Get your motor runnin'... or not
I've been feeling the urge to go for a run lately. Something about the gorgeous weather, not taking advantage of it before the snows come (though I know in TO the snows will not be so snowy), not being able to breathe after getting up a flight of stairs, knowing that I can do this because I have done it before, all are making me itchy to get outside--but then I get home, and I'm tired and cranky after a day at work, and there's knitting to be done, and my MP3 needs to be recharged, and I'm just not interested. I'm not even interested at 6:30AM anymore because it's very very dark in the mornings now.
Blarg. I'm tired of these 10-15lbs. hanging around but I'm not motivated to move that much either. I would really like to be at least 5lbs. lighter before I go away, IN 2 1/2 WEEKS, which is doable. [I was going to add a "but" in here, about how hard it is, yadda yadda, and then I saw the blog I recommend below and my mood changed (I have a terrible habit of multi-tasking) and I thought of the quote from Half Broke Horses that is below. Nothing like a strong woman to give you the right advice.]
I'm currently listening to Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls, which is pretty fabulous, though not as good as The Glass Castle, but quite mesmerizing as read by her (she has the most delightful accent, full and rich with American history), and disc 4, which I could have listened to over and over again, has her main character talking about the sunrise months after her sister died:
"I realized that in the months since Helen had died, I hadn't been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn't really care how I felt--it was going to rise and set, regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me."
True words from a pioneer!
My Google reader pointed me towards a new blog. She definitely lives in the present. http://www.dianevarner.com/additional_images/your_morning_sky.html