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Of Butterflies and Roses…

So, I finally got to see the “butterfly encounter”. Up ’til now I’ve been too cheap and the boys and I would run around Lucas nursery looking at the butterflies outside the exhibit.

This time - because Byron was with us, and he’s not cheap - we got passes. The boys were so excited. They said, “Mommy, we really get to go inside?”…I felt like a loser.

It was exactly what this Monday needed - beautiful butterflies flying everywhere with the music of Enya playing serenely in the background…

We also toured the gardens. Of course, I made a bee-line for the roses. I have to sniff all of them. It was heavenly.

Then I got back home, feeling quite tranquil and at peace…and I was in for a rude awakening as my great friend Amanda reminded me of the life-altering “promises” I made, in my Monday morning weakness, in the blog below…

Now the serenity is gone. Tranquility: vanished. Peace…not so much!!! She says she’s gonna put me through boot-camp!!! I’m very frightened at this moment. I think I’ve visited that address a-time-or-two with my drill sergeant loving husband. I don’t know that I need so much tough love in my life!

I think what I really need are more butterflies…and roses…and Enya! :-)
That sounds like a recipe for a long, tranquil (albeit lazy) life.

Peace out.

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on February 11, 2008
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Monday…another Monday

So, yesterday convinced me.

I’ve got to start working out.

I mean it…really!

I’m achy and exhausted from the morning’s rehearsal and two music sets.

I was sweating and winded by 9:10. Between the early morning - hope everything works out ‘cuz this is all the practice we’re gonna get…and we may have to “wing it” rehearsal, the 800 degree lights, the adrenaline, the nerves because my voice was weak, the spiritual aspect of working so hard to inspire people to worship, the fact that I’m old enough to be the rest of the band’s mother….

Well, anyway, the point is that this morning I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. Advil is my bff. Coffee is my other bff.

The Bowflex needs to be my bff…followed by pilates, fluidity, “The Firm”, 30 minute abs…and anything else I can find on late night infomercials. I need to find some new obsessions…

So, this is it. Today’s the day. As soon as I finish this blog, and my coffee, and the Advil kicks in…seriously! I AM NOT JOKING!!!

I’m gonna get so buff that all my friends get worried about me and tell me I need to relax and take a break…and they take me to lunch that’s really an “intervention” because I’m just way too obsessed with exercise…and they send me to one of those fancy “retreats” to learn to go through just one day without having to work-out for hours and hours….

Okay, so maybe my dreams are a little lofty…and frighteningly dysfunctional - But, I’m just trying to make a point…where was I? Oh yeah, TODAY IS THE DAY!

Of course, I do have a standing rule that any commitments I make on Monday are open to further review when I’m a little less delirious and a little more sane…

So, I guess the bottom-line is: I’m starting to get seriously ready to begin contemplating a paradigm shift in my attitudes and/or behavior as it relates to my lifestyle - visa vie: sedentary vs. obsessively active.

And I am unanimous in my decision! :-)
Peace.

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on February 11, 2008
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Temperamental Tuesday

Traditionally, Tuesdays have been slammed - staff meetings, band practice - but today is different. It’s still crazy busy - just different. There are deadlines and errands, and since the “office” is spread out among the staff’s homes, it’s a little more time consuming to sign letters, etc. - someone’s gotta get in the car and drive. And since the staff meeting took place yesterday, there’s no meeting today, so…

…I guess I had gotten used to one kind of busyness, and it’s hard to get used to this kind.

Plus, it’s freezing (I know it’s probably in the mid sixties, but I still have a wool sweater and scarf on today!). The cold always makes me move slower…I just wanted to spend the day sitting by the fire in my bathrobe - but…it just wasn’t meant to be.

After car-line, we’re headed out to Moss Park - we’re working on our “C3 Day at Moss Park” - I think I’ll take my camera…the red eyed cranes out there are gorgeous.

I do have the 5K that I inadvertently agreed to “run” on my mind, too. Last night, I walked the distance of the race…I wasn’t able to try to run any of it because, well…it was still light outside and my artistic ego can’t take that kind of humiliation…

But, tonight I’ll just try to walk it faster. We better get a treadmill, or I may never run it until the actual day of the race - maybe the race will take place in the dead of night, and there will be a city-wide power failure, and everyones’ camera batteries will spontaneously go dead…maybe. (I can dream, can’t I?) Oh, how did I ever get myself into this!!!

Okay, so this has just gone from “Temperamental Tuesday” to “I think I’m gonna have a panic attack and hyperventilate and die Tuesday”, but maybe I’m being a tiny bit dramatic…maybe.

I’m gonna go now before I inadvertently agree to any more torturous activities…

maybe I should call this “Drama Queen Tuesday” - it’s my blog, I can call it whatever I want.

peace out…

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on January 15, 2008
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Finally…

…when the alarm went off this morning (we slept in a little, so it went off at 6) - anyway, when I heard it, my first thought was, “Finally! I slept through the whole night!!”

From 11pm to 6am - that’s more than a full night for me. Yippee!!

Of course, it would probably take a month’s worth of nights like that to repair my insomnia, but I’m going to concentrate on the positive. And, maybe, tonight I’ll get to sleep by 10 and sleep ’til 7…Maybe!

By the way, the “tattoo” in the pic below (”Where’s My Fainting Couch”) is not real…

It looks like I’ve been talked into my first race. But at least it’s not ’til April - I will definitely need that long to train so that I don’t hyperventilate and die…or at least embarrass myself really badly. Were doing some kind of “group run” and Amanda is the slave-driver captain…I think she’s met her match with me…

We’ll see…

I’m not sure if sitting on the couch, blogging - while eating cheese toast and watching “Millionaire Matchmaker” is in the training regimen, but…

…oh well. I slept through the whole night so it’s all good no matter what. :-)
I guess I should go clean the laundry off of the elliptical machine…

peace.

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on January 11, 2008
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