LTC...my new BABY.

It is my new goal to try and write as much as I can, when I can. No promises here guys. So I am on the hunt for a new studio location. And it is going. well.. IT'S GOING!!!!!!!!

So, I ran into a guy, who knew a guy...

Hey, you wanted the full story here! Bada bing...

I mean c'mon. And by the second day, he says to me, "you don't want a partnership" you don't trust people" is it that easy to read me or is this guy a load of crap? No...it's that easy to read me. Lately, I just tell it like it is, I don't put up with crap. I said, what did I do wrong...hehehe...know full well, exactly what what I did and said, but, he replies, "nothing", I'm good at reading people. 

Great, glad we got the bullshit out of the way. The bottom line is that I don't want to get washed up in someone else's "brand" and with a guy selling musical instruments, I was afraid of exactly that. So while the idea was enticing, I had to walk away, and let him find his college students for hire and let him pay them $10. an hour to teach out of his store. I don't mind his ideas, and I don't mind if he stole some of mind. I closely kept guarded the idea of "how it will all work"!!!!

Sometimes playing the fool works to my advantage.

Like take the idea of buying a car for example. I walk in every time and these sales guys think..."easy prey", what they don't know is my brother sold cars for years, my husband is a sale's guy, AND I have done my research on the car. So I have three rounds of ammunition in my pocket to protect my finances.

I will not be taken for sticker price, and when I walk out, I know I will be getting the best deal, I am patient, I WILL come back three times if it means I want the bottom line price. Mike say's I should open a "was", "now" store, you know like a it was $100, "now it's $50. I would make a fortune from people like me, Bargain hunters. unfortunately, these stores already exist in the masses... T.j Maxx, Marshall's, Home Goods... AND I LOVE THEM!!!!!

So, final thought for the day, I am still on the hunt for a studio, I am still on the hunt for new students so I can get a new studio. So I am excepting donations :)

Also, if you mention this blog you get a free first lesson! 

How's that for advertising!

The Dark Side within Ourself....

What I love most about this photo is the small details... a window of perhaps a garage once long ago, to a building left in decay, now refurbished...and this area left as a grotto for onlookers like me to stop and stare....

What's more intriguing is the greenery, the earth encompassing the stone, as if letting the materials made by man, mark it's territory...Literally.

And there I stand, caught in moment, which to the onlooker could mean so many things, but in my head, at the moment could have been, "Crap, my leg itches, hence me grabbing my skirt,"... or "wait, don't take the picture yet, I have the sun in my eyes...".... but to the lens you see an ethereal moment... like so many do....and that my friends it what makes the "window" to the soul so exhilarating!

I have found these "little windows" all throughout NWA...and I have found to learn to love it... Yes, I finally said it... shh..... don't tell my secret... I might be outed as a traitor! :)

The saying goes that you adapt to your surroundings eventually, and I have fought... and I am not sure when the moment came, but yes, my friends, it came.... on my quest to find everything wrong with this place, I started to find the good....

NOW...don't get me wrong... I am still the waverly traveler... still out and about on my city vacations, still getting into trouble along the way and wrecking havoc on every person along the way... it's what I do... but at the end of the day, I look forward to coming home to my little small town, my little cow pastures, my little security.....

At what point did it all change? I can't say for sure....

I guess when you spend so much energy fighting something you either throw in the the towel and except defeat, or find a way to make it work in your favor....

I found that way... I got involved with my children's school's, Charity event's, beefed up my business accounts, and most of all, decided to let go and have fun....

Along the way I made a few enemies, and great friends. Life would be boring if I didn't make both right? And most importantly, I wouldn't be true to myself. 

My husband has tried for 15 years to try and convince me I can't change the world, I guess one day I woke up and realized, he's right, but I can sure make it pretty! And I can always try... either you are with me or against me, and well, I apologize to those that can't handle the ride.....

I know I am a handful. I get that I am quirky, and demanding, crazy, and downright different, but as a very dear friend said to me recently...those that know and truly love me...know that this is "normal"...and anything else would be "weird"....

For Christmas my niece gave this to me....

It's a quote from Dr. Seuss. I think it's very fitting. It reminds me that no matter what... I need to be myself... I have been in my own skin for 30+ years, and I need to take ownership of that.

God gave me the Grace and gift to have my feet hit the sand...where I choose to place my feet and how I choose to leave my footprints, are the path I choose.....

So, here I am, taking ownership of my mistakes, looking forward to a future of the time I have here in the Ozarks, missing very much the City, but knowing, it's just a plane ride away....