Busy, Busy, Busy

     The last few weeks have been extremely busy. With all of the rain and heat grass seems to be growing almost as fast as you can cut it. With us moving in to town this is a lot easier to deal with, with one exception. We still haven't sold our other house so this means way more work. Our other property is just over three acres and has about a 400 foot winding driveway with laurel leaf willows on either side. In the summer this looks really cool as the willows form a canvas over the drive. The unfortunate thing about laurel leaf willows is that they are self pruning trees. Normally this is a pretty good thing. As the smaller twigs and branches die off they fall to the ground so the trees always look full of life. On the other hand, when you have a day with 60-80 Km/hr winds, like we had last week, it makes a huge mess. There are still showings being booked for this house, even though there is now a deal pending, so this stuff can't be left it has to get dealt with which adds probably another 10 hours of work each week. I know from my work and the changes that get made, that as soon as people are overwhelmed with being too busy they fall back in to their old, usually bad, habits.
     Not being at Kung fu for the past couple of weeks I started to worry about this same thing happening to me. When you start to fall out of a routine that you have formed it becomes pretty easy just to revert to old habits. In order to combat this I did the extreme opposite. Last week once I heard from the Dr that I for sure didn't have chicken pox, I signed up for "Training for Warriors" again. This makes a busy schedule even busier with four classes a week, but it, much like Silent River, is a group of  very motivating people. Is this something that can be sustained for extended periods of time? Likely not but for the month that I have signed up for I am pretty sure that I will be able to manage. Next week the conditions of the sale of our other house should be removed and the new owners take possession at the start of July so hopefully a month from now things should be back to normal, whatever that looks like. Until then there will be lots of running from task to task, with push ups and sit ups in between.