Gwenn

Been so so so busy

I love having a busy purposeful life who doesn't? Waking up every morning with a pile of work on my e-mail that results in paydays...that is cool. However  a lot of things get left in the dust when I can't pay attention to them. Like finishing the kitchen drawing homework that our designer has given us....she wants it by Friday!!She gave us a number of options that she asked us to think about, sketch on and change to the way we live. or would like to live.
Ahhh, the way we live is flying in and out of the house, eating crappy restaurant food and only occasionally, like twice this week cooking at home.
So why are we putting in a new kitchen?
Anyway, so far we all agree to remove the fireplace, that will add a huge chunk of space into which we can encroach our new island. And its going to be a big one, 9 x 5 ft so far. A big slab of granite. No, wait! its not an island... it is a continent!!! But I don't know whether to put a prep sink in the island, an induction cook top or nothing. Oh what to do?
We definitely want to put bar stools around it for those indolent leaners who come to drink wine and for me to pretend I have a cooking show.
We will remove the stub wall between the eating area and the cooking area and it will become an open galley style kitchen. Nowadays the reno industry has come up with all kind of nifty gadgets, like a pull out trailer affair that fits nicely into a corner and does away with the stupid lazy susan cupboard. I think we will go way up high on the walls with a row of inside lit glass cupboards to highlight the lovely ceramic collection that we have. After that my brain is dead, I can't think of anything else. I only hope that I can work it out in the middle of the night and wake up in the morning enlightened.
But wait... I spent all one night dreaming of weddings, oh not the usual stuff people dream but I got myself all tangled up in the protocol of who drives the bride to the ceremony and who stays here overnight and blah blah blah....god I am tired.

&(^%#%^!!

I tried to post a video to this blog but the video was taken by my BB phone which apparently isn't a mp4 so it won't post. Does anyone know how to convert it without it being an onerous chore. Does anyone know painless magic?

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Walking along the Bow river.
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We had a comfortable visit with our buddies on Friday. Ginger and I made a breakfast/midmorning snack and enterained our friends Linda and Peg and Linda's new puppy Toto. Ginger greeted everyone and went back to bed. Toto was well behaved and received his presents with gusto. There never is enough time to say all the things we want to say and cover all the topics. We could have visited for hours.
Alas, there was a plane to catch for Peg and water/melting snow maintenance for Linda.

Skyped by Kat and crew. I asked her to sing to me our favourite song, 'Take me out to the ball game' but she had a different notion and sang her favourite song, twinkle twinkle little star.

The Will to LIve

There is a lot in that statement. The Will to Live. Not only do I feel better after suffering through a terrible January of bronchial infections but the weather is wonderful and the sun is shining. And this is Alberta and its getting warmer outside.

I think that it really does take 'will' to live wholly, to live completely and to stretch one's belief in oneself to live beyond one's comfortable defining borders. Of course it is easy to say this now, when I am no longer clutching the backs of chairs doubled over coughing my lungs out.

I am back at my yoga practice and I take what I learn in my weekly class and use it and add it to my routine. I am not strict enough with myself to do it at the same time everyday,  but when I find or set aside time, to meditate I also do a few poses and stretches. I have my own little studio downstairs that no one but me uses.

But, it does take will to use it everyday.  Such a simple and pleasant thing as meditation shouldn't have to be scheduled but there you are, that is how it is for me. Another example of using my Will. Soon I will have to use it to get back to my cardio/free weight dance class, Jazzercise. When my breathing is clearer.

This renewal has also happened to Ginger, my old dear. She has been suffering with Cushings Disease, the symptoms of which are tremendous overpowering thirst, voracious appetite and lethargy. She has been peeing gallons, no surprise when she drinks gallons, but she has trouble controlling her bladder.

back in 2003 sitting on a beach on Denman island

That last few days we have noticed that she is sleeping less, she is more inclined to want to spend time with us. Also, she is drinking less and eating less. AND her hearing is coming back. Could it be that the adrenal tumours have shrunk?. Maybe, who knows. But, it is a joy to have my dear old soul mate back.

She is now an old lady soul mate. She walks beside me, she is less inclined to chase rabbits, so there is no jerking on the leash and she is content to be companionable beside me. Well most of the time. When the snow drifts are too deep she doesn't even attempt to squat for her rituals, she just goes in the middle of the road or the sidewalk. She has that look on her face. That determined 'I have paid for the privilege' look.

On Lake Minnewanka 2009

She will be 14 in two weeks.