GIve Me What I Want And I'll Go Away...

Wow! Bend is in the midst of a Storm of the Century here, with lots of snow and high winds. I've been having a great time watching it from my window this morning...lucky me! (Although I did venture out to snap this photo for the blog, boots and all.)
The snow started yesterday, so in celebration last night we dusted off Stephen King's "Storm of the Century" and watched an hour or so. It's a fun movie (a mini-series from 1999) and we have a tradition of watching it during big storms. It's four hours long, so it'll take a few nights to finish up.
My orange cat's real name is Andre Linoge (his nickname is Buddy), named after the stranger who shows up on the island just as the storm hits and says over and over and over again, "Give me what I want and I'll go away."
If you haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend it, especially this week.
Hope you all are having a great day!
Jools

Progress Involves Risk....

“You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.”

- Frederick B. Wilcox

"No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no."

"No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no."
--Derek Sivers

"You've Got to Find What You Love."

"You've got to find what you love." ---Steve Jobs

Season of the Orange

Hope you're having a fabulous Friday!
Jools

Happy Fall, Y'All....

Summer is officially over, which means for us here in the Jools' household, the Halloween Countdown has begun!
Hope you're having a fabulous fall day, wherever you are!
Jools

Unfocused

On Sundays I like to force my wild mind into a more reflective mode, which is not always easy to do because, well, it’s wild. But I have a serious talk with it on Saturday night, and it finally agrees to settle down for Sunday and give me a break. I’m no fool, though, I know it's not giving in. I think it just gets exhausted from fretting and focusing on the wrong kinds of things all week that it, too, needs some rest.

So here it is Sunday and being that it’s nice and quiet inside my head, I have a chance to think about all the great things that surround me every day, things I sometimes forget to notice when I’m trying to get the print version of 44 perfect or attaining my daily word count goal (ha!). Things like an amazing family, one great giant lion cat, blue skies, warmer weather, juniper trees, a million shades of green in bloom, baby deer, kayaks on the river, hiking down a dusty trail in the afternoon sun.

I hope wherever you are, you’re having a great Sunday, too.

Jools