Did you seriously think I would forget the Friday Quiz??? oh ye of little faith... So, come on... share with the rest of us.. what inner color is lurking around inside you??? This quiz was really tough for me. Two of the questions I kept switching the answers back and forth before submitting it. But in the end, I clicked an answer and moved on quickly before I changed my mind! And I got for this result.
Your Inner Color is Blue
Your Personality: Your natural warmth and intuition nurtures those around you. You are accepting and always follow your heart.
You in Love: Relationships are your top priority, and this includes love. You are most happy when you are serious with someone.
Your Career: You need to help others in your job to feel satistifed. You would be a great nurse, psychologist, or counselor.
Wow! This week has just gone by so quickly! We've a ton of things to do every day. I get the strange feeling that this is how it might be from now until school starts up on Sept. 4. It's only been a few days, but I feel as if I am completely out of touch with everyone on blogstream. Not only have I not been able to write on the Inner Fire, but I haven't even been able to read any other blogs either!!!! Ever have that fantastic book that you HAVE to put down and all you want to do is finish up your work so that you can get back to it, but SOMETHING just keeps getting in your way?????
Yesterday was Pumpkin's follow-up with the dentist. She's got a clean bill of health. There is one little place (that's right where that stitch on the 3rd day broke) where it's pulled away a tiny bit and she has be careful to keep food out of that area (it's about the side of a small apple seed, but still....). The one thing the dentist did have to warn about was that sometimes with trama and all, symptoms don't occur until 4-5 years from now. I know it's things they probably Have to tell you, but still..... Oh well. We won't worry about that until when and IF that happens. Poor sweetie. She needs a lot of dental work anyway. She's got an underbite (her bottom teeth go in front of her top teeth) and she's got one tooth that's trying to come in crooked well, more than others, and her teeth just are doing funky things.... Monkey's look like they are doing the same thing. Parrot, well, we'll just have to see.
How do "people" expect you to pay those prices for clothing these days???? What the crap!!! This week, we bought Pumpkin three pair of jeans for school, a dress that she really wanted (ugh... I tried to talk her out of it, but she even said that she had money to get it (damn that tooth fairy!!! )), one shirt, a soft hoodie, a shirt and pair of jeans and one pair fall pj's EACH for the twins and it was around $125!!!
The only thing that may save me is that the twinadoes are going to have their birthday in the beginning of September. Now when people ask, I will know what to tell them! CLOTHES!!! I think Pumpkin has enough clothes to make it through until Christmas. And then, when people ask, I'll tell them to get her clothes. Actually, I know that Mom C has bought the twins two fall outfits and Pumpkin a few as well so besides the essentials like socks and undies, pjs, winter coats and boots, new sneakers, dress shoes, and such. One step at a time....
This weekend, Little Brother and his family are coming to spend the night. We are all very excited. They are arriving later today. It will be a lot of fun. He was saying that he wants to be able to make it down here more often, especially since he does have work down here. If they can manage it, they may try to make it down here to spend one night a week during the fall. THAT will be exciting!!! It will be great to visit with them. AND, what's really nice... I get sis in law and Abigail to myself as Mom and Papa have an appointment, Honey and Little Brother have to go off to work....
Of course, having company means that I have to get a lot done. Before they arrive, I found a dessert mix in the store for Key Lime Squares.... My sis in law has a sweet tooth so maybe this afternoon after they arrive, we'll sit down with a drink of choice in hand and be able to catch up a little.
I hope everything is going well with everyone. Somehow I will try to catch up. Right now, my life is just going all different directions and I'm finding it hard to sit at the computer for ANYTHING let alone blogging... A part of myself has taken up residence here and it won't let me stay away for long...
Tonight I found myself wishing to fall in love again. Silly, isn't it, seeing as I have been in love with the most amazing person for years now. And I wouldn't trade what I have for anything. Yet... I find myself wishing for that "puppy love", that euphoric just starting to fall in love feeling. I remember the excitment of learning each other... what the slight turn of the head meant, what the eyes said, hearing his voice beginning to weave his thoughts through my head when nothing was spoken. I remember how in public his hand would rest perfectly in the small of my back (he knew from the beginning that I've never really liked large crowds...), how he didn't leave me that night in college when I learned that my great- grandmother had passed on and I had no one else to share my sorrow with. He had worked a very long day at the news station and had stayed to help with the 11:00 news and then had driven to my dorm room and stayed with me, just holding me, talking, eventually drifting off to sleep. I actually remember moments vividly from when I was 16-17 years old and found the peace it gave to me just to reach out and touch his shoulder or lean in and just feel his heat for a moment.
Tonight we wondered where on earth our summer had gone? In just a few short weeks, school will be starting again. We had so many, many plans and none of them have been accomplished. We had so many things that we wanted to do with the girls this summer, places to go, new things for them to experience and learn. Finances again had/have reared their ugly head and we've found that it was another summer of mostly work, little play. Up to this point he's been working 6 days a week and my measly job covers the 7th day. It's on the verge of changing. Hopefully, our schedules are going to allow for a least a few fall excursions. I pray to the Divine that we are making progress.
Maybe that's why I want to go back. One thinks that finding and falling in love is tough and frustrating and confusing. It is, yet you can be amazingly rewarded. Fortunately it doesn't take so long to discover those rewards; they seem to somehow just come in small steps and build and build when it's right. And when it's not right, you appreciate it for what it was, learn from it, and somehow find a new level of yourself that for whatever reason wants to go on, and have the same experience again in HOPES that this one will be right. This...this present however... I am hoping, sort of assuming (in hope) actually, that if we're on the right path, the rewards will come. They may not be seen as soon as I would like (me.. a kid in a candy store wanting it NOW.. )but hopefully they will come.
Life just is what it is . I'm not angry, frustrated, confused or upset. Not particularly joyful, either. I guess I just sort of AM tonight... ~MacKenzie
Tonight, I had to do things just a little differently. You see, often, I think of a song and then search out what I want to go along with the song. Tonight, I know what I want, but finding a song as been a little difficult.
The past few nights, I have been out under the stars. For several years now I have enjoyed watching the annual Perseid meteor shower that occurs in August. Although the shower peaks on August 12-13 (best time to START watching it is around 1am or so), experience has told me in the past that the weather and other things don't always allow me to get out and view the shower on the "correct" night. When the sky was bright and clear Thursday night, I was out there and was well rewarded. Besides seeing many streaks of light dash across the sky, one of them when right up the path of the Milky Way. It was really pretty.
I have to admit to you that I don't know how everyone in the city "does it." I can't imagine not being able to stand in the middle of a dark field surrounded by the smell of the trees, the slight dampness of the grass curling around my sandals to tickle my toes. I can't imagine having to squint through the light pollution towards the stars above or not being able to hear crickets, owls and other night noises. Every sense is heightened.
Sky gazing makes me feel like a kid again. I still get goosebumps when I catch a glimpse of a shooting star. Sometimes, I still have to close my mouth in amazement at how brilliant, how sparkly, how absolutely amazing it is. And what astonishes me as well is the realization that sometimes, if you just take a few steps to the left or a few more up the field, the view seems to completely change! Suddenly you can see a spot of sky that you hadn't been able to before, or just by a different point of view, can be amazed at what is in front of your eyes.
Hopes are extremely high for the Perseids this year. Part of that stems from the fact that it is also a new moon on the 12th enabling the meteors to be quite visible. Some people anticipate that the shower will be so bright that the meteors will even be able to be seen in the city.
From Sky and Telescope: "The Perseids are one of the two strongest and most reliable annual meteor showers. (The other is December's Geminids.) And while some showers produce brief bursts lasting just a few hours, the Perseids have a broad peak. So don't despair if clouds are forecast for Sunday night — or if work obligations prevent you from staying up until dawn on Monday. Even now, a week before the peak, you can see up to a dozen Perseids per hour if conditions are perfect. That's stronger than some meteor showers at their best!
The meteor rate increases to roughly 30 per hour in the predawn hours on Saturday, 45 per hour on Sunday morning, and 80 per hour before the sky starts to get light on Monday morning. That's for a single observer at a dark-sky site in the north temperate latitudes.
Perseid meteors are visible in every part of the sky. But wherever you see them, they appear to be moving away from the shower's radiant point near the Perseus/Cassiopeia border. This is a perspective effect, happening for the same reason that snowflakes appear to stream away from the center of the road when you're driving through a snowstorm.
On any given night, activity starts slowly in the evening but picks up by 11 p.m., when the radiant gets reasonably high in the sky. The meteor rate increases steadily through the night as the radiant rises higher, peaking just before the sky starts to get light, roughly 1½ to 2 hours before sunrise.
Which brings me now to my music choice for tonight. I thought about going with new age music, maybe a bit of techno, Enigma had some really good choices, but in the end, I stuck to a favorite of mine. The group They Might Be Giants has a lot of fun songs with catchy little melodies and fun lyrics. It just seems to really fit!!!
Have a great rest of the weekend! If you do happen to give the Perseids a try... Happy Hunting!!!!
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So, come on... share with the rest of us.. what inner color is lurking around inside you??? This quiz was really tough for me. Two of the questions I kept switching the answers back and forth before submitting it. But in the end, I clicked an answer and moved on quickly before I changed my mind! And I got for this result. 
Not only have I not been able to write on the Inner Fire, but I haven't even been able to read any other blogs either!!!! Ever have that fantastic book that you HAVE to put down and all you want to do is finish up your work so that you can get back to it, but SOMETHING just keeps getting in your way?????
A part of myself has taken up residence here and it won't let me stay away for long...
)but hopefully they will come. 
. I'm not angry, frustrated, confused or upset. Not particularly joyful, either. I guess I just sort of AM tonight... 
