Wandering Mind

I’m not used to enjoying myself so much on the weekends. It makes it much harder to go back to work when it’s over, especially if one didn’t do the work one needed to do over the weekend (oops!). My weekend, including my yoga, was very much about being nice to myself and accepting where I am and I have found that this in turn allows me to accept where others are in relation to me. It is a wonderful release of pressure. I can always be somewhere else with someone else doing something else, but I’m not and I’m not by choice… I don’t have to be in this pose, on this rock, with this person but I am, and I’m grateful.

Saturday was spent on the motorcycle cruising through little towns near New Paltz. We were supposed to climb but we were both too tired due to the frat house that I now live in. I went upstairs at 1:30 to ask them to turn the music down. I went up at 2:30 and told them to turn it off. Then the third roommate in the apartment above got home around 3:30 and proceeded to chase a squealing girl around the apartment until one of his roommates yelled at him. Then I got to go to sleep. They’ve actually been really quiet after 10 last night and the night before, so I think they’ll be ok, just feeling out their limits. I hope.

While we were out cruising we stopped for ice-cream in High Falls, it was really good ice-cream, possibly the best chocolate I’ve had. We then walked around high falls a bit and in this vacant lot there were these great old timbers from a recently demolished barn. I make furniture and I try to use old lumber and mix it with wrought iron. These beams were perfect for some really gorgeous beds so we went into the store next door to ask if they might know who they belonged to. So I ask the owner of the store if he knows who the lot belongs to and he says “yeessss…..” like I’m asking him something esoteric. So I mentioned why I was asking and he says, “oh, wait, look out the window, see that guy getting in the car? that’s the owner. That’s Aidan Quinn, the actor. If you run you can probably catch him.” If I run I can catch him? I’m sure Aidan Quinn doesn’t want people chasing him down to ask about his demolished barn so needless to say I wasn’t going to chase him down. The store owner was very nice and took my name and number and said he would check what was happening to the beams. Unfortunately someone got them before me…

The Blonde Lady and I made it out to climb yesterday and had a great time. We upped her to climbing a 5.6 and she wore my smallest climbing shoes in lieu of her tennis shoes so the foot work was a lot easier. I’m thinking new shoes will be coming soon. I’m still amazed how fast she picks up the technical aspects of climbing, which I think is really the hardest part. Anybody can just go throw themselves around on a rock and get a little higher each time, but the Blonde Lady climbs with a little finesse. Granted there is room for improvement, She’s only been climbing twice… and even if she’d been climbing for years there would be room, but she is off to a beautiful start. I had some fun climbing some variations which got me up to 5.9 and I was actually a little tight this morning but it didn’t last long. I have to admit I’m surprised yoga is keeping me as strong as it is. I haven’t climbed (until this last week) in over a year and I can still pull down on most of what I could before I stopped. The fingers and forearms aren’t back to full but they’re at least 90%...

We were going to go out again today (and hopefully I could start leading something simple to get used to that again) but were unable due to the rumor of leaking amniotic fluid. On top of being a wonderfully talented actress, the Blonde Lady is also a certified Doula and she had to head back into the city because she has a client who THOUGHT she was leaking fluid. She wasn’t. But we still missed out on the climbing. They’ll probably be inducing labor tonight anyway so it was good for her to get back, just bad for climbing.

Busy, busy, busy week coming up.