etc.

happy birthday uncle sam!

ok, well that's not entirely accurate, but hey - i work for an accountant and at 5pm today, my life will start to ease up.

i work my second job and then the rat race of packing and getting stuff together ensues before a fun-filled weekend can start.

however, i am most excited about two things:

1. my trip to texas is right around the corner
2. on tuesday i should finialize a small loan, which will allow me to buy equipment for a small esthetics home business, as well as help me to continue to build credit. (i've decided my next will be going to a mac!)

two great things!

and at some point i'll get around to ordering prints and finding a company to purchase plastic sleeve covers from, to start my photo card business.

with a never ending to-do list, i'll get to the above at some point; hopefully sooner than later.

and then my next big tackle will hopefully be a stock purchase...  fun times!

will post pics from farm stay, farm visit and the upcoming weekend soon.

too much to process.

so much going through my head now .... and i'm wondering if everything i ever knew was false, because someone is lying, and actually, it wouldn't surprise me if both sides are, and i'm so confused.  my life isn't just a soap opera now, it's like an Anita Shreve novel.  In 'The Pilot's Wife' a wife discovers, after her husband's unexpected death, that he has a complete other family in England; a whole other life, hidden.  i knew and could handle all the dysfunction before, but this is a bit much, even for me.  maybe i should have rented Sherlock Holmes a while ago, like i had wanted... but instead will be praying for wisdom.

ran 2 days in a row.  not bad!

hope to progress on distance next. :)

The collage of our intertwining lives continues to amaze me.  God is awesome!

Amendment

I found out, either at the funeral or viewing; can’t remember which, that my biological father passed away from a brain aneurysm, not a massive heart attack.

My confession thus far, this that I did enjoy learning some about him through everyone’s stories. Maybe he wasn’t as bad as I thought, or maybe he changed. I’m unsure, however, I look forward to growing my relationship with my two siblings more and in doing so, learning more about him.

Death has come a knockin'

I had hoped to update on some great progress of mine.  Were it be the fact that I'm completely organized, or that I've increased my mileage in preparation for the marathon in October, but instead the most recent update unfortunately deals with a death ... and I have no claim to the other such accomplishments, yet.

My biological father passed away on Tuesday am, of a massive heart attack, at 50 years of age.  So young!  I didn't grow up with him, so I never really did develop an emotional attachment, but my heart is breaking for those close to him; his wife, Heidi, son, Wyatt, and daughter, Madi.

{Obit.}






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Spring Perspective and Cleaning

Ahh! I smell fabric softener and a faint breeze of spring and I feel refreshingly renewed.




I'm still trying to take over my life. Funny sentence, isn't it? Becoming organized and happy, and a whole bunch of other tasty adjectives.



Part of that includes developing a bunch of film I have sitting around. I've decided to put a couple photo cards together for work (one of my jobs) to sell. I'm hoping this might lead to something. And more specifically, that something would hopefully be a new camera. $1700 from photo cards is a lot to ask, but any contribution to that fund is more than welcome.



As I'm getting my feet of the ground on that front, I'm also packing. Packing! :) I'm not moving yet, but knowing what I have, what I don't need, and where everything is, is ... I just can't explain how happy that makes me. It's all been in a disarray for 10+ years, and now I'm taking that burden away. The burden of old memories, trash and nonsense, of material objects unwanted and unneeded. Currently I've taken every thing off my wall, and packed it. I let the cat (he's coming to the end of his time :( ) sleep in my bed and he managed to use the bathroom on my sheets, so along with washing them and my bed, I'm washing all my linens and packing them up, too. Then I can move my hope chest that holds them into my storage unit and keep going. This is the most satisfied I've felt as an adult, lol. Busy day, and then I'll tackle more this weekend when I have time since I'll have Sunday off.



Bring on the April showers and May flowers! :)