Where am I???

I'm feeling like the person who wakes up and has to take a few minutes to realize where she is and how she got there.

I can't believe it's only been 12 days since I last visited here.

A recap to bring me up to speed.....

The day after my last post we signed the lease on our apartment. A very lovely apartment with 9 foot ceilings and a fireplace; a lovely, large living/dining area; a patio that Honey the cat will surely lay claim to as her own. I'm sure she'll let us sit out there - she likes it when we are all together; two bedrooms, each large enough to accommodate more than one purpose - important since there are only two and no office. The kitchen comes under the heading of OK but we'll work with it and bring it up to speed. Our view is either the trees behind or another apt complex to the side. Lest you groan over looking at apartments, let me just say, they are some very nice looking apartments, neat, clean, built symmetrically so they're easy on the eye - a restful view - and not too close.

The weekend right after signing the lease I had a photography workshop at the Dallas Arboretum to attend. Two very long days as well as a lecture Friday evening. Larry painted. Shannon helped some. The living/dining must be painted again. We were going for yellow, of course, but were looking to tone it down with a nice Dijon mustard sort of color. Somehow we ended up with French's yellow mustard on our walls. It was an amazing yellow. It didn't look that way on the card! I like yellow but that's too bright even for me. The conclusion is that the light is too bright for it so poor Larry will have to repaint. If he doesn't do it this week I'll help him this weekend.

We finally spent our first night there this Friday night. The official move in, I guess, because you can't base that on when the furniture arrived. Larry decided that since he'd be driving back and forth with the painting going on that he'd bring a truckload every day. So he did that and a couple of times friends helped with big stuff - thanks Bobby & Drew - and Phil for those last two peices on Sunday. I took off from work Monday and Tuesday last week and made trips there every evening after work the rest of the week and by this Saturday we had the place looking much better as far as stuff being put in places. Then we went back to our daughter's house and got more, and there is yet more to get. When I left this morning it was chaotic looking. But there is some organization - you just have to know where it is.

What a process. I'm thinking of the day that I sat in front of the house in KC two years ago and said how this move was supposed to go and I MUST had said that we would have movers - I know I said we would have a house all ready - everything that I said WOULD be HAS NOT been in this move.

See me floating in the Lazy River of Serenity.

It's as though God said.... we'll see who's in charge and who has the right to make declarations. (I'm thinking it's not me.) But at the same time he has blessed us in so many ways - the biggest being the apartment itself. We love it. It is so peaceful and comfortable. And also the peace we've both had even tho dealing with things NOT being what we would be more comfortable with. Blessings of his grace.

We are also blessed to be close to our friends and still not far from our daughter or our grandchildren. Our son is moving around some - it's just nice to know he's back in this area rather than in Nebraska.

Oh yes - we have a garage also which we use for storage. Don't think we could do this without that. SUCH a blessing.

Friday night I had a real - although not paying - photography gig. My daughter works for a technical college and they had a banquet for the teachers in the area that allow them to come and speak in their class and I was the event photographer. It was fun. I learned a lot. I don't think I hit absolute perfection but they turned out very good and I know some things I will do differently in the future.

Saturday evening we spent with some friends that live close now. That's our goal. One of them. Time with friends.

So - I've been busy. Busy. Busy.

Oh - and another new thing I want to make note of. I said I was getting more political. Well, I wrote my representative this morning about a bill concerning dogs and asked him to oppose it. It's really a ridiculous bill - but I won't go into that here. I just wanted to note that as a first.