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Bazel Has a New Friend
··· Jun 21 2011 · By ···
We went to a gdgt live event last month in SF to get geeky and see/touch/learn about the latest hot gear. We got some t-shirts, and screen cleaners, and stickers, and mobile phone cases, but my favorite bit of swag is the stuffed monkey from T-mobile. We still haven’t figured out what his name is. Options include: Mo, Mozy, Merl, Merv, Mork…
Bazel has taken quite a liking to him. Sid, too, but Bazel likes to wear the monkey around his neck (the hands are velcro.) The only thing they’re not too fond of is the crazy loud yell it makes when you fling it across the room, so we try to keep that to a minimum.
Jeph saw a girl on MUNI w/ a very similar monkey only he had a black cape and mask. Of course once he told me I immediately wanted one like that so our monkey wouldn’t be lonely. As if by magic (love those words!) a few weekends later we were driving by a church in Ross that had just had a rummage sale. Nicely, they left a selection of good free stuff out on the lawn and guess what we found? The black-caped and masked monkey! So now we need to come up with two names. He reminds me of Zorro. Since Zorro is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, maybe we should name them Don and Diego…
Picasa’s not playing nice w/ Ubuntu (I recently jumped off the Windows ship and am, for the most part, sailing along quite pleasantly on ship Ubuntu – and I’ll write about it at some point) so will add a picture of the Zorro monkey later.
Our One Year Anniversary Here!
··· Jun 17 2011 · By ···
It was one year ago June 12th that we drove into Marin, through downtown San Rafael and into Fairfax and arrived at Nicole’s house. It was a Saturday night and the first heat wave of the summer. 4th street in San Rafael was full of people shopping, dining, and enjoying the warm summer evening and I asked Jeph, “Why didn’t you ever tell me how nice it is up here?!” (…in Marin…when we lived in SF and I never ventured to Marin..) Actually, in his defense, in the twelve years since we left SF together, he’s mentioned Marin several times, but we had other spots to explore first (Grand Blanc, Kalamazoo, Oakland, Holly, Hollywood FL, Boston, and Hollywood CA.)
Nicole gave us such a warm welcome and comfortable place to land and look for a new home. Supportive, Positive, and Encouraging – we are so lucky to have Great friends like her! The next day we looked at two places in and both were nice but not “the one.” Monday we looked at four places and liked three (rare for us.) The home we chose just felt like Home the moment we walked in and we moved in the next day, June 15th.
Looking at only six places and finding a great place in two days was a new, and exciting record for us! The whole move actually, even the one day layover in Des Moines while our truck was repaired, was smooth, easy, and stress free. It felt (and still feels) like all the challenges we’ve risen to, all the lessons we’ve learned (more than a few the hard way), and our commitment to personal growth and development and positive daily practices is recognized by the Universe, and we are being guided, supported, and encouraged on the path of life.
We love our Home. It is warm, cozy, safe, secure, light filled, and love filled. We have lots of fun exploring all the towns and nature all around us. And archangel Raphael, the healing saint, watches over us from his Mission down the street. Life is Really Good and I celebrate, and am deeply grateful for, that!