Margo's got Moxie ! : the diary of miss red high heels

Hello ! Brief soujourn from the site. Matt and I have been busy bees, acclimating in our transition to Alabama. Hotel Mariott Residence Inn has been fabulous for our lifestyle changes and during learning new job etc, and house hunting. It has been a great retreat and nice to have free breakfast at hotel and free dinner some nights. I flew to southern California with Matt to see family for a couple days. Needless to say, it has been a good time and much needed; although a smidge overwhelming. It will be just enough to not see them for another several months essentially. Emotionally my brain still has not committed I have moved yet. I think it will take some getting used to, but I know when the truck arrives, I will be relieved and sad at the same time. 2018 has flown by for us and I didn't think it ever would. The distance gave way to us wanting to spend more time together. I know we will eventually want space, but right now it is great, hogging this time. Next year, we may be busy...

Hello Readers! I have taken a brief sojourn from my blog due to busy schedule, time constraints, and limiting my computer time. What’s new? Well, I have for starters wiped out social media from my regular routine and easy access. I had to really get into my core of what I really wanted for myself and wanted out of the sites I chose to use. I no longer possess accounts to Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. I have chosen to keep LinkedIn for professional resources. I noticed a lot of my time was spent on social media sites, which wound up leaving me drained, stressed, and my eyes burned from excessive screen time. I work 9 hrs a day 7 days a week except, for working Fridays 8 hrs at a computer all day. The last thing my body needs is more time on websites that don’t really serve me or my livelihood very well. I have considered bringing back Instagram for the photo memories, but TBD for now.  My time spent online to communicate with my significant other is important and Sk...

Villa Rancho Senior Center is the place where I have started to volunteer my time each Saturday. On Sundays, as you know, I teach Sunday School for preschool and kindergarten. I am seeing it as a way to give back to the community, but also give my heart and soul a revival. I used to be completely afraid of Senior centers. In fact, I would get anxious, scared, or completely disturbed by all of the elderly walking around, or illnesses and changes, and limitations and heavy chaos permeating throughout an entire complex. My grandmother and my grandfather on my mom's side were placed in senior centers when they became unfit to live on their own anymore. I was horrified. I thought it was going to be a huge mistake. I was opened to a world wherein in which community service and profession coincide, where employees and individuals are family. This was a world, I had long since limited myself from because maybe if I didn't know nor care, or set foot in there, I would be none the wiser...

This year so far has been more about health and my growth and change as a person than ever. I've reaffirmed having health concerns and issues I have ignored for years by it escalating this year. I have spent more on health costs more than a canvas in an art gallery, to find out what I need to to be healthy.  I broke my clavicle and healed it, lost several friends, I’m beginning to learn more about budgeting and what it takes to cultivate an energy people want to be around, and remain true to myself. I have leaky gut, Hashimotos hypothyroidism,- can't have gluten or dairy and have tried over six diff plans of health tracks, which some dear friends suggested for me, but I wont give up! Today I’d like to thank and show love to the friends and folks who never left, and for those that have left too. Thank you for walking out, so I can realize who I need to be and being apart of that period of my learning.  I love when others share their journies and stories...

The moment he or she makes it about themselves not as a team and not for others, but for their own gain is when you can pick up and move on with yourself!   Recognizer yourself improvement holds value and others will see that and want to get in on it. For me, that has been with my friendships and with work. I have really wanted to harness, shutting down those expectations I have of a dream job or what I think I should have or be, or what someone should or shouldn’t do for me. The best relationship you can have in this life is the one with yourself and to get there, it may mean you let the ones you longed to please or gain, (whoever they may be) go. The reality is they cannot keep you warm at night, and they aren’t in charge of you or your happiness, or who you are as a person. I was scared at first to shed friendships that weren’t working for me, or ashamed, angry, and sad, privy to ones in which they shed themselves and their lives of me. The break from Facebook has been wonde...

My youngest brother Max graduated from UC Davis and has no embarked on a new business venture in Beluga Alaska! He moved there in February with his best friend Will Fredette and has started quite the place. I really hope to get out of my busy life to come see this place, but in the meantime, please enjoy a post not from Miss Moxie, but from Max himself, a little about the place and his journey through to make this dream a reality. My hope is that you will share this with family and friends and come take a visit up here. My guess is you won't be disappointed. Check out the website for links and photos below his post and readers as always, thanks for reading ;). So impressed with Max's hard work. Love him and miss him dearly. From one sibling to another, I hope my brother shines bright! Over the past few months my childhood friend William Fredette and I have embarked on a unique path. Together we have opened a lodging camp in a remote area of Alaska. In a matter of a few weeks...

There is an ebb and flow to friendships. Friends come into our lives for a time, no telling how long, or when. They come into our lives and teach us something; something for us to learn and grow. My director today encouraged me as I shared about friendships and the changes from your 20s, and 30s, of who comes and goes. She said, as a kid, it is the same. The rules are the same. When you become an adult, it doesn't change. You have more changes that come your way and more that you are responsible for, apart of etc. The beauty here is that no it does not get easier when you grow up, but it gets clearer and richer, deeper in meaning. Your perception becomes more profound as you begin to mold more and more of who you are.There are challenges, trials, situations you encounter that develop your strength and help you evolve as you learn life's lessons. Sometimes the lessons are painful. You injure yourself, get in a car accident, drop out of college, are heavy in debt, going throu...

Hello folks, I'm sorry I have been under a rock. Sometimes after you return from vacation, your head is full of fog, and you are tired, and reality arrives too quickly. My boyfriend and I spent two amazing weeks together in Maui, Hawaii; his first time, my second. It had been since 06/07 time frame that I had gone. He flew a plane around Molokai and Lanai and Maui for 2 1/2 hours and we got to see all the waterfalls, turtles and pretty landscape from high above. I took lots of pictures! We stayed in my aunt and uncle's condo, Hale Ona Loa, which was ideal and cozy. We watched sunsets in downtown Lahaina and from their place. We went snorkeling in Molokini and both got fire truck, red sunburnt. They were very painful lol, but healed eventually. The event leaders for the snorkeling sold eco sunscreen, which was a gigantic fail hehe. We don't recommend it, it washes off quickly, and although good for the environment, not so great for the protection of your skin. Two friend...

I have had this in edit mode for several months now, and you know with all the crazy drama circling back at home and at work, here and there (some of which I unfortunately stirred up in stress) it was not going to be shared. I wanted to hide this joy, but I think it is the right time. I want to clear the air and also bring light to present day that yes LDRs are very hard, we work at it daily, and we appreciate everyone checking in, thanks for the support. I ask God daily to work on my heart not only for the man I am dating, but for my friendships as well. It is a very good feeling to surrender control and know that whatever happens, happens! Anyhow... here it is...  Our story. We worked for the same aerospace company in a town called Rancho Cordova. My best friend Adam Laakmann for a while had seen me go through the trials of heartbreak and my strong apathy towards love. I wasn’t ready for someone in my life and I didn’t make room. I had my family and my friends, and that was j...

Tevye asks Golde a question. If you have ever seen Fiddler on the Roof, or have a love of musicals, this scene is key. "Do you love me? She responds with... "I'm your wife." As you listen to her talk of what love is for them, you notice that their marriage is not one of today's age, but even still, it still rings truth to love. They had an arranged marriage (*spoiler alert*) she explains all that she does for him, and says that must be what love is.     Flash forward and I can imagine an elderly couple is in the grocery story and squabbaling over bananas. Friggin fruit people! He thinks all the brown freckles make a banana taste better and slightly green never hurt anyone and will ripe in time. She thinks less green, and less freckles, slightly more yellow, yet ripe enough to eat quickly. Who eats fruit right away? I don't. Thinking about a scenario like that, I wonder how do you respond, and why does that situation seem so tense?   I recently have spent ...

Hello readers... goodness it has been a month and a half, almost two months since my last post. I watched a movie called Strictly Ballroom awhile back. The main gal Fran was unnoticeable to others and tried so hard and did all she could to enter a contest with a man she didn't know nor cared for to save his bum. The point? He was arrogant, and never listened. Her mother shouted at him to listen to the rhythm as they practiced. The words echoed in his head when he fought with her on the steps, and suddenly it all made sense... LISTEN... that key word... and that brought them together. This respect and being able to be a team. You can't make it in a relationship, if you don't hear others out; this we seem to miss so often, when it is always about us. For me it was anyways.  ((Flashback)) I got in an accident on my birthday and apparently it was the end of the earth I had to spend it in the hospital. I was snowmobiling, and trying to turn, and hit the accelerator way too ha...