Time and Memories

Wow, time is flying by fast. I think the older I get the faster it moves. First it was the end of July and now it is almost the end of August and before you know it Thanksgiving is here.

With the end of Summer coming closer and closer it also marks the beginning of a bittersweet year for me. My Daughter is starting her Senior year at high school, lots of “last ones” happening now. On one hand I am ready on the other I am not. It is funny, I have lots of friends who are right now sending their graduates off to College and are asking me for advise and on how I handled it when I sent my Son off when he entered College. I keep telling them, it was easy, I was ready, but I am not so sure it will be the same with my Daughter. Maybe because she is a girl? Every time I look at her and think about past times and were we are heading to now, I get all choked up and all teary eyed. Must be because she is a girl and the youngest. Let’s just see how crazy she is driving me in the next couple of months, maybe by the time May 2011 comes around, I will be ready to ship her out of the State.

Right now, I am getting ready for my last time being a Band camp chaperon. The past 8 years of doing this gig, I have had the pleasure of watching a lot of kids grow up and I made some great friends along the way. It will be hard I am sure, next year when it is time for the next group to head out to stay behind and just see them as a spectator at the games.  I have lots of good memories to hold dear, and hope that the friendships I made over the years will continue for years to come.

Yes time is flying, but with it will come new memories. And I am looking forward to them.

From my home to all over the world

So we all know that I am a avid Twitter addict, I do not know what I will do once I have to return to work, and my twitter time will be limited during the day. It is going to be nuts for the first  couple of days and I will have some serious withdrawl from all of you people.

Anyway I have met lots of new people, made lots of new connections, and have been given opportunities, that if you would have told me a year ago this was going to happen, I would have said get out of here and called you crazy.

Well it did, and I have had fun so far with it.  I have several Followers on Twitter that are podcaster’s. And one of them, Mark Baars from the Netherlands has been one of my Followers for about a year now. And he messaged me one day about this Idea for a Paulina minute on his Podcast The Markbaars show. What a crazy Idea !! A Paulina minute that would feature my blog and what I wrote. I am like, ok Mark who will listen to that, but he convinced me and soon after, we were e-mailing each other with what he wanted to do and about 2 weeks later I was recording my first interview

Too much time to think

That is what my Daughter is telling me. She says that everytime when I come up with something, like getting family pictures taken that also include her respective boyfriend and my Sons girlfriend. Because they are also part of this family. They get harassed just as bad from me as my own kids.

I have organized my Desktop, I have started using Google online Calendar  to help me out with remembering things that I need to do and which I can easily access from everywhere. I have planned things and my daughter looks at me and says ” Way too much time on your hands”. Well what do you expect, I am resting, I am recovering and my brain has time to function correctly.

Thinking about winning Lottery number combinations, so I can continue my leisurely life.  Working from home has also come to mind. But as what? Naw, eventually it all would drive me batty.

But in the meantime till the Doctor tells me I have to go back, I will dream about my dreamjobs, and recover and come up with other wonderful plans and ideas to keep my daughter guessing and giving me that look of craziness. And enjoy it all.

My wonderful but crazy daughter :)

So I came home yesterday and was greeted by a driveway that was all dug up. My daughter and her boyfriend decided to dig up my driveway, make it bigger and then put gravel back down on it. She employed a few more of her friends that helped them. Then today this is what was going on. She got her boyfriend and another friend to even out the one side by the back porch. Now the question is, where will she get the gravel from? I talked to her last night, to see what her plan was, and that is were I am supposed to come in according to her today. She and her boyfriend will price out gravel and then give me the cost. Boy oh boy..I am really gonna worry about that. But the neighbors are just loving it, they keep telling me how hard she is working and how she has all of them boys just marching to her tune….