Hey buddy, it’s been a loopy week. We’ve spent a superb chunk of this week maintaining with family and friends who dwell within the LA space, and though the folks 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 depart as a result of there was a rising fireplace on the hill behind our home. The hearth division was in a position to put it out rapidly, thank goodness, however part of me will always remember frantically operating round the home searching for Rosie (she did NOT need to go into her cat provider) and stuffing Connor’s uniforms right into a bag simply in case she wanted them for varsity the subsequent day. I additionally vividly keep in mind calling my neighbors, who weren’t residence on the time, and asking them in the event that they needed us to get their pets out of the home.
The occasions this week jogged my memory that when you may transfer all through your day by day existence in a comparatively regular vogue, it’s actually 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 superb reminder that there’s no time like the current; I’ve been which means to publish these photos that I took in Hawaii lately, and immediately’s a superb day as any.
When Connor and I have been on Oahu final month, we took a day journey to the japanese facet with my in-laws to the city they used to dwell in, Kaneohe. Proper up the road from their outdated home is a cemetery nestled up in opposition to the mountains the place they’ve loads of kinfolk buried, and within the cemetery there’s a Buddhist temple referred to as Byodo-In. It open to the general public and in the event you get the possibility to go to, please do. It’s stunning and peaceable. Each time I see these photos, my coronary heart feels comfortable.
Anyway.This week I marked my one-year anniversary working on the faculty. Time actually does fly! One factor that I’ve been fascinated with currently is how, in some ways, I miss working from residence, however I additionally get pleasure from having the ability to go to a distinct area 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 girl from Russia. She needed data 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 folks, particularly in particular person. I feel 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 manner, feels good.
One final thing. On a beauty-related notice, yesterday I sat right down to placed on make-up within the morning, and I used to be completely shocked to search out I had no extra forehead pencil left. I feel somebody must invent a twist-up forehead pencil with clear packaging or one thing that permits you to know precisely how a lot you could have left. Anywho, I gotta cease by Ulta immediately. I’d been utilizing the one from Uncommon Magnificence, however I feel I’m going to return to the nice outdated Anastasia Forehead pencil only for funsies.
Considering of you and hoping that you simply’re okay. Blissful Saturday!
Your pleasant neighborhood magnificence addict,
Karen