What If?

If you knew how much time you had left to live, would it change how you are living your life right now? If you were given the precise day that you were meant to die, would you make drastic changes? I watched The Time-traveller's Wife last night and it made me start to question the above topic. Henry travels through time and ends up seeing his dying moment which I can only imagine to be mortifying. It really got me thinking....if I knew I had 60 years, I am not sure much would change, if I knew I had 20, I think I would seriously start to reconsider the thought though. Don't get me wrong, on a whole, I am quite happy with the path I am on and the choices I am making in my life - but if all of a sudden I started to feel the clock ticking - I mean REALLY ticking, there are definitely things I would change. I might begin to take a few more risks, worry less about certain things and make an effort to invest more time in myself and the people that I love. There were good and bad elements to the movie - but it definitely stirred the thought pot.

Kx

Today was a Good Day

I had a very busy and delightful day today. I got more accomplished today than I have any other day this summer. I went to the zoo with Kate, Jonny and Thomas and got to see the Koalas (I wrote an award winning report on Koalas in grade 4!) It was nice to spend a portion of the day outside but I cannot get over how busy the zoo was. It felt like there must have been some special event going on because it was PACKED. I guess that everybody just had the same brilliant idea today.

After the zoo I went home and got a good amount of work done on KMK - which is making me breath easier and stress out less. I was working on music today and will move onto another area tomorrow.

After dinner I headed down to the leisure centre to swim with my niece and nephew. What a great time. It is nice to swim with kids their age because they are competent in the pool, you aren't worried about their safety every second that you are swimming. I has been many years since I was in the wave pool - strange because I practically lived in it for 7 or 8 years when I taught summer camps there. And I still love the diving board.... that was the most enjoyable workout I have had in some time!

Kx

My Sheepish Return

Wow - I was not expecting to have such a long break between my posts. I was away for a while, and for the rest of the absence I just didn't have anything that I wanted to put on paper.

The start of work is looming again. How quickly the summer goes. The start of a new school year is always an interesting one. I adore my job and yet there is that pang of sadness everytime a summer ends. I think that part of it is the fact that there is a large amount of stress involved with the beginning of the year. Meeting new students, re-establishing guidelines and expectations...and realizing that your really didn't get a head start in the summer like you had hoped.

I am directing a musical for the first time which is making me quite nervous. There is a TON of extra stuff to worry about with a musical...and I manage to put so much pressure on myself to excel. I am hoping to find a better balance this year - I need to make sure that there is life outside of the school between September and June.

Kx