It's Sunday Again

Ah...Sunday's with you. I really can't wait.

Today I got the stereo working in my fun car and drove it for a good hour+ and beat the rain back home.

I made the most amazing turkey burgers (my kid introduced me to the recipe). They have feta, spinach, garlic, egg, parsley, salt, pepper...wow! I was afraid it was a fluke and I'd never be able to replicate them but I did and they were just as great as the first time.

My child and extended family are all amazing cooks. It's what really got me cooking. When my child was in 8th grade, I moved in with my baby daddy and his wife (no sex involved) and they both were amazing cooks. I would sit and watch them and learn and they were both so supportive and patient when I decided to undertake a new recipe, cheering me on and course correcting me when they saw I was about to make a fatal error. I'm grateful for my culinary teachers.

I finished a course I needed to complete to maintain a certification I have and I'm reading a great book (The Success Principles by Jack Canfield). I've been complaining lately that a lot of the personal development books I've been reading are all preaching the same story. While this one is also not original, it is more accessible and gives more concrete ways to put things into action.

I also have a daily reading I do out of a 365 day book of insights around conscious living. Today it was striking in that it talked about relationships and posed the question: "Can I be me and still be with my partner?"

There is a part of me that says, if you were here, I would have been doing much more fun things than reading or taking a stupid class...but the reality is, at the moment, I value my professional credentials and want to maintain them (I worked damn hard for them) and I am enjoying learning about making a better life for myself and understanding my fears and sabotaging behaviors.

So, if you were here, of course I wouldn't be spending time writing this but I do aspire to maintain the parts of me that are a bit more independent and introverted. I need alone time now and then. Every three-four months I need a weekend to veg out in my PJs and not go anywhere at all. I hope you can understand my need for alone time and I hope you'll indulge my PJ needs...or maybe that is when I have my alone time :)

I wonder what you did today...are you thinking of me? Am I a growing construct in your mind? Are we being drawn toward one another yet? I'm so curious what your life is like and how you're spending your time.

I do look forward to our Sunday's together.