The Best Laid Plans

     I swear my intentions are good.  I want this.  I want to get out there and try new things and I truly hope to fall in love with nature in the process.  Unfortunately, life got in my way this week.  I started my pursuit of a year exploring the Great Outdoors with a big kick off!  I camped!!!  Sort of.  Then the day after the camp out I had surgery on my spine.  It was my third in three years.  I knew the surgery was coming and decided to start the blog and the adventure anyway.  I figured I needed the accountability of announcing that I was doing this or I wouldn't stick to it.  I also knew it would be harder to be outdoorsy for the first few weeks after surgery which is why I started it before.  I know myself well enough to know that any excuse to not get outside would make it easy for this journey to never even begin.  What I hadn't counted on was not being able to get outside for the past week AT ALL.

     In my mind I had thought that by now, six days post-op, I would have taken a small stroll or at least sat on the back deck and sipped a cup of tea.  Nope.  As each day passed I became more anxious about the fact that I hadn't been outside for the week and the clock was ticking.  Yesterday I was determined and today I was defeated.  I hurt.  My neck hurts, my head hurts and the dizziness is taking its toll.  I have decided to cut myself some slack though.  It has only been six days after all and it was major surgery and I still blogged!  Go me!  Plus I thought about going out.  That has to count for something.  I actually did even more than that.  I emailed some friends and asked them to consider adventuring with me in the future.  I received enthusiastic yeses!!!  Planning is in the works and I am thinking about feeling good again and getting back out there.  You can't stop this girl!!  (In all honesty it would be very easy to stop me so please don't try.)  The point is that tomorrow is  a new day and the Great Outdoors are right there waiting for me.