Beauty and the Bush

How does one spend New Year's Eve?  Is it with family? Friends?  your current flavour of the month, husband, wife..etc,etc.  Well, yours truly, spent it with family up in the bush ( bush meaning cottage country). 

I have never been a cottage type.  On of my former boyfriends, use to drag me up with him and his friends and spend the whole time with them and not me, guess I was brought around to keep the other girls company.  I just dislike the smell of tank water, the smell of cottages and the stink you bring home, the driving, the whole outdoor thing ( I have much respect for all of God's creatures), but I just don't do fur balls.  Ask me to try camping...and you will get a big fat no...don't care who you are...just no, not happening. 

Blame it on me being a born and breed city girl, the fact that if I don't have to rough it, why should I, and no, makes no difference to me if there is stinky tank water and a shower and walls and beds, still a cottage and not a store in sight for miles..which prompted me to ask on the way home..." where do people who live up here shop...??" My brother so kindly replied, " Walmart" ...ugh!  I got a rash just thinking about that.

I admire walking in park and spending time in nature ( my house is not far from a public park with rolling hills and all the trees and grass you could ask for..I enjoy spending time there)...and walking back home, not have to pack and drive with all the other cottagers back home.  I have never seen the allure in having a cottage. For what it is worth, I did have a good time being with my family, trying an ATV for the first time  ( which involved me having to borrow snow pants, snow jacket and snow boots ( my brother asked me if I had snow pants?? WTF?  why would I have snow pants??), that is like asking my other brother if he owns anything Gucci. 

All in all, I did manage to get some very good meditation sessions in while I was up in the bush, I came back with a whole new outlook on things, I closed the door on 2010 and opened a new one .  2011 is my year of transformation, from the inside out, it has been a long time coming, and in a way, the bush gave me a clear mind, and a glimpse of what I know I won't change....and that includes not taking another winter drive up north.

Wishing everyone a super sonic new year and thanks for reading...so much more to come!

xoxox
BT&HB