Monthly Archives: September 2008

Elim woke me up and wish me happy birthday this morning.  I forgot this is my birthday #1.  It cheered me up right away.  Went to Fox Den and hit a couple of buckets of balls.  The sun is shining and not very many people were there.  An older man in the next booths over came over to talk and wanted to give me some pointers.  I welcomed his help.  He stayed with me till I ran out of balls and I bought him a beer afterwards.  I was able to hit a few balls to 100 yards or so.  I was very happy about that.  Most balls curved to the right though.  I hope I haven’t built up some bad habits already.  Carman is his name.  I’m sure if I don’t write it down now, it’ll escape me forever.  He can hit the balls straight and far 95% of the time.  But his stance and technique is not conventional.  I don’t think I really want to learn from him the way he does it.  I want to learn the traditional way from the beginning.

Went to Borders and found the two books by Catherine Myss and bought a couple of cute little pens and a bookmark.  Oh yeah, and book light.  I never have enough light to do anything any more.  I know it’s my eyes and the old age.  But hey, I’m not going to let it stop me if I can help it.  

50 seems to be the magic number for me.  Since I turned 50, my life has been going up and up in every aspect.  I quitted the job that did not motivate me any more and thus killed the source of my depression.  The most wonderful man came into my life and he is spoiling me rotten I have to say.  We moved into a spacious brand new condo, we have a great neighbor, I danced better, I learned to do new things like golfing.  Man, it’s a wonderful life!!

Lately, the metaphysical is calling again.  I went back and listened to “Eat, Pray, Love” again, I got the “Interior Castle” out and reading it again.  I bought Catherine Myss books to get into it more deeply.  I want to go on retreats.  I want to start meditating again.  

Life is full, life is full of interests, fun, challenges and most importantly peace.  I am so fortunate and grateful for everything in my life now.  God has once more showed me his/her mercy and I am immersed in the grand love I have not experienced till now.   I want to shout “THANK YOU” and yet there is really no words to describe the wonderful feeling for the life I have now.

I am so pleased with myself.  I found the age-old secret of cleaning the soap scums in the shower.  Ammonia!  There are some brownish colored stuff at the base of the sliding shower door track.  I thought it was rust and was resorted to accept that it is set in and couldn’t be removed.  But lo and behold, I spray the ammonia solution on it and with a scrub, it dissolved and came off right away.  I am so amazed.  Yeah, sometimes a little thing amazes me.  I loooove these small hidden knowledge that makes your life so much easier.  Now, I’m off to find more things that ammonia can do.  Along that line, what vinegar can do.

Now a tech find.  I installed Simplify on my mac and PC and my iphone.  And without planning about it, I have two ways to listen to my music.  I have all my ballroom music in playlists on my mac and I have my own music collection in the playlist on my PC.  Now, I can use my iphone to either listen to my music for fun or practice to the ballroom music.  Ha!  Unexpected benefit.

Knitting.  I have finished the shetland shawl last night.  Going to block it today.  And I also wound the yarn for my next shawl with the umbrella yarn holder and a manual yarn winder.  It’s so cool! I did all 8 skeins in no time.  Wow!  I was very pleased again.  he he.

Got to listen to this Bourne book again.  I can’t remember the names!!  And there are so many threads along so many people, I sometimes don’t even know what the thread is.

Got to move now, blocking the shawl.

I went and did a little of cleaning supply shopping yesterday, when I got home I felt really tired and odd.  Almost didn’t have the energy to make dinner.  I thought I was just hungry and tired, but decided to stay home instead of going to Tim’s Tuesday night classes.

This morning, I woke up with a slight headache and my nose has not stopped running which had me running to the kleenex every few minutes.  But I decided to do some cleaning.  Started in the bathroom with the vinegar solution that I learned from reading the how to sites.  

I don’t normally like to clean, but once in a while, I’ll get in the mood and do a marathon.  Maybe that’s why I don’t like it.  I probably wear myself out and that prevents me from wanting to do it for a while.

I was browsing on the Border’s site yesterday and found a link to a book club that Elizabeth Gilbert appeared on and they have videos of her talking about her book and her journey on lots of topics.  Man, that’s a gold find.  I remember I enjoyed her book when it was first out and not so popular yet,  Maybe a year later, I hear people talking about it now all the time.  And watching the videos, I have the urge to go back and read it again.  In fact, I will.

I feel very bad that because of the cold I can’t take Connie to the treatments maybe for a few days till this passes.  Hopefully it won’t get too bad so I can continue my house cleaning spree and get closer to be a home body.