Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Happy days....sad days
So very happy and in love! He's so amazing and sweet I cannot believe how lucky I am!! I am saddened by news of a school friend. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor. So unfair. She's talented, beautiful, sweet, loves God, loves her family. She's young with so much more to give. She posts a blog, which was meant for her crafts, she makes amazing cards. It's turned into her medical adventure. She's stage 4, not good news. It really hurts my heart to know someone so wonderful is leaving us.
Update: My friend passed away last May in North Carolina. Her husband took over writing her blog and kept us all updated each week as to her condition. He is really a wonderful man who truly loves his wife and family. My heart goes out to him.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Done!
Five months later, I met someone I knew of back in my early twenties. He's five years younger and of all things dated my ex husband's ex wife! We became friends and he opened his feelings up to me. He drew me into his soul, I could feel his pain and it hurt so bad. I wanted to just envelope him in my arms and make it all go away. Of course I knew that was not going to happen. Someone can talk about their pain, but it's up to them to put it in that file cabinet inside the brain and move on. I was going to be there anytime he wanted to talk about it, because talking helps. It makes you realize how paralyzed you are and then one day you wake and think, I don't want to be like this, I want to move on! I know, because I have been there. It's deep, dark, lonely and a place I never want to be in again. I've realized I have been afraid to give myself to someone fully. I have been trying to protect my heart for so long that I never thought I could love again. That's changed. I am so in love with this person, beyond anything I've ever felt before in my life. He's my male counter part, we love the same things, we say the same things, we are so much alike it's scary. It feels as though we both interviewed everyone we know asking them questions about our likes and dislikes. That's a rediculous idea and it would never work. I would see through it and I know he would too. We test each other, we are both feeling our way around and inside deep. We have shared so much over the short time we've been seeing each other I feel like I've always known him. If you believe in past lives, we were definitely together as past lovers. He is the most amazing man, or person, I have ever known. He makes me laugh, he shares his thoughts and feelings, he communicates like know other man I've ever known. He know's what I'm going to say before I do! He's genuine, tall, dark and extremely handsome. He works in a real job, real hours, weekends off. I can't wait to keep this story going, I'm excited and scared and excited, did I say I'm excited about the future for the first time in eleven years. To be continued....
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Yosemite Hike
Our plans of hiking Half Dome in Yosemite were squashed like a bug a few months after we started making our reservations and working toward getting in shape. We hiked, we worked out, we ate great, we did it all. We were going to get to the top of Half Dome if it killed us. Or a bear ate us, either way, we were going! It was a beautiful 90 degrees the day before our planned "mini" hike.
The National Park Service made the following decision:
The National Park Service made the following decision:
Permits to hike to the top of Half Dome are now required seven days per week when the cables are up. This is an interim measure to increase safety along the cables while the park develops a long-term plan to manage use on the Half Dome Trail. (Strenuous, 4800 ft ascent)
Might I also add, the three of us girls made our way to the ranger station at Yosemite to "chat" with the cute ranger boys (it was raining? what can I say). We chatted for 30 minutes or so. He gave us advise for our next trip and was not quite sure how they planned to change the permit situation but was sure it would change. They only issue 400 permits a day and you can only apply for a permit 4 months in advance of your planned hike/climb. If you want to get up to the dome by day break, you may score a permit when someone gets there and looks up the cables and chickens out. The day we picked 11 months earlier, it managed to rain, the hike would have been canceled. We weren't to bummed after that!
Here are the tent cabins we stayed in.
May I also mention on the day we checked in, we strolled up to the Awahnee Hotel. Did I say "waaahhhhhh"? It was the most fabulous, magical, mid evil looking place I've ever seen!!
Except in the movies, I believe
Our first morning "after" sleeping in the "cabin", we were trying to find coffee...mmmmm coffee We wandered over to the lodge, we needed to exchange our tickets for transport up
Glacier Mountain, we were going to hike 12 miles down hill that day. Rain blew that idea. My cousin Elaine took our tickets and went to the kiosk for us while we searched for coffee. We were standing near the lodge, still raining, my lovely sister Sandra looks a bit beyond me and says to me, Janet don't freak but there's a bear right behind you. I looked at her and said "no, no way your messing with me". I turned with a big grin on my face which quickly dissipated as I saw the young bear walking by me. I quickly ran after it! I wanted to see where he he was going and what he was trying to find. He ran by the ticket kiosk and across the road to a large meadow.
The Merced River runs over the gorgeous slabs of granite that are so abundant there. Granite everywhere you look.
On the day of our big hike, it rained. There is no way you can go when it's raining as hard as it was that day. We decided we would go to Glacier Point and go take a look at the Grizzly Giant in Mariposa Grove. What an awesome trip, giant sequoias everywhere you look. The National Forrest Service conducted a "prescribed" fire there in 2008, over 90 acres were planned to be burned. It's a cleansing, something we all could use from time to time, although I don't suggest doing it by fire.
Moving on, we had an awesome hike up Vernal Falls. What a beautiful, captivating, breathtaking hike! If you don't believe in God, you will after you see the beauty of Yosemite.
I will be back to write more of our most awesome hike, I've never before had the feeling I had when I was there, absolute beauty everywhere you look.
Here are the tent cabins we stayed in.
May I also mention on the day we checked in, we strolled up to the Awahnee Hotel. Did I say "waaahhhhhh"? It was the most fabulous, magical, mid evil looking place I've ever seen!!
Except in the movies, I believe
Our first morning "after" sleeping in the "cabin", we were trying to find coffee...mmmmm coffee We wandered over to the lodge, we needed to exchange our tickets for transport up
The Merced River runs over the gorgeous slabs of granite that are so abundant there. Granite everywhere you look.
On the day of our big hike, it rained. There is no way you can go when it's raining as hard as it was that day. We decided we would go to Glacier Point and go take a look at the Grizzly Giant in Mariposa Grove. What an awesome trip, giant sequoias everywhere you look. The National Forrest Service conducted a "prescribed" fire there in 2008, over 90 acres were planned to be burned. It's a cleansing, something we all could use from time to time, although I don't suggest doing it by fire.
Moving on, we had an awesome hike up Vernal Falls. What a beautiful, captivating, breathtaking hike! If you don't believe in God, you will after you see the beauty of Yosemite.
I will be back to write more of our most awesome hike, I've never before had the feeling I had when I was there, absolute beauty everywhere you look.
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