Domestics Sunday, funday,

And kinda depressing at the same time.   First off, its grey nasty scattered APRIL SHOWERS sort of weather, not that I am complaining about the weather or anything,,,  It’s flipping SPRING and my fav-O-RITE season of all.   NO, the depression kicked in while assisting Da with his lawnmower.   I realized that I am becoming the teacher, where he had been mine,,,   Kinda hard to express the entire event that brought it on, without making an entire story post about it, but I realized that our roles have switched a bit and it hit me a little hard.   

I also realized (reinforced) where a lot of my self-doubt comes from, since I heard him saying things openly that I often say in my own head when I am struggling with confidence issues.    And I was telling him the things I have learned to say to myself, when such times come about: “Shit like this happens, we are only human, and to be perfect would be boring,,,” etc etc etc.   Yeah, lawnmower issues were a self inflicted wound and he was embarrassed by it.   Shit happens; shrug it off and move on,,,

Took both Lizzy and BlueJean out today.   about an hour for each,,,  Lizzy first since she was left at home last weekend,,,   Geez, I thought I had my sea-legs; HA!!!!   She reminded me that she is REAL SEA KAYAK and that in her you had best keep your hips loose.    I settled down after a bit, but that first 1/4 mile,,,   EEK!!!!   Found a rock and did some hip-snaps and that helped give my hips some wiggle room and settled the hind brain down a bit too.

Then I took BJ out just because I wanted to paddle and not need to think about it.   What a confidence inspiring boat.  Harry Tieken really nailed that design down pat.   Slower, but damn, just point and go and don’t worry about a thing on the water.   Y’all saw that pic of my busting through DamWave on the Elkhorn,   It looks a whole lot more exciting than the reality of it,,  I said she never wobbled and she didn’t.   I would take that boat through Tide-surf and be as cool as a cucumber the whole time.

And now I am home, and considering loading camp gear into the boats ‘just in case’ I want to go out.  No rush to do so, since I have a workweek ahead of me, but I am really wanting to do that Kayakamping thing and SOON….  There was a couple that had paddled to a point and were camping at the lake, and seeing them packing it up onto their sit on tops got my ‘wanderlust’ twitchy.

And I wish B and Fam  and I lived closer together,,,   I enjoyed the break of the weekend doldrums yesterday (two weekends in a row with friends,,, hot shit!!!  I may be getting addicted to that,,,) and seeing Bub running around playing with the toy I picked out for him,,,  Yeah,,, gives a godfather a warm fuzzy feel,,,   

Been a good weekend.  Highs and lows, without going to extremes in either case.   Short one for me since I usually have three day weekends, but hey, theres seven hours towards my next paycheck already in the chute,,,  that’s gonna help a bit on things here.  (note, I payed off completely, one of my debts,,,  It is a revolving account, but right now the debt shows ZERO and I intend on keeping it there for a while.)

But this drizzly warm afternoon and some physical activity has caught up to me and this ol’grumpy bod is sayin’ “NAP! NOW!”,,,, LOL.    

Talkatcha’y’alll laters.