Hey buddy, it’s been a loopy week. We’ve spent a very good chunk of this week maintaining with family and friends who stay within the LA space, and though the individuals we all know have been braced for evacuation, they by no means needed to do it, thank goodness. So yeah, loopy instances.
I don’t know if I ever talked about it right here, however a couple of years again the police got here banging on our door and instructed us we had half-hour to seize our issues and go away as a result of there was a rising fireplace on the hill behind our home. The hearth division was capable of put it out shortly, thank goodness, however part of me will always remember frantically working round the home in search of Rosie (she did NOT wish to go into her cat provider) and stuffing Connor’s uniforms right into a bag simply in case she wanted them for college the following day. I additionally vividly bear in mind calling my neighbors, who weren’t residence on the time, and asking them in the event that they wished us to get their pets out of the home.
The occasions this week jogged my memory that when you may transfer all through your each day existence in a comparatively regular style, it’s really a present. I’m counting my blessings, together with the roof over my head, my little household and my well being.
It’s additionally been a very good reminder that there’s no time like the current; I’ve been which means to publish these footage that I took in Hawaii just lately, and at present’s a very good day as any.
When Connor and I have been on Oahu final month, we took a day journey to the jap facet with my in-laws to the city they used to stay in, Kaneohe. Proper up the road from their previous home is a cemetery nestled up towards the mountains the place they’ve numerous kin buried, and within the cemetery there’s a Buddhist temple referred to as Byodo-In. It open to the general public and in case you get the possibility to go to, please do. It’s stunning and peaceable. Each time I see these footage, my coronary heart feels relaxed.
Anyway.This week I marked my one-year anniversary working on the school. Time actually does fly! One factor that I’ve been fascinated by these days is how, in some ways, I miss working from residence, however I additionally get pleasure from with the ability to go to a unique house the place the boundaries between work and residential are very clear.
It’s additionally been very cool to work together with college students on their studying journey. Yesterday I helped an older woman from Russia. She wished info on taking an ESL class, so I talked to her for a bit after which gave her some sources. It feels actually good to assist individuals, particularly in individual. I believe that simply is perhaps the important thing to keepin’ on with a smile in your face; being able to make a distinction in somebody’s life, even in a small method, feels good.
One very last thing. On a beauty-related be aware, yesterday I sat all the way down to placed on make-up within the morning, and I used to be completely shocked to seek out I had no extra forehead pencil left. I believe somebody must invent a twist-up forehead pencil with clear packaging or one thing that allows you to know precisely how a lot you might have left. Anywho, I gotta cease by Ulta at present. I’d been utilizing the one from Uncommon Magnificence, however I believe I’m going to return to the nice previous Anastasia Forehead pencil only for funsies.
Considering of you and hoping that you simply’re okay. Glad Saturday!
Your pleasant neighborhood magnificence addict,
Karen
