BIG post today. So much fun this weekend that I just had no time to blog...mostly because I wanted to suck in every moment on my time off. Let me say it went way too fast.
I find myself saying a lot "I need to refocus" which is true and I have been thinking it for the past week. Refocus on the things that I need to get done (because there are things I NEED to get done) while balancing work, play and me time. I was listening to an interview of Jim Axelrod on yesterday on NPR and there were two things that he said that I REALLY heard.
"It was all about having some dependable, reliable way to bring some control to the chaos that had become my life. You know, it's a lot of time on the road at 5:30 in the morning, it's a good way to figure - a lot of time to figure some things out. So for me, the running became this intrinsic part of understanding how it was I wanted to live.
And I had this gorgeously binary choice available to me every morning. I could get my behind out of bed, lace them up and go for a run and feel better, or I could roll over and not feel as good as I would have if I had just gone running.
And so all the complexity and the chaos of my life began to in some way clarify itself. I began to see a lot more clearly because I had introduced this simple but fundamentally important idea of doing something reliable and dependable that I could control, designed to bring me a sense of well being."
"But for other people it may be knitting, or it may be biking. It could be golf. It could be reading poetry. There's an anchor that I think our lives are so chaotic, so busy. We have Blackberry's and cell phones and kids hanging off our shirts and trying to be good spouses and good parents and good sons, and yet there's basically you need anchors because they're so - that breeze gets blowing so hard, you need an anchor as the breeze blows."
"But for other people it may be knitting, or it may be biking. It could be golf. It could be reading poetry. There's an anchor that I think our lives are so chaotic, so busy. We have Blackberry's and cell phones and kids hanging off our shirts and trying to be good spouses and good parents and good sons, and yet there's basically you need anchors because they're so - that breeze gets blowing so hard, you need an anchor as the breeze blows."
I feel like I need to find my anchor, in a sense. I have my faith, which, is a huge anchor in every area of my life and I rely heavily on it. I guess what I need is that activity that I can tangibly grasp to relieve stress and keep me focused.
Now...onto the pictures. I posted a lot of these on FB already so sorry if you were expecting new stuff. I just love all the memories made this weekend.
Sunglasses, phones and cameras. All lined up. It looked like a high end boutique.
So happy to be out of work on Friday!
Friday night.
Excalibur! A good price for a lot of explosions.
Part 2 of our 'Merica Days.
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