Perfect Weekend
What weekend could be better?
Friday night I had the "soft launch" of my big dream plan (basically this just means I began promoting it to a select group of people I don't know personally). While I didn't expect any real response, mentally it is a big thing. I can feel, at last, that I am moving forward. Despite time spent (I wont lie - It wasn't exactly forty hours per week, and it sure didn't feel like work!) researching, planning, and pitching to possible partners, I still felt like it was not really going anywhere. There is still a lot to do, and I still have the more than occasional doubts, but at least I took a more visible step forward.
Saturday I checked my schedule and found that despite my feelings of "too much wasted time", I am pretty much on top of things - although one thing that needs catching up is the intensive Japanese language review in preparation for a course I will be taking in January where I will be expected to do much more "real" conversation (about feelings and what-not) than is ever required in an office setting, as well as some senmonnyogo (specialty specific terminology) that I have never really used before in Japanese. I still feel OK though, and have almost finished reviewing some "specialty specific" books in English so I can at least know what I want to say.
Saturday night we took a brake from our Northern Exposure DVDs and splurged on a DVD (Ray) from the video store. This may not seem like much, but in our recently simple life this is big - and much more enjoyable than it used to be when we both worked all day and would rent several DVDs each week just because it was the easiest way to shut our brains off.
Today was a morning run - we have worked out a scheme were we (Tomoe and I) start together and, at certain places, I pick up the pace, breaking into a sprint (or as close to it as I can), and then turning around to meet back up with Tomoe who is running at her own pace. I then run and chat with her for a while until the urge to self-inflict pain strikes me again, and I repeat the procedure. This is the only way we can run together and both benefit (and not fight).
Follow the run with an extraordinarily awesome hour of Yoga, and what more could you want? Oh yeah... an amazing lunch of a variety of uber-healthy vegan/macrobiotic delights (photos and explanation coming soon) followed by an afternoon nap - and back to "work", if you can call it that...
Maybe the reason this weekend felt so good was that it included a bit of nostalgia - we both have work meetings in the morning, making it feel like a "real" weekend - you know the kind we used to have where the only time of the week that really belonged to us and we spent three hours Sunday night talking about how much Monday morning sucks...
