Well folks, it's nearly 3pm here in the Middle East and this is not normal for me to be blogging at this time. Perhaps because I've had such an abnormally normal day today... Who knows. It feels right, even though I don't have my steaming cuppa joe right here next to me on my bed (swapped that out for a smoothie I made from bananas, blueberries, red grapes, brazil nuts, Macha Powder, Spirulina, flax seeds, chia seeds, Omega 3 oil, almond rice milk, dessicated acai berry powder and powdered vitamin C... Yes folks, THAT is normal for me... Is it normal that I cart most all of this stuff around the world from Hawaii so I have access to only the purest blends of superfoods? YES. Completely normal, in my world. The only thing that would make that smoothie more normal would be if I had my Vitamix here to blend up all the ingredients. Unfortunately the Vitamix had to stay back in Hawaii- for 5 years now... It's got a good home though. I do miss that machine-0-power!
The kitties are next to me in their various stages of sleep. Although it's already pretty bloody hot here, they seem to make-do and adjust. Of course my bedroom is always blacked out... The rest of the house is sunny, but my bedroom always has to be cave-like...always. Most definitely it's the coolest spot in the house, in more ways than one... Again, very normal HollyMissBerry behavior.
My day started off heading to BaYoga in Juffair. BAM. Afterwards we headed to the beach for some fun in the sun. Again, this is all very normal for a day in my life- even here in the Middle East. I have to say, I do tend to seek out the normal anywhere in the world that I live. I can't always find my most favorite normal ingredients, accoutrements, but I make-do and adjust... For example, I drink gin & tonics now to compensate for another normal that I can't often find here... No biggie. That abnormal might just be normal in Istanbul- the next chapter... In fact, I know it will be...
So, the beach (more like a lagoon actually) was calm. No one else was hanging out in a bikini (normal for here). No one else was really on the beach- except for a few residents/renters lounging about on their decks, etc. We did get to see a black stork descend down to the shoreline and hunt crabs and little fish. This kept us occupied for quite a while. As well the buoyancy of the water. You can float forever here in the Gulf. It's like there's no possible way to sink.
So, that's about it folks. That's my day thus far. Now it's time to turn on the A/C- a soon-to-be normal every day occurrence for the rest of my time here in my tiny island host nation.
Oh yea, napping is normal now as well...
Peace
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