Bog builder prompt: I love ________________ because it reminds me of_________________.
I love the smell of freesias because they remind me of Church Bay. We used to have a bach (holiday home) at a place called Church Bay. It was a little place beside the sea in a bay that had a safe swimming beach. We would spend all our summers there roaming free, enjoying the sea, sand & exploring. I loved the place & still do. Anyway along the paths at our bach there were freesias. I am not sure who planted them but I am assuming that it was my grandmother, I don't think they would have grown wild. Every spring they would flower & they had the most beautiful scent. Some of the freesias that you buy in the shops today have hardly any scent but the ones at Church Bay had a beautiful scent.
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Earth Worms
This blog prompt has come from www.scraptown.com
Update your blog with something about animals could be a pet, something you saw at a zoo, a favorite, something you've never seen...
I've just been out in my vege garden digging it over in preparation for some new soil & then some compost. The interesting thing I saw out there were worms. Last time I was digging in a part of the garden where it has been dug over a lot & the soil was nice & loose. Today I was in the section where my rhubarb & strawberry plants have been. Because I don't lift my strawberry plants usually the area never really gets a good dig over. In the nice loose half I saw no worms & I was beginning to be a bit worried because really it is good to have worms in your garden. Down in the other section of the graden the dirt was quite clumped together & that is where I found all my earthworms. I am so pleased that I have at least a few of them in the garden. I thought that worms would live in the nice easy to burrow through soil but no, in my garden they are to be found in the big clods of earth that never really get turned over..jpg)
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Because you can't see it on the other photo along the left side heading towards the parsley is my garlic. I planted about 14 cloves around the shortest day & so far 11 have come up so I think that is pretty good odds. If they all mature that should last us most of the next year for cooking.
Update your blog with something about animals could be a pet, something you saw at a zoo, a favorite, something you've never seen...
I've just been out in my vege garden digging it over in preparation for some new soil & then some compost. The interesting thing I saw out there were worms. Last time I was digging in a part of the garden where it has been dug over a lot & the soil was nice & loose. Today I was in the section where my rhubarb & strawberry plants have been. Because I don't lift my strawberry plants usually the area never really gets a good dig over. In the nice loose half I saw no worms & I was beginning to be a bit worried because really it is good to have worms in your garden. Down in the other section of the graden the dirt was quite clumped together & that is where I found all my earthworms. I am so pleased that I have at least a few of them in the garden. I thought that worms would live in the nice easy to burrow through soil but no, in my garden they are to be found in the big clods of earth that never really get turned over.
Now because you have heard me talk about that garden so much I had better show you the state of the vege garden at the moment.
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Because you can't see it on the other photo along the left side heading towards the parsley is my garlic. I planted about 14 cloves around the shortest day & so far 11 have come up so I think that is pretty good odds. If they all mature that should last us most of the next year for cooking.
Monday, August 06, 2007
Favourite summer veggies
This is part of the blog builder challange over at www.scraptown.com
This time for you blog builder... talk about your favorite summer veggies and include pics if you have them (idea blatently stolen from Katrina's photography challenge)
It is winter here & the garden is bare, apart from some parsley, the rhubarb crown & some garlic stalks just coming up through the soil, so there won't be any recent photos of summer veges.
My favourite of all of them is the TOMATO, & yes I know that technically it is a fruit, but I just love them. I am able to buy them all year round now but to tell you the honest truth I think the best tomatoes are home grown picked off the vine on a sunny day. There is a totally different flavour to them, or maybe I should say there is a flavour to them, that is very much absent in store bought ones. I love a tomato sandwich with a little grind of salt & pepper in nice fresh bread. I've only just had breakfast but that thought just makes me hungry.
So given that a tomato is really a fruit I had better tell you about my next favourite vegetable. I am not sure you would really classify it as a summer vegetable though because it fist becomes available here, around my birthday, which is spring. It is one of the things I like to buy to celebrate my birthday. ASPARAGUS. Lovely long green stalks of crisp juciness, of course I am naughty & give it a bit of a drenching in butter, it also requires a twist of salt & pepper. Yumm! roll on October.
Now I really had better tell you about a vegetable that is a summer vege, new potatoes. You know those little round baby potatoes freshly dug up. We have them on Christmas Day for lunch. Of course I have to have butter on them but I like them with some garlic butter not just plain butter. New potatoes also have a flavour all of their own & I just could eat tons of them, just as well we don't grow them by the ton in my vege garden. The boys also scoff them down but I think part of the fun of them is the digging of them up out of the garden. It's like a game of hide & seek. Dig under the plant & see how many of these little potatoes you can find, then search through the soil again just in case you've missed one or two.
Well I'm off to buy my bag of spuds for planting out so that we can have new potatoes for Christmas day.
This time for you blog builder... talk about your favorite summer veggies and include pics if you have them (idea blatently stolen from Katrina's photography challenge)
It is winter here & the garden is bare, apart from some parsley, the rhubarb crown & some garlic stalks just coming up through the soil, so there won't be any recent photos of summer veges.
My favourite of all of them is the TOMATO, & yes I know that technically it is a fruit, but I just love them. I am able to buy them all year round now but to tell you the honest truth I think the best tomatoes are home grown picked off the vine on a sunny day. There is a totally different flavour to them, or maybe I should say there is a flavour to them, that is very much absent in store bought ones. I love a tomato sandwich with a little grind of salt & pepper in nice fresh bread. I've only just had breakfast but that thought just makes me hungry.
So given that a tomato is really a fruit I had better tell you about my next favourite vegetable. I am not sure you would really classify it as a summer vegetable though because it fist becomes available here, around my birthday, which is spring. It is one of the things I like to buy to celebrate my birthday. ASPARAGUS. Lovely long green stalks of crisp juciness, of course I am naughty & give it a bit of a drenching in butter, it also requires a twist of salt & pepper. Yumm! roll on October.
Now I really had better tell you about a vegetable that is a summer vege, new potatoes. You know those little round baby potatoes freshly dug up. We have them on Christmas Day for lunch. Of course I have to have butter on them but I like them with some garlic butter not just plain butter. New potatoes also have a flavour all of their own & I just could eat tons of them, just as well we don't grow them by the ton in my vege garden. The boys also scoff them down but I think part of the fun of them is the digging of them up out of the garden. It's like a game of hide & seek. Dig under the plant & see how many of these little potatoes you can find, then search through the soil again just in case you've missed one or two.
Well I'm off to buy my bag of spuds for planting out so that we can have new potatoes for Christmas day.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Pet driving Peeves
This prompt comes from http://www.scraptown.com
Tell us all about your pet peeves... what make you really mad.. go ahead let it all out!
Most of the things that really make me mad are just the little things that keep niggling until all at once it is just happened once too often & then I get mad. A few of them are things that happen at home & some of them are things that happen while I am driving. I think I have covered the at home ones before.
The things that make me steam when I am driving are mainly a lack of respect for other road users. For instance when a person pulls out in front of you, making you jam on your brakes. It makes me even more angry when they then proceed to carry along at less than the speed limit. That really makes me very angry.
Christchurch has a horrible problem with red light runners. I drive along Memorial Ave several times a day & I really think that they could do with some right turn arrows. People drive straight through late orange lights, when they could have stopped meaning that those people turning right are doing so on a red light which in some cases is green for the other side. That is unbelievably dangerous & I am left wondering whether it would happen if there were right turning arrows. At least if you are turning right & you know you will get an arrow you might feel inclined to wait for the next rotation.
I am finding it more & more dangerous driving on Christchurch roads, what with red light runners, people speeding, not indicating lane changes it really is becoming more dangerous. I am now getting to the stage where at intersections I have to ask the boys to be quiet just so I can seriously concentrate on what I am doing. In some cases I think the problem is that the other people aren't actually concentrating & what I can see as a hazard they don't seem to see until they are on top of it. A case in point was on Friday. I was doing a right turn from Memorial Ave into Kendal Ave. I have to cross to lanes of traffic to do so, & in the far lane there were 3 cars. Car #1 & #2 were indicating left, car #3 was speeding up behind them. Car #1 stopped to give way to me, but car 3 was speeding so fast that I decided not to take the turn. He then nearly wiped out car 2 that had stopped behind car 1 & then swerved into the lane closer to me in such a huge arc that he nearly clipped me. I was stationary & in the right place but the driver of car 3 was so wrapped up in his own world he hadn't noticed what was happening at the intersection I was sitting at.
Then on the Monday before that I had a real shock. The light was green my way (it had been for quite some time) & I was about to turn right into Memorial Ave & this car came driving straight through the intersection, from my left, & proceeded to turn right down the road I was trying to get out of. I am just so thankful that I had taken that extra time to check because the boys & I would have been written off. Scott would have been waiting at the airport wondering when we were going to pick him up.
It's dangerous to drive on Christchurch roads & I just touch wood that so far I have been very lucky to have missed some very close calls.
Tell us all about your pet peeves... what make you really mad.. go ahead let it all out!
Most of the things that really make me mad are just the little things that keep niggling until all at once it is just happened once too often & then I get mad. A few of them are things that happen at home & some of them are things that happen while I am driving. I think I have covered the at home ones before.
The things that make me steam when I am driving are mainly a lack of respect for other road users. For instance when a person pulls out in front of you, making you jam on your brakes. It makes me even more angry when they then proceed to carry along at less than the speed limit. That really makes me very angry.
Christchurch has a horrible problem with red light runners. I drive along Memorial Ave several times a day & I really think that they could do with some right turn arrows. People drive straight through late orange lights, when they could have stopped meaning that those people turning right are doing so on a red light which in some cases is green for the other side. That is unbelievably dangerous & I am left wondering whether it would happen if there were right turning arrows. At least if you are turning right & you know you will get an arrow you might feel inclined to wait for the next rotation.
I am finding it more & more dangerous driving on Christchurch roads, what with red light runners, people speeding, not indicating lane changes it really is becoming more dangerous. I am now getting to the stage where at intersections I have to ask the boys to be quiet just so I can seriously concentrate on what I am doing. In some cases I think the problem is that the other people aren't actually concentrating & what I can see as a hazard they don't seem to see until they are on top of it. A case in point was on Friday. I was doing a right turn from Memorial Ave into Kendal Ave. I have to cross to lanes of traffic to do so, & in the far lane there were 3 cars. Car #1 & #2 were indicating left, car #3 was speeding up behind them. Car #1 stopped to give way to me, but car 3 was speeding so fast that I decided not to take the turn. He then nearly wiped out car 2 that had stopped behind car 1 & then swerved into the lane closer to me in such a huge arc that he nearly clipped me. I was stationary & in the right place but the driver of car 3 was so wrapped up in his own world he hadn't noticed what was happening at the intersection I was sitting at.
Then on the Monday before that I had a real shock. The light was green my way (it had been for quite some time) & I was about to turn right into Memorial Ave & this car came driving straight through the intersection, from my left, & proceeded to turn right down the road I was trying to get out of. I am just so thankful that I had taken that extra time to check because the boys & I would have been written off. Scott would have been waiting at the airport wondering when we were going to pick him up.
It's dangerous to drive on Christchurch roads & I just touch wood that so far I have been very lucky to have missed some very close calls.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
No worries
10. What is something you wish you never had to worry about again?
I think it would be nice not to have to worry about money ever again. It would be nice to have enough to be able to have a very comfortable retirement. One that could include a few months overseas each year (especially in the NZ winter) while Scott & I are still capable of it. Then enough to cover any medical expenses we incur as we get older.
I think it would be nice not to have to worry about money ever again. It would be nice to have enough to be able to have a very comfortable retirement. One that could include a few months overseas each year (especially in the NZ winter) while Scott & I are still capable of it. Then enough to cover any medical expenses we incur as we get older.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Superhero Power
9. What superhero powers would you like to have?
I would love to be like Tabitha on Bewitched. That was the suburban housewife who had a trick up her sleeve. She could wriggle her nose & get things done in seconds. That would be an awesome thing to be able to do. I think I would use it most on housework. I could drop the boys off at school, do my exercise & then wriggle my nose & all the housework would be done, leaving me time to do the gardening or scrap or maybe read in the sun. Sometimes I think gardening would be nice if I could wriggle my nose, but sometimes I really do like to just get outside & weed, plant & look after the garden.
I know that Tabitha wasn't a superhero but really I don't think I would want to be like batman, or spiderman & even wonder woman doesn't seem to have a great power that I would find useful. Interesting how "superheroes" don't really have a super power applicable to real life. Maybe the real superheroes are just those ordinary everyday people who you pass in the streets. Maybe we are all superheros even if it is just in our on lifes & we can only see it in others & not in ourselves.
I think my mother is a superhero. She has no amazing powers as such but she is determined, strong & has endless love for her children & grandchildren. I think she is stronger than she realises & I admire her courage & the way she has adapted to the huge changes in her life over the last few years. I love you mum!
I would love to be like Tabitha on Bewitched. That was the suburban housewife who had a trick up her sleeve. She could wriggle her nose & get things done in seconds. That would be an awesome thing to be able to do. I think I would use it most on housework. I could drop the boys off at school, do my exercise & then wriggle my nose & all the housework would be done, leaving me time to do the gardening or scrap or maybe read in the sun. Sometimes I think gardening would be nice if I could wriggle my nose, but sometimes I really do like to just get outside & weed, plant & look after the garden.
I know that Tabitha wasn't a superhero but really I don't think I would want to be like batman, or spiderman & even wonder woman doesn't seem to have a great power that I would find useful. Interesting how "superheroes" don't really have a super power applicable to real life. Maybe the real superheroes are just those ordinary everyday people who you pass in the streets. Maybe we are all superheros even if it is just in our on lifes & we can only see it in others & not in ourselves.
I think my mother is a superhero. She has no amazing powers as such but she is determined, strong & has endless love for her children & grandchildren. I think she is stronger than she realises & I admire her courage & the way she has adapted to the huge changes in her life over the last few years. I love you mum!
Monday, June 18, 2007
Buzzing away
8. What is something you'd like to do that you're not allowed?
What I would really like to do is just buzz away somewhere, it doesn't even have to be to another country, just me & take a break. It is not that Scott says "you are not allowed", it is just that really it wouldn't work. I would have babysitting issues for after school until about 5:30pm each day. Then of course the big thing that really holds me back is the thought of the house when I got back. I imagine the laundry would be out the door, because Scott wouldn't have had a chance to do it. The place would be more of a tip than it is now because there is no way Scott would have time to clean the place up each day. Just the thought of it makes me shake in my boots. Right now, with the boys so young it is not possible for me to buzz off for a week, as much as I might like to. I would like to show them that I am not a piece of furniture & I do do a lot for them. I will have to wait my turn on that count.
What I would really like to do is just buzz away somewhere, it doesn't even have to be to another country, just me & take a break. It is not that Scott says "you are not allowed", it is just that really it wouldn't work. I would have babysitting issues for after school until about 5:30pm each day. Then of course the big thing that really holds me back is the thought of the house when I got back. I imagine the laundry would be out the door, because Scott wouldn't have had a chance to do it. The place would be more of a tip than it is now because there is no way Scott would have time to clean the place up each day. Just the thought of it makes me shake in my boots. Right now, with the boys so young it is not possible for me to buzz off for a week, as much as I might like to. I would like to show them that I am not a piece of furniture & I do do a lot for them. I will have to wait my turn on that count.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Time, if I only had time
7. If you had an extra day each month that no one else had, what would you do with it?
I would like to think that I would spend it cleaning up around the house but I probably wouldn't. I would probably spend it just the way I do now, doing a little bit of housework, a little bit of creative work, a little bit of exercise.
It would be nice to spend a day being pampered, a massage, a facial, that sort of thing but I really don't think I would relax because I would still be thinking about all the stuff that had to be done in the house or garden. That's the problem with spending that amount of time on myself, I feel like there are things that need to be done that aren't being done. That's why everyday I do little bits of everything & I sometimes feel that it really doesn't amount to much. Sometimes it is just as well Scott doesn't walk into the house & ask "What have you done today?" Because really there isn't much to show off when you just do little bits each day.
I would like to think that I would spend it cleaning up around the house but I probably wouldn't. I would probably spend it just the way I do now, doing a little bit of housework, a little bit of creative work, a little bit of exercise.
It would be nice to spend a day being pampered, a massage, a facial, that sort of thing but I really don't think I would relax because I would still be thinking about all the stuff that had to be done in the house or garden. That's the problem with spending that amount of time on myself, I feel like there are things that need to be done that aren't being done. That's why everyday I do little bits of everything & I sometimes feel that it really doesn't amount to much. Sometimes it is just as well Scott doesn't walk into the house & ask "What have you done today?" Because really there isn't much to show off when you just do little bits each day.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
3 things that make me happy
6. What are three things you need in order to be happy?
Another tough question.
#1 Scott. He gives me love, friendship, a different way of thinking about things than I do, companionship & he knows how to make me laugh. Just being with him makes me happy. I can't wait until October when just he & I will go on the Tahitian cruise. We really haven't gone travelling to another country (other than Australia) together in quite some time. The last time was in 1997 when we went to England & Paris, & that was a lot of fun. Admittedly this time we are doing it in more style & we can keep our bags in one place & not have to lug them around with us all the time.
#2 My children. I know I have days when I feel like I could quite happily leave them on the side of the road & walk away but I would really miss their smiles, their laughter & their funny little jokes (james' don't make any sense yet, but brent is definitely starting to get it.) I love it when James runs into my arms after school, it really makes me feel like I am not the horrible mum that I think I am. I love being able to see the world through their eyes it makes me happy to be alive when they show me the little bits & peices they have found, & their fascination with things.
#3 My computer with an internet connection. I am amazingly bereft when I can't log into the internet & catch up with my "virtual friends" at least once a day. The internet has let me make friends in countries all over the world in a way that penpals never did. It really is amazing how upset I am when I can't log on to the internet first thing in the morning. It really annoys me & seems to ruin the rest of my day.
Another tough question.
#1 Scott. He gives me love, friendship, a different way of thinking about things than I do, companionship & he knows how to make me laugh. Just being with him makes me happy. I can't wait until October when just he & I will go on the Tahitian cruise. We really haven't gone travelling to another country (other than Australia) together in quite some time. The last time was in 1997 when we went to England & Paris, & that was a lot of fun. Admittedly this time we are doing it in more style & we can keep our bags in one place & not have to lug them around with us all the time.
#2 My children. I know I have days when I feel like I could quite happily leave them on the side of the road & walk away but I would really miss their smiles, their laughter & their funny little jokes (james' don't make any sense yet, but brent is definitely starting to get it.) I love it when James runs into my arms after school, it really makes me feel like I am not the horrible mum that I think I am. I love being able to see the world through their eyes it makes me happy to be alive when they show me the little bits & peices they have found, & their fascination with things.
#3 My computer with an internet connection. I am amazingly bereft when I can't log into the internet & catch up with my "virtual friends" at least once a day. The internet has let me make friends in countries all over the world in a way that penpals never did. It really is amazing how upset I am when I can't log on to the internet first thing in the morning. It really annoys me & seems to ruin the rest of my day.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Too young?
5. What is something you feel too young to do?
What a tough question. I have been giving it a lot of thought & of course the first thing that springs to mind is that I am too young to die.
Another thing that I feel I am too young for is for my body to be giving up defying gravity. I really feel that in the last 6 months my body seems to have decided it is time to give in fighting gravity & just go with it. Why now? I am not that old surely, I'm only 37, that's not old. But if I stop & think about it in 10 years time I will be approaching 50 what a truely scarey thought. I used to think that 40 was old but now that I am nearly there it seems too young to leave my children with no mother & too young for my body to begin sagging.
I suppose time is catching up with me & I now have to go with this new state of affairs. I have to accept that no matter how much I go to the gym, how much exercise I do my body will never look like it did 10 or 11 years ago when it was a truely fine form. It was toned & taught & it defied gravity. It's sad to think that really there was only a few months when I was really happy with the state my body was in back then, & I really didn't appreciate it. It took a heck of a lot of hard work & discipline to get there, but even if I were to do the same thing today, I really don't think my body will ever get back to that shape.
This year seems to be calling on me to accept some personal changes & I have to find a way to change my thinking towards my body. I have to start loving me, no matter what I look like & no matter how much gravity pulls on my body & middle age starts adding a band of fat that never was there before.
Am I too young to be thinking like this? No, this is a lesson that I should have learnt a long time ago. Be thankful for what you have because nothing is ever constant, life is about change, embrace it!
What a tough question. I have been giving it a lot of thought & of course the first thing that springs to mind is that I am too young to die.
Another thing that I feel I am too young for is for my body to be giving up defying gravity. I really feel that in the last 6 months my body seems to have decided it is time to give in fighting gravity & just go with it. Why now? I am not that old surely, I'm only 37, that's not old. But if I stop & think about it in 10 years time I will be approaching 50 what a truely scarey thought. I used to think that 40 was old but now that I am nearly there it seems too young to leave my children with no mother & too young for my body to begin sagging.
I suppose time is catching up with me & I now have to go with this new state of affairs. I have to accept that no matter how much I go to the gym, how much exercise I do my body will never look like it did 10 or 11 years ago when it was a truely fine form. It was toned & taught & it defied gravity. It's sad to think that really there was only a few months when I was really happy with the state my body was in back then, & I really didn't appreciate it. It took a heck of a lot of hard work & discipline to get there, but even if I were to do the same thing today, I really don't think my body will ever get back to that shape.
This year seems to be calling on me to accept some personal changes & I have to find a way to change my thinking towards my body. I have to start loving me, no matter what I look like & no matter how much gravity pulls on my body & middle age starts adding a band of fat that never was there before.
Am I too young to be thinking like this? No, this is a lesson that I should have learnt a long time ago. Be thankful for what you have because nothing is ever constant, life is about change, embrace it!
Monday, June 11, 2007
The secret to a long life?
4. What are the secrets to a longer, healthier life?
Good question. The doctors say moderation, everything in moderation. I think there has to be a bit more to it than that. I think there also has to be a stress reduction part in the mix somewhere too.
I think the key is to exercise, eat in moderation, find something you enjoy & do it to help destress & then I think there must be an element of quiet contemplation, smelling the roses or spiritual contemplation whatever works for you. Something that gets you to centre yourself for a few minutes each day to just relax your body & mind.
Good question. The doctors say moderation, everything in moderation. I think there has to be a bit more to it than that. I think there also has to be a stress reduction part in the mix somewhere too.
I think the key is to exercise, eat in moderation, find something you enjoy & do it to help destress & then I think there must be an element of quiet contemplation, smelling the roses or spiritual contemplation whatever works for you. Something that gets you to centre yourself for a few minutes each day to just relax your body & mind.
3 Wishes
3. What three wishes would you ask of a genie in a bottle?
Wish #1: Health for me & my family
Wish #2: To win the big prize in lotto just once (that should get me a bit of money)
Wish #3: For my family to enjoy what they have & to realise that happiness isn't necessarily linked to having "things."
Wish #1: Health for me & my family
Wish #2: To win the big prize in lotto just once (that should get me a bit of money)
Wish #3: For my family to enjoy what they have & to realise that happiness isn't necessarily linked to having "things."
Largest Collection
2. If you could own the world's largest collection of anything, what would it be?
This one really makes me think. Money would be good but it would be headline news so you would always be a target. I have started a foreign currency collection. I started saving all the little coins when I was on my OE, I had French centimes, English pennies, roubles, all sorts of loose change from my trip.
I suppose a huge collection of airpoints on every airline in the world would be good. If I could redeem them for flights it would be wonderful to go tripping around the world. Yes I think it would have to be a collection somehow related to travel.
This one really makes me think. Money would be good but it would be headline news so you would always be a target. I have started a foreign currency collection. I started saving all the little coins when I was on my OE, I had French centimes, English pennies, roubles, all sorts of loose change from my trip.
I suppose a huge collection of airpoints on every airline in the world would be good. If I could redeem them for flights it would be wonderful to go tripping around the world. Yes I think it would have to be a collection somehow related to travel.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Embracing my Life.
As part of the Blog Builder challenge at ScrapTown there are 10 questions to answer in 10 days.
Here's question #1.
What age would you like to be for the rest of your life?
I have decided after a bit of thought that there really is no particular age that I would like to be. I certainly wouldn't want to be a child again, too many restrictions & I would have to get used to the family dynamic again.
I loved my years at university (18-22) but I've been there done that & it sure is nice not having to sit exams on my birthday. I hated that part of university, especially if it was an accounting exam, ick!
I loved my selfish 20's in Wellington. I was young, only had a commitment to Scott & we weren't married anyway, so I could always leave. That was the time in my life when I was the healthiest & fittest I had ever been. I was going to the gym for hours, coming home & just blobbing. Not doing housework until teh weekend & even then it didn't seem to be too much of a chore. I had a fun job with lots of other like minded people. It was just a great time, but in the end it became as if something was missing.
We can put my 30's down to creating my own family. I was well truely pregnant for my 30th birthday & from then on my life has changed. It's a different life completely but one that I wouldn't give up either.
So I am in my late 30's looking back at my life & there is no one age & even no one stage that I would want to stay at all the rest of my life. I love change, my life is evolving, the only scary thing is looking in the mirror & noticing that I now have a middle aged spread & I'm getting grey hair. I try not to let that make me feel old instead it is the start of another part of my life, where I will have to focus on my health again & that means taking back some time to concentrate on ME.
Life is about change, some big, some small, some whack you over the head & some just slowly creep up. I love that my life is evolving & through it all I am finding out who I truely am. I would never find that out if I just stayed one age for the rest of my life.
Here's question #1.
What age would you like to be for the rest of your life?
I have decided after a bit of thought that there really is no particular age that I would like to be. I certainly wouldn't want to be a child again, too many restrictions & I would have to get used to the family dynamic again.
I loved my years at university (18-22) but I've been there done that & it sure is nice not having to sit exams on my birthday. I hated that part of university, especially if it was an accounting exam, ick!
I loved my selfish 20's in Wellington. I was young, only had a commitment to Scott & we weren't married anyway, so I could always leave. That was the time in my life when I was the healthiest & fittest I had ever been. I was going to the gym for hours, coming home & just blobbing. Not doing housework until teh weekend & even then it didn't seem to be too much of a chore. I had a fun job with lots of other like minded people. It was just a great time, but in the end it became as if something was missing.
We can put my 30's down to creating my own family. I was well truely pregnant for my 30th birthday & from then on my life has changed. It's a different life completely but one that I wouldn't give up either.
So I am in my late 30's looking back at my life & there is no one age & even no one stage that I would want to stay at all the rest of my life. I love change, my life is evolving, the only scary thing is looking in the mirror & noticing that I now have a middle aged spread & I'm getting grey hair. I try not to let that make me feel old instead it is the start of another part of my life, where I will have to focus on my health again & that means taking back some time to concentrate on ME.
Life is about change, some big, some small, some whack you over the head & some just slowly creep up. I love that my life is evolving & through it all I am finding out who I truely am. I would never find that out if I just stayed one age for the rest of my life.
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