Internet a Bust in AZ!

Just wanted to leave a note for all those wonderful followers out there :) I am still alive and well in Arizona ! I just cant get internet without TV, which I dont want, for a decent price...arghhhh!

Talk about frustrating...oh boy, it really is just that.

So Im shopping for a decent deal here in AZ and until I get one Im without internet on a regular basis. This means that I am going to Starbucks...im not much of a coffee drinker either...and checking things like my email and facebook..I suppose I could also get it together and post on my blog. Its good talking again or rather writing because it really does allow me to make up my mind a lot quicker when I do.

Well Ive been here for about a month now and little by little Im moving right along. I now have my own digs and day my day Im putting things in their proper place. It takes me a bit longer since the back surgery but all  in good time. And did I mention that I left most of my furniture behind?? Yah, I did. My living room is the one to suffer the most but eventually it will be put together also, just like me.

I dont miss the snow at all...I dont think they've had much in Ohio but still the cold is there and I dont miss that either. I dont miss the grey, I dont miss the cold, I dont miss the urge to eat lots of heavy food either. I do miss my daughter Andrea..... A LOT, but I talk to her almost everyday. She calls me on her way home from work, she has about a 1/2 hr drive and it gives us the chance to catch up as though we were still 1/2 mile away.

I also miss being able to eat lunch with her, or dinner or just shopping.

I also havent mentioned that I had to leave behind a bit of my craft supplies because the movers, jerks that they are, gave me some lame excuse that they couldnt fit it on their truck without another 800.00. Yah, like I was going to fork over another 800 dollars....here ya go. Fortunately my daughter was able to keep what she liked of the craft stuff and donate the rest to some shelters that can use it.

I have taken a few pictures since coming here that are interesting but not like I would love to be taking. It seems that most of my days are filled with trying to get my medical records transfered here and finding a Dr. that would take my case. I have spent 3 weeks just trying to get a Dr to even hear me out. No one was willing until the Godsend Dr B.... :) and now Im fighting the system that will qualify him as certified in their OHIOan eyes!!!

OH yah, I was talking about pictures....and then I was sidetracked, as usual. I will look into what I have to post just so that things are a bit more interesting for you. I will be back.....but I have a big, Big,  BIG day tomorrow and I will deal with that first.

These are pictures of Lake Bartlett here in AZ. We went there shortly after I arrived and It was a beautiful day as you can see. I will post more when I take more :) AHHHhhh, I feel better now. It always makes me feel better to write, Im addicted, really.

See you soon, Michelle

p.s. and maybe some day I'll get back to the crafts, art, dolls, costumes and more.....I cant wait.

I've been through so much....

I have so much to say and yet there is so much that is just......kind of stuck in there. So much has happened since I left Ohio. Im working everyday at getting things in line and yet it seems that Im spinning my wheels. Im frustrated and I want to cry on a regular basis. I know that this is where I should be....with all my heart, Its just hard right now. This to shall pass, and everything is for a reason, without lifes lessons how would we grow, If you dont know what its like to live the hard life how can you truly enjoy the good...............I am going to get through this.

(these were my digs for the last night in OHIO...an air mattress and my computer! all a girls needs :}
and this is Sophia in her Halloween wax mustache! :)

All moves, especially as difficult as I have made this one, are hard. They are a learning experience. I have moved on in so many senses, but I feel almost broken right now. It seems that almost nothing is going right. Im moving again, and a bit sooner than I had expected, but, its the right place. I didnt expect it....but it shows me that I am listening and learning. I know that its the right thing to do, its the right place to be, without any hesitation in my mind.

(my Halloween pumpkin -a haunted house,  and also my 2 daughters with their "son of anarchy" and "headless horseman")

I was driving around town....if you can call it that. (not really a town more like a hmm, I dont know, its quiet and reserved and not busy and old hollywood  hills looking), and looking around as I did I saw a few places that I thought I would check out. I drove through the lot of one place and it wound around a few 2 story  4 plexes, they were very modest but nice. It was a quiet lot, no one in sight except a more mature guy riding his bike. The condos/apts are in the usual AZ design but still a bit different. Definitely not the southwestern style, I'll go with Old Hollywood Hills...that sums it up perfectly.

So I will move in tomorrow and begin my Arizona life.........yep, I won't keep you guessing. I like it, its warm, it has mountains and I will not have to scrape my car off...ever.

I havent had time to make anything just yet....I havent had access to anything remotely crafty...well I cant exactly say that. I did make my daughter here and her boyfriend costumes for Halloween. He was Jesus and she was his lost lamb. No patttern, free hand, and I really do like the way they came out, they were happy with them. I will  have 2 bedrooms in my new place so I will turn the 2nd room into my art/craft room, which Im ecstatic about.

And it only gets better.............................Its time to go to bed, I need rest and my mind is reeling again. I have to get a move on and I do mean a "move on"..........

good night,

 Michelle