It's been so long since my last blog...and so much has been going on. I've found myself to be a bit lost from time to time with everything that I am involved in. Just my normal day to day activities...work, teaching 3-4 classes a week, and training for my races...leaves me little time for much else. Most of the time all those things make me very happy, but I know that I am missing out on many other things in life. Every once in a while I have those days that bring me new breath and energy to replenish those voids, and this week is one of those weeks that I have many of those days.
It started out with my first overnight babysitting adventure with my niece Cara on Sunday. I wasn't sure how it was going to go, but it was so much fun. It's so funny how entertaining she is and how long I can just sit and watch her do anything. For the most part she was just running back and forth from playing with my puppy Milo and my two cats Toby and Jinxy. Seeing her explore new things is so hilarious, and she learned how to say "cat." All I kept hearing was "cat"...even when she woke up at 2am and wanted to go play with them. Not going to say that I had the best night of sleep with her, she is absolutely the worst to sleep with, but I felt so great after spending almost an entire day with her.
Back to work yesterday after a holiday weekend, and it did not disappoint as a rough day. I was so drained after the day...and I still had to go teach a class at night. I was on my way there so emotional and not ready at all to teach my class. I walked into the studio to have one of my students ask if there was any poses we could do to release emotional crap, then another asking if we could have wine with practice, then another complaining about her son, another chiming in about her day...funny how you attract what you need from the world. I was able to teach my problems to all of my students who also came to deal with similar issues that I was having. I left class feeling completely energized and ready to move on from my emotional day.
I've got an awesome weekend planned, I'm taking Friday off from work and I'm going to take a weekend long yoga workshop at Moksha in the city. There isn't much better than that. I will get to see a lot of my friends and Jim is even coming to take the Saturday afternoon class with me. We will be hitting up our favorite restaurant in the city (Mana Food Bar) afterwards for a yummy dinner too =)
Sometimes we all need weeks like this to center ourselves and remember what is important in life. I'm enjoying a much needed morning off from training, and I'll be back at it hard tomorrow.
My first race of the season is next Sunday...so wish me luck. I'll make sure to let you know how it goes =)