Things B. Knows For Sure
1. I can only tolerate the heat (here that’s 30 degrees Canuck and above) if I am by water. Not a glass, but a lake.
2. I am a “runner” enough to teach someone else to run. Ha … that’s a stretch of sorts. “Someone else” is actually Gunner, our new little dog, who has completely stolen my heart. He’s doing 3 minute runs, 1 minute walks … and he’s happily enjoying our nightly clinic.
3. I am a better wife, a better mom, a better friend, and just an all-around better gal when I’m running regularly. I need to remember that. Tattoo it on my forehead or something. When things get rough, it tends to be what I give up, in the so-called name of time management. That’s just …. ridiculous.
4. Kids are like creative volcanoes, just erupting constantly. Since school has been out, my kids have created a comic book series, painted a mural, and made a paper-mache skateboard park. It is completely insane of me to try and constantly clean up the creative mess throughout the day … we all just pitch in at the end of the day and try to make order of it all.
5. I am happiest in my home the neighbourhood congregates here. I don’t know what it is … the handing out of the mass amount of popsicles, the shrieks as we set up the sprinkler under the trampoline, or setting up the tent for everyone to crowd in and giggle. It all gives me great joy. It’s the kind of neighbourhood I would have wanted to grow up in, if I’d lived in town when I was a kid.
6. Regular massage is not a treat, it’s a health care practice. I’ve made the “standing appointment”, after finding a most amazing therapist that is only a walk away from my house.
7. At some points, you have to re-visit your Very Long Term Goals and make sure that your daily actions are at least relating to those in some way. That’s a whole other post for me, but for the first time in a long time, I’m making that work.
So …. to borrow the line from Oprah, what do you know for sure today?
