MOJO Part I

 OK...so getting back to the mojo thing.....
 I told you I've been trying to find my mojo...

Here's the thing about finding your mojo. 

When you are living life and you are not happy,

and you KNOW you should be...

you KNOW you should be counting your blessings,

but you keep having this feelings of frustrations, anger, negativity,

you have to figure out what's wrong, what you don't like, and make changes.

OK, I'm going to say this out loud....

I don't like...

living in chaos

unfinished business

being too busy.

I don't like....

having an appointment or someplace to be every day of the week.

I don't like...

living in a messy house.   

Even if I'm living in one room.  

I want time to be creative.   To garden.  To feed my soul.

 
Not to mention the culture shock.  

What culture shock you say....I only moved 20 minutes away. 

We'll talk about culture shock later. 

huuu huuu huuuuuu...  lions and tigers and bears oh my.

And since we've started building this house...my life has been all of the above.  

I will divide this post into segments.....

Part I - Living in chaos....

I thought....
I THOUGHT... when we got moved I would be able to get caught up.
I THOUGHT...I would have everything neatly tucked away in one room.  Then when we finished building the house, we would just move stuff upstairs into place.   I THOUGHT....For once in my life, I would have a place for everything and everything in it's place!

YUP...this is my kitchen table right now.  

I have a car seat on my kitchen table.

Not a child's car seat

A. real. car. seat. on. my. kitchen. table.

 AND

 This is the room everything was going to be tucked away in...

It looks like this now....

BUT THIS..IS..UPSTAIRS...(back off peeps...I'm bearing my soul here.  It's not easy)

We cannot build around this stuff. 
 SOLUTION.....I am going to start selling stuff. 
Garage sales.....Internet.....etc....
That's how I got it all! Garage sales, flea markets, auctions, etc!  I love going.
I wanted to do flea markets, I wanted to be creative and sell my work (I actually have!), and I thought we might have a B&B when we were all finished.  I have all of the stuff to have one!
teapots...teacups....plates....
Well...if I do any of that stuff.....I will just have to re-buy.  I'm gettin' rid of it!

I have a plan.  Just like when I wanted to find out what my style was....I am going to go through stuff, and what I have duplicates of I will decide what makes ME happy.  What I like the best, and everything else goes.  It won't be easy, or quick.

But first....
I am finishing something.

ONE THING AT A TIME UNTIL IT's DONE. AND. I. MEAN. IT!

As I said, I do not like starting something, stopping in the middle of it, and starting something else. 
And that is also how we have been living since we moved.  "Hurry up" and do this "Hurry up" and do that....and nothing gets finished.
 

Before I start one more thing I WILL FINISH THIS BRICK PILE.
We have one more day of moving bricks.

And this is my friend Cheryl.  How can I ever thank her?  She helped me move every last brick. 
My Shug says, "give her a brick!"  I said I was planning on it!
  But blogettes, We've been moving bricks for three to four weeks, usually two days a week, and it takes us about four hours to move two loads.  That includes driving and stacking time.  I told her yesterday she is a trooper.  And I'm humbled that she has helped me so much.  She had asked me to join a gym with her and I said, "I would never last...I'm not a gym girl, I'm not an indoor girl, I have to be outside in the summer.  But I do know how we can get exercise!"  I wish I would have had a camera in my hand, to show you her face, when she first saw this brick pile!

 (my phone pictures are turning out distorted and I don't know why)

We have not lost one pound. 
I have arm muscles now....
and an aircast for tennis elbow. 

Feel free to tell me how you survive the chaos.

To be continued.....

Cindy Bee

Still looking....

 You are all probably wondering if I got lost looking for my mojo.....nope.....just takes me 20 times longer to do anything anymore.... I'm not organized at all, and we've had 'stuff' going on.

Remember last Wednesday was Mom's birthday.  Well, my Brother's family came up to take her to dinner.  

 

The original plan was just for him to take Mom out, but they all came, and invited us to join them. 

I

 So we did.

 Mom was so embarrassed when the waitresses brought out a birthday cake and sang to her!

  

 My Shug had to leave early and he went around the table hugging our nieces good-bye.  When he got to Dad....well...Dad wanted no part of it!

 Mom with three of her grandkids.

 Thursday I went to crochet.  We've all been kind of doing our own thing.  

Friday I stayed home and did stuff around the house....looking for mojo again.....I think I found it!

Saturday My Shug and I spent the day together, moved a pile of bricks, went to a plant sale at a local church, and did some stuff around the house.

Sunday, my Sister, Mom, niece and I went out to eat for Mother's Day.  Mom and I got to my Sister's early so we had time to go to a plant sale at Conner Prairie, and we also went to Allisonville Nursery.   Now Allisonville Nursery was totally inspiring and I took some pics to show you....later.

 We took Mom to brunch at a place in Fisher's called Peterson's.

 They had a buffet and I loved it because the food was in bite size pieces.  So you could sample a little bit of everything and you don't get all stuffed.  I'm not usually one for buffets.

 Mom had coffee and it was perfect.  And the cup was big so you didn't have to keep getting refills.

My Sister and I had a mimosa.

 See how cute the little desserts were.

 Happy Mother's Day Sister and Mom!

Now...this is the other thing that I have been doing...ALOT!  STILL Moving bricks!  My friend Cheryl is helping me.  We decided to do it for the exercise. 

 Just so you get an understanding of this brick pile I keep talking about....here it is.

 It's been here for several years and plants have grown up around it, so I've had to cut them back. See how it goes all the way back to the fence.

HUGE pile. I figured we roughly moved over 900 bricks on Monday and that was three trips.  We moved them again today and we were both stupid tired.

 And I am now wearing one of these pretty thingys on my arm.

 I just want it marked off the list.  We are close.

  Here is a pic of the new piles.  Nice and neat and not too high.  (cheryl blew a hole in the butt of her jeans today.  Hilarious)

 So anyway, I'm still here....and busier than I want to be.

Cindy Bee