Blooming Flowers!

After so long without posting, I figured it would be a good idea to get up off my ass and post. I am really starting to figure out this life thing. But it only works for me so dont ask me for tips. Things have changed dramatically over the last year. Sean nad I moved back to the ranch and finally are starting to feel that there is hope for our survival and independence.
After living with my parents for a few months, Sean and I moved into my grandparents old house. And my great joy right now is watching my grandmothers liliacs and old roses bloom infront of the house. I am also finding my great green thumb is really green!
more to come later!

Let the editing process begin!

So, it has been months since we last talked lovely blog. I am officially a college graduate. Today is my birthday, and I am supposed to be packing, but I made a decision this morning, that I will finish packing the nickknacks and that is all I am going to do. A girl only turns 27 once right. For me I think it is a little bit more like 27 going on 22. Besides the ever encroaching gray hair in my bangs, I feel young and alive. I feel this need to enjoy my days, even when there is work to be done, just breathing in and realizing that today is a blessed day, because...well it is today. Sorry, i am not my usual thoughtful, go hug a farmer self, but I just going to take this one day to reflect on things....
Happy B-Day to me!

Last few weeks

So it has been a few weeks since the last time I was up here, quick recap: It is now the 6th week of my 10 week quarter. Simply to state, I am surrounded my a sea of deadlines that will all shortly be at the will of my pen/keyboard. Stories, projects, photos, and thoughts to get on to paper and screen before it is too late. I am surviving as best as I can.

Now onto business. Thursday, I will be going to Tulare to the World Ag Expo, to work at the I Love Farmers booth. After working at the booth, my mission is quite simple. Distribute as many copies of my resume as possible. I will be damned if I am not employeed after I graduate from Cal Poly in 4 months! I am truely looking forward to meeting representives of many of the leading companies in agriculture. I am also looking forward to possibly seeing my friend Ian; he works with the farm bureau, and it would be great to say howdy after almost a year of limited facebook communications. Only bummer: i have to wake up at 3:00 to meet up with my carpool (Abby and Jackie) so that we can arrive around 8:3o am in Tulare. WOOT!!

Tomorrow will be the day that I spend finalizing stories and contining to work on my senior project. Expected time of delivery on the Senior Project is March 1st. I think it is a very lofty and obtainable goal. Almost done with the data Analysis for Chapter 4. Recommendations will be written shortly there after.

For now, my best plan is to get more than 3 hrs of sleep tonight. Good night all.

It has been way to long....

It has been way to long since I have been up here, speaking my mind. I figure that there is no point in pursuing a career in Ag Communications if you are not willing to communicate. So here goes another shot at social media.


Update since the last time we talked: Working on completing my bacholor's degree. Hopefully one more quarter after my current quarter. Living in Grover Beach, not the best neighborhood, but maybe not the worst. SEan and I have been married now for 1 and 1/2 years, but it feels like yesterday.

Hopes and dreams: Working for an ag company in the greater quatcounty area (Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Benito, Santa Clara), and assisting in the education of the public about agriculture. Someday children, I think Sean would be a great father. Getting Sean an education, opening a winery with my parents and siblings. Finally, getting over the fact that here in California we have a readily available supply of good, clean, and wholesome food, that is realitively inexpensive.

that is all for now. Let's see if I can get up here at least once a week.

Moving on...

In the last few months, my husband Sean and I have been dealing with neighbor issues. It turns out that our down stairs neighbor has mental issues that, for whatever reason, make him angry and aggressive toward Sean. He has come up to the apartment and verbally harassed Sean, he watches us as we come and go. This latest week has proved to be the hardest. At 5 o'clock in the morning, one morning this week, Sean and I were awoken by what sounded like someone trying to break into the apartment. Sean, being the manly man that he is, grabbed the Louisville security system, threw the cell phone on the bed saying "Call 911!", and ran out of the bedroom. The only humor i can find in this is the memory of watching Sean run out of the bedroom in his tighty-whities.
So all of this being said, we have decided that it is time to move on. We will be moving out of the apartment as soon as we can find a place to relocate to. I am hoping that we can move around the first or second weekend of April, and put all of this behind us. As I told the land lady, even if she evicts the downstairs neighbor, he still knows where we are at, if he wants to he could come back and do us harm. I severly doubt that a restraining order would do any good in this case.
The situation is sad when you stop and think about it. The man has serious issues, that medicine alone can not truely help. But it seems that everyone is turning their backs on him. I truely wish there was something I could do. Throwing him out of the apartment would do more harm, and little good. He would become yet another homeless person, who would fall through the cracks of society, like so many others before. The system is flawed and broken and this man, who when he is on his medication (when he chooses to take it), is a very kind gentleman; he is the proof of the forgotten people who are victims of a system that is in desparate need of an overhaul.
So we will move on, because it is easier for us to move and find a new place than it would be for him. The only thing that we can do is pray for him, and hope that someone who can truely help him will come into his life.

tired and overused.

That is the feeling that i have had in my body for the last 8 weeks, as I have been working my butt off this quarter at school. tired and overused. I love my school. I love my classes. I love the sanctuary that the Kennedy Library provides. Nothing says loving like a warm library during one of San Luis Obispo's many mosoon like days. However weeks like this one, where Monday through Thursday, the earliest i will be getting home is 9 pm, and the latest will probably be around 11pm. I have videos to shoot, a research assignment to finish, a 6 page paper to write, a choir reunion to go to, an ACT meeting to attend, and generally, I think when finals week is over (March 20th, Friday at 7pm) I will proceed to deflate my brain, and have an ice cold beverage that is in someway alcholic. For those of you who don't know, I don't drink while school is in session, except for major holidays, (Thanksgiving ect.) I think at this point, I am just stressed and really in need of spring break. Three more weeks to go.

Happy New Year Snuffins

So over the Holidays, I was blessed to spend time around three of my lovely nephews (Leo, Joseph, and Arthur). This holiday season was loaded with so much excitement, there was never an opprotunity to be bored. In fact, I must say, I truely hope that 2009 is not as exciting as 2008. Sean and I attended four weddings. Tom and Amanda in May. This one was exciting because there was a possiblity of evacuation at a moments notice due to wild fire. We were able to drive to Idaho in July for Dan and Becky's wedding. I never thought I would survive that many hours in the car with Sean's mother, but now we get along fairly well. In August we were married at Immaculate Conception in Tres Pinos, my home parish. And on New Years Eve, Sean's sister Genevieve married a lovely gentleman by the name of Vishall (I hope i spelled it correctly). it was a lovely beach wedding in Pismo (about a mile and a half drive from our place). The reception was held at Rosa's Restaurante Itailano (about one city block from our house). Easiest commute ever.

Unfortunately with ever dose of good, there is always a dose of bad. In April, Sean's grandfather Arthur passed away. He was a lovely man, whom I wish I could have gotten the chance to know better. Also my father had to undergo shoulder surgery in December (during my finals week). He is on the road to recovery and hopefully he will be fully recovered in a couple of months. I don't know how much longer i can take the complaining. So cheers to all, as this is my first blog and i have no readers yet. Below are photos of all the lovely nephews durning christmas time.
Sarah





Vineyard Snuffins!

Joesph and Leo helping Daddy prune!

Give that kid a pair of shears stat!!

The matching Fruits, Uncle Sean and Little Artie.

Sean and Joseph exploring the world of Literature.