dateline: oakville, ontario, canada @ 4:55pm on 15 october 2014
weather outside: a cool 12C - feeling muggy
mood inside: reflective and mellow
We are in the middle of the final Mercury Retrograde of the year. I have learned to embrace these 3-week anomolies in my year. I am a Virgo's Virgo and Mercury is my friend - so I learned from the astrologist at Canyon Ranch in April :) As part of my journey to knowledge, earlier this year I posted about the effects of the season and decided to finish up the year by incorporating it into my current "current" post. (Typical of the time, I searched my blog archives for the post when I thought of this idea - and it was nowhere to be found, until I started writing. Strange. Expected.)
REsiding in my lovely new home. My favourite room is the kitchen/family room. Or maybe my office. Nah, my bedroom. There are so many good places I can't seem to settle on one thing that is "best" and that is a good thing!
REviewing content. What do I want to keep blogging about? What do I want to keep crafting? What do I do that brings me the most joy?
REalizing just how much has changed in the last year. In the last five? It's completely mind-boggling.
REnewing my attitude and approach to my health and the super-gross-and-disgusting amino acid supplement powder I have to take every day. Not only does it taste awful, the texture is worse than anything I've ever been forced to consume.
REflecting on oodles of old photos - thousands of them. I want to enlarge four photos - one for each kid - and put in the family room. Tough process.
REviving my passion for reading. I have spent the last few months reaquainting myself with writing. It's now time to read, for the joy of it.
REminding myself that I am exactly where I need to be right now.
REsearching an idea for my hero's journey. I think it just might work!
REconciling myself to the reality that some people cannot help themselves and find a hobby - like reading, or crochet, or painting. No, their idea of a hobby is meddling. Help me to be patient and quiet!
REviewing my new wardrobe and finding myself happy with the results.
REmembering to put myself on the top of my list.
REfreshing my view of some old situations. Making sure I am looking at situations and people with my own point of view that has not been tainted by the views of others.
REbounding from another flipping cold! Consuming zinc, vitamin C and oregano oil at an alarming rate!
REcalling the things that made me happy, really happy, when I was a child. First and foremost were colouring books. And jigsaw puzzles. It's time to revisit those activities and bring them back into my life.
RElocating boxes - from the garage into the basement. Hoping to put on the shelves soon!
REconsidering my stand on travel since one child wants to go to the Turks & Caicos for reading week and another wants to travel the Ring Road in Iceland. I'm busy researching both. (Can my kids be any more different in their choices of destination?)
REelect signs are EVERYWHERE. It looks like we're in for a few more years of same-old-same-old.
REfinishing the kitchen table and chairs will be a big project! It is desperately needed, but may have to wait until next spring, when we can eat at the table outside.
REnegotiating my non-negotiables. Some I've had out of habit for years. It's time to delve a little deeper and see what works and what doesn't.
REstoring my enthusiam for cooking. I have new cookbooks - all of the "one pot" variety" which has helped with the clean up!
REmoving all doubt, it's time to move into my Next Chapter by reinvesting in myself and my plans for the future.
And, after much thought, I decided to review my purchasing of juices from Tree of Life and reordered the green (#1 and #3) drinks to supplement my poor vegetable consumption:
