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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
I am in a total funk. I am having a really hard time transitioning back from being on vacation. I know, I know… suck it up, right? But it is a little alarming how out of it I feel.
My mind and body are really off. My sleep schedule is messed up, too—having trouble with the 2-hour time difference between Mountain time and East Coast time. I lie awake in bed at night with my mind chattering away, and then once I do fall asleep I am completely zonked out when I have to get up in the morning.
I find my mind wandering a lot, I’m particularly agitated and distracted, and I just kinda feel blah. No energy to do anything. Melancholy.
I think part of this funk has to do with a feeling of sadness and desperation because the routine just seems so endless. It is always there to welcome me back, but yet I am not happy to see it. Sorry to be a bummer, but I keep asking myself what is there to look forward to now?
Must renew and remind myself about the plenty. I know I can readjust, relax, and find new appreciation in the little joys. Savor the last bits of summer. Whip up some fun. I can do this, it’s just going to take a little practice and gentle nudging.
Tags: gratitude, summer
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road trippin’ out west
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Hi! I’m back! Yeah, I dropped off for a few weeks. I unplugged. I stepped back. And I went away with Craig on an amazing 2-week adventure. I wanted to talk about our trip beforehand, but that anxious part of me didn’t feel entirely comfortable announcing that I would suddenly be out of town for a wee long bit.
But I have returned. And slowly, slowly, slowly I am readjusting to the routine of early mornings, work, making dinner, running… you know… THE ROUTINE.
I tagged along on Craig’s business trip out to Salt Lake City for Outdoor Retailer, a huge gathering of all the most amazing outdoor gear brands. And when the convention was over, we went on a week-long roadtrip leaving Salt Lake City and heading to Yellowstone, the Tetons, and then the Rockies. We rented a red Chevy HHR and bombed around Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and back to Utah. 2000 miles in a week and a half.
Phew. It was simply incredible.
I am still working it all out in my head and going through photos and the experiences so I can properly articulate my thoughts. That is the great part about unplugging and going on holiday. You get out of your HEAD and start living in your BODY. The body that loves to drive the open road, the body that longs to explore, the body that runs up a trail at 12,000 feet until your lungs and heart are screaming and pounding because it just feels right.
You can’t do any of that when you are stuck in the routine, nose down in your cube, worried about work and bills and a dying lawn and house projects and mental life deadlines. Blech! Enough of that!
Who doesn’t love a good road trip? Drinking copious amounts of caffeine, eating corn nuts and sunflower seeds, stopping at every possible view point, singing along to the radio while stuck in construction traffic, finding really tasty local beers, going out for dinner, taking a chance on a funky motel, having no idea what day it is or where you will stop for the night…
Until you wake up to a bouquet of wildflowers on your bedside table because it’s your birthday and your husband knows how to do it up right. I woke up in Rocky Mountain National Park and spent #33 winding through breathtaking mountain passages still blanketed here and there with spots of snow.
It was everything I could have wished for.
So bare with me as I come back down to near sea level and get my thoughts together.
But most importantly—have you satisfied your wanderlust lately?
Tags: gratitude, summer, travel
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