Back to the Beginning

So I move to Rochester and what do I do for a living? Guess. For those who know me, it's the most ridiculous, out-there thing ever.

I'm teaching preschool.

What.

And then sometimes I come home and throw tantrums, just like the kids. :)

Give Up

I bought a yoga mat in France. It was the only one I could find at a big sports store, and it came with two foam blocks. I took it outside for two days in a row and did fifty-six sun salutations (it's hard!) and stared at the horses and the mountains and got sun on my back and shoulders. And then I just kind of stopped.

I mean, we got busy. We had the recital, then E and I went to Cannes for a couple of days, then there were family things and I just didn't have time. After we were in Cannes, we were only back in Mons for a couple of days before we left, and E got really sick so I was with him most of the time. Then we came back to the US, spent some time in NYC with his cousins, and moved here. And we went to one class, but it wasn't enough to even make me sore the next day (and believe me, I'm so out of shape that standing up and sitting down could make me sore).

And it's funny, because I'm only talking about the physical side of yoga, but all the mental stuff went to crap too in a big financial freak-out that I had when we sat down and I realized how much I need to keep me going, just based on my bills. I haven't felt quite right mentally since then.

What is right? This living situation. I love it. I love the apartment, and between the two of us we don't really need any more furniture (except a kitchen table). I love the time we've been spending together and with other friends. I love that I have a job, that we have a recording studio in our apartment (with a piano!). I hate that our horn-playing neighbor plays Mahler excerpts at 10:00 PM, but I sort of love that at least we have a musician neighbor. But if she does it one more time, I'm going to start practicing Stars and Stripes Forever on piccolo right into her window.

So pretty much what's missing is exercise in general, yoga in specific. But it's definitely been an interesting study in how much the physical affects the mental.