~~~Yawns.... I am *way* tired at the moment. Worked last night and had to get up with 3 hours of sleep to get to my yoga teacher training class. Today we were doing our hour long practice teach with warm ups, pranayama, sequence, cool down, and savasana with visualizations. Theres 4 of us in the class, so that equaled 4 hours of yoga for all of us. Oy.
Its very interesting how different our styles are. One gal is very calming and soothing, another is somewhat more whimsical and you spend several poses giggling. Me? Well I guess I'm the bellydancing massage yogi, I like things to flow like a choreography and I like to address specific muscle groups. My style is most accurately described as vinyasa, which is a more up and moving form of yoga (vinyasa means 'flow'...I like flow...) so it was a good workout as well. I like to encourage laughter as well ;)
After class I'm on my way home and see a sign for a blood drive. One thing I tend to do when I'm tired is when I thought enters my befuddled mind my body just dumbly says 'Sure, lets do that!!' I had no appointment, so I basically crashed a phlebotomist party, lol. I've got big pipelines for veins so they're always happy to see me. I'm like a blood keg on tap for them.
One funny thing was when I was explaining my Essure placement to the gal taking my vitals (they were trying to determine if it affected my eligibility), she called another nurse over to confer. Actually I don't think she was a nurse, I'm not even sure she was an aide, because I heard her ask this lady another time 'What does 'ambulatory' mean?' You can't work in health care and not know that, and here she is getting ready to make me bleed. But anyways, I explain the procedure to these lovely older ladies and they were practically high fiving me for annihilating my fertility. This was a pleasant change from the 'Oh, don't you want more kids? Your still young...' reaction. Too late now, they've already installed my 'Black Knights' and 'None shall pass....' I could hang with those grannies ;)
Oh, and I'm really glad I ended up donating today because I also learned that where I'm going in Costa Rica makes me ineligible to donate until I've been back for a year. They had a map of the country and Alajeula was just beyond the safe green area and into the red area for Malaria risks. Pout.
But at least I got in a nice pint of Zen loaded blood before my hiatus ;)
Monday, July 27, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Ebaying between reports
I have never been a strong math student so I've spent plenty of time freaking out about my Trigonometry class. I need one math class for my degree, and I need trig to get into physics, so it was an easy decision. But I tell ya, once we get past special triangles and Pythagorean theorem, I'm lost. How in the world did these people come up with this stuff. Sin and cosine and tangent? Bleh... I bombed my first quiz which was OPEN BOOK! Which has me feeling like a total moron, and of course I fret about not passing. Not passing means I have to start on my bachelors in fall without finishing my associates first, so no major derailing of my plans. But I'd still need to take it again to satisfy my math requirement. So I keep clawing my way thru, because I cannot do this stuff again!
Its made me fall behind on my anthropology class unfortunately, but the upside is that class is online and as its summer the due dates for assignments are rather flexible. So I'm madly catching up on those reports at the moment. And obviously I'm taking a break to write this, heh.
I have the internet up so I can google something quickly if need be, and can never just have one tab up so I also am listing stuff on ebay at the same time. I have dial up and it takes so long to load the pictures so I like to multitask while doing it ;) One day, I will have high speed wireless internet when I'm done with school, heh.
Anyways, about the ebaying; I am liberating myself from all my old scrapbooking supplies. I hated looking at them and feeling obligated to do something with them when I had other stuff I wanted to do more. Plus they take up a lot of space as I, uh, tended to collect more than scrap ;) I had avoided listing them on ebay because I hate ebays fee's and I figured I wouldn't get my monies worth back. I finally said 'You know, I don't care if I get $5 for this, lets just get rid of it!' And many times I've been pleasantly surprised at how much an item has gotten bid up when you list it low. So now my pile is gradually dwindling down to nothing and theres not much left now. What a relief! And its given me some extra moolah for some things I would really want. For instance these bracelets from rajasthan:
I have always wanted a pair of these, I love that they look like raspberries. I think they're called gajre bells or something. But authentic rajasthani jewelry is quite expensive, they're a silver alloy and usually antique in nature. Plus all of the well known tribal dance gals wear them so demand has gone up. I'm not usually a trend joiner, but I've always loved this style of bracelet and have trolled ebay on and off for them. The cheapest I'd seen for one quality authentic piece was $150. I found mine for $40 including shipping for the *pair*. I am so stoked. I also bought another rajasthani piece that I had been watching on ebay for so long that it had been relisted multiple times. It was $70 but it 'called' to me. So now its mine too and I love it! Its not pictured, but its smaller and something I can wear when I'm not performing because its not as much of a statement piece as the gajre pair.
So I've replaced a pile of guilt inducing junk with 3 lovely bracelets that I love love love. And they take up so much less space, lol.
Alright, time to get back to my report on the Maya and Aztec.
Its made me fall behind on my anthropology class unfortunately, but the upside is that class is online and as its summer the due dates for assignments are rather flexible. So I'm madly catching up on those reports at the moment. And obviously I'm taking a break to write this, heh.
I have the internet up so I can google something quickly if need be, and can never just have one tab up so I also am listing stuff on ebay at the same time. I have dial up and it takes so long to load the pictures so I like to multitask while doing it ;) One day, I will have high speed wireless internet when I'm done with school, heh.
Anyways, about the ebaying; I am liberating myself from all my old scrapbooking supplies. I hated looking at them and feeling obligated to do something with them when I had other stuff I wanted to do more. Plus they take up a lot of space as I, uh, tended to collect more than scrap ;) I had avoided listing them on ebay because I hate ebays fee's and I figured I wouldn't get my monies worth back. I finally said 'You know, I don't care if I get $5 for this, lets just get rid of it!' And many times I've been pleasantly surprised at how much an item has gotten bid up when you list it low. So now my pile is gradually dwindling down to nothing and theres not much left now. What a relief! And its given me some extra moolah for some things I would really want. For instance these bracelets from rajasthan:
I have always wanted a pair of these, I love that they look like raspberries. I think they're called gajre bells or something. But authentic rajasthani jewelry is quite expensive, they're a silver alloy and usually antique in nature. Plus all of the well known tribal dance gals wear them so demand has gone up. I'm not usually a trend joiner, but I've always loved this style of bracelet and have trolled ebay on and off for them. The cheapest I'd seen for one quality authentic piece was $150. I found mine for $40 including shipping for the *pair*. I am so stoked. I also bought another rajasthani piece that I had been watching on ebay for so long that it had been relisted multiple times. It was $70 but it 'called' to me. So now its mine too and I love it! Its not pictured, but its smaller and something I can wear when I'm not performing because its not as much of a statement piece as the gajre pair.
So I've replaced a pile of guilt inducing junk with 3 lovely bracelets that I love love love. And they take up so much less space, lol.
Alright, time to get back to my report on the Maya and Aztec.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Greetings bloggers!
Hello everyone. I'm not completely new to blogging but this is my first time having one on a site specifically for bloggers. This first post may be somewhat long as I'm using it as an introduction and I feel the need to define what this blog is going to be about.
I had a really hard time picking my title. I mean this blog is mostly about my life and how in the hell do you sum up your life with a little title? Then theres the marketing aspect of it, what can be taken the wrong way, and what kind of readers do you want to attract, that sorta thing. I picked this one because it was the best way to sum things up in under 5 words.
Want the long story? Muhaha, you know you do. Okay, here we go. I'm a mom to two boys, I've worked in a hospital labor and delivery unit for a decade and just finished massage school. Hopefully by next month I'll have my board results and will have the initials LMT behind my name, whoo hoo! Further more, I started back in school once I had both boys in school full time and could maybe have my Associates of Science next month as well. That is, if I don't fail the trigonometry class I'm currently taking, which I *HATE*! Math is not my friend, I saved it for last because I know I suck at it. Ahem, after that I start directly on my Bachelors in Exercise Science which I thought would go well with my massage career. Plus I'm fascinated with the muscle system if you can't tell. A third project I'll be finished with in August is my yoga teacher certification, whoo hoo! I'm also a bellydancer and hope to teach that and yoga, and combine it with my massage practice to promote movement as therapy. So thats the big picture goal for my next few years. I think all that does pretty much equal a quest for zen, as thats what I imagine a life of 'being done with school' after so many years means, especially when you've got 2 kids to provide for, heh.
So you now know I love science, and hate math. I also love art, many forms of it. Dancing would be my favorite, I've been bellydancing for many years now. Thats one thing I've had to let go somewhat with all these classes and its been hard not having that outlet whenever I need it. I also work a fair bit with polymer clay, I like the process of manipulating a nameless lump into something recognizable and intriguing. I also like working with textiles, I used to cross stitch and do hardanger but don't have much time now, and I also make alot of my dance costumes. Theres an extra little reward of pride to perform in something you've made yourself :) I *used* to be good at drawing, but its a practice I rather let go which I now regret because I struggle with it now. Not a big deal I guess, except for the fact that I'd like to try my hand at watercolors and thats sort of difficult when you don't have a drawing to add them too, hehe. I love watercolors because of the way they behave on paper and the transparancy they lend. I really want to play with that so as a result I've been working on the drawing skills again.
So what am I going to be yapping about in this blog? Well due to HIPPA, I can't talk much about work ;) Which is fine with me as I don't like to carry it around with me anyways. And I don't make much of a habit of talking about my kids online because I'm paranoid like that. Mostly I imagine I will spend my time bitching about my college classes and bemoaning whatever artistic muse is eluding me at the moment. I figure most blogs do better with some kind of steady subject matter anyways.
Anyways, thanks for reading and for bothering to show up! Forgive my page while I figure out how blogger works and how to get pictures up and all that fun stuff. Till next time!
I had a really hard time picking my title. I mean this blog is mostly about my life and how in the hell do you sum up your life with a little title? Then theres the marketing aspect of it, what can be taken the wrong way, and what kind of readers do you want to attract, that sorta thing. I picked this one because it was the best way to sum things up in under 5 words.
Want the long story? Muhaha, you know you do. Okay, here we go. I'm a mom to two boys, I've worked in a hospital labor and delivery unit for a decade and just finished massage school. Hopefully by next month I'll have my board results and will have the initials LMT behind my name, whoo hoo! Further more, I started back in school once I had both boys in school full time and could maybe have my Associates of Science next month as well. That is, if I don't fail the trigonometry class I'm currently taking, which I *HATE*! Math is not my friend, I saved it for last because I know I suck at it. Ahem, after that I start directly on my Bachelors in Exercise Science which I thought would go well with my massage career. Plus I'm fascinated with the muscle system if you can't tell. A third project I'll be finished with in August is my yoga teacher certification, whoo hoo! I'm also a bellydancer and hope to teach that and yoga, and combine it with my massage practice to promote movement as therapy. So thats the big picture goal for my next few years. I think all that does pretty much equal a quest for zen, as thats what I imagine a life of 'being done with school' after so many years means, especially when you've got 2 kids to provide for, heh.
So you now know I love science, and hate math. I also love art, many forms of it. Dancing would be my favorite, I've been bellydancing for many years now. Thats one thing I've had to let go somewhat with all these classes and its been hard not having that outlet whenever I need it. I also work a fair bit with polymer clay, I like the process of manipulating a nameless lump into something recognizable and intriguing. I also like working with textiles, I used to cross stitch and do hardanger but don't have much time now, and I also make alot of my dance costumes. Theres an extra little reward of pride to perform in something you've made yourself :) I *used* to be good at drawing, but its a practice I rather let go which I now regret because I struggle with it now. Not a big deal I guess, except for the fact that I'd like to try my hand at watercolors and thats sort of difficult when you don't have a drawing to add them too, hehe. I love watercolors because of the way they behave on paper and the transparancy they lend. I really want to play with that so as a result I've been working on the drawing skills again.
So what am I going to be yapping about in this blog? Well due to HIPPA, I can't talk much about work ;) Which is fine with me as I don't like to carry it around with me anyways. And I don't make much of a habit of talking about my kids online because I'm paranoid like that. Mostly I imagine I will spend my time bitching about my college classes and bemoaning whatever artistic muse is eluding me at the moment. I figure most blogs do better with some kind of steady subject matter anyways.
Anyways, thanks for reading and for bothering to show up! Forgive my page while I figure out how blogger works and how to get pictures up and all that fun stuff. Till next time!
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