Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Tiny (?) changes....

Hoping I haven't bit off too much more than I can chew.....

My word of the year top is done with hand dyed and ice dyed fabrics...


but feeling a little under the weather has messed with my desire to quilt this week.



In the meantime...


I am participating in a 7 day nature photography challenge



 over on Facebook...



and so I have been posting mostly old photos....


that I tinkered with using iPhone apps...



  and Photoshop Elements,...


while I train for a new job....
study for an old job....

keep on top of my Happiness Project....



find time for exercise and meditation...




enjoy some company....


and
knit in my spare time (did I say spare time?!!!)


"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
-Leo Tolstoy

Monday, January 4, 2016

Happy

Even though I explored other words 
for that word of 2016,
I realized that all those other words
(compassion, present, mindful, create....)
lead to my being happy...

So, Happy it is!!!

As I began a bit of exploration into what it might mean to me to be truly happy,
I found this on the Live Life Happy website


words to embrace, for sure.

The day after the race I ran on December 31st,
I got the results of my run.

Now I did this run as a challenge
and to keep my running,
with no expectations...

but the results of my run
surprised even me...



By the way, when I signed in on race night,
the woman at the table questioned me "53?"
WHAT????
Was I supposed to remember my bib number??
So I blabbered my way through
LOL
and then after I realized, 
that was my age!!!!

So there is my age 
front and center!!

Anyway...
out of 1380 runners who finished this race, 
I actually placed in the top half!!!
Out of 726 women running,
in the top half!!!
and
In my age category (50-59),
I placed in the top quarter!!!



Not bad...
and yet, another reason to just be happy!!!

Thursday, January 29, 2015

A creature of habit?????

Lately, I have been reading (actually listening to) The Power of Habit 
which I came across somewhere on the internet while browsing aimlessly (a bad habit!!! lol) ...

I started thinking about the many habits and/or routines that I have...

and also the ones I want to institute or change....

For the past many years, 
I have endeavored to get up early (like before the 'birds-get-up early') to exercise.
Most people think I am crazy but apparently, there are a number of other people
that exhibit the same behavior because I see them at the gym!

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Firstly, I have never been one to sleep late
and secondly, if I am done by 6:30-7:00 AM, 
I have my entire day ahead of me!

This is most often followed by a shower and breakfast 
(often made up of my favorite smoothies from this book) 


and then the next couple of hours (give or take)
are devoted to hitting the books with this fella....


Of course, habits and routines may be changed out of necessity
and then...????

Now that Nature Boy is gainfully employed at a downtown eatery
during the day, 
our school day starts early
(like right 'after-my-shower early')
and I have a lot more free time to play during the middle of the day...
(okay, occasionally I could clean ... naw!!!!!)

So I should be churning out all sorts of magnificent pieces of art....


(I did get my art challenge 'writing' and weekly prompt "words with friends" done for 
and
all the stitching I did on a new project is now unstitched...

(grrrrr... I was just not happy with it!)

but I have not created anything new and earth shattering yet
and all this free time seems to pass quickly 
without too much accomplished.

I am beginning to believe that it takes a looooong time to get 
the "productive habit" ingrained!

Some times,
I actually create daily reminders to start a new habit...


that ding and/or flash on my phone screen
(and I may or may not ignore it)...


or I use apps as an attempt to change a habit...


but I can habitually keep trying, right?


(or just ramble on about it...)

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Summer has come... and summer has almost gone!

I have had a busy summer!!! 

Where has the time gone???

Time went...

on a trip to Florida....
(I was working)



with some free time for knitting....



followed by a trip to Las Vegas...
(by the way, I was working here too!)


with some more free time for knitting...


and a show...



Back at home, there has been time for exercise...



time to admire the garden that Nature Boy has tended...











  time for two awesome workshops at Vermont Quilt Festival....


both with Susan Brubaker Knapp...





time for plenty of homeschooling...


a wee bit of time for crafting...
(if only this room was air conditioned!)


time to see a couple of ballet performances
(New York City Ballet and Bolshoi Ballet )...


time to catch a visitor in our backyard...


time to try felting at a two-day workshop


at one of the most beautiful places ...


on Lake George...




a little more time to enjoy the bounties of our garden....




and before you know it....


summer will be fading away!!!