Wow!  Time has flown by, I can’t believe it has been almost a year (April 30th), that we have been in Germany. Incredible thing is that we stuck it out and are still here. When I say it was a rocky road to get to now, I mean ROCKY!  More like a mountain. The  Rocky Mountains, yes, that’s what it has felt like at times, going up the Rocky Mountains on roller skates.  At times very heated arguments, thoughts of going back to the states and just chucking it all.  The hoops we had to jump through seemed endless and the vision of what I thought would be our life here has morphed into something totally different.   I am saying thank you to Jennifer Hough and Joe Noonan for helping us stay focused,  to stick with our intuition and say yes to living with passion.  THANK YOU JENNIFER AND JOE!  Thank you, thank you, thank you. We sometimes listen to the CD’s from old Quantum calls and the Get Out of Your Own Way course by Jenifer back to back the whole day and it makes a difference in getting out of a funky head space and getting  the energy flowing again.

Last year this time, I never thought I would have started making my ecards and would actually have people sending them.  With Susanne’s help,  this dream I had for the past 3 years is now a reality and I am working on a HTML version of the site so that all can view it and hopefully enjoy the animations.  I am also using the degree I got back in Oregon to do web web design, I have made a few small websites for someone here in Muelheim.  Susanne is making incredible applications for a company in Krefeld that allow people to upload photos for printing on various styles.  She has gone from small projects to working with an application with over 2000 lines of code. She is making herself cloths also, she recently made a pair of pink (what other color is there?) pants and she already has someone interested in making a pair for them.

We survived the winter which was, from what we have heard, a rather exceptionally long and cold one. I am sitting here in shorts as I write, spring is visiting us for a while, it has been in the high 50’s most of the past week. Last year, anything below 60 degrees was chilly after living in So. Florida, but now it is a frikkin’ blessing. I don’t need 4 shirts plus a thermal jacket to go outside anymore and I am not freezing when I am sitting at my computer by the worlds most draftiest door. Susanne is not freezing at work and the sun (when it is out) shines into our apartment again, making it warm in the afternoon. We hesitate to turn off the heat though until we are sure this weather is going to stick around.

I also can’t believe it has been so long since I have posted anything on the blog. I told myself I would not start it then let it fall by the wayside and forget about it. But I tend to put it off nowadays and work on the ecards instead. It feels good to do a bit of writing again, hopefully I still have a few readers left. I haven’t abandoned the blog, just been busy elsewhere and now I gotta go get busy making nachos, Susanne is subtly letting me know (by saying nachos repeatedly), that I should get my arse in the kitchen and start cooking. Good night!