Okay WOW!

Well, things in my life have a way of being intense... fram all the information I gather from others, not everyone has a life like this. For me, I feel like I live in a movie a lot of the time, because things have a way of being so, how to put it... out of the ordinary. The twists and turns are never ending, this highs so very high, the lows so very low... I can not explain it, except that this is me. High, low, intense, and unpredictable. As I get older, I long more and more for some kind of predicatbility, but never have I found much. Maybe I should stop looking, and just ride the ride of life for all it's worth. Poeple have made me believe that I need to follow the path of so many, but that path never made me happy. I am one who likes to make her own path. I find pleasure in solving things... probably why I have chosen to learn more through trial and error than with school, for everything basically. Everything I have mastered, I have learned through trial and error, including my jewelry. I have not taken a single jewelry making class, yet my pieces have graced the front page of etsy more than once. I think it is because I don;t have anyone saying, you can't do that... or you have to do it this way. I try things, some work, some don't, the ones that don't... well I don't do that again. The ones that do... I keep and add to my preverbial bag of tricks.

Also figured I will post here about my running... this week I took my son with me, he begged me to go, so I took him on his bike, while I ran. I thought the stop and go of running with him would make it too easy of a workout for me, but the next day, my legs said otherwise... maybe I was running faster? I don't know. I have become less concerned with how far I ran, exactly how fast... how many miles I ran this year, week, month. I know I am a runner... it is ingrained in me now... I do not need mileage or splits to prove to myself that I am working hard, or that I am a runner. I know that if I go for a run... I will naturally run at least 2.5 miles or more, not because my garmin says to, but because I just want to. I still do have a desire to run a marathon one day, but that day will come when and if it comes... I am not gonna injure myself, just to be able to say I ran 26.2 miles... I did 13.1, while still a newbie to running... only 5 months into it or so... now I am coming up on two years of commitment to running... My business keeps me from worrying that I am not running 25-30 miles a week... besides, I am sooo hungry all the time on those kinda miles! :) Regardless of how fast I am, how slow I am, how many miles I ran, if I took walk breaks or not... I AM a runner... we are unique in ourselves. I now know I have more endurance in me than I ever thought. I also know that just because someone with credentials tells you, "You can't" doesn't mean you can't. Maybe you just need a new approach. Things are not always as cut and dried as that.

Okay my studio is calling... need to get to some real work in there :) till next time!