Un-packable
Add comment June 16th, 2009 05:25pm sarah
Things that are coming with us to Ireland
Things we are leaving behind
Best Laid Plans
4 comments June 10th, 2009 12:46pm sarah
After spending a little over a year in Wales and a little under a year in Scotland, our work is taking us next to Ireland for a year. Right now we are packing our cases and crates, booking ferry tickets, and enrolling in an Irish language course. All practical things that we have to do if we are going to make our plans a reality. But honestly, the past two or three years of our lives have been so full of changes (major and minor) to our plans and preconceptions, that I am learning to hold them loosely, and not to be anxious when things change. At times I’ve been bitter about the lack of stability, but more often I’ve found myself being excited about the possibilities that a change of plans can bring, and feeling a sense of freedom in the middle of uncertainty. Something that comes to my mind over and over lately is a bit from the Bible that says
Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” Otherwise you are boasting about your own plans…
So, if the Lord wants us to, in two weeks we move to Ireland, and then we start studying Irish, and then… we’ll see.
Beach Weekend
1 comment June 1st, 2009 12:15pm sarah
We went to the beach twice this weekend, enjoying the gorgeous weather.
Falling Apart
4 comments May 16th, 2009 09:29am sarah
For about the last year, I’ve been having more significant problems with my knees. I’ve always had to be careful with them, but started noticing that they were hurting more when I exercised, and then they started hurting at night or at other times when I wasn’t doing anything at all. I went to the doctor here and he suggested some physical therapy, and I also talked to my mom, who works at a PT clinic. One of her co-workers thinks I might have runners knee, so that’s good to know. And, now that I know, I am going to go to physio while I’m here in Scotland, hopefully learn about some exercises to fix/prevent this problem ice my knees when appropriate, and cut down on a little bit of my activity.
Also, since Ryan and I have been dancing so much this year, his hip has started hurting when we dance, not all the time, but definitely sometimes. And sometimes when he goes out with the walking group. We don’t know why, and it’s not too bad, he says, so we’re not worried yet. HOWEVER, because of an episode of How I Met Your Mother, we jokingly call this problem “dancer’s hip”. I looked up the real dancer’s hip, and it’s not what he has, but still.
We were laughing about this last night… the fact that apparently we are coming apart at the seams.
Acoustic Night
2 comments May 15th, 2009 11:43pm ryan
Tonight we went to an “Acoustic Cafe” that was being put on in town. We saw this guy Willie Campbell playing this song:
He was amazing. Great performance. Great songs. I feel very fortunate to live in a place with such good local music. I’ve heard about Willie before, and now I’m kicking myself for having not gone to see him sooner. A guy named Ian Mackinnon did an opening set before Willie, and I was very pleased when he covered Hit Me Baby One More Time after playing some other really good tunes.
