Oh Beautiful Spring....

This weekend was quite chilly in the 60s and windy, and the skies were blue and sparkly.... Perfect March weather!!!  Great weather for Kite Fliers!!!!  I opened all the windows and doors to my home, and aired it out, cleaned, and relaxed and watched old movies (1940s-1950s)... and of course, cried... when I watched "Journey for Margaret" with Robert Young... oh my gosh, just to even think of it brings a tear to my eye... I am a ninny... the kid and I also watched "The Blue Gardenia" with a 36 yr old Raymond Burr!  It was pretty good - the end fooled us!!!!!

Today is breezy, but in the high 70s... so bright, cheerful, and here I am in an office... but I made sure at lunch time to go out and be out in the air and sun...even if it was for a few minutes....   now it's time to head off to visit the vampires, so they can tell me how good my blood is... so much fun!!!!

Feeling Blessed....

I'm not inclined to say things related to religion much...or really discuss things about my spirituality... but, every now and then those little bits and pieces of my heart and soul sing out and remind me that there's a bigger picture...

Today it started with waking up bright and early this morning - feeling like I was on top of the world.... just Habibi and I curled up together... reminded me of  Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's...

When I left the house I was so happy to find out that the awful eyesore, broken down truck outside my condo (it's been bothering me), was gone!  I had written the Association and asked them to have it towed - I guess someone actually got my message and listened...

I went to get gas, and found out that I had $0.25 off per gallon of fuel reward discounts available on my card - so to fill my empty tank only cost me $26.00!!!!

The news was saying the traffic was horrendous, there was a gloom in the sky, gray, chilly, wet, and that misty rain that's not enough to be rain - just a fine mist... so I thought, hmmmm, let me check out the lines at the NEW Starbucks that opened right around the corner from my home - and LOW AND BEHOLD - I was the second in line!!!!!  I got a Trenta Iced Green Tea and drove off with a big grin...

Everyone seems pretty at ease today at the office... no bad 'tudes... It's an easy day - a busy day - but relaxed ... lovin' it!!!!!

My friend came in (she works for my employer outside our office for a family trust)... and we had a nice chat - she left  - and then she called me and said "Oh my gosh, I'm hungry and I didn't realize it was so late - want to meet me for a salad?" - and I said YES SIRREE... and went and had a salad at Olive Garden (no croutons)... drank unsweetened iced tea... and we talked and talked about our kids and nice things, and I just felt so relaxed and happy.... what a nice way to break up the day!!!!!

I had someone nonchallantly say something about my having lost weight, etc.  I have been very careful NOT to speak about weight loss... my way of eating is benefitted with weight loss, but my main concern is to be HEALTHY ... and to FEEL GOOD... and I'm on my way... I have a ways to go on finding myself in perfect health, if there is such a good thing, but today I feel "blessed" to be happy, relaxed, and I FEEL WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!

I hope this lasts more than a day!!!!!

P.S.  Now if only a Gary Cooper clone would come sweep me off my feet.... he was just the epitomy of a beautiful man....

"Yes, London. You know: fish, chips, cup 'o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary "F#$%#*$#" Poppins... LONDON."

It's another gray day here - yesterday brightened up - then today it got gray and damp and gloomy...Foggy, lots of FOG.... I felt like I was in London...

To brighten up my gloomy day... for some reason I thought of scenes from my favorite movie.  I don't know anyone, but myself, that Snatch (Guy Ritchie Film), from 2000, with Brad Pitt, was their favorite movie - it's mine.... I have to say, it's definitely mine....

Today I just took a few minutes break and sat here and watched the funny scenes from the movie.... I had to hold back the giggles, but couldn't contain the big smile.... I'm still trying not to giggle out loud... I think the kid and I need to see the movie from front to back this week over dinner... and have a good laugh...

Off Coffee and On to Tea....

I have been stocking up on tea bags... trying new ones, and finding out what I love the most... Tea is outrageously expensive!!!!  So, I go to places like Whole Foods or Fresh Market or even Trader Joes and look for what teas are on sale each week, and buy new ones or my favorites if they are on sale - whether I need them or not...

My absolute favorite tea - over everyone that I've had over the past few months - remains:  Revolution Sweet Ginger Peach.  It smells like a sachet bag when you pull the teabag out of the little ziplocked sealed bag they come in - inside the box... and it is good hot or cold, sweet or unsweet...it's perfect!!!!

I also love Revolution's Lavender Earl Grey..... I swear it is so soothing after a stressful day at the office and having to deal with awful bumper to bumper traffic with aggressive, crazy drivers out to ram you or run you off the road...

Then after a few duds... I came across a sale on Stash teas - and my favorite now in the mornings and it makes a wonderful Iced Tea.... Breakfast in Paris!!!!

And.... my favorite of all Green Teas.... is the Tazo Green Iced Tea (Unsweetened) from Starbucks... At lunch I tend to go there and grab up a TRENTA sized Iced Green Iced Tea - no syrup/SF... and drink that for the rest of the afternoon.... it has a wonderful minty refreshing flavor!!!!!!

Foggy First Day of Spring...

It took a very long time for the fog to lift and burn off today... though the sun has finally come out, it's very steamy and hot outside.  Very Summer-like rather than First Day of Spring-like.

I've received two invitations to Spring weddings.  One in April and one in May.  I'm now going to have to find something new to wear... "Love is in the air"... so the hunt begins for the perfect outfit and shoes.  I wish they were English weddings and I'd add a "Hat" to the list of things to buy!  It would also be wonderful to go to a wedding, like the one's shown in "Four Weddings and a Funeral"... I love that movie, and it just never gets boring or old to me.

Happy First Day of Spring!!!!

Two More Days Till Spring....

Trying to be a bit artsy and funny with Noomi... we decided to do a selfie together... She's been a total Mama's girl the past couple of days, sleeping with me, washing my face and hair, jumping on me (hurts because she's about 25 lbs. now!)...

I have Frühjahrsmüdigkeit!!!!!!!!!!!  Seriously.... I'm not depressed - but after having been on such an energy kick, so furiously wanting to do so much and see so much and move and be outside... all of a sudden these past two days, my mood hasn't been so sunny (just a crab-apple like mood) and my energy level dropped to nothing by 5:00 p.m. last night...my joints were aching, I had a headache, and sure enough, it will be Spring in two days... WELL, I'm not going to let it get me - I'm going to be energetic and happy go lucky no matter what!!!!!  So back to the MANIC me!!!!  

Last night I watched Magic in the Moonlight, a Woody Allen film, the story taking place during the 1920s in the South of France on the coast, and Provence... it was breathtakingly beautiful, the story was simple/sweet, though I didn't really find any great sparks or chemistry between Emma Stone and Colin Firth - as I watched the film, I kept thinking how absolutely phenomenal it would be to have a home in Provence...with gardens full of sweet smelling beauties, herbs, ... to just lie on a blanket with a good book in the sunshine and not have to worry about Fire Ants eating me up... 

Makes me wonder - does my son remember all the times on vacation when I saw beautiful grass lawns in parks and coaxed him into lying on it and rolling around and laughing because we would not be bitten up or stung - like here in Florida where he's learned you don't do that unless you want to be covered in bites and welts... We rolled around some of the best parks.... Hyde Park right near the enterance by The Royal Albert Hall and the monument....

or one of my favorite roll in the grass times in Brussells Park.... that's where I saw my very first Magpie!!!!  

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!!!!!

There's a smidgeon of Irish blood running through my veins... sadly, this morning when I was putting make up on, I actually grabbed up the green eyeliner and shadow set, and then "poo-poo'ed it" and put it away, because I decided on neutrals... then I wore black and white... those little Irish genes of mine were trying so hard to come out for their special day, but I think the English, German, and Welsh genes prevailed.... I totally forgot today was St. Patrick's Day!!!!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all... I'll be home watching a movie, eating cauliflower, and relaxing with the cats... what an exciting life I lead!!!!!!