Today, Wednesday, the 15th of February we received the keys to our new house. It’s a serious renovator’s dream (or nightmare); the possibilities are endless. All the warning signs were there from the beginning, but we fell in love with it, and for the last three months, we’ve been planning, budgeting, pinning mood boards on Pinterest.com, bargain hunting in secondhand shops… Generally we’ve just been consumed by this project.
During this period, I also started at SHAPE Magazine as Picture Editor/Designer, but I’m still aspiring to the slash-designer part. Hence, being sent on a course to learn how to design on layout software, InDesign.
The only time I’ve managed to find to write my blog is right now – 10pm. That’s after a sundowner on our new balcony overlooking the Atlantic Ocean towards Hout Bay, my favourite view in the world.
taken from Noordhoek Beach
Renovations – or should I rather say, restoration – starts on Monday. Decisions have to be finalised and our budget needs some tweaking – it’s all pretty stressful. We have five weeks available to do renovations before we need to move out of our current house. For three of those weeks we have friend from the UK visiting us. We always have the BEST time with them – many late nights and laughing – while the deadlines at work loom and the pressure of getting our house ready is imminent… What’s also worrying me is that I have to move four cats and two dogs with us. One of the cats is a feral cat that I’ve already relocated once when we moved from Sea Point. It was the single most stressful thing I’ve ever done, and here I’m about to do it again. I’m just trusting that it will all go smoothly.
However, through all my personal worries, the time constraints and the way “life just happens”, I haven’t missed one session with the OptiFit team. The significance of this is that exercise has always been the victim when I run out of hours in the day, but not this time round. I’m loving our sessions, loving the way we push each other and loving the sense of accomplishment at the end of each session, even if we just ran for a minute longer than the day before.
I’m falling in love with the sound of my breathing in my ears and I’m very thankful that I quit smoking for good. I feel happy and even though I’m a bit tired, I can cope with the challenges of each day. Oh cardio, how I have missed you…
On Saturday at 7am, we do another loop of about 4.5km in Tokai Forest. I can’t wait!
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