ALL THINGS NEW

The month of March is a month of all new things for me. I'm getting help from tank+tink in setting up a new blog header. I am so stoked about its unveiling! I've had some remolding done of the rental house I live in, so everything is in my kitchen from the entryway, where all the changes are being made. This morning I can officially walk on the new tiles that have been laid. No more going out the back door and walking around to the front, where my car is parked across the street. My car is not in front of my house because the workers were all parked there, and I resorted to parking across the street to be out of the quagmire. When they finally left, I was too rattled to go get the car and park it in its usual home spot.

There is a new all glass door that I just love! The workers asked me if I wanted to leave the screen in or wait till it was hotter out. I told them not to even bother. My lil dog Caity, who is unspade would just blast thru the door on her way to venture out for naughtiness, so I told them, "No, we're good!" I walked out the door to look at the new look, and the first thing the pets did was run to the glass door and put their paw on the glass! Yep, this human fur mommy knows her pet babies!

My neighbor hood is getting some surreal new people, and so now I feel like I am going in and out of Fort Knox. I have a lock on the glass door, a deadbolt, and a regular lock on the metal door. Were I to get chased by a person of crime, it would be quicker to run past the house and into the business down the road for safety!  Ha! Where do I get these thoughts?

So, before I move everything back into the entry way, I am going to have the move things around in the kitchen first. Because now, I'm thinking of not putting everything that was in the entry way back in there, and putting new stuff in there. Well, new as in different stuff from other parts of the house. You know, my mind thinks differently than everyone else's I think. Like in my entry way is where I store on the left side of the room my books, I am an avid reader and have books stored all over my little abode. I have two book cases that are full, I have books stored on the side of the bed on the floor next to the wall so they are not visible. I have them stored behind the couch, and a storage tub full in what I call my "junk it up room." Then on the other side of the entryway I have a metal rack where I store pots and pans, fresh fruit, my keys, a flashlight, my dog leash collection, bottled water, potted flowers, can goods, whatever else. Because when you first walk into my house past the entry way is the kitchen. Next, is a small sitting room. Oh, I need to tell you I live in a duplex. I had first bids on which side to live on and I chose my side because its not next to the street, I had room for a small patio garden, and it was more private to sit out in during the summer. But my rooms are placed sorta hodge, podge like...but it works for me. I have a fear of growing old and people categorizing me as an eccentric woman, where they give the other person that raised eyebrow look with a question mark above their head, when speaking of me. Ha! That makes me smile.  But I am at sweet place in my life, where I simply embrace my quirkiness, and love myself! This ain't high school baby! You live this life your way, or you waste it on someone else's way! If God gives you the thumbs up, your good.

Speaking of being eccentric and quirky, take a gander of my "Girlfriend's Day Out" pictures. Well, its supposed to be a girlfriend day out, but sometime the guys saunter in too, but they most times sit at a table next to ours for an informal guys day out, separate, but equally fun!

This is not all of us. Some did not show, because they thought we were going to have just sushi! The original group of us have known each other for a little over 25 years, and we vary in ages. We started out eating out after church as a bunch of single girls, and have evolved. We ate out at Jasmine's. The above picture is my friend Charlotte, my invited guest tilting her bowl of Wasabi salad with seared, raw tuna (I went back today by myself and ordered the lunch version.) Charlotte loves raw sushi and is trying to pull me over to the raw side of sushi. Actually it was very, good. Next time, I'm going for the rainbow roll!

Heaven's doors and windows are opening up for me, I'm at that place. A place where new avenues are opening up to new destinations. I feel that in my spirit, in my gut, in my heart. I'm headed somewhere different, and its a better place. And, its here on planet earth, not heaven yet. 

Come back to the purple door and see where my journey takes me from here. I'm on my way somewhere fun for sure. My life bags are packed and ready to go at the front door!