Just A Girl Has Moved!

The journey of Kelli continues. . . find me on my new blog here.

Over a month now....

It has been over 1 month since I quit work. I LOVE IT!!! Every day is a new joy for me. I love being able to do what I want. June 2 Sharon and I leave for England. We fly into Bristol and then take a train from Bristol to Bath. We plan on hitting all the adorable villages and having the time of our lives. I can't wait to see the English countryside.
There will be plenty of news and pictures when I return.
I want to start a new blog and I will have a link so you can find me. I think now that I am almost 55 years old (going on seventeen) I need a new name and a fresh start. Since my life is so different now than it was when I started this blog I would like to begin again. (finnegan, begin again)
Love to you all and I will keep you posted.
I am reading The Secret Keepers by Mindy Friddle.

Light a Candle and Sun Needs the Moon

Hello luvs! I awoke this morning full of lightness and love. Another beautiful day to enjoy. I am so pleased with unemployed (and self employed) life!!! I adore it. I lit my candle this morning and danced through the dining room to my computer to write. Life is good and the Universe has blessed me and angels have kissed my silly shoulders for yet another day.

I think it is sinking in finally (it has been 3 weeks since I worked) that I am a free woman. And I really, really love it. Archie is happier too. He likes having supper at night and the coffee ready when he gets home. He said the old sparkle in my eyes has returned on a daily basis and when I am happy he is happy. What a sweet thing for him to say....

Here is what has been going on with me. This week I am still organizing and cleaning the house. Wiping grease and dirt that has gone unseen for years!!!! I am good with "picking up" but tend to not see the "hidden dirt." I have been irrigating the Liberace room and will finish today. Then I want to start organizing my craft and cross stitch stuff. What a mess. It is getting harder for me to see the cross stitch holes so I might just concentrate on the embroidery. Then I want to finish scrubbing the woodwork in Michael's old room. It has to be scrubbed before paint can go over it because it has 20 years of grime on it.

I just finished a great book called "Sugar" by Bernice McFadden. I have the sequel "This Bitter Earth" to read also.

I am walking and riding my bike. My eyes aren't as puffy. I looked in the mirror yesterday and the bags under my eyes didn't appear to be so bad.

I am happy.

I am grateful. I appreciate my life, my family, my friends and so many more. I used to say to the kids, "I love you more than the sun needs the moon." (or was it meets the moon?) And I feel so happy and full of a sweet, content feeling deep in my heart that I treasure all day long. I know that I have done the right thing to quit work. I sure don't miss it!!!

This Sunday I will go to Chicago for a great Mother's Day with BREE!!! I will be there til Tuesday morning. I am so excited!!!

Hope all is well with you, my dear friends....I am thinking good thoughts for you and cheery moments!!!! Love, Kelli

CORNWALL

On June 2 my cousin, Sharon, and I will leave for a vacation in Cornwall, England. We fly into Bristol and take the train to Bath. We have reservations for 2 nights in Bath. Then off we go to tour the Cornish Coast. I am SOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!! This will be my first vacation with Sharon and my first trip to England!!!!

I will keep you posted.

Love, Kelli

A day of writing

This morning I awoke to a cold and drizzly day. I had coffee with my friend, Dana, then came home and did some work in Michael's old room. I am re-doing that room. And what a mess!!! Oy, thats a whole other story!
Then I met Mom and Molly for lunch at Paula's. I got home about 2:00 and sat down to write. What fun! I have been sitting here just writing the afternoon away. Michael came in and I read him a new young adult fiction short story I am working on. I am so glad I have the time to write ....
How is everyone doing? I am just loving my new life. I am feeling thankful and happy.

"Slow Down Your Movin' Too Fast"

I LOVE NOT WORKING!!! I have to keep singing the Simon and Garfunkel song "Feelin' Groovy" when they sing "slow down your movin' too fast, got to make the morninin' last." I have found myself hurrying like I did when I was in "work mode." I have to learn to slow down. I am on my own time now. No need to rush.
I love getting up at 6:30. This is my natural awake time. I have my coffee, get on the computer (like I am doing now) and then I clean up the kitchen. I move upstairs to make the bed and then hop in the shower. Then I let the day decide what I will do next. Today at 9:00 my friends Joanie and Rosie are coming for coffee and chat. Then after that I don't know what I will do....read? Write? Work on my cross stitch? Sweep in Michael's old room? Who knows? Maybe I will just sit and think and let my mind wander. Yesterday as I was riding my bike a thought came to me. I thought that if someone said to me, "Kelli, you must start to look for a job." I would simply smile and say that the happiness I have had since walking out the door of FWN has been worth ten years of jobs. I would not trade this feeling of freedom and lightness for anything! But I don't have to work or look for work! I am free!!!! I am so happy I could spit nickels.
I know your probably getting nauseated reading how damn glad I am to be not working, but I can't help it. If I know one thing --- then I know this.......Follow your dream. Do it. Have faith that you can live the life you want. I am proof of this. No matter how big or how small....whether it is quitting your job, or changing jobs, or losing weight or dying your hair or whatever === do what you feel in your heart. You can make it happen and only you.
Love you always,
Kelli

A Beautiful Day

Oh! It is so beautiful outside!!! Another gorgeous, warm day! Birds are singing and the kitties are all laying in the windows. I have a delicious cup of joe in front of me and I am so damn free and happy I could just roll over and whistle Dixie! Today I am going to walk, visit Mom, read and make a quiche for supper. I would like to ride my bike today too. Maybe I could get Archie to go with me! I am so happy. My heart is smiling all the time and I just can't believe my good fortune to be unemployed!!!! And happy about it! Thank God Archie has a good job!

I ordered new curtains for the window at the top of the stairs. They are white Priscilla's. They looked really cute in the picture.

Hope all of you have a fabulous Sunday and think Sunshine. Love to all, Kelli