Tumbled Words

Ended up just having a phone interview with a Condo Board member today. He is recommending they accept our application to rent one of the condos! So we can probably move in by next weekend!

YES! If we can’t yet have our other two dreams, (Rving and living in WA in spring and summer), we will certainly take this part of the dream, to have immediate access to walk the beach, with wide open arms! It will be hard living “between” people since most of our lives we have been in our own home, but we will adjust - but they like quiet there - that may be hard for me - Guess my rock ‘n roll will have to be on headphones… but that beach… just a hop, skip, and a jump away.

We spent the day shredding, sorting and packing a bit, and cleaning; tomorrow will be more of the same, but we are also going to run look for desks, bookcase(s), and a love seat or two recliners.

We did break for an hour to run see the new landscaping and demoed inside of the new house of our son and daughter-in-law. They are going to love love love their home!

I had a quiet moment when I realized we won’t be able to make those quick stops to see them after this week, we will be well over 50 miles apart - but at least we won’t be 3900 miles away like before.

So, tomorrow is going to be a long day! Neither of us like to shop for furniture, but we have two “backup” desks picked out in case we find nothing spectacular and dirt cheap tomorrow…. Hmmm, spectacular, small, and dirt cheap - and BOTH of us agreeing on it. Long day, I predict, but our excitement will shorten the day, I am sure.

We are moving to the beach… Oh, yeah! Hurricanes, play at sea, not at our new doorstep, please.

Tags: beach, Moving

Damien realized, I think, so many of us were either procrastinating, having trouble choosing which inspiring person to write about, or simply too busy to think out a great post right now. So he chose to give us a gentle shove - and an extension.

And shove he did, he linked to a group of us suggesting ever so gently (in my words) that we get the lead out and write! Now, what he really would love, instincts tell me, is for a bunch of us to post, including people who are new to his site. So, if you haven’t been introduced to Damien yet and there is someone you would love to write about, someone you admire, here’s your chance. And if you know Damien, come on, humor him, grin.

Damien loves to read and write about “people who use their common brain and inspiration to do amazing things.” That said he is also flexible about how we interpret his contest, we could admire someone merely for their personality. So, run over to Postcards from the Funny Farm, (the link is the quote above) read the rules and the prizes - and realize he has extended the deadline to late June.

It is a good thing he is flexible, because my first instinct was to write about how much I admire Shelly K. Tucker, aka This Eclectic Life, for standing behind her ideas, including Share A Square; for seeing a vision of something and then doing more hard work than one person should have to do on the project; while at the same time being smart enough to delegate with grace and appreciation. She is charismatic and has an uncanny knack of igniting desire to volunteer while also, finding time and heart to support her volunteers emotionally. I have written many times that I admire Shelly, though often it was probably disguised in my posts to spread the news about Share A Square or the need for bags or money or squares.

She sneaked in here, in the middle of my post about Damien — both quite intentionally and quite unintentionally:

• Intentionally because I could not talk about a contest that required writing about a person I admired without mentioning Shelly
• Unintentionally because, though my first instinct was to write about Shelly, my second instinct was to write about a specific group of people that I admire, whose role as inspiring people is lesser known in the blogging community. And this is where flexibility comes in.

That post will not be exactly what Damien is asking for… writing about Shelly was, but it is another one he inspired.

Now, you, start writing!

(P.S. Have I told you Shelly is amazing?)
(P.S. Have I told you how great Damien is about inspiring us?)

Tags: Amazing Visions Writing Contest, Damien, inspiring people, Share A Square, Shelly

Negative and Positive are contenders in ring number 2 here. Who do you think won the match?

(Pay no mind to Rings 1, 3, and 4 as they are not featured fights, but merely unruly fans stepping on stage.)

Tags: Life Balance