With M again, talking all the way, the only way I can get through it!! We started at the far end of the zoo and ran from there South along a mountain biking track. Was lots of fun :).
...along some great parts of the river, jumping fallen tree trunks and narrow twisting paths. We ran for nearly 40 mins, so it was worth the effort to get there. As usual, we chatted and laughed, and I whinged and bitched. Over 6 kms.
Run 4 times in the last week, including 6kms today which was the most I’d done for a while, however the difference was that I did not run alone and it wasn´t as mentally hard.
Hopefully I will run tomorrow evening….? and keep it up during the week. I would like to get back to running 8 to 10kms regularly in one session asap.
....am slowly filling them up and reorganising my mountains of clothes…
Still looking for a light…my husband and I can´t agree on one thing!
Headboard won´t fit in the bedroom anymore now as to fit the wardrobes in (3) we had to move the bed and its ever so slightly under a window now.
...fairly busy and making a lot of changes in my life. I have still been running though (2 or 3 times since I last posted)! Not today….rainy, I am suffering from the aftereffects of very bad hayfever on the weekend and lack of sleep. I will run tomorrow morning and report back!
I still have all the books and CDs, so can refresh that. I want to add some basic Turkish vocab to that as we are spending three weeks bumming around the Rhodes and Marmaris areas in summer.
Have Turkish phrasebook, to acquire: CDs- which I then transfer to my ipod. Half my ipod is full of language stuff- German, French, Greek and Italian so far LOL
I haven´t done anything about this for soooo long. I am rapidly forgetting everything. What is the plan? I don´t know. I just have to get organised, disciplined and start again. I have access to so many resources and its just a matter of doing it!
Project of the Month (POM) this month is “my” orphanage Torez (for the disabled) in Ukraine.
We are trying to raise 1,200 dollars for the bedridden children.
http://www.life2orphans.com/ Click on “Project of the Month” under the subheading “Needs and Projects” to read all about it. The POM runs for the next 7 days!!
These children are really suffering in body, mind and spirit and so desperately need help.
Photos (but be warned, they are disturbing, so don´t look unless you are ready for that)
http://www.life2orphans.org/photofeed/main.php?g2_itemId=5796&g2_page=14
...long long time since. So, the aim is to train my stomach muscles in some way every day now, even if just for 5 minutes. I will report in once a week on my progress.
...round and round, we went there because the high walls would keep us out of the wind. And so they did. My legs hurt though. But I should give myself a big smiley for making the effort on a cold, rainy and windy day in which I was woken up at 5am by a husband leaving for HH.
We are raising money this month for the Bedridden Children at Torez Orphanage in the Ukraine- to provide them with stimulating activities, extra food and physical therapy.
The photos from the Nurses trip last year sent me reeling. I was shocked out of my warm cocoon of reality and even having some idea of what orphanage conditions were like, nothing could have prepared me for the sight of the hollow eyes, twisted legs and feet, thin bodies, empty gazes and the lack of hope. Apart form the happy smiles that the games from the nurses bought out, I was filled with such sadness and pain. I howled and howled as I looked at the photos. It upset my children to hear me cry, so I retreated to my room to cry into a pillow.
All sounds very dramatic, but I haven´t been able to stop thinking of those children since. I felt privileged to be able to send three sponsorship boxes to Torez late last year to three non bedridden children, and so happy to have my first bedridden child to sponsor now. I am also honoured to be the Coordinator for this orphanage and it is a role I hope to grow into with time and make a real difference to these children´s lives.
Renia
...in some parts of my life I am paralysed with fear and not dealing with things until disaster hits….I don´t know why I am like this or how I can fix it. I don´t want help either, I want to find the inner strength within.
....and perhaps beyond, no shoes, clothes, accessories, makeup, books etc. I am having a spending freeze, trying to sell things, and downsize. The amount of stuff I have lying around with no home is becoming suffocating.
I like the sound of that Spending Freeze——for me. I still need to take care of my kids though :)
....was ok. I vacilitated from feeling euphoric to desperately depressed due to different reasons. But ultimately, running helps. I then had a very busy day, drinks in two locations and lots of friendly chit chat.
5 kms
...saw the Fruhlingsfest and a flea market. Made the running more pleasant as at the moment I am not 100% in so many ways LOL. Still, I did it. May run tomorrow evening and hopefully Sunday as well. Nice weather expected!
and there are definitely some that can go, some others I´m not sure about too. Of course, there is the 20% I wear all the time and the other 80% languishing in the wardrobe.
I think if i had it all better organised though, I would wear more different combinations and would also be able to identify just how many black tops and dresses I have!!!
Next step after the clothes, is books and magazines….
...finally!! The best way to do this is of course not to go shopping (the last thing I bought was makeup a few weeks ago), though I still get tempted by ebay. I read in a decluttering book recently too, that the best way to declutter your house is AS WELL as doing the decluttering is not to buy anything for six months.
...my legs hurt though and I will be doing it (probably longer as will be with M) again tomorrow. It was at least beautiful and sunny and I was listening to Early Winter by Gwen Stefani.
...however I need to work on other items from my list. So, my goal is to get into the habit of regularly “blogging” the other things too. Spring is here and its time to be revitalised and motivated :-)
