Trip to Denver, Colorado - June 2012

It is kind of strange that I was so excited to go to Denver, since I lived there for 2 years. I must admit Denver is always a fun place. Not to mention the really good friends I made there, reconnecting with the folks that I worked with is so great – we laugh so much , it’s like no time has passed. I made the nicest friends at Quark, genuine people and friends for life. This last 10 days out there had me romanticising ideas of moving back, but I had to remind myself how much I did NOT like the snow!

Visiting was great – I loved all the walking, the nice cooler weather. The green trees, cute squirrels everywhere, a lot of gay people and their outlandish parades – I love it all. Hiking up beautiful mountains, eating great food and drinking wonderful wine. Somehow In Denver I could care less about dieting and I don’t ever gain any weight.. Must be all the walking. My birthday was spent there as well – although the day itself was uneventful, Saturday night was dinner and lounging in downtown and the week and all the activities just gave me a new wind in my sails.

So here I am 37 came upon me.. and I must say, it was a bit of an anti-climax.. When I wake up on the morning of my birthday I always have a burst of excitement, butterflies in my stomach. Birthdays are so nice in my opinion – you just don’t know who will call or what will happen – it’s great expectation. I got home to a lovely birthday surprise on Sunday though. :D Next year PARTY baby – PARTYYYY!!

I returned home feeling really recharged. I also learned a lot about myself and the people in my life and it gave me a new perspective. Don’t you just love perspective.. It’s like a light bulb goes on..

I will live in the city again. Now is just my time for Phoenix. I have wrestled with it for a while.. and California kept haunting the corners of my desires. But I have now found peace in the short term in my hot-as-hell home for the moment!

My next adventure is to Lisbon -> September. What lies between now and then I believe only great and wonderful things J

Quick blurb.
The past few weeks I have just been laying low.  Memorial Day weekend was really great, I had a spa day and great food, good conversation and just an all-out chill-out session.  This heat of Arizona is really no joke.  I do everything possible to stay out of the sun at all times.. but that just means at home eating everything in site.. or at the mall buying everything in sight.. I blame Arizona if I am fat and broke by winter!

I have so many things happening in the weeks to come, that I am glad that the past month has been very low key.  I have the sale of my house pending, then sorting all that stuff out via email and text! I have a possible trip to Bordeaux and Lisbon with my very precious friend..

So in the interest of getting integrated in the culture of Arizona – I joined a few things.

Ok let me give you a bit of background first:  I never really made any friends here in PHX and the reason was because I never intended on staying. I always felt that I would very soon be moving to California and settle there. However life had some other plans in the short term and it seems I am here for atleast another year.. so in light of that revelation: I decided to join a girls Meet-up group.    I also entered my name into a BUNCH of Volunteering opportunities.

Next weekend I will be helping a group called “new Beginnings” we are helping Single / teenage mums deal with their pregnancies in various ways. Counseling, supplies etc.  I am also packing medical supplies for kids in 3^rd world countries with “Project C.U.R.E” – and in between I have offered my help to a charity clothing store and the Phoenix Dream Center.. ermm over committed much?  Meh.. you know me: Go big or go home! Ha ha

I will be travelling to Denver on Friday for a week.. ahhh fresh Mountain air and grass.. green trees.. cannot wait! 

See you on the flip side of Colorado...