My New Life

Yesterday I got back to my dissertation.  I was able to get the hardest thing mostly done...  which is write the justification for licensing for interior designers.  Hopefully I am finishing this part today.  I think I am going to move it to the end of the state of the profession chapter.  Makes more sense to be there.

In the evening, I loaded my photos of Manitoulin Island on my computer there were 520 of them... so the pictures will be forthcoming.   Probably tonight. 

Even though I was careful to stick to my diet. Well, actually the last week I was having alcoholic drinks beyond my hour of power... hmmmm.  I put on nine pounds from mid July to the end of August.  I didn't swim... I walked at least 14 times in five weeks but not swimming really makes a difference.  Now I will get back to it and walk more frequently too.    I am upset that the pounds are creeping back on.   

Hope your day is grand.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

Last night after drinking two glasses of wine, I was rhapsodic about my visit to my friends in Michigan, Indiana and Canada... I was too tried to write... and this morning it doesn't quite seem so amazing.  Hmmmmm

Yesterday I tried multiple times to get to work on my dissertation... and could not do it.  So I got the laundry done, moved my flat files from my business upstairs to my bonus room and fiddled around the house.  Oh yeah, I signed up to be an ID*EC member, which took quite a while.  I listened to the weather station to find out what was happening with Hanna and Ike and went grocery shopping.  Last night, in the middle of the night,  I woke up and wrote down the reason that interior design needs to be licensed.  How not being regulated can harm the public.    Yes finally that was the last segment that was not coming together for me.  Today I write. 

My horoscope is interesting... I don't think it is exactly accurate about being disappointed in the reality of things... I wasn't...
 


I will get photos up of Manitoulin Island... when I get around to it.  Soon I promise!

Hope your day is grand.  Love and kisses, Marilyn  

I have been sorting mail and doing laundry.  I cannot believe how much mail I have....  I cannot believe how much dirty laundry I have.  Two suitcases full.  There were only five things I did not ware... pretty good packing.  I cannot access my SCAD account or my phone... hmmmmmm Hope your day is grand.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

It sounds like Hanna is heading further north than Savannah.  So I am heading home tomorrow.  I think I have a dentist appointment on Sept. 5th so need to get home for that... and I am finally tired of living out of a suitcase... or suitcases...  I will write more when I get settled at home.  I had a marvelous trip.  It was amazing to see so many friends and even family.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

I spent the most amazingly quite days in Canada.  My friends own a hunting camp on Manitoulin Island.  The 65 acres faces south and is on Lake Huron.  There is a huge flat shelf of stone ground flat by glaciers or flat because of being a sea bed.  It goes about 100 yards from the tree line. There are all these pockmarks in the limestone shelf. I thought it was from melting glaciers, but the book said it was from acid algie.  There were also all kinds of sea urchins embedded in the rock.
The area is so remote we hardly saw any people, and few planes even... very seldom would you hear any kind of motor.  Just the wush of the waves and the wind in the trees and the insects clicking, cherping... it was great.  I spent hours just sitting under the cedar trees with my camera and pad of paper writing poetry and snapping photos and listening to the sounds of nature.  We had great food went swimming every day and took walks in the woods.  Kathy and I also went shopping in town and I bought three stone necklaces and a Pottery in a cool holder. 

I have been off the internet for five days and it has taken me a while to get caught up.  I will write more.

I am heading to C'burg but don't know if I will leave for Savannah... with Hanna coming on shore Friday night... hmmmmm think I will stay in B'burg until it leaves. 

I have photos of my Canada trip...

Love and kisses, Marilyn   

With my ex-husband. 

First of all the first impression... It is sad to see how he lives.    My flower garden is filled with weeds and he wacked them down, hopefully after the flowers  bloomed.  The yard was mowed which was a good thing.  The lake was beautiful as usual.  Inside the house looks like a catalogue/magazine bomb went off...  in every room.  In addition, he never puts anything away, so the house is very cluttered.  The bathroom has six cleaning bottles in the corner by the tub, so your feet hardly fit when you sit down.  As usual his work shop is neater than the house.  It just makes me sad. 

We had a nice visit.  He did complement me and say that I was a good house keeper... and a good cook.  This year, it took him twenty minutes to say that I needed psychological help to get over what my parents did to me.  Last year it was within five minutes. 

He had spent last week with his friend George (I was with George's wife Linda on Mackinaw Island).  George told him everything I told Linda on the phone.  So he pretty much knew everything about me.  For some reason, he was angry/upset about my reconnecting with my sister.  I don't understand it.  Although he liked my being alienated from my family. 

I don't quiet know how I feel beyond sad.  He continues to live his life as if things have not changed, but they have.  I guess that is part of why I divorced him last year.  Although I loved my life in the country for a long time... after 30 years I needed a change... and he is still stuck in that old life.  He has turned into an old codger set in his ways and semi comfortable where he is.  I could no more go back to that life, than I could become thirty again.  I am glad that he is comfortable with his life.  I don't think he understands my need to leave anymore than I can understand his need to stay. 

I am heading to Ann Arbor this afternoon.  We are driving all night to get to Manitoulin Island... I am not looking forward to that.  I have never slept well in a moving car.  I hope on the way home we will drive on Labor Day during the day, because I want to leave for Virginia the day after Labor Day and not have to catch up on sleep.  It is an eleven hour drive to B'burg and I want to do it in two drives not one... Arrive in the afternoon to see Elizabeth and K and then take off the next morning for Savannah.  Time will tell.

Elizabeth I have been organizing my pictures and found the photos of K and the cows... So we can print them out. 

Hope your day is grand.  Love and kisses, Marilyn  

I just found out I am listed on the MSN Canada Spaces... Being born in Canada myself, (Parry Sound, Ontario) it is nice... I feel as if I am back home... sort of.... in a wireless internet type of way.  Sometime in my deep dark past I actually represented Canada in swimming.... in the Olympics our freestyle relay won a bronze medal in Mexico City. 

Actually, next week I am heading back to Canada to Manitoulin Island.  I am really looking forward to seeing the rocks, pine trees and blue waters.  Oh how I love them.  It has been five years since I have been back...  Since I miss nature in Savannah... I am really looking forward to hugging some trees. 

I had a great time at Kathy's and my Aunt Buffie and Uncle Matt's.  We had dinner with Mary Lea with her husband and daughter.  Her daughter is interested in interior design at Lansing Community College.  So I talked to her about what she needed to do.  Of course, I know half of the people teaching at LCC and other programs in the state.  I just arrived at Sharon's.  It is great to see her. 

Hope your day is grand.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

Tomorrow I am seeing one of my old students who adopted three brothers a couple of years ago.  I have not met them and am really looking forward to seeing them.  Then I am going to my Aunt and Uncles for dinner and a bed.  In the morning I was going to go to Sharon B's.  I have had really good visits and wonderful experiences visiting my friends, but am kind of tired... hmmmmm  Hope your day is grand.   Love and kisses, Marilyn