Have you ever been inspired by the words of a poem?

That is the blog prompt for today, and I can honestly say yes. While on a search for quotes and poems for my oldest daughters graduation album I came across this:

Life isn't about
finding yourself
Life is about
creating yourself

It made me stop and really think about the way I look at myself and my life. I am responsible for who I am. Sure, others may have some influence in one way or another, but overall I am it. Whatever I don't like about myself I have to be the one to change it. No one else has the power to change me.

I keep that little quote handy so that I can be reminded on a daily basis.

On to other news. The prompts for My Freedom just keep rolling in and it has been a fun exercise in thinking about Time and Travel this week. I have gone back to my childhood and tryed to recall all those little things. Today we are working on designing our first layout for the album and doing a bit of journaling based upon the prompts earlier in the week. I have done the writing assignments no problemo, the deciding upon an album and what color cardstock and what patterned papers I want to use for this has gotten me stuck. Since I am in the US and Shimelle is in the UK the kits were unavailable for good reason. Besides which I am literally drowning in a sea of patterned paper that just keeps finding its way to me and so I am all for using what I have and not buying. We will just have to see how that goes.

This morning I registered for Creative Escape and booked my flight to Phoenix. No going back now as everything is non-refundable. I am looking forward to this soooo much. I haven't been back out west in 12 years and it will almost be like going home. Almost I said. I grew up in Utah and lived with snow and cold more than warm, so this will still be a bit of a shock for me.

Well, I need to find something to do. I am here by myself (again) but I am running a fever and really feel like poo. If the phone would just stop I could get a dang nap in!