First Night in Celebration

My real life journal entry about it ;)  Click to enlarge.  No worries about the address being written down as we dont live at that address anymore ;)

More Real Time Journal Peeps ;)

Finished up another journal as I wrote the other day I was about to.  Got some photos of actual pages for later on but for today so I can tuck it away now, here are the little blurbs possibly worth sharing.

• I am looking forward to the Wishes fireworks again tonight. They make me cry! I am such a sap!! Well, thats me! I like sentimental positive energy cornball stuff!
• Maybe I just need to let my hopes, wishes and dreams be carried away on the spring wind and up to the moon and the stars.
• I don't quite know what to do with myself at the moment.  All discombobulated.
• Sitting here is kind of surreal, like I got dropped into a dream.
• I have to say that sitting here in the grass, in the sun and the spring breeze in Longmeadow Park in Celebration-has to be one of my very favorite places ever!!  It's blissful!!
• Miss Tee likes her little bowl of melting ice.  She is a cutie.
• I tried so hard for so long.  And my heart and soul have been out of this relationship for years-but still I kept trying.  Trying to revive the dead doesn't work.  Not even the Genie in Aladdin could do it.  What made me think I could?!
• Frank's headed downstairs to feed a duckie.  Duckie is crossing the street!  Oh oh!  He made it!  Why did the duck cross the street?  ha ha!  Frank's back- he escorted duckie back across.  Now duckie is just swimming.  Well thats just duckie!!
• Miss Tee wants her dinner out on the balcony!  She is so spoiled!
• Last night the nearly full moon was shining in the big window and so I got to sleep in the moonlight!  It was very poetic and nice!  Very magical and fairy-like!
• Working from home makes me laaaaaazy!
• I left Tara in there with him and told her to make sure he gets up.  She might just have cuddled in and gone back to sleep with him!  No help whatsoever.
• I have grown weary of this book-even though the paper is delightfully smooth.
• At one point my bra was hanging from the ceiling fan here in the bedroom.  Noooo I did not put it there!!!
• I need to be more creative and flowy and artsy in my journals-not such a controlled stuffy prude.
• Someday... If I am lucky, someday I will be able to look back on my life and be proud of myself.

 

Waiting for Fed Ex at Stetson....

Yes, here I sit...in the building pictured above.  Actually, if you look at the line of little windows, the two furthest to the right are the office I am in.  Waiting for Fed Ex to deliver some computers.  The sky is about right in this picture as well, it is threatening to rain.  I have no problem with the rain.  *Love* the thunder.  ;) 

Not much news to tell.  We got to go to Sea World on Monday, it was excrutiatingly hot and humid, aside from that I saw a blissful collection of beautiful creatures!  My favorites of course being the dolphins.  WELL WORTH the $7 to feed them and spend about ten-fifteen minutes with them.  Some were quite scarred which led me to believe that they are rescue dolphins.  One was sweet enough to allow me to hold his (her?) head in my hands and just rub and love them and tell them how beautiful they are.  Ahhh, and I shared reiki with them as well.  I could do that all the time.  I just want to be around them and love them.  Such amazing beautiful creatures.  Ah well.  My Mom was right, I should have gone to college to study to work with the animals at the parks, but did I listen?  Nooooo!  Maybe I will get the chance to study marine biology once this life ends and my new one begins.  We shall see.

Ok well, continuing to sit and wait, I hope Fed Ex will come soonly!  I only have the morning to wait.  I don't know yet if I have to go into my other job this afternoon.  They have been dealing with the wake and funeral for Austin, the boy who was killed in the Monorail accident at Walt DIsney World on July 5th.  They knew him well, since he went to school and was close friends with their son.  So sad.

Celebration 4th of July Parade

This was our view!

They came around our corner. Next year though I am sitting down by the curb, I missed free plants and candy, beads and flags...! It was a nice little parade and a really nice way to start the holiday! Thanks to everyone who marched!

The Philosophy of Dancing

Surely by now you have heard of the Politics of Dancing (80's song)?  This is nothing like that.  Well, I dont know the lyrics but I am guessing that what I am about to write is nothing like that.
I have acquired my blissful actual Ipod Nano.  Very different from my little shuffle which I adored, but to which I could not fit an audiobook on.  Alas.  So for the longest time I coveted a Pink Ipod, and I finally have one.  I spent the last few days learning how to use it, adding two audiobooks (Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, two of my favorite, most inspiring books to date), putting the music I had on my shuffle onto the ipod, and learning how to put a video because you *know* I had to have a Taylor Hicks video on it. ;)  I get all giddy at the fact that I  can watch Seven Mile Breakdown and see Taylor driving (so cute when he drives ;)  I know, it doesnt take much!) on the little Ipod screen.  ;)  Young enough to understand the technology for the most part, old enough to be fascinated by it.  ;)
But I digress.  So yesterday I decided since I still have so much room on pink Ipod, that I should go and collect some songs I hadnt heard in ages and ended up collecting a lot of neat 80's stuff, Duran Duran, Madonna, etc.  Oh B-52;s.  Got them all together, added them to Ipod, put it up full blast and DANCED!!!!

Wow.  Did I need that!  In the midst of said dancing, I suddenly realized what dancing really is.  Because there I was, dancing and suddenly I discovered exactly what it was I was doing...My soul was *feeling* the music, reacting to it through my physical body, because on earth, its the only way it *can* react.  I always feel music so much and love to dance, whether I am doing it well or not, doesnt matter, there is no thinking involved, no planning, just going with the flow, feeling the music, the beat, the lyrics... and just LOVING it.  ;)  People say "Oh I can't dance"- well, sure ya can!  It's not that they *can't* its that they *wont*.  They can't let go enough to feel it and just go with it, too afraid of being judged, but the truth is, out on the dance floor, no one is judging you.  Anyone not on the dance floor who *is* judging you, is, in all truth, just jealous that they do not feel free enough to let go and feel the music through their very soul, the way anyone on the dance floor is.  I can't imagine what that must be like, because I cannot sit still when a good beat comes on...picture Baloo in the Jungle Book.  Kind of like that!  I'm not the most coordinated girl, but I love music, and I love to feel it right through my heart and soul, and when I can just cut loose and dance like that, just lose myself in it all, it is the best kind of stress relief around! 
So, next time your soul is feeling the music...just forget about anyone else and just enjoy!!!!!  If nothing else we could all use a bit of enjoyment right now in our lives, oh and it's free too, so you can't beat that with a stick!  ;)  Trust me on this, I would not steer you wrong.  Put on something with a good beat, nice and loud or with headphones and just let your soul move your human body, no thinking allowed, just FEEL it and go til you are ready to drop.  Doesnt matter if you are good at it or not, the point is to feel the music and free your soul!  Then tell me where your stress level is.  ;)
So, its Friday night, we have a holiday weekend, what are you waiting for????  GO DANCE!!!!  :)

I Realize some of the text is hard to read

Because when I go to the layout page, my fonts and colors menu is coming up blank and I can't adjust them until blogger fixes the bug.  I have tried in three different browsers and also rebooting my computer, so hold tight.  At least the posts are readable.
Thanks for your patience gang :)

Its Time for More...

Real time Journal snippets.  :)  This is from a journal I just finished that I carried around for years....  and finally finished recently.
I know Renee enjoys these too, and also want to say thank you to her for all the pendulum guidance!  ;)  I am finding out some pretty interesting things using my beautiful pendulum that came today!  ;)
OK, onward and upward!  Bear in mind these are things actually written in one of my hand written journals, and only *I* would say some of this stuff  lol!

• How swirly can I be without becoming obnoxious?
• This chair hurts my butt.  Well, It does!
• He is ordering the *same* cards as last year.  That just really bugs me.  How can someone send out the same exact card two years in a row???? (as a side note from me now: my previous boss did this, when I mentioned it to him he said it was because he liked them- I was still all "but! But!!!!!"  lol)
• 11:53 am now and just feeling generally disgruntled with the world.

I guess I didnt say much fun stuff in this book.  Oh well I can put it away now then!  ;)  I am about 15 pages from finishing the current one and so I will have more to share with you when that book is done.

Meanwhile, its felt very good to be unpacked (something that hasnt happened since before we put the house up for sale in NY) and to be able to be creative and I've begun focusing on my Reiki some more, even got some new books, including working with animals.   One of my best friends, Marcy came this past weekend for her birthday, we went out to Town Tavern in downtown Celebration - only the second time in my life that I have gone out drinking (so sue me ok!), the previous having been a fabulous weekend I once spent in New Orleans back in 1991!- I can say in all honesty that we were drunk and very very silly.  At one point there was a bra hanging from the ceiling fan (it was my bra and no I did not put it there!) and at another point Marcy had passed out on the balcony.  No I did not have to carry her back in!  Then we went to the Magic Kingdom the next day for her birthday (got there ten minutes after the park opened considering we had been up til 3 am the night before and that my head was still spinning when I woke up!) and spent a fun day there -got to see most everything we wanted even though it was crowded and very hot. 

Made a couple of silly videos too, I dont know if I know how to add them here....  I thought blogger once had a way to add videos....  Well, until I can figure it out here is a giggly picture from the second night.  We were *not* drinking in this one.  I swear!  We were sober for the videos, just very tired and girl giggly I think. (and sunburned a bit from our day at disney)-  I was trying not to burst out laughing in this, can you tell?  We had a blast last weekend, I should do that more often ;)

Buddha Anklet

Spam Mocking

Not the lunch meat, but the email kind.  At one of my jobs I have had the pleasure of weeding through over 17K of spam messages.  I discovered some of them to be fairly amusing and so collected some to share here.  This should, if nothing else, get me some odd searches on my blog!  :)
All of the below are from actual spam emails, my comments, if any are in ( ).

From Toast (toast?  Breakfast food is sending email?)
If you eat like this, people will give you crap cause it's so not trendy anymore.
(I know, come on people!  How can you be sooo untrendy??)

If your wrist could talk it would tell you that it wants a new watch.
(If my butt could talk it would tell me that it would like to be skinnier!  But I digress!)

Happy Easther!
(Merry Christhmas!)

Millions of men all over the world are happy-why don't you become one of them?
(because I prefer to stay a woman, thanks!)

If you think that your bulge is garbage, change it!
(I never knew it was so easy!)

You won't find even the traces of your small ,miserable and retarded friend in pants
(Maybe it's me but isnt't that politically incorrect?)

damn, where the hell are you?
(damn, I am right here!)

Women are always ready to sleep with men who look rich.
(we are???)

Revitalize your porkmonster!
(I admit I laughed out loud at this one.  Porkmonster?????  Come on people!!!!!!  LOL)

Make your boner so iron it could pierce a hole in ceiling.
(ouch)

A big tool will open a lock to any woman's heart
(it will?)

No matter what gal you pick she is sure to love your stick
(I love spam that rhymes, don't you?)

Tired of seeing disappointed faces on women when they pull down your pants?
(hee hee)

Fan broke Oprah's tooth!
(Oh NO!!!!!!  Whatever shall we do???)

Now with every birthday your friend will grow bigger as well
(what it only enlarges once a year???)

She will love your big flute
(flute? lol)

When your male trunk is a little punk, we know how to help you
( hey watch it punk!)

Your instrument will be so large you will be able to touch the ceiling with it
(again with the ceiling, and besides that, maybe you could touch the ceiling, and thats all fine and dandy, but will you be able to walk around with it?  This is what I wonder.  As Elaine Benes once said "I don't know how you guys walk around with those things!")

Want to make love everywhere?  Ask us how.
(ok, How?)

What can make your wife happier?
(How much time you got????)

Being ill is out of fashion!
(was it ever *in* fashion?)

Your stiff wang=her moans
(okayyyyyy)

Shove your giant and give her real tension
(I have enough tension in life already, thanks)

Now men with abnormal sizes can enjoy this life
(which life?)

Your male tool can be as big as stool
(there are a couple of ways to translate that and I'm not fond of any of them)

Word's cant describe the beauty of your insturment
(I can't tell you how many men I have said those exact words to!)

If you want to be popular, you need to have a decent watch.
(Hey man, you better get a better watch, no one will want to be friend with you walking around wearing that cheap dollar store one)

Pleasure and big size always go together
(not always!)

You would give up your lung, just to be hung
(more rhymes, how nice!)

This cruise offer is so good they asked us not to sent it!
(who did?)

Viagra type pill- half a pill will last for 36 hours!
(!!!! do you really need it to be hard for 36 hours????)

Enjoy your thick stick

Women will stare at your bulge instead of your eyes
get a watch that will make all your friends jealous
(I can't remember ever being jealous of someones watch.)

Leave it to Maxine to come up with a solution for the mess that america is in economically now
(Who is this maxine?  and whats her solution?  Is she speaking to President Obama?)

Not only women, but also men like hung guys
(well, I would guess so)

You can have a mega tool, like a horse, or even mule
(I think this must be one of those new fangled Dr Suess spams)

Forget the economy think about your body
(yeah how can you even think about the economy when you are walking around looking  like that!  You should be ashamed!!!)

The vigor in your pants will be unbreakable

You will love to measure your tremendous pleasure
(another Dr Suess one apparently -one ball, two ball, red ball, blue ball)

(yes these were all actual spams. Who thinks of these things?  lol  They are awful, and do they ever actaully make any money with them???  I wonder!)

Squirt!!!

Reading up on Turtles and learning that they need to explore and be handled so Squirt is out on an adventure tonight!  (I wish I knew how to tell if Squirt is a he or a she!)  Right how "he" is exploring the depths of my bedspread ;)  He has come to me to be picked up and snuggled against my shirt (just looking for a hiding place I think)  Here is a picture on my keyboard (sorry a little blurry) to show how bitty Squirt (named after the little sea turtle in Nemo) the Slider Turtle is:

And there goes Squirt, off on yet another adventure!!!! (checking out my purple Yoga mat, he is always so health conscious!)