"Would you rather be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
- Jimmy Johnson
- Jimmy Johnson
The above is a quote from the page I wrote in today of the lovely journal that my dear friends Mark and Christie gave me for christmas (despite my requests for no gifts, I did get some this year, and they were all ridiculously thoughtful and perfect, I must say!) This journal is rather special, in that it is quite pristine looking and just so, so, soooo appropriate for me! It's far too special for me to use it merely as an every day/morning pages kind of journal, so I've devised a special purpose for it: Each page on the left has an inspirational sort of quote and each page on the right says "Dream Every Day" in the lower righthand corner. So I write each day on two pages; I read the quote of the day, write down the date and then fill up the lefthand page with gratitude - listing all that I can think of to be thankful for on this day. I then proceed to the righthand side page and fill that one up with my hopes and dreams and intentions and plans... for the moment, the day, the week, year - for my entire life! It's great. I love it. And it makes me think fondly of my dear friends Mark and Christie each morning when I write in it - a definite added bonus!
So here I am: living a life that I feel many can only dream of living... My job is to perform a high-energy kids show for families who have travelled from all around the world to The Kennedy Space Centre in Titusville, Florida. I live and work with two positively amazing individuals with whom it is not just a total pleasure to be on stage with, but also a wonderful adventure to be living and hanging out with! Both Julia and Dave have worked this gig before, so they both also come with their own set of friends here and their own ideas of what life here is like. Which is nice for me, in some ways, to be able to tag along on their already-established good livin'. But I also feel like now that I am a little bit settled here, I am ready to find my own way a little bit, and discover and develop my Florida life and style!
Today is my first day off. Dave and Julia just left for work which means that I have a few hours here at the condo to myself. Oh, and Big Plans, Big Plans... Ha! I think actually I will spend this glorius day at the apartment doing a little bit of writing, a little bit of reading, a little bit of solo-dance-partying with my music cranked up nice and loud (though not too loud 'cause we do live in the land of senior citizen retirees!), a little bit of long-distance phone call making, aaaaand... (drumroll please) I am going to practice this thing on Dave's guitar that he showed me because some people here have got it in their heads that I am going to learn how to play bass. Yes, me. Oh my.
You see, both Dave and Julia are very musical - Dave with the guitar and Julia with piano and vocals. And Dave's friend Jim, who also works at The Kennedy Space Centre, plays the drums and is all about getting together for jam sessions. So we went over there the other night, and it was lovely. We didn't have Julia's keyboard so mostly she and I watched and chatted as Jim and Dave jammed, but then Julia tried out the drum set and the three of them played together a little bit while Jim's partner Della and I watched happily. It was lovely:
So Jim's all about me learning to play bass guitar so that we can all jam together. We'll see. Might as well try, right? In any case, I am super-duper thankful to be where I am right now and with who I am with on this adventure... so on it goes!
(Will get around to taking and posting more pics on here soon, I promise!)
NAMASTE
So here I am: living a life that I feel many can only dream of living... My job is to perform a high-energy kids show for families who have travelled from all around the world to The Kennedy Space Centre in Titusville, Florida. I live and work with two positively amazing individuals with whom it is not just a total pleasure to be on stage with, but also a wonderful adventure to be living and hanging out with! Both Julia and Dave have worked this gig before, so they both also come with their own set of friends here and their own ideas of what life here is like. Which is nice for me, in some ways, to be able to tag along on their already-established good livin'. But I also feel like now that I am a little bit settled here, I am ready to find my own way a little bit, and discover and develop my Florida life and style!
Today is my first day off. Dave and Julia just left for work which means that I have a few hours here at the condo to myself. Oh, and Big Plans, Big Plans... Ha! I think actually I will spend this glorius day at the apartment doing a little bit of writing, a little bit of reading, a little bit of solo-dance-partying with my music cranked up nice and loud (though not too loud 'cause we do live in the land of senior citizen retirees!), a little bit of long-distance phone call making, aaaaand... (drumroll please) I am going to practice this thing on Dave's guitar that he showed me because some people here have got it in their heads that I am going to learn how to play bass. Yes, me. Oh my.
You see, both Dave and Julia are very musical - Dave with the guitar and Julia with piano and vocals. And Dave's friend Jim, who also works at The Kennedy Space Centre, plays the drums and is all about getting together for jam sessions. So we went over there the other night, and it was lovely. We didn't have Julia's keyboard so mostly she and I watched and chatted as Jim and Dave jammed, but then Julia tried out the drum set and the three of them played together a little bit while Jim's partner Della and I watched happily. It was lovely:
So Jim's all about me learning to play bass guitar so that we can all jam together. We'll see. Might as well try, right? In any case, I am super-duper thankful to be where I am right now and with who I am with on this adventure... so on it goes!(Will get around to taking and posting more pics on here soon, I promise!)
NAMASTE
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