Hard stuff from last week:

- Was very busy and had very little down time. I was rushing around a lot and didn’t get to sit still and be quiet much. Hence my post about being Vitamin S Deficient.

- One of my friends is struggling with finances and it’s very scary for him. It leads to yucky stuff in his relationship and they are doing their best to take care of things.

- I ripped off some of my fingernails. Not all the way like I have no nail anymore, but the tips ya know? I haven’t been going to get manicures regularly. (The main thing that helps me insure that my nails stay nice and healthy.) So I’ve been lacking in the self-care-for-nails department. Usually when this happens I feel bad and guilty and shameful. And that’s what I experienced. Feeling lame for not taking care of my nails and making them ugly. Basically: What’s wrong with me that I do this sometimes? Blah.

- Still not able to exercise the way I would like to because my knee is still recovering from a running injury in mid-April. Boo.

- I actually went on a roller coaster at California Adventure Park (The California Screamer) and then threw up about an hour later.

Goodies from last week:

- Put together my 1st ever surprise party for my friend and she was totally surprised and I didn’t freak out about having to “lie” to her to get her to cooperate with the plan.

- We all pitched in and got her a new beach cruiser bike (hot purple color) and she LOVES it.

- We went to Disneyland for her birthday and I shouted Happy Birthday to all the other people I could find who were wearing Birthday pins. It was fun! And Space Mountain didn’t make me need to throw up at all.

- I got my bike a summer tune up and it’s ready for lots of riding. I have a fun stealth color black Giant mountain bike. With a blinking tail light and a front headlight that requires new batteries.

- I heard about you taking care of yourself with an emergency vacation. That is so good. Yay!

Mona Graysons last blog post..When I’m Vitamin S Deficient

My hard this week: My computer died. We gave it a decent burial. New computer took until this morning to arrive. 400+ emails in my Inbox. Loads of stuff that didn’t get transferred over from old computer to new one . . . lost in the Land of Missing Data.

My good this week: My computer died. Four days of low-tech spaciousness! Mornings out on my deck in this beautiful almost-summer sunshine, reading, praying, meditating, writing by hand. Also doing absolutely nothing. Lovely! :-)

Have a beautiful holiday!

Love, Hirl

Hiro Bogas last blog post..Swimming In the Sea of Story

+dogs strange “leaking” has been kept in check with meds
+sons reading skills are making him proud of himself
+chatted with sister and sister-in-law for special bonding time………sigh
+have been reading your site and FINALLY started putting together my blog with updated website (still much to do, but it’s finally started and going to be GORGEOUS)

-3 days straight of cloudy, cold and rainy (Gah!!)
-hair dryer died
-very worried about girlfriend (amiga, not namorada) living and trying to find work in South East Michigan.
-still don’t know when we will be visiting home. We’ve been in Brasil since September 08 and the homesickness is starting to really kick in.

xoxoxoxooxo P

- things are overdue
- forest of frustrations
- bad friking cloudy weather
- fear of failure
- self doubting

+ admitting fears and getting comfortable with them
+ accepting that I don’t know who I am
+ decision to take it on (…this is my battle )
+ meeting my best friend who cheered me up
+ meeting my gentleman friend who made me beam

Andreas last blog post..Approved: The Reds are right

Please take care.

<3
Gingerbread

The hard: Someone tried to steal a 5′ x 5′ x 5′ plastic play cube out of our yard – the one our kids use to jump off to swing on the rope swing. Husband heard it, followed the guy, called police, got the cube back … we got to bed about 3 a.m. Kids never sleep in when you need them to.
Husband’s grandmother fell and broke her hip on Monday morning.
This was one of those weeks at work when a gazillion things went wrong all at once.
Looks like our chances of avoiding foreclosure are down to slim and none, although we’re not giving up.
Call for interview for job for husband cancelled, company is holding off.

The good: Husband wrote awesome guest blog post about the wee-hours-play-cube-caper – you can read it here: http://is.gd/JBuC Promise, it’s funny and also thought-provoking. Also, LPW (long post warning).
Short work week, and also summer hours so I got to leave the office at 2 p.m. today.
Got Rolfed today. Good session – next week, more focus on the feet.
Singing lesson to look forward to on Sunday.
Kids will spend weekend with grandparents, so husband and I have surprise date night tomorrow.
Next weekend we go to Apogaea with a bunch of friends and goats.

Anna-Lizas last blog post..Pollyanna Knows the Feeling

Here’s wishing you a very restful and restorative week away. Heartily second the notion that you have an AWESOME pirate crew!

The Hard:
- Traveling from Chicago to Seattle. Especially when the flight got started 2 hours late, partially due to the incoming plane being late, partially due to a “ground stop” due to a thunderstorm that moved through while they were loading up the plane. Very, very exhausted when I finally got to my hotel room.

The Good:
- Messing up my hotel reservation and ending up almost 2 miles from the convention center BUT on Puget Sound! My bedroom window looks right out onto the water and the Olympic Penisula mountains. OMG!!! I’m a water sign, FYI. It has been SO restorative walking along the waterfront each morning and night to get to the conference.
- Linking back up with friends from high school who I have not heard from in 30 years! Haven’t laughed so much in years!

There’s more, but it can wait until next week as I need to head to bed so I can get one more walk along the water before the shuttle picks me up tomorrow morning for the return flight.