We are not looking at this as a full time vacation – it is merely a new, smaller home that moves – and we will have to workamp to pull it off. That’s OK, it is still a partial retirement.

Leon has worked hard for 47.5 years, many of those years were 6 day work weeks, some a full time and part time job held at same time.

Blogs will change – still working that out – this time Leon is supposed to chime in.

We have finally learned to not just dream, but dream on a larger scale – and work toward making our dreams happen. Have you?

Yuck. Now to figure out how to clean it – someday. Too many priorities right now. I heard those Mr. Clean sponges might help. (Awful tiny to do that big surface.) I suppose I should read the booklet that came with the Lazy Daze and then search the forums for other suggestions as well. Any guesses as to how clean it will come?

I could make excuses, I have been online searching for:

• sink to replace the cracked RV one (thousands of sinks later and not one that is what I need – or want)
• no VOC flooring

And then there is the packing as we are moving into our son’s rental property, but other people move and raise kids and have fun and blog at the same time. Of course, I have spent a lot of time creating lists….

Do I follow them? No. My joy is in creating them. At least now, most of my lists are on the hard drive rather than on bits of paper that a tree sacrificed itself for.

One list I have followed and because I have, I’ve been supporting online retailers! Since Panoply, our RV, will be our full time home part time, I am getting anything I deem a health or safety related item ordered now. Dishes or cute little pillows? No! We will make do with what we have.

But, I refuse to compromise on these:

• no or low chemical items for flooring, curtains, and sofa/bed mattresses
• new technology fire extinguishers (and more of them)
• LED tail lights (so much brighter)
• tire pressure monitoring system
• extra smoke detectors and another propane alarm

My biggest frustration with myself? I am quite capable of organizing almost anything. It is following through with the plan where I fall apart.

Today, I took one step forward. I typed this instead of sitting in front of the TV procrastinating. Oh, and I deleted about 100 links to products I have no intention of really needing or buying.

And one more important duty to stop procrastination on: I am in the next minute installing the free virus checker for Mac, ClamXav. It’s about time. Then I really should start packing

continue, I think. To make it worse, grin, I had to use Leon as a sounding board to come up with a title, and though he will take credit for the series title, I thought of it at the same time. Guess it is because we have been married so very long. ; )

You do get it don’t you? ReVitalizing RV Panoply ties in with my blog’s tag line. Now I can get on with telling our journey to making someone else’s RV into ours. Yes, it is remodeling,

but more importantly it is ReVising and ReVitalizing what will become our part time full time home. If it ReVitalizes Leon or I along the journey, we won’t be complaining. Speaking of ReVitalizing. I sure hope our Mother-in-Law Tongue helps eat some of the off gassing in the RV.

That is not true; my brain is in complete chaos about Panoply’s design, but on to the pic of the gift that will help future picnics, and therefore, future calm.

Isn’t it cute? About 47″ long, with two little benches that when folded click in for storage beneath the folded picnic table. Our son and daughter-in-law gave it to us for Christmas, their way of “approving” our RV dreams. OK, that’s not it at all, but it was our first gift for Panoply – and a thoughtful one at that! Don’t know where we can keep it, but Leon will make it work, ’cause he knows better than to let ME find a place for it – that will involve construction – or a new car.

Of course, with a green table and benches, one blue folding chair and one bright orange folding chair, and a beige mat left by previous owners, we will be known as the Mismatch Duo, but all money is going into safety related items and into changing out some items for less ‘toxic’ items, not decorating. That is just the way I want it!

I have still not gotten back in the swing of blogging every day or even several times a week, but, for once, I’m O.K. with that – for now. That is good, acceptance.

My good today is personal. Leon and I made the decision to take a chance and move into a manufactured home in an RV Resort, assuming we can get financing in the current financial climate. It is small, but when we went to check it out on a Tuesday, it was alive with people walking their dogs, talking to their neighbors, working on their homes, washing their RVs, playing golf, and helping us find a home, grin. (If we do buy there, I will show pictures.)

Granted most of these people are retired – and we won’t be. We will be working and for a while living in two places, but we have been so isolated from socializing and fun in recent years, working way too hard. So, though rife with logistical problems and his having to build a new referral base, we want to do it. That is good, taking a calculated risk. (Did I just say that?)

I could list many more positives and some negatives, but today, I must ignore that he will still have clients over 3 hours away for many months…

We are smiling, though. Insanity? No, we are both so tired of renting already that even less than 700 square feet sounds perfect, especially when Panoply will be parked outside our door, where we can finish remodeling her and ready to run away with us.

For now, Panoply remains shrouded from the road ahead, but her time is coming….

What’s perfect in your world today? Yesterday? This week? Jump on the bandwagon. Check out what Shelly has to say, grab a banner/button and start sharing your good one day a week. You can do it!

(Welcome Kodi Brandon into the world at 7 lbs, 12 oz. Congratulations MBC and S! Happy Birth Day, little one!)

I have a feeling we will talk ourselves out of full timing now, though it is something we had and still plan for in the not so distant future. In part because of certain logistics, it won’t be easy to work it out on the East coast, but that he is even saying it out loud…. Oh my.

Hmmm. Could this be reverse psychology? Could he be doing this just so I will decide against it? No, I would just reverse it on him, he knows that.

Stay tuned. And don’t tell our son, he will think we have gone over the edge, I’m sure. Not that I blame him, we almost feel the same way, not like we are talking a 40 foot one with a separate bedroom….

The Born Free 24RB was our first choice. Their safety record is impeccable, their quality control is awesome, and their rear bath sold Leon! And, every time I turn around I am reading yet again how happy their service department or factory has made another buyer. They are apparently so willing to adapt them to your needs, to work with you, it is short of incredible, and long time readers know I would want something changed and put them to work on some unconventional something.

But the new 2009 Winnebago 24A has a workable kitchen that far exceeds the counter space of the Born Free. And a slide, though that was not what was pushing over toward it, it was, indeed, the kitchen and the fact the kitchen is in the rear.

The one thing holding us back is suitable locations to live in it down here…. (and perhaps sanity).

Maybe we will just wait until after hurricane season when we know we might be working elsewhere… or maybe we should get it now anyway – so we can run from the storms. Instead of storm chasers we could be storm chasees, or something like that.

Or maybe, we should just go bigger. Or play the lottery and get a tiny condo and an RV… or….

Note: It was not reverse psychology; time has passed since I started this post. It is still an option.

I previously mentioned that over New Year’s we “played” at my brothers. Well, I tried my hand at “acting” again, something I do NOT do well. However, I think I may have done a decent job on this role, too decent, I show up several times. I won’t tell you that telling someone off just came naturally, ’cause then you would know might believe I am capable in real life of being like that. I also won’t tell you that I did that “out of nowhere” on my own in the middle of his just filming other things — for the same reasons, of course.

My debut today:

So, in the theme of Bill’s new song and video, I won’t “tell you what to do”. So, watch it or not, “whatever you want to”. And just be glad I did not video myself trying to play the iPhone Pocket Guitar….

Note, if you are returning, the second video is an updated of the one originally posted. Best viewed in HD.