20 of 52

Finished typing up my notes from Vacation and posted to the blog site. Been back 6 days, settled back into the rut, although I seem to have gotten confused about the weeks as Sifu Rybak had to remind me that this is next week! Its been really busy at work as I have alot of catching up to do and its just really busy at work. This month has been hell on my numbers, pretty much behind on everything. Pushing the reset on September 1st and doing some serious reps for my forms, situps and pushups, even healthy eating took a hit ... I was all over the place, eating at the wrong times, eating too much some days and nothing others, drinking too much coffee, drinking too much wine. Its been nice since I got home, the garden is producing like crazy and I have all my healthy stuff to cook and snack on. Have my safety audit coming up in October and some training to maintain my CSO status which is on my list of requirements so doing the coordination to make that happen. Got a course booked in September called 'Busy being Busy' its going to help me be more productive and less busy, doing the important stuff rather than the urgent stuff. I will let you know how it goes. The reno's seem to whipping right along and I will be there this weekend so see you all there.

18 & 19 of 52 ... on Vacation

Ist Week of August Dean & I went to Nova Scotia for our nieces’ wedding.  Never been to the east coast before and I must say the scenery is spectacular.  After the wedding thing we went on a motorcycle tour ... drove down alot of winding secondary roads and stayed at bed & breakfast places that were old fashioned cape cod styling loaded with antiques, it was a lot of fun.    As the east coast was the first area in Canada settled it has some serious history that us westerner’s don’t always know about or appreciate.  It was nice to see some of the places talked about in our history books and discover some cool characters that weren’t covered in school.  One sad note, there is a military museum in Halifax that talks about the Halifax harbour area and the fort that is built there and it also covers the Canadian involvement in WWI and WWII.  I left in tears, letters from loved ones and medals and newspaper articles collected and displayed in remembrance of so many people that died.  I know that they are no longer here but it makes your heart hurt for all the suffering. 

Practiced my meditation sitting next to the ocean a number of times.   Its rare that I actually achieve any type of meditative state but it was very gentle sort of experience sitting next to the ocean listening to waves & birds, smelling salt water and have a lovely cool breeze whisper by.    You can just be in the moment and appreciate the experience. 

 

Second I wrote while at the Queen Charlotte Lodge in BC but couldn’t post.

 

Out in the middle of nowhere (Queen Charlotte Islands) on a fishing trip with my hubby and one of his clients’ & girlfriend.  It rained today so Sue wanted to have a spa day ... we got massages and sat in the hot tub, read by the fire which was really nice but unusual.  Don’t usually go on vacations ... Dean and I go on adventures which this trip has been for sure.  Didn’t get seasick, yeah!  Learned how to fish and drive a boat and got my sea legs so ingrained that its feeling weird to be walking on land.  Logging my food and kung fu stuff is alot easier here than it was riding the motorcycle in Nova Scotia. I brought my planner here so I could update at night but it was a little hefty for the motorcycle trip so I used a little note book which I filled ( as I write big it hard to fit stuff on the page).  Was reminded again what a great life I live ... not perfect, still have problems, but the good parts are truly awesome.

17 of 52 Going on Vacation

It has been just crazy busy, family visiting, work busy,  weeds growing, it seems like the only serene times are when I get to go thru a form.   I am falling behind on everything kung fu related except for eating right (the garden is producing massive quantities), although you wouldn't know that as I haven't been posting to the diet tracking site, it is all recorded in my notebook at home however.  Tonight at 12:10 am I am getting on a plane with the hubby and going to halifax for 10 days,  attend a wedding and some motorcycle riding is all I have to do .... its going to be so nice.  And I can do some catching up on my numbers and still sleep in ... awesome!  So I will take some great pictures, eat seafood till I bust, see halifax and actually have fun doing my kung fu for 10 whole days.  Be back on the 11th.