If you're following me that means you must like to travel, eat, enjoy new people and music! With that said...come join us May 13-15, 2011 at the Joshua Tree Music Festival. We've been going for a few years now and it's the best Music Festival out there. It's not so big that you can't enjoy the whole place, all the music and hang with new people you've met each day. I've attached the flier information. If you can make it let me know and we'll find ya there! Peace, Love and FUN IN THE DESERT!

SPIRIT

The job prospect I'd been waiting weeks to hear from fell through! For a moment I felt bummed...well I won't lie..for a second! I feel FREE again...and my spirit and enthusiasm are back in strong form, SPAIN HERE I COME!

I've contacted my counselor, Chris, at Don Quijote in Salamanca to let him know I would be paying my full tuition and buying my ticket to Madrid in March. My mind wanders trying to visualize the day I walk out of the Madrid Airport and find my ride to Salamanca waiting for me. Who will I meet, what will I see? I truly feel that no matter what I can imagine, it will not be even close to the beautiful reality that will unfold right before my eyes when I arrive. I can't believe my dream of living abroad is coming true. And to live where my ancestors may have been from is even more thrilling. Will I find my Carrasco's? Who were they? How did they get from there to here? Do I look like any of them? So many questions.

MY LIFE OR THEIRS?

As some of you my know from my FB post I went through some negativity from being lectured by a friend (truly that's not a friend) about my plans to go to Spain. Seems people without a job or prospect of job, without owning a home or wanting to own a home, without a car or wanting to own a car are labeled losers, lazy and lacking ambition. And did you know...that the 'non losers' are paying the tab for me to even exist? WHAT? After a day or two of letting this get to me .. I WOKE and realized...they were/are wrong! I've worked for 31 years before losing my job and paid taxes. So this unemployment I am receiving, which is small compared to my real job wages, is mine and I earned it.

Now that rant is over! BEAUTIFUL THANKS to those friends, no matter their place in life right now, who know going to Spain is what I should do. A free spirit is who I have always been and for the past 31 I have been trapped...and now I am truly going to be FREE! Well free for a few months to be who I am , learn what I want and absorb all that feels and tastes good to me. This is a chance I have to take before I am 'trapped' in that 'real job' world again. And I hope this adventure brings me on a new path that leads to a 'real job' I will love and that helps others.

WHEW! It feels good to have my spirit and enthusiasm back.