Tonight

Tonight...

I sit here.... listening to mellow music... feeling warm and cozy in my sweater,

my house, my skin...

yet

there is unrest in my spirit,

in myself,

my soul.

Longing for rest, completion, peace.

Knowing where to find it - not knowing all the time how to reach out and grab it - and make it real for myself.

Trying to understand the inside of myself - my thoughts, goals, dreams, aims, hopes.

Begging for the balm to be on my soul and heal it, make it whole and make it fly to a place of safety, fulfillment, and joy.

Wondering to know how to express joy in myself, for others, for my Creator

Aching to be made whole and perfect in a time not belonging to this earth

Not needing to cry anymore or try to be someone who i'm not,

but longing to know as I am known.

Extreme Makeover - My Edition

So, we embarked on another chapter of the Extreme Makeover - My Edition today. Mom and Dad were the willing slaves to whom were entrusted the paint brushes and drills (i think i made the hole too big!?? Uh oh!) The first two shots are of the dining of my little abode as they were when i purchased the house - oh so wonderfully outdated and in dire need of some updating.

Note the lovely stained carpet, boring white walls and outdated furniture
The drapes were so faded, we discovered today, that they had stripes on them - pink stripes to be exact where the sun hit and brown where it was shady - hmmm... methinks them curtains weren't opened muchly.

Now brought at least into the 20th century with some elbow grease, a splash of "thicket" on the walls and a sleek new artwork on the wall; i'm so happy with the results... we weren't sure as always, how the paint would turn out - but the stuff is awesome - it's paint from Benjamin Moore - i would totally recommend them as they are super helpful and they have great colours and products - it has made the onerous task of painting a house full of oil paint so much more easy and relaxed.

The dining room - after picture. We still need to find some accessories and maybe a rug and some curtains in case i don't want every neighbour in the hood to be seeing me eat my mac and cheese or cereal... but it is definitely more grown up and neat looking than what we started out with this morning... on to the living room - any ideas??

Hmm... kinda dumb...

Well, poor old Prunelope had a little run-in with a snowbank this evening, silly car... whilst i normally am a very careful driver, alas, this evening, i was not hundred percent concentrating while as she backed down the long driveway which i was leaving this evening. All of a sudden, there i felt a bit of a bump and hmm... couldn't drive anymore... I wasn't able to move forward or backwards and so had to call on the assistance of my elder and his son to rescue me and Prunelope from our snowy peril... sure enough, snip, snap, and we were on our way again - boots full of snow and cheeks glowing, not cause it was so cold, but with some embarrassment to light them! What a flake! heehee...

It's a race... i'm winning...

Just to beat my dear friend Laura on her posting race... i beat you!!!

Winter wonderland???

Green Meadows??? Me thinks not so much...

Okay, i know it's been a little while since i last posted... and you're probably wondering why in the world a post at 11:58 at night... but this is how it is... my blood is pumping nice and warm since i had to shovel my driveway yet again... so much for global warming and the climate change theory - in my opinion, we seem to be regressing into the 3rd ice age (or whatever number we are up to at present!) I think that there is somewhere a little snow maker perched over Hamilton and delighting in dumping snow on the hapless new owner of a house... having to slave away each and every day shoveling yet another load of snow out of her driveway! Pretty soon i'm gonna need a ladder to pile the snow up there cause it's getting pretty deep on my lawn... hmm... tomorrow i think i'll have to go and jump in the middle and see how long it takes to extricate myself from the snowy grasp of the drifts... but for now, i suppose i'd better take myself off to bed to rest up for the shoveling drama to begin yet again! Happy shoveling!Dad looking awfully cute having come in from shoveling a lot of snow... again... I didn't have a shot of myself looking the same from a few minutes ago... so just picture this without a beard and gray hair... and maybe the wild eyebrows... add a little bit more brown hair and a zit on the chin and you've got the picture!