We usually go climbing Mondays and Thursdays. This is a very long week at work and I’ve been exercising a lot so I didn’t even feel like going tonight but then I decided it was good to get out of the house and move my body.
I promised myself that I would stick to easy routes only. I usually try to go up a grade with each climb but my plan tonight was to stick to easy.
So instead of.going harder I ended up going faster. I did 2-3 routes back to back in the time I would have done one and ended the night with twice as many routes total.
Which was a lesson in remembering that there are different ways of pushing yourself and if you’re not in the mood to do one, you can still do the other.
Meal prep day. (I made vegetables too, they were still in the oven when I took this shot.) If I have food in the fridge during the week, I eat said food for lunch.
If I don’t have food prepped, I eat pretzels and cheese sticks.
The older I get the less performative I want my life to be. The more inside out I want to live. The more grounded I want to feel. Calm, spacious, and kind. Ease and release.
I keep visualizing balloons lately and letting them go. People, thoughts, worries having them all float away.
I love this season so much. I don’t love the short, dark days but I love our intentionality. I love how we actively work to add light to these days. I wish we did that all year long.
I love having advent calendars because they infuse a little December joy into every day.
This year I got a candy one and a decaf-tea one. Every day, I get to have a pot of tea with different flavors I would otherwise never try. Some are a hit and others a miss but either way, I love the ritual of boiling the water, brewing the tea and pouring my cup from the pot.
That’s a long time. I am grateful for all those years of togetherness and changing and growing together. We celebrated by climbing together and then eating at what turned out to be a terrible restaurant which we laughed about for quite some time.
