nearly 600

entries. wow. how cool is that. to think i have written that much is awesome. even though my audience has been small i have not minded as i get to get better at writing through blogging. my life has changed alot in a decade. i was on the brink of homelessness when i began writing & writing kept me sane when i was in the women´s shelter for nearly a year. oh the Drama there was.

being homeless for a summer has taught me not to take people for granted. i like having things but also realize that i can give them away & still be okay. like those really expensive hiking pants i found yesterday. we can afford them but it´s not a priority. Food, shelter & electricity comes first. the rest can wait.

i began writing in the summer of 2007 on an now defunct acer-Laptop. boy how things have changed. now i have something much sleeker & less clunky. but that acer was the ace a decade ago. i thought it was fast-well for it´s time it was. i would blog in my favorite cafe´s, sipping on 8 oz latte´s while i people watched & wrote.

i have gained weight since then & changed my hair-my way of thinking. but alas that also comes with age. so if you are bored on some sunday afternoon feel free to read my Archives from that year i am sure you will find my funny. as i was very dramatic. when you have women coming up to you & saying they are going to own the clothes you are presently wearing it does NOT make one feel good. but i got some good friends from that time & i am grateful to have lived through it.

here i am finally Back on a computer instead of using a phone to blog and it´s really refreshing. to see what i am writing on a regular screen instead of guessing on a small one.

this past week has been really exciting-first i thought i´d lose teeth. i didn´t!! then we took a car trip for the day to Tromsø and walked around for a bit. it was fun, it had the college town feel among throes of tourists.

the road there was lovely in the morning as there wasn´t a rain cloud in sight & then on the way back we hit the rain but it was okay. the road way was wide so it was not a big deal.

here i am writing again and my husband is working on stuff around the house. just like in Seattle. oh Yeah and we have rain. lots of it. which is okay because it feels like the PNW.

other than that i found smashing hiking pants today for mere $200…no i didn´t buy them but it would sure like to. they where cool. Fail this week was attempting to buy shoes from the internet that was not zappos. i have to return them such fun….not. hope everyone has a fab summmer and will write again soon. promise.

So my four months of being alone with the dog are over. It feels strange to have company sometimes. After being alone for so long.

The weather is warmer & the sun doesn’t set. We drove out to Lofoten & it was beautiful but boy was it crowded. Some towns felt like a theme park so I ended up feeling bad for the locals.

We saw reality tv contestant & his rude groupies. Of course I didn’t say hello. Some people you just leave alone. 

The mountains where out the first 2 days & you could see for miles. We went hiking on a small mountain top & ended up hiking to the fog. 

Lofoten is beautiful but I think I prefer it in the off season.