OTTER's CalorieKing blog
Saturday, Aug 9 2008 - Excited for tomorrow!
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Tomorrow is our long bike ride over the river, but no woods involved. I'm excited, and just getting all last minute preparations completed (clean bike shorts, choose snacks, clean water bottles, charge camera battery, prepare the truck for transporting bikes to starting line). Today I will do Yoga, and walk a little at a pre-race health fair held to the north of us. I've slept well, and plan to eat healthy. I guess that's it. Then Monday I will gratefully come back to CK's food diaries and return to some semblance of order in my eating habits and my health outlook.
Next big event to prepare for: A week-long Alaska cruise just a little less than a month away. Yippee! This is a special gift to us (Lion and Otter) to celebrate our wedding anniversary.
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I just finished another busy work week. I had a chance to see myself in a new light at work. Very helpful changes there. I understand myself to be valued, and to be helpful and useful in the work that I do. I also can see that my firm's managers work hard, and are doing their best to help this 130+year old firm move into the requirements of a 21st century business. No easy task. Next week: More training for the trainer, and one vacation day for a chance to explore a new career possibility. Aren't I funny? Just finish writing how much I learned at work and and how well I am appreciated yet here I am still exploring other career opportunities. Bottom line: while I am good at the kind of work that I do, it is not where my heart is. I want to explore this other opportunity, I have vacation time available, and so I will go.
Up and coming news: We had an Interior Designer visit our home to help us uncover some remodeling dreams. I love our ranch home, built in 1964. But a lot of it has not been updated since 1964, and a lot of that is not functional for our early 21st-century lives.
We have the start of a plan that can be done piecemeal. So we do not have to lose the use of our home during remodel, and we can do one project and pay for it, then plan and save for the next project. I'm looking forward to the first change a lovely master bedroom with master bath that has its own walk-in closets. We're carving this out of the current "family room" a space that had turned into a large closet for my hubby. This is giving us a chance to cleanup old unused stuff, and will give us a lovely east-facing bedroom (I am a morning person). It will also free up the other three bedrooms to re-design office space and designate a true guest bedroom.
Second phase will be redesign of the kitchen. We'll actually move the kitchen from the south side of the current dining / kitchen area to the north side of the space this will open up our living room / dining / kitchen area, change the air flow, and allow light and sight from east to west side of the building (something we do not have now). That part of the plan may be as much as two years away, but already it is something I can look forward to.
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Still thinking about passion and what it means to live a passionate life. This was prompted by watching the moving Miss Potter, the life story of the children's author Beatrix Potter. She lived a passionate life, working hard to do what was most meaningful to her. It is what I want for my own life, but I am not always certain I am living in my passion, or even trying to live in my passion. The focus in my life has been security and safety. At least that is how I judge it today. I think that safety and security may be mutually exclusive from passion.
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Time to ready for the rest of my week. If I have an opportunity to take some photos on the wonderful bike ride tomorrow, I will try to post them before next week, with commentary on how well we did (or didn't) do.
If you've read this far, thanks. If I were to wish you a blessing for today, it would be passion. Do one thing with passion, with devotion and verve. If you do, leave me a note about it, help me improve my vocabulary of passion.
Shalom, -Otter
Next big event to prepare for: A week-long Alaska cruise just a little less than a month away. Yippee! This is a special gift to us (Lion and Otter) to celebrate our wedding anniversary.
* * *
I just finished another busy work week. I had a chance to see myself in a new light at work. Very helpful changes there. I understand myself to be valued, and to be helpful and useful in the work that I do. I also can see that my firm's managers work hard, and are doing their best to help this 130+year old firm move into the requirements of a 21st century business. No easy task. Next week: More training for the trainer, and one vacation day for a chance to explore a new career possibility. Aren't I funny? Just finish writing how much I learned at work and and how well I am appreciated yet here I am still exploring other career opportunities. Bottom line: while I am good at the kind of work that I do, it is not where my heart is. I want to explore this other opportunity, I have vacation time available, and so I will go.
Up and coming news: We had an Interior Designer visit our home to help us uncover some remodeling dreams. I love our ranch home, built in 1964. But a lot of it has not been updated since 1964, and a lot of that is not functional for our early 21st-century lives.
We have the start of a plan that can be done piecemeal. So we do not have to lose the use of our home during remodel, and we can do one project and pay for it, then plan and save for the next project. I'm looking forward to the first change a lovely master bedroom with master bath that has its own walk-in closets. We're carving this out of the current "family room" a space that had turned into a large closet for my hubby. This is giving us a chance to cleanup old unused stuff, and will give us a lovely east-facing bedroom (I am a morning person). It will also free up the other three bedrooms to re-design office space and designate a true guest bedroom.
Second phase will be redesign of the kitchen. We'll actually move the kitchen from the south side of the current dining / kitchen area to the north side of the space this will open up our living room / dining / kitchen area, change the air flow, and allow light and sight from east to west side of the building (something we do not have now). That part of the plan may be as much as two years away, but already it is something I can look forward to.
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Still thinking about passion and what it means to live a passionate life. This was prompted by watching the moving Miss Potter, the life story of the children's author Beatrix Potter. She lived a passionate life, working hard to do what was most meaningful to her. It is what I want for my own life, but I am not always certain I am living in my passion, or even trying to live in my passion. The focus in my life has been security and safety. At least that is how I judge it today. I think that safety and security may be mutually exclusive from passion.
* * *
Time to ready for the rest of my week. If I have an opportunity to take some photos on the wonderful bike ride tomorrow, I will try to post them before next week, with commentary on how well we did (or didn't) do.
If you've read this far, thanks. If I were to wish you a blessing for today, it would be passion. Do one thing with passion, with devotion and verve. If you do, leave me a note about it, help me improve my vocabulary of passion.
Shalom, -Otter
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