The musings of a girl, from a small Michigan town, that went off to see the world!
I have traveled around the world and loved it.
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It was good to discuss old times. One Christmas we took Europe by storm. That was a rough trip but all of us learned something from it. We learned that no matter how much time passes that when you have true friends you can pick up where you left off. 
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I have been saying goodbye to this place that I have called home for the last few years. Tonight I saw an old co-worker from the law firm that I worked at. We are alike in so many ways. We both have a wondering spirit. We have both lived overseas for an extended period of time. I knew from the first time that we met that we had the same type of soul. A soul that does not like to be pigeon holed or stuck in one place for too long. I am sorry that I let or friendship slip, I thought other things were important, I was wrong. I now realize what I lost and am determined to maintain it, no matter the distance.
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In an effort to stop Canada from becoming a haven for pedophiles, Canada Raises the Age of Consent to 16. Now they should bump the drinking age to 21 to stop the tide of young Americans flocking to the great white north to celebrate their 19 th birthday!
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It looks like all of the bad weather is going south of Mentor. I was really hoping for a big storm. There is just something about a storm that is exciting. When I was little I lived on the main street of my hometown. It was a five lane street and it ran east to west. The storms would blow right down the street. My Grandfather and I would just stand out there and watch them. There she was Mother Nature in her unbridled power on show for all to see. It was like an accident, you had to just stand there and watch it, and you were mesmerized by it. Alas today I will not be given that entertainment. They are having a rough time of it south of us and we just get a little rain. Bummer!
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1.) Being able to listen to hip hop, country of Buffett and not feeling you have to hide it.
2.) Not having to listen to obscure bands against your will even after you have tried to like them but can not bring yourself like them.
3.) Not having to swallow your pride and keep your mouth shut because you are afraid of angering someone else.
4.) Not being tied down to one place because of someone else.
5.) Being able to follow your dreams.
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While our beloved leader (Kevin) is on vacation the other mgs are taking turns being in charge. Today it is Ms. Thing's turn! She has let it go to her head. She has turned into mega witch. Someone once said that no matter how pretty a girl is there is someone out there sick of her shit, well the list with this girl is long and distinguished. I am so regretting that this is my late day. I am here with her until 21:00. God help me! Stress, Stress, Stress!!! This all that I need today.
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Doesn't my baby look pretty. She is a 2000 328I. She has been outfitted with a Thule cargo box and a bike rack on the other side. It looks very European! I installed the rail system myself; the box was installed at the place where I purchased it. The guy was even nice enough to put on the BMW bike rack for me! I have almost doubled the capacity of my trunk with this.
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4:27 AM
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I received an e-mail from Emily in Alaska. She said that she saw my sister Alicia and that she is doing well! I am glad to hear it. I was afraid that she would be really homesick and wouldn't enjoy the trip. This is Alicia's first time away from home for a long period of time. I hear that the country up there is wonderful, maybe I should go sometime!
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Saturday was Classic BMW’s day to host the BMW Ultimate Drive. This is a way that BMW raises money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. It works like this:
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This song is for Billy Clyde Tuggel. I hope you make it to Tahiti one day.
-- Spoken:
"Play Ball!! (one, two, three, four)"
"Where's my per diem? (Ladies and gentlemen, the Carl Reiner Band)"
"Hey Bobby, where's the keys to the rent-a-car?"
"Jimmy, Jimmy, can I open the show in Atlanta please?"
"Warning! Don't ever start a band!"
He worked hard all year, just wanted a few weeks alone
But his old lady's into modelin', she can't get away from a phone
Besides she bitches about the mosquitoes
She says, "Down there there is nothing to do"
Her goddamn phone never stops ringin'
He'll try the service in a day maybe two
Well he's on his third drink before the wheels of the plane leave the ground
Makin' points with the stewardess high over Long Island Sound
She's also spending some time on the island
Too much city madness gives her the blues
They make a date to go dancin' and dinin'
It seems neither has that much to lose
Chorus:
The weather is here I wish you were beautiful
My thoughts aren't too clear but don't run away
My girlfriend's a bore, my job is too dutiful
Hell nobody's perfect would you like to play?
I feel together today
Well now that's just the start of a well-deserved overdue binge
Meanwhile back in the city certain people are starting to cringe
His lawyers are calling his parents
His girlfriend doesn't know what to think
His partners are studying their options
He's just singin' and orderin' drinks
Chorus:
The weather is here I wish you were beautiful
The skies are too clear life's so easy today
The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitiful
No place like home when you're this far away
I don't care what they say (I don't care)
He's goin' back to New York pack it up and let everyone know
It was something that he should have done such a long time ago
Still time to start a new life in the palm trees
Ah, Billy Clyde wasn't insane
And if it doesn't work out there'll never be any doubt
That the pleasure was worth all the pain
Chorus:
The weather is here I wish you were beautiful
The skies are too clear life's so easy today
The beer is too cold, the daiquiri's too fruitiful
No place like home when you're this far away
Time for to play
I need time for to play
Time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
I need time for to play
-- Jimmy Buffett
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I was looking through some of the photos I have and I realized that I didn't put of the photos that I took when I was home. I love my small little home town. It is a wonderful place to have come from. The Population of the town is around 7,500 people. It is located in south central Michigan. The winters are mild there and the summers are wonderful. It is historic and picturesque. I am sad that I will not see the town for a while, but I am going to a much warmer place. The places that are pictured here are of the National House Inn, Brooks Memorial Fountain, and The Honolulu House. Marshall is a historic land district and has over 25 different historical markers wi
thin the city limits of the town.
Sarah.
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I have a friend that the timing is off with. There was a time when our paths crossed at the right time, and we had a wonderful time. We stormed Europe for one lovely summer and painted it red. That summer was one of the best of my life. We were young and free from restraint. We are in exact opposite situations now. 2 months ago, the situation was opposite and had things been different who would have know what would have happened, but commitments are commitments and I live by the belief that trying to reduce the amount of regrets you have in your life is the best way. So now I am the odd person out. I am happy that things are working out well for my friend. It is like a game of ping-pong with the ball always on the other side of the table. It will be good to see my old friend, to say good bye. Who knows when I will get up this way again.
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You never realize how much stuff you have until you have to move it! I went through so many boxes and found papers from my childhood. This is all stuff that I will never use. I have plates, dolls, books and magazines covering the English Royal Family. I have Polish pottery that means so much to me. I have a sewing machine, cutting table and sewing cabinet that I would love to keep. But here is the thing, I can't keep any of it. I weep for my things and my life. But getting rid of things can be freeing! Things weigh you down. They keep your rooted in one place. I have a wondering soul! I want to go out and see the world.
The Night that I Painted the Sky
I came from the north
Escaping convention
Modern invention that won't let me be
To the shores of St. Martin
With my fiction addiction
To restart the fire
A dreamer's remedy
Independence Day
And all I remember
Was a midnight rainbow
That fell from the sky
As I stand on the beach
I slowly surrender
To the child in me
That can't say goodbye
The rockets in the air
And the people everywhere
Put away their differences for a while
Oh I am still a child
When it comes to something wild
Oh that was the night
I painted the sky
I dug in the sand
Like a boy on a mission
And there in my hands
A pyro's delight
If un bombadier
A night time magician
I sparked the sky
As the rockets fly from view
The rockets in the air
And the people everywhere
Put away their differences for a while
es I am still a child
When it comes to something wild
Oh that was the night
I painted the sky
Oh the mortars they roar
In anticipation
Proceeding the sigh
Of the uplifted eyes
It showers us all
In sulfuric sensation
The colors shine
And a fiery rhyme tonight
The rockets in the air (Ooooh...)
And the people everywhere
Won't you put away your differences for a while
I am but a child
When it comes to something wild
Oh that was the night
That was the night
Oh that was the night
I painted the sky
Painted the sky
Painted the sky
-- Jimmy Buffett
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The goodbye tour of Cleveland Continues!!! Insted of packing today, Vicki and I took care of some errands that needed to be done. Vicki had to drop some stuff off to an old friends family and I had to say good bye to an old friend. Another friend I had to say good bye to was the city of Cleveland. It is really pretty here in the summer. I realized today some of the things that I have never done here. I had never really spent all that much time the parks on the lake. I would have loved to flown kites in the park. The climate here is wonderful for growing flowers, I would have loved to do that as well. Hopefully 
my next home will allow for plants and kites and wonderful summer activities. I also hope that the views are even more splendid then the ones pictured here. 
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