CK's Dull Weekend
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muck_a_luckDull, but pleasant so far.
Kitchen is very clean. Clothes are washed and folded.
Treated myself to The Secret of NIMH yesterday at Costco. One of my favorite movies of all time. Came with some Fern Gully thing The Last Rainforest that The Barbarian HAD to see IMMEDIATELY. It was a bit scary for her, I think. She was watching it on the little TV in the kitchen while I cleaned and folded laundry (see above).
Great yoga yesterday. After three days off, did MTV Power in the afternoon, and it was ridiculously easy and I was amazingly flexible, OMG.
Then this morning, got up around 6:30 and did some Yoga Shakti and OMG thought I was going to die. about 45-50 minutes hard, hard work, including some interesting growth in some of the arm balances.
I realized afterwards that I had a very early dinner last night, and very modest. I wonder if on top of maybe putting two workouts too close together if maybe my muscle energy was down because it had been a while since I ate.
Made some very pleasant Satay yesterday with a coconut-milk-heavy recipe. Still not perfect, but AG33 seemed to like it. Finished that off for breakfast.
We will be having a smoothie party today, the four of us. Thinking I will make AG33 a Black Forest one wiht cherries and chocolate syrup. I may go for a pure strawberry slush. Husband sounds like he's headed toward a blueberry pina colada type deal. Barbarian will probably mooch off the rest of us.
Last but not least, Breaking Bad started it's new season last night (or maybe will tonight, not sure), and Husband got Season 2 in the mail this week. We've been watching it pretty fast, though Husband is through the whole thing while I'm only on the fourth ep, I think. If you have never seen this show, I *highly* recommend it. Synopsis: High school chemistry teacher, diagnosed with terminal cancer, decides to cook high quality meth for fast profit to provide for his family after he is gone. Add in his brother-in-law the DEA agent (he got the idea from hearing how much the drug dealers earn from his BIL), and his not-really-even-street-smart partner and FULMINATE OF MERCURY! and it's a really hilarious show. Well, also pretty violent and highly suspensful, with a smattering of domestic drama. In other words. AWESOME.
So. Pretty dull. But pleasant.
Kitchen is very clean. Clothes are washed and folded.
Treated myself to The Secret of NIMH yesterday at Costco. One of my favorite movies of all time. Came with some Fern Gully thing The Last Rainforest that The Barbarian HAD to see IMMEDIATELY. It was a bit scary for her, I think. She was watching it on the little TV in the kitchen while I cleaned and folded laundry (see above).
Great yoga yesterday. After three days off, did MTV Power in the afternoon, and it was ridiculously easy and I was amazingly flexible, OMG.
Then this morning, got up around 6:30 and did some Yoga Shakti and OMG thought I was going to die. about 45-50 minutes hard, hard work, including some interesting growth in some of the arm balances.
I realized afterwards that I had a very early dinner last night, and very modest. I wonder if on top of maybe putting two workouts too close together if maybe my muscle energy was down because it had been a while since I ate.
Made some very pleasant Satay yesterday with a coconut-milk-heavy recipe. Still not perfect, but AG33 seemed to like it. Finished that off for breakfast.
We will be having a smoothie party today, the four of us. Thinking I will make AG33 a Black Forest one wiht cherries and chocolate syrup. I may go for a pure strawberry slush. Husband sounds like he's headed toward a blueberry pina colada type deal. Barbarian will probably mooch off the rest of us.
Last but not least, Breaking Bad started it's new season last night (or maybe will tonight, not sure), and Husband got Season 2 in the mail this week. We've been watching it pretty fast, though Husband is through the whole thing while I'm only on the fourth ep, I think. If you have never seen this show, I *highly* recommend it. Synopsis: High school chemistry teacher, diagnosed with terminal cancer, decides to cook high quality meth for fast profit to provide for his family after he is gone. Add in his brother-in-law the DEA agent (he got the idea from hearing how much the drug dealers earn from his BIL), and his not-really-even-street-smart partner and FULMINATE OF MERCURY! and it's a really hilarious show. Well, also pretty violent and highly suspensful, with a smattering of domestic drama. In other words. AWESOME.
So. Pretty dull. But pleasant.
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Date: 2010-03-21 09:22 pm (UTC)Do you have any DVD recs for ashtanga yoga? I'm faintly familiar with various bits but I tend to lose motivation after about two sun salutes. I've been reading some of your posts and they are hugely interesting and inspiring and really I should print them out... If you've recced DVDs I haven't seen them though, sorry.
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Date: 2010-03-21 11:36 pm (UTC)I have rec'd and reviewed DVDs. Easiest way to find that is over at
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Date: 2010-03-27 01:21 pm (UTC)NOT THAT I AM BORED AND STALKING MUCK_A_LUCK'S JOURNAL FOR YOGA MENTIONS OR ANYTHING. BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE WEIRD.
I've just got the David Swenson Primary Series DVD, which seems excellent so far (I haven't seen all of it yet as I can't make it through a full Primary without dying); it seems intimidating at first because he's so terrifyingly good, but he actually offers a lot of modifications. He's also done a DVD with various short forms, if you have less time or are working up to the Primary.
Yoga Today have put an hour-long, somewhat abbreviated version of the Primary Series online, which is pretty nice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaHx5qsqhY
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Date: 2010-04-24 11:33 am (UTC)Hello. Yes, this comment was from last month, but I am trying to reconnect with my inner journaler, which means, you know, REPLYING TO COMMENTS. Especially ones about yoga stalking.
Alas, I have taken a yoga vacation since my cold. I am sure I'll pay for it on the mat this week. Hopefully by Friday I'll be ready to do the second half of Yoga Meltdown so I can get the half-done review off my hard drive.
You?
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Date: 2010-04-24 02:24 pm (UTC)Behind on exercise, because I got the Weird Cough Bug currently doing the rounds. But I'm getting back into it, and doing a lot more yin-style stuff while I'm still feeling post-viral and short on energy.
I'm hoping that, brain permitting, I'll get to do some reviews of yoga books as part of Three Weeks For Dreamwidth -- there are two I read recently that I'd really love to write up (Matthew Sanford's Waking and Mark Singleton's Yoga Body). Both totally fascinating in different ways.