Life and Death

7-1-15

Happy July!

I was in slumpsville yesterday. It was a long hard day of work that had nothing but issues. I made it through, and got home to find that the garage door had been left open all day. Yeah, that happened. I went inside and started working on some chores when it occurred to me that I needed to relax. So I went in the pool. I spent an hour running laps, with a little down time of floating and zoning out. This was short lived as Miss Lily felt the need to jump in to rescue me. Silly dog. Either way, the exercise was amazing, coupled with day two of my squat challenge, I was sore but content.

I didn’t like feeling the way I did before the happy part. There is still a twinge of this and I am trying to push through it and not let what is causing it to eat at me as much as it has been. I instead plan on focusing on positive things. Sadly, there is still the fact that these issues have not been resolved, but sometimes one cannot fix everything and it is best to just let it lie.

Toph turns 1 today! Whoa! When did my little bits get so growed up?

I am proud to say I was good to my skin yesterday and doused myself in sunblock before the hour swimming in sunshine.

And then the thunder came! It was around 4:30 or so when the weather outside looked stormy. It was strange and smelled wonderful. I pointed this out to Ken and we both were shocked to see the weather report. I went into the bathroom when the catio lit up from lightning. Then there was a tremendous boom and the whole house shook. It was so freaking cool. We ran outside and managed to see another lightning strike not too far away. Another giant boom sent Lily scurrying under the chair on the porch. There was light rain, but overall that seemed to be the extent of the strange weather. It was a lot of fun.

A grandmother of one of Bobby’s classmates passed away yesterday. I had met her several times as she volunteered a lot at the school. She was a super nice lady and it is sad to hear of her death. I hate getting older if only because I don’t get to hear enough good things happening to people compared to things like death. Thankfully there was a counter to the sad with the birth of my friends’ baby girl. Life and death are at war with one another.

A side note that I want to put out there is a quick RIP to Kathy Gaunt who passed away 19 years ago today. 

Ok, time to get to work.