2 Days 'Til Pretty Lake

So, it's almost 6 pm....hump day (at least the day-job part of it) is officially over.  

I'm pretty excited, actually, because tomorrow's like friday for me.  That's because I'm going scrappin' with my sister for the weekend - and taking Friday off.  Very exciting.  For lots of reasons...

1.  someone else does the cooking

2.  we each get a 9-foot table to ourselves...with the ultra-sexy luxury of getting to leave all of our crafting gear spread out all over the place for the whole weekend!  no cleaning up! (until sunday)

3.  generally, they play good tunes all weekend.

4.  it's been a while since joanna and i have spent some quality time just hanging.  we claim two tables directly across from one another and sit and craft and gab the whole time!

5.  we whip off our bras and put on our sweats and that's how we stay until it's time to leave.  very slothly!

mostly, though, i'm excited just to hang with joanna.  she has a wicked sharp sense of humor and is just generally a good egg.

my gear is sort of stashed in its normal places here in my perch (office/craft haven)...and i don't know where my pictures are.  if i plan on leaving tomorrow, i'd better get my arse in gear...since loading the car is always an adventure unto itself.

that's just about the only part of this bi-yearly adventure that is not my favorite...the whole pack the car process.

This place we go to is amazing...it's called "Pretty Lake".  Last time I was there, I actually confirmed (visual confirmation) that there is, in fact, a lake on-site.  Not sure whether I'd call it pretty.  It's this wooded facility...with a number of cinder-block dorm type buildings.  Maybe 10 rooms/building - each with 2 sets of bunk beds; community bathrooms; a "Great Room" with a stone fireplace and floor-to-ceiling windows (that face the lake they call pretty)....and meals are served in a mess hall.  There's a well-equipped kitchen in the great room as well, but, due to fire codes, we aren't allowed to use any of the appliances except for the fridge....which always seems kind of weird to me.  Like, it just BEGS the question....if we can't USE the stuff...WHY torment us by putting it there in the first place?

It's lovely there at Pretty Lake.  And I could really use this time away.

And now, I'm gonna act quickly while I'm inspired and motivated...and get my yoga mat out and do my 100's....and maybe some bridges...and the dreaded roll-up.   My goal (for now) is to be able to do a dang roll up perfectly.  Or...at all.  I was just building up some momentum with pilates and I don't want to lose it during this hiatus.

Maiden voyage on the bloggy road....

So lots of my friends blog....and I read them avidly, following along like some wicked game of "Where's Waldo".  Why do I not blog?

Today, all that's changing.

Here I am, perched up in my crow's nest of an office, looking out on "the wild side" across the way, shadows of evening settling in like cold steel.....and I find I have not a damn thing to say.

Today was a good day, though....I got some things out on the table with a dear friend, I made invitations for my 40th birthday bash, and got a fab new haircut.

Ordinarily, today would be pilates mat class day....but it's spring break from pilates.  I often ponder the many mind-body connections I've started in motion, and the physical changes I can already feel and am starting to see.  Mostly, I try not to think about it at all..because if I think about it in terms of having an outwardly attractive body, I FREAK.  For me, it's all about health...and if outward attractiveness happens, that's icing on the cake.

Tomorrow's hump day...then just 2 more days until I get to spend the weekend with my sister. 

Until next time,

peace from the road