Happy New Years Day

New years Day is the day my father died in 2001.

I can remember him and be sad or I can think of him in all his 

'Fabulous-ness.'

And he was.

He loved thoroughbred horses.

He bet them and he bred them.

Did you know that January 1st is EVERY thoroughbreds birthday?

Even if they were born on December 31st.

The next day....

they are 1 year old. 

My dad loved golf ....

some of my best times with him were driving the golf cart

around the course alone with him. 

Yes, that's me.

6 months pregnant.

My Dad driving his boat with my little daughter by his side.

My Dad and the back of my head at our favorite restaurant 

in Ogunquit Maine... ARROWS.

He loved deep sea fishing.....I always got sea sick.

This New Year ....

if you have something keeping you from a loved one....

how important is it....really?

Make an amends.

It is so easy to do, and the rewards are great.

We never know when our number is up.

My Dad was only 73 years old.

Be wise like the Buddha...

and then you will be happier.

I know my memories of my Dad are.

Love to my friends,

Renee xox

Renee Finberg 'TELLS ALL' in her Blog of her Adventures in Design,Boca Raton and Camden Maine, All Interior Design Services,my dad, he died on january 1st

..Gone So Long

... I've been gone so long it seems...

I really have been gone so long it seems to me.

I have been getting settled in mind and body…

Not to mention putting all my favorite things

{the only things I took with me}

in the right places.

I am happy with how my room came out.

If my camera didn't just stop working ….

I would be posting pictures.

And my little girl {Shih Tzu} Josephine

is now settled in as well. The cold weather is definitely a shock for her.

We were both a bit shaky when we got here….

…but all is getting better.

This is my 1^st Thanksgiving and Christmas without my daughter {24 yrs old}

and I know now it won’t be my last.

So I 

‘I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.’

with all of you.

There is just so much to do here around the house with my Mom.

I could do a whole post on just ‘THE HUNTING’ for the perfect wreathes.

…and of course…she has to have them on everything!

Mom is a Christmas maniac, perhaps when the holidays are over and

we all get even more settled I will feel normal.

But then, normal is highly over rated.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ !!!!!!

I need to get back to posting, and I will.

I can say I am sort of lost without it.

Blogging for me is like taking my temperature 

....and taking yours.

You are my friends and I am feeling like an awful friend 

not being there for you and your blogs.

Please forgive me. XXXX's 

Merry Christmas & Happy Hanukkah 2012

Renee Finberg 'TELLS ALL' in her Blog of her Adventures in Design,Boca Raton and Camden Maine, All Interior Design Services, moving , adjusting, Christmas, thanksgiving, getting settled,
maine

TOO MUCH ON MY PLATE

It seems there are just too many complications ;

THE BANK selling my property in Boca Raton - Bad Bad Bad People

THE MOVERS- my things are still not here, and it will cost more than estimated

and A JOB search in a town of 7000 population off season......

....just getting settled in general is exciting - YES -

but overwhelming.

Everyday there is another fire to put out with the lawyers & the bank over the closing.

I am not a happy camper right now.

But

Tomorrow, Tomorrow will bring a better day.

It is so beautiful here, and cold, 

but I love the cold don't I ???????

Once my things come I will be able to post pictures from my camera.

I hope this post finds all my friends well and happy.

hugs xoxo

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Maine VS Florida

Well,

I am here.

No more complaining 

about the humid sweaty Florida weather!!!!

It is dropping to 20 degrees F. tomorrow night. 

:)      :(

I have been car shopping,

*job hunting

*getting my little dog Josephine adjusted

*getting myself adjusted

*painted my room

*trying not to eat all the uber fattening food my Mom makes

*drivers license

BLAH BLAH BLAH

It never ends....

and the movers haven't even arrived yet.

That will be a stressful {OMG} day!!!

Please have patients with me.....

I am emotionally exhausted and can not bring myself to blog right now.

...I need to get back to commenting .....

but

I am always so tired.

I send you love and thank you 

for your emotional support 

through these difficult times.

xxx

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Where do I begin? Was it the flight?

Where do I begin?

Was it the flight?

 The fact that I did not actually get the opportunity to fly the big machine that

Would take me and my little love ‘Josephine – JOEY’ {shit-zsu} to our new home.

We boarded the plane at 7am arriving in Boston at 10.30am…..and we waited.

And we waited. And we waited. And we waited.

To Joey , it may as well have been a space ship taking us to another planet. Joey has never been on a plane or to another planet like Maine.

The plane we were supposed to get on
to take us to our final destination in MIDCOAST MAINE...

Well, they just kept cancelling the flights.

“Too Much Fog” they said.

This went on for 3 flight cycles…..

then I found out that

The last pilot was a ‘chic’ – I was so frustrated. I wanted to tell her….

Move the f—k over!!!

I am not afraid of fog!!!! 

(big talk coming from a big chicken)

My dog had no place to relieve herself. I kept taking her into the ladies room and telling her to

Make her pee pee & poo poo. She did. I cleaned it up.

What was she to do for 12 ( and 3 more) hours????

Anyhow…with the veins in my head visibly popping out

I suggested that I would wait no longer – since there were no more flights on this night….

And that I would like a refund because I was driving by rent a car up to Rockland.

This my dears….. is an entirely other story.

At last 

We reached Mom & Spruce Head Maine at midnight.

Tell me, isn't my dog a little saint?

She never made a peep or a problem.

And it was her very 1st airline trip.

I am so proud of her.

For now,

I am just praying my things arrive in one piece when the truck comes.

Later….give me some time.

I am in shock and trying to decompress.

love all my friends xoxo

Renee Finberg 'TELLS ALL' in her Blog of her Adventures in Design,Boca Raton and Camden Maine, All Interior Design Services, the move to maine, it's been a bitch