The Spark

I believe October 25, 2013 marks Day One.  That is the day we actually said 'let's move forward'.  As mentioned in my prior post, we are leaving the PNW.  I still love the PNW, this is the second time I have lived up here.  I lived in Eugene, Oregon in the early 80's and have only good memories from that time.  The spark that brought us to the top of the US just below the Canadian border in 2005 is two-fold. 

 

The first spark was Summer of 2002, the company I then worked for had to relinquish a handful of accounts as the large ownership was required to get providers who supplied services nationally (not regionally as we were) so after the transition, it was time to take a vacation as I still had other accounts but no new ones yet.  I took two weeks off - I only ever did that one other time in my entire professional career.  We did a road trip, DH and I, and traveled from the Bay Area all the way up to Eugene, Oregon.  We had no reservations, we winged it.  A cabin here and a motel there.   We drove until we wanted to stop, we sought out waterways to play with our blow up raft, we stopped at off-the-wall cafes and diners, we had provisions for munching and a bottle of rum for cocktails every evening usually at some waterfront.  

 

Blogs and Fog

Since creating this blog, I have left it to sit as I needed it to be blank space for a bit.

I needed an identity to be able to comment on others' blogs.

I enjoy others' blogs especially creative sorts, frugal and minimalist ones, personal finance savvy ones where non-spending or reusing are the focus.  Tons and tons of other blogs such as women written/woman subject blogs about where they are in life, we can all so relate to those wonderful inner feelings we have, some women can just write it up so well and so succinct, those I honor with gratitude for putting it out there.  My reading does cover quite a range of blogs and news but I now need to ratchet it back as it consumes too much time and I am staring at the computer screen too much - I can see or actually I am starting to unsee a bit, the excessive computer time is affecting my eyesight just a bit.  I find that occurs as we head into late Fall and Winter.  It doesn't occur in late Spring nor Summer.