Today is Sunday, I am glad the bad weather is gone; we will go back to the normal routine.
Last night was Isabella’s little birthday party and she had a lot of fun with her little cousins. Right now I am here planning my week but, I cant forget that I also have to enjoy this day with my family… Tomorrow will be another day. I don’t know if I said that 3 days a week I work as a Consultant to an Embroidery Business here in town. I like it a lot working there, they are nice people but, my dream is being my own boss! Maybe this year will be “The Year” I have faith and I believe that every day, in every way, I am becoming better and better… This year will be better than last year.
Last year, many good and bad things happened to me, fortunately more good than bad things, thank Lord. One of the bad thing is, last year, my daddy found out he had cancer… and Good thing, he had a surgery and he is doing pretty well!
Last year, I met many GREAT people who have helped me a lot to achieve my goals. I believe I have helped many people as well. When I stop and think about the difference in my life since I bought my first machine here in the USA in 2003 and now. Oh my Lord, my life has been pretty busy, but it is good though. Nothing came easy to me and I am thankful for that because I always learn a lot during the process of getting things accomplished.
First I wanted to start my business here, but how? It doesn’t matter if I always did well in business in Brazil, here, in the USA Nobody knew me, but the fear of being a foreigner, a stranger in the nest how we would say in Brazil, didn’t keep me from going ahead and trying it.I knew all I had to do is get out and meet people, show my work out there, make friends, fight for what I wanted. I have met wonderful people in this country and realized that the porcupine parable is really true.
The parable says that during the glacial age, many animals died because of the cold. There was a time that the porcupines had decided to join themselves in groups so that they would get warm and protect each other. But the porcupine would end up hurting the friend who was closer to them with their thorns, exactly those that supplied them the warmth. Them, they started moving away from each other and they ended up freezing to death. Then, finally they decided that they had to make a choice: Disappeared from the planet or accept the thorns of their friends. Finally, they decided to come back to be together, this way they learned that we have to deal with the small wounds that a close relationship can cause, the most important thing was the warmth that they could bring to each other when they were together and keep them alive. Making the right choice kept the porcupines alive.I have learned that the Network groups, blogs are to us, the same that the heat was for the porcupines, it is essential, if we are together, there will be some wounds, but the most important thing is, together we will survive, alone, we will die.
I welcome everyone to link to my website or blog and I will do the same, this way we will keep each other going and getting stronger.
Thank you for being part of my success!
Z Giddings
Ruth said,
January 3, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
I ned help. I can’t find the place that tells me how to work (park) the embroidery unit to my Husqvarna design II machine. I am also looking for e-classes.