My Magical JourneyCreating a fabulously fantastic life!

Only 64 days until our wedding (I just checked our website to find out). We’ve been going through so many wonderful changes the past few months…make that the past few years, and I love it. Today I felt like spring was in our home because I could feel it in my heart. A bright expectancy of even more wonderful events to come. Our wedding is already going so smoothly. We’ve come up with so many fun ideas, and our family is the most loving and supportive family I could ask for. I have very close relationships with my mom, my grandma Petey, and my mother-in-love (”Muvie”), and they have constantly repeated, “Whatever you want or need me to do…” I am so blessed.

Mark is so supportive of the changes I’m going through, of course. I love that every day we ask ourselves (internally or aloud), what do we really want? What is our ideal life in each moment, and what can we do to be there or work toward that ideal now? I found a wonderful website and blog by Anna Maria Horner, a fabric designer, who has bright colorful photos on her website. I showed them to Mark, telling him I want our home to be filled with bright colors, our artwork, eclectic fun things, and an appreciation for all things creative. I want a sewing/writing/painting/art studio in our home. Mark loved the photos and said he wants the same things. Our home is really going to be magical. I can already picture posting before and after pictures of different projects on my website. I’m so excited!

We’re planning our trip to Europe and figuring out where we want to go. We watch Rick Steve’s videos on Hulu and make note of beautiful towns we’d like to visit. So far, we’re planning to focus on England (where my mom’s side of my family lives), France, and Italy. We don’t know yet how long we’ll be there, but when we get back I suspect we’ll start exploring the US to figure out where we would like to live. Our lease is up in July, so after we get back from our wedding, we’re going to pack all our things and put them into storage, then fly to England. I’ve already started sorting through my things that are still in boxes in my mom’s garage – school mementos, college papers, photos, and journals. I’ve been finding wonderful memory treasures.

In other news, today I designed a new heading for the website. I’ve asked my tech support (Mark) to help me develop a new theme for the site and transfer it over when the time comes. That’s probably weeks away, but I got a really great start today. I realized one of the reasons I had technical difficulties with my other idea a few weeks ago was because an even better idea was coming. I’m really happy with my work-in-progress. Everything comes together in perfect timing.

Love,
Melanie

Hello Everyone!

It is so bright, sunny, and Springish today  I just love this weather.  Kitty Cosmo is walking on the windowsill and checking out the outside world.  She’s already chased several birds and a fly today, as well as taking a cozy nap in the sunshine.

I’ve just been working on more content for the website.  There’s so much I’m working on, and I’m really excited about it.  I made 3 new meditation tracks the other week, and I’m listening to all of them to see if it’s really obvious that I was stuffed up with a head cold when I recorded them.  (”dis is da thun medidaton”).  I’m already adding the music to one of the tracks and going to be working on the others soon.  Those should be up and running very shortly.

I’m also making videos!  Well, I’m thinking about making videos  I have all the equipment in our apartment now, including a green screen, which I’m debating on using.  I need to just record a little bit and see how easy it is to work with.  I have a mind full of ideas for videos, so stay tuned for those as well.

In other news, I’m a new blogger for the Live Green in Plano website!  Yea!  That means I get to write even more about eco-friendly living.  Technically, I haven’t received the code yet to begin making entries, but they said they would e-mail it to me.  Yea! Yea! Yea!  I wonder if North Texas wants to know about my DivaCup….hmmmm….?

In other other news, I started my second sewing project today!  The tissues came out fabulously, and now I’m working on my first dress.  I think I’m going to start a crafty section of this website.  Once I have some completed, at least  Right now my kitchen table and dining area is covered in fabric, patterns, sewing books, and a kitty that just sneezed (aw – so cute).

Speaking of kitty, I’ve been debating whether to teach Cosmo to go to the bathroom on the toilet or not.  Come on, haven’t you heard of this?  Kitty potty training?  Well, the technique I’ve read about is to gradually move her litter box higher up to the level of the toilet seat, then put a bowl with litter in the middle of the toilet rim, then gradually remove it.  It’s a little more involved than that, but it takes weeks.  Um..I don’t know if I’ve revealed this or not, but patience is not one of my virtues.  Just ask Mark.  So my plan is to meditate and describe to kitty what I would like her to do telepathically and see if she just starts doing it.  The downside to this is that the toilet seat has to be left up, which I do not like.  The upside is no cleaning the kitty litter out, less packaging, and better for the environment (because most kitty litter is actually not eco-friendly).  But more on that in a different post.

I think I may need to close the window, because kitty just charged the screen to bat at a fly (the door is open, so one came in).  We live on the second floor.  If the screen gives way…Geronimo kitty!

Love,

Melanie