3 posts tagged “hot yoga”

Dealing with stress

Nov 12, 2008
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I need to figure out a better way to deal with stress. The following tactics are failing:

1. Drinking coffee. Why would I think this would help?

2. Hot yoga: You can only do this so often, if I tried to raise the office temperature to 100 degrees and started stretching around here I'm pretty sure I would get fired.

3. Tapping my pencil while thinking of other jobs I could get if I get fired. Now that the car industry is taking a downturn I have had to cross "General Motors test driver" off of this list. Which is too bad. Seeing as how I can totally drive, this is the job on my list that I am most qualified for.

4. One of my coworkers likes to log on to cuteoverload.com when she's feeling this way. Sometimes she sends me links to make me feel better and then I get worried that I'm basically looking at animal porn to make myself feel better. What if one day I can't feel better without it.

5. Writing on my blog: Sometimes helps, but more a diversion tactic than anything else.

6. Biting my lips. Satisfying in the moment but ultimately does not help and looks bad which makes me look less cute and therefore, I believe, makes me much more fireable.

The haunting

Sep 30, 2008
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The weirdest thing happened Sunday night - I woke up at around 2:30 and heard a noise in my studio apartment that sounded like someone was turning a key in my door. I totally freaked out and ran over to the door but couldn't see anyone out of the peephole and the lock wasn't moving. I figured I must have been hallucinating so I went back to bed - then the same thing happens like 30 minutes later. And it sounds exactly like a key turning in a lock, which, especially since I'm on the ground floor, was super super scary. My first thought was: It's the bugs. I don't know how, but it's the bugs. I'm being haunted by the ghosts of bugs past. In my mind I did a mental tally of how many bugs I have killed since all this began whether by shoe or broom or magazine slapping, or poison... I figured roughly 700 billion. OK, that's totally enough bug ghosts to make a ghost key in lock sound. AND given that these bugs are assholes, it is TOTALLY something they would do....

Hot yoga was great today - my friend ended up coming, which was one of those great surprises. You have to be quiet in hot yoga so I was resisting every urge to talk to her, but we got to put our matts next to each other so that was fun. Plus we got the walk home to chat. This girl is one of my funniest friends, so even when we aren't talking about anything particularly hilarious I always walk away smiling. It was a great class too, a teacher I really like, and they were having a sale on memberships just as mine is running out, so i got the deal of the century. Which is great cause I have no money...

Speaking of no money, I've decided to solicit someone else to do the dog website. I really wanted it to be a project with me and the bf, but I feel like I'm running out of time if I want to get this up for the holidays. (Did you know that 70% of dog owners buy their dogs holiday presents? Well they totally do. I need to get in on that action. I need some money for holiday presents myself. Two xmases ago I was so broke that i just started wrapping things I found in my apartment and giving them to my family. "Here you go Dad, an old take out container and half an eraser!" It was bad. If I had had a pet like a gerbil or something at this point in my life it totally would have gotten wrapped. Anyway, I think this is a good step, I felt like I was hounding my BF about the site and both of us are really busy, so I think this is a good decision. We'll see how much it costs... I may be wrapping things in my apartment after all come December.

I heart Obama (and the tees are here!!)

Aug 29, 2008
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I'm not much of a political commentator, but I can't really let Obama's speech last night go by without remarking on how amazing he is and how exciting this election is. I feel like he's exactly what we need, he's energetic, he's charismatic, he's so intelligent... I was worried about Biden at first but I'm totally on board now. And, that guy has a smile like a ray of sunshine. McCain picking Palin as his VP? Are you kidding? This woman has no record and a scandal the size of her state. There is part of me that's worried though, I got so excited about the last election, not necessarily about Kerry, but I just felt it would be impossible for Bush to get elected again. And then he did. Obama makes me want to believe we can change things. If he doesn't get elected I just might have to move to Canada.

And now about the dog tees:

Wohoo! Good thing I decided to leave for work at 10 am today... I was just about to leave when the UPS guy rang my bell. I've never been so happy to see one of those guys. I'm going away for a wedding this weekend and was worried I would miss the delivery... The UPS guy was in a great mood too. I hate it when you're really excited about a package and then you open the door and the guy basically drop kicks it to you. Not this guy. If this had been a musical we would have started dancing and singing or something. The bugs from my apartment would even have joined in, like the kitchen scene from "The Muppets Take Manhattan."

Ok, so next step is to photograph my dog model, Owl, in the dog tees. Then get the images up on the website...

I woke up tired but my body was craving hot yoga today... I got some writing done instead and received my dog tees. I think the hot yoga might be a new obsession...