Key West rocks.
Tropical waters and frozen adult drinks are awesome.
Snorkeling is way way way f'ing cool.
Sun burning one's ass and backs of thighs hurts.
I am a happy, tired girl. What a great way to unwind from the last several months. Pictures later.
I hearby declare it to be a snow day. *snuggles into warm fleece robe and grumbles about storing the snow shovels away already*
Time for a cup of hot tea.
FN poked me. So I'm here. I'm still alive. Nose to the grindstone and all of that. Four weeks roughly left of my semester then I'm free for the summer. Life is crazy and strange but also very good and very right. I'm just not doing a lot of journaling right now, too busy losing my mind to buddhism.
:-)
Next time I'll call G. and tell her to shuttle to a hotel and that we'll meet up as soon as the wind isn't blowing at 20-100mph depending on its mood and that the roads are in better condition.
( im transcript detailing last nightCollapse )
As many, or maybe most, of you know Gretchen and I have had some rocky times over the last couple of years as we have both continued to grow and mature in ways that were unfathomable when we first met one another. We have, over almost seven years, weathered some amazing changes together. Through the years together we have both grown and changed so much from who we were in 2000 when we started our relationship. We have traversed many cross roads and forks in the path and come out together on the other side with a stronger commitment to the both of ourselves and to the couple that we were.
Now we have approached another cross roads, but this time we are being drawn in conflicting directions that are not at all compromisable with one another. We have with the new year, started the process of separating our indivdual selves from the Gretchen-and-Kirsti as a couple. This has been long in coming, as many of you may have come to conclude, however, this is a time in which we both feel that it is more important to follow the dreams of our hearts and the callings of our souls than to keep a relationship together that now holds us back from how we both wish to continue forward. This is something that we both want, we both are conscious of our choices and we are approaching our remaining connection with the focus on creating a deep and long lasting friendship.
Though I will not go into great details here, please feel free if you have questions to ask either myself or Gretchen openly about all of this. We both would prefer honest questions to rumors and drama. For the time being we are continuing to share the house and plan to continue for some time as we both get a sense of where we are going from here. For myself the first step is completing my BA at Naropa. From there I have ideas and dreams of what I'd like to do, including settling down with people with whom I can make a family with a focus on having a child some time in the three to five year range. I'm still doing a lot of work internally on this and may remain fairly silent on this subject for some time as I focus in on what I need to do to be "ready" to be a mother. Gretchen is following her own calling and path. It is up to her to share so I will not say much about it all. It is hard, sad and beautiful to watch her growing as she is. It is hard, sad, and beautiful watching myself change.
Letting go isn't easy and both of us are learning how to let go of something that has been a most precious treasure to be caretakers of. Thank you all for being understanding during our renovations!
Got up this morning for to go to school and decided to declare it a snow day. At 7am there was approx. 10 inches on the ground, at the taking around 9:45am of these we measured close to 13 inches. Needless to say I emailed Robert and declared it a snowday then went back to bed.
The snow plow has finally arrived for his first pass along our roads today, no school busses are running up the mountains and it's still snowing!
More images in the gallery. :-)
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Pictures of my new tattoo, location is upper right arm. Mmmmm the burning pain of newly inked flesh!
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First week of the semester is over and my classes have all lined up for me nicely. They are all going to be challenging, fun, easy, and mind-bending. All five classes are going to flow and mesh with each other once again this semester, one playing off of aspects of the materials covered in another class. This will be a fun semester.
mockinggreylock and I hosted our first wine-and-cheese of the semester. It was an enjoyable evening with a house full of women (too...much...estrogen!) and a trio of men to help balance out everything. Although everyone left pretty early (other parties to go to I think it was), it was a lovely evening and wonderful to see the people I haven't seen all summer, and to meet a few new faces.
Today I have readings for Buddhist Psych 1 and also for my philosophy class. I also need to start sitting - my Buddhist Psych class has a requirement of one hour of outside of class meditation per week. To help germinate the habit of sitting on my bench, I have decided that I will sit there while I do the readings for (at least) that class. Speaking of .... I should stop journaling and get on to doing the readings and thinkings and writings for my homework. Tomorrow is a "free day" sure but I want to not let the procrastination habit start up in earnest this early in the semester ;).
Hope you all had a good weekend!
Mmm, home is such a nice place to be. Especially when there's clean air to breathe. Idaho and Oregon are burning (of course, it's summer-time!) and the air over there was pretty much smoke filled no matter where we were at. Between that and the two days of going through the garage at Mom and Dad's my sinuses have rebelled and I sound like a half-dead seal sometimes. But it's clearing up pretty quickly now that I'm back to a place where the air's cleaner. Jeez, I sound like the Sesame Street theme song ;).
Family visit was good and only contained minimal stress for me. That's always very nice. Got some good time spent with everyone and got to see a few family members that I haven't seen in a while now. Discovered another cousin is expecting his first child within the next couple weeks (Why doesn't anyone ever tell me these things?!) I told Dad that if I ever decide to have a child I'm not going to tell anyone until I'm eight and a half months pregnant just to get back at them. He laughed pretty good at that one. So my Nan's going to be greeting great-grandson number six within the month.
Nothing much else to say right now, I'll get pictures sorted and posted sometime. And perhaps a bit more comprehensive post about what I did while I was "home," for now I'm about to pack it in for the night. My own bed! My pillow. ..... Oh pillow how I love you and I misseded you!
G'night moon.
Early tomorrow morning I'm flying up to Boise to visit my family for a few days. My brother's "home" visiting with his son before he ships out to Japan for three years. It'll be good to see him, don't think we've seen him since G. and I visited Hawaii just before he did his tour of duty in Iraq a couple years ago. I'll get into Boise about 10:30 am MDT and am being picked up by "someone" (folks didn't know for sure who was going to be meeting me at the airport tomorrow so it'll be family-surprise!) Saturday my dad, brother, nephew and I are going to do a trip up to, and hike into, a lake that Dad and Jay used to go fishing at all the time. I've never been there and it should be really fun, new territory to explore in any case! Sunday's an all-out family gathering at Nan's, then it'll be back over to Eastern Oregon for a couple of days to hang out at Mom & Dad's. Maybe Jay and I can tackle their garage for them while we're home. ;-)
I won't be online much, if at all, while I'm home. Not taking the laptop since there is only wireless at Nan's and I can use her computer if I feel the need to check up on anything while I'm away. If it's a drastically important thing, call my cell, if it's not but you want me to see it when I get home mid-next week leave me a link here so I'll know to pay attention to it when I get around to checking up on LJ.
In other news, sushi dinner is soooo good!
Hope everyone has a great weekend and stuff. :-)
I have updated my pictures webpage. The following things are now found there:
Spring Break 2006
Fishing at Ole's Hakai Lodge 2006
All stages of exterior house painting
Pictures from kaidevis's visit
Enjoy!
I had a fantastic weekend. I spent the weekend showing kaidevis around some of my favorites places here in Boulder, and the general locale. He flew in to visit last Friday and we tootled around much of the countryside, places close here to the house and places farther away such as Rocky Mountain National Park. We sat on the Continental Divide and chatted, we drove around the park and chatted. I got to recharge batteries that have long since been depleted here in Boulder with the lack of really good friends (as of yet) that understand me as well as he does. It was a very much needed time to spend with my best friend, it's been far too long since I've gotten to see him.
Friday this week I'm flying up to Boise to spend several days with my family visiting my brother and nephew before my brother ships out on his three year assignment in Japan. I'm looking forward to the visit and I hear that my dad's going to take us up to a lake he and my brother used to hike into. That'll be on Saturday and should be a most fun hike (and easy too since it's at a lower elevation!). Sunday is all-family gathering at one of my aunts. Monday and Tuesday I'll be at Mom and Dad's doing whatever we end up doing. Come home on Wednesday and shift gears so I can be ready for school on Monday the week following. Wheee!
Anyhow, that's all I've got for now. I'll post pictures of things one of these days.
I'm going to be re-working my lj over the next little bit of free time before my semester starts. This is going to include removing (privatizing) posts of old as well as re-organizing my friends list. Some people are going to be removed and others will stay. If you have a deep and burning desire not to be removed from my f-list, I'd like to know. Comments will be screened so that people can be honest without worry. If I have not heard from people I plan to drop by the end of this month I'll assume silence means that you don't care to remain on my f-list. I find that it is almost impossible for me to do any lj'ing of worth the way this is set up right now and wish to be free to share what I want without worrying about who's going to get upset by my posts. If you are dropped and wish to keep me on your f-list, that is fine, I'll wander over and check things out occasionally; I won't be upset if you drop me in return.
That is all.
