The Dream Mobile!

Our Wonderful New Vacation and Get Away Tool!

It is all ours now. This gorgeous 1989 Airstream 370LE and extremely rare and gorgeous Airstream. It is literally a collectors item as only 15 of them were ever made in 1989 and now only five remain on the road and we have one of them. It is in immaculate condition and we are thrilled to have it. The previous owners were so sad to see it go, but they know that they sold to two people who would take as good a care of it that coach as they did. How great is that. There are such wonderful, positive, vibrant people in the world and my husband and I connect to these types of people instantly. Pat and Patty were our type of people! We connected instantly.

Then there are the types that are selfish, self-absorbed, jealous, constantly negative, and energy suckers. Those are the people that I am working on removing from my life as quickly as possible. I absolutely can not and will not surround myself with these energy suckers because they so want to be happy and have the light of love in their eyes but they just can't do it themselves, so they suck the rest of us dry. Argh. Those types I am throwing in the trash can, literally, the trash being for yucky people.

However I will continue praying for these people and I know who they are and I pray that they find their own light and stop feeding off of everyone else.

So, with that off my back, I can say that I am thrilled to have this glorious new Airstream we've named the Dream Mobile. Because it is our dream and certainly my dream to be gone for the builk of the winter. I have more girl friends wanting to come down that my husband is saying that he is going to have to kick the chick slumber party out so he can have a little time with his wife. What a hoot.

But, first we are getting a queen size bed in that Airstream because who uses twin beds anymore? I mean really. Good Grief. More to come...

Robin

PS please take time to say a kind word to someone who so obviously doesn't feel good about themselves or are so insecure they can't move forward themselves. They can use our good thoughts and God's wonderful love to intervene.

Are You Ready To Rumble? Because I am!! Ha!

Beyond Excitement-- if there is such a thing

I truly do not know if one can be so excited that they are ready to burst, but that would be me right now. Here's the thing...

I feel like I have finally landed after careening down the black and horrible tunnel I have been sliding down for the past four years. Yes, I have come to a dead stop and amazingly enough, I am now on the way back up. God is truly my savior and the love of my life. I am entirely grateful to have such faith and a faith which has been restored to an even higher level than once before. I have a friend who has said to me a gazillion times, how his mother would "work the beads" and this is exactly what I have done and the most consistent action I have taken for the past four years. Every time I thought my life was over or that my life was destroyed and over, something would happen, which would seemingly come out of no where, snap my head around, and suddenly my perspective about my situation would change, or my situation would actually change, and I would be left in awe. The type of awe which only God can provide. All because I worked the beads.

Now, here I am, still climbing out a little at a time, but climbing out of the fray, the depression, the despair, the hate, the rage, the...everything else that comes with being buried in a hateland which was so awful that I could not imagine my life anything but over. It is truly, truly amazing that I no longer feel this same way. At all.

So, yesterday, I was discussing the tough past few years with my Naturopathic doctor, Nita Champion, and she was truly amazed and respectful of the fact that not one time during that dark period of my life had I ever resorted to taking an anti-depressant or an anti-anything else for that matter because the pills would alter my thinking and feeling.

No, Nita was actually amazed that I was willing to allow myself to FEEL the depression and despair because it is a NORMAL and NATURAL response when difficult, and majorly challenging times occur in our lives. I am not in any way judging how others handle their emotions, but I do want to say that there are other ways one can respond to the pain and suffering and dark times of life than taking pills to alter a feeling which is normal and natural. I will, however, confess to having terrible thoughts of suicide, which never in my life had I ever even considered. But, I could not resort to that because I thought it so selfish and hurtful to those people who loved me so much: my husband, my family, my closest friends. Instead, I leveraged those very people to help me deal with the pain, suffering and sorrow I was experiencing. Most importantly, I leaned and relied on God more than at any other point in my entire life. I fell in love with God all over again because He, once again, saved my life. He gave my life back to me many times during the course of my life and I owe Him everything. Everything.

Also, I owe homage to the phrase my friend so unknowingly gave me.

Work The Beads.

And another little thing:: Thank you, God! We have an Airstream!! What a hoot. Never in my wildest dreams. Ha!!!!!!

1989 Airstream 370LE--certainly one of a kind!

How fabulous is this?? I mean really. This particular Airstream is extremely rare as reported in an earlier blog. There are only five of these units remaining in existing and on the road.

According to Bob Wheeler, President + CEO of Airstream, we have a just purchased a truly rare and classic beauty. Plus, Bob has now named me one more in the "tribe" of hardcore Airstreamers and I am blessed to have such recognition.

The interior I will be revamping to fit my style of interior design, of course. I love the previous owner but pink and gilded gold are just not me so we will be doing a little uplift and bringing this into the 21 C. or simply returning it to its retro style I haven't decided yet. I simply need to spend some time in the unit to see what type of "sense" I get from it.

Now, I am off to see a Naturopathic doctor, whose name is Nita Champion. I will give you the outcome of the meeting of course. You can count on it. I am thrilled to be honoring the anthesis of our Western medicine ideas and balancing that with some Chinese medicine. I figure, if the Chinese have been doing things for over 2,000 years it can't be bad!! It is probably really good...the opposite of what I think. So this is very, very good indeed.

Jeez, I think I am beginning to write in the way Ducky speaks on NCIS my favorite TV show, period. Mark Harmon could not be any hotter, I mean really. Yikes.

Okay, more to come shortly.

Reporting from The RockinR Ranch

The Mobile Rockin R Ranch

Meet our new home::

1989 Airstream 370LE

Extremely Rare!

Wow, what a stroke of luck! My husband was goofing around on the internet and guess what he found? Yep, a 1989 Airstream 370LE in immaculate condition. It has had two owners, and now us. 45K miles on it and the interior is perfectly Airstream. Mitch said, "Honey do you think you could live in this motorhome for the winter" and I was quick to say "You can't be serious, of course I can". But before the emotional buy we asked the wonderful Rick to look it over and to make sure it is in good working order. He said he would buy it. Well, that was all I needed to hear. So, we bought the coach last Saturday and the closing will be the end of this week or Monday. Can you stand it?

So, I am now free from the cold, snowy winter in Minnesota, which makes my arthritis so bad I can hardly move. We have decided that we will find a RV park in Fredericksburg , TX as I have a lot of friends there and and in Horseshoe Bay and Austin. OMG, I am so excited I am ready to burst. The interior of the coach had the last owners touch but it isn't mine, so I will be changing that. But everything else is fantastic.

Did I mention that in 1989 they only made 15 of these motorhomes. They have Chillig chassie's on them and a very powerful Ford engine and transmission. Fast forward to today and we are the proud owners of the only five units still in use! Wow.

At the end of August is Mitch's birthday and early September is mine. We we decided to drive it my in--laws who live a stones throw from Jackson Center where ALL Airstreams are made. Some of you may recall that I worked with them for at least five years and I got to know everyone there. So, the President + CEO, Bob Wheeler, and I go way back. He would like to see it and so would the entire manufacturing staff. We, of course, will pop in and say hello to them as well.

So, there is always something positive that comes from prayer and meditation. Mitch and I put the vibe out to God through prayer and the result was not what we expected, it was beyond anything we could have ever thought of! How great is that. We can tun around in the mountains

And when I am settled in, I would expect many of my girl friends and family members and my HUSBAND to come and see us. That means, Remy, Jack, Lily and moi. What a kick. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we'd have an Airstream and one that is literally a collectors item.

I will put all the pictures on my FB page so that you can see all the pictures Mitch took.

OH PTL ---just on time. When God wants you to wait on something it is always worth it.

More to come!!! Oh, and we've dubbed it the "The Mobile RockinR Ranch! And as Bob says," Welcome to the tribe". Yay.

OMG I love it.!!!

Robin

Don't LOOK Back!!

I am an extremely slow learner, but I now know this with conviction!

I know that looking back into my past is not even remotely rewarding or positive in any way, shape or form. Looking back into my past never conjures up positive memories but usually only memories which are sad and depressing and hurtful. In other words, they do me no good in the day I am currently in, which is today.

I have often been told over the years that God only gives us our daily bread. I would venture to guess that this means that God only gives us one day at a time to do with as we wish as He gives us free will. But it is our job to know, love, and serve Him to the best of our ability each and everyday. I must re-learn how to keep my mind where my feet are.

I know this may come as a shock, but I am simply not good at taking directions sometimes. I often think that my way is the best way and I start believing that. Yikes. Doing my own thinking is actually what gets me into considerable jams and that is not how I would like to function in this one life I have to live. I would like to live this life with calmness, serenity and a peace which passes all understanding.

When I relive experiences from the past I am frequently sad and in despair. Two very unproductive states of being.

Today, I work on not boarding that train. The train that states that I what I did in the past defines who I am today. Some of it has helped to shape the person I am today because I have not repeated any of the mistakes I have made in the past. Especially the biggest ones because then I have truly missed the lessons that I needed to learn. But when my mind travels back into the negative feelings that past mistakes make, I get progressively more miserable and right in the day that is mine today, not three years ago, so I end up missing the most vital parts of my life. The one that is occurring right now as I write this blog message. Living in the moment requires work. No wonder Eckhart Tolle wrote a book on living in the now. It is vitally important to me because it requires an enormous amount of effort on my part. Living in the moment doesn't come naturally to me at all. But with practice, I am hoping that it eventually will.

So, again I challenge any of the three of you that read this blog (teehee) to begin consciously learning how to live in the now and refrain from going backwards and revisit the past. This type of behavior is not productive or positive in anyway and I refuse to live in this manner.

One day at a time I will not allow any negative thoughts or emotions to enter my brain. One day at a time I am going to allow my love of God and God's love of me to enter my heart and mind and let that Tinkerbell dust drift over all those around me. I believe in Tinkerbell dust. I believe in God healing all things including my desire to hurt myself through my use of negative emotions and feelings. Nothing is accomplished by doing this. Only more self-hurt is a result. I want this no more. Period. Will you join me in this effort? No negative emotions in body or mind. Too destructive. Too depressing. Too much effort pushing God out of my life when the very thing is my desire for a more nurturing relationship with my Holy Father.

On this Father's Day weekend I will give thanks to my Heavenly Father first and my wonderful Daddy next. How wonderful is that?

Many joys be with you today. This day. The only day we have.

Robin

Rain Rain Go Away Come Again Some Other Day

it is a beautiful day nonetheless

My hands are always my indicator of a wet day as anyone with arthritis can attest. This day is like any other rainy day...today my hands ache and to top that off my physical terrorist really did a number on me yesterday. Yay! You say, how can I say Yay to hurting? Well, let's be positive here for a darn minute. Or, how 'bout for the rest of our lives? Because this is my long term strategy beginning right now. Positivity, period. In everything, period.

You have heard it hear first people. I am making a commitment right here on this blogspot to do my PT everyday, fearlessly and ferociously. With the complete competitiveness that has made me a brilliant business entrepreneur, writer and athlete. Whahoo, I say! Let's get Rockin at The RockinR Design Group where we are Extraordinarily Creative!

Who wants to join me in this type of commitment? You can commit to doing anything you have been procrastinating about. It can be anything you chose it to be, but it has to mean something and it has to be something that will add value and positivity to your life today and everyday. And then it will have lasting value to you and have a positive impact on someone else. Because we don't live in a vacuum now do we? As my dear, loving girl friend of all time and my spiritual guide, Joan Ryan says, positive, Godly energy is like Tinkerbell dust, it gets all over everybody around you once you have it inside your belly. Positive, Godly energy is positive, powerful stuff. I love that notion and visual in my mind's eye. Read some Louise Hay to get started if that helps as her positive affirmations regarding health is nothing short of amazing and transforming, not to mention spot-on!

For me, I am being asked to do two different types of PT. One is for my L5S1 facet joint impingement, and the other one is for my 8 week old post-operative right psoas tendon repair surgery. Ferocious. Fearless. Fiercely. The three F's. These words can be our new and vastly improved F-Bombs. And Brand New Mantra! I LOVE IT!

I am saying this for me, of course, having leanings slightly to the selfish side....ooops. But, I do want all of us to improve our situations and look at our health or anything else with new eyes and with the eyes of positivity. I do not believe, for one moment, that my creator put me on this planet to be unhappy and miserable. I believe He put me here to LOVE and BE of Service. Now, that I can understand and can relate to. How about you?

Now, I can do all of this by myself, but it seems to me to be much more fun if others reading this will challenge themselves to the three new F-bombs and commit to eating better, exercising more, loving more, and to improving our relationships with others and with God. Ultimately, this is my goal. To improve my relationship with God. Period. And since this body of mine is something He gave me I must do my best to take care of it. I have been blatantly irresponsible in this regard for many years and I am NOT doing it any longer. How about that! I feel empowered and I hate that word. It's so PC. And I HATE anything that smacks of PC. Ha!

So, I am beginning today, on this gloriously rainy day, by saying::

Good Morning God, what would you like me to do for YOU today? Because I will willingly do anything you would like me to do for You. The first is being gentle with my body and still give it some good, old-fashioned, physical terror! Ha. So, balance ball here I come...

Have a wonderful day where ever you are reading this.

Blessings and Namaste.

Robin

Gripe Mode!!

Let's talk digestive issues shall we?

I am now sure that I am over 50 because suffice to say, my digestive system is not like it used to be. I am now literally having to swallow that I can no longer tolerate diary products or anything with a high fat content. My little digestive tract is rebelling at every turn when I am eating certain foods.

Let's just say I am saying good-bye to ice cream and now need to try yogurt/soy ice cream if I must have to have it. Last week I did my own experiment and purposely did not eat any ice cream, including Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches. Oh, I am swooning from the mere thought of taking these things out of my diet! I love dessert and can eat it in the middle of day as well!! However, this is what I did last night as a little experiment. I simply love being an armchair MD! However, I ate wonderful organic foods and cooked from the South Beach and Anti-Inflammatory diet and never felt better. Then I had a pretty large (okay, HUGE) bowl of Kemp's Cow Tracks ice cream, ate several pieces of home made pizza with tons of cheese and then ended that dinner with a nice heaping blend of ice cream. Not good. Body rebelled. Last time that will happen. Must change diet! It is as simple as that. Argh!

I am back on the Actvia deal and will hopefully see some changes soon. But, every day I am working on sending positive energy to my entire body and I have complete faith in the fact that I am doing wonderful things to my body and equally wonderful things to my spirit.

Cheers and I will check in later to let you know of my success!

Robin

Now, it is off to do my morning exercises and then perhaps walk. My body will tell me what it needs to day. All I need to do is listen to it. How come it is that things can be so chimpanzee simple and I still don't understand.