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

April 2005



too bad ....so sad...

Saturday, 30 April 2005 9:31 A GMT-08
okay I refuse to feel guilty about this. I've been teaching an 8:30am step aerobics circuit class at the neighborhood gym every Saturday for the last 4 months. Typically it never pulls more than 2 people in, and one of them is usually the slovenian 1

busy ...as usual

Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:43 P GMT-08
this week has been busy. One instructor's child has "hand foot and mouth" disease and so can't go to daycare this week..another is getting a colonoscopy which takes almost 2 full days with the cleaning out prep before hand..god I really don
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how to get out of jury duty.....

Tuesday, 26 April 2005 2:14 P GMT-08
ok so don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to doing my civic duty or anything it's just getting subs on short notice is like pulling teeth at my gym and I'm already subbing for some other instructors this week so if I would have gotten picked this aft
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back to basics

Monday, 25 April 2005 10:01 A GMT-08
Watch out. I'm goin' old skool here. It's time. It's been over *4* years since I did a serious plan. The diet and nutrition have been out the window for months now and knowing that I'm either black or white where diet and exercise are concerned (no
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mean people suck

Saturday, 23 April 2005 3:31 P GMT-08
ya know, sometimes I just don't get people. And today? Was one of those days. When I arrived to the gym this morning to teach my pilates class I was literally BOMBARDED with complaints about the 9am spinning class. One of the salesman rushed up to

pump it up

Thursday, 21 April 2005 6:31 P GMT-08
today was one of those days I had boundless energy. Took spin at 9:30, subbed yoga at 10:30 and then went back up to the gym at 6pm to teach Powerpump. Pump is a barbell group weight lifting class and I'm picking up a serious following lately.  It h

dj yogagirl

Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:41 A GMT-08
gack. I've sucked the last 3 hours into the vortex known as "choosing songs to create a spinning CD". What's worse is I can't even enjoy listening to the music today..I find myself twirling my index fingers around each other on the beat t
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monday

Monday, 18 April 2005 9:59 P GMT-08
I had this HUGE ranty blog all typed up earlier and then realized it was probably just too personal to put out there and quite possibly just way too negative so I decided to just shelve it. So instead of telling you all about how the former coordinat
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kipper fix...

Friday, 15 April 2005 8:01 A GMT-08
favorite pastime...rawhide chewie anihilation.
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Hello? Is this thing on?

Thursday, 14 April 2005 7:46 P GMT-08
my blog links section has gotten so teeny these days ...it's been whittled down from the days I used to spend surfing the internet instead of doing my job at the neuro-science lab. heh. that whole hyphenated neuro-science thing is a bit of an inside
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another update..and oh look yet another list!

Thursday, 14 April 2005 7:14 P GMT-08
lists lists lists....because I'm so busy I can't even formulate paragraphs at this point. First things first. I went back to Dr. on Monday. I am not hypothyroid. In fact I'm not anything. She can't figure out why the hell my hair was/is thinning. Pe
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chicken. head. cut. off

Wednesday, 13 April 2005 9:00 A GMT-08
that about sums up how I feel this week. but it's going to get better..really soon. here's a summarywe're getting TONS of new members at our gym from the defunct ladies gym. this is GREAT news for my group exercise program since they all just LIVE fo
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earning my keep..

Tuesday, 12 April 2005 3:36 A GMT-08
I stopped by the ladies gym yesterday on my way to teach my 4:45pm powerpump class at my gym. My boss was there with fliers and schedules and had his truck parked with our gym ad emblazzoned on the side of it. He and another salesman had set up shop

what goes around..comes around

Monday, 11 April 2005 5:38 A GMT-08
got a call yesterday from a fellow instructor that the ladies gym shut it's doors. they did it the old skool way too..just put a flier up on their window, removed all the equipment inside, and turned the lights off. yeah on sunday when they weren't e
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sunday busy sunday...

Sunday, 10 April 2005 12:33 P GMT-08
instead of spending the 3 days alone pacing myself with the house cleaning and the laundry? no! I wait until sunday..4 hours before the husband is supposed to be home from his trip to Oregon. I just made a whirlwind trip around the whole house..too b

academia nut....

Friday, 8 April 2005 6:46 P GMT-08
Oooooh I finally received the first ever published copy of my State University alumni directory. Yeah its 2005 and they finally decided to put something like this together? Gees such progress! At any rate...it's quite comical. I had already forgot
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lazy days and fridays...

Friday, 8 April 2005 10:05 A GMT-08
ack. missed a day blogging. i swear this week has been a blur. i'm finally back up to speed teaching all my classes and even subbing others' again. this morning was sub for an all step class. it took a bit for them to get used to my cueing style and
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back in business..

Wednesday, 6 April 2005 6:45 P GMT-08
well my ankle is doing well enough already that I managed to teach my cardio sculpt class tonight. Basically it's a high intensity interval type class where we mix cardio drill segments with high rep low weight segments. Rather than make everybody l
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down but not out..

Tuesday, 5 April 2005 9:58 A GMT-08
it's been a rough couple of days. I spend most of my day either sitting in a chair or laying down watching TV, icing my ankle when I can (g'damn that hurts!) and taking it very easy. I got all of my high impact classes subbed out until tomorrow night
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curb appeal....

Monday, 4 April 2005 7:24 A GMT-08
oh frickity frack hell. I went over to a pool party yesterday at a friend's house...came out to leave and while I was walking to the car admiring their flower beds, stepped off the curb twisted my left ankle and came crashing down on my right knee. Y
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instructor jam time again..

Saturday, 2 April 2005 11:00 A GMT-08
it's time for the montly member appreciation party at the new gym... at least this time they got Panera to cater instead of the local BBQ grease fest ...For this month's instructor jam from 2pm to 3:30pm, I'm doing the 30 minutes of studio cycle, th
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