Well folks, I survived the never ending winter. The trees did not leaf out until very late June/early July...eek. Very late spring for my taste and compared to what I am accustomed to. Summer is finally here, the weather has been perfect, my parents came to visit, I picked up some part-time internet based work and I have finally had enough with my excess cushioning and am trying a new fitness routine.
A horrible bout of the blues kept me from...everything for too many months. I have been wanting to run away from my life. Many days I have searched for the cheapest airline fares from this city to any other city in the world that sparked my interest in that moment. I don't have the money to purchase one of those tickets, but I can dream.
The 20-minute walk project fizzled out very quickly once I realized winter refused to end. From there I did nothing. I tried to rollerblade once the snow melted, an activity I used to love, but found I have lost so much muscle I felt too unstable on the rollerblades and was afraid I would hurt myself. So then I did nothing for a while again.
In the last month or so I have been extremely lucky to pick up some part-time, work from home computer work. After each block of time I complete I am doing a session on my yoga videos. It helps the posture and pain issues I am feeling from sitting at the laptop for several hours, and it is helping build muscle...with the goal of burning off some of this squish I and my pants disdain.
So new goal is to maintain the daily yoga practice, contribute to this blog more regularly and generally feel like I am accomplishing more than I had been before. Game on!
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Surviving this Weather....
Okay, so the last time I posted I talked about "acquaintance" friends I have made in the small town we live in. Now, I can write about having actually made a friend here. I mean an actual friend, who I am comfortable around and can share things with and our kids like to play together friend. I had to share this because it has been a long time coming. We've lived in Fairfield for almost 3 years and before this I was very lonely and bitter about not having any friends. Now I have a friend, who I very much enjoy hanging out with even if we don't see eye to eye on everything.
I'll give you her name, so I don't have to keep writing friend all the time. Her name is Ashley, her husband's name is Casey and they have a 22 month old boy and a 5 week old boy. Preston has play dates with the older boy. They are super nice people and just moved here from Nevada. For those who do not believe in the power of prayer, I poo-poo that. I have been praying since we moved here for either Jason to find a new call as soon as humanly possible, or for us to make some friends that will make our time here less lonely and more bearable. And my prayer has been answered with these new people who have recently entered our lives. I am just so excited about all this, that I had to share.
Okay, now for the crazy up and down of the weather here. Yesterday was 70 degrees with light winds, today there was a very chilly wind, but the bank said it was 52 when Preston and I were outside this morning. Saturday the high is going to be in the 30s. What gives?! I just want summer to be here already. Or at least have the temperature not dip below 50. And as I am writing this post, I am freezing my ass off in my creative space in the basement. But I'm too damn stubborn to turn the heat up because it is almost the middle of April and I shouldn't have to. Yeah, some logic, huh.... I'll survive this crazy weather. I have every other year thus far and will again in the future. It doesn't mean I'm not going to bitch about it though. That's what we in the northern United States do. We bitch about the weather. It's too dry, too wet, too hot, too cold, too humid....etc... We are hardly satisfied, but on the days we are, well, those are the days that I am longing for and the sooner they arrive the better.
I'll give you her name, so I don't have to keep writing friend all the time. Her name is Ashley, her husband's name is Casey and they have a 22 month old boy and a 5 week old boy. Preston has play dates with the older boy. They are super nice people and just moved here from Nevada. For those who do not believe in the power of prayer, I poo-poo that. I have been praying since we moved here for either Jason to find a new call as soon as humanly possible, or for us to make some friends that will make our time here less lonely and more bearable. And my prayer has been answered with these new people who have recently entered our lives. I am just so excited about all this, that I had to share.
Okay, now for the crazy up and down of the weather here. Yesterday was 70 degrees with light winds, today there was a very chilly wind, but the bank said it was 52 when Preston and I were outside this morning. Saturday the high is going to be in the 30s. What gives?! I just want summer to be here already. Or at least have the temperature not dip below 50. And as I am writing this post, I am freezing my ass off in my creative space in the basement. But I'm too damn stubborn to turn the heat up because it is almost the middle of April and I shouldn't have to. Yeah, some logic, huh.... I'll survive this crazy weather. I have every other year thus far and will again in the future. It doesn't mean I'm not going to bitch about it though. That's what we in the northern United States do. We bitch about the weather. It's too dry, too wet, too hot, too cold, too humid....etc... We are hardly satisfied, but on the days we are, well, those are the days that I am longing for and the sooner they arrive the better.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
The Chaotic Season and Brainstorming Ways to Stay Sane...
It is the busiest time of year at our house, Lent. Jason has two sermons to prepare each week plus all of his usual Pastoral duties. We still keep mostly to the same routine as far as Preston goes, except now I have to take him to two services a week instead of just service on Sunday. We have our St. Patrick's Corned Beef and Cabbage Youth Group dinner tonight that I am involved in preparing and making sure it goes as smoothly as possible, along with another adult.
Along with church activities, I still take Preston to MOPS the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month and we have recently started having weekly play dates with a new family in town with a boy Preston's age, on Wednesdays. On top of all this, we occasionally have my in-laws staying with us when my mother-in-law Sharon has early morning chemo treatments in Great Falls. It's been an exhausting March so far and there is still a week and a day left.
There have been some really great things going on this month too though. One I got to participate in and the other, I unfortunately was unable to attend. It sucks living in a place that doesn't have decently priced and convenient transportation options. Two of my favorite people in my life got married this month. Karen was married on March 1st and I was one of her bridesmaids. Veronica was married on March 14th and I was there in spirit.
Despite all of the ups and downs, the most emotionally, physically and mentally draining part of March has been the weather. It gets warm, but with the warmth comes the blustering winds so we can't even go outside and enjoy the nice weather. When it is not warm and windy, it is cold and windy, sometimes with snow too. I'm just done with this winter. Onto Spring and Summer please. :P
So two church services a week, play dates, weekly laundry, continuing to slowly work on my creative space, crocheting projects, reading, blogging, texting, skyping and calling friends and family have kept me sane so far during this Lenten season. All I can say is that I've never looked forward to heading to Chico Hot Springs after Easter that I am this year.
Along with church activities, I still take Preston to MOPS the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month and we have recently started having weekly play dates with a new family in town with a boy Preston's age, on Wednesdays. On top of all this, we occasionally have my in-laws staying with us when my mother-in-law Sharon has early morning chemo treatments in Great Falls. It's been an exhausting March so far and there is still a week and a day left.
There have been some really great things going on this month too though. One I got to participate in and the other, I unfortunately was unable to attend. It sucks living in a place that doesn't have decently priced and convenient transportation options. Two of my favorite people in my life got married this month. Karen was married on March 1st and I was one of her bridesmaids. Veronica was married on March 14th and I was there in spirit.
Despite all of the ups and downs, the most emotionally, physically and mentally draining part of March has been the weather. It gets warm, but with the warmth comes the blustering winds so we can't even go outside and enjoy the nice weather. When it is not warm and windy, it is cold and windy, sometimes with snow too. I'm just done with this winter. Onto Spring and Summer please. :P
So two church services a week, play dates, weekly laundry, continuing to slowly work on my creative space, crocheting projects, reading, blogging, texting, skyping and calling friends and family have kept me sane so far during this Lenten season. All I can say is that I've never looked forward to heading to Chico Hot Springs after Easter that I am this year.
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