My Status Report May

Making : Enlargements of Huge Black & Whites to line 2 stories of empty wall space including Salton Sea Photo's and Ocean Pics




Cooking :Quesadillas, Italian Food of course, Steaks and the best brunches ever



Drinking : Lots of Green Tea



Reading: Poems



Wanting: Lots of down time sounds perfect



Looking: To replace my furniture and do eveything in white...and get to California sometime soon because I can't stay away!



Playing: Star Wars & video games with the boys



Wasting: Money on my Starbucks addiction:)



Sewing: Nothing belt still broken on my machine:(



Wishing: That I can get my telescope cleaned and put back together by the weekend



Enjoying: restful sleep and hugs and kisses from my boys



Waiting: For a three day weekend!



Liking: Meeting new people who are interesting



Wondering: When I can go shopping at H&M again sans kiddos



Loving: My 3 boys & family



Hoping: To be swept off my feet:)



Marvelling: That I am 36 yrs old I really really don't feel like I am hmmmm



Needing: more down time in Palm Springs



Smelling: home cooked meals



Wearing: Spring dress and cardigan for H&M where else



Following: Blogs of course



Noticing: How beautiful the sky looks from my observation deck and thinking God I have to fix that telescope!



Knowing: The problems will always be there, it is how you react and deal with them that matters.



Thinking: Of someone special



Bookmarking: Poems



Opening: Old magazines for a re-read



Giggling: Over dirty jokes



Feeling: Sleepy like lazy Summer days

The End of May 2010

Has found me & it has been a little while since my last posting but I have been living life and documenting less of it. I have been hugging my children, making meals, going to work,watching TV, drinking coffee, listening to music and doing some things I probably shouldn't be. I would rather be completely ridiculous than boring!I am obsessed with the Salton Sea and it really has been eating up my blogging time and I have started a documentery I now must finish:) But I need to make time for putting into words these days of my life. While uncanny and abnormal what a joy each and every day to raise these boys and make them happy:) I have so much to write about Palm Springs The Sea San Diego and other pieces of inspiration I am working on but tonight I am in a somber mood due to the passing of Ben Ricketts, a little guy but 22 months old that passed away accidentaly. After lots of prayers this little man brought so many people closer to Christ. May he be in gods hands. I have a heavy heart tonight so I'm not going to write much more other than I will be holding my boys a little tighter and giving them a special treat in honor of this man. May god bless his soul.



I cannot live with you,


by Emily Dickinson



I cannot live with you,

It would be life,

And life is over there

Behind the shelf



The sexton keeps the key to,

Putting up

Our life, his porcelain,

Like a cup



Discarded of the housewife,

Quaint or broken;

A newer Sevres pleases,

Old ones crack.



I could not die with you,

For one must wait

To shut the other's gaze down,--

You could not.



And I, could I stand by

And see you freeze,

Without my right of frost,

Death's privilege?



Nor could I rise with you,

Because your face

Would put out Jesus'.

That new grace



Glow plain and foreign

On my homesick eye,

Except that you, than he

Shone closer by.



They'd judge us--how?

For you served Heaven, you know

Or sought to;

I could not,



Because you saturated sight,

And I had no more eyes

For sordid excellence

As Paradise.



And were you lost, I would be,

Though my name

Rang loudest

On the heavenly fame.



And were you saved,

And I condemned to be

Where you were not,

That self were hell to me.



So we must keep apart,

You there, I here,

With just the door ajar

That oceans are,

And prayer,

And that pale svustenance,

Despair!

Favorite Molments 2010

Sunday

Strawberry Nails look so Bitchen Don't they???

Mine However do not...Nail salons all closed today...sigh

Oh Hello 2010 (Belated) Pleasure to meet you!

I made it through the Holidays in one piece thank the lord. We had a great Christmas full of lots of fine presents...good food...the parties were a success..the Christmas dress amazingly fit..New Years Eve was off the wall..had a lot of fun (much to the boyfriends dismay) ..January was a bang up time too..as a matter of fact by the end of it I regained my sanity, finally got a mani/pedi last week and at some point after all the "hoopla" and spiked eggnog I took a step back and said whew that was a blast but its a new year now ladies (and gentleman) and what a year it has been so far..amazing possibilities await and I may just suprise myself this year in more ways then one..hmmmm. In recent days there has been a sweet Valentines Day dinner at restauraunt Avalon...chocolates...roses..jewelry..playtime with the boys..Jakes first camping trip...rain..a new car..(goodbye Tahoe Hello sporty little black beemer) Marriage proposals from people I barely knew...an aching back..an enlarged thyroid..lots of rain..sleepy mornings...a few rooms to be re-done..

This seems like a lot;) But I took a step back no more libations for me for a good month and then some, I feel at peace now and am restoring peace in my life as well. No resolutions just finally opening my mind to the New Year and realizing Spring is almost here..Spring is full of sunny breezy days love and magic..I may need to post often as I forsee there being lots to tell:)

Elvis 21 Can't wait to Check this Out!!!

The following article found on NPR  Upcoming Traveling Exhibit Starts in Jan 10 Can't Wait!!!

November 10, 2006 - Elvis Presley and America were both at a crossroads in 1956. The singer was popular, but not widely known. The nation was waking up from the doldrums of the post-war Eisenhower era, ready for something new.




In many ways, it was a year that would change the social landscape of a generation. A new collection of photos by Al Wertheimer, Elvis at 21: New York to Memphis, captures that moment in time when a young man from Tupelo, Miss., shot from being a regional heartthrob to an international sensation.



Wertheimer was working as a freelance photographer in New York when RCA Records hired him to follow the entertainer as he toured from New York City back to his home in Memphis, Tenn.



In January of 1956, Presley was still playing high school gymnasiums. But by December, he was the most famous entertainer in the world. Presley didn't just light up American culture, he put a torch to it.



Wertheimer took more than 3,000 photos that captured Presley in his most intimate moments. A show from the book debuts Friday at the Govinda Gallery in Washington, D.C., and will tour around the nation.