News Flash! Just in from balmy weathered Houston, Texas and a very, very fickle iMac .....
Howdy y'all! Been missing ya much but boy, I'll tell you, I've been working up some really much rested "
take care of my self before I really crack" times here, especially with the whole Amegrito thing. It's Friday night and he's out on the town with some Teddy friends and since I haven't quite gotten over his
missing in action escapade , I'm up waiting for him to come home. When I hear his tap dancing footsteps (and did you know that Grito's love to tap dance? must be how Negrito gets thru his blogging by dancing on the keyboard .. ratta ta ta tap ratta ta ta tap!) I'll quickly sneak into bed so he'll never know.
We had some problemo's with the iMac so poor little bear near lost his blog story adventure (much to his frustration) but luckily a jar of Nutella was at hand to calm the little bear. He said he'll have to start over again .... I hope you'll all wait and be patient 20sixers.
ON THE JOB FRONTAs for me, so much has happened, as I am sure so much has happened with all of you as well. For one thing, I am now living and existing very well in your (referring to my European counterparts) time zone! Yup, I finally did it. I finally listened to my body's innate clock and took the plunge to take on what you might call the grave yard shift of work. I now sleep with you and wake up with you! And how are you doing D_F?
I'm a loving it folks! Just loving it. Not only does this new schedule fit so well with my innate internal clock but the work load is far less! I feel more of like being a professional nurse than some highly paid waitress or girl Friday .. which is how I felt working 12 hour days on a 40 bed Neuro unit. Now, I work in an 8 bed Stroke unit staffed with 3 nurses (you do the math) and most of the patients are all asleep! Visiting hours are only from 8 pm - 9 pm and I love the lack of activity and silly jibberish talk that goes on from working with tons of people. This chives so well with the loner spirit that I truly am.
I no longer work at St. Luke's. I now work at Memorial Hermann Hospital still in the Texas Medical Centre and instead of 4 Metro Rail stops - it only takes me 3 Metro Rail stops to get to work. As a matter of fact, I had to go into the hospital today to take a test and it was so beautiful out that I decided to walk home, thru the park, past the museums and waterfalls which only took me 30 minutes!
I feel I have way more energy to spare on my off days and life just couldn't be better. It's as if I got a new 'kick' in my step! yahoooo. Can't say I tap dance as good as a Grito though .. but hey ..
ON THE SOCIAL SCENELast weekend my friend Jacob and his girlfriend came over to visit and it was so good to see him again. The only downer of the whole thing was the realization that now that I was in my Big City element (Toronto is way more happening though), I had allowed my 'self' to grow .. where as Jacob still somehow stayed the same. I am sure he changed in many ways, I knew he did, but those times that we spent in the armpit of Texas was so long ago .. and my 'self' really was not allowed to BE .. since there really was nothing to do there but party and drink .. and party and drink .. which really is not so bad ..
He even made comments on my taste of food and called it 'artsy fru fru food' and it was difficult to talk about anything since I realized he was not as open minded as I would hope. All in all, it was nice to see him again, and meet his new girlfriend.
The issue of marriage DID come up.
"
DF? When are you and C going to get hitched?"
And after the question was posed, my (bless his heart) friend INSISTED that since C and I had been together for 6 years felt that it was the ONLY thing to do - get married! WTF????!!!
Of course I disagreed. But there was no sense even trying to explain my state of mind since it was obvious that his BELIEF was that
everyone should be paired up with someone, get married and live happily every after. No offense to relationships and marriages and all that ... but it has never been my belief at all.
I've always felt that we are all here for learning and teaching and people that seem to take direct part in our lives are placed there to help us learn or teach. It is when we get attached to people and things and emotion and allow them to define who we are .. is when we truly are not free (my opinion).
Jacob even actually went so far as to say, "
D_F, you aren't getting any younger you know, and a gal like you needs to be with a man who can take care of her .... " Excuse me? Ummmm, I don't think so! (Yeah, and I said this all in my head of course). Like I said, I wasn't going to waste my time defending or even stating my opinion to someone who would
not be able to understand the concept of TRUE FREEDOM, Spirit and the concept of SOUL. So I just simply nodded and thanked him for caring about my welfare.
P
He then finally mentioned that perhaps we all needed more of GOD in our lives. Okey Dokey. Sounds like a cool plan.
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ON HOME MATTERSUmmm, you all remember that issue I had about buying a bed?
Well, I did it! We did it. I mean, I allowed myself to buy one. A new King Size, Black Iron bed. It wasn't that bad. And I didn't feel as if I was selling my soul ( like I thought I would feel LOL! ). The great thing about it is that my back is happy, I get better sleep and there is more room for Picasso to run around and play when he sleeps with us. It's almost like having my own special corner of the world to read and meditate while C is way at the other end! Me likey very much!
Oops ....... I hear tap dancing! It's Amegrito! He's home! I gotta go!~ I don't want him to think that I'm being like Grangrito ... good night 20sixers! Love ya all!
D_F
