Jun 19, 2008 by FlamingoGirl
Jun 17, 2008 by FlamingoGirl
My ‘little’ brother, his wife, and my three nephews on beach in Santa Monica.
I’ve returned! Actually I got home about a day and a half ago but I had a ton of stuff to catch up on. The visit with my family was absolutely wonderful. My three nephews have grown and changed so much in the last 3 years. It really made my husband and I realize that we HAVE to get back to visit my family more often. It’s so easy to put things off, say we’ll go next year for a visit and then not get around to it. We can’t keep doing that. My nephews will be all grown up before I realize it and I don’t want to miss out on it all.
I think my family enjoyed the visit. We went to Disneyland & Sea World. We did a boat excursion and saw dolphins and sea lions in the ocean. We visited the Crystal Cathedral and Santa Monica Pier. We even went to the Grand Canyon. I have to clean up my hard drive before I can download all the photos but you can expect to see some Thursday night or Friday morning.
Oh that reminds me! I’ll be leaving again on Friday. My husband is being sent to Texas (Dallas area) for work and I am tagging along. We’ll be there about a week. I should be able to access the internet occasionally. Hopefully I’ll manage to put up a post or two. I’m not doing so well at my challenge to post three times a week, but I wasn’t expecting to do any traveling! Sorry about that.
Jun 4, 2008 by FlamingoGirl
I will probably be on hiatus next week. My brother, along with his wife and son, is coming out here from Missouri for a vacation & he’s also bringing my sister’s sons!! I haven’t seen any of my family in 2 1/2 years so I’m very excited, especially to see my nephews. Kids grow up so fast and I probably won’t recognize them. I was really close to them before I got married and moved away and I’ve missed them sooooooooooo much!! I’m excited to show them the ocean for the first time. We’re going to spend some time in San Diego, alot of time at Disneyland, and a bit of time here in the Beach Cities area. It will be wonderful and I’m sure when I get back I’ll have a ton of photos to share with everyone. Yippeeeeeeeeee! My family is coming!!!!!
Jun 2, 2008 by FlamingoGirl
How do you teach yourself to be disciplined, to do the miserable grown up things everyone has to do; like eating vegetables, taking vitamins, getting exercise, & doing jobs you don’t want to do? I’ve recently come to realize that I’ve spent my entire life avoiding things I don’t particularly like to do or giving the bare minimum effort so that I can just squeak by. I’ve often followed the path of least effort, building a cozy sheltered little world for myself with very little demands and unfortunately I’ve been able to get away with this for the majority of my life. You’d think that always finding a way out of doing stuff you don’t like would make for a happy life but actually it doesn’t because a lot of the things in life that you really want require WORK of some sort. Building a decent life takes work and discipline, two things I’ve never been big on. I don’t even take advantage of natural talents because what if I were actually to succeed at something? Success means work. It’s much easier to withdraw into daydreams. Lately though I’ve begun to realize I can’t just coast along settling for whatever comes my way just because it’s easiest. I have to actually get out in the world and put some effort into building the life of my dreams, building myself into the person I know I was actually meant to be. The question in my mind though is how to begin, how to break a lifetime of taking the easy route, doing whatever strikes my fancy at the moment, and generally being undisciplined & unfocused? Any suggestions? 
