YOGAGIRL: As a mantra of fact.......

January 2006



and the corporate cog spins around..

Tuesday, 31 January 2006 4:06 P GMT-08
my interview yesterday went ....okay. Actually it started out great and then by the end it got all weird. It ended so abruptly that inside I was asking myself "what? did I say something wrong?" Basically I sat down with the Resident Li
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weekend wrap up

Sunday, 29 January 2006 3:47 P GMT-08
It's been a crazy last 3 days. On Friday morning, our friends next door? She told him she wanted a divorce and asked him to move out then called me 5 minutes later to tell me she "did it".  What a mess. It's always SO awkward when frie
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excuse me..my life is waiting.

Friday, 27 January 2006 8:30 A GMT-08
I had one of my long time yoga students recommend this book to me the other day. (she's actually the same one that hooked me up with those Upward Bound teenage rascals last summer). Anyway I saw her on the treadmill at the gym on Wednesday morning an
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what am I doing?

Thursday, 26 January 2006 7:00 P GMT-08
I found myself emailing my resume off this morning. Off to a brand new active older adult retirement community that is looking for a full time fitness/wellness coordinator with yoga, pilates, tai chi and water aerobics teaching experience. It's
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moving on..

Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:39 A GMT-08
now that I've finished my RYT, I've turned my focus forward. I finally ordered the ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine) Heath and Fitness Instructor study materials. I was going to do it over a year ago when I quit my "real" job
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the irony of it all..

Tuesday, 24 January 2006 4:52 A GMT-08
so last night something that never happens ..happened. A pregnant woman showed up to yoga class at my gym. Now this used to happen ALL.THE.TIME at the neighborhood facility I taught at, mainly because we live in a stepford wives master planned commun

finally...

Monday, 23 January 2006 6:39 A GMT-08
finished up my 200 hours of yoga training. Now I just need to do my 2 essays on the Gita and Sutras, send in for my completion certificate and then ship it off to the Yoga Alliance. I have to say, this training in Las Vegas was the most fun, silly an
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short week wrap up......

Wednesday, 18 January 2006 8:03 P GMT-08
it's a short week folks. I'm off to Las Vegas tomorrow with Mr. Yogagirl in tow. My final yoga training on Friday at the Canyon Ranch spa at the Venetian Hotel, the prenatal/post partum workshop. It's actually the nearest and closest one in this time
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little sister has been BUSY!

Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:26 A GMT-08
it's funny the things you can google up on a moment's notice. I was bored yesterday afternoon (what in between the all the whining and cattiness) and googled Kipper's sister the "show dog". Okay that is NOT what I put into the google form b
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why YES! *Let's* go full force with the whining shall we?

Monday, 16 January 2006 3:20 P GMT-08
do not get on the scale after drinking three 16 ounce bottles of water and then wonder why you gained 2 pounds since the last time you weighed. Okay so it probably didn't help I got up at 4:30am today, rushed out the door to teach 5:15am cycle (aweso
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is this really what people think of me?

Sunday, 15 January 2006 11:16 A GMT-08
really because if it is? the blog thing isn't worth it. the internet is such a strange beast...and some readers are even beastier. Shannon of http://www.circumstance.org/write wrote: "Since there is no other way to contact you, I am writing
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hmmm...I don't think so.

Saturday, 14 January 2006 9:11 A GMT-08
Anybody remember the personal trainer that wanted me to do private one on one yoga instruction with her and one of her clients? Well we had planned to start up on Thursday mornings in January and I hadn't heard from her since before Christmas. I shot
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hold on...rough spots ahead

Thursday, 12 January 2006 2:12 P GMT-08
Big DRAMA at the gym this week. Had to fire another instructor. Well, Iuckily *I* didn't have to do it, since my boss officially hiredin this person to teach before I was even on board..so he agreed he should do it. It was needed. A cancer really, th
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good times..

Monday, 9 January 2006 7:58 P GMT-08
I had a rockin' good time in yoga class tonight. The room was full and yet a bunch of my regulars weren't even there. Had some new faces but for the most part regular members who've been taking my class for the last few months. Also 2 muscle head guy

mom? what were you thinking?

Sunday, 8 January 2006 7:17 P GMT-08
some of you may already know, my mother died about 7 years ago. Throughout my childhood I vividly remember my mom raving about the movie "Midnight Cowboy". What a great and amazing movie it was, how funny Dustin Hoffman and that guy wh
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and just like that...

Saturday, 7 January 2006 1:12 P GMT-08
I got nothin'. I'm blog-empty I swear. I *could* tell you about some really interesting new characters I've met at the gym since the new year but then I'd get REALLLLLY nasty judgemental comments from anonymous readers who think I'm a total bee-
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burn it out..

Wednesday, 4 January 2006 8:12 P GMT-08
i still have this nasty lingering hack ....been upping the cardio like crazy this week (am and pm bouts..even running a lot on the treadmill)  in hopes of just frying it out of my lungs or something but sadly i think it's just not working. I did
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happy new year..

Tuesday, 3 January 2006 8:52 A GMT-08
we're still on a smallish schedule at the gym until tomorrow..but one thing i have noticed just flipping around the tv this morning is that THIS year the new years resolution ads are rampant. I mean in a span of one commericial break I saw an add for
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