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Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Frontier Room
Tonight we are joining my sister in law and her boyfriend in partaking in one of our most sinful eating holes! It is the quintessential epitome of everything that is wrong with how America eats!
Slamming BBQ--what my husband says is the BEST he has ever had...although stuffing ones mouth with good Meats is often hard to be critical and find fault with if it's smokey smells and hickory tastes are rolling around in your mouth. Unless they are vegetarian. They have the best side dishes and makes it so hard to choose, and most importantly...the DRINKS! yep...some of the best Margarita's around.
I must admit that I too like this place. It is casual and so from past experience have learned to dress comfortable. It is located in a hip section of Seattle so is always fun to be out and about in that area. Makes you feel young again and a part of the "happening" crowd.
So I will be putting on my Big Girl pants so that I can let out those belt holes tonight and so ready for a great drink, great food, and great family and friends!
Tomorrow I will refuse to step on the scale and take a day off from beating myself up about the really great food and drink I will consume tonight!!
Ciao Baby...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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The SUN comes OUT!!
I am in great anticipation for the next couple of days! My weather man says that we are going to have weather in the 80's staring about Thurs/Friday!!! Yippee!! I am so looking forward to that. I have had enough of this dark, dreary and sad days this week. time to brush off, get my running shoes on and 'Run'.....
Too bad I don't have a pool to lay out next to and really feel like a sun worshipper.
Nicole is on a personal cruise all along the Alaskan coast right now. She is taking this time to spend some time with her boyfriend and she hates that it is this cruise. She saw enough of Alaska last summer when she spent 3 monhths crusing the shores of that state. There is only so much Alaska one can see. If she wanted to spend some time with him she had to take this trip or not see him again till August.
At this time of the cruise year it is called the Low Season and so there are not that many young families with children so that means the cruise is primarily filled up with senior citizens and older couples. She tried to go down to use the pool, jacuzzi etcetra and was assailed by so many older men leering at her that she left right away and decided it was just too much like the movie "Cocoon" for her comfort. LOL...
So while her boyfriend works, she is getting caught up with her scrapbooking of all her journeys. She has been able to go to so many places in this past year. Her books are so fun to look at.
So....I am really looking forward to the SUN....bring it on....there can be no better day than a sunny, warm day in Seattle!!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Final Goodbyes
Today is may 13th-- Tuesday-- this is the day I have come to dread...it is the day my best friends fly off to
Switzerland to start their new chapter as Swiss citizens. My heart aches with the loss of my friend today. I cannot even bring myself to call her one last time, I don't trust my voice not to crack and be filled with sad tears, I don't want her to leave hearing that in my voice. We said our Goodbyes already last Thursday and I am going to leave it at that.This has been the year for me to loose several close and dear friends. We lost another great friend when he died last August, but we just learned about it around the holidays and it hit us like a ton a bricks...in these past few months we lost one to cancer, one to a car accident, and two in a divorce. We have three more riding on the edge of the precipice of Cancer and their time will be coming soon as well...
I hate that this sounds so sad and dreary, I just have to get my thoughts out on all of this and since it is the day that my dear friends rides off into her sunset, it just makes it all so fresh and right at the surface.
When we were kids we always heard of the old people dying, friends of our parents, realitives, loved ones...seemed that it would be such a long time away before we would be dealing with all of that loss...we were just kids with the future stretched way ahead for us! We couldn't even imagine the day that we would even be as old as our parents were!
Well...that day has come for me. I never really imagined that I would get to that day, it just "happened"....I am here, I have arrived. My time has come to start saying my "Goodbyes" to many along the way. Accept that my parents are aging, my friends are coming and going, in and out of life one way or another, and I too will one day, sooner than I think as time flys by so quickly....WOW! What a downer this blog is. I am not going to delete it though, instead I will just close my eyes, say a prayer of Thanksgiving for all I have been given, open my eyes and continue through my day, my week, my month, my years with a smile on my face knowing that loss is one of the most natural parts of living.
I CAN do THIS....
"Hello' to the rest of my day.....
Monday, May 12, 2008
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Finding my 'passion'
I can't tell you how many times that I have had a great idea, but never followed thru with it...
There was the time I thought I could write a book, started it, added to it, shelved it, and eventually "lost" it... (still looking for the darn thing, I might want to finish it, it could happen)
And then there the time I thought I could put together a stellar cook book as cooking is a great passion of mine...after compiling countless recipes and writing hundreds of "Dea Notes" to add to them as a personal touch, the idea left me as quick as it came to me....I still have the manila envelopes overflowing with paperwork just in case I ever think I might get to that one as well.)
Way back when I was really young, I thought I could work as an interpreter at the United Nations...I tried to study a language and was not successful. I have hearing in only one ear due to a childhood defect and therefore have the worst time with hearing and repeating back any language, even English is hard to hear at times! I did learn that I would have to let that one go, and as an adult, I don't even think we should be a part of the United Nations any longer.
I have numerous boxes of extra material, patterns, sewing notions and IDEAS galore for the days I thought I could become a really great seamtress...I can do the simple things, but as for all those designer things I thought I would make...well...they are still in the packages waiting for a really great seamstress to come along and breathe some 'life' into them. I haven't given up the hope that someone will create them eventually.
There are so many more of these brainstorming ideas that have been left on the cutting room floor.
I am still holding onto the notion that I will find that one true thing that is my passion, that makes me feel alive and excited to get up each day, that fills all those little cracks and crevices that remain emplty at this time just waiting for that one thing I decide I need to pursure and finish....until then, I will continue to dream up new ideas to "think" about finishing and wonder which one will finally be the winner!
Finding my passion has been harder than I thought....but I am not giving up--what is your passion?
Friday, May 09, 2008
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Simple Thrills
I was sitting about thinking of all the things I miss in my life--nothing serious, just bemusing about times past. It came to mind the times that I was a young child and the thrill I felt when my grandpa reached into his pocket and pulled out a candied mint like it was magic. My grandpa 'always' had those in his pocket...many years later I wondered how long they were carried about in his pocket just waiting to connect with a young child...but as a child, I only marveled at how they always appeared at the right times. They always followed with a tousle of the hair, or a hug. To this day, whenever I see those mints I think of my grandpa.
When my children were small I use to love and inhale the simple smell of the freshly bathed baby wrapped up in their bath towel looking refreshed with energy anewed and the smell that cannot compare to many others. Those smells never change and will always invoke tender, cherished moments.
The picture is of Amanda and the thrill she received just being in awe of a simple thing called a 'drink umbrella'. She adored getting it in her drink. It made me think of the first time I might have been given a drink umbrella....I must have felt the same wonderment she did...funny how we forgot those simple thrills.
In the case of my friends, Denise and Rene' came, we had our dinner together, we laughed, we remembered, we reflected on the futures looming ahead for them, for us...we knew the night had to come to end, but I really didn't want to close that chapter. They will be boarding that plane next week to fly off to Switzerland to begin that new chapter, and we will be here in Seattle, still plugging away at this chapter, still writing it as we go.
The big momentous times and events are life changing and rock our core....but the simple pleasures and thrills....those are the things that keep us grounded and knowing that we can continue to plug along and play at this thing called life....
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I am a woman that refuses to feel the age that her birthdays tell her she is. I attempt to stay in shape, keep in touch with current events , be a good wife, mother and friend. Conservative politics, christian & interested in people of all kinds. I am just just looking to leave a tiny mark of my life and find the answers to those really burning questions like "Who left the toilet seat up?!"
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it's exhausting coming up with dinner ideas every stinking night!
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Corned Beef, Soda Bread, Green Beer! Must be St. Pat's day! Love it, pinching for the Irish!!
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