Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...I did it! I went from a blonde to a red-head. Why? It was on impulsle. Underneath my blondness is, probably a lot of grey hair. What I really wanted to do was just let my hair grow out and be natural again and have the hairstylist snip the fuzz from my bleach on bleach dryed hair tips. I wasn't lined up with red hair....but I was in her chair and I thought, well it has to grow out anyway, might as well see what I look like as a red-head.
It's been maybe 10 or more...hahaha.......years since I've had my natural color.
Do I like how it came out?....at first no! Eeee-gad, I look so phoney, baloney.
Then after I got home I found my precious secret stash of Just for men hair coloring that I use to touch up my eyebrows and I mixed up a batch and moved it through here and there so that my eyebrows would match my hair. Then I felt better.
Buzzing down to my roots would be my first choice, all new growth and a return to natural but, I figure, I'll just give this a chance. See how I feel by Christmas. I can always do the buzz cut. I really believe that the buzz cut is most flattering to me but I do want hair again, so I'll just wait it out!
The problem with coloring is, it's so addictive. I may have to go cold turkey buzz cut on my next visit.....I'll just wait and see.
You know, I have a computer program for hair and make-up, make-over, I promise that
before I do anything impulsive, I will play with looks on my monitor. Whatever, I'll get over this...hahaha...in the meantime, I have to face the world in about 50 minutes...karate classes tonight!

The sun is shinning, it's a beautiful day. I am playing hooky from my Saturday am karte class. I'm wearing my teeth whitner "retainer" filled with the goop for an hour.
I plan to lay in a hot bathtub filled with sea-salts and relax! Don's got the karate class.
Because it's such a beautiful day, I can put my ebay stuff out side to take pictures of and then they'll be ready to go! I really have to start listing my stuff to sell on line, this is the best time to sell.
Ummmmm.........it's such a lovely day to go outside.
Shopping is the last thing I'd want to do today.
The air is crisp and even a tad chilly (70)...hummm... a walk on the shore line sounds like heaven. Yes! Don and I will make the time to breathe in the salty air.
I'll see if I can persuade him to walk with me on the beach, I know
however that he is going to want to focus on our new "castle" fence to keep people from parking in the Museum parking lot. After all it is Saturday night. He says he will have no problem with this project except for digging the six post holes. Maybe we could hire someone to dig post holes....eee-gad, I'm so glad I don't have do do that. There are so many advantages to being a girl and I do my best to take advantage of all of them. Hahahahhahaha............it works for me. I am a girly girl, at heart!

The Friday after Thanksgiving, a day to catch up on my recorded favorite T.V. show, THE APPRENTICE and sew.
I started the day flat on my back doing Feldenkris. Not only am I doing the exercises but I whiten my teeth at the same time, with my new teeth whitner kit in my mouth for the hour.
Next a private session with a new whitebelt and then a trip to Home Depot and the fabric store with Don. I bought some buttons to dress up my latest creation. There is something about being in a fabric store that just relaxes me much as some guys
enjoy browsing through a hardware store.
Today has been a lazy hazy day. I was going to go see the latest grand extravaganza chick flick PRIDE AND THE PREJUDUCE but, I decided to wait till after this Thanksgiving holiday when the lines quiet down.
Don has been busy buying supplies to put a new fence around our
"castle". At last we are going to have a shot at peace and quiet on the weekends. It's a start. More later or tomorrow on whitter teeth and fences to keep the teenagers away from parking in our parking lots....oh the down side of living in a comm'l property! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............

Thanksgiving at a students house, totally chaotic,(fun but not slow and serene by any means....) conversation wise,
the husband and wife were cooking in the kitchen and nobody was listening
to anybodys comments. We were drinking champange(just a tich) and laughing
but really not connecting. The meal was outrageously good. The husband use to be
a chief at a very fancy restaurant, now he is a design manager for Yaughts.
It was fun. The wife had a beautiful home, airy and uncluttered. I liked the hal-o-peon-yo squash casserole with the cheeze topping
the best, although everything was great. The salad we brought was topped with Basil from
my garden....yummy. We did a little karate at the end. It was fun.
So far the best part of today was getting an email from Shane about
values and unfinished business...I decided to take a stab at mine:
My values (or what I value and am grateful for):
bathtubs
running water
warm blankets
my dirty grungy thrift shop
walks in nature
my just for men (eye brow) hair color
all my kata
Howard Stern
Abraham tapes
My mat for my new thing, Feldenkris movement thearpy
Almond butter sandwhiches
focusing on what feels good
girlfriends
my husband
teaching karate classes
connecting on my computer
laughter of any kind, TV, radio or with friends or whatever
my sewing machine
books
dancing to music
lilbraries

Unfinished business:
Todays blog
the last shorin-ryu kata (I still don't want to learn it!)
growing my hair long
a week long vacation/honeymoon with Don
This months bills
Posting up the next promotion list for February
Awarding our first scholarships from the Museum fund
Holding my first grand child....hahaha
seeing Shane after his India trip

Night before Thanksgiving:
We plan to have Thanksgiving dinner at the home of one our students and
then later on in the evening have dessert at our friend Cathy's house.
We will bring a salad to the first location, and just ourselves to the
second house.

I am looking forward to having a day off to kick back and relax. Don has
been working 5 days a week getting the new main-frame up and running.

My next great adventure is:
I'll be listing stuff on eBay. I gonna' jump in
with both feet and see if I can make some $'s before Xmas. This is the
time of year my karate business slacks off bigtime and that's okay, I
just like to have something to keep myself in the flow so to speak!

Just got back from Sarasota. Feldenkrais seminar. The whole premise, in my eyes, of the Feldenkrais "method" is our bodies are held together by bones. The way they hinge in a flowing movement determines our ease of movement. Sounds simple it was life changing for me. Also self-imaging changing! We were asked us to draw a picture of ourselves in the beginning how we see ourselves and then at the end of the workshop. Just take a minute or two and color it in.
The first drawing was normal. Me with a big smile with my arms outstretched wearing a tank top and karate pants. I had a normal head, normal length arms, my hairstyle looked like me and I used a pencil to, what turned out to be a cartoon of me. My lips were red with a big smile and just for the heck of it, I painted all ten toe-nails. I took up the whole page and used yellow rays of light jutting out all around me. Normal right?
Well at the end of the workshop, we were instructed to draw again and see if our images of ourselves had changed. I drew me as a worm, yes you read right a WORM...hahaha...with a full skeleton inside of me(minus my arms, they just wouldn't fit....hahaha and my mouth had a big red smile. The final touch was light jutting out of me on all sides....hahaha............transformation...huh? Again the bottom line is every movement we as humans do affects our whole body even our eye sockets.
Our bones are conected and if we don't move them all we hold tension. Of course the movements are so small it's barely noticeable. Feldenkris says,the smaller the movement the better. Makes for effortless and aesthetically pleasing! It was a very good experience. My left foot pain got fixed (it use to be painful for me to take long walks) I like the seminar so much that I bought the teachers CD so I plan to work these very slow sublte movements every day. She told me to stop my Physical therapy (for my shoulder that really is basically fine) and do Feldenkris. No problem! (smile)Feldenkris it is! I have an area in the museum with a matt and I plan to do 30 to 40 minutes every day.

I will be in Sarasota all this weekend at a Fieldenkras workshop. When I get back I'll give you one or two highlights. I'm going with a friend of mine. Her name is Jann and she is a massage therapist and a heck of a lot of fun. We are going to have a blissful weekend. I'm in the middle of packing. I plan to workout every morning and journal. I'll bring my digital camera and maybe take a pic. of the gulf of mexico. In the meantime, I gotta' pack. I know it's only two days but I want to make snacks and have everything sitting by the door. We will be leaving at 9:05AM. It's a 3 hour ride. I CAN'T WAIT!

Sensei Judy Barnhart 

It's It's 8:30 AM Monday morning and I'm a little red eyed and again feeling a bit sleep "disturbed"! Two nights in a row stupid parking lot stuff. Living in a comm'l property, even though our part is a residence, still we look like a karate school, makes for visitors at all kinds at odd hours. We could just go ahead and make our karate school look like a normal house and then the problem would be solved. Nobody would park in someone's driveway. Given a choice, I would want our corner our 1 acre property to look like a castle, not a house, but that's another story!
Last night we had more noise and people parked in our parking lots. We have two buildings and two parking lots, our house/Dojo and next door the Karate Museum.
Don announced to me this moring that he would take care of last nights problem of cars and trucks parked outside the bedroom window. He will put a fence in front of the museum parking lot. It's a start.
What I hated about the experience most was that I couldn't get back to sleep at 1:00AM. Don was already (after he went back to bed) snoring but I lay there with my chest tightening up. I kept trying to breathe but my thoughts were...."How dare they"! You know, it's when stuff happens that we get to practice unconditional love and flowing lovely freeing energy....but it was so hard to switch gears....I finally fell asleep. In the morning we spoke about the need for a fence or something and I am sure it will get done soon.
After Don left for work, I called Norman, the artist and my dear friend and someone who thinks out of the box, he said we need motion sensitive lights. I will be going to home depot later and look for some spot-lights! I may not be able to put a wall or a fence up but I could purchase some lights! I just want to do something!

Sunday, a rough night. We're fine, "normal"...hahah...just another night living in paridise...hahaha.......Phone rang for Don to go into work. (This happens at least once a week lately, the mainframe is being replaced and the old mainframe is on it's last legs!) Upon awaking, we discovered trucks and cars parked in both of our parking lots @ 2:00AM. Kids like to party at Rotary park across the street. They think this is a comm'l property and no one is around. Well Don runs out in his bathrobe and yells at them, "We could have you towed. How would you like me to park in your driveway?" Happens too often. I want a fence around our entire place. My home feels like my castle. Don says, "Nah! A moat and a drawbridge is the way to go!"....Yes! No, a fence is better. Someday. In the meantime, it's a good thing I went to bed early 8:30PM...I was exhausted from the excitement of my two day sale.
I will be in the Museum all day tidying up. It has a new look. We now have a big rattan circular table and once again the Museum is looking good. Really nice energy.
I have two Yoga mats placed under my pulley and one side of the Musuem feels inviting to workout. My sewingroom is more inviting too. I got rid of a couple of hundred pounds of junk........ahhhhhhhhhhhh....ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Saturday and another $140 in my pocket. Wow! This was my best garage sale in a long, long time. I never make more than a hundred....It was fun. I played a bunch of different music everything from Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra to Country Western, Elliot Smith, Beatles....
One of todays highlights was sitting in the same chair as yesterday and visiting with a girl from Colorado. We looked out at the sky together. She asked me if I got my pleasure from the indoors or the outdoors, so, I said I use to be an indoor person and now,well...I asked her to follow me to a grouping of trees. These are two "siamees palm tress" that mirror one another. I said nothing
and asked her to tell me what she saw. She said, "It looks like a portal"....Wow! That was amazing.
Like a door to? I couldn't resist, I wanted to move through the portal. The trees both had the same root system were conected at the base but they fanned out about 30 feet high. I stood before them and kind of hesitated as I said, "A portal, a door, a new door is opening." I froze.
She laughed and said, go ahead...and I said hesitating, "Just a minute and then, I went throught."
When I got on the other side, it was magic. I turned around and looked through the two trees and saw her and
the garage sale still in progress with the people milling about and I felt far away from it all. It was a whole new perspective..................what fun.

Friday 1:00 PM, garage sale over for today! In my pocket $115. of which 20 goes back to Don for change, $37. for the ad in Fl. Today and $6. to Barb for her stuff...that leaves me with a grand total of $52...hahahaha..........5 hours sitting there and god only knows how much time for preparation, hummmmmmmmmmm....I guess you could say minimum wage. However it's all set up and tomorrow is another day. It was really kinda fun and kinda' serene. I rarely sit in a comfortable chair on the out door deck and just read, sew, eat or stare into the clouds. It was a beautiful day. Nice people, a few laughs and I did something with my Friday morning. This however could be my last garage sale. Yeah...yeah, I know, that's what I always say.

It's Thursday. I am feeling rushed. Tomorrow begins two days of garage sales here. My focus is get the tables up and the boxes out. Don is working every day and it's just me. I will ask my 10 am class for help before or after class.
Last night's meeting at Carabbas went well. The scholarship fund is looking good. Lots of work this year to locate schools and get the applications just right. We will be awarding two $2,000. scholarships to the applicants who meet the criteria. We will be doing this until Don and I are
older and greyer.
In the meantime my focus is get all my junk onto the outside deck.

Okay, it's Thursday. I taught a private student the 3rd kata this
morning and then went to have the car tuned up for my trip to
Sarrasota next weekend. I am excited about my Felidenkras seminar.
Looks like my friend and massage therapist will be going with me next weekend.
A 3 hour ride. I order tipe ticks and a map from AAA.
This evening the Museum Fund board of directors will meet at
Carrabas for voting on the application mail outs. There are just
a few things to tweek. I'm getting all dressed up. This will be
interesting because will be coming from teaching two karate
classes...karate, karate, nothing ever changes.

Tuesday November 8th, 9:00AM. When is the best time to write in this blog? I missed writing here yesterday. Hummmm....briefly about yesterday, I went to a movie with my friend Marilyn. We saw Elizabethtown. I loved the memorial ceremony with Susan Sarrendon tap-dancing at the memorial service! Ha! Death can be a beautiful celebration. The movie moved me. A quote: "sadness an easy vibration to slip into" (or something like that) and then seeing the main character dance with one arm waving free in a forest made me think of shane doing his Curtain thing.....ahhhh...to choose joy. Ha! I said joy and I'm thinking upliftment even though his girlfriend's name is JOY! Hummm....Today I have 3 karate classes and a Thursday garage sale to prepare for. The hardest part will be carring the big heavy tables out onto the out door deck. Lifting the boxes is just ant work! I got the Fl. Today ad placed and the Salvation Army truck scheduled to pick up next Wednesday. I expect to pocket at least $100. Is it worth all the fuss. YES! I want the echo....and the $'s are welcome. Oh one more thing, I made arrangements to attend a Fieldenkrass seminar next weekend. I'm so excited. 3 hours away and a mini-vacation. I plan to kick back and enjoy.

This is day two of blogging. Sunday1:00PM, the day is not over yet. I have a plan, Library to buy some books at a book sale and then to BCC for 3 one act plays. I must remember to get some kata in and some PT before the day is out. Don is out side doing his mediative lawnmowering thing. I'm back into listening to Abraham and sewing....sweet!