Entry 7: Birthday and Such…
Hello my blogging world! It feels like it has been forever since, I unleashed my thoughts and emotions. Guess what? I’m a whole year older! Yesterday was my “25th” birthday and I had a wonderful day. I went out to my old stomping grounds with some really great friends. I truly have some amazing friends and now how to make me feel special and loved.
It was exciting because it was also, my 91st day of completing my goal list. So, I was able to log back into FB and I did! Oh, my goodness, I didn’t know how to navigate it. It has changed a good bit. I thought I was going to be on FB all day yesterday trying to catch up with everyone’s busy that I missed for the last 90 days but strangely enough, I have only logged in for a few minutes at a time. I really don’t have the desire to be nosey, well, maybe not as nosey. : ) I only have a few more things on my current goal list to complete which are to make candles to sell at the local farmers markets and be a two week vegetarian. I have to figure out the details/money before I can make the candles and I am hoping I can recruit a best friend or two to help make them and maybe their kitchens too. (Hint hint) As far as the two week vegetarian, I could almost do that now! I rarely eat meat. So, my goal is to complete this goal once I get back up to DC and on a normal working routine. I decided last minute last week to take this week off to be with my family down in NC. So far it has been great to see my family and friends. Today I drove the back roads home from Durham with Mom it was nice to talk a little about Dad. It’s still hard to talk about him but Mom was able to tell me a few stories of when they took the same back road. As Mom, talked and told the little minor details of their excursion on this back road, I couldn’t help but remember the adventurous side of my Dad. Dad may not have been able to travel the world over but he made each day new. He would get up early to go walk the lake in search of the most inspiring piece of driftwood. He would spend hours in search of the prefect barn picture. He never stopped wanting to learn everything he could learn or stop seeing everything he could see. He would stop along a one lane mountain road to see what the river looked like and not to mention the requirement to take any random road that crossed his path. He would slowly drive dirt roads in search of anything that caught his attention most the time this would be the elusive buck with the enormous rake. As a kid, I use to hate riding with the parents in the back seat while they drove slowly down unplanned dirt roads as they simply enjoyed their time together. And that’s what they did, enjoyed each others company. As Mom went from story to story, I caught myself wanting to drive slower and slower. I didn’t want to stop hearing what Dad said, what he did, where he walked. I would like to think I have a little bit of his adventurous side. I just hope that I never get too busy to enjoy the little things in life. Like driving random back roads with no aim in sight, a starry night in the country with two falling stars, hugs and kisses from a child that loves you, a sunrise with your favorite cup of coffee, a double rainbow when you thought there was no hope for beauty, or simply enjoying the company of someone special even if you aren’t doing anything but driving down a long dirt random road.
This is what a random dirt road showed me once in Colorado.
Until next time! Lots of love!
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