An exquisite day here on the Coast

It is absolutely gorgeous outside my office window and saying that, I realize that I had better get out and enjoy it before the rains return. It has been such a funny week weather wise this week. We were supposed to be getting RAIN RAIN AND MORE RAIN but instead, the weather gods have blessed us with these gorgeous sunny days and for that I am extremely grateful.

And speaking of grateful, I am feeling very grateful to ME for finally deciding to get going on my craft for this part of my life. I've already got the topic of a book complete with a couple of notes to boot, am ready to submit some poems to a contest (with $$$$ as the prize)..........woo hoo, making money from my craft. Works for me..............big grin.

But just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Xmas and have a great week coming up. And if you might not be looking at such a great week, simply remember this. It is our choice how we "choose" to embrace the days ahead. We can either go in with a angry or sad or depressed face or we can choose to decide that this year, JUST THIS ONCE, we are going to enjoy ourself this season.

Forget about what you see so many other people or families doing and choose to take this time to decide what it is that you want to do with YOU and only you. I realize that this may not seem like a very cheerful or christmasy message but I choose to work more with the energy of the Solstice. Moving into the New Year. Christmas just happens to fall in the middle of the whole deal.

And Me? What am I going to do for Christmas? Well I will be taking my Dad to a friends house for dinner and he will enjoy that. My daughter may or may not join us for dinner but I am not allowing her moods at this time to affect me either. I will be happy to see her should she choose to attend and be fine with that.

I had a whole whack of incidences occur to make me realize that I tend to want things to be a certain way and when they don't turn out like that, I get depressed. Or at least that had been my normal way of being. This year I am accepting things as they are because there is nothing else I can do about it. BUT, I am feeling fine within it all.

This Xmas season I have also not fallen into the buy buy buy syndrome worrying about what to get people. Few of us were doing the gift exchange thing any way and I just thought about a few things that Daughter dearest might enjhoy and got them without worrying about whether or not she would like them. I liked them and I trust that she will too. A different way for me. Last year my friend Corinna bought her self presents (LOTS of presents) from Santa to her. She was like a little kid at Christmas so this year I am going out and getting me some things just because it is Christmas. And I just did come up with the present that I'll get to me from my Dad as he can't get out and shop. I'm finally going to get a GOOD office chair in which to sit and make my fortune as a

* ahem *

WRITER..........smile

Have a wonderful day and I'll be back with some other little tidbit to share tomorrow. Oh and Thanks Hilary. Dinner would have been lovely. Another time for sure.

Big Hugs to you all

Namaste