5 posts tagged “yoga”

C'est moi!   I went to a kickass bellydance performance.  There were like a million (or maybe closer to thirteen) dancers/troupes.  And one of them (Moria Chappell) is with The Bellydance Superstars, and was trained by Rachel Brice who's my favorite bellydancer ever. 

And there was this twelve year old girl who's been dancing for like seven years who was outstanding.  She was better than a lot of the troupes.  XD  The whole show was great.  My whole class went, and Erin (my first yoga teacher who's also my bellydance teacher's sister) and her husband, their mom, and Young Bryan.  We had a great time.  Even though there was no wine or olive trays like last year.  XD

Todaaaay I went to my first Gnostic Mass, which was wonderful.  It was a beautiful and powerful ritual and I met a lot of cool people.  I'll definitely be meeting with them a lot more, and studying/practicing magick more.  And doing more yoga.  And, of course, bellydance.  XD  And sewing.

Tuesday is the Equinox.  I'm making cider and hopefully doing some sort of outdoor ritual with Bryan at the beach.

Hi, Jen here.  Pretty much the same one.  But I'm in a whole new world now.  I broke up with Cameron, moved in with Young Bryan, and am in one of the most bizarre love triangles ever between him and Mike.  I live with Bryan, and he's... technically my boyfriend, but we're in an open relationship, so I'm also sort of dating Mike.  But, they're best friends and we're all completely aware of the situation, so it's awkward at times when we're all hanging out.  I love them both.  I just want to be close to the people I care about.

We're all going to be porn stars.  Kickass, eh?

I'm practicing more yoga and studying more magick.  I'm having fun with food and creating things.  I'm learning to live in the moment, for the moment.  I'm experiencing things most people can't even dream about and seeing the world in a million new ways.

I'm happier than I've ever been.

 

Life is wonderful.

Sunday

April 19th

5:45pm

As of late, it's been pretty effin' snazzy.

I decided to go with a Brother, sewing machine-wise, but I still haven't begun learning to use it yet.  I've been very busy.

I've spent a lot of time making good friends since Niki left.  I'll have to introduce her to all of them WHEN SHE VISITS  *AHEM*.  XD

Me and Alison (friend from work who recently quit) have begun a quest to find the best Irish pub's stew, and she's very excited to have a friend who likes the Disney channel.  XD  We're also filming a music video for our (soon to be chart topping) song "I'm on a Goat".

Young Bryan (also from work, but hasn't quit yet XD) is my newest best friend.  Hanging out with him is like being with my sister again.  I really missed that sort of wild freedom.  We romp through the woods, talk about what we think of... pretty much everything, and he's introducing me to the world of hippies.  XD  One of those hippies may in fact provide the very goat for me and Alison's video.  XD!!!!  Oh, and we're writing a story about foxgoose-goosefox.  Details on that will unravel as the tale does, I'm sure.

My great-grandmother (91) died last week, so I spent a week in West Virginia for the funeral.  All my gramma's kids were in the same room for the first time since my mom's wedding (1982).  It was really cool to have them all together like that.  I met a lot of family I'd never seen before.  And I realized just how big my family really is.  I'm one of forty-two great-grandchildren.

It was my first funeral, so I was really nervous and cried a LOT, and this 12 year old kid put suckers in the coffin.

I saw a road.  It was called Road Run Road.  I LOVED IT.

Cameron met a French Canadian.  From Russia.  He's offered him a hundred thousand dollar Jaguar and two thousand bucks a month to run this recording studio he's building in Montreal, watch his house there, something about importing alcohol in Florida, and maybe managing a hobby store.  Hopefully just not all at once.  XD  The place isn't quite built yet, and I think Cameron's getting his erm... audio degree or whatever you call it before this happens... but it's a pretty amazing opportunity.  I'm really excited for him.  ^-^

The band he's managing is sounding pretty damn good on their new record (I've been going to the studio while they recorded a bit) and they're in a battle of the bands at a local festival coming up.

I'm going on a camping trip this weekend that's going to be SUCH a blast.  There's like, a million concerts going on all night, tons of people will be there, and classes!  Young Bryan's teaching yoga, Mike (one of the six fired from work FOR NO REASON AUGH) is teaching jujitsu, so who knows what other cool stuff'll be there?  I can't wait!

Niki's online!  Yay!

Sent my mom home when she and Cameron both came to pick me up after work.  SO MAD SHE WAS!

I got free yoga tickets from work, but the roads were too crappy for us to make it there in time.  We went to Denny's instead and I bought Cameron dinner.  Cheeseburger date!  ^-^

 

Lum show, pretty snow, back rub, snuggles.

Friday

1:30pm

While it is a day meant to celebrate our "freedom" from a much better country, I must try to remind myself that I should be happy about it, because if my ancestors had not come to this land and "mingled" with the natives, I would not be here to type this.  Shame they won the war though, eh?  Thanks anyway, guys.

Sorry it's been so long.  First I spend like an entire week at Niki's, and was simply having too much fun (AND WALKING TOO MUCH.  HOLY SHIT.) to type.  Then after I got back home, my mom decided I don't do enough chores to deserve internet access.  Fine, mother.  I won't use the computer.  But don't come complaining to me when you're sad because you pay all this money out every month for absolutely no reason.

Anyway, I managed to get it back two days ago (after spending the entire day pulling weeds and mowing the lawn) but I just couldn't be bothered to type until now.

So, during my week at Niki's (more or less) I experienced many things.  There was walking.  And some more walking.  Lots of penises and drunk girls.  (Aunt Sandy's bachelorette party.)  Dancing ALL night (ending around 6am when I went for a walk).  Getting invited to an Autumnal Equinox bonfire at my aunt's.  A metric shit-ton of Pokemon.  Pizza.  Crisis.  Parents sucking at being parents.  Rain.  Sun.  Waiting four hours for Wendy's to open and then deciding not to take Devin's money.  Sitting awkwardly while Devin and Chris ate.  Walking.  Getting invited to the bridal shower at 10pm.  Tv shows about fat people.  Being Aunt Sandy's "amateur nutritionist" until the wedding.  About six more shit-tons of pokemon.  Spending ten years trying to get a ride to the store.  Flat tire.  Walking in the rain.  At night.  Imagining being pulled over for weaving on the sidewalk.  Hiding my cards for fear of them being stolen.  Along with everything else I brought over.  The Espeon-Charmeleon incident.  Niki, the fairest bitch of them all.  XD  Amazing water from Iceland.  Strawberries.  Blueberries.  Making the best blueberry pancakes ever with Niki.  Poo that looked like charcoal from eating so many blueberries... and that's probably a good place to stop.

I felt a bit slow for not realizing it earlier, but I've figured out what I want to do with my life... as far as a first career goes.  I'm going to be a nutritionist.  I've been interested in how food affects the body since like sixth grade when my mom took interest in Somersizing (Suzanne Somers' weight loss eating plan), and over the last year or so I've become completely obsessed with natural health.  And people are always asking me, you know, "Is this healthy?  What about this?"  And I'm always trying to push my views about food on other people, so what better job would the be for me than telling people what to eat?!  XD!!!  I just can't believe it took me so long to figure out.  It wasn't until I started planning stuff with Aunt Sandy that it really clicked.

The problem was, though, that my college didn't have a program for that.  So, I started researching and in just a few hours I found my dream school.  It's an online school, so I wont have a schedule to work around when I try to get a job (SOON).  It's almost the same price as Land O'Lakes.  EVERY class is directly related to the career.  There are no pointless unrelated requirements.  You can work at your own pace, so as long as I can afford it, I can finish up faster.  Anyway, it's called Clayton College of Natural Health.  It's accredited by a credible-looking source, though the accreditor is not on the U.S. Department of Education's list.  That doesn't mean that the material and degrees are not legitimate, though.  It ony means that graduates of the college won't be able to participate in certain federally sponsored events that require the title (Ph.D., etc.) they earned there.  I looked through the list and there isn't even an accreditor there that's for nutrition in any way shape or form.  Fuck you, Department of Education.  You and your love o'drugs.  I may become an herbalist too.

I also met a lovely dragonfly when I was weeding the front flowerbed.  I really wish I'd never sat on my camera.  I still can't afford to get a new one yet.  I don't even know if I'll be able to afford my books for school.  My mom offered to help me with my books a few weeks back if I couldn't afford it.  I may have to use the $150 that Cameron gave me for graduation to use for an emergency.  The tuition is quite literally all of my savings.  I'll have thirty-five dollars left.  So now I can't even get a laptop yet.  Gimme dat jarb.

I've started doing yoga again.  I've finally managed to get myself on a... not quite NORMAL, but rather, an EARLIER sleeping schedule.  I've been waking up in time to do this yoga program that's on at 6am on the Oxygen network, called Inhale.  I discovered it after staying up all night watching infomercials one new years eve (or rather, day) a few years back.  I would stop for different reasons.  Either I'd have to go to school half way through, or they would replace it for a while with Xena, or I just couldn't bother to get up that early, etc., etc.  For the last year though, my main reason was that my wrist has grown this big crazy bump, and it would hurt when I did poses that require you to put your hands on the floor put weight on them.  But, I'm managing to do it without much discomfort, and I'm convinced that it's going to go away.  I thought so for a long time, just because it would fluctuate in size, sometimes shrinking.  But when Niki's mom mentioned yoga when we were talking about stress last week, I showed her and she said she had the exact same thing and it went away (after some years, but still).

Also, I walked to the library last week (which took about an hour) and picked up a couple books.