Works for Now - Monday morning commute

Today was the trial of coming down from VT on Monday morning. It worked in many ways.

1. We spent one more night there and watched, in the dark, from our living room, an amazing lightening storm for a couple of hours in the Green Mountains. July 4th early for us.
2. We watched the sunrise over the Green Mountains
3. I am a lark, so getting up at 5am is not a stretch. My owl husband slept until Woodstock.
4. I found an NPR station all the way, between South Hero and Boston (3 different ones).
5. There was no traffic on Route 3 or Route 128 at 9:20 and I got to work in time for my first meeting at 10am.

I am sure the list is longer, but my time to type has ended.

Disengaged - but not really coz I am posting this

So, buying Coniston happened at exactly the right time in our/my life. I did not know 3 months ago when we put an offer on this house, that I would need it so much in late June of 2008. As we drove up last night, the closer we got, the more I relaxed and detached. I actually sat and read a book for 20 minutes last night and 45 minutes just now with my first cup of coffee. The only time I get a chance to read at home is the 60 nano seconds after I get into bed, before I fall asleep mid-sentence of my reading material.

We don't have a TV up here, and I might not even listen to the radio today or glance at yahoo news as I am entering my email account. I am going to buy the Burlington Free Press and learn about news that way, but NO FOX TV for me this weekend, no more online article from the Brockton Enterprise.

I will miss a big breaking story, and more details of the Celtics and their celebration but that will all wait until Monday morning when I plug back in. We listened to the Sox game on the way up and they were describing the duck boats in Fenway Park carrying the championship Celtics. That was enough for me last night, the verbal description.

New York versus New England Sports Fans

Prior to the Red Sox 2004 World Series championship, I don't think I was really a true blue Boston Sports fan. Growing up, I rooted for the Yankees, because everyone else in my family rooted for the Red Sox. I am a rebel at heart, a contrarian and I don't want to be a square peg in a square hole. That series was absolutely incredible. Last night watching the Cetics, even when they were almost 35 points ahead, I still believed that they might possibly lose. With 2 minutes to go, and 35 points ahead of the Lakers, I could relax a little bit. Do we realize how lucky we are to have the teams we have? Patriots, Red Sox, and this year the Celtics. I have not watched this many basketball games since 1986, the last time the Celtics raised a banner to the rafters of the Old Garden. I am still not sure I am a Boston Sports family like many of the rest of my family, and certainly not as intense as they are. We have had many discussion lately about New York Yankees and Red Sox, and why we hate the Yankees and then the conversation goes into similar feelings about Vermonters and New Yorkers. The best comment if from Meg, "It is not that I hate New Yorkers, it is that I love Vermonters so much." I guess last night and the Celtics win made me more of a Boston Sports Fan. I certainly had no inclination to root for the Lakers.

She's back

Well, I cannot believe that my last post was June 3rd, but I can believe it as well.

I have had a roller coaster time in the last 11 days and did not realize how traumatic this was until my yoga class today. Yes, you are supposed to clear your mind for yoga, but unfortunately, that is near impossible for me to do. I actually thought (during yoga ooops), that maybe a ten day silent retreat would get me to the point where I could clear my mind. DUMB IDEA, but a thought anyway.

In a nut shell, I had a wonderful birthday and first weekend in Vermont at Coniston, with friends and family AND my work life has been in HR lingo "Clear your desk and take care of this crisis". That means that I have not gotten much of my normal work done and have been in high attention, and problem solving mode for most of 6 work days.

My yoga class today was just what I needed and I realized at that point, how much stress my body and mind have been in since last Friday, due to the work crisis. When I get really busy, I skip my yoga class and that is a really dumb idea.

So during yoga today I mentally made a list of blogs that I can write in the future. I put them here for myself to be able to refer to when I am at a loss for what to blog:

• You don't have to "beat yourself up" to improve
• Calm
• Why am I a Boston Sports fan?
• Disconnected from the media - pros and cons
• Yoga, mentally and physically a flood
• Big Rocks
• Mohegan Sun - huh?
• My Birthday - It was perfect
• You don't have to solve every problem
• I need a chaplain

TTFN

when will she quit?

I would vote for either Hilary or Barack, but hasn't she lost? I must be really ignorant of politics because from all I see, Barack has clinched the democratic nomination.

The talking head are calling her defiant and "Why would anyone expect her to concede?"

I would love to have a woman president and hopefully in my lifetime there will be one, but not this time.

Politics is really baffling.