I am Woman (with power tools). Hear me roar.

There’s something to be said for taking a break from computer/technical world and hitting the great outdoors, whatever it may look like in your neck of the woods.
I started getting in a blah-I-have-to-remember-there’s-a-world-going-on-out-there mood, and figured it would be good for me to get out in it and breath some fresh (cool for a change ) air.
I unenthusiastically changed into my workout clothes and made myself take a 3-mile walk around the action-packed park. The golf course side is literally right across the street, and it’s a gorgeous park, but I was awful glad to be on foot today and not caught up in the 5:00 every-sports-practice-dropoff-known-to-man traffic…..ugh. If anything stresses me out these days, it’s THAT place in a car at THAT time. Serious insanity, no thanks ;-P
My walk was awesome – music blaring in my ear, cool day, a lot to watch and see along the way (people in lines of cars not moving!), and it did the trick in the “remember there’s world out there, Lila?!” department.
Then I started getting into yard work on my way back up the driveway to my house. It’s my new therapy in my new house with my new BIG yard. I’ve discovered that i really love doing yard work. So far, I’ve become a stellar mower, heavy electric hedgetrimme user on a tall ladder (yikes), weed puller and pile gatherer, and TODAY I pulled my new electric blower out of the box, and and fell in love with yet another power tool. I”m becoming a Power Tool Gatherer – who woulda thought?! I’m becoming obsessive-compulsive about my yard, and I think it’s because I get some good adrenalin-pump up using all these tools.
And, of course, as I learn to take on each new ‘man’ task, I’m singing in my head Helen Reddy’s “I am Woman. Hear me Roar, lalala-la-la-lalala”!
A good hard walk and a power tool fix did me right… back to my wonderful world of photography with a renewed vigor and She-Man attitude Note to self: When I get the blahs, the remedy is right outside my door.