Im a dork

Im a dork, I know it.
I sometimes call it creative, but really thats just being nice to myself, Im a dork

But i love it.

I always seem to have a growing list of projects to do, i never seem to actualy make any of them, but as the summer beggins, so does my embroidery project list.

Summer, here its usually too HOT. But it has its nice cool days to make for some fun.
Swimming, lazy days, dr. pepper and no bake cookies. umm good.

Joplin, Missouri - May 22, 2011

BEEN SCARED AND BATTERED
MY HOPES THE WIND DONE SHATTERED

SNOW HAS FRIZ ME,
SUN HAS BAKED ME,

LOOKS LIKE BETWEEN 'EM THEY DONE
TRIED TO MAKE ME

STOP LAUGHIN', STOP LOVIN', STOP LIVIN'

BUT I DONT CARE!

I'M STILL HERE!

- James Mercer Langston Hughes

A couple of hundred years ago,
Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success.

Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today.

This is the man who discovered electricity.
You think more people would listen to what he had to say.
I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear.
Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision,
because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo?
The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine.
He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told.
We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day.
Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves.

We have to make our own mistakes.

We have to learn our own lessons.
We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore.
Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant.

That knowing is better than wondering,
that waking is better than sleeping,
and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying

Thinking

Im thinking of buying a house.
It makes me feel so very grown up.
But, Im so very very excited about the idea.

Now.

As I start this process, this blog will probably focus on house buying

I cant wait to post pictures,
share ideas,
post more pictures

So wish me luck!

Megan

Los Rojos de Ultramar- A Review

"the Reds of the Sea"

this is the translation of the title as i would put it. It has a simple meaning.

The book proved to be a interesting read, with much information on the post-civil war Spanish life. Not of those left in Spain. But of those that had to leave, who were on the loosing side of the war.

It intrigues us, to know how the loosing side survives. and i think this is what makes the book. its that interest to see how the rest of their lives are lived out.

the book is a bit repetitive in parts.
the author has a certain view of the world and he tries very hard to transmit these undertones to the reader with out just coming out and saying them, he gives the clues enough times to allow the reader to come to the conclusion.

though this repetitiveness should not dissuade anyone from reading the book,

on the contrary, its just one man's view of what happened,

and it should cause us all to look at other opinions

and that is what this book caused in me

a desire

a desire to know more about the war that in world history gets over shadowed by world war II.

a war that brought a dictator into a country over over 25 years.

a dictator that at the end of his life gave back the country to a monarchy

a country that now has pretty much undone as much as they can of his dictatorship

the book, as far as i know, only comes in Spanish,

and it was a great read to get me back into the language,

i recommend it.