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Update sorta
Well I'm not going to go into huge detail of all the things that have happened since my last post.
It's been lots though. :P
We've met some absolutely awesome folks. Love San Marcos seriously! We have not had ONE day yet we haven't either been happily accosted with hugs from someone we know or someone just strikes up a conversation with us. Very cool.
If any of you follow my FB you know about the fire spinners, the belly dancers, the musicians... 'tis awesome in awesomesauce. Garion is "the best fire safety dude we have ever seen anywhere and are sooooo blessed and excited to have him as part of our troupe". So saith Cassie and Shae and Brie and all the other fire spinners at Tantra coffee house.
The housing sitch is doing pretty well. A little bit on the "we could have a bigger house" side, but we do have a house and rent and all that goodness, so not complaining.
Garion and Hasan are both getting into chain maille. Garion is really into it. Hasan has some leather working ideas, photography and working on band/artist promotion.
Hubby was in the hospital for 6 days, had home health care for 3 weeks, and two weeks of stitches with a 7cm long x 3cm wide x 3cm deep incision to excise an infected mosquito bite. Yeah.. for serious! It apparently bred in a septic tank (didn't know that was there when we arrived at the person's house) and it wasn't good. Yeesh. So it was a real quiet June and July for us as hubby took his time healing, had to stay out of the sun thanks to the antibiotics and generally felt crappy.
That's over though and he's doing much better. *joy*
We met a 101 yr old medicine woman recently. Really looking forward to seeing her some more!
Umm... let see. Working Reiki and EFT in the area. Getting ready for school. That's about it for now. I haven't forgotten LJ, just don't get here all the time. :-)
I haz a buzzzzy
I've been working on a new blog. You can check it out here: http://intendwellness.blogspot.com/
So that is one of the reasons I've not posted here in a while.
I've been busy. Spending close to 12 hours a day working on, well my life I suppose. Working on retasking my love for helping others into something that looks, smells, breathes and actually works like a business. A real business with a service and a product. Still have some work to do, but getting there.
Meme from Drayln
Comment and I'll:
a) Tell you why I friended you.
b) Associate you with something -- a fandom, song, colour, photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask you something I've wanted to know about you.
f) Tell you my favourite userpic from your list.
g) In return, you need to post this on your own journal
WTF Livejournal?
I now cannot add friends unless I PAY for an account???? What the hell?
ORGASM!
Did I get your attention? :P
Very awesome video and website. I really, really, really can discourse for a LONG time on the management of birth in this country and it's not terribly complementary. :P I completely acknowledge there is a time and a place for high end intervention, but the percentage this is being applied in our country without real need is staggering. Enjoy the clip, I am definitely going to see this movie!
Also.. who knew?
Happy Turkey day!!!
Hoping all of you have an amazing Thanksgiving day.. whether you formally celebrate it or not.. I wish you all a day of love and thankfulness.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
-- Albert Schweitzer
Website!!
Thanks to Katarianna and hubby for helping me with it! It is finished aside from one graphic.. but woot!
Check it out, pass it on... comments or suggestions welcome... :D
http://intentionalwellness.110mb.com/
Rain!
Beautiful rain is making it's way softly to the ground and gently filling the water table... sweet!!!!!
I'm in love...
The Whole Foods in Austin is AWESOME!!! Of course it being the third incarnation of the first Whole Foods store probably has something to do with it!! LOL!!!
Oh my gosh though.. it's ginormous and so much for a foodie to enjoy!! We got a really different food fruit for free to sample, we are looking forward to trying it, it apparently tastes like custard. We have spent 3 hours exploring the store and we are so not finished yet!!! The culinary classes, the food, the varieties of kefir!!! Awesomeness!!!!
The Journey
The Journey Begins
August 1, 2009, 6:30am. We packed all night. Literally had been awake 24 hours by then. We moved boxes. So many, many boxes. Aria's word of the day to write on the boxes she packed .... FRAGILE. Everything she packed was fragile. LOL! A joke or three about one legged fishnet lamps were had. By 8:30am we had everything unloaded from the truck and into our awesomely cool shipping container storage unit. That thing rocks! It's nice and big, easy to load and very weatherproof! It made me think sadly of folks living in those to reach these shores though. :(
By 11am we had found a motel that could accomodate us all, parked the kinds in front of the TV and Garion, Aria, Lawrence and I passed out for about 6 hours. We were not in any condition to take photos, but we looked rather like this poor soul. We woke up long enough to order some pizza, take some showers, kiss the kids and put them all to bed. We slept for another 11 hours.
August 2, 2009 we loafed all day. We had zero energy for anything. Finally went to the store in the evening and purchased more processed, microwaveable foods then we have ever bought at one time in our lives!!! Then we feasted. That poor microwave has probably never worked so hard. LOL!!! We needed it though. We just ate and ate and ate. We had been going days with little food, little rest and our bodies seriously needed to refuel. Then, we slept again. There were two cars in the parking lot with Texas license plates.
August 3, 2009 we got up a bit late. Getting ourselves organized, doing laundry, putting in a part on the 15 passenger van we've yet to name. Re-organizing our bed stuffs, getting a tent, repacking our camping supplies and getting ready to be on the road tomorrow. Route? Looks like we'll head south on I-25 and visit Trinidad, Colorado and camping near Mt. Capulin. After that? Driving towards Austin! Not sure where else we will head.
Still August 3, 2009. Garion and Lawrence went to replace the brake booster and as Lawrence was manuevering into an awkward position under the steering column he heard and felt a * pop * in his ribs. Yikes! So he may have re-cracked a rib he cracked a few years back. Comfrey and wrapping will be had today. We may visit a doctor before we leave tomorrow too. The motel we are staying at is across the street from our local homeless shelter. So we wandered across the street to see if anyone there might be interested in a few bucks for helping us fix this part since hubby is now completely uninterested in leaning on his ribs. Lo and behold, an older gentleman, Pat, was only too happy to do so. In fact, he was replacing the exact part on his own truck! His brother is a Dodge mechanic and Pat and him have swapped mechanic stories and tips through the years. He not only knew exactly how to get the part off, he had most of the tools on him. When we asked him for his help he jumped out of his truck and said, "I know exactly how to fix that!" We told him we were only too happy to recompense his time with some cash. "Oh, I'm not worried about any money, don't you worry about that at all. Let's just fix your van." We paid him anyway. He was just overwhelmed. He also owns a few places in Houston and Gavelston. Homeless by a set of unfortunate events that placed him right in our path, a good heart we found. Life is awesome.
August 4, 2009. It's Germaine's birthday!!!! She is 8 today. We played our special birthday song. We are up fairly early for us, but we were up late last night getting back to town after buying our tent and some other necessities. Hubby is still hurting, but not too bad. Slathered him in comfrey and wrapped his ribs. Keeping an eye on him to make sure he's ok.
The kids are getting restless being in a motel room for a few days. Soon we'll be on the road and camping! We found the coolest tent at Target. First time we've shopped at Target in years and years and years. Seriously... it's been about 19 years. Anyway it's this one.
Very nice! We'll let y'all know what it's like! We also got a nice camp stove that came with the cutest little lantern! And... we needed to get a tupperwear thing to put our big bag of Oolong tea, the bag it came in epic failed in the car. * sad *
Long day today. Checked out of the motel at 10, repacked the van. Went to storage and repacked the van and the trunk of the car. Loaded up the rest of the laundry that needed doing and took it to the laundromat. Washed $37 worth of clothes, towels, etc. Wrapped up a few loose ends in town, took clean laundry that we are storing back to storage and then left Wyoming!
We made it all the way 30 miles south to L's mom's house. Pitched our tent in the dark and slept outside. We saw about 3 Texas plates on the way.
August 5, 2009. Spent the rest of the day visiting with his mom and sis then wandered down to Fort Collins and spent a little time with Rina. Wonderful few hours chatting. Shopped at Wal-Mart and ended up spending the night just a few minutes away at a rest area. Sleeping in the car can be done. Not always comfortable though. We did meet an interesting man sleeping on a picnic bench though. He was hitching across the country just because. He lives on a small stipend from a trust fund, but likes to just wander around seeing the sights and meeting folks.
August 6, 2009. Got up very early in the morning and shared our breakfast sandwhiches with our fellow traveler. Toured the Colorado visitors center, had a cup of coffee and then headed south. Outside of Denver we stopped and fueled up, got some stuff from Safeway and made reservations to stay overnight at a campground in Capulin, New Mexico. We continued on our journey south.
In Colorado Springs we visited the Garden of the Gods. It is just so beautiful there. After visiting the visitor's center we had lunch. We devised a wee harness for our kitty, Greyrocks, so he could get out of the car for a while. He enjoyed all the scents and pee mail. After lunch we continued on south and made it into Trinidad in the evening. Forgot they had moved the Wal-Mart, visited Wal-Mart for a couple more forgotten things and pushed on down to Capulin. We saw 9 Texas plates today.
Capulin. We got there about 11pm and the wind.. wow. Brother Wind was really traveling in a hurry when we got there. It definitely made putting up the tent an adventure! Aria and I asked Brother Wind to please calm down and welcome us to Texas gently. Amazingly... it did. We got the tent up and the sleeping bags out and everyone in bed by 1am. Late night.
August 7, 2009. Got up at 7am and took down the tent and repacked the van again. This time to make room for all the kiddos but Garion. Our little car is HOT, the van has AC. Took showers and re-organized. The sweet man running the campground only charged us $25 for tenting it instead of the reasonable $33 we expected.
We explored Mt. Capulin after we got all packed. It was a truly beautiful sight. It is an extinct volcano and the center of it is filled with capulin plants or chockecherries. All along the ridge the pine trees were filled with ladybugs. Millions of them! You could scoop them up with your hands there were so many!
After taking some pics, we traveled down the mountain and went to Folsom, NM. This is where they discovered the Folsom points, spearheads that point to human occupation on this continent way earlier than previously thought. We toured their little museum and there was all kinds of cool stuff in there from the early century. There was also a very interesting story of the town's phone operator. Apparently in 1908 a rare flood came down the Cimarron. This brave lady stayed at her post, calling families down river to warn them of the flood and perished herself in it. They found her body the next spring some 8 miles down river. The town was named Folsom after the maiden name of the wife of President Clevland who was born there.
We departed Folsom and continued on our journey. We crossed into Texas a lot sooner then I had expected! If you were behind us you'd have seen a lot of hand waving and cheering. :P We made it as far as Amarillo that night and stayed in Camelot. 'Twas a silly place.
August 8, 2009. The road from Amarillo to San Angelo took all day. We left Camelot at check out time, 11am. We slept in, reorganized and headed out. Found a Wal-Mart to stock up on ice and lunch meats. Meandered our way out of town and headed toward San Angelo. Talked to Kitty in Lubbock and ate lunch/early dinner at a road side picnic area. It was really pretty out there and the stone area the picnic table was on was in the shape of Texas. Very awesome.
We made it to some small town and looked for a place to camp. Epic fail on that score. Finally made it just outside of San Angelo and passed out at a rest area.
August 9, 2009. Lawrence's 42nd b-day!!! It was an earlyish morning. We woke up early but between stretching and snacking and potty, it took us an hour or so to leave. Made it into San Angelo and had breakfast at a BK. Off to Austin!
Stopped at some little town and topped off fluids and such, a nice couple asked us if we needed help. We didn't. Off to Austin again and stopped off for fuel and found out we are only an hour and a half away!!!! * joy * Went through Llano and poured ice water all over us and the kitten. He loved it. We loved it. Fricking HOT! Drove past a small wildfire. Ashley called just as we were getting into the city limits of Austin.
Thanks to some excellent navigational advice, we made it to Blake's and Ashley's intact, hot, sweaty, tired, but in Austin!!!
Oh, and hubby got a kilt!
I haz the Bowl of Winds...
It's apparently activated by our decision to mow the lawn. Garion is out mowing.. 10 minutes after he starts.. we get ...
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 571 remains in effect until 1200 am CDT
WY
. Wyoming counties included are
Goshen Laramie Platte
Yeah.. woot! LOL! This has been the first day in weeks we had the time and clear skies to get the mower started too! Tee hee!
Hubby rocks!
$31 and two hours later and our dryer is fixed! Yay for handy hubbies!!! It would have cost us more than we paid for the dryer to have a repair man fix it. :P
Happy Independence Day!
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." ~ Samuel Adams
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." ~ Mark Twain
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
Enjoy your Independence this day fellow Americans. Appreciate your Individual right to disagree with the above quotes, the above attitudes. Appreciate the capitalism that drives this site, the internet, your beverages and food that you enjoy today. Appreciate the swell of patriotism this day represents, the veterans that put themselves in harm's way to protect your right to disagree with them. Appreciate the Constitution, the Law of the Land that represents a limit on how much the government can interfere with your Individual Right to disagree.
Independence:
definition - noun
1. The condition of being politically free: autonomy, freedom, independency, liberty, self-government, sovereignty. See dependence/independence, free/unfree.
2. The capacity to manage one's own affairs, make one's own judgments, and provide for oneself: self-determination, self-reliance, self-sufficiency.
Dependence:
definition - noun
1. The state of being dependent, as for support.
2.
a. Subordination to someone or something needed or greatly desired.
b. Trust; reliance.
3. The state of being determined, influenced, or controlled by something else.
4. A compulsive or chronic need; an addiction
I choose Independence. Liberty. Self-reliance. My Individual Sovereignty.
I cannot express how happy I am to see the following. I met a few representatives today at the Cowboy TEA Party we went to at the Wyoming Capitol.
Have a wonderful and happy Independence Day!!!
Feeling quotey
I don't think quotey is a proper word, but I'm using it anyway. :P
“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.” – George Elliot. (Make a decision today and decide on a course that aligns you with your passion!) “You can’t build up a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford. (Kick it today… no more delays!) “You become the average of the 5 people you spend most time with.” (quoted by my friend Carolin Dahlman) “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice; it’s conformity.” – Earl Nightingale (American motivational speaker and author – one of twelve Marines who survived the attack on USS Arizona at Pearl Harbour). “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Mariane Williamson
Upcoming movie
I never did watch Sicko.. I have political issues with Michael Moore... :P But this is what I have been saying about food, nutrients, needs for vitamins and supplements and even the use of herbal alternatives.
Food, INC trailer http://bit.ly/uXBrp
and
Behind the food we love - Secrets that giant food companies don't want you to know http://ow.ly/eJ27 This is a 20 minute presentation on this movie from PBS.
How to get creative...
Well a few weeks ago the kids got in trouble. Big trouble. They were swinging on the shower curtain rod. They had been told not to do so just a few days before. Our shower curtain is rather old fashioned. Made of aluminum and in two pieces with a curvy bit hanging a right and attaching the apparatus to the wall. It seems so solid and strong!
When Ebba shoots down the stairs telling us that she was "just sitting on the potty when it bent in half" we thought to investigate. It was bent into an L on the long end of the rod. We were not amused. We got the truth out of them, they were swinging on it again and Ebba's weight bent it into an L. We sought for a replacement. $125!!! For a curtain rod!!!! Well, we had other bills looming more aggressively at that time, so we bent the rod back in place and used it gently. Alas, it was only a temporary fix. The epic failure of the rod was inevitable. It failed on Tuesday night. Broke off completely. We were stumped. Hubby thought.
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