Creativity is everything

I consider myself a creative person. I love to create. I call myself a writer. I crochet. I paint. I sew. I bake. I love trying new things. I love making something out of nothing. So sooner or later, I always knew I would get a tattoo but because of money constraints, I had always put it off, til recently.

It's my own personal design with lots of meaning.  The rising sun represents my daughter.  The star constellation represents my husband.  The crescent moon is my personal sign.  The lily reminds me of life, death and resurrection.  I adore it and I'm happy to have it on my body.  I can't wait til I can get another one.  That's the outside of my left leg just above my knee, btw.

Life, it goes on

This is just going to be one of those updates about my personal life.  There's so much going on that it's been hard to keep up, literally.

First off, I got a job.  It's a tough job.  The first few days were especially hard.  I'm in the packing and shipping industry.  I started out loading trucks and it hurt a lot.  I even injured myself by pulling a muscle in my leg and had to call off on just my 3rd day of work.  I hated to do it but as I couldn't really move too much for about 3 days afterwards, I feel it was the better choice.  I showed up the following Monday, which apparently surprised a few people, and kept working hard.  I proved I'm no quitter and I suppose I've made a good impression as they've moved me from the trucks to sorting, which is better physically but it gets confusing at times as sorting is in actuality the weirdest geography game ever.  I'm getting it but I'll admit some days are better than others for remembering.  I'm going to keep working on it though and hopefully I'll get the hang of it soon, mentally and physically.  On the plus side, I got my first paycheck in 10 years.  It really felt good to see a check that I earned.

Second of all, it's back to school time.  If anyone remembers, last year was a nightmare with the scrambling to get school uniforms.  Lucky, I thought ahead and already got most of what my daughter needed clothing wise and kept basics on hand so the process is so much smoother this year.

Those are the major points.  Of course there are the millions of day to day things that keep me busy.  I keep trudging ahead as best as I can even if it means taking a step backwards at times.

There's a place you can go . . .

It's called the YMCA! 

Yeah, I can't help myself.  

But these days it's not just for young men, it's a whole family facility.  We decided to sign the whole family to join the YMCA.  It really surprised me just how many different programs they have available for anyone in the family from swim lessons for kids, aerobics and workouts for adults and even aquatic exercises with a therapy pool for people to move around easier.  

That's the thought for this time.  

I game again!

I game again and to a gamer, which I am, it's basically saying, "I live again!"  I can play FP perspective games, without any sort of nausea.

I have in fact been playing Skyrim for the past 2 weeks.  I remember when I first got the game I was excited to play but 45 mins on the dot into It and I was ready to keel over with an upset stomach.  I decidedly to just give it a shot and ended up playing 2 -3 hours without realizing.  It was so great to be able to enjoy the storyline and gameplay without having to pay the price of nausea for the rest of the night.  I felt like my old self.  Since then it's become my obsession, my anti-anger.  Instead of staying angry about a situation, I hold out until I can get in a few hours of Skyrim and I'm no longer angry.  It just puts me in a better mood to be able to do something that I was denied to do for so long.  I can only hope that this continues and something doesn't cause me to lose my newly refunded happiness.

-current- Season cleaning

I will be the first person to admit that being organized is a bit of an obsession for me.  To my husband, it's a huge obsession and often a contingent of fighting between us.

It's the same old story that I want to clean and get rid of things while he doesn't want to go through stuff and doesn't want to throw anything away.  It's a curious situation to me cause he's a tech geek who loves all the new shineys, gets a new shiney he wants to use right now but refuses to throw the old shiney because it might still be useful even though new shiney is supposed to be a replacement for old shiney.  I love my trinkets and personal shineys but I'm well aware that a person can't keep everything and there's no point in trying to keep everything.  There's only so many hours in a day and if a person has too many things to do, I ask how can that person enjoy each and every single item.  The answer is that it's impossible, if you have too much stuff.  Also, interests come and go and people change and move on.  What once might have been important may no longer have meaning many years or just weeks later.  I hate to be inundated with junk constantly and refuse to live like that constantly.

It's good to clean, good to get rid of and good to keep some things, but not to the point that things no longer have meaning.  Here's a little motivation:

Dracula's Ball

Dracula's Ball on Summer Solstice was fun.  

Here is an official bootleg of Samantha Diaz's performance.  

In summer

School's out for the summer, or at least it will be in about 2 days.  It's a day that every kid looks forward to and all parents dread.  

Actually, it's not all quite that dramatic.  I like having my kid at home and the fact that I only have 1 kid helps with that mentality a lot.  I do enjoy spending time with her though of course, I enjoy those few hours that she spends with the grandparents every so often, which happens just once or twice a month.  I never wanted to be one of those parents who drops off their kid/s every weekend at the grandparents while during the week the kid is at daycare while parents works.  Seriously, what's the point of having a kid if you never spend time with the child?  

During the school year, it gets so busy it feels like I never see my own kid so I'm looking forward to this summer.  I like our family day trips whether to someplace fun and different or just out running errands together.  It's not just idle time.  I usually have a planned educational hour everyday, whether it'll be practicing her recorder, reading a book together, doing an art and craft project and other such activities.  This year I'm adding astronomy to the learning lessons and I can't wait for a late night or two looking through my telescope to show her the wonders of the universe.  

Bring on the longer days, bring on the warm weather.  I'm looking forward to it all!