Life In-a-Box

     After having moved the family out of the Monaco Apartment Dad and Ann had for 22 years and I lived the better part of the last 8, then returning to Reno, it occurred to me that if I simply did the same thing in Reno ~ I could possibly achieve complete freedom.
 Not that these moves were anything resembling easy.....

 Before...

                 Forever grateful for this view and the incredible sights seen here over the years!

 

After...... Moved 1 container  to The States and auctioned the rest here for Dad.

                                     My Bedroom ~ got a "little cozy" during the process!

      I have owned this house for 20 years ~ Raised 2 daughters here, had a few live in girl friends and their children here and was a temporary home for a good friend going thru a "reorganization" with his wife...  Lotta history here!  My daughters are very happily married to wonderful men ~ I no longer have my aquariums, dogs, cats or plants....   It's possible.... There is a post, with photos of the before further back in this blog (can be found by searching "pets" above)
    

So we begin..... Gave away almost all of this... I never got rid of clothes before... Found shirts from high school!  Only one, but.....

Decided that I would just go room by room and decide, "Keep or Donate."  Hahaha  I would pick something up, relive the memory and think, well maybe I will put this in the garage and decide later....  Sorting 20+ years of your things, and the left behinds by all the others that lived here was incredibly difficult, interestingly pleasurable and time consuming!

 My somewhat romantic notion of being Homeless was seriously shaken 1 time only...When I awoke with the terrifying thought, "OMG What were you thinking!"  Once I dismissed this negativity, all proceeded and the thought never came again!

     Then you have the just difficult! What to do with a 2000 pound safe ~ all the guns and several thousand rounds of ammunition? 

     This entire process took me almost 2 months of 12 hour days....  I had to hurry, because my crews were right behind me, room by room.....

                                               Found this in Nicole and Lukes room! 

 





All this
effort to get to, Life in a Box!  If it wasn't going to fit in a 10 X 10 X 20 foot mini warehouse... It was donated, tossed, shipped to whomever it belonged etc...

And, there you have it.... Homeless by choice!   Now, with people I love all over the world, literally, I am free as a bird, happy as a clam and not even sure where I will be next month! 

Ain't Life Grand

FTV Party ~ Prague

Hey, you can't make this stuff up... I am in line to go up to The FTV Fashion Club. I let a group go ahead of me, since they were 4 (elevator holds four only) and end up with Jacob, Blake and Johanna on the next lift. Jacob is funny, carrying a pair of high heels and tells me this girl is bright, beautiful and demanding.... She looked at me and said, I like to drive sometimes... Told her I don't have a problem with this, and think nothing of it. She looked at me, laughed and said, well then you stay close to me tonight! OK ~ We get to the top floor and I see it is a Private Party and say, well I guess I am out of here...

Jacob says, oh no, you are with us... at the door they check wrist bands (which of course I don't have ~ Jacob tells the doorman (think he was a doorman, could have been Oak Tree based upon the size of his "limbs" ) ... He is with me. Turns out this is a private party of some sort celebrating the end of their "conference." We get drinks and Jacob introduces me to more than a few stunning ladies, gets me a drink and tells me to enjoy, leaving me with Blake and Johanna, his employees...

We find a table and begin talking.... I thanked them for bringing me in and ask, what kind of an award ceremony is this? It's an Exoclick awards party. Further conversation reveals that Jacob owns ha company called Fleshlight. I am still a little clueless.... Blake and Johanna explain what their business is. I asked if they were pulling my leg.... They assured me they weren't... Long story made short ` This was a party for the owners of various and sundry sex toys, sex clubs and outlets, World wide! They suggested I visit the VIP room to see "examples" from the award winners.... uhhhh....

Ok, now I am clear on this now.... The party was outrageous with very normal and beautiful people having a good time.. a very good time. Nothing "base" in nature but upon further investigation, a bit of dancing.... what can I say? I was just shocked...and only stayed for 3 1/2 hours! . This was yet another example of another type of "incredible" finding me! The FTV Club is amazing ~ drinks were all free and plentiful and to be perfectly honest, I had a ball! (figuratively speaking) and met many.....interesting company owners and their models.... Also met Anna Marešová, the winner! More than 180 designs by secondary school and university students from around the Czech Republic competed in the 20th annual National Student Design Awards that were handed out in Prague last week. The main prize went to Anna Marešová, a post-graduate student at the UJEP university in Ústí nad Labem, for a set of vibrators called Whoop De Doo. The sleek, hypermodern sex toys, complete with chargers, charmed the jury which appreciated the author’s innovative and daring approach. Like I said, you can't make this stuff up!

 

The Muzeum Gastronomie

Funny thing about being grateful ~ it seems to be the gift that keeps on giving. Maybe it's Karma... Grey, rainy day today which David Orel tells me is fairly common here in Prague.into the cave. I decided to grab an umbrella and just wander. Well, incredible found me again! I took a left on what seemed to be a nondescript little alley and ~ right in front of me is The Muzeum Gastronomie. I enter and discover this is the history of food from the earliest of time, when, fire, when found was taken At first it was for heat only. Their diets consisted of fruits, berries and insects ~ no cooking necessary! As I walk thru "time" the young lady guide and I began talking and I mentioned my cousin Jenifer Lang and her knowledge and love of things "food." I mentioned her involvement with the French cookbook Larousse Gastronomique, her being the first female Chef @ 21 in NYC and out of the little office, out comes Ladislav Provaan ~ curator of this museum! Over the next 2 hours I was fortunate to be guided by a man that truly loves everything "food and its History." His love of the subject literally gushed as he discussed everything from The French Revolution and the very first Michelin guide to current trends in preparation and presentation. Simply Amazing and incredibly enjoyable. ‪#‎grateful‬.

 

Original table setting from Hotel d Paris, 1920-1943

The Nexus...

Wishing you all Bon Nuit with amazement and gratitude for what I call The Nexus (Star Trek) or the energy string that, when allowed to... will carry you to simply incredible places, unimagined emotional and physical experiences. That certain knowledge that "it couldn't possibly get better than this" and then it does, again, again and again, and gains velocity and intensity. The less I try to analyze, judge,attempt to rationalize or explain this.... the better it gets. The more grateful I am.... the better it gets... an open heart and mind will take your spirit places your mind can't even conceive.....You WILL see it when you believe it!  Some call this "The Secret," others "The Power of Attraction." It is clearly about living in the moment, after all, that really IS all we ever get.... a series of moments strung together in the timeline of our own creation.

 Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake...