First spring sunset

Been waiting for this sunset all year.

Left the door open while taking the picture, and Lu got out onto the neighbor's balcony.  I had to disturb my neighbor to get her back.

My challenges and victories

A friend wanted to know some of my challenges and victories.  Wow, was that a good question. I've been thinking about it for days. 

Actually, I blog about a lot of those things. Like when I figured out I had hid from the world some kind of impairment (I was calling it autism, but who knows?) and it freed me. And of course, jumping Mothership was a big challenge and huge victory.  When I figured out I had never gotten over John in my whole life, wow, that is a challenge I'm still grappling with because I never let go of the feeling that he was one day going to figure out that I was the one for him, and he actually may have and I blew it and I'll never know and it will be a mystery forever, but it was a victory just to figure that out.  And learning how to use my new Mac is an exhausting challenge. Hey, I got myself up and dressed today!  And work has its challenges. Remember all my bitching about Fred Lowe? Well, he sent me an email today (about his project which I started the day before yesterday and just finished last night): "This is great! Thanks so much for handling this so well." I nearly fell out of my chair! Of course, that was immediately followed with "If you have time, I would appreciate it if you would revise it further by doing the following:

1. Change the font of each Country reference to 14 point (as I have done for through Colombia); [Poor Fred had wasted 10 minutes doing this.  I only spent 2 minutes checking that it was safe to change the style and then .03 seconds to actually change the style.] 

2. Insert page numbers (unless they are there already and I have missed it); and

[Yes, they were there already.  I'm a page number freak.  I add page numbers to documents whether asked for or not.  You try working on a document without page numbers!]

3. Add the country names and related page numbers to the table of contents.
[Oboy.  Of course Fred wanted the table in a table!  And I impressed myself by figuring out all I had to do was convert the table of contents field to text, then convert the text to a table.  Piece of cake.] 

I guess my challenge is getting through every day appreciating all the victories there really are in a day.  Holy cow.  That's inspired.  I mean I even inspired myself with that one!

Thank god it's March!

How powerful I am

to have seduced you away from sunlight

into my dark refuge

and still set off a spark in your heart.

Do you remember when love 

was rich colorful obsessed?

When we were forced onto small canvases,

while bursting alive from our own paintings

that were admired for their lovely

drops of colored water

that none knew were tears?