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 You are a gentle soul, with good intentions toward everyone. Selfless and kind, you have great faith in people. Sometimes this faith can lead to disappoinment in the long run. No matter what, you deal with everything in a calm and balanced way. You are a good interpreter, very sensitive, intuitive, caring, and gentle. Concerned about the world, you are good at predicting people's feelings. A seeker of wisdom, you are a life long learner looking for purpose and meaning. You are a great thinker and communicator, but not necessarily a doer. Souls you are most compatible with: Bright Star Soul and Dreaming Soul |
Friday, February 03, 2006
Checking in and checking out....
This is my first entry on Blogger....so this post qualifies me as checking in.
One of my favorite quotes:
"When life gives you dilemmas, you might as well make dilemonaide"
And gawd knows I am the queen of dilemmas. First of all I am Andee ( short for Andrea). I am also a mom, a grandmother, a sometime artist and I am always struggling to find a way to be a full time artist. Born in Illinois, raised in California, and since 1999 I have lived in Oregon, New Mexico and Arizona, I currently live in Portland, Oregon. I routinely work 70+ hours per week with Hospice clients as a caregiver. I use to own an Internet Coffee House on the southern Oregon coast, and now I don't. It's a long story, filled with some very good memories, some rather harshly delivered realities and it terminated with with a very sad ending. That whole experience created it's fair share of basic thinking changes for me and now that part of my life is ancient history. It's truly not something I talk about much anymore. All of this, and everything that life has thrown at me has helped to build my character... and when you mix it all together you get who I am now. I'm a decent enough person, with a good heart and a free spirit, but keeping with the duo nature of my Gemini birth sign it is mixed with a deep-down-mourning kind of sadness on a very deep and passionate level. I also found out along the way that when the chips are down, I am a survivor. (Good to know).
I am also a tad eclectic, mildly eccentric, and I have a calm interior. My outside occassionally gets a tad over excited about things, it's part of my charm, at least that's what my friends tell me. I tend to somehow manage to wind up surrounded by stray dogs, pregnant cats and odd people on a fairly regular basis....it keeps life interesting. What would I change about my life? Well, my oldest daughter was diagnosed with MS on 2003, I guess I would change that for her. But for myself? Probably nothing... because through every happy or sad experince I have faced in my life, I somehow directly or indirectly built this current life for myself and now I am living it, one day at a time. Some days are a struggle, but for the most part I am content with my life as it stands, & with where I am... at least for now. I have to admit that don't see myself staying in Portland Metro forever, (I truly am a small town girl at heart), but for now it's okay, at leastI am surrounded by great fabric & art supply stores.
I'll be posting some my latest art adventures here from time to time, (along with a peek at some of my past ones). Sometimes it will be whimsically painted furniture, sometimes it will be an art quilt, or wild art doll, other times with will be a head-on dive into multi-media art. (My mind and current interest/inspiration) tends to wander from time to time. I'll try to keep it interesting.
I've actually had a livejournal.com blog for years under the username dejablu503, but it is simply time to separate my art life from my daily ramblings, so this blog is being created.
For now, I am going to move on to the checking out part of this post, as I wander around blogger andcheck out who is here and what they are doing.
One of my favorite quotes:
"When life gives you dilemmas, you might as well make dilemonaide"
And gawd knows I am the queen of dilemmas. First of all I am Andee ( short for Andrea). I am also a mom, a grandmother, a sometime artist and I am always struggling to find a way to be a full time artist. Born in Illinois, raised in California, and since 1999 I have lived in Oregon, New Mexico and Arizona, I currently live in Portland, Oregon. I routinely work 70+ hours per week with Hospice clients as a caregiver. I use to own an Internet Coffee House on the southern Oregon coast, and now I don't. It's a long story, filled with some very good memories, some rather harshly delivered realities and it terminated with with a very sad ending. That whole experience created it's fair share of basic thinking changes for me and now that part of my life is ancient history. It's truly not something I talk about much anymore. All of this, and everything that life has thrown at me has helped to build my character... and when you mix it all together you get who I am now. I'm a decent enough person, with a good heart and a free spirit, but keeping with the duo nature of my Gemini birth sign it is mixed with a deep-down-mourning kind of sadness on a very deep and passionate level. I also found out along the way that when the chips are down, I am a survivor. (Good to know).
I am also a tad eclectic, mildly eccentric, and I have a calm interior. My outside occassionally gets a tad over excited about things, it's part of my charm, at least that's what my friends tell me. I tend to somehow manage to wind up surrounded by stray dogs, pregnant cats and odd people on a fairly regular basis....it keeps life interesting. What would I change about my life? Well, my oldest daughter was diagnosed with MS on 2003, I guess I would change that for her. But for myself? Probably nothing... because through every happy or sad experince I have faced in my life, I somehow directly or indirectly built this current life for myself and now I am living it, one day at a time. Some days are a struggle, but for the most part I am content with my life as it stands, & with where I am... at least for now. I have to admit that don't see myself staying in Portland Metro forever, (I truly am a small town girl at heart), but for now it's okay, at leastI am surrounded by great fabric & art supply stores.
I'll be posting some my latest art adventures here from time to time, (along with a peek at some of my past ones). Sometimes it will be whimsically painted furniture, sometimes it will be an art quilt, or wild art doll, other times with will be a head-on dive into multi-media art. (My mind and current interest/inspiration) tends to wander from time to time. I'll try to keep it interesting.
I've actually had a livejournal.com blog for years under the username dejablu503, but it is simply time to separate my art life from my daily ramblings, so this blog is being created.
For now, I am going to move on to the checking out part of this post, as I wander around blogger andcheck out who is here and what they are doing.
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