Ginnylynnpeterson: September 2009

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Lobster, Lighthouse, Wedding, and a Freaking Crazy Round of Golf! Maine and the Weekend Getaway!

Time has been a ticking, and my blog has been neglected......

And its about time I do some updating!!!

The Jackson crew was heading to Maine for a long weekend, and I couldn't resist!

Evan trying to figure out what to cook for dinner......Lobster of course!

What would a trip to Maine be like without a tour of one of the local lighthouses!? I know its one of those blurry photos of mine,,,,but for some reason I like the blurry ones....gives it more richness, more character or something like that.....the lighthouse was super cool, and some how or another, Evan and I ended up chaperoning two kids to the top...not sure what they were thinking!

The wedding I would say was in my top 5. Maine, just beautiful with country farm land, rolling hills, romantically beautiful, and perfect weather to go with it....

you couldn't ask for much more on a wedding day!

Playing a round of golf has been on my list for a long time....and I had no idea golf could be so entertaining.....balls flying everywhere, shouts of 'four' or more like screams of 'watch out'! Bottles of wine, cans of beer and a little four wheeling here and there.....a day to be remembered!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

I am now a Gull.

I am now a Gull

And now my new chapter begins....I am scared, nervous, and excited all rolled into one. I ponder how I will feel the first time a patient dies, I wonder what I will feel the first time I see a baby born, and I question whether I will actually be able to stick someone with a needle or stick a tube down someones nose......which they tell me is going to happen this week. Wow, what did I just get myself into? I guess its all to be determined, just like everything else in life....unknown. And as I move into this new direction, amazing reconnection's with my family, looking out over the lake I spent so much time as a child..........well, I can't help but smile and be thankful for who I am! As always, thanks to everyone who has been and continues to be a part of my life.....I truly treasure those unforgettable moments with each of you......!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Assatugue - Where the Horses Run Free

Well, I made it! And I just couldn't wait to head to the beach!!!!!! Assatugue is know for the wild ponies that roam the shores...I think technically they are horses, but regardless its pretty cool!

Luke quickly turning in to the hottie surfer guy!

As we drove across the bridge a big flashing sign indicated ROUGH WATERS - RIP TIDE....and they were not kidding.....Either the water was really rough that day (as I feel very lucky that my bathing suit made it home) or its been soo--- long since I've been in the ocean I had totally forgotten what its like to be tossed and tumbled in the water! (oh yeah, water temps hit 88 degrees last week!!!!! Thats a nice change)

Emma contemplating life.....!

I'm thinking she should take up Bikram Yoga!!

My cousin Stacy, her husband Mick and me!

My two month retirement, well, too short of course, but I am certainly enjoying being back east, enjoying being close to my family, and school......it just makes me smile!

Meet Joe Black Quote

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived"

To Lucy Barfield (The dedication in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

My Dear Lucy,
I wrote ths story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be

your affectionate Godfather,
C.S. Lewis

Ithaka

When setting out upon your way to Ithaca,wish always that your course be long, full of adventure, full of lore.Of the Laestrygones and of the Cyclopes,of an irate Poseidon never be afraid; such things along your way you will not find,if lofty is your thinking, if fine sentimentin spirit and in body touches you. Neither Laestrygones nor Cyclopes,nor wild Poseidon will you ever meet,unless you bear them in your soul,unless your soul has raised them up in front of you.

Wish always that your course be long;that many there be of summer mornswhen with such pleasure, such great joy,you enter ports now for the first time seen;that you may stop at some Phoenician marts,to purchase there the best of wares,mother-of-pearl and coral, amber, ebony,hedonic perfumes of all sorts--as many such hedonic perfumes as you can;that you may go to various Egyptian townsto learn, and learn from those schooled there.

Your mind should ever be on Ithaca.Your reaching there is your prime goal.But do not rush your journey anywise.Better that it should last for many years,and that, now old, you moor at Ithaca at last,a man enriched by all you gained upon the way,and not expecting Ithaca to give you further wealth.
For Ithaca has given you the lovely trip.Without her you would not have set your course.There is no more that she can give.

If Ithaca seems then too lean, you have not been deceived.As wise as you are now become, of such experience,you will have understood what Ithaca stands for.

Constantine P. Cavafy

I am Vertical - Sylvia Plath

But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil Sucking up minerals and motherly love So that each March I may gleam into leaf, Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted, Unknowing I must soon unpetal. Compared with me, a tree is immortal And a flower-head not tall, but more startling, And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.

Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars, The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors. I walk among them, but none of them are noticing. Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping I must most perfectly resemble them --
Thoughts gone dim. It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation, And I shall be useful when I lie down finally: Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.

Thoughts....

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion -- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)

A friend of mine just shared this with me and I thought I would pass it on!

Myself
by Edgar Guest

I have to live with myself, and so, I want to be fit for myself to know;I want to be able as days go by, Always to look myself straight in the eye; I don't want to stand with the setting sun
And hate myself for the things I've done. I don't want to keep on a closet shelf A lot of secrets about myself, And fool myself as I come and go Into thinking that nobody else will know The kind of man I really am; I don't want to dress myself up in sham. I want to deserve all men's respect; But here in this struggle for fame and pelf, I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to think as I come and go That I'm for bluster and bluff and empty show. I never can hide myself from me, I see what others may never see, I know what others may never know, I never can fool myself -- and so, Whatever happens, I want to be Self-respecting and conscience free.