Sex on the Beach and other things....

There's a song by T-Spoon that I like, called Sex on the Beach.
And it got me thinking this is one thing I'd like to have on my 'bucket list'.
But the question would be: What beach??
California and the Pacific Ocean...
Atlantic Coast....
Florida beaches, Miami perhaps...
Bahamas....
Caribbean...
The possibilities are endless --- when one has money!!!

With my luck, it would be more like sex in the sandbox in the back yard!!
*laughs*

Haven't taken the time to blog lately .... not because I don't have much to say, but more that I've just busy enough to make excuses for not forcing the issue. With summer upon us here in the Valley of the Sun, well.... we like to joke "it's not hell, but right next door" :) For the most part, its 'business as usual' until the temps get over 110. Then, its more like the bare minimums get done..... usually while wearing the bare minimums!! heh heh heh

Heard@work: "I do it with Steve. I do it with my husband and father-in-law too!"
We were in the lunchroom, and one of the bosses was discussing ride sharing. Needless to say, when a few eyebrows were raised, she turned red and back tracked to explain very quickly!!

I took the summer off classes, and that's been a real relief. I think I needed the break, and I've been using the time to work on my photography a little more. Flickr has a group called "Daily Shoot" and each day they post a new theme for a daily pix. Some of them are challenging, and some are totally fun. (You can see my pix here.)

I enrolled for classes, but only one class on my library tech list was offered at night this semester. The other night classes, I've already taken. Hmm, wonder if taking classes is going to become more challenging now. So I'm pondering taking something else, perhaps English 102.

That's all for now, readers!

HUGS to everyone!!

On Turning 51...

What is it about impending birthdays that make us look back.... or does that only happen as we get older? As a child, I looked forward to the next birthday, getting older, closer to the major goals in life:

• moving from elementary to jr high;
• from jr high to high school;
• first dates;
• first kisses;
• going steady;
• learning to drive and getting a license;
• graduating high school;
• college days;
• turning 21;
• turning 25;
• first babies;
• turning 30; 35; 40;
• grandbabies
• turning 45; 50.

man, where does the time go ?
Here I am, coming up on 51. Is this the down side? It sure doesn't feel like it. And yet, I'm aware of more things: how fast time is going. And how many things I want to get done. We all chuckle a bit when it comes to a "bucket list" , but what better way to make things happen in your life? While we may not have unlimited resources to get these things accomplished, it's possible to achieve things if you put your mind to it.

I sat here and pondered all the changes I've made in the last year. I spent my 50th birthday with my family in California, trekked through the redwood trees and spent part of the day on the beach. I saved up and bought a house! My one big dream was owning my own home by the time I'm 50, and I did it! Had to have major surgery. I also got a tattoo! And a new car!! Then I took a another trip to California... a surprise to my folks. I pulled up in front of the house, and tooted my horn. "What are you doing here?????" I got asked. Geee, like I can't come home for a visit any more??? ~cheeky grin~

It's definitely been a year of happenings. I keep wondering ... what next? There are a lot of places that I want to visit, now that I have reliable wheels, here in Arizona. And I'm dying to take a trip to Southern California. (Starts singing: One way or another I'm gonna see ya, I'm gonna meetcha meetcha meetcha meetcha, One day, maybe next week, I'm gonna meetcha!!!) ~~grin~~

• You don’t get wiser with age, but you do get more perspective.
• The thirty-five years that separate 16 from 51 passes in a heartbeat. Trust me.
• The older you get, the more you become like your true self.
• Age is just mind over matter; if you don’t mind, it don’t matter.

Who knows what this next year will bring....
But I'm looking forward to every moment of it!!

HUGS to everyone!

Boxes

Boxes

cube
square
closed in
creates limits
one inside another
illusion of safety
safety within an illusion

just when you think
you're free of one
you discover
another

thoughts echo
bounce off walls
reverberating same thoughts
over and over

escape isn't easy
there's more than one

recognition of the
ones i built around me
didn't include the one
i let you put me in

July

Summer weather, like being in love, is a philosopher's stone
which turns our ordinary days to gold.
But not the whole day...
for it is never the whole day,
never all our life
which is transformed in any happiness,
but only the exquisite moments.
~~Nan Fairbrother.

Listen to the erotic echo of the everyday and
discover there's never too much of a good thing.
Life's serving up another portion of bliss....
so get out there and find some for yourself!

Blissful HUGS to everyone!