The Change

Well I have made MANY changes in my life since 2010 and all for the GOOD! Even my own Counselor believes and has told me that I am doing EXCELLENT! I have come along way baby! I have made some pretty enormous steps forward in my life and only to better myself and make things right in life. Many have seen and know my changes. I am different and a GOOD & POSITIVE Difference I have made.


One thing though, I have made some difference in my hair. I was growing it long for the longest time and it grew F-A-S-T! The length got down to my shoulders and my bangs got past my nose. I haven't had bangs that long since 8th grade. I love long hair & it looked great on me once again. I have natural curls and waves when my hair is long. I was one of those lucky people that never had to have a perm. I was so excited about going to AZ this year and showing off my new style with my long hair and all.  I wanted to surprise many down there with my new look. So here is my surprise on my long hair and I just couldn't wait! (Photos)

These it was really starting to grow (above photos)

I have to admit I had no idea how to style it because I had short spikey hair for years. There were times that I just wanted to pull my hair out. *laughing*

Then it grew longer.

I could not live without my pink streak. 

Why Pink? I have been asked this? 

For one I have always had pink in my hair. I am unique and one of a kind!

I am ME, this is ME. 

I am different! Creative! An Artistic on hair and on paper!

I am a Artist!

My favorite quote & motto:

*People are different & different can be good*

I am being goofy! I am such a happy person!! & my wonderful husband! 

Then finally it got even longer!!

Yep there is the surprise!! That is how long my hair got!

I remember my sisters words "Lauri just keep letting it grow and once it grows out you don't have to worry about it anymore." :-)

But one day I went to see my hairdresser in Rice Lake. 

at Fantastic Sams in fact.

(she is behind the counter there with the blue streak)

Bailey is her name.

Well I have to admit I loved the long hair but it got to stringy and I just couldn't take care of it like I should have been able too. My arms and my hands up here in this cold weather hurt to much. So Bailey asked what I wanted and I told her not real sure but be creative. It isn't everyday that someone sits in your chair and says "Just be creative and make it look good." I know that from previous experience as being a Professional Hairdresser for 18 years. I had a few myself and those are the fun ones to do. So I let her be 

*CREATIVE*

Here is the starting process. It was a two step process to get it accomplished.

Here we go:

Oh my gosh what am I doing placing my silly photos on the internet with all my hair in a baggie and wrapped up in tinfoil too. We used bleach and also colored my hair darker then my natural dark hair at the same time. Don't I look cute? *Laughing*

Then I sat there for about 30 to 45 min. So what was the outcome of that?

Next:

Oh my I look weird! LOL

But there you have it *without it being styled* the flat look. 

Now if it was styled like this it would look pretty good too. But it wasn't done yet. That was the first process. 

Now for the next process. The **WILD** process I call it!

The creativity starts here!

Oh my gosh what is she doing?!?!

No way not that color!!!

Why???

Well people like getting tattoos for their own reasons because it is art.

Well some people like getting wild hair colors in there hair for their own reasons because it is being creative too.

I sat there for another 30 minutes and some of it was Dryer time to make it more intense and to stay longer. You know Semi Permanent!

The things women do to look beautiful! Well I guess guys sit under here too at times. 

So I finally was all done! I was so happy with the results and I was so tickled pink, I had been happy all day after this. Thank you to my hairdresser Bailey! You are such a totally awesome hairdresser!! I have all sorts of FANTASTIC comments about my hair! I have only had one person that was like Why Pink? & that he almost literally fell over when he seen me he said. Hmmm but he likes to get permanant designs needled into his arms and those are permanent and they don't go away. My answer to Why Pink? Is and always will be I am unique and I am ME. I love me! I love being creative! It is only hair and hair grows out and if you don't like it do something else the next time. The pink is only Semi Permanent and it washes out in time. Hmmmm next maybe purple? I totally LOVE my hair, my Husband loves how it makes me happy and I smile more. He loves it how I always have fun with my short hair. He always tells me to go for it so I do!

My Mom even thinks it is BEAUTIFUL on me even and I have many friends that love it!!

Why short hair? 

I know I know some of you like my long hair on me better. But then again you don't live inside this body and don't have to deal with my hands, wrists, & arms either. It is so much easier for me to handle it and I look good in either long hair or short hair. I have been blessed with a gift of being Me and being creative in all sorts of ways. So why not use it! Wouldn't you? 

The top

=^..^=

Is totally Awesome!!

~Being creative is good for the soul~

~ We are all unique..that's what makes us all so beautiful.~

My Husband, My Mama, & Many of my friends love it!

I am still ME inside this body even though I have Pink in my hair. 

I must admit I am different inside and more positive about life! 

Life is to short! 

I am so sick and tired of looking in the mirror everyday and seeing someone who has hidden the *real* me. Who always deals with pain, but will still smile. So it was time to be set free and open up the door and let the *real creative ME* shine. 

About ME:

Time for your daily reminder....

I'm AWESOME!

That's all about me! You may now continue on :)

Me? Weird?!?!

HA!!!

Please. 

I 'm a Limited Addition!!

Some Things that I have learned:

~The key to forgiving others is to quit focusing on what they did to you and start focusing on what God did for you~

~In perfect Love, in perfect trust.~ Wiccan Law

~Do as you will..Harm none~ Wiccan Rede fullfill

~ I have no more room in my life for negative, ignorant, drama seeking people.~

~It takes more strength of character to forgive than to be bitter.~

~Never hold a grudge....You are hurting yourself more than anyone..One day, You will look back and realize that you've been extremely FOOLISH. it is called *FORGIVENESS*~

~The past is gone...Today is the present day...and tomorrow is the future and it isn't here yet.~

~Forgiveness brings freedom for the soul~

~ Look beyond my eyes and see my beauty ~ Listen beyond my words and hear my heart~ Feel beyond my body and touch my soul~

~Life can only change if you take the initiative to make a change. Stop wishing, hoping, & desiring for change without ACTION! Step out on FAITH & make a change.~

~"We are all on different paths that eventually will lead to the same place. We simply are all at different stages in our development. We all get there eventually, so the thought that one is better than someone else is actually inaccurate. You have to work to nurture the correct attitude if you're going to advance spiritually."~

Hi Ya everyone!!! 
We are at Whitetail Ridge Campground! We have been here since March 31, 2012. 
This is a BIG step for the both of us in our NEW LIFE living in our motor home now. Our motor home is 25' in length. We are both going through a new transition period of our life. Don is retired and I am used to being by myself. The two cats and the dog are under our feet. Dog is shedding and we are both going beserk because of the hair. 


Don got to experience one thing - I have OCD really bad of making sure that the place is spotless and no hair to be found anywhere. I have even cried in tears because I cannot get it clean enough how I want it. I am awfully picky in my old age of 46 yrs. *Laughing* I had to take back a vacuum cleaner to Walmart because it wasn't doing the job that I wanted it to do. I now have a hand held Shark vacuum cleaner and yes I actually sit on the floor and vacuum because I cannot stand it being at all messy. Don has had to hold me and tell me to chill out because I cried so bad because I couldn't get it cleaned spotless. I clean at least twice a day. Yes I vacuum EVERYTHING in the process. See this is one thing that Don needs to get used too. He was never home because he was working and our duplex was spotless! So I expect this to be spotless as well. But I have found out it is very hard to do. But the hair no way that is a no no for me. 

Me shed??? Nahhh Mama hasn't found any yet!

The DOG does it all!

It's that black furball not me!

We have had to learn to step over the animals to make it in this motor home. We love this MH but I have to admit I don't think we even thought about the animals when we bought it. Because we need more room! We also need MORE storage in Cabinet space and the bathroom is way to small too! We wished it had slide outs also. *laughing* But we have to learn how to manage. Don said several times that he wanted to give the cats away and I refuse. Why? Well we had a beautiful home in AZ that one year and it wasn't a problem then. My opinion if he would have found a job before we moved down there, then we would have still been there. But it didn't work out that way did it. So here we are managing with it. We love Slinky, Sassie, & Rusty but the shedding of the hair with the dog? Oh my I clean clean clean clean clean and clean. Ughhh....A never ending battle. Gives us something to pass our time with right?? *laughing*


Don has found something that he enjoys doing and that is reading Mack Bolan books. Wow I didn't think he enjoyed that really. But boy he has his nose stuck in those books all the time and he reads FAST! I am so amazed! He loves it! He also messes around with the ATV's, he goes down to the Backwoods Saloon (Campground Bar and Rec hall) and watches the Nascar Races every weekend now. He also loves to build things with wood! He is REALLY GOOD at it! He made some really nice wooden blocks that our motor home  is sitting on to level it.

Don made these blocks to help keep our RV level.

Don reading again :-) He amazes me! 

We also go down to Backwood Saloon from time to time to visit with our friend Ashley during the weekdays. We aslo go down there in the evening time to time to get a pizza...wow cheesy pizza's YUM! Just the other night they had music by Rob Knowlton - EXCELLENT! They have music every other weekend of some sort. It is nice! 

Jeff behind the bar.

 Me? Well I have bending a lot of reading myself on my ipad2 on the kindle version. I have been drawing and watercolor painting as well. I get online from time to time to check on my Freecycle & Cafe groups in Barron County that I volunteered to be a Administrator of. I am always on my Facebook on my iphone4S or when I can get online. Just to touch base with my family, and friends. But lately I have been trying to ween myself off it. I have to much other things to do besides sit and wait for comments on my FB wall. *Laughing* I will be taking more nature photos soon. :-) 

Boy we sure have had to deal with the cold spells up here in Northern Wisconsin that is for sure! A couple of night it has gotten down to the 20's in fact. Brrrrr that is cold. We are also waiting for our tank that hooks up to our MH for the black and gray water. When we get that we will be all set for the summer here. Oh my I almost forgot to tell you about our HEAVY Frost! Yes that is what we are calling it! We don't like the white stuff in the middle of April!

GLAD that this didn't last long that is for sure! The weather has sure been weird! 


There was a day that we had to take our MH off of the chock blocks to go into Shell Lake to empty down here near the bar. They also filled our tank with water too. (Thank you Jeff & Tammy).So in the process we drove to Shell Lake looking for LP. No such luck so we had to drive all the way to Spooner. We did and no one was around where we went to go get it and we ended up driving all the way to Rice Lake with it. I can tell you it was a CRABBY day that day! We got back and had to put the MH back up on the new blocks that Don made and it was cold, rainy, and wet. Grrrrrr we were BOTH bears! *Laughing*

Them orange blocks SUCK!

He was very crabby because the orange blocks that we spent $34 on kept breaking. I kept my mouth shut because of Grumpy there. 

 Yep we have heat. We now have a piece that is called stay a while which is a T piece that we can hook up to a separate LP tank and it can run into our Motor Home (MH) and also into a gas grill too. Kinda nice to have if you are planning to "stay a while" somewhere. When the gas isn't on we bought a ceramic tower heater (Thank you Slim for telling that good idea.) It helps and heats up a good majority of our MH. The one thing we can't seem to understand is why the bathroom isn't heating up with our heater system built in the MH. Also our bedroom is cooler too, I think it is just weird. But needless to say that we are staying warm in our home on wheels. 


I believe this is another HUGE test to see if we can handle us being together in such a tight place. He is retired and I am used to being by myself the majority of the day. The animals are under feet. We get stressed at certain times with certain things. He has took a walk a few times and believe it or not I have too. I even had to say leave me be and go sit behind the truck and take a breather and then come back out and say I am sorry or he has said it at different times also. We have our heated moments like anyone. Try living under the same roof with two people that are just a like with ptsd from stress related. *laughing* But all in all we LOVE each other and enough to walk away and take a walk or just burst out laughing and say it was stupid anyways. We are quite very different then we used to be. The only time when things don't go right is when either of of has a tiff. *laughing* But we are doing GREAT! People would think we were a different couple now days. But we both believe living under this roof we believe it is another test. We are managing it and it WILL GET BETTER! 

So do we have neighbors yet? Yep here and there, it seems that a lot of them stay only the weekends. But there is a few now that stay everyday. We think that is great because for awhile there it was like we were in a movie, like the zombies...where you wake up the next day and everyone was gone but you! hahahahaha But more and more people are starting to come out here now. The water is on and that is probably why too. :-) 


Last night as we layed in bed we heard a Coyote barking/yipping and then a LOUD howl to another one across the ways, then we heard the whole pack howling in the distant. But this Coyote was VERY near like just right in the field near our sites on Wolf Drive. It was cool but it sounded like the Coyote was right there on the drive, it may have been but we couldn't see it because it was dark. We also saw a cute Woodchuck too. There are lots of Robins around here and they are all FAT it seems..maybe to stay warm?? Do the wildlife bother you? NO! Why would they?? Common sense you don't bother them and they won't bother you. You don't have food in your tent and they won't try to get in. *laughing* But the TICKS are just nasty nasty this year!! The early spring didn't help us there either. So far Rusty has had 5 deer ticks on his face but they weren't embedded at all. Don found two on him and I had one I do believe. I had to spray hot soapy water a few different times on our lawn with DAWN detergent ( Yes that works). To keep them down to a minimal level. So far so good and thank goodness! Make sure if you come camping up here with us this summer you have OFF with you. They are in the grass! 

Thinner Robin

Fat Robin

Woodchuck

We will be here till September and then we will be heading to Sierra Vista, AZ and boy we can't wait! The weather here is way to COLD for us anymore and both of our bodies felt better in the dryer climate and heat. Not here. I am not saying WI sucks because it doesn't. WI is beautiful but just not for us and we both have health reasons to move to the dryer climates where it is warmer. 


Here are some photos to share with you. Read underneath of what they are. (Click to make bigger and easier to see). 

We bought this mat - Racing checkers! 

Cheap?? No they are not cheap!

We are going to be making a deck soon. :-)

Has been approved by management (Jeff).

Out the back window of our MH. 

You can see other RV's off in the distance.

Rusty is tied up :-) 

Bear Lake just down Bear Lake Rd. Right on the ATV route.

Whitetail Ridge Campground is going to have a Fishing contest and Fish Fry June 2, 2012. June 2nd is the day that you don't need a fishing license to fish. ( Mom & Dad will be here this weekend) A very shallow lake we see & sandy too. Swimming? Maybe wading.

Shell Lake, Wisconsin just right around the corner on hwy 63. We aren't far from Shell Lake. How cool is that! We are going swimming here! 

I was under the weather here and running a high temp, sore throat, sinus infection. I was exhausted here. Not no more though!! YAY!!! But now Don has it - Poor guy! 

Beautiful Sunset looking out the front of our RV

Don my husband

(No longer has his goatee)

1st Spring flower :-) 

This is one of the tanks we are waiting for for our black & gray water. We ended up buying a Portable Holding tank that we can hook on the back of our ATV and take it down to the dump to empty versus moving our MH. We bought a 20 gal blue tank off of the Rice Lake WI Cafe group that I run for only $40 and they aren't cheap either. We can't wait to get our tank. 

Don't plant your seeds upside down because this is what happens to the trees seeds planted. (We found out that the guy that put this in also put a wooden guy next to the fence too. I guess when the batteries are in the wooden guy is motion detected. When you go past the wooden guy pees out near your vehicle. *laughing hard* This is down the road on Bear Lake Rd. We never noticed it working. The guy that made this has passed away since and his wife is still lives here. There is a Taradactile at the top of this upside down tree. 

More to come in the blogs! 

Have a Great Day All!