The
Ferrer / Echols Tacky Newsletter 2004The
Ferrer / Echols Tacky Newsletter 2004
Evaluating and Enjoying Life
This is your invitation to our annual Black-eyed Pea Party on January 1, 2005. We are doing two seatings again at 1:00pm and 3:00pm on Saturday, January 1, 2005. Friends, fun, Black-eyed Peas, and Cornbread, please join us for this annual tradition.
If you can’t join us, please write or call. Besides just sharing way to much information about us, we want to here from you. Brag to us. We want to hear of all the joys and events that made your year. Our email and phone numbers are below.
In 2002, we moved into our upgrade home, with the Master Bedroom, Jacuzzi tub
and a Pool. Still loving it. 
This
year, I swam in the pool, sat in the peace of the mornings in the backyard, as
Scruffy tortured chameleons and WhiteFang sunned herself.
WhiteFang turned 18 this year,
she’s doing well, just hungry and whining all the time.
She wants everything her way, NOW!!
John comments he knows where she got that trait.
Everyday we spend with her, we accept as a blessing.
I started a program to not be so fat and sassy.
Well, I’ll stay sassy and maybe fat, but a lot stronger and healthier.
I
took up yoga this year, and I love it. Exercise
with a NAP!!! The big change for me
is how much better my back feels. Working
on a computer all day abuses my back and shoulders.
In 2003, I usually visited a chiropractor twice a month with chronic back
pains. Now that I do yoga on a
regular basis, I haven’t visited a chiropractor in 6 months. Although progress is 
slow, I feel so much better.
No real weight loss to speak of but a lot more toned and flexible.
Before yoga, I’d wake stiff in the morning, now I feel good in the
mornings. Of course, Scruffy uses
the yoga mat too.
John took a setback in his business this year. He is rebuilding his business and things are looking well for 2005. He now sells the same products but for several companies in the DFW area. As always he looks for new products, he has some cool ones to share with you if you’re interested.
I continued to work at Verizon. This year I worked on their very cool and exciting Fiber to the Premises. I love the work, a project national in scope, with a great cross-functional team. I kept busy all year. For my professional development, I completed my PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification this year. So now I’m “certified’. But we all knew that (wink).
I know for others it's remained a lean year. As always, I want to help, if you know of a position open, especially in the IT or Telecom please let me know and I’ll pass it to someone it may fit. My plan is that, if I can help keep my friends working, I'll keep working.
No big trips this year, just a few small ones for business and visiting family.
I’m spending Christmas with some of my family skiing in Colorado. My sister, Patricia, from Seattle, is flying the nephews, Sean and Ethan, my sister Kathy’s boys, who have never seen snow, from Florida to my sister, Cynthia’s, place in Colorado for skiing. I expect to stay in Ski class for entire trip.
No
eclipse this year. A total solar
eclipse usually occurs every eleven to eighteen months.
This is one of those 18 month-no eclipse gaps. After the Antarctica Eclipse last year in November 2003,
there is no total solar eclipse until April 2005.
So this year, we just planned for April
8th. We start in Tahiti,
take a cruise
to the eclipse location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, after the eclipse,
we’ll travel to Easter
Island, then on to
Peru.
While in Peru, John and I plan to visit the Nazca lines, for those you don’t know of my Chariot of the Gods leanings. Two thousand years ago, ancient Peruvians drew lines and vast animal figures in the flat desert floor, figures which you can only see from the air. So, just who flew up to see pictures. Gods from above?, aliens from outer space, future travelers from Texas?
I
will also go on to Machu Picchu, one of the most beautiful
and ancient Inca sites in the world. While the Inca people certainly used the Andean mountain top
(9060 feet elevation), we do not know to this day why they built the many hundreds of stone structures
in early 1400's. Legends and myths indicate that Machu Picchu (meaning 'Old Peak' in the
Quechua language) was revered as a sacred place or maybe is was just a
fancy resort for the wealthy Incas to escape the tropical
heat.
Everyone knows I love to share, sometimes too much information. In regards to this subject, I went back and forth on what to say and not to say on this. John and I separated this year. John likes to say he is in "time-out", I call it "a soft separation", since we see each other on weekends. In our 23 years together, some issues between us became untenable for us to continue, unless we addressed them. We both attend counseling separately and visit a marriage counselor together. Well we did, until our marriage counselor, Gerald Spalding, died. When we started to see him, he was extremely ill, but he was so Good. We learned a lot about ourselves and feel blessed to benefit from his wisdom for the short time we knew him. He’ll be hard to replace. We don't yet where we'll end up. In faith, we planned the March Eclipse trip together. For those who knew of this through the year, thank you for your good wishes and prayers.
Don’t let this news; keep you from visiting on New Years Day. We are still having the party and both of us will be there with Black-eyed Peas, to enjoy the company of old and new friends.
That's our year, with the break in travel, we spent time evaluating our lives and trying to become better people. Hopefully yours has brought you much joy and happiness. John and I wish you well for the next year and beyond. If you can, join us for Our Annual Black-Eyed Pea Party, Please click on the Black-eyed Pea Party Link for directions.
If we don’t see you on the 1st, please email, snail mail or call us. We want to hear from you.
Email: Leticia: Leticia@Ferrer.com
Email John:
John@Echols.com
Or call us at 972-484-1856