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800 Words? Okay!

So, here we go! Day 1 of the 21 day yoga/writing project. My morning has already started off chaotic in wonderful & tragic ways all together. Well I guess the VERY first thing I noticed when I woke up this morning (that I can remember) is that I FELT GOOD. Okay, why am I capitalizing, when perhaps I could be bolding or italicizing? Okay, I felt good. Most mornings (at least in recent years) when I wake up it is not by choice, and I am a little short of the full hourage (is that a word? well if not, it’s 9 words now! ha!) that I require to function with reasonable amounts of grace and a positive outlook on life. There has been the rare occasion in the last year that I’d get to sleep for 9 or even 10 hours straight, and those mornings (and the rest of those days for that matter) were divine. Okay, no more italicizing. It takes up too much of my precious writing time just to get an emotion across. Write now (not a typo) it is 9:15 in the morning. I’ve got to pause for a second to turn on the deli display. Hang on.

 Okay, I’ve got another 15 minutes to type before I’ve got to pause again to clean the yogurt machine. Then I’ll have a final 15 minutes to write before I have to go turn around the sign on the door to read “OPEN” and get the rest of the stuff in the store ready to go for guests. If you haven’t guess yet, I work in a store, a health food store to be precise. I have the luxury of about 45 minutes between when I drop of my boys at preschool and when I have to get the store set up. Anyway, that is the background of where I am, what I’m doing, and how I feel when I am writing. You are basically catching my thoughts between all the “happenings” and things. I don’t even know if you care about my thoughts, or who exactly is the “you” that I am seeming to speak to… kind of strange, but either way, the writing itself is very therapeutic. And you know what? When I sat down to write or type, it was no question. Out of the blue, I knew I was going to type. I really was thinking that I’d probably be writing AND typing, which may still be true, but now that I am typing, I can feel it flowing much more smoothly. Well not necessarily, I still pause every once in awhile to think “what now?” or “what am I trying to say?” but for the most part, I think I can type faster than I can write with a pen. I’ve got 452 words so far, thats halfway, and I feel like I am just movin’ along!

So back to my crazy morning. I started out feeling great, woke up early, felt energized and not groggy (I haven’t changed anything but diet) and then I walked into my kitchen for an even greater surprise. All our little seeds are beginning to curl their way out of the soil and it is such a blessing to be able to watch this process so closely! The life of a plant is truly remarkable, an ordinary miracle. We’ve got sunflowers (the mightiest seeds of our bunch, just bursting small clumps of soil out of the way to get themselves out of the ground and up toward the light), lettuce (LOTS of lettuce!!), dill, tarragon, cucumber and zucchini. Cultivating the earth and living in synch with nature is so satisfying.

After I see my lovely little sprouts, the boys wake up and its time to figure out what to eat. Actually, back up, first we go to the bathroom and wash up, get dressed, and THEN we figure out what to eat. Okay, it doesn’t always go that way, but for the most part, seems to be the routine. I already knew this morning that we’d be having smoothies. Green smoothies. Bananas, strawberries, blueberries, macadamia nuts, elderberry extract, liquid chlorophyll, a tiny bit of juice and a little bit of almond milk. I think coconut milk would have been better in this mix.

Ha! Just as I’m writing all this, I’m realizing that I am REALLY hungry right now and if I am going to get everything done by 10am aroudn here, I’m goign to have to wrap this up quick. That won’t be too difficult, as I’ve already got 754 words!!!! WOW! This is so cool. I never thought it would be so simple to get 800 words out of me in one morning? Turns out I’ve got a LOT to say, regardless of whether anyone else is interested in it!

So, I will close off here, with a secret. I didn’t get to the part where I describe my 4yo and I getting all tantrummed up on each other, but I guess it wasn’t meant to be highlighted!

May all of our blessings be offered the chance to shine! 840 words!

ETA: I’m deciding whether I should publish this to my public or private blog. I think I’m going totally transparent and in the raw, I’m just going to blab my unedited bull**** to the world. Ta ta!

ETAA: I’ll update you when I get to the yoga part of today! 894 words!!!!!

4 Responses to “800 Words? Okay!”

1. Michelle Says:
   June 8th, 2010 at 11:45 pm

   what a trip to scan back over what I wrote. My typos are crackin’ me up.

2. Drea Says:
   June 9th, 2010 at 11:45 am

   Ooooo, I love zucchini. I need to get me a zucchini plant. I’m really looking forward to hearing about your gardening adventures.

3. Michelle Says:
   June 10th, 2010 at 12:08 am

   I’ll be posting about it complete with pictures I’m sure!!

4. VTR1000 lady Says:
   August 7th, 2010 at 1:11 am

   You have a way with words, but remember by and large, english is a tool for hiding the truth

   Sent via Blackberry

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