Currently September 2017

Let’s wrap September up, shall we? Since we’re already 3 days into October. September was a pretty hectic month with the start of school and all. We’re developing a new rhythm and routine. More homework, more hustling, MORE to remember and a whole bunch of get-togethers thrown in the mix!  Fall baseball season is in full swing too so our weekends occupied for awhile. I honestly don’t know how people do it with more than one child.

All of my healthcare checkups are done for the year….just in time to put HOURS into figuring out what healthcare plan isn’t going to kill us. Literally? I just knocked on wood. Worry not. It’s incredible what it goes into maintaining life.  OK SO SEPTEMBER. Let’s get into it.

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My zen garden has been inspiring me. It’s coming along slowly but surely. I’m curious how it will hold up during the rainy seasons. I’m going to be sad when there are no leaves on my Japanese maple.

It’s teaching me how to have patience, pay attention and be hopeful. Most of my garden has been made with propagations from other plants in my yard and that makes me happy.

We also got rid of a giant dead tree in our yard. It brought like back in and I am grateful for that.

This is my dream for our front yard…. it’s the Sun Garden at Marin Arts & Gardens Center. 

I sat there for 15 minutes and made notes.

Have you seen Lady Gaga’s new documentary Five Foot Two on Netflix? It’s really good. What she doesn’t talk about is that she has fibromyalgia. I thought it was cool to see the behind the scenes of record making. I’ve been listening to it non-stop, so I suppose it worked!

For about a week and a half, I woke up early and did morning pages a la Artist’s Way. This week I’m having a hard time getting out of bed. In the process, I’ve also been looking through some of my old diaries and finding some interesting things. It feels like time travel…and I like seeing little clues of my past self that I left for present Tracy.

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