04 Friday Oct 2024
Posted in Daily Life, Daily Message, Finding Me
I have started riding my bike in the mornings again. It has been fun exploring my new town.
It feels great to start getting back to a routine. Everything else feels in limbo, unfinished. Will write about it on the next post.
Wishing you all a blessed weekend!
11 Wednesday Sep 2024
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I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way. – Della Reese
I am now the proud owner of a Florida Driver’s License.
I am happy to say that the trip to the DMV was better than expected. I expected to be turned away because I didn’t have my Social Security card and didn’t have anything else to prove my number. All the documentation I had, such as a 1099, only showed the last 4 digits.
It turns out it was a non-issue, I only had to sign a paper attesting that I know my number.
Michael had a later appointment at 2pm, to get car registration and plates. I asked if they could see him earlier and they agreed to get his items done along with mine.
While being helped, Michael pointed out to me all the angel figurines that the clerk that was helping me had on her booth. He, quietly, said to me: Look at all your angels! Even though he professes not to believe in such things, he has heard me, time and time again, mentioning that I always encounter angels in my way. They always help me out. I think he is becoming a believer!
Angels appear in many different forms to hold your hand through the difficult times.- Doreen Virtue
I was not able to see any office spaces today. I hope to be able to see a few tomorrow. I am eager to get a lot things resolved, and stop feeling in limbo.
10 Tuesday Sep 2024
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Airbnb, beach life, construction zone, DMV, Drivers License, Milestone inspection, ocean views, rebuilding
Even though we have closed on our new condo in June, we are only now returning to Florida.
We chose to stay at an Airbnb for a couple of reasons. First, we have no furniture, linen, silverware, anything at all; and second and more important, we didn’t know how the work being performed on the exterior would be affecting the interior.
In Florida, every building that is 3 stories and higher must undergo a Milestone Inspection to assess the health of the building. This building failed miserably and it resulted in major work to be done. And major assessments.
While the seller had paid for all the assessments by June, it turns out that there will be more assessments necessary, as the work continues. We expected that.
We just didn’t expect that the work in the balcony would be coming into the living room. The doors, windows and wall facing the ocean have been all taken down. At this moment, our beautiful ocean view is blocked by sheet rock.
Michael and I were a bit startled by the amount of work that needs to be done, and how dismantled the whole front of the building is. But we are trying to remain positive that in the end we will have a perfect structurally sound place.
Fingers crossed that the work will go fast and be done correctly; and that there will not be tons of extra assessments.
Tomorrow, I will be going to DMV to get a Florida Drivers License and will also be continuing my search for office space. Wish me luck 🙂
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ―
09 Monday Sep 2024
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Hi Friends,
I am not sure what happened to my last post. Al I see is one quote. I am guessing that when I hit edit after it had been published, I somehow accidently deleted all of it, except for that 1 quote.
In that post I was talking about being back from Brazil after being there for 2 months, and all I did there. My time there flew by, and yet it felt like time stood still.
After 2 months in Brazil, I was in NY for one week, and now I am in Florida, working out of an Airbnb.
In the next few posts, I will be expanding on my time in Brazil, and will be posting pictures of a road trip that Michael and I took. I will also be giving you an update of my life now, in NY and FL.
I am also hoping to reconnect with my friends here. I have been catching up on your blog, and hope to have a chance to leave comments, as I cannot leave likes (thank you WP!)
Love, light and blessings to all!
“I come home—and I have a feeling of returning like a ghost to its haunt.”― Virginia Woolf
03 Tuesday Sep 2024
Posted in Daily Life, Daily Message, Finding Me
“For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging. It was beautiful, this place, and it was savage. It swallowed you and made you a part of itself, or it you proved too inassimilable, it spit you out like the pit of a plum.
I’d left here of my own will, and yet it seemed the city had banished in much the same way I’d banished it. Seeing it now after so long, seeing the marsh grass pitching wildly around the edges of the city, the rooftops hunkered together with their ship watches and widow walks, and behind them, the steeples of St Philip’s and St Michael’s lifted like dark fingers, I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings
15 Saturday Jun 2024
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17 Friday May 2024
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“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
09 Thursday May 2024
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baking, Fishlips restaurant, new friends, old friends, rye bread, soda bread, success and failure, try and try again
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” ―
Last Saturday Michael and I met his best friends for lunch at Fishlips Waterfront Bar & Grill in Cape Canaveral . He has been friends with this couple since college. Michael, like myself, is not the best at keeping in touch with friends, so I don’t expect to meet many more people.
I really enjoyed meeting them. They are such great people. We plan on traveling together in the future. The husband and I share the same birthday. I love such coincidences.
The food was good and fresh. I had the mahi mahi tacos and to drink I had a prosecco wit lychee. I saw a couple of dolphins and seagulls. It was a fun day!
“There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.” ―
My baking continues with mixed results. Lately I have had some success, but also some really bad failures while attempting to make the perfect rye bread. I don’t really care for rye bread, but it is Michael’s favorite, so I am in search of the best bread-machine rye bread recipe.
At lunch I was talking about my adventures with the bread maker, and mentioned the mistakes I made with the rye bread. My number one mistake is not following the recipe properly.
My new friend said: “we eat our mistakes”.
Haha, I love that. I also eat all my mistakes, the edible ones and all others.
Isn’t it better to eat our mistakes than to let them eat away at us?
We have to learn from our mistakes and move on. Stop obsessing about it. Just do better next time.
Here are 2 winners that tasted amazing:
A rye bread, that I have not been able to reproduce not matter how many times I try.
Irish soda bread
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
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03 Friday May 2024
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“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” –
Embarrassing confession here: I have been wasting time on social media.
Why?
Curiosity? Killing time?
I don’t know.
I know it is a waste of valuable time, and an exercise in nothingness.
I guess what sparked my social media binging, it was, at first, a trip to the past. A few people reached out on Valentine’s Day and on my birthday. I call them ghosts from the past. They resurface every now and then. I don’t reply anymore.
I started looking into some of their social media. For the record, I don’t want these people in my life.
Still, I got curious and went snooping. And I didn’t stop with them. All of a sudden I am back to a place I was in the past, which is, the constant social media surfing. I now know the latest about all celebrities and influencers.
What a waste of time! Who cares what dress an influencer is using, or where an old friend went on vacation?
I caught myself when I realized I was using this internet surfing, as a mental escape from the stresses of work. Every second I felt overwhelmed, I found myself in someone’s social media.
This whole rambling on, is just to say that I am, once again, fully resolved to stop going down this path of destruction. Destruction of a good mind and precious time. I am resolved to stop the endless snooping and reading of stuff that has nothing to do with my life, and it doesn’t add anything to it.
I have so many projects to finish, at work and personal. I am behind on my visits to your blogs. I haven’t caught up with any friends. There is so much I could be doing instead. I am embarrassed I am robbing myself of precious time.
And another thought on checking up the social media of old friends and exes, it keeps dragging me back to a past I don’t want to go back to.
Realization and accountability are the first steps. I promise myself to do better.
Wishing you all a blessed weekend!
“I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise” ―
ps. please pardon typos and other error – too busy surfing 🙂
29 Monday Apr 2024
Posted in Daily Life, Daily Message
“When the future begins to run out, the journey to the past in our minds increases tremendously because there is no longer any room to go beyond, so we go back to expand our lives in a virtual way!” ―
Hello friends,
I am still trying to cleanup my Drafts Folder. It will feel like a huge accomplishment when I am done. I have already deleted a lot of them, but will be posting some every now and then. No editing.
The comments will be turned off on the old posts, as they represent where I was, but not where I am today.
This one is form 2015.
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Welcome March! One of the best months of the year for me!! Why? Well, for starters it is my birthday month:-)
It marks 3 years of writing this blog
It marks my 49th birthday
It marks my getting my 2 bedroom apartment
It marks the International Day of the Woman
It marks my favorite person’s b day.
It marks the past, it marks the future.
So much to be grateful for.
So much to be proud of.
Hard work, God’s blessing, tenacity, luck, the right people, patience, lessons and learning.
My 2015 starts now.
I didn’t go skiing, but I am not terrified as I was before, that I will never go skiing again.
Life is good, and it will only get better.
Always grateful!
Blessed with a Star on the Forehead 