Vantage Points II & III

Vantage Point II

Vantage Point III

It's just a bit further along but actual demo hasn't begun.  Rough electric this week, hopefully inspection next week then the walls go flying!

25 Years Ago Today...

I lost my father to leukemia.
A week after we buried dad,
my youngest child was born.

I miss my dad, even after 25 years,
I still have tears and sadness
all these years later.

I often wonder if dad had lived
longer to see A, if he could have
been the father figure he needed
when hubby could not due to his
illness.

How might things have turned out
with him here?

But that's neither here nor there.
I still miss him, after 25 long years.
I guess I will always miss him.

He wasn't a saint while here on earth
but he wasn't a devil either.
He helped mold me into the person I
have become today.

He was always the 'go to' guy by everyone
to get things done.  I always liked to watch
him work and loved it when he asked me to
help.

I remember he let me up on our roof when he was doing
something up there.  I loved climbing the ladder, scared
as could be, but he was up there cheering me to keep
climbing.  When I reached the top, he was there to greet
me and help me stand up on the sloping roof.  Then we walked
up to the top where the roof leveled off and I could see the
park and all the other rooftops.  What an exciting time for me.

I also remember helping him fish electrical wiring through walls,
wallpapering the living room and hallway, planting a vegetable
garden, ...  there was truly nothing my father could not do.

My father's ability to do things was passed down to me.  I enjoy
doing those types of things.  I can see visions and I can plan ways
to make that vision a reality.

Heck, my kitchen is just another one of those visions coming through
to reality.

Dad, I don't know if you can 'see' me or 'hear' my thoughts, but if
you can, I miss you terribly, love you more today than yesterday
and pray that one day I will see you again where you are free of all
your earthly pains and happy.  Until we meet again, <3.

Finally, let the new year begin at work...

Fresh back from Washington DC from my company's
annual North American Sales Meeting and I can now
let the new year at work begin.

Christmas and the holiday season feel like they were months
ago... and it's only been weeks since.  All that time, focus
and energy on the NASM removes the celebrating of the
holidays from one's memory....  I am happy that it is done.

There's been an internal restructure of our sales force and
although my team was told it would not affect us, my colleagues
and I KNOW that we too will have some shifting among
ourselves.  I believe we weren't restructured earlier so we
could focus on the task at hand, the NASM.

Now that this is history... I think we'll be told of our
realignment... but then again, who knows?

I am happy to be home.  I have a lot of personal 'housekeeping'
to attend to in 2012 and I simply must focus on ME and my health.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping!

Kitchen Addition Vantage Point #1

I am taking pictures of the progress from 

three different vantage points.

As well, thinking it would be cool to take each

Vantage Point and put all those images together 

would make a better story...

I am trying to learn how to work the image software

but lucky for you, I got one collage completed!  It'll 

take me some time to do the others but I'll post them

up here too for my Fan Club to view! HA!

Maybe, I'll try to put up choices in lighting, cabinets, etc.,

similar to a storyboard so you can see the pieces...

and when it's all done, some shots of it all together.

So, here's what I have so far from Vantage Point #1,

whaddya think?

Still alive and kicking

Just being a bad blogger neglecting the throngs of readers
that flock to my blog on a daily basis....

Oh, that's right...I don't need to feel badly... after all,
that accounts for only one or two people!

Kitchen coming along nicely... will eventually get around to
posting some shots... or hold off until it's all done and
provide a montage of progress.  I am getting excited, there's
a floor, one wall and a roof! Can you holla Whoo Hoo?!?!?!!?

Cabinets are ready to be picked up but we're not ready for them.
Appliances can be delivered but we're not ready for them.
Existing cabinets have a buyer but we don't have them out yet.
Existing range has a buyer but we don't have it out yet.
My lighting fixtures that took me hours to choose were to be ordered
tomorrow but found out that that style has been discontinued and not
in stock... so I get to go thru tons and tons of catalogs again to find
something that will make me go WOW!
(Trust me, it takes alot to make me go WOW!  I pretty much know what
I want in my head and don't usually settle for anything less... I can be so
picky when it comes to details.)

Heading to our Nation's Capital this weekend for my company's Sales
Meeting.  Three days of whooping and hollaring with the best of them. Oh,
I exaggerate.  What I am looking forward to is that this year, for the first time,
I am attending as an attendee with a few responsibilities v. having to work the
meeting.  I will have time to actually talk to folks and enjoy some of the
meeting(s).  YAY!

Went to our family Christmas/holiday celebration at my cousins this past
weekend.  Loved spending time with my very first friends in the world,
my cousins!  So happy that we still make an effort to get together and have
fun and enjoy each others' company.  Maybe I will post a few pics (of course I
will have to review them and maybe make an edit or two before doing so!)

That's about it for now.... I have been a bad blogger.  Happy New Year again!

Twenty-twelve

May 2012 be a year full of all things positive

for you and for those you hold dear.