Hooley and Hoolia

I saw Julie and Julia on Sunday, it was good. I had read both books previously so I think it was a little more enjoyable because of that. It made me think that having some kind of project for a blog would be really fun. I also realized recently that I have about a thousand different interests and I usually on do a new hobby for a short amount of time sooooo maybe I could write about all the things I try, which are many. I want something more concrete than that, I will ponder and figure out my answer. Maybe I will make a list, I love lists.

Missed yesterday........ooops. Thursday I went hiking at Ohio Pyle, about an hour and a half from my house. It is really beautiful, lots of trails and the river is pretty, a little cold but nice. I would like to go rafting this summer :) Friday got my hair cut and dropped off J's tanks and fenders to be painted. This weekend we are being mellow, it is nice to have J around, just doing not to much.

Here is my blog for today, woohoo! My sweet husband was sick today so I took care of him :) I saw someone that I haven't seen in a year and I was just thinking about him earlier this week, I love it when that kind of stuff happens :) It was a beautiful sunny day today and tomorrow I am going hiking and lounging by the pool at a friends house, aaaahhhh Life is good.

May 18th
I just found some barfed up shrimp on the kitchen floor, thanks kitty. I left it out on the counter to thaw and apparently it was to much of a temptation for her to resist. I shoulda covered it up, yuck.
Today is a nice sunny day in the Burgh. I am getting lots of domestic stuff done. There are a ton of little spaces in our apartment that have junk in them. When we moved here we went from a 3 bedroom house, 2 car garage and yard to a small apartment and still 2 and a half years later I am still downsizing. There is a Goodwill a block from my house so that is nice and motivating to get stuff out of here. It feels really good to this stuff. I feel like I am in a state of constant spring cleaning.

May 19th
I did it again. I am writing myself a note to BLOG. I started a post yesterday and forgot about it.
I have a dentist appt today and tomorrow I get my hair did. I have not had a hair cut since Oct of last year, 7 months, wow. My hair was pretty trashed after a certain stylist bleached the crap out of it. Tomorrow will be great, I will get to chop off a bunch and get my nice hair back. Sunny again today, I am walking to the dentist so I will be outside enjoying it!

PS ` the above picture is my new crush, Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United, European football player :)

I Heart New Shit

May 16th
I saw a girl wearing this shirt yesterday, love it. A curse word and a big red heart, wonderful! The wording is very appropriate for me at this time, most of the things I have that are new, are shit. Hmmm.....

I want to find my journal with my "100 things to do b4 I die" list. I think I have crossed off a few, I also wrote in a long time ago so I will see how many of them I actually still want to do. In an effort to find my long lost journal I came across a lot of my books. I have some really amazing books! Louise Hay is one of my favorite authors, I believe some of her stuff assisted me in healing IC. Yearbooks and lots of unfinished old journals, maybe I can write a book about unfinished journals, I have plenty of material. I will count them and see how many I have and when they go back too. I think the earliest one I still have is from my trip to Germany in '93.

May 17th
So oops there goes my post everyday goal, although I think it still counts since I started this one yesterday :)

Things I am dedicated too:
Shopping
Traveling
Family
Friends
My kitties

Things that inspire me:
People giving to others
Physically and mentally challenged people doing sports and athletic events
Amazing clothing
my family

Nice. I like those things. I have been talking with Ms. Jamie and I think I am going to make some plans to visit her in Bali in September. All I have to do is convince my husband it is a good idea :) Observe my powers of persuasion!! Conscious manipulation anyone :) Manipulation doesn't have to be a bad thing, my intentions are good.

Picked up J from the airport, he was in Jersey speaking at a conference, nice. Mellow Sunday, the sun is out, thank you Pittsburgh.
xoxo

Commit to something.....anything

So I have been thinking a lot lately about stick-to-it-tiveness, yes, that is my word. I thought that I did not have any BUT I have been with my husband for 10 years. How can I say I don't have sticktoitivness?? I mean being married is the hardest and the best thing I have ever done. So I will not say that I do not stay with things, what I need is to be inspired and be passionate about something and then I give my all. It seems as though he is the only thing that I have felt passionate and inspired about in the past 10 years. Growing up I would say it was volleyball, I really loved it and was pretty good at it. My love for it has waned in the past few years though. I decided to go to Ghana and that seemed like it would never happen, it took me almost 2 years to get my shit together and go but once I really in my heart decided to go, it happened. Since getting back I have signed up for a triathlon, started the volunteer process at a local shelter but I have not really followed through with either of these ventures. I have been beating myself up a little feeling like I wasn't putting effort towards these things. I realized last night talking to J I was not excited about either of these, more like a check them off my list of 100 things to do before I die kind of a thing, not inspiring.....besides I am terrified of pool drains and I asked my husband if I could train with out getting in the pool, of course his response was, anything is possible, ever the optimist he is, I was hoping I could just not do it :)
As I was walking home from coffee this morning I realized once again that I tend to do all or nothing with just about everything I do. Over and over the lesson for me right now has been about balance. So in an effort to not go so crazy, my first commitment is to this blog. I will write in it everyday for one week, starting today. That is easy, setting myself up for success!
Thank you.

Oh Ghana

Back in 'da Burgh late Friday night.....so sleepy. It is culture shock all over again to come back. I can drink water from a glass, take a hot shower, flush the toilet and kiss my husband and fluffies. More later I am super jet lagged......last night I fell asleep around 730, 1030 Ghana time.

Ghana

So my life is pretty much all about getting ready for my 3 weeks in Ghana right now. Today I am going to get my yellow fever and 2nd Hep A vaccines. I ordered some cool pants that will wash easy. I need to make my hotel reservations for the Friday night before I get there. I also need to get my taxes done. I am going to do them myself I think. We'll see. I was going to have them done but she doesnt file electronically which seemed weird to me. I can always still send them to spooney.
Ciao for now

What If

We all just told the truth with no consideration to anyone's feelings. Just blurted out exactly what we were thinking at the moment. Sometimes it is tempting to me but alas social rules get in the way and I really don't want to hurt peoples feelings. I guess anyone could do it. My FaceBook got hacked last night, freaky. I am locked out of it at the moment. I changed my password too many times and had to send an email to "the facebook team". Part of me wants to delete the damn thing...myspace has never gotten hacked into...hmmm. Oh well. I like to see what other people are doing, it is fun. Especially the ones that have moved away.