Day 5

Jan. 5th

The looooooooong Tuesday.

Asanas: staff pose, downward dog, a bunch of leg/hip/foldy/stretchy ones, legs over head, torso twists, courtesy of Gaiam's DVD Maintenance Yoga for Weight Loss with the infuriatingly slender and calm Susan Deason.

I work two jobs on Tuesday...first all day at my desk, then all evening behind a cash, or in the fine arts department, or fielding questions from (often dim) customers in the art store. It's a 13 hour day when it's all said and done. But, the upside is that I get to work with really good friends who make me laugh and we all hug a lot...hug and wrestle and beat each other up and make entirely inappropriate jokes out of mundane words like 'bag' 'batch' and pretty much any other double-entendre that can be abused...it's really quite friendly and happy, even when customers make us nuts. Which is always.

I had a great chat with my pal S tonight who practices yoga himself fairly often when he's not running a store or chas

ing after his 3 year old or generally being cool beans. I showed him my cool yoga apps and expressed my concern that I would never, ever, EVER be able to do half of the poses so beautifully executed by the perfect skinny people in the photos. He pointed out which people in the photos had the best tits and asses, and then told me that yes, someday, I would be able. It was just nice to hear it from a voice outside of my head. Also, good to have a 2nd opinion on who has the best tit/ass combo. Ahhh...boys.

I did the Gaiam dvd tonight...it's a great sequence

for night, it really puts my head in a good place. I like the flow of the poses, the feet-up poses and awesome stretching with a strap, and the music in the program is so so pretty, it's just lovely to sit and be present and listen to it.

Best part of the practice was Nono, fresh from dinner, quietly fighting for a sliver of mat space with me while I finished the sequence. He then stretched out with me and we both did savasana, then flipped on our sides for extreme belly-rub action. Yoga + cat = awesome.

Tomorrow morning, for the first time, I will do yoga before work. This means that I have to get up at 6:30, which means that I have to go to bed. Now.

Day 3

Jan. 3rd (written on the cusp of Jan. 4th...oh, wait, it's past midnight. Crap.)

Asanas: I have no idea. They included one that had my ass up in the air so hilariously that I laughed at myself and almost choked 'cause I was upside down, transitioning to downward dog.

I followed a Gaiam dvd today. There was a lot of twisting, floor work, and the good long downward dog...I will research the actual poses and list them when I figure out what they are...

This is going to be short, I have to sleep. Today was my official last day of holidays. I will miss Mr. Awesome tomorrow, 'cause it's been super AWESOME spending 10 days with him. I will miss Nono and his perpetual sleeping, coziness and cute overload. And I will be happy to be back to work at a job that I like, away from holiday food and sweets and the alcohol that beckons me every hour it seems, even if I was working all day on stuff that I wish I had done last week. I am happy to report that the time off has been so effective that I am actually looking forward to getting back to work. Holy hell, who knew I needed a break that badly? (Um...everyone put your hands down...point taken...)

Today's practice was around 7 pm, just before starting dinner, as a pause between the productive day and the productive evening that was to ensue. I followed a dvd that I had all but forgotten that I had, meaning that I was doing yoga in a 4.5 X 7 foot area in front of my sofa and tv. Good thing I'm short...I was still colliding with the sofa on the knees-to-chest, roly-poly floor work. But it was relaxing and soothing and I had little moments of noticing small beautiful, random compositions in my otherwise messy house...The session was 30 mins long. It flew past. I wanted to stay in savasana forever, but I always do.

I actually got stressed out about work this evening and found myself wanting to yell at my computer, drop everything and stretch out again. Have a feeling that I'll start wishing that there was a way I could sneak some ninja yoga in at work...or in traffic...or while shopping...or....

I slept well (again!) in our own bed last night, and I look forward to it again...right...NOW.