My kayak
Sunsets
Quiet moments on the water
Summer nights
This stage of my life
the sound of my kayak cutting the water:true to one's own personality, spirit, or character ..
My kayak
Sunsets
Quiet moments on the water
Summer nights
This stage of my life
the sound of my kayak cutting the waterIt’s time for Thursday 13, and being the last Thursday of the month, keeping the tradition, here is the October’s Thursday ..
A photo: Being a dog is just a rough life …
Current Scent: I’m finally burning the candle “Fresh Linen” that I’ve had for over a year!
What I am reading: Reading is going slow .. I have another book on the waiting list .. and today I found out three more titles … can I have summer back, so I can lay out on Ariel’s rock and read?
Newest music: Love, love, love the new song from Cee Lo Green .. the non-explicit version is “forget you..”, there are two other versions; use your creative mind on the titles!
Movie I saw: We went and saw “the Town” .. excellent movie, highly recommended .. not sure if I liked it because it took place in Boston ..or if Ben Affleck has something to do with it ..
Something Yummy: .. I made spring rolls .. those were good ..I’m TRYING to be good . .. but, pumpkin whoopee pies, chocolate chip cookies …. ya .. trying to be good!!
the last place I ate: Fresh Ginger .. Chinese food ...
Something that made me cry: My ex ….when will it end?! I felt reprimanded by him .. the man is millions of miles away..over Instant Messaging …. and I allowed myself to feel like I was wrong ..wth??!
Something that made me laugh: listening to my girl trying to convince me to get another cat, puppy .. baby bunny..a fish .. She wants another pet..she doesn’t even walk HER dog!!
Something I look forward to in November: Thanksgiving..we go down to my sister’s in Massachusetts.. I love seeing my nephews and niece, and my awesome sister. Next to July 4, Thanksgiving is my favorite.
Something that I will remember in October: I’m still missing the freedoms of summer .. I need to move on and discover fall.
Something that I am thankful for: Always thankful for all our health, my job .. my kids … I’m thankful for Red wine.. I love my wine, and red wine moments
A photo i took this month:
Welcome to Monday Mayhem- the best place to be on the slowest day of the week.
Today we are celebrating the five best pieces of advice. For each prompt, give your best advice. Be sure to have fun and visit the other participants.
1. Someone playing this meme has music playing on their site and it is disrupting what you have playing on your computer while you play this wonderful meme. What's your best advice to people who auto-play music on their site? Please don’t do it .. unless you can anticipate the music I love …(I know, I’m a party poop .. but I always jump when the music starts, because most of the time the volume is up)
2. What is your best advice to someone thinking about getting married? NOOO … don’t do it!!! hahahahah … JUST KIDDING!! REALLY!
I would say, wait and make sure … live a little .. get to know who you really are .. make sure you are ready to share your life .. recognize it’s a forever change .. make sure you’re best friends first .. that you share the same ambitions and desires, also for each other .. make sure that you’re marrying for partnership and companionship, not need ..
3. What's your best advice for someone wanting to purchase a new phone? what do you want it to do for you? (that’s a question ..)
4. What's your best advice to offer to the younger generation? Stop being so demanding and self centered (..oh, that’s a demand) …
5. What's your best advice for anyone wanting to buy a car? it’s all about knowing what you need out of the car, and will the car define some of who you are, and who you want to be .. how much function to you want to give the car? (oh, and then costs of course ..)
6.What's the best advice to give to everyone?
take every opportunity to live life …laugh often …love passionately
It's Friday again ... click here to play ..
1. You do your thing; I do mine and sometimes _we'll meet____.
2. _the fact that it's Friday, and I want to go home__ is what's been on my mind on and off all day.
3. "Remember when _old ones died, and new were born, and life was changed, disassembled, rearranged .We came together, fell apart, and broke each other's hearts .. remember when"_.
4. _Melted M&M's, a warm brownie with oreo cookie ice cream and passionate kisses___ are three of my favorite obsessions :-)
5. During the last year _we have lived in three different houses, and the kids have been in two different schools, we have seen so much change._
6. _Deep fried ice cream_ puts a smile on my face.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _wine and pizza, and perhaps a sunset kayak_, tomorrow my plans include _kayaking, maybe a run, and groceries____ and Sunday, I want to _finally have breakfast with Cyn, and some form of body moving..ya.. exercise_!
Happy weekend!
I went kayaking today .. I tried to ignore it .. tell me it's not so ...
I'm just not ready .. I won't give in!!
I won't welcome fall .. with the cool crisp air .. I won't do it! ... not yet!
Today I abandoned most of my motherly duties, and decided to go kayaking by myself to get a little air. I wasn't sure what I was looking for; but I knew I just wanted to be in a kayak out looking! I came across this little princess .. a proud moment! For once I was able to see the eyes peeking out of the water from afar!
To play click here:My favorite meme … Thursday 13, make a list of 13 … just a list of whatever you want!
This past Saturday when we were getting ready to do the full moon kayaking .. I accidentally backed into a parked car. Mind you, the parked car was illegally parked, and because he was .. I had a difficult time getting out of my parking spot BECAUSE HE WAS BLOCKING THE PARKING SPOT I WAS PARKED IN!! <cleansing breath>Since I was the moving vehicle, and he was the parked vehicle …… guess who is to blame!
Even though no one witnessed the scene of the crime … I was honest and left a note on the windshield … hence my mantra for the last couple of days has been “I did the right thing, I did the right thing, I did the right thing..”
YA>>>> $771.57 later!!!! … hey, I did the right thing.
So for Thursday 13 … a list of mantras I have used in the last 6 months :
Happy Thursday … Happy Weekend … and Happy Fourth of July! It’s going to be a strange holiday for me .. its the first time that I’m not going to be with my kids .. very, very odd!
So this will be a double post .. which means it counts as two posts since I am falling behind … only because I had such a great weekend!! First a little ridiculous news …. just slap the “L” on my forehead … I was going to run a race .. but oh, you can’t run a race on Sunday when it was scheduled on Saturday! Shall we review the ‘how to read a calendar’ class again ….. …..!
Okay .. on to new and much better things! Saturday night I had the pleasure of experiencing something new: a full moon paddle on the Penobscot! It was so cool! … and added benefit … there was an eagle perched on a tree. The pictures aren’t that great because I didn’t want to bring the Rebel .. so it was a point and shoot and my I phone .. and it was getting dark out. This was such a cool experience .. I’m definitely doing it again in July .. thank goodness the full moon comes out every month!
Of course no real good pictures of the full moon…!
So today I went and kayaked on my most favorite river ..in Belfast. You launch in the harbor and then paddle up and it becomes a river. I have no idea when it turns from ocean water to river … one of those mysteries I will just enjoy paddling in … but the weather was perfect .. and it felt so great to be back on this body of water. On the way back the wind had picked up and it was tough going back towards the harbor .. that’s when the eagle was spotted. I’m surprised the picture came out as well as it did considering every time I stopped paddling, I would float backwards and sway side to side, away from him.
What a great weekend!! If the weather stays this great … my kayak and I are going to best friends! Between this weekend and last weekend I saw so many places where you could paddle to, climb out and just spread a blanket, bring a lunch, a good book and relax for the day …….
ahhhhh … i love being back in Maine!
A photo of: A peony
Current Scent: I’m so boring .. no scents
What I am reading: I can’t wait … I have two books waiting for me! A Slice of Life sent me a new book!
Newest music added to my playlist: Last week I added Tim McGraw with Faith Hill .. Like We Never Loved At All
Movie I saw: The last movie I saw was with Nelson .. The Killers .. it was very cute and funny.
Something yummy: it’s all yummy!
The last place I ate at: I think would have been for lunch at the 99
Something that made me cry: Putting my kids on that plane!
Something that made me laugh: how about smile? I smiled at the box that was sitting at my door step!
Something that I look forward to in July: more Summer!!
Something I want to remember from this month: Road races, lots of kayaking .. just knowing we are in summer ..
Something that I am thankful for: my running legs! (and of course always the usual!
A photo I took this month:
My favorite moments! <I’m so boring!>
Happy Almost Weekend!