This is all wicked stuff :)

Well! They say keeping your mind active keeps you young! I think I am 20 again :) Maybe my mind, the rest? Well, we won't talk about that. 

Working with the wicked_pr guys is really interesting. It is SO good to get a different take on the site, getting more eyes on it. I've mentioned before that I have felt like I am working in a vacuum, with very little feedback, and I know from writing and editing, after you have looked at something, whether it's text, images or a web site, after a while, you become so familiar with it, that you don't see what is actually there and glaring mistakes or missed opportunities get by you. So all the suggestions and input is wonderful.

Now I am working through the doc Charles did and distilling it down to make sure I understand what it is that we are going to do and have both Charles and Brian go over it. Then I will work with the group in India who will make the changes. 

It's all good stuff!

I love yoga! But I had no idea how stiff I am! I've never been a limber person. I think that all my swimming in those early years lengthened my muscles but did nothing for flexibility, so I am really having to work at some of the poses! Or should I say, contortions! But pretty soon I will know the basic poses and be able to do them correctly so will feel more comfortable doing them at home without hurting myself. 

It's also really good to get the hell out of here those two days. As beautiful as it is here, it is so far off the beaten track, I might as well be living on an island. So yesterday was fun, as Mardelle from Chicago was in town and Susan and I met her at Undertown, a very cool cafe in Port Townsend. It literally is under the town, under one of the old streets of Port Townsend and it also serves as an art gallery, with frequently changing exhibits. The seating is wild too, everything is different, as if they got the furniture from the thrift store! But it fits with the old brick walls, exposed electrical and utility fittings. Oh, and they have great coffee too.

Dr. Jadin got back to me about the meds and I have to have more tests to find out if I need to continue with the treatment. I hope I don't! But will set up with the local clinic where I can order the tests myself and then email the results to her in South Africa. It will be very cool if I can just handle this all through diet and exercise. Just means I have to be even more diligent about it, forcing myself out every day to walk my 3.5 miles, but I draw the line at walking in the rain! That's another reason I must get good at the yoga poses, then on rainy days I can still get the exercise I need.

Philosophers Notes are awesome! I am really enjoying them and getting so much out of them. Especially reading as many as I am to catch up, it really immerses me in a positive mind set, there's no room to get depressed or anxious about anything. Very cool. This Einstein quote really sums up what the notes are all about: 

"The problems we face today cannot be solved from the same level of thinking that created them."  Albert Einstein

Your thoughts become things, so choose the good ones.

Frustration

Just when you think things are moving along well, something falls apart!

The site was going along nicely, with tweaks and adding APIs. Then there were no orders and I thought, ok people are just not buying right now. But after a couple of days, I thought this is weird and asked the IT guys to check it. No, they said, it appears to be working fine. Well, I didn't think so, so went in and placed an order, and what do you know, the shopping cart wasn't working!

Damn!

So contact IT again, no, it should be working. No it's NOT! So two days of checking and finally they got part of it working again. But wouldn't you know, a different part is not working properly now.

Sheesh, it seems like every time I get things stable, something breaks, and then it's like a cascading effect, one thing leads to another. Oh well, I just have to keep on it, every day, checking, checking, emailing. skypeing. But I think I might need to consider putting them on retainer!

And another frustration - I had a phone appointment set up with Dr. Jadin in South Africa for 7 am - so I called, right on time and got the answering machine. They supposedly don't close til 5:30 their time, and it was 5. So I waited a few minutes and called again and the doc picked up. Now, she has a very strong French accent so is difficult to understand anyway, but then the confusion of her not knowing I had scheduled a consult, and her not having my file with her... so now I have to wait for an email from her. Third world country receptionist obviously didn't tell her about it. Lucky for me I have a calling card for cheap minutes. But at least I have checked in and can get the next round of antibiotics, I hope.

Yoga was wonderful this morning, again a beautiful morning with sun streaming in through the high windows of the gym. This time we were facing away from the direct sun but it filled the room with such a warmth. Amy, our instructor, keeps adding new poses and boy, the last one of the day was a lulu! I don't know what it is called, but I could barely get close to what it was supposed to be! And what a workout. Sweet, as they say.

Today I got my Philosopher's Notes which are short takes - 6 pages and a 20 minute video - of 100 of the best books from the last 100 years or so. So now, instead of reading the whole book, there is a synopsis of all the main points! Very cool - the first one I read was The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, which I read a long time ago - and thought I still had but don't. So now will be able to gather all the wisdom from them in my lifetime :)

THE BIG IDEAS
The Domestication
Of humans.

1st Agreement:
Be impeccable with your word.

2nd Agreement:
Don’t take anything personally.

3rd Agreement:
Don’t make assumptions.

4th Agreement:
Always do your best.

The First Step
Toward freedom.

We Stop Ourselves
Let’s not blame others.

Breaking Domestication
Step-by-step.

Repetition
Makes the master.