Happy Alaska Day!

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Anthropologie Hardware

I am currently obsessed with Anthopologie's new DIY: Hardware section of their website. I LOVE Anthro's hardware and am really excited about this new interactive portion of the website.

Another week

Happy Sunday! Today was a great yoga practice and a healthy dinner of an orange, avocado and alfalfa sprouts (with balsamic vinaigrette) sandwich which was delicious.

I mostly spent all weekend eating and watching tv shows with friend, but am ready to eat healthy and get in some more yoga time. Since I no longer fit in one of my pants I got only two months ago, I am now selling those on eBay and bought a new pair of shorts the replace them. They look awesome and I am so excited about them.

I'm just excited for another week in general... Grape Day is this weekend and I'm very excited about that!

Daily Goal Tracker

I started using this new goal tracker yesterday called Joe's Goals... You assign points to actions that can be either positive or negative and mark off the days you accomplish the daily, giving you a score for the day or week. I have Go to Yoga as +2, Blog +1, Bring lunch to work +1, Eat out -1. Any other suggestions for items?



I added this little chart in the right hand panel on the blog so everyone can see how I do each day!

Time to Rocktober!

Today marks the beginning of a new month.

I successfully didn't purchase anything unneccesary in September. I also made ten posts... yay! Accomplished both of my goals.

This month I'll be participating in the "Eat. Sweat. Blog." challenge on SocialWorkout.com. Basically, I commit to working out at least 20 times during the month of October and completing 10 of their healthier eating "feats". I've been wanting to step up my yoga practice for awhile, since I'd been down to two practices a week. Bad.

Committing to 20 workouts during October comes out to approximately five per week. I'm going to shoot for most of those being yoga, although Fridays are hard for me to get there (last class is at 5 pm when is usually the earliest I can leave work) so I may have to substitute something else on Fridays.

Throwing a wrench in those plans is my doctor's visit yesterday where I was diagnosed with tendinitis and muscle spasms. I'm not really allowed to do anything that stretchs out my arm or requires heavy lifting... and yoga is all about stretching. Great.

I am happy that I've gotten in six practices the past eight days. I was hoping to keep it up with at least five a week, maybe even six. I feel as though I'm finally settling into a routine and finding my groove and I like it. In fact, these past few days I've been in such a great mood when I wake up... it's been refreshing.

The week begins

I reached my goal of at least 10 posts, yay!

I couldn't get to yoga yesterday, but was able to make it today. The class was a little rough, but I am happy overall that I started the week out right with yoga. I have had a problem with leg cramps in the past and one of my instructors suggested I am not replenishing my electrolytes. So today I had a vitamin water before yoga and... no cramps!

I don't want to pay extra $5-$10 a week the waters would be though, so I just bought some electrolyte pops and we'll see how those go for now.

My no-buy month ends Wednesday and I believe I have successfully stuck to it. Can't believe its almost October, but ready for hockey season!

...but if I had my way, I'd take the rain

My intention last night when I got home from yoga was to write a blog post. But since the power was out in the entire neighborhood, I did the next best thing, pen & paper! The weather has cooled off considerably since it's been raining for two days straight.. but I do love it. It makes me miss Vancouver a lot.

I took 5 days off from yoga and these past 2 practices have been really rough... but at the same time, I notice more starkly my improvements over the past two months. I still hope to improve my balance, but the standing series is much better than when I started. During floor series today, I noticed how strong my spine is and I wonder if that comes from all the years of volleyball... I am glad though that there is strength in my spine and hopefully that will lead to a stronger practice all around.

I've reached a point in my practice where I am able to mentally check out and just do the postures. I haven't yet figured out if that's actually a good thing, but it's nice to suddenly realize we're moving into camel pose and it seems like we just began.

Every day in class I stare at the 60 day challenge wall and consider attempting it... but I can't seem to mentally prepare myself for class five days a week, much less every day (or more!) for two months. Until then, I find peace in the classes I do get... the hour and a half I give to myself.

"Practice yoga, and all is coming." - Guruji