer should happen by Tuesday if I did everything right.

So I was composing a new web page via iweb. A feature on the mac book. Now to learn all about ftp and how to get the files to transfer and then publish. HELP…!!! When I made up a website a couple of years ago for my jewelry, I used Netscape Composer. And that worked fine…I was also using GLobat for the hosting site. And the files were real easy to upload onto their system. But not being happy with the service I decided to cancel.

Henna tatttoo experiment was the highlight of the day. Well, that and my oldest son coming over. He is staying the night.

Because I have these two books which I have not read yet:

• “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce
• “Dylan Thomas: portrait of the artist as a young dog”

I started reading the James Joyce one this week. It is slow reading as I only read before bedtime and lately my bedtime has been past 12 midnight! Just like a little child I refuse to go to bed early. I never want the day to end. And with Rich out of town all week I have no one here to make bedtime apealling.

Grocery shopping after 10pm is a treat. You mostly have the aisles to yourself. You don’t have to worry that your hair or makeup is just so. You can wear your cut off shorts with the paint stains on them. And you can even count out all the change to the cashier without angry, impatient stares from waiting customers.

Now we have some fresh purple grapes, spinach, red potatoes, cornmeal to fry up okra and green tomatoes in and bananas. I’ve been eating very healthy. Last night on the local PBS station was a speaker, Gary Null. I had never heard of him before and nearly everything he had to say about nutrition I am already doing! That made me excited. So I looked up his radio show in N.Y. and downloaded some of his podcasts. And did yoga today while listening.

Well, I guess I better get some shut eye…yay, tomorrow is Sunday! What does that mean? First it means, sleep in time and then a whole day to get some things done around here.