An Amazing Day

Just glad that Thursday is here. I had a nice calm day...in comparison to most of my days. I kept MP at bay, better known as mini me LOL. Didnt have to deal with him at all until I left for home...mmm, home, what a nice sound. The weather was the only issue today, and that really didnt materialize. Im still waiting for the thunderstorms to hit. I miss CA. but the great thing about OH is that the weather produces such great skies. I will post some pics of the skies that I have taken in the past. I seem to take those most often, they are so interesting. We are looking at the threat of rain/thunderstorms all week at this point. I dont mind. Its just nice to be home and relaxing instead of on my feet and working. Im moving to Europe where they know how to relax, not really, I wish. I would love to visit one day though. Italy for sure and then of course Greece. Hmm, maybe the French Riviera, oh, maybe all of Europe.. that would be incredible. YEs.

Working on my dream painting....it will take time but it will be great!Some of my paintings can take a day, some months, it just depends. But Im really excited about tje whole venture. Ive chosen several dreams to incorporate, so it wont be just one. Maybe the next or there after I can deal with just one so you know exactly what Ive seen. Dreamz are great, they are such a source of relief.

Tell me about your dreamz. Have you ever dreamt you were flying? I have. I used to dream about flying all the time when I was young. Some times my dreams have a feeling of reality in them, as though, you know when someone touches you...a brush of your hand or a kiss on your cheek? I feel the touch and the warmth of the other person. Its incredible. When I have these reality dreams it almost always happens or has happened. That's the stuff I was talking about in regards to having precognitive dreams.

Ive also had awake happenings. Ive had a hand on my shoulder (in comfort, many times) after someone has passed away.I usually know when someone is thinking of me. And I dont mean just a passing thought, I mean they keep thinking of me for some reason over and over. They will come into my mind continually throughout the day or night until they stop and then of course I hear from them. I usually know when someone is going to call. Or when the phone rings, I almost always know who it is. I dont seem to use these skills quite as much now because we have ringtones for everyone we know. Hmm maybe I should get rid of the ringtones?

Im very sensitive to peoples feelings, the energy that they give. If im not careful I pick up the energy that they are putting forth. That's not always a good thing, the energy I mean. Sometimes the energy is a bad energy and then that gets sent my way. Sometimes the energy is good or great and Im happy for it. I just have to protect myself.

I will post more tomorrow, I dont have to be to work until late afternoon.

here are the pics, and thanks for listening.

Dulce

Painting dreamz piece by piece

Just stopped by to show a bit of my progress. I love the texture of the material I am using. I have a before and after of the canvas and of course all the materials that Im using. I will be applying one more coating of gesso before I start my painting. I used stretcher bars 19x32 and about a 1/2 yd of organic muslin. I have one coat of gesso on the canvas now and once the second coat is dry I will decide whether I want to lightly sand and recoat or leave as is for texture.

Im sure the colors will come to me as I start my dream painting. Im very excited and curious to see what comes of my efforts.

I will also leave you with a pic of a butterfly that decided to land on my patio just beyond the railing. Each time I see a butterfly I see joy and peace. They are such a pleasure to watch. This one decided to say goodbye as well, how honored I felt to have this one show me its beauty just one more time. They dont live a very long life Iam told, but they provide such wonder and beauty while they are here.

Thank you for listening, Dulce

Painting Dreamz

Painting Dreamz

just wanted to say that I started my canvas and want to take you step by step from the canvas to the painting. I was planning on posting the first few steps of the canvas and the prep paint but realized when I went for my camera the battery was not charged. So the battery is on the charger and Im posting before going to work! I will be back tomorrow to show you the progress.

And then the dream.......

Dulce

Dreamz

Ive thought quite a bit about what change is coming into my life. I think a long look into my dreamz will be a good direction. Dreamz are so amazing, I wish that I could remember every one. Ah, and even better than that is painting them. Yes, that's it, I will paint them ! I will paint them..........!

It's fabulous to have a revelation. Im so excited! I have had some organic canvas for some time now and havent bothered to stretch or treat it. I have the perfect reason to do so now. I have two little projects to attend to and then I wil set off to stretch my canvas and put a coating or two of gesso. Yay, I cant tell you how this makes me feel. I have been feeling the need to paint but just didnt know what. And now I have the perfect combination, the need to find answers for my life and the need to paint them. Dreamz

Here are a few of my paintings from the past :) Enjoy

and thanks for listening, Dulce

Just a few words for thought....

Dog Days of Summer are here

HI, just sitting here enjoying the cool air adding words of familiarity to my blog. Believe it or not, the dog days of summer have finally arrived! I dont mind it while im in here, but, I will soon have to go to work. And my car has no AIR CONDITIONING! We have had such a cool and rainy summer and I wasnt looking forward to this heat. I even went so far as to think we might get away with out it. What was I thinking?

I have been having the strangest dreams lately, what do I mean lately hah!I have strange dreams all the time. I used to write them down and some how just stopped. Oh yah I know why, I got married.

I've been feeling a bit stagnant for a while now. As though Im just stuck, all the while knowing that there's something about to change. I've been feeling like this for about a week or two (sometimes my days, weeks, months can run together as though there is no time frame, just time), the change part I mean. The stuck part I've felt for about a year now. The precognition of change drifted into my mind about a week or two ago. I dont know what is going to change just yet but something will, I can feel it.

I decided to pick up a few books (these are books that Ive had in my library for years) in the last few weeks knowing that I needed some kind of direction. I read a few pages in Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting, and then I picked up Ask And It Is Given. I then picked up Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui. I immediately decided to make the change happen by getting involved with what I have power over. I started cleaning! I think my husband thought I was crazy but I felt the need to really clean.

I mean it was Sunday and originally we had decided to take that day off and spend it with one another. But all the while Im thinking I need to make a difference with the change that's about to come into my life. I know that I have been neglecting things around the house for a reason and in reading Clear Your Clutter I realized ! I stopped clearing my clutter last year and the clutter just put me in that stuck stage.

So I started clearing my clutter, I still have much to do but Im on my way to free flowing energy.

Oh yah, I forgot re: the dreams I was talking about earlier. The reason I brought that up is because as I was cleaning I decided to dust everything. And as I got to the bookcase I decided to pull out all the books so that I could get all the dust (not just on top-the usual dusting). As Im going through each book and wiping them off I see the dream journal that I used to write my dreams in. I opened it up and read a few of them. They are strange, wonderful and funny to say the least but also helpful. I plan on writing more of them down as I go through this change.

I had one the other night that I still cant get out of my mind. You see, we have a few things going on at work and these "things" are a bit stressful for me. So in the middle of the night I wake slightly and hope to fall asleep again, knowing that Im dreaming about work. I fall asleep and go right back into the same dream, it's just a continuation of the same dream at work. And while Im sleeping I think to myself "jeez, can I just stop thinking about work for one night?" But as the dream goes on I feel like Im in sleep/wake limbo! Im dreaming but Im awake and during this time it occurs to me that my old boss " the Lemur" has been re-hired and is telling me that I didnt have something stocked and he's yelling in his "old" usual way. And Im thinking to myself NOOOOOOOOOOOO this can't be true, he can't be back that's not possible! Then I wake up for real this time.

I have dreams sometimes that are precursor's to actual events, not so specific that it shows me each moment to moment what will happen but just a heads up on possibilities. So this dream is a bit unsettling. I think it has a lot to do with the changes that were made with one of the other managers. It's gone to his head, really. He is called mini me at work. And for a good reason. I have different names for him. You remember the movie Monsters Inc.? Remember the chameleon character that would slither all through the factory and change colors to hide from other workers so that he could spy on them? Yah, that's mini me. To a Tee! He actually does that. He hides behind walls, behind doors. And he runs through the building to find you to see if he can get something on you to report to upper management. He even goes so far as to make things up about you. He even makes rude hand jesters at other management behind their backs. What a piece of work.
Ok, enough, I have some more cleaning to do. I will leave you with some nice pics..

Thanks for listening, Dulce

BIRTHDAY COMING UP!!

Happy Birthday To Me.....

Just another day....

just wanted to say hello to the world that listens.....im home from work and today was a good day. My husband always asks...so, how was your day? And by that he means, good, great, stressful, eventful- good or bad, and he wants the details! Each day is like that, depending on the events that im taking care of or how many servers call off. And added to that is the ADD-ONS!!!Yep, each day I go to my mailbox at work, which I playfully have dubbed "crap in the box", You know, Jack in the box? (with a twist). That's because each time you look at your mailbox (which is 3ft by 3ft square with slots and names of each dept head)you have a mound of mail. Most of this mound is just that, crap. And even when its something that you need, it still can be considered crap because it comes at the wrong time.

Our event coordinator is a bit scattered to say the least. She has never dealt with the "real" f & b side of the equation so things do not run as smoothly as they should or could. She never has all the event sheets done when we have the f&b meeting which means for me that I have half the info for scheduling that I need. She changes times and counts without telling anyone that they've happened. Makes my job that much harder. So........when my husband asks me "how was your day?" It varies greatly !!

Well, as I said in my earlier post re: my non-vacation, we went on a hike. It was nice, I mean, Iknow my husband was trying to make me happy and make up for the fact that we werent going on vacation. I just couldnt grasp the fact that we werent going, when I had looked so forward to it. I mean I had my heart set on being in the outer banks.!, watching the ocean eb and flow. geesh!
Ok Im over it.............

These pics are of the trees that we saw on our hike, with woodpecker holes. You gotta love-em, the woodpeckers i mean. You know, how many creatures do you know that would bash their heads against a tree all day just for a bug>? That's determination in my opinion. Or maybe just really hungry?

Gotta go


Got some pics for you :)

Thanks for listening,
Dulce

We went hiking

Yep, that's what we did on our non-vacation! We went on a hike one day and went to the cleveland contemporary art museum the next, we had a good time. Definitely not the ocean but we didnt spend as much as we would have. I kept thinking about what we would have done if we were in OBX.

So now we are back to busy at work and I mean ive been doing 12 and 14 hr days! whew!Ive got two days off and Im enjoying them while I can. We were just told that in a few weeks we will all go back to 6 day work weeks. Not looking forward to that at all. All during the down season we were working 4 days one week and 6 the next, it made things and life outside of work a little more balanced. Well I have an agenda today,have to get some housework done and a little running around for errands.

I will post some pics from our hike....

Thanks for listening,

Dulce

Im Back...

Anyway, to continue my story....It couldnt have been but the very next day and I looked inside the pot and the nest had been put back completely! (fast little guys)And the eggs had been laid!Ok so I leave the nest in of course and I water around them!!! It didnt take long for the birds to hatch and then I had a cute little bird family. Aww. I looked in on them each day, I had to water around them (didnt want to loose my plant). Well soon enough they were standing and flapping their wings, Im sure, prepping for the big day of flight. One day my youngest and I happened to be standing in the living room and I noticed that the papa bird was on the edge of the planter, peep, peep, peeping. Then suddenly one of the babies jumped up onto the edge of the planter and within a few peeps and flaps they both flew away! This continued each half hour (there were five of them).Then came time for the last bird to be beckoned out by papa bird. Papa landed on the edge of the planter, peep, peep, flap, flap and the last of the babies jumped up on the edge of the planter. Papa bird peeped and flapped and the baby bird did the same. Papa bird jumped off the planter to fly away with the last of the babies and the last baby jumped back in the planter! Guess he/she wasnt ready. We had to do the chicken dance to get him to fly away once the father bird came back, we only hoped that it helped :)They both happily flew away and of course I lost my plant, couldnt get enough water around them. But I had a happy little bird family singing to me each day until they flew away.

Letting go is hard but its essential to the balance and adventure of life.

I love my girls with all my heart. I have two of my own and a new step daughter.

I hope each will listen to head and heart equally and find that balance in their life.

Never give up the adventure, the spirit that life brings. Embrace it.

Thanks for listening,

Dulce

No Vacation

im really bummed....no vacation this month or any other month in the near future for that matter! Its called bills & taxes. Im not happy, to say the least, but everything is for a reason I always say. I was really looking forward to seeing the ocean. It somehow makes everything alright again. It makes the next six months bareable. Its not that things are so bad here its just that I grew up in California and I really miss seeing the ocean!For me it has a grounding effect that makes everything ok again..Im so sad.

My husband says that we are going to Salt Fork...........yea, thats where I want to be. In the forest with Deer, cant wait. He says "you can take pictures of the deer" I will have to post them...whoo, hoo.

Im buying a large bottle of wine to take with me. Maybe if I shake it enough it will remind me of the waves? Not so much..hmm?

Maybe I will paint a bit more often. I dont know.

Im making bugers tonight for my youngest and her new boyfriend. I bought some steak burgers, some bleu cheese burgers and some gyro burgers! Ive tasted them before, they are great. Just going to put them on my grill and tada! I will have gourmet :) burgers. Maybe it will relieve my mind of the constant reminder that Im not going on vacation.

My youngest daughter has recently told me of her adoration for a young man that she wants to move to Arizona with. Her adoration is a year long, but, and Ive not met him yet because she has lived in Denver until a few weeks ago,but, what is she doing? You have to let them grow up dont you? You teach them to be independent, right? You hope they make the right decisions. I feel like a mother bird that just lets her babies fly away.

I watched the process of birds and their young once. I kept trying to keep the finches, in the area, from nesting in my hanging flower baskets. I kept taking the nests that they were making out (I know all you bird lovers are going to tie me to the stake)so that I wouldnt have to water around them. I have had this problem before. But the finches wouldnt hear of it. i will be back