Summertime!!

Ok--so I need to improve on my blogging updates.  I still am reading other blogs weekly or daily sometimes but am slacking on my own. 

I need to jazz up the look of my blog as it is just kinda "blah".  I've seen some really neat and creative ones out there, so going to take a look and make mine look pretty too! :)

Not too much has been going on... staying busy and enjoying my time off (did I say I've been unemployed since Oct 2010?)... time to return to the real world and get a job!  But taking advantage of having some free time so getting projects done around home, traveling, spending more time with friends and family.  Plus my stress level is way down since I have not had to deal with a daily commute in Northern VA traffic or spending way to much filling my car up with gas twice a week and so on.    So stay tuned for a post soon on hopefully a new job. 

Since my last post I did spend 7 awesome days in Key West Florida!! I'll have to post more on that later along with some pictures.  Plus my involvement with HOBY (a non profit leadership program for high school sophomores) has helped fill my time.

Am sad today as my 2nd cousin passed away yesterday.  She was my Moms first cousin, so does that make her my 2nd cousin or a 1st cousin once removed, or what?  Anyway, she would have turned 87 this August.  She lived in NYC most of her life and never married or had kids but was a very independent lady living on a 3rd floor walk up apartment in Manhattan until last June.  Unfortunately she suffered a stroke last September and had to remain in a nursing home since then.  She was actually doing pretty well and had made great progress.  I had been up to NYC a few times since last fall to visit her and help my Mom take care of some of her affairs (including moving her out of her apt).  But last Monday she suffered another stroke and never really recovered and slipped away quietly on Saturday afternoon.  We are planning a Celebration of Life for her later this summer in NYC!

So this is basically been a hodge-podgh of stuff... I promise to get better about keeping this more up to date.  I also need to get some followers!!! I need to feel the love people!! ;)

Have a great summer (and don't forget to wear your sunscreen!!!!!)
Caryll