A Couple Days Off!

Enjoying every single moment of four days off in a row.

Didn't leave the house Saturday and today took a trip to the grocery. Baked two loaves of gf French Bread that turned out pretty well, along with a couple of sugar cookies.

Bought bananas and pineapple and spinach to start drinking with daily green drinks. I am determined to reshape my body by giving it the nutrition it wants and needs.

Two more days til it's off to work we go!

Home.

When you drive 894 miles in 14 hours, your body takes a vibrational beating. Your energy is waaaay ahead of your body and it takes a while for it to catch up! I am wiped out this morning.

And then...the sun!!

On the way back from the beach, the sun broke thru the clouds and stayed there for the rest of the afternoon.

I actually hand washed my car this afternoon. On Christmas Eve. Remarkable in the Midwest, mundane in the South.

And yet, I am exultant!

And posting this photo to be able to remind myself what the sky looks like during those permiclouded winter days.

The seagulls are just chillin'

Those swells I mentioned...

Christmas Eve Day at the Gulf of Mexico

How exciting it is to be on this beach again! It doesn't need to be sunny and 80 degrees to enjoy the Gulf Shores white sand beach. Clouds, rain on and off, winds whipping up the waves to ten foot swells and yet I am thrilled to spend time here. Gratitude abounds!!

Thoughts from the road

Chick-Fil-A cashiers in Birmingham Alabama say "my pleasure" in response to a "thank you." Charming.

Mobile Bay is astonishingly beautiful and peaceful when the wind isn't blowing. I could have spent hours along the Bay, drinking in God's beauty.

Hundred-year-old Live Oak trees line Government Street in Mobile, Alabama and transport one to another world. Distracting. I'm surprised there aren't more accidents on that street. The energy of the trees draws you in and mesmerizes.

Girls Night (in a Sunday afternoon!)

Hanging with The Girls today at Cindy's. she and Tom have just finished remodeling a few rooms in the house and she wanted to show off the place. It's been summer since we've seen each other ... since Cindy's mom died. The energy around these friendships is just so easy and open and very give and take. Filled with love and respect, mutual memories and experiences. These are some of my favorite days.

struggling

i'm struggling with a number of things today.  i'm trying to get thru them, to get thru other's expectations and to draw boundaries once again.  i want to help people, but i also know/feel the need to help me.  it seems to me that the "me helping me" should super cede anyone else, yet, when i plan to do that, something pops up that challenges that idea and my resolve.

the issue is it continues to happen, over and over.  

and it normally happens when i just don't have time or energy to deal with it.  

i'm struggling...

10 minutes away from everyone today

Today, at 12:11pm, I slid into the front seat of my car.  Away from the vendors in the Flea Market, away from the world.  I wanted solitude and to be able to close my eyes and feel that moment.

12:12pm.

I closed my eyes and woosh!!  I was transported into a world of feeling...my skin was tingling, I felt the vibrations oscillating, colors were flying past my closed eyelids.

Amazing.

Enlightening.

Open.  I felt open.  Wide open and receiving the world's energy coursing through me.  I have never anything like it.  Ever.

I sat there for 10 minutes, just...feeling.  Exhilarating!!

I have a meditation from worldpuja to listen to tonight as i fall asleep.  Today was a good day.

12-12-12

Tomorrow is December twelfth 2012.

I am beginning the blogging journey again tomorrow. I miss the woman who wrote these earlier entries. I miss sharing these bits that are personal, bits that are too personal for Facebook and twitter. And so, I return to this place for solace and outlet and just...being.

I can't wait!