Hi Shiny! Keeping up with you is difficult - but it sounds very good for you- lunch and a trip to the art museum especially sound great. How is the training? I think of you sometimes if I run- I have to run though or I feel down on myself - if I run I feel great- accomplished and in shape. (Besides that pregnant comment from H). Have a great day- sounds like yesterday was pretty awesome- Shay thanks for checking in on me- i really enjoy your comments! Shay
HI Shay, what training are you referring to? My preparations for the "Late Night Snacking" Olympics???
Seriously, though, I'd intended to do a major work out today (my typical routine is to warm up with very active dancing, stretching, some Yoga...then free weights interspersed with more dance and Yoga, then a finish with floor stretches, crunches, more stretches.
Problem today is that I got caught up with cleaning...couldn't bear the thought of getting on the livingroom carpet in the condition it was in ...but then the vacuum kept overheating and I had to wait, and wait...and now it looks like it might not rain after all...which means we'll go to our local Marina Park for the start of the summer concerts. Our tradition there is to play hackey sac for at least 2 hours...so now I don't want to get all tuckered out first!
What a workout routine. I feel like a slug! Serious, that is something I neve got into as I always had all the barn work to do. It isn't the same as a routine but it is great for keeping you in some sort of shape! Now that my horses aren't here I NEED to find something to do to not become a vegetable that sits in front of computer all evening.
I wondered, do you have a tape you do the yoga routine too? I had wondered about it because of the meditation and flexing. You know that age thing here!
Well, tonight finished the Sauvignon Blanc, only one glass apiece left. Gee we should have finished last night. Tonight we opened a bottle of Pinot Noir! Hoping to sleep again tonight!
I think I received a bit of the peace late this afternoon. Guess it took it a ways to travel all that distance to IN.
Pam
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
Before you think I'm Jane Fonda or something, that workout is my "full version" which I did religiously three times a week from about '96 to this past fall. The bombs interfered some with my schedule and the extra work...Now I'm lucky to do a full one twice a week. I supplement now with biking and yanking weeds .
THe yoga tape I base my routine on is Patti (or is it Mary??? sorry leant the tape to my pal.) Smith's beginners/intermediate. Now I've just memorized and do the stretches that suit me best.
I ALWAYS workout in front of a mirror (even when I was following the tape I'd set it to the side of the T.V.)...this helps with balance, ensuring your posture and form are correct (important for the free weights too). Plus, for me, I find rewarding it to watch my body work. Sure there are sections that are iffy (three major abhominal surgeries just might do that to a gal) but I concentrate on what is looking more defined, good, feeling stronger.
The key to all of this for me is playing the right music. That changes a lot over time: good hip-hop for the dance warm-up, anything you like to MOVE to!
I always feel so much better after working out. I think of it as something a little sacred. For me...body, spirit, mind.
Just the last glass of blush for me tonight... Still waiting on those promised thunder storms. We actually get a TON of sun here in the summer and a fair bit in the winter as the sun sets at 5 p.m on Dec 21ST . So our storms are more loved and hated....some people just don't like the BOOM! I do...almost reminds me of the base on my Cerwin Vega speakers....did I mention that the louder the music the better when working out?
(Can you tell it's very late and I should be in bed? Feel free to ignore this entire post if it rambles senselessly! Guess I should have put this at the top...too tired, nighty night!)
Shiny
P.S. just checking over my post and saw the first charge of lighting, followed by that wondrous rumble...a few minutes away still. I think I'll sit in the back room and watch some of the show.
Just here for a bit waiting on an e-mail from work. Thunderstorm wasn't as grand as some here, still waiting for the real thing!
One time CJ and I stood out on our deck as the storm moved closer and closer...only when the little hairs on the back of our necks started saluting did we decide to take cover back in the house .
Planning to do a full workout soon...wish me luck!
I was posting to Sage when I remembered something pretty significant from last evening.
We were finishing dinner when CJ asked me about the dream I had this morning that I had to get on the computer to record.
Alas it was another in a LOOOONG series of "Shabby Apartment" dreams that I've been having since probably 94 or 95. In all of them up to now, I'm living in a shabby apartment, dangerous part of town, poor. At first I'm rather okay with the place, then notice scary things like the door is hanging off the hinges, the lock is just a chain and hook, the place is depressing. Then I become "aware" of my "real home" (our house) and I feel an intense longing for it, worry about the cats and plants, and feelings of loss, concern about paying for "both places".
These dreams were a MAJOR conundrum for me until after the final bomb last Feb. Then I realized that the "shabby apartment" symbolized the "shabby state" of my M, or my part in it. "our house" symbolized what could be, the golden dream.
At any rate the dream I had yesterday morning involved some interesting twists on the usual format. In this one I had a bunch of cute 20-something roommates, all male. I'm actually sitting on the couch kind of flirting with one of them when I "realize" that CJ exists and I'm married to him, although we are separated! I stop the flirting immediately (this always happens, even in my dreams! )
Then, "poof" CJ is there, wanting me to "come home" with him. Here's the oddest part: I agree to leave the shabby apartment, but I insist he take me to my mother's as I'm not ready to "go home" with him!!!
This is the first time CJ has ever showed up to "save me" from my shabby apartment. This is the first dream in which I actuall leave the premises! But what about wanting to go to my mom's? A message from my unconscious that although things are going very well right now, I'm still a bit "gunshy"???
So that was my dream. CJ's involved all KINDS of references to his old job, to the things he is working on now (upcoming conference, setting up his own consulting business etc.).
The GREAT thing here is that he shared the dream with me, and his interpretation of it (I added a few things, but dream interpretation is HIS forte as well ).
So I NOW have a much better understanding of what kinds of pressure he is under right now. The last scene of his dream has the word "RUSH" projected on a screen. He's been working on the best way to put all of his plans into place in the right sequence etc.
So this gave us an opportunity to TALK about it all . I was very supportive, asked if there was anything I could do to help. And then THANKED him for sharing that with me.
If he HADN'T, I wouldn't know why he needed the computer so much. I might have been more miffed if things weren't done around the house. Now I know to give him support over the next few weeks and encourage him to talk to me about how things are going.
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I feel like a slug! Serious, that is something I neve got into as I always had all the barn work to do. It isn't the same as a routine but it is great for keeping you in some sort of shape! Now that my horses aren't here I NEED to find something to do to not become a vegetable that sits in front of computer all evening. 
Guess I should have put this at the top...too tired, nighty night!)
