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Behavioural Expert Chase Hughes 

I am fully intrigued by this man and find him so easy to listen to. I am going to find him online and learn more about him. His expertise and his experiences with the human mind, and in particular, his OWN mind has me fascinated.

Today was a pleasant day.

I was out of bed by 9am and playing with Harley outside while Adoring Husband was out buying our coffee.

Because of overnight rain, the midgies were out in force and I was bitten a number of times causing horrible itching and driving me to distraction!

I still remained outside for 30 minutes.

I decided to go for a trike ride because I needed to buy some eggs. My new recipe of choice was a bacon and egg pie for dinner, which I served with garden salad, pickled tomato and cucumber, wombok salad and last nights leftover baked vegetables.

With the leftover puff pastry, I made a berry tart. I lined a mini tart tray with the pastry and added sliced strawberries and blueberries. I had egg wash left over from glazing the egg and bacon pie so I mixed that with a little cream, some castor sugar and some vanilla extract, then poured it over the berries. That went into the oven for 25 minutes.

It was delicious! I could only eat half of it so I gave the other half to AH.

The tide was up this morning so the river was looking beautiful …

It was pretty quiet around town.

I watched Mayim Bialik videos and the Diary of a CEO video that I linked at the beginning of this post, did some journaling and added to my art …

I also communicated with an old friend who now lives in Mackay.

We experienced some small storms with some nice rain this afternoon, which meant my exercise program with The Motivator had to be canned til next week. It’s an outdoor program so it’s dependent on good weather.

Now it’s already 10.30pm and I need to be up reasonably early for a day in the Bay.

Nite all.

Spiritual Phillosophy

Fancy that!

Five minutes early for meditation AGAIN!

Unheard of.

Adoring Husband dropped me at the hall because The Gypsy is house/dog sitting on the other side of town and we planned for her to take me there so that AH could pick me up at noon.

As it was, we were so intensely discussing spiritual philosophy, that I texted him to push it for another hour.

So we chatted maniacally for 3.5hours knowing our time was limited. We had so much to say and the time just flies by so freaking fast!

We could so easily have carried on for another 2 hours at least.

At 1pm, AH appeared outside and we drove to the local shops to get some meat for dinner. We decided on a baked dinner.

A whole chook with baked potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, carrot, onion, capsicum and steamed snow peas and beans with home made gravy.

It was delicious!

Harley got his afternoon play and I got the last of my clothes off the line.

After dinner, I came straight to my room to watch Monday nights MKR - because BGWLBH told me that HAD to watch it. It was worth it.

Tomorrow afternoon, I am meeting at The Motivator’s house to do a short, pre-determined exercise circuit  with our limited resources. We have a rebounder, hand weights, hula hoops, yoga arm stretchers and a rowing machine.

For the first couple of weeks, we’ll only do five minutes on each activity because we don’t want too much next day afterpain and possibly put ourselves off in the future.

I’m looking forward to it. I’ve invited BGWLBH, but she doesn’t seem too keen.

The weather forecast is sounding a bit ominous, so fingers crossed it’s ok for our plans.

Now it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

Nothing Much

What are Mondays for?

I mean … when you’re retired, you can do anything you want, anytime you want.

My only real commitment is meditation on Tuesday morning. Without meditation, I probably would never be able to identify any given day!

I took Harley out to play at 8.30am, sent Adoring Husband off to buy coffee, brought some washing in and hung some more out, watched 2 movies - “Doing Life” and “Chaos Theory” - watched my quiz shows, took Harley out to play, made curry pastries for dinner and was in bed at 6pm.

Meditation tomorrow.

Nite all.

It’s Sunday

For some strange reason, I was awake at 5am … on a Sunday!

I stayed in bed until 9am.

I took Harley out to play and discovered that Adoring Husband had already brought coffee home, but only for himself and BGWLBH!

Spewin’!

So I had a shower, got dressed, jumped on my trike and rode to the shops to get my own coffee.

I sat briefly to enjoy the view …

AH was planted in front of the TV watching Bathurst, so when I returned, I took myself back to my bedroom and watched some golf and some YouTube. I did some washing and kept myself occupied until it was time to leave for my visit with The Motivator.

We chatted for 3 hours!

We sat outside in the shade looking into the mini rainforest that she has at the side of her house. It was very pleasant and we obviously had plenty to talk about, until I realised how late it was.

I rushed home because we usually eat at 5pm and it was already after that! Luckily it was spaghetti Sunday so it only took 20 minutes to cook the spaghetti and heat up the sauce.

Now, it’s already 10pm and I’m truly tired!

Nite all.

Weekend Coffee-date Warrior

I decided that I would ‘come bearing gifts’ to my coffee date.

The gifts being takeaway coffees and GF profiteroles from the local bakery.

It was incredibly windy along the river path. It was blowing the spray from the white caps onto the riverbank, so I could actually feel the cold droplets as I rode along! That’s never happened before.

I was going to phone my coffee date to ask if she wanted coffee but I accidentally left my phone at home, so I bought the coffee anyway, only to discover that she had just finished a coffee before I got there … which was strange in itself because she had invited me around for a coffee date!

Anyway, she did enjoy the profiteroles.

We spent two hours together, interrupted by a visit from a builder who she gave instructions for some basic work to be done tomorrow (Sunday), but she was concerned his unreliability meant that he might not turn up.

It was a great visit and one that we had put off too many times. I hope that we can catch up more often.

Tomorrow afternoon, I have another catch up with The Motivator. She has a very busy October, so we are squeezing this quickie in between her diary blocks.

I was home by12.30pm and made myself an avocado/tuna dip to eat my crackers for lunch.

Adoring Husband was planted in front of the TV watching the Bathurst car racing, so I moved to my bedroom to eat my food, watch the live golf from Japan, do some journaling, catch up on my “Traitors” TV and do my daily Facebook browse.

Harley took turns spending time between AH and me.

I took him out to play and then made myself a chicken and prawn miso soup for ‘fend for yourself’ dinner.

There was a frozen mango smoothie in the freezer from last week, so I snavelled that and enjoyed the icy yumminess from my bed.

It’s now 11pm and I’m ready to sleep.

Nite all.