My retreat

I did it. I talked about it for a while beforehand. I felt guilty as on the day of, but I did it. I went away for 3 nights by myself to a cabin in the blue mountains and relaxed for three days. Scrumptious lunch n dinner were brought to my door each day and there was yoga every morning. Endless pots of tea, reading, movies and baths. Heavenly. So peaceful and relaxing. Yay!!!

I think it's the first time I've ever been away by myself so I was a bit worried that I'd get lonely. I didn't. Three nights was a good amount of time to be away. The cabin had a stack of dvds and it was sunny and glorious out on the front lawn for reading all day long. I read the Sat paper on Monday, the Sun paper on Tuesday and loads of books. I also did a 3 hour run which went up or down. Kinda tough. And every day there was 1 hour of yoga.

Yoga was one of the hopes for the break, to be able to have a little routine to do myself as I struggle to make it regularly to classes between work, family, sleep.... and on that front,there has been success, I have done yoga twice a week in the mornings since I got back.

I've also been getting up between 5am and 5.30am by choice. I blame Sarah Connor. Ever since we went for a 25km run starting at 6.30am, I've been getting up early, mainly because I'm so buggered at night.

For the first time ever though, I'm actually enjoying the mornings. Pity I didn't decide to like them about 5 years ago - would have made the last 5 years a lot easier. Arhhh well. It's still lovely to have time in the morning to myself. Even if it does make me a little on the anti-social side when it comes to dinner.