Happy Holidays

May each step we take lead the way to Peace

Taking Stock...

This time of year brings to mind the idea of pulling together the year's accomplishments and major thoughts. An easy way is to use a template, so I did.

Dec 21, 2014

Making : time to rest and regroup while the Little One is home with mama

Cooking : Pot Roast but dreaming of cake

Drinking : Cran-Cherry juice w Tang mixed in for flavor

Reading : Ohlone Indians-residents of the SF and Monterey Bay Areas 

Wanting : to be able to make my own sox out of wool…

Looking : at my sweet husband’s face and loving him more each year

Playing : Cribbage Pro w my Kindle-no real life players

Wasting : as little as possible

Sewing : nothing at this moment

Wishing : my brother would talk to me

Enjoying : time off

Waiting : for daughter to take next step 

Liking : the warmer weather

Wondering : if success is within reach

Loving :  my dear friend Teresa who just spent the night with us

Hoping : Teresa finds her way in the desert

Marveling : at how independent some women are

Needing : nothing at all

Smelling : fresh air from outside

Wearing : leggings and pullover shirt-double layers all the way !~!

Following : too many blogs to keep up-must prune

Noticing : my hip’s steroid shot has worn off already

Knowing : it’s too soon to get another shot

Thinking : about the future and where we fit into it

Feeling : nostalgic

Bookmarking : news sites

Opening : my eyes to the brutality of the police against people of color all around the world

Giggling : at very little these days

Four Years Old IS New to Me

My eleven year old Mac mini finally gave up for the last time and was replaced by a newer model. Only four years old, the new OS is also my favorite national park: Yosemite.

Both are still atop my desk as I transfer over my Contacts. Unable to make the Migration Assistant work after numerous attempts, reading everything we could find and saying words I won't print here, I am gradually getting the addresses of my three hundred closest friends and businesses transferred over one at a time by hand. Primitive I know and yet... what's a gal to do. I pulled over my documents and photos but the address book is not compatible and so I take this opportunity to sort, update and purge my contacts.

Surrounded by screens, I work my way thru the process of bringing the new Mac Mini (visible at the very top of the pic to the left of the Volcano and between the two monitors) current with the info from the old Mini which is under the Volcano. My Chrome Book is on the tiny folding table so I can look up anything that happens during the transfer.

My Kindle Fire, tho not visible in this pic, is also close at hand; probably on the desk in front of the Volcano. See my "old" flip phone by the REI mug? I have had it for yeeeeears. Damn thing still works so I am loathe to replace it altho an Iphone must be somewhere in my near future if only for the camera.

It's been a month of learning new electronics: Yosemite and Fire have tasked my brain and I sometimes forget which keyboard works the front-most monitor, I'm having a good time and hoping to have it all done in a week or so. Maybe then I'll find the surface of my big wooden desk.

Drought Conditions Abate

We have water in our reservoirs and puddles in the yard. It's great. More to come too. The brown grasses all need to be mowed in their green gloriousness and the flowers are poking out despite the lateness of the year.

What's happening where you are ?~! Share with me...

From Scuffed to Chuffed !~!

Shoes

As a woman I am expected to love and want to own them in many colors and styles. Not the case... Years ago I had to ask Sharyn what the DSW gift certificate she had won would buy her and I just know despite her love for me, she thought it was "precious" that I didn't know about Designer Shoe Warehouse.

Still haven't been to their website and likely never will. I am however human and part gypsy by proxy. Fabric is one of my loves, as we know so when Inkkas.com appeared on the scene couple or three years ago, I went cuckoo like Cocoa Puffs over their shoe line. High tops in the most wonderful South American fabrics.

For my birthday I wind up with not one or two, but Three.Pairs.Shoes. At one time. A heretofore unprecedented event. 

They're some big ole shoes, huh ?~!

Fast-forwarding to a few months back: Enter a new style from Inkkas: the Slip-on. I wanted a pair and yet I was pushing aside my shoe inventory of seven pairs trying to find a specific shoe every day already. More shoes, I asked myself ?~!

I have no justification to buy Another Pair of any kind of shoes, never mind slip-ons when I own a pair of scuffed, formerly white Quarks that weigh only a few ounces each and fit great.

So I painted 'em one day on a whim. 

You get to decide...

They are perfect !~! Colorful without being garish. Still plenty lightweight. Slip-ons with character !~!

Now I just have to arm-wrestle Elmo when I wanna wear 'em.

Sometimes I win.