Something Happy

The next few weeks (months?) are going to be crazy...

Friday morning I'm leaving for the High Sierra Music Festival. This will be my first Festivaaaaal, and the devotees of the event assure me it will be my first of many. The next weekend I'll be going on a camping/fishing weekend for Tyler's BDay.

My family didn't camp. I've only been camping about 5 years, I'm still a novice newby. I love camping, for 2 big reasons. One is the sense of community, the other is how capable it makes me feel. Often during a camping trip you're working together with someone accomplishing something that at home would take maybe 10 minutes. But when you're camping you have to be resourceful.

Making coffee- at home it takes about a minute. Measure water, grind beans, place in coffee maker, hit a button and come back in 5 minutes for your coffee. Camping it goes something like this: start fire to heat water (or light up the camp stove), heat water, measure coffee grounds, transfer hot water and grounds into french press, wait about 5 minutes and press. You have to work for that coffee just a little more, and it tastes better for it.

Still have to keep training through these trips. There are yoga and pilates classes up at Festivaaaal. And Hula Hoop! Hopefully I'll be able to get in a long walk/run.

And to clear up any confusion regarding my thoughts about testing for the Brca mutations and the measures some women go to to prevent breast cancer: I'm not going to have genetic testing and while I understand why some women opt to go these routes it isn't even a possibility to me. I'm going to be proactive about mammograms, self exams, healthy lifestyles, etc. No worries! Just the ramblings of a crazy girl :)