So, I don't have alot to say, I just had this thought and wanted to share it....
When you hop on a star and you think that it is the one that will get you where you want to go only to find that it doesnt seem to be so... stay on, enjoy the ride because it may take more than one to get where you are going.
Anyway, it makes since to me.. Haha! Well, I hope everyone is doing great. I'm doing pretty good. My star keeps changing but I'm gonna get there. I'm really confussed these days but I know I'm headed in the right direction.
This makes no sense but I guess I wanted to post and let ya'll know I stll think about our times together. Greg, your almost there. I wish I could come to your graduation, I haven't given up yet. It would be great to see you and the FSM team. Its a proud accomplishment that leaves you with a great feeling for the rest of your life.
Hope, keep trucking...good things come to those who wait.
AnnaBob, I miss you soooooo much, Tuesdays are never the same anymore until i think about our cracker bond.
Marshall, Steven, Elijah, here you're out west......soak it in....lets now all about the adventures.
To everyone else, where are you?
The world will always spin in your favor, sometimes you just gotta quit walking against the current and let the current take you, I imagine....
If anyone sees anyone please give them a hug for me. And if you see me tell me stay put till I get there. Haha!!
Enjoy your one free ride around the sun, I'll be seeing you!

Party!!!

Hey ya'll.

I'd like to respond to everyone's post (i.e., AnnaBob, Hope, Steph and all the wonderful people of the Winter Class of 2007), and yet time is tight. Just wanted to let everyone know that tomorrow night (Friday night) the Old Class is throwing a party for the New Class. If any of you guys can make it, that will make the party that much fuller and meaningful. I really love you guys and would love to see you there.

I'll be in touch as soon as life stops spinning so fast (will that ever happpen?). See you soon!

Love ya always,
Greg

AnnaBob in the house!!!

Hello my lovely people! Just droppin by to fill ya in on me and my world. I have rescheduled my test...I was supposed to take it on the 30th...however, I do not feel prepared. So now I am taking it on February 16. Gives me more time for ME! Other than that I am still just living the beach life. Staying with my mom for now until I get my $$$ right...which hopefully won't be too long. I just had another birthday and man how time flies. It seems the older I get the faster the years go. I am single and loving it...to a point! I told someone just today I wanted a good man and he replied "that is an oxymoron"...I laughed and laughed.
Anyway, I am glad to see a few people posting, would love to see more...but hey, I will take what I can get! I am still planning on coming down for graduation in March, but it doesn't look like I will be down any sooner than that.
Well I guess that is all for now.
I love you all and miss everyone sooooo much!


xoxoxoxo~The one & only: ANNABOB

The Good, The Bad and the Downright Nasty

The Good: I'm moving my practice to Gainesville. My new place is on 8th Ave and I'm sharing space with an old friend. It'll be nice to have a place that's easier for me to get to.
The Bad: My hands are still going numb so I finally went to my Dr. about it. An xray showed degerated discs that could contribute to the numbness in my hands. So I had an MRI last week and will go see an Orthopedic dude in a couple of weeks to find out more. Greg has some more info for me too, I'll be seeing him Saturday.
The Downright Nasty: I was at the local spa that has been calling me in for massage and one of the regular MT's there asked me if a particular client had ever asked me for anything "extra". I said no, he hadn't, and she said "well, he asked me today!". Ick. I'm glad it wasn't me. I'm pretty sure they won't let him come back.

~Stephanie

Onward and upward

This is Hope. A little update, I now have a new job and tomorrow I have my first massage at Rubies and Pearls Day Spa, in Gainesville. I am very excited about it. I am hoping this is the beginning of my whole massage therapy career.

I had lunch with Shay last week and then seen Shay and Shelley the next day. It was so good to connect with a couple of FSM peeps.
I want to hear from many more, like
Rosalind, need an update on you, are you still in Gainesville? among the details of your life. last we heard you and Sam are together, how is it going?
AnnaBob, what is up with you? How is the panhandle, beach and life there?
Turtle, how is it going for you in Tennessee? great I hope, update please.
Greg, you have done well, keeping up with us and school, I can't believe you only have 2 months left, wow time flys, huh?
Steph, thanks so much for this connection place, I appreciate it.
Everyone else, I want to hear from you also. Please post.
Love you all,
Hope

Jackson Hole, Wyoming........

Hello Marshall,

Alright. I saw your picture on the comment to my post and it looked as if you were standing in a snowy place. Are you in the wilds of Wyoming? I'd love to know what you're up to and how you're doing. Also, we (the old class) are hosting a party for the new class. Where is our Pyrotechnician Extraodinaire? I imagine he might be in a snowy place out West. Do you have a number for Neal so we can have a drum circle? Thanks Marshall. I miss you. It's not the same around here without you.

Yours always,
Greg

The Saga Continues

Hello All.

Just a quick hello so you know that I'm still around. Well, the Florida School of Massage saga continues. The Winter Class of 2008 started this past Wednesday (yesterday). Has it really been a year seen we (the Winter Class of 2007) all sat in the Blue Room and looked at each other as strangers, only to become connected in such a deep and profound way? Today we did the double circle thing where we greeted the new class. It was really cool, because we did a neat NMT session and then Paul came in to give us our instructions and he seemed happy to report that the rain had subsided and that the dumpster truck had already come by and made all it's racket (remember the dumbster truck banging the lid during our two circles?). The circle contact and lunch with the new class was a special event in the course of the Fall Class 2007. We are now the, "Old Class". As I said, the saga continues.

I'm also reporting that life is good and satisfying, and yet very busy and hurried. Overall, I'm very much into the whole process. Lately, I've often thought about the fact that school will be over in less than two months. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, life will become simpler for me and yet, on the other hand, I don't want it to end. What a paradox, and yet the reality of March 7th, 2008 will resolve the issue. I hope you all are well and I look forward to hearing from you all and how your lives are going.

Love you always,
Greg

So tell me again how change is good?

It hasn't been that long ago that I posted, then again seems like forever to me.

Last thing I posted about was all the changes coming into my life. Thinking things were going to be settling down, was a mistake. My work life has just dropped a bomb on me this last weekend. I WILL NOT be working for SEVENTH HEAVEN DAY SPA in Chiefland. I spent months waiting for them to open the doors to this new spa just to be told on Sunday that they didn't think a would be a part of thier team, all because the communication level there was non-existent and the MT were all comparing notes on what was going to happen, me trying to be helpful as always got stuck in the middle of a big misunderstanding and after talking to by standers instead of coming to me they judged me as a problem started and pot mixer. So there went months of wasting my time waiting to make a go of it. On to bigger and better things.

I am going to interview today (tuesday) at another spa this one in Gainesville, the position is perfect as far as hours go and the owner is a sweetheart, she has actually purchased some of Hope Scents products before. I will let you know how it goes.

Still going to be starting at the Chiropractor in Trenton within a few weeks, so I am getting it all together.
Take care everyone. And thanks to FSM for teaching us NO JUDGEMENTS. I will forever remember our sweet group and time there. Love to you all.
Holding my chin high
Hope

I accept.

Ok, I'll take the challenge.
I've been peeking in, but not really taking the time to post. Sorry y'all!
Today I'm staying home because I'm sick. I went to the Dr. on Monday to find out what's wrong with my hands (still having numbness & tingling) and while I was there she said I had a fever! No wonder I've been feeling crappy. I tried to go to work yesterday but ended up coming home after a few hours and sleeping for most of the afternoon. So that's what I'm doing. Pretty much just feeling crappy.
~Steph

Challenge

Hey everyone I have been checking this blog religiously and I am disappointed to say the least. I want to know everything that is going on with everyone who reads the blog that Steph so graciously set up for us.

So I challenge everyone to post asap what is going on in your lives; such as are you working? if so where? if not what are you doing to pass the time. I just miss everyone and need you all to step up and post already, jeeze. lol

Anyway I will be checking so get to it. Love to you all
Hope

Sorry it has been so long....

I know I haven't written in a long time...sorry for that. Just know I do read the posts.
I have something I have to share with everyone, I am sure you will all appreciate it.
My niece is 4 yrs old and her name is Haley...well yesterday she told me she wanted to give me a massage...mind you I haven't really given her a massage...just rubbed her back every once in a while. Well as she is massaging me, she was doing actual strokes and using pressure and really doing it. I asked her how she knew how to do that and she said "I don't know I just know & I practice" I teared up then and am teared up now just thinking about. Anyway, I am one who believes in old souls and I am for sure she is one. She is my little angel. I guess massage just comes natural to some...hopefully she will become one when she is older and hopefully FSM will still be the school for her to go to!

Anyway, so I am waiting to take my test, I will take it on January 30 at 8am. So please send me lots and lots of positive energy that day.
I am not working right now, I was working at a convient store, but they wanted me to work the graveyard shift and I am not down with that. I put my application back in at Nextel, which is where I worked for 3 yrs prior, I start Jan 14.
I am back in the dating world and it sucks...so I am just chillin with my friends.

Greg, I will try my dangest to get to your graduation, just keep reminding me of when it is...OK?
So I am done rambling on and on. I miss everyone of you and love you all very much. I think of our time together all the time, I hate being so far away...just know you are all in my heart FOREVER!

The one & only ~ANNABOB

Out with the .....

Out with the old Year and in with the New Year 2008.
What happened in 2007? Well for me alot, just a little run down. End of 2006, quit my job I had for 17 years, took a huge leap of FAITH and went back to school. Massage School as most of you know. There I met alot of good people, worked through a dependency of anti depressants I had been on for almost 5 years, learning how to live again, feel again and just be myself again, were very hard for me. Thankfully I had my family and friends, old and new to help my through it all. If it wasn't for all of that I really do not know where I would be right now.
Okay so I made it through school, passed the test, got the license, now it's time to start making a new career for myself. LMT, licensed massage therapist to those you don't know. Starting my new job at a Spa in Chiefland, training starts tomorrow, looking forward to actually doing massage again and being in a great place, a place full of compassion, caring individuals( some FSM graduates) just wanting to help others take a moment to realize life is what you make it, whether it is good or bad, put in good and good will come back, I hope to put in alot of good, cause I definitely want alot of it back.
Now on to the NEW, New Year, New Job, New Opportunities to meet New People. Not that I am leaving behind the ones I met in 2007, some are very dear to my heart and I think of them often, ocassionally get to see them); others that cross my mind, I think of in different ways, thankfulness that I had them in my life for the season that I needed them. Believe me ---- recognizing this is a big one for me. Everyone who knows me, really knows me, would know that I would love to keep everyone of you close by forever, unfortunately, life doesn't work that way, so I take what I can get ( a message, text or call every now and then, maybe even lunch) and I try my best to count all of it as a blessing, whether it hurts or feels good, whether it makes me cry or laugh, until I snort. I really hope all of you know what kind of impact you have had on my life, and in case I didn't say it out loud, I love you all and I'm thankful that I got to meet you and share moments I will cherish forever.
Deep Breath, wiping away tears. I am moving onward and upward and I know I will run into to some of you on the way, I hope I remember to take the time to stop and spend a moment to enjoy the companionship however long it lasts.
Love to you All and Happy new year, I wish you all a very blessed year in 2008. Resolving to enjoy all the minutes that go by. Okay so now, I made up for not blogging for so long. Take care everyone.
Hope