tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72797391316869195662024-03-04T21:03:43.544-08:00Just ElegyrlI'm a girl who loves elephants and Disneyland. This is my blog!elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.comBlogger257125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-70594378276096480182021-05-07T23:21:00.000-07:002021-05-07T23:21:08.778-07:00Disneyland Closes and Re-Opens Last year some of my friends and I had planned a trip to Disneyland for Sat March 14th... then as the weekend got closer, so did a lot of Covid related information. Things started to change, and the Governor of Ca said that there were going to be some mandates for social distancing and so forth to try and "flatten the curve" for the spread of the disease. He said initially that theme parks elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-74776512909955642862021-05-02T17:39:00.001-07:002021-05-02T17:39:02.859-07:00Life Moves on I have been meaning to post for quite some time now. So today I will be doing a double posting. I am going to update on my life a bit, since that's overdue, as well as an update about Disneyland. So my last post was a few years ago. I don't know how it's been that long, but as we all know life moves on. It goes fast when it comes to kids growing up and things we want to elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-54513423660592218892018-12-07T21:43:00.000-08:002018-12-07T21:43:08.273-08:00Borderline ShootingI haven't shared much about my experience with work from the Borderline shooting and fires. Please be patient with me as I do so now. A month ago after the shooting, I took a call at work from an un-informed civilian. It was a negative call, filled with hurtful & untrue statements. The kind of call that stirred a lot of emotions and made it hard to remain professional. It elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-24967311621064433972018-10-01T11:59:00.002-07:002018-10-01T11:59:17.776-07:00Stuff i've madeelegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-48417316927290965432018-10-01T10:36:00.002-07:002018-10-01T10:36:25.318-07:00Birthday poemTODAY’S YOUR BIRTHDAY
IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU
BUT YOU’RE SO FAR AWAY
SO I’M SENDING AN IOU
I PLAN TO TREAT YOU
SHOW YOU THAT I CARE
IT’S SOMETHING I WANT TO DO
FOR YOU ONCE YOU’RE NEAR
FOR NOW AS A START
I WROTE THIS POEM JUST FOR YOU
SOME WORDS FROM THE HEART
THE LEAST I COULD DO
I LOVE OUR CONVERSATION
THAT I CAN BE MYSELF
NOT WANTING IT TO END
WON’T PUT MY LOVE UPON A SHELF
I HOPE TO TAKE THIS elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-82265255446907831932018-04-11T00:59:00.002-07:002018-04-11T00:59:18.400-07:00WaitingSitting Here i wait
With full uncertainty
Here i wonder and debate
Will i hear from thee
I'm not sure how i feel
It all came on so quick
Could this be truly be real
Or some sort of heart trick
It's been so different
From things I've felt before
If everything said was meant
Then how could i ignore
I cried when you said
You had to go away
A moment of dread
I didn't know what to say
My heartelegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-52558709588389180342018-03-08T23:38:00.000-08:002018-03-08T23:38:37.015-08:002017 Christmas Poem 2017 HAS BEEN A GREAT YEAR
FILLED WITH LOVE, LAUGHTER AND AN OCCASIONAL TEAR
PLENTY OF VISITS WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS
MAKING MEMORIES THAT WILL NEVER END
A SUMMER ROAD TRIP IN A RENTAL CAR
SEEING NEW SIGHTS NEAR AND FAR
TRAVELLED TO SEVENTEEN STATES
OVER 4000 MILES, IT WAS GREAT
THIRTY TRIPS TO DISNEYLAND
LIFE IS MY OWN ADVENTURELAND
I HAVE A NEW NIECE AND NEPHEW TOO
ADD TO MY LOVE TO THE elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-86803475383522827242018-03-08T23:27:00.000-08:002018-03-08T23:27:45.676-08:00SilenceYour silence speaks loudly
Many words to my ears
Your silence says things
I don't want to hear
I thought you were different
You even claimed to be
I thought you a friend
Then you abandoned me
I don't know what happened
Why did you change
It used to feel natural
Now you've taken away the sun
I'll keep moving forward
My life will keep going
I'll keep my perspective
No timeelegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-74979292693146151742018-03-08T23:20:00.000-08:002018-03-08T23:20:16.446-08:00Short or unfinished poetryWhen you smile
it lights the room
When you laugh
it erases all my gloom
When you talk
it fills my soul with glee
When you smile, laugh and talk
right to me
11/2/16
We make choices all day long
Choose to be weak
Or choose to be strong
3/28/17
Forgotten:
Sometimes I feel forgotten
Like I've been left behind
Am I really forgotten
Or is it just in my mind
It used to feel so simple
Things came so elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-41198069501899449372018-03-08T23:13:00.000-08:002018-03-08T23:13:49.622-08:00Forever and a dayThe title says it all!! That's how long it has been since I have been on here and written anything! There have probably been like a million times that I have thought to write about life and such. I have also written some more poetry since I have been gone too... so I need to add those ... but first a little life update I guess....
In the past two years, a few friendships have come and gone. Lifeelegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-74239862230905340112016-11-09T21:36:00.004-08:002016-11-09T21:36:48.710-08:00Garage Sale Gnome
Once
upon a time, all great stories begin this way right? Well this is more than a
story. It is an experience never to be forgotten. It is about strangers meeting
and sharing a connection. It’s about adventure, and life and how one moment can
change everything. It’s a legacy; it’s an ancestral history of the great gnome
of Simi Valley. Have I gotten your interest yet? I hope so.
Now the detailselegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-27968543965978357022016-10-13T22:59:00.003-07:002016-10-13T22:59:49.509-07:00A true friendI'm not myself when you're around
You lift my feet up off the ground
You help me spread my wings to fly
Set my goals within the sky
I really don't know what to say
I'm becoming a new person each new day
It's like you're some kind of glue
I feel like I'm sick attracted to you
I don't know where this is going
I wonder if I'd be happy knowing
You've brought my life a new light
Each time we talk my elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-38480750980169530952016-10-12T07:59:00.002-07:002016-10-12T07:59:51.101-07:00A tiny seedA tiny seed
Becomes a weed, flower, or tree
A tiny seed
Grows inside of me
I don't know what will blossom
I don't know what will bloom
The seed of faith is awesome
It will grow if given room
The seed grows differently
For you, than for me
You may have a strong oak tree
I may only have a daisy
Does that mean your faith is stronger?
Or that mine is no longer?
That's the thing about faith
You elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-66460061078538296022016-10-09T00:48:00.000-07:002016-10-20T19:49:17.198-07:00I don't know what is realI don't know what to think.
I don't know what to feel.
I don't know what is me,
I don't know what is real.
Am I just imagining,
These thoughts within my heart.
Is it only make believe?
It's tearing me apart.
I really can't explain it.
It really makes no sense.
It's like I don't deserve it,
But it's giving me such happiness.
I really wishelegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-22108753827694215152016-09-19T23:36:00.004-07:002016-09-19T23:36:46.846-07:00The Friendship Tree
What once was so small
before something grew,
the seed became so tall
everything was still so new.
A little water and then to wait,
to see what you would bloom.
For a time, not knowing its fate
Hoping the sun would outlast the gloom.
What once was a tiny seed,
with nourishment did grow.
Whatever it did need
you began to learn and know
Once it started to take root
and turned into a elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-51280735949069273482016-09-08T23:38:00.000-07:002016-09-08T23:38:00.076-07:00GoldilocksWell I knew that I had updated my blog about my car, but until tonight when I signed in again, I didn't realize that last blog was in May! Man how the time flies by! Since that time a lot has happened. We did some electrical tests and were getting inconsitent results, and numbers that were way out of the normal, but not only that, they didn't seem right at all. So it led to more questions and elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-21154918686831746422016-05-19T23:25:00.000-07:002016-05-20T22:16:58.740-07:00Adventures of me and my CR-V
I haven’t been able to drive my car since the end of February when it was acting up as I arrived to Disneyland and prior to leaving the parking lot. I ended up having it towed home and my sister Denise picked up my friend and I from the park to get us home. My car is a little older (2004) and I know that she’s had better days. She’s got high mileage (over 215,000) which is incredible to elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-51120664314686808112016-03-25T00:04:00.001-07:002016-03-25T00:04:18.111-07:00ThinkingSo after all I have been through in the past few years, as well as my Hypothyroidism not being regulated (I missed a few lab tests and it ended up being out of range, i've since had my dosage adjusted and as of today am back just within the normal range) I ended up gaining back the weight I lost 3 years ago. At first when I lost my dad and everyone else I was mostly able to stay within a few elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-76942313426301673942016-03-14T23:06:00.000-07:002016-03-14T23:06:12.454-07:00CurveballsWell life has continued to be a handful of curveballs for myself and my family. I know it's been awhile since I have posted and although there have been good moments and fun experiences, there have also continued to be heataches and trials. Last year my dad's sister (my aunt) Patricia passed away. So after losing my dad, and my uncle we also lost their sister. It really worries me because the elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-13602112803410926802016-03-14T21:49:00.001-07:002016-03-14T21:49:33.817-07:00Kiss You At the Gate
I saw you standing at the gate
I wanted to run and kiss you again
We'd already said our goodbyes
I thought you had already gone inside
Then you were there, looking at me
I thought, "Should I do it?"
What would he think?
I thought I would go for it
Ready to run
I reached for my buckle
The moment begun
Then you waved and turned around
The moment had passed
I hesitated too long
I elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-42612272496822302202015-02-17T22:44:00.000-08:002015-02-17T22:44:00.544-08:00My first love...So I am a few days late in this post, but I have been thinking about it and what I would write for at least a week prior to Valentines Day. I had even considered writing it in advance and waiting to post Saturday, but didn't get a moment to do that either. I wanted to start it basically how my Facebook status was on Saturday. This is what my status said:
One year ago today i lost the first man Ielegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-90484748346372917982015-02-10T23:40:00.002-08:002015-02-10T23:59:21.250-08:00Christmas & Starting 2015Christmas... another tough holiday without Dad! We had another tear filled dinner thinking about how there's that empty chair. There was a lot of emotions in general anyway because when I was younger we lost my grandma on Christmas Eve, and now we were having the first Christmas without him.
Prior to Christmas day was my holiday party at work. This time instead of Angela coming with me, John elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-31121204678603542052015-02-10T23:01:00.001-08:002015-02-10T23:01:57.977-08:003 Thanksgiving's Well I must admit this post (and the next couple to come) are obvious late in the writing. But they've been on my mind for some time! In fact everytime I think about my blog or wanting to write or anything else I would think this exact blog post title "3 Thanksgivings" because it was what I wanted to write back in November.
My family for the past few years have done 2 elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-1541094764809897762014-11-04T22:31:00.001-08:002014-11-04T22:31:19.970-08:00Just Checking InSo I realized today while I was at work that I haven't updated my blog in awhile. Now that I am online, I can see it's been about a month. Things are still going well with J. He is such a nice guy and has treated me with the utmost respect. He kind of has to, he's been warned by several others I know that he better treat me right or he better watch out. It's kind of crazy, because I had teased elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7279739131686919566.post-25291515422938469732014-10-04T15:03:00.001-07:002014-10-04T15:03:58.524-07:00A Silver LiningSometimes amidst the dark clouds of trials and hard times in life, we find a "silver lining". Sometimes there is something in our life that comes along and shines through everything else. Usually it is completely unexpected and I guess that is the beauty of it. That is what makes it so unique and wonderful. Sometimes it also makes it a little scary and unsure. I know that God has a plan for each elegyrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13833362584579405223noreply@blogger.com1