stretching

Hello, October!


I love the first day of the month.  Why?  It’s new contacts day.  Putting in brand new contacts feels like they just aren’t even there except that I can see.

First of the month is also a great time to make some goals.  New Year’s resolutions never work for me (or anyone else, probably), so I’m going to go with just some things I want to accomplish in October.

  •  Continue on with the P90X.  One week in and I’m going strong.  Strong and sore.
  • NaNoPlaMo – otherwise known as National Novel Planning Month.  I’ll be trying to head on back to Mrs. C’s eigth grade English class to outline the book I’ll be writing in November.
  • Zumba – I need to put together at least one class so I could sub in emergencies.
  • Teach/assist at least 4 classes
  • Read two books that have been sitting on my shelf.  Both start with ‘w’.
  • Stretch!  Try for 3 times a week.
  • Pole.  Home or studio, but at least 3 times a week.
  • No minds
This is  probably a ridiculous amount of things to try to accomplish in a month, but, as I was recently told and will paraphrase to fit here, I need to just do and stop thinking so much.  I’m off to do.

Weekend – In 2 parts

While, yes, the weekend technically consists of Saturday and Sunday, my weekend really only consists of Saturday being active and Sunday recovering from any Saturday madness.  Such is the case with this weekend.

Sidebar: Wait, before I continue on, does really enjoying Jeremiah Weed tea/lemonade make me a hick?  I think that’s what the commercials are telling me.  If I keep drinking it I’m gonna grow a beard and a pot belly and perhaps my flannel shirt will fill out with moobs?  That would suck.  I’m not going to stop drinking it.  I’ll let you know what happens.

Saturday morning, I arose early (for at least the fifth week in a row…I need to give myself a break and sleep in one time)

Another sidebar: We were just discussing what to have for dinner. I was thinking I might have a bowl of cereal. Lovey said that a bowl of cereal wasn’t dinner so I said I’d have two bowls of cereal to make it a full meal. This is perfect logic, isn’t it?  Is watching Ricky Bobby making me dumber?

to travel on down to Parker to attend a stretching and flexibility workshop

Sorry, but sidebar: Playgirl is for gay men?  I seriously thought it was for dirty girls like myself.  I’m stunned by this.  I’m cool with sharing though.  Just not Lovey. 🙂

lead by the one and only Michelle Stanek.  2011 USPDF Amateur Champion.  Winner of the PFA’s Pole Drama Competition. Yep, I think she’s qualified.  Let’s start with it’s Sunday evening and I’m MEGA sore from STRETCHING!  But it was oh, so worth it.  We did some serious straddle split and side split stretching.  Then there were the bridges.  Ouch.  I really need to work on that.  I’m encouraged to work more on my stretching as during the workshop I was close to actually getting into the side split.  Close enough that Michelle asked if I had my split and said I’d have it in no time.  *starstruck moment*

It’s likely that I’m extra sore because I pushed too hard, stretched a little too far.  Partner stretching probably isn’t the best idea for me because I’ll just keep relaxing into the stretch and go too far.  Or am I supposed to just keep that stretch going until I reach my goal position and just not be able to walk for a while until I get there?  Decisions, decisions.

Well, while I decide, I also get to decide already made a decision on something else.  Something so exciting and so fun.  But since it isn’t totally official yet, I am not going to say what it is just yet.

And all of this was before noon!!

 

Happy Happy Joy Joooooy

Since I've been living here in Miami, my life has been severely lacking in two areas:

  • Circus activities
  • Bartending activities

I miss bartending but I've kinda just let that one go because I know that the hours really conflict with family life no matter how much happier I'd be behind a bar than behind a desk.  I'm still adjusting to dealing with it no matter how much I say I'm gonna let it go.  It's in my blood!  It's one of very few things that I'm really good at.  Behind the bar, I'm in the ZONE baby!  Gimme a bar 5 folks deep and I'm in heaven.  Oh yeah, but please don't double sit me if I'm waiting tables because I'll be in the weeds faster than you can 86 your special menu item, IHOP.

Now circus, on the other hand, once that gets in your blood, you're never getting rid of it.  Not that I want to.  The circus community in south Florida is really taking hold and growing by leaps and bounds.  Let's see, we've got:

  • The Flying Trapeze School - a bunch of really cool folks that I've had the pleasure of flying with once.  Only once because, well, it's not cheap and no matter how much I love it, there are other things that I have to put ahead of it.
  • FlySpace at Animate Objects - I haven't been to visit them (yet) because they're so far SOUTH!  But, on the up side, they are moving their space further north so I hope to have the time (and money) to start visiting them soon too.  They do a lot of performing around the area.  Good stuff.
  • Circ X – Circ X does TONS of stuff and not just circus.  They've got performances weekly.  I can only wish to have that much talent.  I'm too shy to even talk to her on Myspace since she's got about 10,000 times the experience I do.
  • Tony's Circus – Wow!  I didn't know about this one until I googled circus stuff.  Holy Hand Balancing Batman!  They inspire me to stretch. 🙂
  • Florida Circus School – So, apparently, they've been here for about a year and a half, but I just found out about them through a newspaper article.  Gave them a call recently to find out that they too are awesome and in my price range AND offer up a first lesson for free.  And there's a teeny tiny possibility that if I can get my lazy ass back into circus shape that I might be able to perform with them or give them a hand teaching.

All in all, these things make me sooo happy.  Now if I could just hit the lottery to have enough time and money to do all this circus stuff…just imagine! 

With all of this great stuff in mind, I tried to do some stretching last night.  Imagine my surprise when I was closer to the split that I've never been able to do than I've ever been before.  The awesomeness abounds.  I'm working more stretching into the daily routine so I can be at my circus best.  Poor Lovey knew he was getting involved with an ex-circus freak, I hope he can handle the current one.  HEP!

So, then, mark my words.  Come December, one of two things will be going on for me.  I will have either, ahem, enhanced my cleavage as a 35th b-day present to myself, or I will be performing.  Ask me then which one, lol.

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