What kind of soul are you??

You Are a Prophet Soul

You are a gentle soul, with good intentions toward everyone. Selfless and kind, you have great faith in people. Sometimes this faith can lead to disappoinment in the long run. No matter what, you deal with everything in a calm and balanced way. You are a good interpreter, very sensitive, intuitive, caring, and gentle. Concerned about the world, you are good at predicting people's feelings. A seeker of wisdom, you are a life long learner looking for purpose and meaning. You are a great thinker and communicator, but not necessarily a doer. Souls you are most compatible with: Bright Star Soul and Dreaming Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

This was me.........

....this past long weekend!!

..............lol minus the pony-tail mind you!!

OMG!!

Somehow I missed spring cleaning this year.....starting a new relationship might have had something to do with it....that or just plain laziness...who knows?? Well I think I've made up for it the past 3 days....nothing like a bit of spring cleaning inside AND out to instill that nesting feeling and make everything right with the world again!

AND....I had help this time around.....the gf pitched in and helped out like the awesome trooper she is!! One of the many things I love about my girl is that she has a keen sense of pride of home ownership....wether it be her house or my house we are working on....gotta love it!!

After we were done my gf left for her home with 15 bags of my garbage -- her city's garbage restrictions are much more liberal than mine.....soooooo I have pilaged and burned my house and home....and ALL the junk is outta here already.....woooohooooooooooo!!

I have been remiss.........

............lol there's an understatement!!

I have been remiss on countless blog fronts.....

Is it possible to be away from blogger for ohhhhhhhhh what?....close to 8 months and still come back?? I've asked myself this question countless times.......I've thought about posting several times and for one reason or another (too many excuses to count really) it never happened. To be honest the more time that passed the easier it was to keep ignoring my blog....

But see there's an interesting phenomena out here in blogland......there are folks out there who aren't about to take that kind of a cop-out lying down......or at least not without trying to find out why!!?? I seem to have some amazing blog friends who keep checking in on me now and then in various ways....some have emailed and some have posted comments.....all wondering whatever happened to me.........

....you all know who you are **wink** so I won't go naming names.

Suffice it to say.......I'll just stand around, looking down at my feet, kicking at the dirt with a bashful, sheepish look on my face for not having gotten back to you.....I feel like a big heel.....so to those awesome folks I wanted to first off apologize and also to humbly say............

Meanwhile.....what the hell have I been up to?? Truth be told I've spent the better part of the last 8 months falling head-over-heels blissfully happy in love and being incredibly miserable at work -- what a roller-coaster ride it's been on those 2 fronts!!

I'm happy to say that the falling in love part has continued unabated which has been an absolute treat and feels truly amazing, wonderful, magical.....I could go on and on but will spare you the mushy, sappy details!

As for the work part....meh....what can you do about crap like that...same shit different day.....I owe, I owe it's off to work I go....bills need to be paid...yadda, yadda, yadda....there are changes on the horizon which if they pan out should ease the misery somewhat. If not, there are other jobs to be had.....or, if worst comes to worst, good meds to be taken to make miserable situations more tolerable.....lol!!

Well goodness!!!

.....stay away from blogger for a few days and look what I come home to.....

Red Mojo over at Half a Bubble Off gave me this awesome award.....along with some very sweet words about me!! Not sure what I did to con her into thinking that led her to believe that I was deserving of such an award but I will wholeheartedly and very gratefully accept nonetheless!!

Thank-you m'dear......:)

LOL Red Mojo........in your analogies of awards being like sex....I believe you mentioned something about....you never forget your first....well, uhhhmmmmm this is my first ever blog award and I won't soon be forgetting it either.....**wink**

Checking in........

Starting a new relationship seems to have turned me into a bad, bad blogger......eeeeeks!! Will have to do something about that vewwy, vewwy soon!!

Actually the relationship is taking things slowly.....couple of dates a week......which is what we both wanted.....lol as opposed to the fabled lesbian myth/way of the U-haul being rented for the 2nd date!! ahahahaha I could NOT resist adding that!!

Alright, alright......for those not in the know (can there really be folks that have never heard this one??).....there is a joke that has been around for well, forever......and it's become somewhat of an urban legend in this lifestyle.....referrencing the fact that all too often this is what we tend to do.....rush into things........the joke goes like this........

What does every good lesbian bring on a 2nd date??

The U-Haul

Getting far too old and settled for the U-haul nonsense these days.....slow and steady stays the course.......AND.....I'm having an aweful lot of fun **grin**.

Until next time fellow bloggers............:)

Mental Feng Shui.......

Seemed like a good time of year for something like this..........


ONE. **Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.**

TWO. **Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational
skills will be as important as any other.**

THREE. **Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.**

FOUR. **When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.**

FIVE. **When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.**

SIX. **Be engaged at least six months before you get married.**

SEVEN. **Believe in love at first sight.**

EIGHT. **Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have
much.**

NINE. **Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to
live life completely.**

TEN. **In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.**

ELEVEN. ** Don't judge people by their relatives.**

TWELVE. **Talk slowly but think quickly.**

THIRTEEN. **When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and
ask, 'Why do you want to know?'**

FOURTEEN. **Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.**

FIFTEEN. **Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze**

SIXTEEN. **When you lose, don't lose the lesson.**

SEVENTEEN. **Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and
Responsibility for all your actions.**

EIGHTEEN. **Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.**

NINETEEN. **When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct
it.**

TWENTY. **Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.**

TWENTY- ONE. **Spend some time alone.**

New Beginnings.......

There is a song by Mary Chapin Carpenter called You Win Again......

In it there is a line that goes like this........

....standing on the corner of love and heartache......

This is where I spent most of the year 2006 standing, rooted, waiting for decisions to be made.....then I spent 2007 walking away from this corner....deciding that I would just be blissfully single.......lol this worked.....some of the time.

2008 has started with sad endings and new beginnings......

Sad endings in that I lost my godmother, just after New Year's, after a long battle with cancer.....she and her husband were my Dad's, who just past away last April, very dearest and closest friends....so the funeral was fraught with all kinds of levels of sadness.....sadness and grief for her and her family, of course.....but also brought back memories of Dad's passing and his funeral.....same church, many of the same people.....grief wounds reopened with a view to healing over a bit more than before.

New beginnings in that I started dating again late last fall and shortly before Christmas met a very sweet interesting woman who, as luck would have it, lives nearby and is as interested in me as I am in her. It's still really early.....we've had what?.....2 dates with a plan for a third.....but damn it sure feels nice!

My Mantra......

I'm going to borrow an idea from my blog friend Drowning Pisces -- the idea of a weekly mantra....only mines going to be just this one time....and I think I like it so much it's going to be my mantra for the year!!!

Right after I wrote my New Year's Eve blog post about 2007 -- the year that was....and I mean nanoseconds after I hit that little publish button....the ball had dropped, the New Year had been ushered in and I was still watching one of the New Year's Eve shows on TV and saw Natasha Bedingfield sing her song Unwritten. I've heard that song dozens of times before....it's a great song!!

Given what I had just been writing about....new beginnings......this one particular line just zinged me!!! So, without further ado here is my new mantra for the year...........

Today is where your book begins......
......the rest is still unwritten.

Fits the new lifestyle change to a T don't you agree??

.....had to have been synchronicity at work....it was just too, too coincidental the way this all happened!! Have I mentioned how much I love that word......synchronicity??

Synchronicity........

The coincidental occurrence of events that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality – Merriam Webster’s Dictionary

The year that was..........

2007 has been a year of changes for me to be sure.

A relationship was ended at the very tail end of 2006 that probably should never have been rekindled in the first place **sigh**.

I lost my father after a long, arduous illness that made his leaving bittersweet as his passing was a blessing saving him from anymore suffering....but left the rest of us sad and shell shocked.

Family fallouts ensued and continue.

Grieving was done on all three fronts......the lost relationship, the lost father and the family fall-outs.....and the grieving continues, as it does, in it's own way, in it's own time.

But, as often happens, out of sadness, grief and difficult times often good things ensue. Sometimes these good things are like miracles presented to us to keep us from going mad.

For me that miracle was the lifestyle change I started on January 8, 2007. I call it my lifestyle change because I hate (despise?? cringe at??) the word diet.....and because this has become so much more than "just" a diet -- it really has become a complete lifestyle make-over for me.

Since January 8, 2007 I have lost 70 pounds. I continue to maintain that loss and keep working at losing another 20-30 lbs. I have not weighed what I weigh now in 20+ years. I have completely changed my style of eating to the point where virtually nothing processed, pre-packaged or sugary ever makes it into my system.....and I have yet to start missing any of it!! Slowly but surely I have built up a work-out routine to the point where I work-out hard for at least 45--90 minutes at least 5 times a week. This summer saw me hiking and biking for 10+ miles several times a week. I haven't biked in probably 10 years. I have dropped about 8 clothing sizes. My blood pressure which had become very problematic towards the end of 2006 is completely cleared up and normal now. My cholesterol -- although never bad, bad was certainly borderline for a quite some time and there was one element of it that was really bad -- is now superb!! So much so in fact that my doctor commended me, not just on remarkably bettering my bad cholesterol, but more importantly on raising my good cholesterol which is, apparently, a really difficult feat to accomplish and is very healthy for you!!

So, all in all, this year has had it's fill of the good, the bad and the ugly.....but the bad and the ugly though hard at times -- are tolerable -- and we do somehow get through to the other side. The good?? Well, can't say enough about the good!! I look forward to 2008 with no expectations other than to keep on truckin' with this journey I've been on for the past year.

In the spirit of keeping things simple.....here's my wish for the coming new year to all my friends and family.......

What's a 710??

A few days ago I was having some work done at my local garage. A blonde came in and asked for a seven-hundred-ten.

We all looked at each other and another customer asked, "What is a seven-hundred-ten?"

She replied, "You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine, I have lost it and need a new one."

She replied that she did not know exactly what it was, but this piece had always been there.

The mechanic gave her a piece of paper and a pen and asked her to draw what the piece looked like.

She drew a circle and in the middle of it wrote 710. He then took her over to another car which had its hood up and asked "is there a 710 on this car?"

She pointed and said, "Of course, its right there."

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Heyyyyyyyy I'm blonde...I figure that gives me the ok to post the occasional blonde joke and this one just about slayed me....roflmao!!!