Fog and Sunshine

Today I was lucky enough to have the day off granted by my new boss...Mrs. C, a quirky, lady in her 70's who is the administrator at my new clinic.  Everyone calls her by her former name, even the MD who has been at the clinic for 25 years.  Anyway, tomorrow is my first day to see patients...so I was given the day to get some errands and regrouping accomplished.

I met my friend Amiee for a run at Forest Park....we traversed over the tricky terrain on a new trail (to me) called Maclay Park.  It was beautiful sight as we wandered up the switch backs....me huffing and puffing at a barely running (more of a fast walk) pace and Amiee constantly looking back to make sure I wasn't cyanotic...the Maclay Park trail is adorned with ferns, moss and patches of sun.  We then filled our empty bellies at a local eatery, the Cricket Cafe on Belmont for a hearty breakfast...served by a very odd, overly tall, aloof server...but I enjoyed every sip of the stumptown coffee as he absentmindedly refilled my cup.

Somehow I was talked into motivating to go to the gym to get our Zuzana on.  If you haven't checked out the BodyRockers blog....Zuzana is this crazy buff Czech woman who has a workout blog....she kicks your ass.  Needless to say my legs are now overridden with lactic acid!  and P.S., mountain climbers = not such a great idea after eating the Ranchero Hash...just sayin'.

While we were driving over the downtown bridge to Forest Park this morning, the sky was amazing...fog and sun, the picture of the building I've included looked like the building was on fire when in fact it was the sunbeams reflecting off of the building.  We also stopped at a lookout after the run where we saw a spectacular view including Mt. St Helens, Mt. Adams and what I think was perhaps Mt. Rainer (second picture)....it was incredible.

After the gym I came home to find a lovely card from my dear friend Lisa in Vashon....made my heart smile to read her beautiful handwriting and informing me of her latest goings ons.  Amiee and I set off for a chai at our favorite tea shop and I indulged myself with some new paper for bookmaking at Paper Source.  Keeping to a new pact with SEF,  I signed up to be on the list for a letterpress workshop, a craft that never ceases to amaze me.  

As mentioned, tomorrow is my first day as an official provider.  Since I was not at the clinic today, I have no idea if anyone is on my schedule, all I know to do is to show of for a possible first patient at 9am!  It all seems so surreal and am excited (and scared)... I will let you know how the day goes...feeling like I'll be living by the mantra...fake it till you make it...whoa we whoa.

Enjoy the crisp autumn air.  Sitting now with a glass of a great new Riesling Kungfu Girl.