Empty Nest Blog?

I need an empty nest blog bad but not one that will bring me down any further. I want one that is funny and makes me laugh. My nest is not empty yet but the months are ticking away and it won't be long now. I'm hoping (praying) that I can get out of this funk. I know that mother's have been doing this since the beginning of time and I've been through it once but it's different with the last one. It's hard to turn off the mothering when you've done it so long. I guess I'll have to channel it to my husband, who has sometimes had to take a backseat. Suggestions anyone?

Featured Artist Aimee Sicuro By Skirt.com, Sunday, January 1, 2012, 0 comments Featured art for 2011 Dec Aimee Sicuro received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design. After experience working as a line designer for American Greetings and a Flash animator for a once-budding dot-com in San Francisco, she packed her portfolio and headed to New York. Inspired by circumstance and in search of a new perspective, she took a job as a project manager and illustrator at a design firm in Soho. At Slover and Company she spent three years learning the business of art and the art of business.Featured Artist Aimee Sicuro By Skirt.com, Sunday, January 1, 2012, 0 comments Featured art for 2011 Dec Aimee Sicuro received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design. After experience working as a line designer for American Greetings and a Flash animator for a once-budding dot-com in San Francisco, she packed her portfolio and headed to New York. Inspired by circumstance and in search of a new perspective, she took a job as a project manager and illustrator at a design firm in Soho. At Slover and Company she spent three years learning the business of art and the art of business.

I was in Knoxville recently on business and came across a local publication for women called Skirt. The picture below was on the cover and just spoke to me. After Christmas and New Years is generally a kind of let down but this picture said to me that there are still many joyous moments to be had this winter. The picture is so me from the red coat and dark hair to the giant snowflake. Just love, love, love this. You can also go to Aimee's website and see some other really great illustrations. www.aimeesicuro.com ·

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New year, blank page

I have been a bad blogger, a very bad blogger. I had such good intentions but once I fell off the blogging wagon it was hard to come back. I am feeling the need to get back to my little blog space though so here I go climbing back on that horse. I don't necessarily have any great epiphany on this first day of the new year just a feeling of "the world is my oyster" not knowing what the year 2012 will bring. I don't necessarily make New Years resolutions but maybe if I write down some goals I'll be more apt to make them happen. So a few goals for this year are to exercise consistently, eat less sugar, regularly pray for others, do more volunteering and become better organized in all areas. These are a little lofty but definitely doable so bring it on 2012.

Does getting older have to be such a bummer?

So I was at dinner this past week with two good friends from college and while it was a good time I left there wishing I had said more when it came to one topic of conversation. One of the B's (both have names that begin with B) bemoaned the fact that she is getting older. I didn't tell her but she's already older. What I really wished I had said was if she spent more time doing things that made her younger she might not feel like she's getting older. I realized that the body begins to sag and wrinkle but the mind doesn't have to go there. It made me want to do something everyday that keeps me feeling younger whether it be physical or mental. Today it was listening to Taylor Swift's latest CD Speak Now. She has an amazing way with words and such an innocent optimism in her music.

Sometimes The Best Comment is No Comment

I can't tell you how many times I have gone to comment on someone's blog and then stopped to think about how my comment might be received and decided that it was just not worth responding. Yesterday I went to comment on a blog that I read and ended up just deleting the blog address from favorites after realizing that this person just seemed to set off my hot buttons. The blog was a younger person in my hometown talking about her experiences but she appears to be a complainer and was constantly dogging my town and wanting to live somewhere else. My first instinct was to tell her to just move and stop complaining but after thinking for a few moments realized that she will probably find fault with anyplace she lives and that is just her personality. Do you have hot buttons?

60 is the new Sexy

So I just saw the headline "60 is the New Sexy" on the MSN website. There is a slide show with some gorgeous women all whom I assume are supposed to be 60. While I am not there quite yet it just makes me smile to think that somehow even in this age of youth the media is beginning to embrace the real beauty of age. I truly believe that age is just a number and you can feel and look good no matter what your age.  Meanwhile I got sucked into a recent infomercial promising more youthful skin. The product is Murad Resurgence. It has only been a week but my skin does feel good now let's just see how it works on those "fine lines and wrinkles".

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She likes us, she really likes us

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I love it when people discover all that Nashville has to offer. I tend to take it very personally when tourists like or dislike my hometown. We don't have beaches (unless you count lake beaches, we don't have ski worthy mountains (although we do have more hills than you can count), we don't have a Nordstrom yet (can't wait until 2012), we don't have Pinkberry or Crate&Barrel but that's alright. What we do have is lots of music, beautiful places to walk, great restaurants and most importantly, some really nice people. I love it when "celebrities" visit us and we never see their picture in a gossip magazine. That tells me that they were able to enjoy their time here without a camera shoved in their face and with most of us hometown folks just letting them be. I was told by the clerk at Whole Foods several weeks ago that I had just missed seeing Gweneth Paltrow and her children who had been grocery shopping that Sunday afternoon. Come see us sometime.

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