FINALLY!!!

Ok...been trying to iron things out to get back to my blogging days again...as those who know me..know I like to write..and writing is often my best form of communication...esp. given my current lifestyle of busy...forgive me if you have heard some of this already??? I tried for some time to set my old blog back into action...but of course that takes some major sleuthing...what was my name? my password? Etc? I FINALLY got the message to start fresh!!!!! Kind of a theme for me these days? I am starting fresh in so many ways and it has been better than I could have asked or imagined!!! I know now I set the bar way too low in so many areas...and even though I am turning another year older this very minute...I believe I can choose to do EVERYTHING differently...and well....better!!!

My "old" blog was set up to talk about all the changes I planned to finally make this year...all good!!! Even though I was at the exploratory stage at that point it seemed. BUT....this year I have put alot of "plans' into motion....some planned....some notsomuch? BUT...as everyone who is around me has heard...over and over..."It all works out in the end...if it hasn't worked out yet...it's not yet the end". This year has been all that and more...if you know me and are related to me...come by ....and HELP...it has been a phenomenal year for my new venture...and I BELIEVE it will only continue in that direction!!!! It has been overwhelming, satisfying, and gratifying!!! All things that had really been absent in my life..I AM still in the building stage having bought my business only 19 months ago...the feedback and the numbers say...this is meant to be...just have to keep building and maybe take some time off at some point???I love every minute of it. Every day I hear a customer say something along the lines of ..."this is my happy place...this is a little slice of heaven...can I just stay here????." My dream was to create a place where people like to be...and of course go home with something they HAVE to have!!! Mission accomplished...well....part of the mission!!!

Ok...time to get personal...life has thrown some curves...but most of them have been dealt with in some way...and this is where I go to the above and beyond quotes...I have truly experienced more than I could have asked or imagined...I have done things I NEVER thought I would (all safe and sane)...said things I didn't imagine I would ever say...some of it in front of my mother even...BUT the recurring theme is FREEDOM...I am freer than I have EVER been...FREE to be me...in every way and you can not imagine how grateful I am for that...I PLAN on experiencing so much more. Because I PLAN on experiencing. Some of my decisions will be questioned or maybe criticized...and I am ok with that! I have to do what makes sense to me. Meyers-Briggs has me pegged as an INFP (1% of population-my dad and I) which means heavy on the intuitive side...I am now trusting that intuition more and more. I will of course make mistakes but not going to dwell on them...all part of the life experience. I am not going to get hung up on them and hoping others in my life don't either. Selfish decisions...yes there may be some of those too....BUT only because in the end you have to be true to yourself...and those who love you and accept you will understand. I won't always make the "sensible" decisions...but have to make the ones that make sense to me....for now....

I can truly say I am happy...and lucky and blessed and darn glad to be ME!!! Still going to LIVE FOR 3 even as I enter my 44th year. Everywhere I look there is a reason for all this happiness. Friends, Family and very special people who continue to add to this fabulous life. Everything is not perfect but again...everything does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. Last night I ended my night listening to music and dancing in my living room...have to get back to my dance a little every day!!! Yes...my world and life looks so different from a year ago....and a year from now it will look different than it looks right now...

I will get back to my blogging here and again and maybe be a little less journal like...get back to writing about disposable socks and hiking my skirt up for a load of peaches...but wanted to set the tone once again...for LIVING a wonderful life...EXPERIENCING more....TRUSTING in myself...SMILING at all the possibilities!!!!! I am FINALLY....LIVING,EXPERIENCING, TRUSTING AND SMILING!!!