Sunrise, Sunset

07 May 2010 Leave a Comment

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GRAVITY Experiment Day #26

Today’s weight:  146.0 (I have been craving fattening foods all day!!!)

Pounds lost / pounds to go:  4.5 / 10.5

Exercise:  Besides standing at a health fair for 7 hours, this was a day of rest – did I mention that rest day is now on Fridays instead of Sundays?  I’m wasted on Friday nights and it just isn’t happening.

Not much slows me down during the day.  That whole stop and smell the roses thing?  That only happens if the roses are in a vase and delivered to me.

There is one thing though that will make me pause – a beautiful sunset.  I’m a complete sucker for the awe, the colors, the mix of light and clouds.  Boy, was there a gorgeous one tonight.  The sun was that deep orangey, pink color and it made me stop in my tracks.

This has been a really rough week for our community.  Flooding has ravaged the Middle Tennessee region including our town.  My family and co-workers were not directly impacted but my heart goes out to close friends and colleagues who were flooded out of their homes and businesses.  The schools have been out for the entire week due to impassable roads, friends in neighborhoods not even near bodies of water have been forced from their homes, and business owners are prepping for FEMA’s visit.

Simply stated, this has been a stormy week for me in other ways.  Just like our community, I’m ready to move forward…

What a beautiful end to a somber week.  Who knows what tomorrow’s sunrise will hold?  Every minute of every day is the potential that we will change, heal, and improve.  What an amazing gift and opportunity.

The Dump Truck People Have Moved

02 May 2010 Leave a Comment

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GRAVITY Experiment Day #20

Today’s weight:  146.0 (had a piece of stuffed crust pizza last night – the restaurant “forgot” to make my turkey sandwich believe it or not – I had a stomach ache all night but they did give us dinner for free;-)

Pounds lost / pounds to go:  4.5 / 10.5

Exercise:  5K in 31 minutes while watching Meet the Fockers – I know this isn’t break neck speed but I did a combo of a fast walk/jog/almost-fall-off-the-treadmill sprint to make the 31 min mark.  It’s a start;-)  I should add walking the loop at Opry Mills today and sprinting to and from my vehicle times 10 today in this pouring rain that is plaguing Middle Tennessee – nuts (and my socks are still wet).

I was out of town a few weekends ago for some training and my husband texted me with the simple statement:  The dump truck people have moved.  I knew exactly what he was referring to and part of me wanted to do cartwheels (but I refrained).

We have had some neighbors that live directly across from us that for several years now have had either a broken down vehicle on blocks, a semi-tractor trailer flatbed, or a commercial dump truck parked in the street in front of their home (or in the yard).  I must clarify that we live in a NEIGHBORHOOD – meaning that the street is not wide, the houses are close together, and if you so much as sneeze, everyone knows about it.

All of us “good” home owners would never think to park our big rigs in the road – no, we just politely talked behind the dump truck people’s backs and pretend plotted what we could do to the vehicle to make them move it.  Or better yet, they might hate us so much that they would move.  Darn.

Well, they did.  Much less, they sold their house in 4 days (yes, they did move the dump truck).  Of course, I now feel guilty.  I feel bad that I only knew these people as the dump truck people.  I was a really dumpy neighbor, quite honestly.

Yesterday, I talked about how passion was contagious.  What about our behavior though?  Maybe they never talked to me because I never talked to them.  What’s worse, they may have had a nickname for me (scary).

We all have skills.  We all hopefully have vim and vigor for something (anything?).  Why not share it with the dump truck people before they are gone?

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