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

Two month hiatus from blogging for me, since Matt and I moved to Alabama last year in November, including getting engaged last October. Lots happening for us! We bought a house in February in a gorgeous area close to work. It is a quaint, cute community that has a small lake and a trailhead, good neighbors, and although step ford like community, still very blessed and nice to be there. I joined a life group at church called 'She Connects' and back volunteering in children's ministry again as well. The group wraps up in April, which is rather quick for a life group. It will be interesting to see what is next or where to go from there. I am meeting a few people there and I know a few folks who moved along with us for their work from days working at AR. Mia is loving the open air and space. She is not a fan of the storms of course, but that is nothing new. Work is busy as can be, and going well. My shoulder over a year later, is working just fine, few tweaks sometimes...

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...