getting back to normal...

So finally I have gotten everything I need in order to work (and identify myself as a US citizen). My PA license repl & my social security card are in my happy little hands. I also got a call from a well known dept store and they offered me a job. Not exactly sure what the title is but I will be working at the customer service desk, over seeing the cashiers and working layaway as well. It will keep me busy and I can't wait. One problem is the amount of pay - it pays 7.75 per hour...which I find very surprising and it's part time. But it is a job and that is something to be thankful for...and I am! It's seasonal but if I do a good job thru the next 2 months then I could be offered a permanent position.

I knew when I moved down here to the beach that I would not be making the money I made in West Chester. I also knew that I could live comfortably on half of the salary I was getting in PA. In order to do that I need to make at least 13.00 an hour for a 40 hour work week. So now I will wait and see what my actual schedule is and then try to find another part time job with 20-25 hours a week. Hostessing or office work - something I can work around the dept store job. 


I feel blessed every day when I wake up in my own house at the beach. I know that I am living a dream of mine that I truly didn't know would ever come true.Part of living that dream is knowing that money is not what is needed to be truly happy. I also think about how much my life has changed in the 3 months since I have been living down here permanently. All great things! 


So I will work where I can and as much as I can knowing that at the end of each day I am 3 miles from the beach and the ocean I love so much.

Truly blessed!

Dancing with myself...

Sooo I am heading halfway thru my 2nd full week here on my own. Of course this past weekend, my friend Don was here w/ his best friend Joe. So I met up with them on Friday and Sunday. SOooo much fun! 

Then my dad was here from Thursday thru Saturday so I got to cook dinner for him one night and then he took me to dinner the next.
BUT this week, I am a bit homesick.
 “Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.”~Anon


I've been stressed about money and jobs and in between all that I've started really missing, as the quote above says, my family and friends. Not my apartment or West Chester but something I haven't found down here... people to hang out with. Actually more than that , I miss my people to hang out with... I am a little bit lonely.

Amiee and Nicole

Tami

Jenn and Doug

Dre

Kelly and Colleen

Bob and Barb

Vern and Jeffie

Alex

Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.
~Henry Van Dyke

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness…   we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

~ Carson McCullers

Then I found this in a post I wrote in December of last year-

And so as this January roles around, and I put Christmas behind me again, I find an excitement for what's to come. Not a sadness at a another year gone by, but pride at what I have been able to accomplish. I've learned that change is good and freeing and healthy! I have an undeniable sense that the best is yet to come and it's just waiting for me to find it. And find it I will. 

So bring on 2011... it's gonna be fantastic!

I will admit that I am proud of myself and what i have accomplished. I proved to myself that 

anything is possible if you want it badly enough. I think that once I get a job (and believe me

I am applying non stop) and meet some people I will feel a bit better. i still know that I made 
the right decision by moving. I still feel that I am exactly where i belong. I have come 
"home" and i own my own place and it is coming together beautifully.

But at 47 years old... I still miss my mom. LOL I guess that all means that I am a blessed
person. i have enough people in my life that i love, and that love me, that I am missing them.

Mom and Dad

And then I go to the beach and it's quiet and beautiful and I float in the warm water of the inlet and I am at peace. I sit on my chair in the sand and watch a school of dolphin playing out in the water and I realize this is what people dream of. This is what people say they want and never get. Somehow I have been lucky enough and determined enough and blessed enough 
to not only find my bliss but to live it.

And that's when i realize, when I know deep in my beach loving soul, that all will work out and it will be wonderful.

I have been a bad blogger...but I am blessed!

Wow! I have been off the grid with my blog for 11 days!! WTF?? Sorry all, it won't happen again. After a fantastically fun Oscar Party weekend, I came home last Monday night and woke up the next morning with the dreaded Winter Cold!  It got progressively worse each day until finally yesterday I started feeling a bit more human for a few hours. Today, feeling human for a longer period of time.

God bless Mucinex! Or in my case...Rite Aid brand Mucus Relief (ewwww I so dislike the word mucus! ) It was a life saver! AND a back saver and a rib saver... the sore muscles from coughing the first few days were insane.


So some quick catch up and then I will continue my 30 days blogs and some new quote blogs as well. Speaking of quotes, I was so excited to see that one of my favorite organizations I Am That Girl used one of my quotes for their facebook status today! I was honored that such a fantastic, kick ass organization would think that my words fit the cause. The used a part of my Advice for my Daughter quote...


Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different. -Stacey Charter


Please take a moment to check out the website. Read about the mission...one that tries to teach that beauty is evolved from so many things, not just looks, and that we should refuse to let the mainstream media make anyone feel less then Beauty -Full! They do great things for women of all ages!

So as I said, Oscar's weekend was fabulous. Eating, drinking, laughing, talking. My God I am blessed with some fabulous friends. And the love in that house should have made it glow like a double rainbow across the sky

(please tell me you've seen this... 25 million views this guy got on you-tube... talk about viral. Every media outlet magazine and tv show has made fun of it or imitated it since...)


So yeah - kinda like that! LOL But seriously, have you ever had that moment where it's busy and everyones doing something, talking or singing , or whatever, with a group of your friends and you just kind of sit back and watch and think to yourself...family! That's what we are... one big fantabulous family. And you grumpy little heart just starts to grow... like the Grinch after he discovers the true meaning of Christmas... 

You know what i mean? That was me all  Oscar's weekend. 


I am truly blessed! 

Bob and Barb

Vern & Jeff

Tami & Vern

Yep.... truly blessed! xoxoxo