Happy New Year!

I always love the new year....clean slate...I LOVE beginnings. I'm not so good with middles and only recently become mature enough for ends. But I do love beginnings. Kinda like falling in love, you know, the romantic stage. Yeah..I know you know.
Let's see..2010...I've made just a few promises for the new year.
1) NO redecorating...we did enough in 2009, my marriage and sanity depend on this one.
2)More sex...see reason #1..the husband is happy with this one.

Those are the only ones. I like to keep things short and sweet. Let's just see what the year brings!

Beauty and Miss Piggy

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
- Miss Piggy

Don't ya just love Miss Piggy? With her self confidence and Mae West attitude...always comfortable with her body, loves herself over anyone else. I just need about a third of what she has and it has taken me this many years to get close.
I'll be thinking about her all day...

Another Sunday

So much for writing everyday.

Time is impossible; there never seems to be enough time in a day. I actually wrote down all my to do stuff on my calender last week just to see where all my time goes and I have legitimate reasons for not being able to get it all done. I haven't figured out a solution...yet. Perhaps when school starts I will have more time...I don't know. Maybe it is a priority thing, I'm still trying to get a grip on it.

Sundays go especially fast. Even when I don't sleep in.

I'm really tired. I will write more tomorrow.,

Sunday, Sunday, so good to be

What do I enjoy about my life?



I enjoy cuddling with my husband,reading the Sunday paper with a cup of hot tea early in the morning before the kids wake up. I enjoy reading a good book in my special reading corner, especially on a rainy day,and listening to my XM radio.



I enjoy hiking at Mammoth Cave, or better yet riding my horse. I enjoy going to horse camp, where I can focus on my horsemanship and not have to worry about feeding or caring for other people.



I enjoy helping people, whether it is at work finding parts to get people working again, or helping a neighbor. It makes me feel good.



I enjoy my canaries. I love their song and their antics.



I enjoy my horses, even if I could never ride again I would love spending time with them. They grace me with their presence.



I enjoy my girlfriends, eating sushi and going to the move theatre and eating popcorn,laughing together...



I enjoy writing, connecting with friends on facebook, planning parties and cooking.



I enjoy learning and stimulating my old grey matter in my brain. I love a challenge.



I enjoy kayaking down the Green River with my kids. I enjoy my dog Lucy.



I enjoy being creative, and having the time to be creative. I love the arts, particularly paintings, sculptures,music, and theatre.



I enjoy traveling and exploring new cultures.



I enjoy the routines of my day. Waking up, showering, doing my chores, spending time with my family, playing with my horses then reading and or writing before bedtime.



I also enjoy breaking the routine...I love being spontaneous.



I enjoy gardening and digging in the dirt. I enjoy flowers and fresh veggies from the garden. I love the idea of being self sufficient.



I enjoy baking oatmeal raisin or chocolate chip cookies, then sharing them with my husband and kids with a glass of milk. Yummmy!



I enjoy watching the stars at night, or the clouds during the day, but especially the sunrise and at the beach is exquisite.



I enjoy life and all it entails..the pain, the joy, the anticipation,the disappointments, the love that never goes away....

Autobiography

If you had 15minutes to tell somebody who you are, what would you tell them?

Hi, my name is Mary Allway and I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend. I love horses and nature. I am a student of Pat Parelli and Carol Coppinger learning natural horsemanship. I am a level 2 graduate of their horse training program. I work for my father in the family business, which I consider a blessing , but sometimes a curse. (Let's call it a mixed blessing.) I work more than I play and I don't like that very much. I try to be a good daughter and feel the pressure of that yoke on my shoulders everyday.
I have been married three times. I am not ashamed what-so-ever of this fact. They were learning processes to get me where I am today ,both physically and emotionally and spiritually. I wouldn't trade the experience for anything...
I have two great kids and two great step kids. They teach me new things everyday.I like them as people.
My husband is my rock, I am the water. He is everything a girl could wish for in a prince charming. It took a great effort to educate myself on how to be healthy enough to be in such a wonderful, healthy marriage. I will live a long, happy, healthy life because of him.
I'm always looking to improve myself.I am on a neverending quest.
I'm emotional, cluttery, over extended, patient and kind.
I love being alive. I love life in my forties. I can't imagine going back and pretty sure it only gets better.

An examined life

Okay, I will begin examining my life. I've been reading a biography of Benjamin Franklin and I see where, yes he was an exceptional human being, however a main difference between he and I is that he read and WROTE. I just read and then barely have time for that. But I want my children and grandchildren to know who I was and to leave some sort of mark on this world. I've accepted that fact that I will never cure cancer or do any one great thing on this earth. (I'm just passing through.) Perhaps if I write down my memories, then that will be the way I will be remembered...
I can try anyway, it might not turn as I think. Projects I begin seem to take on a life of their own, some better, some worse but always fun.

Friday night

I read a article today about writing your own memoir. It basically challenged the reader to use prompts to write two pages a day in reflection of thier life. Something in the article clicked with me. I so want to write it all down...my life reflected. I just need to make the time and use prompts to help the flow of the words...I think I'll start tonight.

Good Saturday!

A day off from work, only two a month. Grumpy twenty something living at home and trying to take it out on her mom. God help me get through this...
The kitchen stove died, the kitchen and living room remodel is a mess;won't be done for another month.
I bought two lamps and a table at a new consignment shop. Very happy. Will go great in the new living room...when it gets done.
Going to the movies with girlfriends tonight. The Proposal....love Sandra B.