Wandering Mind

I mentioned this to a friend in an email, but it’s kinda weird, as I was walking up the stairs to my office this morning I realized that I only have 3 days left at work after today. That’s not much time considering I’ve been here for 4 years… I don’t even know where I’m going to live yet once I get to New Paltz. I supposed to meet with a real estate agent next week to look at apartments. She pointed out that I won’t be able to get an apartment with the paltry sum I said I wanted to pay… I may be commuting a bit, but at least it will be a pretty drive. Had a touching moment at work yesterday. One of my carpenters came up to say Goodbye and he gave me this clock that he had made. It’s a beautiful piece and he spent a lot of time working on it. I actually watched it progress as he built it. (I didn’t realize it was a gift for me…)



In Yoga News… Last night’s class was good. Beth did a flow class and I really like those better than the stop and drill classes. I played with backbend down the wall. I really like how much further that allows me to go into backbend. However, when I came out of back bend I thought I was dying. I had the worst pain in my side back, I thought it was some super intense muscle cramp and I couldn’t do a forward fold, I couldn’t go into shoulder stand without really intense pain. Then I realized what it was…Lunch. I had a bit too much fruit over lunch and it apparently decided it would be fun to build up a little gas for me to deal with. I’m used to the embarrassment of gas (obviously, I’m writing about it) but I’ve never experienced that sort of impediment due to gastro-intestinal distress. But in case you were concerned, I’m fine now. And my shoulders and wrists felt good. Beth went a little faster than normal and I think it allowed a little more heat to build so everything felt a little loose.

Practiced again this morning, Beth was going out of town so we met at the studio at 6:30 (Well I was there at 6:30, she didn’t show up for another 15 minutes!) and had a nice practice. We did the standing poses together and then went off on our own little tangents. I was still a little tight from last night’s class so I didn’t do all the primary poses. But I’m diggin’ the new core stuff and did some more wall backbends. 5 minute headstand and I was good to go. And my all time favorite, Savasana in a sunbeam.

So now I just need to get through work, repaint some chairs that I messed up for a client, get home and keep going on the outside of the house. My goal is to have the outside of the house and the yard done by the Friday of next week and I can really work on the inside once I’m off contract. Woo-Hoo!