A Year

It has been a busy year, thus the lack of postage. I have no idea if anyone even checks our blog anymore, but here is an update for any who do.

We are in our second and last year of school. The plan as it stands is to graduate in June. Jeff will find a job in a machine shop somewhere around Bellingham, or at least in the Northwest. I'll start up my own business, so it doesn't really matter where we are for my work.  I'll probably start up an etsy store to sell my art work, I may reopen my massage practice (after completing continuing education and getting my license back) and work freelance/contract writing jobs. If anyone needs a ghost writer, or technical writer, contact me in June!

In the small amount of time that we've lived in and explored Bellingham, we've come to really like it. Not only are the people wonderful, but we love the gorgeous mountains, farmland, parks, water, etc. Then there is all the art and music and theater, this place has a lot for a smaller city. Of course there is a part of me that loves change and desires a new landscape and town with new adventures, so perhaps we will move. But I don't know where to. :) I think no matter what we'll always come back to the Northwest wet and green climate that I love.

who am I fooling?

I have combined my writing blog with this blog, because--who am I fooling?--I wont keep up two blogs at the same time. I was trying to keep the very personal separate from the not so personal, but whatever. Yup, that is what I said in such a literary and concise matter: whatever.

Cheers.

some things I'm thankful for on my birthday

1. My husband. I have found the best partner to live life with as is possible. He is kind, generous, loving, and takes care of me in every way.
   
2. My mom. As much as she thinks I don't need her anymore now that I have Jeff, I still do and always will. She taught me how to think, to question everything to figure out what is right.
   
3. My daddy. Often we don't understand each other, get angry at each other, shake our heads at each other (that sounded primal), but I always know he loves me.
   
4. Friends. Although I have just two very close friends besides Jeff, I also have a plethora of people who love me from a distance and that makes them all my friends.
   
5. Intelligence. It doesn't make life any simpler but much more interesting.
6. Truth. That there is a right and wrong, and that it is discernible.
7. God. Although I don't understand completely what/who God is, I am very thankful that I have felt (and feel) something so much bigger than me.
   
8. Jesus. As Job said in hope of Jesus, "If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, someone to remove God's rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more. Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot."
9. Education. Ignorance can allow so many evils.
   
10. Books. For the ability they give me to escape pain.
11. Internet. It would be hard to keep in touch with people without email, blogs and facebook. Plus it cuts down on destroying trees as I don't need a book on every little piece of information I want to look up.
    
12. Skills. My ability to draw, work with clay, write, bake, create, sing, play piano, argue, play sports, be a good wife, knit.
13. Health, such as I have. The pain is most certainly wearisome, but I am able to do much still.
14. My dog. Perhaps a bit silly, but having a warm, soft puppy to cuddle with on occasion is some of the best medicine in the world.