This Week - Reading, Swimming, Circus Skills, Weird Eating Patterns, Halloween Prep

This week has been *busy*.  Everyone has been healthy and it's been great to have our nanny back. I felt tired going into this week and still feel like I'm fighting off illness.  I also feel generally behind in all the life admin things.  I forgot to text birthday messages, I have a pile of kid party invites needing replies, and I've been eating most of my food at 10am in one giant meal which is probably weird and bad for me. 

On Monday night I went for a swim as a half marathon recovery and then I finished reading What Kind of Paradise which was a page turner and also... I wasn't super happy with the ending.  Maybe that's the problem with page turners?  So much about it was great, except for the part where I couldn't turn any more pages.

On Tuesday I had a post recovery massage which was amazing.  I've decided I'm going to book a monthly massage for myself.  Why not??  

In the evening Andy and I had our logistics meeting and we planned our pumpkin carving party invitation list.   We've thrown a drop in pumpkin carving party almost every year since 2021 and it's generally a lot of fun and pretty easy to do the same party every year.  We put out tables, buckets, pumpkin carving knives, and snacks, and people come and carve pumpkins.

We normally send paper invites because we love an invitation, but they have become expensive to print and even more expensive to send.  This year I will just invite people via text.  It's also odd to look at old invite lists and take some people off and add new people, but it's also nice to see people who we have stayed in touch with year after year, and to add new friends to the invite list as well.

On Wednesday I did my first circus class (my friends and I signed up for a 2 session taster) at the local circus training ground.  It was so much harder than I remember it - we did conditioning which I found tiring and then tried to climb silks and go on a aerial hoop.  

I wrote some blog posts about circus skills here, with videos from 2013 of me doing aerial ropes and silks.  This time I couldn't climb the silks at all.  Maybe I'll be better next week.  The teacher was the same and recognized me from 12 years ago.  Sometimes it feels really weird to have lived in the same place (mostly) for 12 years.

On Thursday (today) I met my gym buddy for morning gym and then was in work all day. I've handed off most of my old role now and have started to get stuck-in to the new role. It's so fun to have space to think.  BUT I am definitely not accomplishing things as fast as I hoped I would, and I'm starting to learn the limits of my own data analytics skills.  I'm enjoying learning new things, and I know I'll only improve.  

I meant to do a live strength class on Peloton today but then I accidentally scheduled a meeting at the same time.  Oops!  So instead I went out for a midday walk.  I've been in the bad habit of sitting in my office all day from 8:30am to 5pm and only leaving to make myself an omlette or other big meal around 10:30am.  I really need to get a handle on my food/eating situation.  Mostly, I need to eat food at the right time, ie the morning and possibly other times in the day.

Anyways, I realized I had missed my opportunity for a fitness class so I went for a walk instead, because I knew I could then be a minor part of the cool bloggers walking club! I couldn't find anything great to photograph so I said hi to these chickens and figured that was cool blogger-y enough for a walk?

This weekend is a busy one as well - tomorrow we have a playdate in the morning, and friends are coming over for dinner.  On Saturday we're going to the pumpkin patch (yay!) and to a friend's house for a sausage party (as in, they have a lot of sausages).  Sunday my oldest turns 7! He is going out with a friend (and Andy) to a local science museum which means I have toddlers & Lily all day.  Will have to make a plan....

Have you ever taken circus lessons?  Do you have any neighbourhood chickens? Do you carve pumpkins and/or have you ever thrown a pumpkin carving party?