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. 

16 of 52 Juggling Act

So as usual I am late with this posting, my diet posting is behind as well.  Honestly I feel like a juggler on a high wire.  I get steady and I am tossing situps, pushups, tai chi broadsword, the tei hua form, journalling, eating right, etc and they are just flowing nicely then, work gets busy (jiggles the wire) my mom gets sick, (jiggles the wire), or for example dragon/lion dancing practice gets added to the items to be juggled list ... oops! Dropped that one!  I do not seem to have enough hands, time or skill to juggle all these things while balancing on a high wire. 

So today I am very frustrated with myself and with all the commitments and responsibilties that I am dropping, and failing to accomplish/complete.  I hate disappointing myself and other people. 

15 of 52 July long weekend

To continue ... the July long weekend is a tough place to start diet tracking online although I did stick to the portions limits I can't say I ate healthy, just well.

So in the last few days I have heard from several people that my husband and I constantly interrupt each other.  How rude on both our parts!   So I will be concious of this and note in my acts of kindness for the next little while the opportunities to NOT interrupt his stories or talk over him when I think he is taking to long to get to the point.   Never realized I was doing this I just thought HE was rude ... its all a matter of perspective I guess.  

Enjoyed my opportunity to participate in the demo,  kind of scary but I didn't embarras myself or Silent River Kung Fu. 

Was in the parade as the back end of a lion which was fun but I was behind Sihing Chesel and he has really long legs so I think our lion looked a little funny with big long strides in the front and frantic catch up steps in the rear. Oh well it was a good time and everyone involved was really great! 

14 of 52 Boot Camp

Sore, tired and rejuvinated that would describe me after attending the bootcamp on the weekend.  The different classes were awesome, really enjoyed the day until about 5 o'clock at which point my cup runneth over and I reached saturation point.  Supper was a nice rest and then Sifu Harrigan finished up with the Military Combatives which if you really want to know about well then maybe you should have been at bootcamp.  Sifu Lindstrom you were totally correct about the muscles that would be sore so I guess I was executing the moves corrrectly because I'm hurting in all the places you said I would.   Personally I have been really busy recently and I have been going thru my kung fu somewhat by rote ... doing it but not with the attention that it deserves, the boot camp brought back my spark so thanks to everyone for their part. 

13 of 52

The last few weeks have been really busy, at work we are in the process of switching accounting packages, what should have been a fairly smooth process has had a number of bumps. 

Dean and I have a dance event coming up the first weekend in June so we have been practicing like crazy ... realized due to the journalling of hours that I spent more time on dancing than I have on my Kung Fu in the last two weeks.  Amazing though I still have kept up on my Kung Fu numbers, what took the hit was my weekly journal (missed 2 weeks) and my healthy diet, for example on Tuesday  I had a dry old piece of cake for breakfast, no lunch, a bag of chips on the way home at 9:30 pm for supper all chased with alot of coffee!  And now I sit here ... a Tim Hortons breakfast sandwich at 10AM and since then lots of coffee.  I am HUNGRY!