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What’s Happening……

Well, it has happened once again. Tax season got the best of me and all my good intentions aka as “resolutions” came to a screeching halt as tax season progressed. Also, I had some surgery and now find myself with some extra time on my hands – at least for the next 10 days or so.  The surgery was not fun – but because of pain medication the laying around in bed is and has not been too bad either.  It felt very nice to have family members cook me dinner and bring me things I needed.  And it has been nice to let those household chores that I tend to do when I have free time to go undone for awhile and not feel guilty about it.  I have spent time reading, taking naps and sitting outside in our gazebo.

Today I decided to figure out all the passwords that I changed because of Heartbleed and catch up on my not to consistent blog.

Okay…here is a little bit of a recap.

I visited my mom and dad and we had our annual birthday celebration together.

Family Birthday Celebration

Family Birthday Celebration

I made two trips with my family to Dallas to celebrate my nephews new bride and marriage.

Wedding Shower

Wedding Shower

 

Family dinner party - after wedding

Family dinner party – after wedding

My daughter and sister found time in March to participate in the Rock’n the Cure run.

We are ready to run!

We are ready to run!

I was proud of myself. Ran the whole way with out walking..

We were proud of Emily.

I won a medal!

I won a medal!

The best part though was the Gritty Goddess Mud Run and time at the beach.  I had so much fun with my family….

Before pictures

Before pictures

After Pictures!

After Pictures!

We had to spend some time relaxing in Galveston and no place is better than the beach….however, this time the seaweed was a little out of control.  We did manage to catch some rays.

Relaxing on the beach....

Relaxing on the beach….

 

All in all it has been a very busy couple of months….the best part was being with family.

 

Another Birthday….

Tomorrow I will be 53 years old. I have lived 19358 days, or 464,592 hours or 27,875,520 minutes or 1,672,531,200 seconds. Where did all this time go? It reminds me of the song lyrics “Time keeps on slipping, slipping into the future.”

Anyway, since I’m half a century old maybe I should come up with a bucket list. One of the things I’m thinking about putting on this list is a mud run. The one I’m considering is one just for women. I hoping the obstacles might be a little easier – yea right! I suppose I’m most afraid that I would find it too difficult for me. I did a google search on mud run training. I came across a really cool website that had a five week training plan with videos. However, the website said that you needed to be able to “run” (not jog) for 3 miles that then the training schedule was not for you and you needed to get out and practice running. Potential problem – I have a running pace – that is if you could call it running – of about a 11-12 minute mile. I pretty sure that would be considered jogging. If I did do this it would be a really good feeling to conquer my fears.

On another note, I ordered two bracelets. Each bracelet has one of my 2014 words on them. I really like them.
Every time I look at these words it brings to me my goal of learning gratitude and pursuing love.

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