relaxing is harder than it sounds.

grocery shopping, exploring, dental appointments, exercising, gardening...these are things i understand. relaxing...not so much.

i am beginning to think that my idea of relaxing is a far cry from normal. to normal people, relaxing is not doing anything. to me, relaxing is doing things that i want to do because i want to do them...not because i have to. for goodness sakes, i woke up at 5:55 am this morning by choice and it was a whole lot easier than when i had to wake up that early each day for a job!

basically, this week has been full of such "relaxing." i have been enjoying yardwork at leah's, i've been running at the beach, i have even taken out my guitar a time or two and experimented with garage band on the macbook. and you know what? i feel relaxed.

the dental appointment referenced above happened on monday at leah's practice. i have a clean bill of health from my dentist sister. see below: do you see anything different about me in this picture? we'll see if you catch it...i'll let you know what it is in the next post! oooh, i love a mystery! (can you tell that i loved highlights magazine as a kid?)

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