September 5th, 2012
all the right moves
“You’re looking at me / I’m looking at you / we’re looking at each other and we don’t know what to do”
—The Who
“One for sorrow / Two for joy / Three for girls and four for boys / Five for silver, Six for gold and / Seven for a secret never to be told / … / Change, change, change / change, change, change / change, change, change”
—Counting Crows
time 8:19 am feeling TIRED wearing red dress Diana also has! reading Dominique Moceanu’s books for kids…yes I know music ?? ready for the evening next wireframes
Only a narcissistic showoff would do ten pullups at the Marines booth at the State Fair and then tell everyone about it.
Which is what I did.
NO SHAME!
Anyway, hello dear reader(s) (I’m [see above] assuming there are more than 1, I guess; then again HAVING this ‘blog’ at all means: see above). This weekend was kind of all about All The Right Moves, that is, a LONG weekend of FUN. Much much better than the same weekend last year, which was fun but full of fear, fear, fear.
I woke up this morning so happy to be able to wake up and be in love. With JEFF! And to be safe.
Anyway, since I started with that, here are a few WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS:
-ran into one of my old, dear professors from my FIRST semester of college 12 years ago! (I blame my BWK-lookup for conjuring that up.) Of course I was inappropriately dressed (swimsuit/bike helmet, aw yeah) but it was SO GREAT to see her and catch up…I can’t believe she remembered me!! I guess we were a memorable class. Anyway, awwww. She was so so sweet. I’m glad she is still teaching.
-out to breakfast AND lunch with Jeff…YAY. Mostly this weekend was about HANGING OUT with Jeff which I love. LOVE! We also discovered a really cool Bruegger’s in an old fire station. Weird/cool!
-fancy dinner Saturday night with Kristin at the Lowry which I am in LOVE with…yeah! I am also in friend-love with Kristin, ha. She is amazing.
-followed by THE DRAFT Sunday morning! I actually was terrible at this. Well we’ll see. At least I did Jeff a favor and drafted Moss in the last round :P.
-yoga!!
-bike ride!!
-helped Liz and Alex lift a ‘heavy tool’, ha ha. Random/Jenny’s friends/neighbors! Glad I could help, though.
-THE FAIR with Jeff! Where we randomly saw a Wilson Phillips concert, to Jeff’s delight.
-Went to the beach and read my book on my mom’s Nook (where a girl tried to sell me a tamale[??] and was mystified by the Nook)…and even swam a bit. Beautiful!
-Getting Things Done with Jeff!
-Probably a lot more, I can’t remember. BUT it was great and fun and relaxing and I miss it (obviously). Ha.
Also you should read this article on the value Americans place on work ethic:
Virtually Exhausted
^ agreed/speaking of my weekend… Duh.
Here are some other philosophical(?) musings this fine day:
1) Andre Agassi (does it end? NO!). 2 things about that. First, how his father kept saying “hit HARDER!” when Andre was little/training under him (note, this was basically child abuse, but, that’s not the point of this; still, not cool; anyway). This is one motto I have for myself lately, but with a different meaning (uh, duh, I am not a tennis player)…hit HARDER!
Two…grind on, grind on, grind on. THAT I mentioned a few weeks(months?) ago in another post, but it stands. Grind on, grind on, grind on. Someday…things will sort themselves out. Until then…Just Keep Swimming.
2) Ka-Mei. Quickly becoming another favorite yoga instructor, after Macarena of course. Ka-Mei gave us a challenging, wonderful class on Saturday, but also a dose of (normal, helpful!) yoga-ese. I won’t be able to do it justice, but more or less she talked about how if things come from the heart, they can’t be wrong, no matter what. If the intention is good, from your heart, well then…you’re on the right path. Whatever that is. Furthermore, she talked about not putting yourself, in life or in yoga, in a ‘bind’ if you are not ready or not up for it or whatever. THIS I can identify with and very much appreciate! Awww Ka-Mei. LIFE. Do what you can, don’t do what you can’t (“Do things that make you happy / don’t do things that don’t” -Andrea, 1999).
3) Removing negative influences. Kelly calls this ‘removing negativity from your life’ (speaking of, I get to see her soon!!! YAY), while some of my HS friends back in the day referred to it rather crudely as ‘cutting out the tumors’ (ha). This has been another theme of this year/as of late and it has also served me well (Short List etc.). I recently made a pretty drastic cut in this way and it has freed up a LOT more energy for the rest of challenges life throws me. So I am grateful for that and for recognizing that. It’s good. It helps.
4) (This one is weirder) I just finished reading 11/22/63, a Stephen King book my mom recommended. I have a hard time w/ Stephen King, I feel like he hates women, but, I digress. ANYWAY. It was pretty good. But at the end there is this vision of a dystopian(?)/alternate future and it reminded me of this: I am pretty sure I believe there are 2937402957409879287432 (infinite) alternate realities going on RIGHT NOW and another one created basically every second. I call this my 5th-Dimension belief. (I also think you see these in your dreams.) Anyway…the point is, if you don’t like how things are going, imagine that it went differently for an alternate you, but be happy for the good things you DO have going on in this reality. I know I am…that was a very scary end to the book and I am very very happy our reality is 3947329047392x better!! 🙂
All right. That is all. Last night I stayed up way too late watching Michelle Obama, I loved her dress, but that was BAD because tonight I teach preschoolers…x2…very scary indeed…;)…then see Diana which I feel will be the HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAY. I miss her very much. She is like all of the qualities I could imagine in a local BFF (Jenny being my nonlocal 🙁 one 🙂 ) wrapped into one person. Amazing. AND this is the WEEK(month) of BIRTHDAYS so let’s do a roll call…happy birthday this week to Dave, a former coworker, and Anna Li (yesterday); Daniel and my cousin Katie (today); Misty (tomorrow); and Ange (Friday)! Sayonara.
ETA: just got an email w/ a link to a web album containing 600+ pictures of 12th grade. Oh dear (oh deer). (I actually don’t know how I got on that particular list.)
ETA2: Also HBD to Anil Dash today.