October 14th - Daily living stuff...
Interesting day... had to get up way to early to work after entirely too little sleep... not that I did anything particularly interesting last night other than toss and turn. Work was somewhat fun though, took the developmentally challenged clients I was working with to an Apple Festival that is happening over this weekend at the UBC botanical gardens. I really enjoyed walking around in the wonderful sunshine we were lucky to have, and to see all the different varieties of apples, the smell was amazing. I also ate what I think is the most delicious caramel apple that I've ever had... amazingly green, crisp, tart, and juicy.. and totally covered in a thick layer of quality caramel.. purrrrrr.
Left work tired, despite drinking a pot of strong tea, and a diet coke. Went to the dojo and trained for an hour and a half.. well, 20 minutes of meditation and the rest training, and that was very good. Worked on my kata (forms) which is basically more meditation in motion, and worked hard enough to break a sweat which is always nice.. especially since I had time to take a quick shower.
Then off for Japanese food with Wolfe and bi-boy, so nice to reconnect after too long, and some days of tension.. looking so forward to seeing Ty too, and hoping for positive communication and reconnection tomorrow.. also scared, but there you go, having courage is not about being unafraid, it's about being afraid.. and doing it anyways.
Then off to watch a movie... girlfight, which was really good I thought, and inspirational... wish I was that tough.. <smile>
Home again, very quick hug session with bi-boy before seeing him off.. but enough to feel more settled into 'things are heading back into the okay zone... hopefully'
Then.. my microwave exploded.. didn't like the pot pie I was trying to heat I suppose.. but there was much lightening inside of it, and then smoke.. spooky.. very spooky. So tomorrow it's microwave shopping!
Just got out of a hot bath with a silly amount of Epson salts in it, and pure geranium oil... so relaxing.. and reading some fantasy novel in the bath about other worldly places with a title I can't remember, written by someone I don't remember... hang on let me ask Wolfe... Black Sun Rising, by C.S. Friedman. There you go, he always knows, he pre-reads them for me, I only read the ones he passes on to me. That's not true actually, there are bunches of books I seek out on my own, but for large masses of fantasy literature, with the amount he reads, I might as well let him weed out the less interesting ones.
And now sitting here and recounting the day... not much more to say, well, always more to say, but then have to measure it out is some rhyme and rhythm.
Feeling like I need to start another serious project again soon... not that the website isn't 'serious'.. I seriously love doing it and it challenges me in a lot of ways. Just typical of me to need to flow off into occasional tributaries... lots of options, but nothing that has gelled for the right now, I'll continue to listen to myself, and see what presents itself to me.
In a similar vein, definitely going to restart yoga again next week, was doing it regularly for a while, and then stopped for a few months, and I can feel the loss of flexibility, and meditation time... that and assistant instructing at the dojo for lower belt level classes, want to resume that again too.. going to ask to initiate a special stretching class.. maybe sneak some yoga into the curriculum.. that should keep me occupied until I find my 'serious' project....
Enough for now...
kisses
Katt