I wanted to sit down and reflect on my vacation while spending the last night in my hotel room alone because there was so much going through me head, but just couldn’t fight my body tiring out on me after all the go go go of the last part of my vacation. So, I chose sleep instead which if you know me well is quite different for me. I have good reason to be tired too because on my vacation I have been all over the place. So, I’m currently writing this on the train ride from Seattle back to Portland. It’s hard to take my eyes of the scenery out the windows as I sit in business class. I spent the first hour or so on the train looking out the windows soaking up the beautiful weather that the Pacific northwest is providing today. This is the kind of day that keeps me here in the pacific northwest even though I know that fall is right around the corner. These beautiful summer days in the northwest are the things that help me make it through the very rainy and gray days of winter. There are very few clouds in the sky today and the clouds that are in the sky happen to be far off on the horizon. These clouds seemed to be perfectly placed as bumper between where the sky blue stops and the luscious green of the distant hills begins. Not sure what major mountain I even saw out my window on the left of the train in the distance. All I know was it was large enough to stop what I was doing and take a picture. In the picture that I took the mountain turned out to be quite a bit smaller than seeing it with my own eyes out the window by my seat, but regardless it’s still beautiful enough. Currently to my right the tracks are very close to water of the sound area in the state of Washington. At some points the pacific ocean seems to not be moving at all. Like a beautiful sheet of glass just reflecting all that is above it. The water is so close at times you might think of opening the door at the end of the car and just diving right in. Oh my I’m getting distracted again let me get back to my vacation.
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| This is the beautiful mountain I speak of. |
There really is so much I want to say that I can’t really put it in one blog entry without writing a short novel. I will say on this vacation I have learned many things about myself. From the fun times spent with my family at the second year of the family reunion for my mom’s side of the family to the last night spent alone in my hotel room. I’m always learning things about myself. The more I listen to myself the more I hear. I know I needed this vacation and I like the way it turned out overall, but at the same time there is much about my life that is very important for me that goes on in my daily routine that helps keep me on track to where I’m going with my life. The couple months leading up to my vacation I have gotten in a very good rhythm with myself. By that I mean I’m working out regularly, I have been eating correctly, and sleeping consistently. It was tough to step away from all of that and go on vacation to be honest. The good news for the first time I don’t have as much depression from coming off my vacation as I normally do. This time I’m really looking forward to getting back at my daily routine. Quite a bit actually. I’m really making a push these days to get to a new me and this vacation has kind of been a speed bump for me. I do want to mention that I have gotten better at eating on vacation even with all my diet restrictions. I still have much room to improve though. I chose not to count my calories at all while on vacation. I wanted to truly take a break from one of the more annoying parts of my daily routine. I did however make many different eating choices while on vacation because I know how many calories are in certain things off the top of my head. So, in a way because of how far I have come I'm always keeping track in my head. I also made choices during my vacation not to eat certain things and go hungry till I could eat something better for me. Problem with that is most of the time I ate too much when I got back to my hotel room. Even if it was stuff I could eat back in the hotel room I ate almost like I did when I was younger meaning that I ate like I didn’t know when the next meal was coming. The trade off is I did have to do a lot of physical work on my vacation mostly walking and a bit of badminton (which I loved!). So, hopefully when I step on the scale next time I won’t be too mad. My vacation was really three different parts and so accompanying this blog entry I will probably be doing three different blog entries to really get into depth of what I did and what I learned from each part of my vacation. I have been for the most part to save money living off peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. I have eaten my last two on this train ride home. Again, I spent too much money during this trip. Ugh. I need to work on that too. Also, my head recently I has been having some issues lately similar to how my head felt after my bike accident. This is my major frustration with my life, that even though I’m working really hard at all levels of myself there is always something popping up that I need to deal with. I know that life won’t ever stop, but a year or two break from some of this stuff would be nice. I know wishful thinking. So, I push forward. Onward till I make it home again. I have enjoyed my vacation, but I’m really excited to be home again. I do love riding the train because it’s the closest thing I have to spending time with my dad. Ok, I think I’m going to end for now. Thanks for listening to me ramble and unload my brain I think that I will go back to looking out the window.
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| Just had to take a pic for my dad. What a wonderful color of red! =) |
As always I bring this to you with love and pure D-lite. = )
