Simply Marvelous

Right now I am looking forward to EVERYTHING!!!!
1. A good night's sleep tonight
2. Hiking in Glacier on tues/Wed with Mern
3. Relay for Life/with Amy next week-end
4. Floating the Missouri from on the 11th with Celeste and Betsy
5. Rivers edge Trail with Nessa 8/16...this will also be a slumber party and dinner OUT
6. Tour de Cure with my FAM.
7. Getting my new pellet stove installed

And THEN....Christmas shopping starts!!!!!!

8. Seattle half marathon

God Bless Me, my life is really good.

In a Good Place

It's been good these days. How nice it is to be in a good place in my life after visiting some not so good places for awhile. Peaks and valleys.....I'll take the peaks when I can and remain there as long as I can.
Yesterday I went on a long bike ride, a fifty miler. I left the house when the air was still cool and returned before lunch. It felt great. I appreciate that this old body is still working more or less properly. Not all are so fortunate when they reach their fifties.
I've brushed off some of the grunge from my life as well. Leave the angry people to wallow in their anger, alone. Leave the pessimists to wallow in their pessimism, alone. I don't need their ugliness in my life. I've turned my back on a few of these. Aahhhh, such a relief.
yep, it's good. I just want to hold steady now. For awhile at least.
The phrase is WAY overused, but Life really IS Good.

The Angel of Death

This blog isn't really about death. I just thought that was kind of a catchy title.
Tomorrow I am going camping with some old school friends that I haven't seen in over 30 years. What a trip. After all of these years.....a little visit to place where I never expected to return. The same, yet different. This is just awesome. It's a pleasant and totally unexpected surprise to have this opportunity. It's a chance to connect the past to the present, in a manner of speaking. New, old friends....or something like that....don't know quite what to call it, but it's really pretty exciting.
Kbye.
p.s. the angel of death ain't visiting me anytime soon....I hope.

Why so angry?

Why are so many people angry about such inconsequential things? I work with the public and see adults throwing tantrums over the piddliest of things. To each and every one of them I would like to say, "Try cancer on for size. Trying hearing this diagnosis and facing the uncertainty of your own life. Try fighting this shitty damned disease with everything you've got and still not know if you will survive. Try that experience and then reconsider whether the inconvenience of standing in a boring line at Walmart for five minutes was worthy of the anger you expressed about it."
Ok, got that off of my chest.

God invented Snot

Some of lifes Blessings are so heavily disguised that they are barely recognizable as a blessing. Take snot for instance, rich with yummy enzymes and immunioglobulins to fight off the invasion of virus's and other creepy crawlies. Snot is really good stuff!!! It hardly seems like it when you are fighting a summer cold, as I am right now.
When all else fails, try gratitude! I am so thankful for the abundance of snot that I've been blessed with today.

No exercise= gloom and despair

My darn lower back has been out for 3 days. I can't exercise!!! Even walking is painful. I can't stand it!!!! This a.m. I took a muscle relaxant and ibuprofen. Now I am just waiting to see if it gets me up and moving. I am really not good at being laid up by a physical problem. It is soooooo depressing.