Why yes...yes it was.
Sept 23.09 and it was +34. How incredible.
I wish I could continue on this blog with an amazing story of how I spent this freak of nature hot day...
...instead I will tell you that it was nice to look at through the window and hear how others were enjoying it through the radio waves in my cold, the air conditioner is on high speed, cubical.
I wore a nice summer dress so I could enjoy this last hot day of the year only to be huddled with a sweater, my coffe and space heater for most of the day. The hotter it is out side the colder the office is.
Saving grace...lunch with my wonderful man in the park. 20 sweet moments on a blanket laying in the sun next to Terry....aaahhhhh.
Back to work....bbbrrrrrrr
Later when Terry comes to pick me up to go home (we car pool) I get to sit in the passenger seat with the windows down and the air (imagine a blow dryer directly in your face) blowing in my face. I close my eyes for most of the ride home (sometimes I open them to peak at Terry, so cute) once we pick up our little guy at after school care we are back on the rode, eyes closed imagining a tropical paridise,warm breeze, relaxed and laughter in the air....again..ahhhh. I open my eyes and instead of my tropical paradise vanishing with that I see home. We are still in the warm relaxed breeze, we are still hearing laughter (Nathan sometimes goes on and on) and we are happy, this all happining in our own paradise right in our back yard.
Lucky us.
Okay, now in the house, we have dinner to make, laundry to catch up on and lunches to get ready for tomorrow! Who has to go where tonight? what time? Who has home work tonight? Wait....*deep breath in* aahhhh.... Life is good.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Sleeping with my eyes in...
Well that was a first.
I fell asleep last night with my contacts in. They aren't the contacts you can take out to clean and soak for the next time you want them, they are one day disposable contacts that you can feel really need to come out and be tossed away at the end of the day.
What was I thinking? That I could miraculously see all of a sudden?
I was so worried I would have to go to the doctor to have them scrape out fragments of old, half dissolved contact lens out of my eyes, but they were still in place. Not dissolved at all, although my eyes were pretty crusty when I woke up, my body in obvious distaste over having left foreign objects lodged in it.
After my initial realization, then shock, then self embarrassment passed my next thoughts were "hhmmm, what would it be like to wake up and see properly every morning?...laser eyes surgery!"
So this has got me thinking about laser eye surgery. I was pretty irresponsible leaving in my contacts when I went to bed, maybe I can use that as justification to myself that its probably whats best for me, you know, so I don't hurt my self in the future with my ailing memory.
I am going to roll that one around in my head for awhile, see how it fits.
I fell asleep last night with my contacts in. They aren't the contacts you can take out to clean and soak for the next time you want them, they are one day disposable contacts that you can feel really need to come out and be tossed away at the end of the day.
What was I thinking? That I could miraculously see all of a sudden?
I was so worried I would have to go to the doctor to have them scrape out fragments of old, half dissolved contact lens out of my eyes, but they were still in place. Not dissolved at all, although my eyes were pretty crusty when I woke up, my body in obvious distaste over having left foreign objects lodged in it.
After my initial realization, then shock, then self embarrassment passed my next thoughts were "hhmmm, what would it be like to wake up and see properly every morning?...laser eyes surgery!"
So this has got me thinking about laser eye surgery. I was pretty irresponsible leaving in my contacts when I went to bed, maybe I can use that as justification to myself that its probably whats best for me, you know, so I don't hurt my self in the future with my ailing memory.
I am going to roll that one around in my head for awhile, see how it fits.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Today is the day.....
....I am going to my first Oilers game of the year!
Jersey cleaned and ready for another season....check!
It's a pre season game mind you, its also against the Florida Panthers but I DO NOT CARE!
I love going to the games. I must be about 10 years old when my butt hits those to close together seats where your knees are in your arm pits like a giant on a tricycle. Way high up in the cheap (cheap?) seats where all the really loud yellers sit. Well you have to be that loud if the players are going to hear you calling the plays from way up there.....its a fun crowd, they mean well.
But not tonight.....
Sorry loud obnoxious way to friendly by the third period comrads...we are heading down to the gold seats tonight. waaaayyy down behind the penatly box (free tickets tonight yah!!)Where we can hear every word said on the ice, every dig of the blade into the ice, every cut, every hard hit...and the sweat,we may even smell and possibley be sprayed by blood and sweat!
I am soooo excited.....
LET'S GO OILERS!!
Jersey cleaned and ready for another season....check!
It's a pre season game mind you, its also against the Florida Panthers but I DO NOT CARE!
I love going to the games. I must be about 10 years old when my butt hits those to close together seats where your knees are in your arm pits like a giant on a tricycle. Way high up in the cheap (cheap?) seats where all the really loud yellers sit. Well you have to be that loud if the players are going to hear you calling the plays from way up there.....its a fun crowd, they mean well.
But not tonight.....
Sorry loud obnoxious way to friendly by the third period comrads...we are heading down to the gold seats tonight. waaaayyy down behind the penatly box (free tickets tonight yah!!)Where we can hear every word said on the ice, every dig of the blade into the ice, every cut, every hard hit...and the sweat,we may even smell and possibley be sprayed by blood and sweat!
I am soooo excited.....
LET'S GO OILERS!!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Love Thursday-Kindness
If you follow the link from my post title you will read a list of 24 things we can do in the next 24 hours to spread love....Kindness works for me..I don't want to be just handing out my love too freely. ~:o)
I am very proud to say that I have actually done a few of these in the past week and some quite regularly. Simple. Simple, simple, simple stuff. We can all do this, we SHOULD all be doing simple acts of kindness.
I believe that doing one simple act of kindness for some one will not only make the recipient of that act feel a little tingle of happiness, but you as well.
Go ahead,let that grumpy face in the car next to you into your lane of traffic..even if you don't get that immediate "thank you" wave that we all enjoy, rest assured that person will unconciously spread the kindness.
Just believe. It feels good.
Happy Love Thursday Everyone!
I am very proud to say that I have actually done a few of these in the past week and some quite regularly. Simple. Simple, simple, simple stuff. We can all do this, we SHOULD all be doing simple acts of kindness.
I believe that doing one simple act of kindness for some one will not only make the recipient of that act feel a little tingle of happiness, but you as well.
Go ahead,let that grumpy face in the car next to you into your lane of traffic..even if you don't get that immediate "thank you" wave that we all enjoy, rest assured that person will unconciously spread the kindness.
Just believe. It feels good.
Happy Love Thursday Everyone!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Love Thursday-Sweet Escapes
Today is Love Thursday as found here at chookooloonks blog site.
This will be my first Love Thursday post. Being a fresh newly wed how could I possibley pass up being involved in something about love?
My first love Thursday post is a simple one...about the love of walking. Not just any walking, a love of walking almost every lunch hour for the past 2.5 yrs with my wonderful Terry.
Since I moved into this office about 5 blocks from Terry's office, he has come to have lunch with me for 97% of our lunches in that time. I bring both of our lunches to work from home, I heat them up in the microwave and we eat together at my desk. We then go for a walk through the many businesses around here, or duck into one of the older neighborhoods and stroll through the peace of their quiet tree lined streets.
Sometimes we take our lunch and drive to a park near by and lay in the sun for 20 glorious minutes away from the realities of busy work days.
How lucky am I?
I wonder how I used to spend my lunches. I can't even remember.
This will be my first Love Thursday post. Being a fresh newly wed how could I possibley pass up being involved in something about love?
My first love Thursday post is a simple one...about the love of walking. Not just any walking, a love of walking almost every lunch hour for the past 2.5 yrs with my wonderful Terry.
Since I moved into this office about 5 blocks from Terry's office, he has come to have lunch with me for 97% of our lunches in that time. I bring both of our lunches to work from home, I heat them up in the microwave and we eat together at my desk. We then go for a walk through the many businesses around here, or duck into one of the older neighborhoods and stroll through the peace of their quiet tree lined streets.
Sometimes we take our lunch and drive to a park near by and lay in the sun for 20 glorious minutes away from the realities of busy work days.
How lucky am I?
I wonder how I used to spend my lunches. I can't even remember.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Redirection
I have finally managed to crack open my recent book "In Praise of Slow"..even before finally opening it I found myself questioning more and more why I need to be so frantic to get things done? To get to places faster? To BE some where? I am ready for this redirection....I have a feeling it will be a bit of a process to get myself there, after all, the old saying goes "old habits die hard".
I am ready for this book, this next step in my redirection, for many reasons...I was just recently reading a book I loved, I was really enjoying it too, but I could never find time to sit and read it, I kept saying out loud "man, this book is taking me forever to get through". So what? What was I in a hurry for? I got to the end of the book this week and I asked my self why I wanted to be in such a hurry for something so good to end? Funny... I picked up my daughter from ringette practice last night, it was a wonderful sunny evening, she was in a good mood after practice, I felt relaxed thinking of the night ahead of slowly prepping for our back to school/work day the next day...no hurry, everything great. Then what do I do? I get a photo radar flash in my rearveiw mirror leaving the arena. Was I in a hurry? Not at all. This one will be a doosey too..I was going about 50kms in a 30kms zone...yikes. There goes the new pair of fall boots I was hoping for, all because I couldn't slow down.
Well that's it, today I am really focusing on the slow down. Yes, I know there will still be hic ups of "gotta get some where quickly" with the kids schedules (I will focus on that next) this may not always be helped, but I will always have in the back of my mind, my little voice telling me to just slow down.
Sorry day job, that means you too.
I am ready for this book, this next step in my redirection, for many reasons...I was just recently reading a book I loved, I was really enjoying it too, but I could never find time to sit and read it, I kept saying out loud "man, this book is taking me forever to get through". So what? What was I in a hurry for? I got to the end of the book this week and I asked my self why I wanted to be in such a hurry for something so good to end? Funny... I picked up my daughter from ringette practice last night, it was a wonderful sunny evening, she was in a good mood after practice, I felt relaxed thinking of the night ahead of slowly prepping for our back to school/work day the next day...no hurry, everything great. Then what do I do? I get a photo radar flash in my rearveiw mirror leaving the arena. Was I in a hurry? Not at all. This one will be a doosey too..I was going about 50kms in a 30kms zone...yikes. There goes the new pair of fall boots I was hoping for, all because I couldn't slow down.
Well that's it, today I am really focusing on the slow down. Yes, I know there will still be hic ups of "gotta get some where quickly" with the kids schedules (I will focus on that next) this may not always be helped, but I will always have in the back of my mind, my little voice telling me to just slow down.
Sorry day job, that means you too.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
A Poem for Parents
This is a poem I resently read....these are words I wish my childrens father could follow. Let them become who they will be by their own merit.
On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Welcome September
The best time of year...September to October.
The crisp air, the beautiful colours, the cozy clothes. Kids are back to school and their busy sports lives and routines are kickcing in.
People seem to be smiling more. Is it just me??
There is no major holiday upon us. We can all relax and pull on our comfortable sweaters. Will we wake up to snow or will we wear shorts tomorrow? Its not a crazy question.
I love September. I love that Oilers hockey is back on! woo hoo! I love that while I am at work every day my kids are not at home sittin in front of the t.v.
I love the activity that comes with this time of year. It's not quite fall yet, but you can feel it. It's in the air......
Go for a walk, take a nice long deep breath and embrace the season.
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