I found myself awake at seven o’ clock Saturday morning, an all-too-common occurance for this early bird. I had breakfast– oatmeal & almond butter, goat yogurt & honey & strawberries–spent some time reading my bible and praying over my day. Shortly thereafter I got dressed and headed to a cute tea shop with my laptop to continue plugging away at my creative writing homework. After an hour I was sick of staring at Microsoft Word, sick of poetry, and really, really sick of the bad decaf americano I was drinking. Jamie Delaine, it’s a tea shop. Shoulda seen that one coming. That evening, I had grand plans of going to another free Olympic concert. I instead found myself alone in an empty house from four o’ clock onward with two dogs to keep me company, multiple cups of hot tea to hydrate me and frozen blueberries by the cupful to feed me. I read a book for three hours straight. Then two of my awesome friends came over at ten o’clock as I was about to crawl into bed and we chilled until midnight. It was an awesome night. :)

My Sunday was just as awesome. The Canada vs. USA Gold medal hockey game was electric. My heart was jumping all over the place watching the little puck fly around the arena and I was bursting with pride when Canada won Gold in overtime. Mmmhmm, Americans, it’s still our game. After sitting still for almost three hours my bones were jumping for activity.

I get this way sometimes and it’s a touch of ADD in me or something. I literally can’t sit still. Well, I can. But I have to talk myself through it. And work REALLY hard to fight it. Sometimes I’ll turn to a friend and say, “I can’t sit here anymore. I can’t. I feel like jumping up and running around the block.” Usually we leave at that point. ;) I don’t like physical inactivity! I fit in almost a four mile run yesterday and felt beautiful after it. And ready to sit in a Sunday night church service, happily not moving.

Running around my house after the Canada Gold win was AWESOME. I’m way in the ‘burbs of Vancouver but still there were flags out and people honking and cars waving at me as I ran, everybody was SO PROUD. Man. I’m glad we won. And I’m glad I’m Canadian. And I’m glad the Olympics came to Vancouver and gave us all a healthy dose of patriotism that sometimes we Canadians lack.

My weekend was awesome. The two engagement sessions I shot today were ALSO awesome. Watch for those soon. ;)

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