Photo an Hour: My 30th

i have wanted to do a "photo an hour" for a long time.  What a better way to start than my birthday?  Here we go!  :)

7:00am   Good Morning, but not getting up yet...

8:00am My hair looks amazing!

9:00am  The morning constitutional

10:00am  Breakfast at Alice's Country House.

11:00am Driving back to camp and had to check out this pretty!

12:00pm  On an adventure and you got to stand on a log.

They other side of the log I was standing on...  Yikes!

If you look closely you can see a house.  Can I haz?

1:00pm Rosie, my camping soul mate, spotted an Evening Grosbeak on the adventure.  Good spotting!

2:00pm back to camp.

3:00pm Ferngully

Margarita is so cute!

4:00pm  The trees in our campsite.

5:00pm Adventuring, again, to look for wood.  

6:00pm  Still Adventuring

Rosie found a moth.

7:00pm  Dinner.  Roasted veggies and meatloaf!

Sleepy Boone and a giant's feet.

8:00pm More trees in our site.

9:00pm Sun is disappearing but the twinkle lights are sparkling.

 10:00pm  My chair is the best and some smoke.

11:00pm  My theme song, Natalia Kills - Problem, its a dirty video...

12:00am  Fire in the velvet night.  

It was a great day and a great camping trip!  

What did you do last week?

Needles Are Fun!

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three weeks ago I started getting acupuncture.  I have always wanted to try it and when I saw a Groupon for the Metis (in the video they show the fire room where I hang out most, it has the two chairs and red curtains) clinic I figured, why not.  Its was slightly terrifying   Not because of the needles, but more the not moving for an hour.  I have some trouble with sleep, well that seems like an understatement ..  Sleep hates me and I have trouble relaxing.  This is also a reason why I am so pale.  I have no patience to lay in the sun in a position long enough to get a tan...  I have a problem with stillness.  My mind is never still so I need to keep moving or distracted so I dont have to think, or over think ..  When I was there for my first appointment I expressed my concerns for the stillness and she said she could check on in 20 mins and I could be done then.  This was very helpful, the fear of an hour of forced relaxation was gone.  It is still mildly awkward to lay in a dark room with your sleeves and pant legs rolled up, stuck with needles, 19 to be exact.  I think it must have taken me at least 10 minutes just to come to terms with being still.  If you move you get stabbed.  Bad plan.   After that I let it all go.  I stopped thinking about work and boys and what I should eat for dinner.  I let my mind wonder, any thought that had to do with nothing important was allowed.  It was like waking dreams.  I was swimming in the ocean with stingrays and whale sharks.  It was amazing.  I didnt need to continue over analyzing life.  Very freeing.  Afterwards there was after glow.  Not like a massage where you are groggy but a calm feeling.  The second time I had 20 needles and it was about the same as the first go around. The third time was the most outrageous!  I had 30 needles, mostly in my spine like a stegosaurus.  I felt kinda bad cause I kept laughing.  My back is SUPER ticklish.   After all the needles were placed she brushed then 4 times to move the thoughts out of my head and down to my feet.  It felt like teeny tiny back tickles, it may have been my favorite part!  This treatment was for insomnia and it must have worked cause I fell asleep on the table.  How does that happen?  Ever since I have been sleeping much better!  All I want to do is nap and with these naps I sleep!  Not just lay there wishing for sleep!  I told Melissa I wasnt sure this was better than not sleeping, but she said I was just paying off my sleep debt for all the years of not sleeping!  Love that girl!

Have you every wanted to try acupuncture?

Current Song:  Lana Del Rey Blue Jeans
Netflix:  Supernatural, I am in heart with Dean...
Missing Items:  Glasses, but I found them in my purse...  Must have dropped them in there before a nap.  Lucky they didnt break!
Fun Fact:  My blog on 100 birds was my 100th blog post!  What a kawinkidink...
Wishing:  I could play more Gauntlet.  But I am not sucked in...  I can totally handle video games in moderation..
Miles:  16/90
Birds:  8/100

Goals: 100 Birds

my mother has always been a big fan of birds.  You could be having a conversation with her and she would see a bird and you would lose her till she identified it.  We call it "bird ADD", kind of a family joke.  I was trained at a young age to call out if I ever see a Red-Tailed Hawk.  We even made it into a game for long car trips, counting birds.  I still play with friends on road trips.  I have always wanted to know more about birds, I can only identify ones I have seen in our backyard.  This gave me the idea of making a list of 100 birds spotted before summer is over.  I bought a app for my phone to help from the Audubon Society.  Its pretty nifty!  So far I have 4 birds.

1/100  Red-tail Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis very fitting first sighting.

2/100  Canada Goose, Branta canadensis

3/100  European Starling, Sturnus vulgaris
4/100  American Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos

My plan is to go on birding adventures, any excuse to sit outside!

Hot Beverage:  One coffee and I forgot to say only one shot!  Didnt perk me up at all...  Strange cause that should have had me bouncing off the walls!
Adventure:  Went to a real pet store to get Charlotte's cat food.  It was really fun to see the fish, lizards and hermit crabs!  I miss my hermies...  Ps. Animals should never go on sale.  Not classy...
Nail Polish:  Russian Navy by OPI with an extra coat of a silver sparkles by OPI that is missing a label, on my ring fingers.
Miles:  11/100
Birds:  4/100

How was your weekend?