Things I Know Among Uncertainties

Goodness

"The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life" - Harriet Beecher Stowe

So many things in life - in my life - are uncertain.

I'm completely OK with that - I don't need everything mapped out. And thank goodness for that since it never has been! I'm hopeful about a happy future. I'm happy now - why wouldn't I be happy later? What later will look like I have no idea. I hope I can get to all the things I want to. I hope there's love and companionship in a romantic sense but I know there will be with friends and family.

For now, what I know for certain includes the following:

• There will always be another project to tackle in my condo
• Running - it's part of me even when I can only think about it. 2 slow, lung hurting miles this morning 
• Asthma stinks
• Hockey - finally got back on the ice last Sunday
• Fishing - dropped a line in for the first time in months and it felt great
• Everything is better after yoga even when it was already good
• I have the most amazing friends - all over the country and the world - AND on this lovely place I call home
• My family will always love me
• The sun WILL come out - figuratively and literally
• Tourist season won't last forever (grocery shopping with a glass of wine eases the pain of season)
• I can always complain or marvel at my first-world problems and I guess aren't I lucky to have them to complain about?
• Everyone who enters my life - even briefly - is there for a reason

This post was supposed to be about my latest project below but I got sidetracked.

No major construction or plumbing lately. Lots of straightening, organizing, sorting and purging. 

Tonight - after Nacho Tuesday at the pier - no B, no Jess and Chris had to head home to get ready for the next day's fishing tournament - of which I was the volunteer leader -  I came home wondering what I should have for dinner. I saw the two teak towel bars that had arrived last week and decided I would install them - cleverly attaching them to the temporary plywood counter tops. Not permanent fixtures - though I want to incorporate them later when I install the concrete counter tops - but good and helpful and lovely for now.

Good and helpful and lovely for now - I like this idea. It's like being present in the moment - every moment - and not thinking about what's ahead or behind. Yoga instructor Julia reminded we yogis to do this last night.

I'm Ready For You 2016

Getting It Done, Having Fun

2016 already feels like a better year, a new beginning. Looking and moving forward.

My Sunfish is going to get in the water - hopefully this week. I'm going to put it in, bang it up and learn to sail. Then I'll make her pretty.

There's a new plan for the kitchen - just slightly different but just enough to make a huge difference and to make it mine now, not ours.

Friends Brad and Mark are going to build it with me in the next two weeks when they are back in the area visiting.

This is going to happen.

We moved some things around today while all their kids were in my pool - and I used my miter saw - gingerly but I know what it feels like now. Not scared of it anymore.

Bought myself a new tool bag - feeling organized - and let's face it, like a bit of a bad ass for having so many tools I need it -- and they don't all fit!

I started today, the first day of 2016, by going to yoga  - a great way to start the day and the year. Debby talked about leaving everything from 2015 that was hurtful or unhappy behind. I believe I can do that now.

Last sunset of 2015

Rooting. Growing.