Meditative State

It was meditation day today and it was a beautiful day for a drive to Dallarnil.

It was a special class for Heart of Gold and I.

It lasted for over an hour and could easily have continued longer but we all consciously ended it on a peaceful high and moved outside to the sunshine where we enjoyed chocolate cake, jasmine tea and almost two hours of animated and enlightened conversation.

We three have a lot in common, but especially our hunger for spiritual fulfilment, learning the lessons and overcoming the challenges that the universe sends to us, working on our powers and knowing and understanding our own boundaries as well as the boundaries of others.

We three all have issues in our lives that we are attempting to navigate in an empowered way and just having this support once a fortnight is incredibly helpful.

The good news is that The Gypsy will be commencing meditation classes and hoop chi classes in BH mid August. I’m very excited about this because I have missed the regular weekly contact with her and the clarity that comes from her teachings.

I arrived home around 1.30pm and was starving! So I reheated some chicken sausages and ate them with fried onion, a fried egg and some tomato and beetroot.

Afterwards I had some play time with Harley and then found my spot on the couch to wait for the football to start.

I cooked honey chilli chicken with roasted pear and zucchini, mashed potato and steamed beans and carrots for dinner which went down a treat.

There was more footy to watch and now I’m watching the tennis.

The No.1 in the world is playing No.25 in the world. He won the first set but his serve has been broken in the second set. It’s a great match so far but I’m hoping the Aussie Christopher O’Connell’s match is recommencing soon. It was being telecast earlier but the typical English Summer rains came so there has been more than an hour rain delay.

Tomorrow will be a lazy day for me. Now I’m off to focus on the tennis.

Nite all.

Nice Average Days

So excited to see the Aussie, Christopher O’Connell, win his second round match tonight at Wimbledon BUT really annoyed that they only telecast the first two sets and then switched to the Alex De Minaur match.

I’ve been keenly following O’Connell and I’ve had to follow the ‘slamtracker’ scores on the Wimbledon app because they haven’t telecast his matches.

Alex De Minaur doesn’t look promising in his match tonight and unless he finds something pretty special, he’ll be done in three sets.

Even though I love Wimbledon, I haven’t stayed up past midnight yet. As we get closer to the finals, I’ll stay up to watch Djokovic and maybe Alcaraz (who is a freak on the tennis court!) but nobody else inspires me to lose sleep this year. Maybe the remaining two Aussies will get my blood pumping!

I have nothing else to report.

I’ve walked, exercised and played with Harley.

BGWLBH went out for the day while I stayed home and watched series two of The Great Pottery Throwdown.

I napped on the couch and only got up to make the marinade for tonight’s chicken.

I need to be up early for meditation tomorrow and I’m getting picked up at 8am so I’d best sign off and get some sleep.

Nite all.

Bay Day

Yet another day in The Bay.

Starting at the bank for BGWLBH, where she stood in a queue for thirty minutes and then spent 15 minutes conducting her business.

I spent that time searching for icy pole moulds. No success in Robin’s Kitchen or Heaps Discount or Coles but eventually found some in Kmart. While we are trying to avoid foods with corn syrup in the ingredients, we are going to replace our Weis Bars with home made fruity icy poles. We got 12 moulds for less than $20.

Of course we stocked up on fresh fruit from the kiosk.

We shopped at the sports store for padded socks.

We browsed the clothes shops but couldn't find anything we wanted.

We found the doggy kiosk with the special treats and I bought a bag of dried chicken necks for Harley.

BGWLBH received a message from Go Natural to say that her order had arrived so we drove across town to pick that up and I found some goodies for myself while there.

In Pialba I found some paint brushes and a set of tools for my art, some fresh bones for Harley as well as some chicken sausages for me, lotto tickets from the newsagent, groceries from Coles and fresh juices from Su Jus Cafe.

We picked up the FROG box from Craignish and stopped at our local butcher for Harley food and dinner for tonight and tomorrow for us. We decided on spaghetti bolognese so we popped into Foodworks for a couple of ingredients and checked the mail while there.

By the time we got home, it was after 3pm.

We were both buggered but by the time I unpacked everything, I only got to sit for an hour before starting on dinner.

It was delicious.

I’m trying to watch Wimbledon but the heavens have opened a couple of times and play has been suspended. Very annoying!

I think the game I want to watch between Djokovic and the Aussie, Thompson, won’t go ahead today so I might get some sleep. It’s after 10.30pm.

Nite all.

Withdrawal

Even though I was feeling pretty blaagh this morning, I had no choice but to take Harley for a walk. After yesterday, when he got no exercise, he was a bit too energised this morning and desperately needed to release some of it.

We walked for almost an hour.

When I got home, I cooked breakfast for everyone and then went back to bed.

I got up to start on my seahorse art but didn’t last very long, returned to bed and slept for a couple of hours.

Adoring Husband reheated last nights leftovers for dinner so I didn’t have to concern myself with that. I could only handle a couple of mouthfuls and once again returned to bed.

It’s now almost 9.30pm and Harley is curled up and sleeping, while I am sitting in bed watching Wimbledon. I didn’t watch much last night and was asleep about ten minutes after signing off on my blog post!

I was a bit annoyed because the two matches that I wanted to watch were not televised. I guess I need to get into the channel nine app to choose my matches.

Anyway, that’s it for me. I hope I’m feeling more motivated and energised tomorrow. Today was not pleasant.

Nite all.

THAT Time!

I’m talking about Wimbledon!

It’s Wimbledon time again!

I am sitting up in bed watching the number one female player, Iga Swiatek, play the number 33 in the world, Lin Zhu.

Wimbledon is my favourite Grand Slam and I really hope that Djokovic reaches the men’s final and wins. I don’t have a favourite female player at the moment - any underdog that puts up a good fight I guess!

It’s been a big day and I doubt I’ll last long in front of the tennis tonight.

BGWLBH and I drove into the bay early this morning.

Adoring Husband was expecting the plumber to arrive early because our kitchen sink was blocked (for the third time in 3 years) and I was worried that he wouldn’t be able to handle Harley while they were here. I almost didn’t go, but in the end decided that if I’m planning a trip away in August, then AH has to be able to handle all the Harley situations.

Apparently, after an initial burst of barking when the plumber arrived, Harley settled quickly and was not a problem.

BGWLBH and I began our day with a bit of a road rage incident when we inadvertently stole a parking space from an older gentleman who came to our car window calling BGWLBH lots of names including “disgusting human being” and “piece of filth”.

It was a horrible way to start our day.

We decided to move on and chose to have our breakfast far away from the angry man.

After breakfast we still had an hour to kill so we browsed through some boutiques but sadly couldn't find anything to spend our money on.

Between us, we had a nail appointment and a foot massage appt.

We visited the butcher, the baker, the post office, the newsagent, two supermarkets and Su Jus cafe.

It was a very grey day with light rain falling intermittently which was more of an annoyance than anything else, but rain is forecast for the next couple of days.

We need it.

I think it’s time to settle under the covers, set the timer on the TV and fall asleep to the sound of racket on ball.

Nite all.

Blaagh Day

I didn’t feel great today.

Mentally and emotionally drained.

Adoring Husband was feeling physically unwell with the Parkinson’s symptoms - but don’t get me started about THAT.

I cooked breakfast and then hibernated on the couch for the remainder of the day. Even Harley only got one play.

I napped on the couch in the afternoon.

We didn’t get to the local twilight markets, mostly because the wind was crazy at 2pm when the market started and didn’t die down until about 4pm which is when I started cooking dinner.

I did honey lemon chicken with baked bite sized vegetables - potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, garlic, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, cauliflower, broccoli and carrot.

It’s almost 11pm so it’s back to sleep for me.

Nite all.