5 truths on a tuesday...


~i am struggling a little the last couple of weeks.
i have been sick...nothing serious but something
that definitely didn't make me happy...plus
headaches and fatigue...and feeling down...about me...
worried about some serious relationship stuff...
worried about a very close family member who i just
don't know how to help...sometimes i think i should
just let go...i can't fix everything...i can't control it,
i can't be with them 24 hours a day...i can't make
them feel the way i want them to feel...sometimes
i just feel so overwhelmed by it all...by the worry
and the decisions and the responsibility and the
choices and the lack of control and the way it is
constantly like this lately...i guess maybe my kids
are just hitting turbulent ages emotionally...but
i think i have to learn to let go some...
but what is the balance? where is the line between
letting go and disconnecting.

~i don't have 5 truths. i only have that one.
all of everything balled up in one jumbled paragraph
of poor grammar and run on sentences and truth.
somedays, i feel like i am just treading water...
just trying to keep from drowning...
to keep from going under.

~i guess i have one other. no one else knows this.
no one else knows that i am feeling like this right now.
i have this side of me that refuses to let myself
talk about stuff like this out loud...i just can't.
i can't form the words.
i can write them...i can type them...but i can't
admit them out loud. that things are not always
great. that sometimes, things really suck.
{but never out loud. }

poetry thursday revisited...


it's been a long time since i've done a poetry thursday... but in honor of being brave and going to my first creative writing workshop all by myself, i thought this would be a good day to do it...

and in her true fashion
she wore T-shirts
with rainbows and
"save the trees"
scuffed shoes and
dirty knees
with her hair in her eyes
she'll cut you in half
and you
won't
even
know
it...
at least
that's what they used to say.

she's not so sure of herself
today.

friday i'm in love....


~with my new fall routine involving
journalling every morning, yoga
and music in the background...

~with freshly made lemon meringue pie

~with 14's happiness of having made showband!!

~with listening to Q podcasts in the morning while
i catch up on editing photos...

~with the fact that from the window where i sit
i can see the "fort" that 9 fashioned out of a ladder,
a patio chair, a screen door and lots of branches...

and unrelated...but needs to be said...
i'm scared about tomorrow.
i signed up for a creative writing workshop...
all by myself...45 minutes away...
and now...
well...
now i'm second guessing.

happy friday!!

looking back, thinking ahead...


i have started a book called life makeovers....

it has been on my bookshelf for the past 4 or 5 years.
but i picked it up the other day
and thought that this
might be the time to do it...to follow the prompts,
to see where they take me...

one of the first exercises is to
think over the past year...
and list your accomplishments
and acheivements...the second part of that
is to share it with someone...
so...
i am sharing it
with you...

{and i am hoping that this book will
help me fine tune my mondo-beyondo-grande
list...which is still coming...it's just formulating
right now...}

in the past year, what have i achieved or accomplished?
~parenting a 9 year old and a 13 year old
~succeeded at another year of marriage...
~dealt with 13 having her first boyfriend without hysterics
~bathroom reno
~left one job to start another
~challenged my driving skills by driving 45 min back and forth
to work in WINTER by myself!!
~had my first ever 1 person gallery show
~had my photos shown in a collection in a gallery
~photographed my first weddings and family shoots
~created my own website including a domain name
~purchased my own computer and hooked it up
all by myself!!
~survived a blown tire while driving with no panic
~sold a painting on Etsy
~created an Etsy shop
~had two articles written about me in local papers
~got recognized at McDonalds and asked for autograph :O)
~was asked to go to dominican to shoot a wedding
~signed up for a creative writing workshop
~got a freelance job photographing festivals
~started experimenting with slow cooker
~was asked to collaborate with a blogger i adore on a
photo idea
~wrote a number of test for new job and passed them
~have made time for reading again and am on 17th book
~started doing yoga again
~taught myself how to use lightroom

it was interesting to do this...to put it in print...
this is what i have done...this is how far i have come...
this is in one year...wow.
and to help me decide where i want to go...

the second part to this is to list 3 ways
i have grown over the year...
and i would have to say
creatively...
confidence in myself/belief in my abilities
comfort in letting more people see the real me...
{heh. funny tho...it's the me you guys have seen
all along...}

nobody puts baby in the corner....

i fell in love with johnny castle.

i wanted to be baby.

i still shiver when they try to do the dance scene
and she laughs everytime he trails his hand
down her side
but then finally gets it right.

that was the one movie that would end
and i would immediately rewind my borrowed
VHS bootleg copy and
watch it
from the beginning
again.

my girl, 14, is also broken up about it...
but she loved him as darry...
which i did also
as there could have been no one more perfect
to play that part
but it was johnny castle for me...all. the. way.

{and just for the record...my favorite in the outsiders?
dally....oh...sweet bad dally...}

sigh.
so sad.
i haven't felt this way about a celebrity passing
since mr hooper and mr dress up....
:O(