welcome to your life

do you ever feel you are not living the life you wished for when you were 5yrs old.how about what you wished when you were 18.i know priorities change,geography changes and we change.but some times life changes us.in small ways,big ways.i know that something shifted in me when my Dad died,9 months after my friend Kathy died.i feel as if i carry my heart a little differently.i just read a blog where someone wrote about how we change in our lifetime,how we stay the same.it just made me pause and reflect.i have a friend who is gravely ill ,another who will have a baby in a few weeks.both those events make a difference in my life but not much in yours.how totally odd yet balanced our life is even when we don't see it that way.siena and i have been reading the Dali Lama,can you tell.life is all about balance.we can have all the things we think we need in our life and still not be happy.think of what made you happy when you were little.a loving family(i didn't say they weren't crazy)one or two friends to play with who liked to play what we did,not being hungry and an occational icecream or cookie.life was simple.simple is good.have a simply good day

it feels like spring in PA

yes, it almost hit 60 today.whoo hoo! not that i want to rush summer, or even spring for that mattter. i want spring to take its time. stretch it out,what is the rush.i think summer is overrated.i do love the growing season,the birds in the morning and coffee on the deck before going off to work in the morning.but let me just say that as a woman who is a t a certain hormonal time in her life,sweating out the summer just sucks.i know you are thinking,"why did she leave san francisco".well as we all know sometimes life moves you.so bring on spring,do away with the heavy coats and bring on the linen shirts and sandals. okay for other news..... i started pt today and it was hard. so it will be a hard 2xs a week for 6 weeks kind of time.my knee and hip are screaming its praises and will be all night me thinks.so ludmila starts chemo this wednesday and will lose all her hair from the first time. my brother and sues' husband have had no luck with jobs and my friend olga is due in 3 weeks.so there is alot going on in my neck of the woods.i think i will go out on my deck.with my cat.a glass of wine.enjoy the dusk. see ya!

one a week

well i guess i can only manage one post a week.last week was a killer.every hairy student going on spring break to a beach was in.thursday was nun day(i give mini manis to elderly nuns once a month),there were 20 of them.later went to the salon and did 10 hairy students.thirty clients in one day is my new limit.i cant believe this didnt tire me out so much 5 years ago.time to slow down.i also saw ludmila a few times last week.she is not doing great,but at last will be seeing an oncologist on wednesday.going up her stairs to the second floor of her duplex was a killer.after my hip was acting up my bad knee(right one) started to scream at me. on top of the busy week i was gimping around trying to keep it fromcrying too loud.so today i saw a doctor of bone. yes my knee has worse arthritis than my hip.i did like this doctor.i went to the sports medecine center(the steelers go there too),figured if the can get them back playing they can get me back walking.was given a steroid shot right under my knee cap.that hurt like i dont know what.next week physical therapy starts.well to round out my crazy busy week i went to olgas baby shower on saturday.havent been to one for a long time.thank god no silly games.well now i feel better catching you up with my life.was going to shop and then visit ludmila,but my knee is so sore that i am just going to kick my feet up until i pick up siena.toodles