where i've been while i haven't been here...

 
    where have i been...

  
i have taken a few photos...and cleaned up the computer...reformatted one external hard drive and filled up another one...new operating system...playing with one note (which i think is really going to help me stay organized with weddings this year).


 i have been doing a little reading...loving this book




 a little bit of yoga...very little cleaning (not as much as i should)...



attended my last writing group meeting until the fall...which was fun...
and found me feeling like i had told too much about myself...like i had talked too much
and gave too much away.  i am socially awkward, i don't know why.  i always have been.
but it's good for me to push myself out of my comfort zone in that way.  right?



signed up for this (yet again)...last year i signed up for it with great enthusiasm
but then my husband had his motorcycle accident and my focus shifted. 
so when this option came up again with a different host, i thought, now is the time...

i am feeling like this is the down time...these are the moments i can breathe...
things are going to get messy and busy and out of control
very, very soon.
back to halifax tomorrow for another appointment,
two sets of engagements photos,
skydiggers this friday
followed by my first wedding of the season on saturday
and then...
well pretty much a wedding every second weekend until October...

so right now,
in this moment...
i am breathing in.
i am taking a moment.
before the crazy begins.

checking in with myself...

it is saturday again...
10 at night and i am still in pajamas
with hair crammed into a messy bun
with wooly socks on and my husband's hoodie...
the house is clean
and smells of pine-sol and apple cinnamon spray
mingling with laundry detergent...

a synopsis of my week:

READING:  still with game of thrones...i'm reading feast for crows right now and as i
get closer to end, i feel a small sense of panic because i'm coming to the end...i don't
want to buy the hardcover...but i also don't want to wait...i may need to give in and
get the hardcover...it is suuuuuuuch a good series.

EATING:  i am trying to eat better...to track what i am eating...to be healthier...
but this week and i can feel the slide...i want diet pop in the morning again...i want a muffin...
i want chips...but for a bit i was on this lemon/garlic/olive oil in a salad kick and it was
fantastic...i need lunch food that i am excited about.  things i WANT to eat...

WRITING:  i met with my writing group thursday night and it was awesome...it was only our 
second time meeting and the first time, i had a blistering headache...but not this time.  and it was so 
great....i love hearing what the others have come up with and i love feeling that there really are 
connections there...and it has given me a lot to think about in terms of my own writing...oh...and 
i realized that joining a writing group was on my Mondo Beyondo list....and that i could cross it off!!!

COVETING:  still on the writing theme, i really, really want a laptop...just for writing...
but wondering if i can get away with getting a keyboard for my ipad instead.

BRAVE: 
  • wearing my new purple docs to work...and my winter hat with a skull & cross bones on it 
  • {dressing more and more like me every day}
  • asking a question by email that i was really nervous to ask
  • sharing what i wrote with the writing group
  • chairing a meeting  
PHOTOGRAPHY:  taking a photo a day even though i am not posting them regularly and sometimes
they are just random quick shots of whatever is closest because i forgot and now i've just got to get it done.
but planning on working on more of Liz Lamoreux's Inner Excavation and thinking about a theme and a 
timeframe (something other than the 365 days)...

LISTENING:  missy higgins, big wreck, 8 tracks...