Experimenting with digital camera

Me with glasses

Me without glasses

It has been a tough year! Better days a ahead.

I am now in the process of closing a business that I started 3 years ago. My first attempt at business, and probable my last. We did home care for Elderly and Disabled people. When we agreed to do Adult Day Care for the state is when things got crazy. Its cost a lot and took a lot of energy to get licensed for Adult Day Care through the state. We had to move into a bigger building in order to get licensed. In June the State decided it wasn't financially feasible to continue and pulled the funding. I wish the NM Area Agency on Aging had never darkened my doorstep. We were doing okay in our little office, and was starting to get caught up. They (AAA) people were not upfront about much and did little to help us. Had I been more experienced about business when first approached, I would have nailed down exactly what the funding was, and what were the expectations of both AAA and myself. My ego got the best of me. I thought 'I can do this' and so I tried. And I tried so very, very hard. I worked a lot, perhaps too much, and it was stressing me out. I learned a lot about business and myself. I didn't make near the money I use to make before the business, but you can't really expect to make very much when you start a business. In fact if you make enough to put food on the table and a roof over your head, your doing well. So now I'm broke and wiser. Oh well, its time to go get a job.

I want to go sit by the ocean.

I haven't had a vacation in years. I really want to see the ocean again. I haven't been to the ocean in 27 years. I will make it there this year. My son is 16, and he has never seen the ocean. For me the ocean is very calming and wondrous. It's funny though cause I will not swim in it. I just wade out to my knees or sit on the beach looking at it. Or waiting until low tide, and then going to look in the small pools of water left behind.

A Tibute To Neato (2/91-4/05)

Neato

This my dog that I loved very much. I had to have him euthanized in April of this year because he had lung cancer. He was 14 years old and my best freind.
It broke my heart and I still miss him.