Living Life, 2016 a Year in Review!!

Oh my. I can’t believe that it’s been a year and a half, about, since I’ve updated this blog. My gosh, life just keeps keepin’ on. Life continues to be amazing, beautiful, and always an adventure. Most recent updates on life:

• Cylus is now barreling towards his third birthday and he’s the most amazing little boy ever. I loved the baby he was, the toddler he is and can’t wait to see the boy he is becoming. 

• Cylus has a baby sister! Ms. Aurora is over a year old and has been a joy to her mama, granny and pretty much everyone she comes in to contact with. She’s a super sweet baby, slightly crazy, and her own little person 
  
• 2016 was an amazing year for me. Highlights include my daughter getting married (Feb 9th)
  
• San Francisco Green Tortoise Hostel during Dan VA specialist trip, 
• Traveled to Costa Rica for the second time (also Feb/Mar)
• Grand daughter Vera turned 1 (March)
• Steampunk Event at the Nugget
• Eldorado dancers at the Mo and meeting Brooke
• Going to my first Burning Man Global Leadership Conference (I had no idea)
• Went to Seattle for Comicon, to see Mike (hospital), and stay in Seattle Green Tortoise Hostel, went to history of Horror film exhibit at the Experience Jimi Hendrix museum in Seattle, Mariner’s game
• April saw the origin of Z Pack good times at the Mo, trip to the boat and playing hooky 
• Weird Earth Day at the Mo followed by even more weird rage quit
• Finding out about Aurora, 
• Jazz Festival 
• Hip hop show at the Mo! 
• McQueen fundraiser at the Mo
• Doors to Recovery and meeting Ariel
• Villains party
• Aces season tickets
• Attended my first multi-regional summit
• Nada Dada at the Mo
• Pan poetry for meeee
• Awesome Clint Jolly foody event at the Mo
• 4th of July on the boat
• Cylus’ first birthday and party
• Compression and nieces and their friends
• House sitting in Cold Springs for Chris
• Hanging with the Kiwi’s at the Mo, 
• The Full Monty
• Becoming a BM Regional Contact!
• Burning Man
• Giant Bug Zapper Burn on the playa, 
• Space Whale and octopus, 
• David talk at the Mo
• Food purge at the Mo post playa, 
• Yoga fest with Brandon and Heather
• Reconnecting with XS friends
• Celtic Celebration 
• 23 & me 
• Reno Bites, 
• The Wizbang thing 
• Zombie Crawl at the Mo
• DaVinci at the KC, 
• The birth of Aurora
• TLT tree from foraged materials
• Geek Con
• Kate Bush listening party at Tom’s, 
• DISC training and assessment
• Ally training 
• Kow Bus!
• Santa Crawl at the Mo. 
• Cody in a box
• Prime Rib Christmas
• Scary Santa with grands and finally....
• Picasso and wine, trees and 
• Parts per Million. 
• Whew!

July, 2015....Expanding world...meeting Cylus.

And now is when my heart expanded so much, I thought it might burst! I've always had a special bond with my daughter, but being able to experience her giving birth, being there for her, and getting to know her tiny human has been one of the most amazing experiences I've had in my life....

This is its own post of awesome. Cylus Atom Starry entered this world July 3, 2015. Now, as we wait for him to be a year old, he's such a joy to get to know. What a guy! Baby spam, commencing!

Catching up....May June 2015

Then, near the end of May, I accompanied my daughter and her fiance' and their daughter for a photo shoot, documenting her pregnancy. Seems like a long time ago, can't believe it was just a year...

June say me striving for healthy habits and activities, and a trip to some amazing train tunnels that exist up near Donner Lake. It was a great hike with a lot of art painted in the tunnels, and even a nerd-citing with a Star Trek symbol at one one of the spots....

My nieces visited in June, also, and all of us stayed at the Morris. I think I expanded their horizons, they got to experience things they never had before, and I hope they learned and went away from Reno a tad more worldly =) They made art!

Saw the sunrise

Celebrated a dear friends birthday, Pirate style

And connected with beautiful humans....

Over a year....playing catch up...May 2015

It's been over a year since I updated. Wow. Time really does fly when you are having fun. My birthday was had, recently....almost to the end of my 40's, and blazing forward to see what happens next, being grateful for all I have. The last year has been pretty incredible. I have a bunch of travel stuff to catch up on. That's kind of a given. Heck, just this quarter has been amazing!

Last time I posted here was May 11, 2015....let's go over some highlights since then...

• In late May of last year, had a somewhat dream come true. I am a Black Rock Ranger. I also participate at the Morris Burner Hotel,and have created a Ranger-like group there called the Morris Guardians. We got to have a Ranger training at the Morris. It was worlds colliding in all the right ways.

•  Then, later that month, I got to have more Ranger goodness, by participating with a great group of people who train the Rangers. They had a retreat and I was invited and it was amazing and a great time with great people. There was camping and bacon and learnin' and a turkey who I both loved and felt guilt over every time I passed him, knowing he was bound for a Thanksgiving table...I thought he was very cute.
  
  
  
  
• Then through the amazing technology of modern 3-D ultrasound, I got to experience my future grandson
  
  
  
  
• And a birthday. There was a tap show at the Eldorado, similar to a "Stomp" type thing, and I wanted to go, with my girlfriends, for my birthday. It was very cool, and I felt very loved. Hooray for sisterhood! 
  
• Then, I got to take family and grand daughter to experience the joy of Sesame Street Live! as a patron and not the person in charge of ALL THE THINGS. This has been an on-going healing process in my quest to come to peace and reconcile the good and bad experienced while I was at Lawlor. Seeing the wonder if childhood in the eyes of a little is a truly amazing experience.