Off I go..
I haven't been on here much lately, although at least I've been a daily lurker. Got a few personal problems I've been trying to work out, which I have to say I haven't succeeded very well with. Other wise my eating habits have been sucking pretty badly. Yesterday I stuffed myself ALL day long. In fact my stomach still hurts from eating so much. I got to figure out my problems, or got to figure out something! Depression****ting me pretty bad.
But I really just wanted to say Happy Summer Solstice this weekend!! I'm not sure about anywhere else, but we celebrate it pretty heavily here in Alaska. Festivals, camping, dancing, drinking, you name it.
So I'm packing up the family and heading out for camping this weekend. Lots of times people gather and just end up partying together. So I'm looking forward to it. Got to make a pit stop at a restaraunt here in town that brews there own beer. Ever heard of Raspberry wheat or hard apple beer? MMMMM So other wise I'm gonna be a big lush this weekend and worry about getting my life back on track on Monday. I need it, desperately.
Happy Solsticing!! :)
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on 6/20/08 6:52 am - Rochester, NY
on 6/20/08 6:52 am - Rochester, NY
See ya back on Monday and HAVE FUN!! Sounds like a blast!
Happy Solstice to you too, Holly & Family. This is a most auspicious day.
Have I heard of hard apple beer & rasberry wheat....mmmmmmmm......I also love Alaskan amber, summer brews! Gotta be on tap, too, of course.
Remember, I live in Sierra Nevada country! Beer is my number one love, which is funny because I use dto hate it. But microbrews have changed my mind. I dream of mapping out breweries one day and hitting all of 'em along the west coast.
We are going camping over the 4th up at the Oregon border - Crescent City with a bunch of friends. I cannot wait. We are still tent campers, would not have it any other way.
Happy times, Holly!
Well we came back early, I was bored to death. Might as well mope here at home where I'm nice and warm. I was getting sort of chilled, it was raining quite a bit this morning. This is the first time just camping with dh and my little two. My older two are everywhere now, and they hate camping. My dh told me I had an attention span like our son. He couldn't even read his book in peace. I'm like..."what else am I suppose to do." I went for walks, took the kids swimming in the lake, done about half a book of sudoko. He can read FOREVER, he loses time when he reads, so I finally said lets just go home.
I realized how out of shape I am there. OMG I'm sooooo out of shape! I brought badminton with us, and played a little bit with my son. I ran forward just a little bit one time and thought I tore something out of my side. It hurt to move like that! That's bad..I'm really out of shape.
As for the beers, I'm one that doesn't like all beers, only a few so far. Corona and Alaskan Amber are actually the two "normal" beers I will drink besides my rum and wine. I really do like these two new ones that we have discovered. Makes me want to venture more into different types of beers to see what I'm missing.
Well, that little badminton game made me realize I'm about dead. Plus tonight my chest hurts really bad and I don't know why. Think it might be allergies, gas??, but of course the thought of heart attacks gone through my mind. It's really uncomfortable. I took my daily baby asprin to be safe. I'm tired of all my aches and pains I"m having. My weights taking a toll on me soooo bad. So this means tomorrow I've got to get back in gear and some how try HARD to keep FOCUSED and not let my stress, depression, or family matters get in my way of losing weight. It's a bad excuse, one I've found I use WAY too often. Dh even uses it on me, if I'm not feeling well, he knows to me "icecream cures all", and will go get me some if I ask for it or not. Ive been trying to just eat healthy but it's not working. It's time for some kind of limits, and in writing. Just trying to figure out......."what now". I've done it all, been there done that....something has got to click with me....tired of the repeats. So once again...decisions!
Holly...I cannot beleive you came home early!!!! Girl, now I am worried about you.
Camping does get us on a completely different level...yeah, we are not as stimulated as when at home with the computer, tv blaring, etc. It takes me a whole 24 hours to come off my techno life and really love being outside. Then, I am hard to get back home, wish I could stay out there waaay more. I wish you had given it another whole day at least!
I used to take our kids when they were very small and they found stuff to do...we did not take toys at all. I made them play with sticks, rocks, and occasionally let them have small pans and wooden spoons so they could set up their own camp over by rocks or something. They would line the camp with rocks, make it pretty. crap like this.
And, if I understand your post right, your DH should be with you guys just being outside, not nose in book! Reading to the kids would have worked well, too.
I just feel sad that you came home!