New Hike, New Book

The Sawnee Mountain hike was really good.  4 miles -- 2 up to a summit and 2 back down.  It was a solid hike.  The summit had fall risks, but everything else was a well maintained trail.  Only con -- so many spiders!  My back is good, but I'm resting today anyway.  Three days of workouts in a row so I'm not taking chances.

I made falafel yesterday -- so simple, yet a big pain to make.  I have lots to freeze and that's a happy thing.

I finished the bookclub book in a day.  I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet.  It was a fast read about her life.  Turns out she's a minister and her father was a pastor and founder of a mega church.  Guess what he did??  Yep, sexual misconduct with women in the church.  She left the church and moved to NYC and this is a lot of takeaways from that experience.  Turns out, she's also friends with Jen Hatmaker, so there's that.

I started this last night ...

Today is a rest-ish kind of day.  Still a full day, but nothing major AND a pedicure.  My nail tech is only working weekends now, bummer for me.  I'm going to need a backup person because weekends aren't the best for me.  Couldn't wait on a pedicure though.  

Setting up for this week, but I have to wait until I hear back from those friends about coming to Asheville.  I enjoy them a lot, but the commitment thing is annoying.  We are in limbo while they "think about it."  We connected Thursday morning -- that's plenty of time to decide.  I'll text her this evening if I haven't heard from her and basically (nicely) say if you can't decide yet, it's a pass.  We're moving on to our next plans.  I'm leaning more and more to hoping they can't come (it's a lot of work for me), but if they do, we'll have a good time.  

I'm also trying to allow my annoyance, but not fester about it.  That's super hard for me.  If they decline, I'll be annoyed it took them that long to decide.  But I know this is how they operate -- for 8 years this is them.  I can't be surprised -- and I continue to go back for more.  The only change is I set a time limit to any invitation now.  We aren't holding our lives waiting for them to figure out if they'd prefer other plans.  Yep, I'm get more and more annoyed by the hour -- dang.

Anyway ...

FS was strong yesterday and, of course, I had a good day.  That's the focus for this week too.  Practicing leaning into this new version of myself.  The more I do this, the better I feel.  It's still crappy at times, but a different sort of crappy.

A big FS thing is this wedding weekend coming up in September.  I need ALL the FS energy for this one.  It's getting closer and I'm getting more anxious about it.  Stay tuned.

Okay, enough for today -- I'm long winded this morning.  Hope you have a good Sunday.  Later gators.