This will be a short post. My laptop is in the repair shop and I'm using my husband's laptop. I couldn't find my blog to write in and got frustrated. I have it bookmarked on my laptop and so never have to sign in or find my way to my posts- in fact I haven't found it yet and hope when I publish this one, that the page will then revert to my posts that includes along the side a table of contents with my stats and a link to my dashboard....
Ok enough admin crappola eh!
It has been beautiful here. And the pelicans and dolphins are back. Ahh sigh, that's the serenity I'm talkin about. The dolphins come in ones and twos, not every day, but often. The pelicans however, I guess follow the fish? Since at least June they have been scarce, maybe one or two once in a great while. But in the past 2 weeks they have returned with a flourish. A couple of days ago I county around 40 of them sitting at the edge of the water just before the sun went down. I ran in and got my camera, and when I came out there were even more! A pelican convention! I must have taken over 100 pictures...which is my new way as a budding photgrapher...and then after I download them onto my laptop I usually choose about 10 to post on facebook, maybe 15 or more to keep, and delete the rest. But oh yeah- same nite is when my laptop broke.
Yeah broke. I was having a small issue with the screen but I could live with it- but the guy at the repair place told me to watch the hinge....and the other day I did not watch the hinge, closed it too quick and eeeww the noise it made. Took it back to the guy...and well...his fixing it and putting in a new screen so I have to wait. The problem with that and my great picture is- Everardo's laptop which does not have that kind of problem, has one detecting the sim card with the photos on it, so it's really hard to download new pics...aarrgghh!
Anyway I have some awesome pelican photos in my camera. Then yesterday morning I was working out up in the gym down our road, and I saw about 5 dolphins swimming in the bay. A couple chasing each other and one blowing up water like a whale! That one was jumping up out of the water, too. It's just such a ...such a joy to watch them, always makes me feel happy. Then about 60 pelicans all came in together and landed along the shore! The convention continues! Maybe they partied the nite before...and all slept in and were just showing up for the day's activities... but what a morning! I worked out, and got to see dolphins and pelicans! If I had gone home and put the covers over my head it still would have been a perfect day! But it did actually get better!
My workout ends up taking almost 3 hours on the days I go to the gym...that's counting walking over there and back (ok 3 min each way) adding in the sit ups I do on my "ab lounger", then switching to my beat up 25 peso sunglasses and heading down to the beach (about 100 yards away). The actual gym time is between 45 and 50 min. My dance routine is timed for 25 minutes twice. I need to know when I hit halfway. It's only 50 min because when I first started doing it, I walked way down the beach as I danced, but these days it's basically no walking-all dancing and I stay pretty close to home. Well unless there is red tide, which has come and gone all summer and I usually walk to one end of it or the others-whichever way is shorter....(I just don't want Sam & Hazel swimming in it any more than they have to- and they always "have to" swim during my exercise time- meaning I have to hose them off when I get home). Calling it a "routine" is sorta stretching it- yes I exercise routinely for at least 50 min....ok here's what I do: The music is a mixture of zumba and rock & roll, and it plays in different order every day ha ha. I can also manually make it skip songs, and I feel different on different days....like today I felt like a rocker and did mostly rock and roll. Other days I feel more zumba like...you get it....but usually it's a mix. I have steps worked out for 5 or 6 songs, and kinda steps for a couple more, and the rest is dancing the way I feel ha ha!!
Ok then shower and make my protein shake, wash the blender and sit down to drink it. I guess shower and shake is about half an hour, sometimes a little more. Anyway maybe closer to 2.5 hours....but if I start getting dressed for my work out at 9am, it seems like I am sitting down with my protein shake at almost noon. That M-W-F. Tues & Thurs is less than 2 hours with only about an hour of actual dancing. Yeah I know I said it's 50 min, but I usually keep going for at least another song or two....
So after my workout and subsequent collapse to drink my shake, I had about an hour and a half before I left for my afternoon meditation group which is 2 hours. I really liked it. We are discussing this book- Essential Spirituality and it has exercises to do to go along with the concepts it offers. We just started this book, but I really like it so far and worked on the exercises before the class, and then we kinda talk about how we felt about it and could be as detailed or not detailed as we wanted, because some of it can be pretty personal as you take a look inside yourself. So that was nice as well.
Then home for a little down time, then dinner and a nice walk on the beach as it started to get dark with Poppi and both dogs- who were so happy to run and be silly. There was still pelicans swooping and diving and at least one dolphin. Nice day. And my nice days seem to be running together. I cannot believe it's the end of August! Where is the time going?
At the end of next week I'm going to see my sister and I'm so excited about that! They have a farmhouse out in the country in New York- how cool is that? Her first house, and they have a little dog named Emmy who I haven't met yet. My brother in law is not doing great...kinda rickety..a little sickly...and I just want to spend a little time with them. They have a riding lawn mower and I get to drive it! Cool! I think they have a pond and sort of a floating dock- or maybe it's more like a pontoon- I'll let you know...and I have no idea whether it will be warm enough for that. She just emailed me and said she found a zumba class near her place, so she and I can do that together- so totally cool! And maybe I can learn some new steps for my beach dancing. Oh yeah, I guess I'll have to break out my old workout clothes since here I wear a really old pair of baggy shorts and a couple of old tshirts- one of which does say New York on it!
I'm also hoping to find a used IPhone out there...yeah on the hunt for that again, same as when I went to see my daughters in May, but I got bored/frustrated with it there- but now my phone is kinda getting worse and I need need need my magic jack to talk to my girls, so this time I think I'll try to stick with it; in fact I wrote to someone selling one on Craigslist and my sister is gonna go take a look at it (hopefully), so..we'll see. I talk to my Drewy several times a week and Halla almost as much so it's worth it to me to do the work to get one.
When I get back- we go on our Mexico adventure, down to our house in Guerrero and to Michocan to see Poppi's sister & brother. I'm excited to get my books! My antique desk and my peacock blanket that I bought when I came down here with my friend and we had to stay all nite in the Mexico City airport huddled together. I didn't know 2 years would go by before we went back there....I'm excited to see it, feel it, the water, my rock, our house. Oh and our renters are going on vacation so want to pay the rent 6 months in advance so that's nice- we know we'll have someone in there for at least another 6 months- Ha! I wish they wanted to buy it! I'm not even sure they will be there when we get there, and I'm sorry to go in when they aren't home...but I guess we will. Maybe they will wait to leave until after we come.....
But who knows what comes next-life is good right now so......for now....VIVA!!
Ok enough admin crappola eh!
It has been beautiful here. And the pelicans and dolphins are back. Ahh sigh, that's the serenity I'm talkin about. The dolphins come in ones and twos, not every day, but often. The pelicans however, I guess follow the fish? Since at least June they have been scarce, maybe one or two once in a great while. But in the past 2 weeks they have returned with a flourish. A couple of days ago I county around 40 of them sitting at the edge of the water just before the sun went down. I ran in and got my camera, and when I came out there were even more! A pelican convention! I must have taken over 100 pictures...which is my new way as a budding photgrapher...and then after I download them onto my laptop I usually choose about 10 to post on facebook, maybe 15 or more to keep, and delete the rest. But oh yeah- same nite is when my laptop broke.
Yeah broke. I was having a small issue with the screen but I could live with it- but the guy at the repair place told me to watch the hinge....and the other day I did not watch the hinge, closed it too quick and eeeww the noise it made. Took it back to the guy...and well...his fixing it and putting in a new screen so I have to wait. The problem with that and my great picture is- Everardo's laptop which does not have that kind of problem, has one detecting the sim card with the photos on it, so it's really hard to download new pics...aarrgghh!
Anyway I have some awesome pelican photos in my camera. Then yesterday morning I was working out up in the gym down our road, and I saw about 5 dolphins swimming in the bay. A couple chasing each other and one blowing up water like a whale! That one was jumping up out of the water, too. It's just such a ...such a joy to watch them, always makes me feel happy. Then about 60 pelicans all came in together and landed along the shore! The convention continues! Maybe they partied the nite before...and all slept in and were just showing up for the day's activities... but what a morning! I worked out, and got to see dolphins and pelicans! If I had gone home and put the covers over my head it still would have been a perfect day! But it did actually get better!
My workout ends up taking almost 3 hours on the days I go to the gym...that's counting walking over there and back (ok 3 min each way) adding in the sit ups I do on my "ab lounger", then switching to my beat up 25 peso sunglasses and heading down to the beach (about 100 yards away). The actual gym time is between 45 and 50 min. My dance routine is timed for 25 minutes twice. I need to know when I hit halfway. It's only 50 min because when I first started doing it, I walked way down the beach as I danced, but these days it's basically no walking-all dancing and I stay pretty close to home. Well unless there is red tide, which has come and gone all summer and I usually walk to one end of it or the others-whichever way is shorter....(I just don't want Sam & Hazel swimming in it any more than they have to- and they always "have to" swim during my exercise time- meaning I have to hose them off when I get home). Calling it a "routine" is sorta stretching it- yes I exercise routinely for at least 50 min....ok here's what I do: The music is a mixture of zumba and rock & roll, and it plays in different order every day ha ha. I can also manually make it skip songs, and I feel different on different days....like today I felt like a rocker and did mostly rock and roll. Other days I feel more zumba like...you get it....but usually it's a mix. I have steps worked out for 5 or 6 songs, and kinda steps for a couple more, and the rest is dancing the way I feel ha ha!!
Ok then shower and make my protein shake, wash the blender and sit down to drink it. I guess shower and shake is about half an hour, sometimes a little more. Anyway maybe closer to 2.5 hours....but if I start getting dressed for my work out at 9am, it seems like I am sitting down with my protein shake at almost noon. That M-W-F. Tues & Thurs is less than 2 hours with only about an hour of actual dancing. Yeah I know I said it's 50 min, but I usually keep going for at least another song or two....
So after my workout and subsequent collapse to drink my shake, I had about an hour and a half before I left for my afternoon meditation group which is 2 hours. I really liked it. We are discussing this book- Essential Spirituality and it has exercises to do to go along with the concepts it offers. We just started this book, but I really like it so far and worked on the exercises before the class, and then we kinda talk about how we felt about it and could be as detailed or not detailed as we wanted, because some of it can be pretty personal as you take a look inside yourself. So that was nice as well.
Then home for a little down time, then dinner and a nice walk on the beach as it started to get dark with Poppi and both dogs- who were so happy to run and be silly. There was still pelicans swooping and diving and at least one dolphin. Nice day. And my nice days seem to be running together. I cannot believe it's the end of August! Where is the time going?
At the end of next week I'm going to see my sister and I'm so excited about that! They have a farmhouse out in the country in New York- how cool is that? Her first house, and they have a little dog named Emmy who I haven't met yet. My brother in law is not doing great...kinda rickety..a little sickly...and I just want to spend a little time with them. They have a riding lawn mower and I get to drive it! Cool! I think they have a pond and sort of a floating dock- or maybe it's more like a pontoon- I'll let you know...and I have no idea whether it will be warm enough for that. She just emailed me and said she found a zumba class near her place, so she and I can do that together- so totally cool! And maybe I can learn some new steps for my beach dancing. Oh yeah, I guess I'll have to break out my old workout clothes since here I wear a really old pair of baggy shorts and a couple of old tshirts- one of which does say New York on it!
I'm also hoping to find a used IPhone out there...yeah on the hunt for that again, same as when I went to see my daughters in May, but I got bored/frustrated with it there- but now my phone is kinda getting worse and I need need need my magic jack to talk to my girls, so this time I think I'll try to stick with it; in fact I wrote to someone selling one on Craigslist and my sister is gonna go take a look at it (hopefully), so..we'll see. I talk to my Drewy several times a week and Halla almost as much so it's worth it to me to do the work to get one.
When I get back- we go on our Mexico adventure, down to our house in Guerrero and to Michocan to see Poppi's sister & brother. I'm excited to get my books! My antique desk and my peacock blanket that I bought when I came down here with my friend and we had to stay all nite in the Mexico City airport huddled together. I didn't know 2 years would go by before we went back there....I'm excited to see it, feel it, the water, my rock, our house. Oh and our renters are going on vacation so want to pay the rent 6 months in advance so that's nice- we know we'll have someone in there for at least another 6 months- Ha! I wish they wanted to buy it! I'm not even sure they will be there when we get there, and I'm sorry to go in when they aren't home...but I guess we will. Maybe they will wait to leave until after we come.....
But who knows what comes next-life is good right now so......for now....VIVA!!
