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I wouldn’t call it “love” and dare I even call it a ‘relationship’. Given that scenario, then, what WOULD you call it?

I’d call it definitely ‘complimentary’. She fills my needs as much as I fill her need to be used and exploited. And exploited is definitely what I do however, I feel as if I could exploit her features more. I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Unaware is she, of my plans for her in the near future. I hope she holds out long enough.

In the last days of May, I lost the woman in me. It it now June 1st, a few hours past and I am wondering if I’ll get her back again.

Getting back into the groove again ever so slowly. Slowly but surely, I’ll make it. I must remember not to loose myself in the face of all adversity. I am not alone. I am where I need to be and every challenge that I perceive as difficult simply becomes an opportunity for learning, for growth and for the extension of LOVE unto thy self.

I AM INTACT.

7 more days and it’ll mark a whole YEAR that I’ve been here in Frankfurt, Germany. I survived!!!  Hmmm.. technically, I still have 7 more days to survive.

Come back after May 8 to see if I’m really still around.

I can’t even remember when I last posted here. It seems as if my multitasking skills have eluded me.

I’ve been settling into the Business English Language Trainer role pretty well. I like it a lot. It’s challenging in the aspect of being able to answer questions about grammar, word usage, culture as well as preparing stimulating lessons that offer challenge at a specific English level and also making it fun.

I receive my first pay check for the month of Feb. It was 627 euro. It certainly wasn’t what I was use to making when I was a nurse but I could not complain. Just being able to know I had some money in the bank to perhaps buy tampons was peace of mind enough.

I have been carefully budgeting it. Because my work is freelance, the hours are not set and therefor neither is my pay check amount. For the month of March, I will barely make 400 euro, thanks to the Easter Holiday.

I don’t know how I’ll be able to save enough for the things I need but I am just hoping that I get more hours of teaching while at the same time, the Empowered by English program I want to set up here, will hopefully start up soon.

The weather has been good. I cannot complain at all. I’ve managed to fend off the cold (which really was mild compared to what friends and family were getting in Toronto) with my sweater coat layered on top of a sweater dress, black cotton long sleeve shirt and sort black cotton bolero. *sigh*

I have been wearing this outfit everyday. Once, at one of my classes, the students had noticed me wearing the same outfit and had commented, “Is that the Kern uniform?”

I simply smiled and replied, “No, it’s the ‘waiting for your first paycheck attire.”

Spring is here .. but we did have a week of cold winter interjected in.

When I bike to work, into downtown and through the tree lined back way streets I feel happy. I feel happy that I have made it this far. I am happy that I am able to work here in Frankfurt, make it through the adjustment stage - which I am still going through, only  not as bad as before.

I miss Houston. I miss my family, my friends, the food, my Picasso, my books,  my things, my clothes, my piano - basically, I miss my life back in Houston.

However, I made the choice to come here and I am determined to work it out. I am determined to create a life for me here in Europe - every bit as beautiful as the one I just left.

Slowly acquiring work through teaching English on a freelance basis. The pay is not what I have been use to as as agency nurse working at Memorial Hermann Hospital but beggars can’t be choosers. Hmmm, I need to stop saying that. I am not a ‘beggar’. I am an individual with many skills to offer, making me an invaluable employee for any company.

Now that  I have my Freelance Work Permit I am actually thinking of doing the English Language Teacher Stint as a self employed business per se.

All’s quiet in the home front. But who knows when the next storm will arrive. Perhaps there is one in the horizon. I can feel it brewing.

Today I need to at least accomplish 2 things. Well, the list of “things to do today” far exceeds two items this is my attempt at prioritizing.

I will spend some time in Africa. Virtual Africa that is, and take some photos for an article I want to start and hope to complete today before my head rests itself on the long rounded Ikea Pillow whose feathers stick out and poke me in the face.

I will also need to prepare a pre-press package for tonights Grand Ball at Tiffany’s. Susie Staheli of Second Life just sent me an IM nearly 5 hours ago telling me that I needed to be there at the Ball tonight for the great networking opportunity that she has provided for me. She also told me that one of the store owners was asking her about the magazine and its ad rates. I wonder if it’s the same person that had IM’d me earlier asking about the magazine.

One things at a time, but really to my A.D.D.’ness it’s more like 3 or 4 things at a time.

Well, I am going to quickly make my blog rounds and then log onto Second Life and see what I need to take care of and then start on that pre-press package.

What started off as a name that came to me in a dream is now a website with some copy and graphics. As humble as it may appear, the saying still goes, “Big things come in small packages.”

When the name 3D World Media was first heard as an astral whisper, and then became a website that I registered, I still had no idea what it all meant. I had no idea why the name came to me in a dream .. but I followed it.

I followed it but did not spend time on it. I simply allowed it to “BE”.

Now, 3D World Media is up, not yet formally launched but a group was created in Facebook and I now has 15 members - 13 were direct invites and 2 was a ‘join’.  But before the creation of the Group on Facebook I still did not know what the name would mean nor did I know what the site would be about. All I knew was that I had to set up a Group on Facebook.

At the initial creation of the Group, going through the administrative part - the concept started to come to mind and I was able to formulate the words that would describe what 3D World Media was going to be about. It was amazing. I had once again been guided by ‘whatever’ and had somehow managed to form sentences that I was not even aware of, until I saw each word follow after the other.

The very next day I was surprised and happy to see that Kim Kerr of AVinTOUCH had joined! She was the first member. I didn’t even tell her about the group. This act alone prompted me to focus on what was next - a site.

I had arranged for my currently web hosting company 3ix to acquire the domain name 3D World Media and had installed Joomla a few weeks ago. It was now time to set the wheels in motion.

I am again pleased to announce the pre-launch of the site. Check it out.

I am please to announce the pre-launch of Tech Savvy Tech Sexy! Check it out.

www.techsavvytechsexy.com

It only took 3 days from the start of the Joomla download and installation to the completion of the “The Time of My Life” piece!